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The redeveloped Eurodesk web site, first presented during European Youth Week 2003, aims to offer a range of concrete services to professionals working with young people and European information.
"We see this site, firstly, as a natural development of our current work with young people and European information, but also, as a significant, complementary resource to the new European Youth Portal, with which Eurodesk is also heavily involved. The Youth Portal is targeted specifically towards young people, whereas the Eurodesk site intends to provide a complementary source of on-line help and support to any professionals working with young people and European information." Bob Payne, Director, Eurodesk Brussels Link
The new site will improve the accessibility of information from the Eurodesk database, but will also offer many different support services to its users.
European Info Centre
Eurodesk Support Centre
Communication Centre
Calendar
Eurodesk Network
Deadline reminder
European Info Centre
This new European Info Centre offers easier access to more information for more people. A new feature in this section of the site, is the Eurodesk Toolbox, on the right of the screen, which contains resources and tools relevant to the European Info Centre including a new database search for European level organisations relevant to the youth field. Additional tools can be found in the Eurodesk Toolbox in the 'Support Centre'
Search for funding gives easy access to information on funding programmes from the Eurodesk database. There are three different searches for European and national funding programmes. Other information from the Eurodesk database is also made available in different parts of this site.
Information on Europe is a new feature of the Eurodesk site, designed to help you find background information about Europe and how the European Union works. Look in here to find not only background information to the European Union and its development, but also where to find European news or other European information sources.
Youth in Europe includes basic information concerning the European Youth Portal, the wider youth information field and the current political context at European level.
Whilst in any part of this site, you will always have access to a list of EU funding programmes on selected themes. Just choose "Fast access to EU info" from the top banner for immediate results.
Eurodesk Support Centre
There are estimated to be 75 million young people between 15 and 25 in the enlarged European Union. Ensuring access for these young people to European information will be a challenge.
The European Commission's White Paper A new impetus for European Youth, recognises the importance of reaching the many professionals, who come into contact with young people through their daily work. They are recognised as being part of the information resource available for young people - helping young people to gain access to the wealth of European information, which is there waiting for them as well as those working with them.
The Eurodesk Support Centre has been set up as a resource to support those working with young people to access and use relevant European information. It forms a complementary service to the European Youth Portal, which has been created by the European Commission to improve direct access to European information by young people themselves.
This Support Centre is targeted towards all professionals working with young people in any context - youth organisations, schools, libraries, sports clubs, social work centres, neighbourhood projects, training organisations, and so on.
Communication Centre
This section of the Eurodesk web site aims to offer two new services to any professionals working with young people and European information - an on-line Professional Forum and a live help service.
On-line Professional Forum
For several years, now, Eurodesk has run a successful forum open only to members of the Eurodesk Network. This has proved to be a valuable resource for the network. Now, through this new site, a forum will be made more widely available to the field at large. The purpose of the Forum is to stimulate professional communication between any those working with young people and European information in any context. The forum will be used to share experiences and to ask for help. Users can ask for help on any topic related to their information work with young people and can post news items or announcements for events.
Live help
This will be a service where members of the Eurodesk Network are available to offer immediate help in real time. At present, the live help service has not yet been implemented.
Calendar
The Calendar lists, by month, events relevant to the Youth field, designated years, months, weeks and days (e.g. European Youth Week), and also the EU presidencies and international designated 'Years of ?'.
Eurodesk Network
Eurodesk is a European network of information services in 27 countries providing a unique access to European information for young people and those who work with them.
This section gives information about:
who is involved with the network,
- national Eurodesk partners;
- local Eurodesk relays;
- Eurodesk Brussels Link;
what are the services offered
- a range of public European information services at national and local levels;
how you can access the services
- on-line
- on-site
Deadline reminder
This tool lists application deadlines, which are coming up in the next three months, for programmes in the Eurodesk database.
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