• • Tasks
  • Expert Group
  • Secretariat
  • Terms of Reference

• Partner

• 
• Union of the Baltic Cities
• 
• Commission on Youth Issues
• 
• BSSSC
• 
• Baltic Sea Net

• Council of the
  Baltic Sea States

Tasks

Tasks of the CBSS- Expert Group on Youth Affairs and the Baltic Sea Secretariat for Youth Affairs

The Baltic Sea Expert Group on Youth Affairs (CBSS- EGYA)Work Plan 2009

Introduction

The aim of the Baltic Sea cooperation in the field of youth policy is to promote an active participation of young people, encourage multilateral youth exchanges, to emphasize the potential of young people and to recognize them as resource in society.
This could be done by supporting youth cooperation through information and counselling and by promoting the development of youth policies, through exchanges of experiences, knowledge and common projects.

Co-operation within the CBSS

• The Expert Group on Youth Affairs (EGYA) will report to the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) of the Council of the Baltic Sea States and will keep close contact with its Secretariat.


• The EGYA will cooperate with other relevant expert groups of the Council of Baltic Sea States on policies in the field of youth, especially with the Expert Group on Children at Risk.


• The EGYA should encourage the CBSS to incorporate a youth perspective into its activities.

Co-operation with other structures

• The Baltic Youth Forum (BYF) is the major non-governmental partner in the implementation of the Work Plan.


• The EGYA should follow the work of the CBSS Strategic Partners, esp. BSSSC and UBC in the youth field.


• The EGYA could together with the Nordic Child and Youth Committee (NORBUK) and the Working Group on Youth Policy of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council, investigate the possibilities for regional activities.


• The EGYA’s Secretariat should take initiatives for cooperation with the Nordic Child and Youth Committee and the Barents Youth Cooperation Office on spreading information to various actors in the field of youth policy.

Voluntary work

• The EGYA should discuss, exchange information on and experiences from voluntary activities and engagement in the youth field in the member countries


• The EGYA should encourage the use of the EU YOUTH IN ACTION programme in the Baltic Sea region, in the preparation and carrying out of larger projects and activities in the region.

Youth entrepreneurship and employment

• The EGYA should exchange information on the situation of youth unemployment in the member countries.


• The EGYA should exchange experiences on how different methods and actions to solve the youth unemployment have been carried out in the member countries.


• The EGYA should exchange information on and experiences from youth entrepreneurship programmes and actions in the member countries.


• The EGYA could invite experts on youth entrepreneurship to present their projects, studies and/or research findings to the EGYA in order to give an impetus to further actions of the group.

Intercultural cooperation, people- to- people contacts

• The EGYA should encourage the BYF, non-governmental youth organisations and youth groups in the region and other actors in the youth field to carry out activities, projects, exchanges and other forms of multilateral cooperation in the region.


• The EGYA should provide information and help in building multinational partnerships and counselling youth groups and actors in the youth field.


• The EGYA should encourage the National Agencies of the EU Youth in Action Programme to contribute to the intercultural cooperation and to strengthen the people to people contacts between youth in the region.


• The EGYA should provide information, help in partner finding and counselling youth groups and actors in the youth field.

Youth research and relations to youth researches

• The EGYA should improve its contacts with networks of youth researchers in the Baltic Sea Region.


• The EGYA could invite youth researchers to present their studies, projects and/or research findings to the EGYA in order to give an impetus to further actions of the group.

Implementation

The EGYA has the responsibility to take necessary steps in order to implement this Work Plan. The Secretariat will be a major instrument in the implementation.