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Meeting of the Baltic Sea Expert Group on Youth Affairs (EGYA) in Vilnius, October 2009

The Baltic Sea Expert Group on Youth Affairs (EGYA) met in Vilnius, Lithuania in October 2009. The ministries responsible for youth policy from the CBSS member states came together to discuss the implementation of their Work Plan 2009-2011 and further actions. The Baltic Sea Secretariat for Youth Affairs reported on its work on the same occasion.

Within the last decade, co-operation in the field of youth has become an integral part of the general Baltic Sea regional co-operation initiatives.

Already in the mid-90ies, the Presidency Declaration of the Baltic Sea States Summit in Visby and the Action Programmes of the Ministerial Session of the CBSS in Kalmar underlined the priority for the promotion of people-to-people partnerships in general and the "promotion of contacts between young people in the Baltic Sea region" in particular.
In 1996 "Youth Co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region" was for the first time put on the agenda of the 4th Conference on Baltic Sea States Subregional Co-operation (BSSSC) in Vaasa. The Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC) build up a Commission on Youth Issues just a little bit later.
Today we can look back to 10 years of intense co-operation between all the CBSS countries in the fields of youth policy, youth work and youth exchange.
The aim of the Baltic Sea cooperation in the field of youth policy is to promote an active participation of young people, encourage youth exchange in order to promote a better understanding and knowledge of the Baltic Sea countries. The Danish Chair of the CBSS - Baltic Sea Expert Group on Youth Affairs (EGYA) leads the group through the period of June 2008 - July 2009, which has already brought multiple results for youth and youth policy in the region.

Meeting of the CBSS- Baltic Sea Expert Group on Youth Affairs in Copenhagen, November 2008

The Baltic Sea Expert Group on Youth Affairs (former Working Group on Youth Affairs) met in Copenhagen to agree on the Terms of Reference 2009-2011, the Agreement on the Baltic Sea Secretariat for Youth Affairs 2009-2011 and the Work Plan 2009. The Terms of Reference and Annexes can be downloaded as PDF file here:

Working Group meeting 25/26 November 2002 in Warsaw

Participants: see attached participants list (Piret Talur arrived at 3 p.m.) Monday, 25 November (Hotel Europejski) 14.00 Welcome by Agnieszka Dybowska, Polish Ministry of Education and Sport - she announces that there will be a Youth Office in the Ministry starting January 2003 Presentation round of the participants - Petra Marselius announces that the Swedish Youth Division will move in January 2003 from the Ministry of Justice to the Ministry of Education 14.30 Presentation of the work of the Secretariat by Sandra Weidemann - UBC co-operation, BSSSC network - there should be a clarification about the tasks of the Working Group and the Secretariat - the WG is a platform for the co-operation between ministries in the (Baltic Sea Region (BSR) - Björn asks for an annual written report on the progress and the work of the Secretariat - Alwin explains the involvement of the Secretariat in the “Image campaign for international youth work” in Germany (promoting the international youth exchange possibilities in Germany, at the moment there is very small enthusiasm among young people in Germany for that) 15.00 Vilnius Plan of Action, some input from Snieguole (Lith.) - she proposes to have more representatives of youth projects at the next conference - one output was the enlargement of the youth budget for the youth ministry - Thies pointed out that there were not so many ministers- that was the criticism of the young people present - Petra and Alwin thank Lithuania for the very good organisation of the conference - Snieguole proposes the evaluation of the conference and the work in between the conferences as a preparation for the next one - Alwin presents a German project “Youth @ net” that is designed to bring the 70000 youth initiatives in Germany into the Internet (10000 more in 4 years – public private partnership)

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