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A new version of the Programme Guide will be valid as of 1 January 2008, which will replace the current version. The Programme Guide is a tool for anybody who would like to participate in the Youth in Action Programme. It includes the necessary information about the priorities, actions and main features of the Programme as well as the criteria and conditions on how to participate. Anybody willing to submit an application for funding is invited to read it carefully in order to understand the Programme's objectives and criteria, and to identify the types of projects that can be supported by the Programme. The new version is currently available in English only. Translations into all other official languages are being preapared and will be published on this website as soon as they are ready. Application forms valid as of 1st January 2008
Ján Figel’, European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, launched the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) at a conference in Lisbon on 26-27 November. Jan Figel’ explained its significance: “People in Europe too often face obstacles when they try to move from one country to another to learn or work. They sometimes also face obstacles when they want to move from one part of their own country's education system to another, e.g. from vocational education and training to higher education. The EQF will make different qualifications more easily readable between different European countries". More: Education and training website
The Africa-Europe Youth Summit took place in Lisbon, Portugal (4-7 December 2007). The aims were to increase young people’s participation, and to influence the youth policy in the Euro–African Cooperation. Timed to coincide with the EU-Africa Heads of State Summit (Lisbon, 4-7 December), this event brought together 200-250 young people from youth organisations on both continents. The Summit addressed various thematic areas including health, education, employment, globalization, inter-cultural dialogue and human rights. Final declaration:
Education, youth and culture ministers adopted a Council Resolution on 16.November 2007 in which they pledged to co-operate more closely on the common objectives in the field of youth volunteering agreed in 2004.
The Council of youth ministers on 16 November 2007 adopted conclusions on a transversal approach to youth policy, with a view to enabling young people to fulfil their potential and participate actively in society.
Did the White Paper on Youth serve any purpose? Pierre Mairesse, director of youth in the European Commission, replies with a firm "yes". This article summarises the history of European cooperation on youth policies over the past 15 years, shows some of its achievements and identifies some challenges for the years to come.
Action 4.1. Support for bodies active at European level in the field of youth
The Commission has adopted the Communication "Promoting young people's full participation in education, employment and society". It is a reaction to demographic ageing in Europe and to the difficulties young people encounter on the labour market. The Communication stresses the need for a cross-cutting approach to youth issues in order to enhance young people's active participation in education, employment and in society. The Commission proposes to reinforce the partnership between EU institutions and youth representatives and to prepare in future every three years an EU report on youth. Other concrete proposals include the launch of a consultation and an impact assessment on voluntary activities of young people, of a pilot initiative "Your first job abroad", of a charter on internships and of a study on access of young people to culture. The Communication is accompanied by two analytical documents
- on youth volunteering and on youth unemployment.
The Memorandum of Understanding between the European Community and the Republic of Turkey on the participation of Turkey in the Youth in Action programme and in the action programme in the field of lifelong learning, signed on 30 May 2007, entered into force on 3 July. It takes effect from 1 January 2007.  
Youth has featured on the EU agenda for many years and a consensus exists on the need to take action to help young people with education, employment and civic participation. This report, written by members of Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) of the European commission, suggests there is a need to create a new political momentum to stress the timely importance of investing in youth from childhood and further enhance the coherence between Community and Member States� actions. The report insists on the role of having a life-cycle approach when dealing with human and social capital.
The conclusions of the working groups participating at the Youth in action! event held in Brussels. 
First meeting of the Euro-Mediterranean Youth Parliament in Berlin some 100 young people from both sides of the Mediterranean met in Berlin from 26 May to 3 June to experience active participation by taking part in the first meeting of the Euro-Mediterranean Youth Parliament.
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Complete report: Summary:
Action 1 - Youth for Europe - Pilot Projects on Thematic Networking
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13.12.07 – New version of the Youth in Action Programme Guide
