Youth in Action programme

2011

The annual priorities for 2011 were the following:

European Year of Volunteering
This priority is intended to encourage projects aimed at raising awareness of the value and importance of volunteering as a form of active engagement and as a tool to develop or improve competences for personal, social and professional development

Youth unemployment
This priority is intended to encourage projects promoting the access of unemployed young people to the Youth in Action Programme. Priority will also be assigned to projects tackling the issues of youth unemployment and/or aimed at stimulating unemployed young people's mobility and active participation in society

Inclusive growth
This priority is intended to encourage projects addressing the issue of poverty and marginalisation and encouraging young people's awareness and commitment to tackling these issues for a more inclusive society. In this context, special emphasis shall be placed in particular on the inclusion of young migrants, disabled young people, and where relevant Roma youth

Global environmental challenges and climate change
This priority is intended to encourage projects aimed at raising young people's awareness and mobilization around global environmental challenges and climate change as means to encourage the development of "green" skills and behaviors among young people and youth workers and their commitment to a more sustainable growth

Creativity and entrepreneurship
This priority is intended to encourage projects - especially youth initiatives - aimed at stimulating young people's spirit of initiative, their ability to think imaginatively and originally, their readiness to take risk and their ingenuity in order to achieve economic, politic, social or environmental goals 
 
EU-China Year of Youth (only for Action 2 and sub-Action 3.2)
Additionally, within the Actions open to cooperation with other Partner Countries of the World, special attention will be devoted to projects aimed at encouraging dialogue, cooperation and exchanges in the field of youth between the European Union and China as a mean to contribute to the EU-China Year of Youth 2011

 

2010
The annual priorities for 2010 were the following:

European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
This priority is intended to encourage projects aimed at raising young people's awareness of everyone’s responsibility in tackling poverty and marginalisation as well as at promoting the inclusion of groups with fewer opportunities. This concerns in particular, projects aimed at stimulating young people's reflection on the prevention, ways out and consequences of poverty; projects tackling the issue of marginalisation and various forms of discrimination, such as those based on gender, disability or ethnic, religious, linguistic or migrant grounds. In this context, particular attention will be paid in particular to projects promoting the active involvement of: a) disabled young people, encouraging exchange between young people with and without disabilities, as well as projects focusing on the issue of disability in our society; b) young people from migrant backgrounds or ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities. In this context, projects involving Roma young people shall be encouraged wherever relevant.

Youth unemployment and promotion of young unemployed people's active participation in society
This priority is intended to encourage projects tackling the issue of youth unemployment and aimed at stimulating young unemployed people's active participation in society.

Awareness-raising and mobilization of young people around global challenges (such as sustainable development, climate change, migrations, the Millennium Development Goals).
This priority is intended to encourage projects aimed at raising young people's consciousness of their role as active citizens in a globalized world as well as at fostering their sense of global solidarity and commitment vis-à-vis current issues.


2009
The annual priorities for 2009 were the following:
•    European Year of Creativity and Innovation
•    Young people's active participation in the European Parliament elections
•    Combating violence against women
•    Sport as a tool to promote active citizenship and social inclusion of young people
•    Promoting healthy lifestyles through physical activities including sport
•    Promoting the inclusion of young people with disabilities
•    Awareness-raising to global challenges (such as sustainable development and climate change)
•    Young people's involvement in the revision of the European framework of cooperation in the field of youth policy
•    Intercultural dialogue
•    Roma Communities


2008
Together in Diversity
In 2008, the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, priority is given to projects with a specific focus on this theme.
The other annual priorities for this year are:
- combating violence against women
- sport as a tool to promote active citizenship and social inclusion of young people
- promoting healthy lifestyles through physical activities including sport
- preparation of the 2009 European Year of Innovation and Creativity and European Parliament elections


2007
Opportunities for All
In 2007, the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All, priority was given to projects reflecting issues related to fighting against discrimination.
Priority was also given to projects aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles through physical activities, including sport. .