What is a good practice?

If you want to report an interesting project, please check, if the project meets at least the following two criteria:

1. The project or initiative is an activity in youth work, training and youth policy of a local, regional, national or international scale.

For  projects carried out in the framework of the Youth in Action Programme please refer to the SALTO Youth homepage (http://www.salto-youth.net/innovativeprojects/ and http://www.salto-youth.net/static/yic/)

2. The project or initiative has to be implemented in practice and proved its applicability in the youth field.

Furthermore, the project or initiative should meet one of the following criteria, too:

3. The project or initiative innovates and contributes a new ways of applying youth work, training and youth policy on a local, regional or national level.

4. The project is a political initiative including legal activities and regulations.

5. The project or initiative receives private, local, regional, national or international funding.

6. The project or initiative is a good example of a reference model that is also applied in other projects or by other initiatives.

7. The project's or initiative's activities relate to one of the core areas of the partnership on youth between the European Commission and the Council of Europe.

• Human rights,
• Youth research and youth policy,
• Active citizenship,
• Youth pact initiatives, or
• Non-formal learning.

Please note that all contributions are also validated by the Partnership according to these criteria before they get accepted and become available on the web-site.
The Partnership may decide to reject or to remove contributions from the database at any time without warning. Although the Partnership validates incoming contributions, it cannot be held responsible for the content of the contributions.

Youth work needs to be visible

Why a database of good practices?

The EKCYP's good practices database