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Project: EURplace26

Goals:
A project which aims to stimulate intercultural engagement among young people across Europe.

Who’s involved:
The original EURplace26 project saw the following organisations involved: Canllaw Online, Wales; Carné Joven EURO<26, Aragón, Spain; Carte Jeunes EURO<26, Luxembourg; EURO<26 Austria; EURO<26 HungaryKarta Mládeže EURO<26, Czech Republic; Movit EURO<26, Slovenia; Young Scot, Scotland.

Target groups:
Young people and EURO<26 cardholders across Europe.

Sponsors:
EURplace26 supported by the Partial Agreement programme with the Council of Europe.

Evaluation:
An evaluation of this project was carried out in December/January 2006.

Get involved:
More details about how to get involved due shortly. In the meantime, for more information contact: pr-communication@eyca.org

Read more:
At the Bern conference in November 2002, two new projects were proposed in the Partial Agreement budget of the Council of Europe: the 'Hospitality Points' and the 'Panel of Youth Correspondents'.

The Communications Group took the lead in these projects and turned them into one exciting project called EURplace26. A pilot project started in eight cities across Europe, providing EURplace26 locations for cardholders offering information services, free internet access and special EURO<26 privileges.

To make sure that young people know where to find their EURplace26 and to give them reasons to travel to one of the 8 cities, a team consisting of 'resident' young journalists and 'travelling' young journalists reported on all hot spots, events not to be missed, good budget accommodation, travel connections and, of course, EURO<26 discounts in each city.

The eight cities selected were: Budapest, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Graz, Ljubljana, Luxembourg, Prague, Zaragoza.