The EURO<26 Student Card Project was established as a pilot project at the EYCA Annual Conference in Bern, 2002.
At present, 5 countries issue the EURO<26 Student card: CzechRepublic, Cyprus, Romania, Russia and Ukraine has also issued a EURO<26 Student co-branded card with an insurance company for 7 years.
Following the positive evaluation of the pilot projects, presented at the EYCA Annual Conference in Cyprus, 2005 the EURO<26 Student Card has been approved as a regular EURO<26 product of the European Youth Card Association.