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EURO<26 SERBIA
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EURO<26
Youth Organization and Youth
Research
Defining Strategies for Youth Lobbying
Skopje, 18.11.2006.
Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija
Tel: +381 63 26 10 26; Tel/Fax: +381 11 3035 786
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General about organization
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EURO<26 is European youth card that is being
issued since 1987, by EYCA – European Youth Card
Association.
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Since 1991 EYCA was linked to European council
and European parliament by partial agreement.
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National organizations of EURO<26 organize
seminars, summer schools and other ways of
socializing of youth from all over the Europe.
Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija
Tel: +381 63 26 10 26; Tel/Fax: +381 11 3035 786
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Research department
The European Youth Card Association (EYCA) is
interested in knowing what young people think and why.
 EYCA launched a new project in January 2005, the
EYCAdemy, in order to establish a permanent structure
for youth research.
 EYCAdemy is the Trainer program, aimed at comparable
youth research, that is combined with comparative
European youth research projects.
 The EYCAdemy project is supported by the European
Commission and the Partial Agreement with the Council
of Europe.
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Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija
Tel: +381 63 26 10 26; Tel/Fax: +381 11 3035 786
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In 2005 the first training with the EYCAdemy started with
participants from 12 countries, now there is 17 countries from
across Europe participated in the training in 2006 - the aim is
to have all 47 countries in Europe participate!
For Europe wide comparative qualitative research with more
than a few focus groups in each country more moderators than
the trained one are needed. So a network of similar trained
moderators for comparable European qualitative research is
to be established.
The researchers are also trained in consulting future clients
for the best method of social research; therefore other
methods of social research, qualitative and quantitative.
The major reason for using qualitative over quantitative
research is, that by using Focus Groups the reason ‘why’
young people hold a certain opinion about a given subject
versus ‘how many’ becomes transparent.
Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija
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Possibilities of research data
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Data collected by comparable youth research:
 … gives an inside on young people needs and
thinking, that can be applied in youth organizing
and policy.
 …can keep you up to date in trends of youth
needs and mobility.
 …is used by Council of Europe in forming Youth
Platform.
 …is used by our organization in determining our
future youth policy.
 …was presented on number of conferences
regarding youth policy in Serbia and Europe.
Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija
Tel: +381 63 26 10 26; Tel/Fax: +381 11 3035 786
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Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija
Tel: +381 63 26 10 26; Tel/Fax: +381 11 3035 786
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Topics
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Topics of the comparative research were:
 2003 – White Book of Youth – 42 groups.
 2004 – Preferences in Youth Information and
Media Perception – 66 groups.
 2005 – Youth Participation versus Leisure Time –
78 groups.
 2006 – Diversity of Society on Local Level – 102
groups.
Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija
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Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija
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Plans on cooperation
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Future plans include forming a qualitative research network of
youth researchers on Serbian level as well as furthering
cooperation with surrounding countries’ youth workers.
We aim to continue international cooperation on the
EYCAdemy level.
Data on youth we collected are useful tools and road marks for
defining youth policy strategies.
In the future, Euro<26 Serbia, research department, shall
destine to cooperate with a number of NGO-s dealing with
youth policy and legislation as well as Ministry for Education
and Sport.
Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija
Tel: +381 63 26 10 26; Tel/Fax: +381 11 3035 786
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The research projects on European level are lead by
Manfred Zentner, Austrian youth researcher and
national correspondent of Austria to the European
Youth
Research
Network
and
national
correspondent to the European Knowledge Centre.
In Serbia national level research project is led by
sociologists Gazela Pudar and Verica Pavic.
Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija
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More info at
 www.euro26.org.yu/projekti
 www.eyca.org
 www.euro26.org
Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija
Tel: +381 63 26 10 26; Tel/Fax: +381 11 3035 786