Youth and the Council of Europe.......................................................................................... 4
Transitions to adulthood.................................................................................................... 4
Structures........................................................................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
- Directorate of Youth and Sport................................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Directorate of Youth and Sport is part of the Directorate General of Education,
Culture and Heritage, Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe. The Directorate
elaborates guidelines, programmes and legal instruments for the development of
coherent and effective youth policies at local, national and European levels. It provides
funding and educational support for international youth activities aiming at the
promotion of youth citizenship, youth mobility and the value of human rights,
democracy and cultural pluralism. It seeks to bring together and disseminate expertise
and knowledge about the life situations, aspirations and ways of expression of young
Europeans. ........................................................................................................................6

Youth Policy in Luxembourg.............................................................................................. 15
Consultative and decision-making structures of youth policy........................................ 17
2) Participation of young people in policy-making............................................................ 21
Youth policy in Malta.................................................................................................. 23
Involvement in youth policy........................................................................................... 23
Involvement in youth policy........................................................................................... 32
The Youth Affairs Section is concerned with the non-formal education of Ireland\u2019s young

Youth policy in Slovenia............................................................................................. 42
Involvement in youth policy........................................................................................... 42
-the formulation and supervision of the implementation of the priority youth
programmes..................................................................................................................... 43
-the monitoring of the role and position of young people in society.............................. 43
-the improvement of the conditions for organized youth activities and youth
organizations............................................................................................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
-the stimulation of the mobility of young people.................................................... . . . . . . .43
-the research for better ways of supplying young people with information and advice 43
-the support for international exchanges and the subsidizing of trips for children and
young people................................................................................................................... 43
-the encouragement of various interest activities of young people and the creation of
conditions for the inclusion of young people in social processes. ................................ 43
The Office for Youth is helping to set up a network of youth organizations, councils and
centres, as well as information and advisory centers. .................................................... 43
Post-transition: 2004, the first year of full membership of the EU...................... . . . . . . . . . . 46

Croatian National Youth Council: Evaluation excerpt for the evaluation of the
implementation of the world programme of action for youth.............................................65
National Youth Policy, Zagreb 1995-2005.......................................................................... 65
Youth Policy in Luxembourg.............................................................................................. 66

Youth policy in Slovenia............................................................................................. 70
From international and national objectives to local action............................................. 78
Citizenship learning............................................................................................................ 84
Integrated youth policy...................................................................................................90

.................................................................93 working with drop-outs, low-achievers and students with motivational and behavioral problems......................................................................................................................93

Transitions to adulthood
Concept of youth policy
Structures
Youth sector priorities 2003-2005
Important documents on youth policies

Youth Policy in Luxembourg
Involvement in youth policy
Consultative and decision-making structures of youth policy

Youth policy in Malta
Involvement in youth policy
Youth Policy in Malta: Report by the international team of experts
Position Paper on the National Youth Council of Malta

Youth policy in Ireland
Involvement in youth policy
National Youth Work Development Plan 2003-2007

Second group: countries without a particular ministry with responsibility for youth matters, which consequently come under a ministry whose purview includes matters not always directly linked to youth affairs

Youth policy in Slovenia
Involvement in youth policy
Funding of Projects
Consultative and decision-making structures of youth policy
Post-transition: 2004, the first year of full membership of the EU
Towards the integral youth policy

Youth policy in Estonia
Involvement in youth policy
Consultative and decision-making structures of youth policy
Participation of young people
Estonian Youth Policy and Youth Work strategy 2006-2013
Financing of Youth Work
Questionnaire on 'Participation' in Estonia

Youth policy in Croatia
Involvement in youth policy
The emergence of the National Programme of Action for Youth
Implementation plan

Structures of youth policies in Luxembourg, Malta, Ireland, Slovenia, Estonia and Croatia
Why do me need youth policy?
How to implement youth policies?