BALTIC SEA SECRETARIAT FOR YOUTH AFFAIRS

The idea of a project "Baltic Sea Secretariat for Youth Affairs" is to create a new project job position for the duration of three years, which would be integrated into the already existing structure of the Baltic Youth Office at the Regional Youth Council of Schleswig-Holstein.

The overall goal-oriented objectives of the Baltic Sea Secretariat for Youth Affairs are founded in the commitment to serve as a centre or hub for information distribution and co-ordination for all forms of co-operation activities between youth policy structures, between governmental and non-governmental youth structures as well as youth projects in the Baltic Sea region as defined in the objectives, priorities and actions adopted by the Visby Baltic Sea Youth Minister Conference.

The Baltic Sea Secretariat for Youth Affairs will work closely together with other co-operation structures in Baltic Sea Region such as the Secretariat of the Baltic Sea States Sub-regional Cooperation and the Secretariat of the Council of Baltic Sea States to promote all initiatives to keep youth questions on the agendas of these structures. Furthermore, it is the objective of the Secretariat to promote co-operation in an all-European context and to help build up good working relationships with other European regions, e. g. Barents Sea and the Mediterranean.