Young and Active Conference in Vilnius

During the VIII General Conference in Turku, the Network on Youth Issues was given a chance of becoming the commission. This has provided a great opportunity to reconstruct the organisation, which will be done this autumn. A new task for the Commission will be to serve with contacts for young persons wanting to use the EVS (European Voluntary Service).

On 13 - 16 October the CYI arranged the Youth Conference Young and Active in the Baltic Sea Region in Vilnius, Lithuania. 95 youngsters and civil servants from Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Poland and Lithuania participated.

Main discussion subject was how to involve youth's influence on different levels. The participants also got the chance to learn more about their own and other people's priorities in their lives.

As a result of the conference, quotes from the participants, project ideas and youth issues will be printed and handed out in a booklet, which we choose to call "Book on Demand".

We hope that many of you will have the chance to read this book, and that you will take that chance if getting it.