Youth in Rostock

On 26 - 28 October the UBC Commission on Youth Issues held its second open meeting in Rostock. Two days were full of discussions on various important topics for the youth in the Baltic Sea Region. As always the youth representa tives of the UBC cities and civil servants were present. The topics were ap proached from different perspectives.

All cities had the opportunity to make the presentation on the topic "Sup porting youth employment and career in our city". Many different possibili ties were introduced and the tone of the presentations was positive. It was concluded that these issues are extremely important in current economic situation and that youth work is supposed to support young people enter ing employment market. The Commission's meeting was continued with the overview of the results on youth policy questionnaire carried out byCoYI dur ing spring-summer 2010 (see below). In addition, the debate on the impor tance of prioritizing youth issues and existence of youth policies in UBC cities was held and concluded that UBC cities should put even more focus on youth involvement and work in general. CoYI should generate and support the proc ess. The first day ended with the plans for Youth Conference 2011. The second day started with minutes of the Commission. The meeting was continued with activity report of Commission's work in 2010.