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Foreword
Quality information for all young people! This is the mission of all youth information providers.
Information is a powerful right as it gives access to other rights. If we do not have information about our rights, how can we exercise them? Youth information is about supporting young people’s critical thinking and media and information literacy skills. These are the crucial elements that enable young people to make their own informed decisions and become active citizens.
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The future is influenced by our actions and choices in the present. The actions for better, quality youth information services for all young people should be taken every day. The future does not arrive ready-made, but we make it together.
At ERYICA, together with our members and stakeholders, we continue making sustainable decisions, so that the future of young people and youth information services are supported at national and European level.
As youth Information workers, our role is to engage young people in participation and dialogue. Preserving our European values in the post-truth era implies enhancing critical thinking and ensuring all young people have access to unbiased, understandable and reliable information. This is exactly what youth information and counselling is all about: youth-friendly information for young people and with young people.
2020 has been a challenging year and we are all aware of how COVID-19 has affected our lives and work, and how the situation has influenced the lives of young people. Youth information services are needed more than ever, and all youth workers and organisations have shown amazing creativity and strength in reaching out to young people with new and innovative methods.
As the President of ERYICA and on behalf of the Governing Board, I invite you to browse this booklet, a testimony to youth information providers and proof of the important work we do. I am convinced that any support to these services will contribute to a positive change in young people’s lives, and therefore to our future.
JAANA FEDOTOFF
ERYICA President
