Youth Communitary Action Programme (2000 - 2006).
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Under decision has been establishing the "Youth" Community action programme.
This programme shall be implemented over the period starting on 1 January 2000 and ending on 31 December 2006.
The Youth for Europe Programme aims to encourage the active participation and integration of young people in society. In particular, it aims to stimulate creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of young people, raise awareness of cultural diversity, the importance of ensuring equality between men and women and of the dangers connected with exclusion, including racism and xenophobia.
The Programme is based on the direct involvement of young people and builds on the structures already established through community work in general. It seeks to encourage the participation of young people at disadvantage. The nature of the Actions as well as the methodology envisaged by the Programme is specifically designed to reach this objective. Article 4 of the Decision establishing the Programme stipulates that at least one third of funds allocated under Action A have to be used to benefit young people at disadvantage. The Programme encourages the creation of reinforced partnerships on all levels: between the Commission and the Member States, the National Agencies responsible for the implementation of the Programme and the groups of young people who elaborate and carry out the projects.
The objectives of the programme are:
- to promote an active contribution by young people to the building of Europe through their participation in transnational exchanges within the Community or with third countries so as
- to develop understanding of the cultural diversity of Europe and its fundamental common values, thus helping to promote respect for human rights and to combat racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia;
- to encourage young people's initiative, enterprise and creativity so that they may take an active role in society and, at the same time, to stimulate recognition of the value of informal education acquired within a European context;
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