Eurodesk: Youth, you and everything young

One-stop shop for youth information!
Eurodesk was set up by a group of Scottish youth workers in 1990. It aims to present all relevant information for European youth in one place.

Eurodesk is for young people and for those working in the youth sector. It offers valuable information services on European opportunities in the education, training and youth fields. Eurodesk provides also enquiry answering services, funding information, events (trainings...) and publications.

It features a discussion forum for professionals to exchange best practices and a free multilingual service in 30 languages.

In the late 1980s, six Scottish youth workers came to Brussels on a study visit to find youth information. After finding it, they realised that it should have already been public information in Scotland. So they decided to start a project to improve access to European youth information in Scotland. The Eurodesk project was launched in 1990 and very quickly garnered much attention from the youth sector. It grew mainly from the many questions this sector put to Eurodesk, so that it could tailor its structure to what its stakeholders really wanted.

During these early stages it became increasingly clear that almost half of all requests for information came from outside Scotland. Eurodesk soon spread to the rest of the United Kingdom and by 1994 to seven more Member States. The aim was to present the same quality of youth information in all Eurodesk partner countries. Eurodesk now has a presence in 31 European countries with the support of the European Commission's Youth in Action programme. Its network office is in Brussels.

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