Austria, Verein Generationen und Gesellschaft

Link of the Association: www.mei-infoeck.at/

InfoEck is a youth information centre in Austria founded in 1993 and based in Innsbruck, Tyrol. It provides free, confidential information service to young people and those multipliers who work with this target group. InfoEck gives first and foremost information to young people between 13 and 30 to all relevant youth related subjects (work, education, social issues, health, law/administration, recreation, non-formal learning, mobility, internet safety etc.). InfoEck also offers different services, like a job board for summer jobs or a tutoring board.
The team of InfoEck has competences in preparing, documenting and conveying information to young people.
There are 4 locations of InfoEck in different parts of Tyrol (Innsbruck, Imst, Wörgl and Landeck) as an important integrated part of provincial youth work. InfoEck acts as a link between young people and specialist organisations (close co-operation with various organisations). InfoEck is part of regional/national/ European networks and is the regional office of “Erasmus+:Youth in Action” programme, promoting non-formal, intercultural learning, European mobility and coordinating EVS.

InfoEck is a partner organization and is assuming the responsibility to be actively involved at every stage of the project that is required. As a sending organization we will send participants, involve them in our project, act as a link between participants and HO, organize the travel, dessiminate the results of the Training in our country and keep the contact to the project partners. We have already been partners in Erasmus+/Youth in Action projects on climate change and environmental issues. In our organisation we promote environmentally conscious behaviour and we try to raise the awareness of young people for environmental topics.

InfoEck has a lot of experience in Erasmus+ (and youth in action) projects. It regularly acts as sending organization and can send Tyrolean participants to Trainings, Seminars, Youth Exchanges and also the European Voluntary Service. The participants of this TC will be youth workers interested in the topic of environment and climate change and also people working in environmental field, who want to learn new methods, in order to upgrade their skills to make this topic understandable for young people.