AUSTRIA - VEREIN GENERATIONEN UND GESELLSCHAFT

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, disseminate the results of the Training in our country and keep the contact to the project partners. 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 rainings, Seminars, Youth Exchanges and also the European Voluntary Service. Due to this experience InfoEck is a reliable and qualified partner for Erasmus+ projects. The responsible contact person for this project, Benjamin Stern, was already partner in a youth exchange about climate change and took part himself as a group leader. He also implemented the successful training course “Connecting the Alps with YOURopean habitats” in Austria and got approved the second edition of that TC for 2016. So the key staff involved in this application, has great experience in both - Erasmus+ project management processes and in the topic of the youth exchange. The participants are youngsters between 16 and 22 years of age. They are living in the region of Tyrol. Some of them live in remote places, which means that they are facing geographical obstacles. Others are facing social challenges due to financial difficulties or migration history.