The regions participating in the Eurodyssey programme provides their young people with the opportunity to gain professional experience and to improve their (language) skills in another country, supervised by their host region. At the same time, they provide young people from the other participating regions with traineeship opportunities in their territory, in sectors looking for young professionals with an international profile, willing to build on their skills and knowledge and to train them.
At the same time, Eurodyssey aims to promote a Europe of the Regions, with a unique youth mobility programme managed at regional level, with the regions being in control to identify and select the young people and the businesses in need of such a traineeship programme. It is also a unique forum for capacity-building, exchange of best practices, mutual learning and international cooperation between regions, in the fields of youth mobility, training and employment. The Eurodyssey network, composed of the Eurodyssey coordinators and correspondents of the participating regions, is a unique community, which has proved its resilience and mutual support across the years, and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
HOW TO BECOME A EURODYSSEY MEMBER REGION
In a nutshell
- The Regions are free to define their own methods for managing the programme, provided that they comply with the Eurodyssey Statutes and Rules of Procedures.
- The Regions must possess sufficient human and financial resources to carry out the exchange programme, must ensure the proper implementation of Eurodyssey in their region, and liaise regularly with the other regions (this aspect is also coordinated by the AER Secretariat).
- The Regions finance the costs linked with the hosting of trainees in their region (their accommodation, remuneration and language course), together with the host organisations (companies, associations, public administration…).
- As per the reciprocity principle, and to ensure a fair balance, Regions commit to host as many trainees as they send.
- The Regions coordinate the sending of young trainees from their region to other European Regions, who will finance their hosting.
- The Regions have flexibility in organising how the trainees are hosted (e.g. type of accommodation, amount of the remuneration, organisation of the language course), as long as it provides them with the necessary resources to live in the region, depending on the living costs in the given region (fair remuneration).
- The Regions may request European funding in order to co-fund the costs of Eurodyssey. For example, several regions have successfully applied to the European Social Fund (ESF / ESF+).
Who to contact?
If your region wishes to join Eurodyssey, you can contact the Programmes Coordinator at the AER Secretariat.