Division 3.3.2.1 Children and young people (Annex — point 2.2.1)

Identifying and evaluating the effectiveness of best practices aimed at:

1. (a)

   promoting the health and well-being of children and young people through informal and non-formal education and through social/youth work, building on the experiences and examples of youth organisations and social welfare organisations;

2. (b)

   preventing young people from engaging in risky behaviours;

3. (c)

   making schools and other education establishments a healthy setting and a setting for health promotion, also by implementing health issues in the school curricula, and also by the Youth health initiative.

[Call for proposals for projects]

Analysing best practices in the provision of services or investment in health promoting activities targeting young people at local level, especially in big urban areas.The Commission intends to use the results of the financed activity for developing its Youth health initiative, integrating the outcome of the Conference on the health of young people which took place in July 2009 in Brussels.

[Call for proposals for projects]