Åmåls Kommun / Europa Direkt Fyrbodal

Åmål is a municipality in the western part of Sweden. The city is participating in several projects supported by Objective 2 and 3. We are also one of 17 host organizations in Sweden for the European network: Europe Direct. The municipality has among other things the responsibility of schools and youth activities and is registred hosting and sending EVS organization in the EU Youth in action programme.The Europe Direct Youth Panel started up after a big conference that was held in Åmål in june 2006. The swedish delegation got really interested in European matters and over all questions and asked us at the Europe Direct office if we wanted to help them to start up something. The Europe Direct Youth Panel meets once a month to discuss different European themes but also to get actual European Union news from us. We have about 20 youths who comes every time to the meeting and the ages are between 16-21.