AGENCE EUROPEENNE POUR L'INFORMATION ET LE CONSEIL DES JEUNES ASBL

Their core work

ERYICA is the pan-European umbrella body for national and regional youth information and counselling networks, operating across more than 30 countries. Their core work is developing standards and practices for youth information services — the offices and platforms young people use to get guidance on education, employment, health, and civic life. In H2020, they contributed as a practitioner network: in EUth they brought expertise on how digital and mobile channels can enable youth civic participation, and in MOVE they supported research mapping youth mobility pathways across Europe. They are not a research organisation but a policy and practice network, meaning they provide field access, dissemination reach into youth services, and practitioner validation that academic partners lack.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both H2020 projects ran concurrently from 2015 to 2018, making a true chronological evolution impossible to detect from this dataset. The early-period keywords — digital and mobile — come entirely from EUth, while MOVE left no tagged keywords, suggesting it was a more research-facing project where ERYICA played a dissemination or network-access role rather than a thematic lead. With no post-2018 H2020 activity recorded, it is unclear whether ERYICA shifted toward deeper digital engagement work or stepped back from direct project participation after this cohort.

With only two concurrent projects from 2015, the direction is unclear — but their digital participation work in EUth suggests potential for future collaborations around digital citizenship, online civic tools, or youth engagement in democratic innovation projects.

How they like to work

ERYICA has never led an H2020 project — both participations were as consortium partner, which is consistent with their role as a practitioner network rather than a research lead. They work in moderately sized consortia (18 unique partners across 2 projects) spanning 12 countries, suggesting they are brought in for their European reach and network access rather than for deep technical contribution. Working with them likely means gaining a dissemination channel into youth services across the continent and a legitimising voice from an established European body.

ERYICA has collaborated with 18 unique partners across 12 countries through just 2 projects, reflecting a genuinely pan-European footprint. Their network is deliberately broad by design — as an umbrella body their value is geographic coverage across national youth information systems.

What sets them apart

ERYICA is the only pan-European institution specifically dedicated to youth information and counselling as a professional practice, giving them unmatched access to the practitioners — not just the researchers — who work with young people daily across 30+ countries. For consortia working on youth civic engagement, digital participation, or social inclusion, ERYICA provides legitimacy, field-level dissemination, and a built-in end-user network that no university or think tank can replicate. Their Luxembourg base and EU institutional connections also make them a credible voice in policy-facing projects under Societal Challenges funding.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EUth
  ERYICA's largest H2020 project (EUR 165,000), directly tied to their core mandate — investigating how digital and mobile tools can scale youth civic participation across Europe.
• MOVE
  A research-oriented mobility mapping project where ERYICA's value was network access and dissemination reach rather than thematic expertise, illustrating how they contribute to consortia beyond their primary niche.