Luxembourg

Youth information work in Luxembourg is coordinated by the Agence Nationale pour l’Information des Jeunes (ANIJ), a non-governmental body created in 1987 under the administration of the Youth and Education Ministry.

Youth information work forms an integral part of youth work and is in agreement with the national reference framework on non-formal education of children and young people established in 2017.

While the Youth and Education Ministry develops youth policy and coordinates youth work at the national level, the responsibility of providing youth work services (including youth information services) lies with the local governments and non-governmental organisations. As of 2020, there are about 100 in Luxembourg, each with their own established cooperation network of youth work organisations. Youth services are provided by youth centres, youth clubs, hobby schools, youth organisations, schools, etc. Youth information is mainly provided by labelled youth centres at the local level, while the ANIJ is the coordination body at national level.

In Luxembourg, the occupation of a youth information worker as such is not formally

recognised, but youth information services are recognised in a Regulation of 28 January 1999. In Article 5, there is a definition of youth information centres as a service that

“guarantees access to counselling, guidance, support and information to young people mostly aged between 12 and 26 during at least three days a week, and to at least three people a week”.

In addition, a reference is given to the Regulation of 28 July 2017 that establishes the national framework for “Non-formal education of young people and children” and it is Annex 1 that provides a description of the role of educators.