On 13 September 2016, the Council of Europe, the City of Strasbourg, the University of Strasbourg and the European Youth Card Association launched the Youth Card in France
The goal of the Card is to promote the active role young people can play all over Europe and to encourage their cultural, professional and personal development. The European Youth Card offers young people under 31 discounts on travel, accommodation, transportation, culture, sports, education, insurance, and various products in 35 countries (*) across Europe. Everyone can become a cardholder – you don’t have to be a student or a resident of the European country. Check out the discounts in the online database.
Since the establishment of the Youth Card by the Council of Europe in 1987, some 6 million young people have benefited from up to 60,000 price reduction possibilities all over Europe. Today, France became the 35th country in Europe to start issuing the European Youth Card.
Since 1991, the Council of Europe under its Partial Agreement on Youth Mobility has been working with the European Youth Card Association (EYCA) – a non-governmental association of 37 member organizations, promoting the Card as a tool to help young people in their future careers.
The European Youth Card reaches out to disadvantaged groups, such as young people with migrant background and unemployed; promotes mobility, active citizenship and voluntary service: some 100,000 young volunteers in Europe have been granted the Youth Card for free.
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(*) 35 countries-members of the European Youth Card Association: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland (UK), Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, «the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia» and Ukraine.