Políticas comunitarias de juventud: el factor territorial en la sociedad global

Abstract

When focussing on the study of the youth educational policies, we require a contextual picture that allows us to interpret why, how and when a new educational policy, related to the youth, is generated in Europe, in order to achieve more consistent and effective policies. The EU specific mandate about the youth focuses on educational aspects; however, when analysing the different EU policies, we often need to face the fact that the youth play an important role in society, as far as contextual, social and cultural aspects are concerned.Spatial, contextual and territorial dimensions are some of the most isolated variables related to the implementation of socioeducational performances. This occurs despite their significant importance in terms of fighting against the youth's social inequality and discrimination. The dispersion of initiatives - fruit of systematic oblivion from those responsible for politics which especially relate to the contextual dimension (among others)- makes actions to be proposed, in many cases, homogeneous and homogenizing. In this respect, we intend to cover the necessities emerged from the consequence of the globalisation process. We also defend a new theoretical fundament -based on the youth policy- whish recovers the values of space, context and territory as a first-class socioeducational agent in the EU. We believe these principles should form a part of the foundations on which the EU project for the youth is built.