Research is an important aspect of many organizations – profit or non-profit. It is a way of searching for knowledge, answering questions and planning for the future. ECYC decided to add research as one of its components for future development and growth and to be used as a way of assessing and implementing new non-formal educational programs across its Member Organizations. One research assessing ethnic identity, prejudice and person perception has already occurred in 2010. After several discussions, the Board decided to accept a new research proposal made by the Cyprus Youth Clubs Organization and implement its second research study. With great joy, we received our funding from the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and started our challenging task. This publication is the final result of much hard work by many people who were involved with translating the questionnaires and coordinating the data collection. Through this process, we were able to find out some interesting information and draw some interesting conclusions. In addition, some important recommendations are made for future training and non-formal education procedures which will be implemented by ECYC to best serve its Member Organizations. I hope you will enjoy reading this research publication and be able to benefit from the results and the recommendations. At ECYC, we are hoping for future research studies which will promote our organization even more, significantly increase our visibility throughout Europe and develop even more specific and beneficial recommendations to our members!

Marios Argyrides, PhD

Cyprus Youth Clubs Association Member

ECYC Member  

This publication is realized with the support of the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. The content of this publication does not reflect the views of the Council of Europe.