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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Europeer uses the Internet to facilitate collaboration between and to offer support to young people, practitioners, policy makers, and researchers working in youth peer education in Europe. It is founded on a partnership including the 15 European Union countries, the Czech Republic, WHO Europe, and UNAIDS. Europeer began in 1997, and in 2003 completed the groundwork for a European youth peer education network.
Communication Strategies
Europeer's mission is "To support, promote and develop the quality of youth peer education initiatives in Europe focusing on HIV/STD, health, life skills and related issues. The network supports and promotes the principal that young people should serve as a pillar in the development of health policies and programmes that effect them. In addition, the network views peer education as a methodology that can develop, strengthen and empower young people to take an active role in influencing policies and programmes. While doing so the network recognises, reflects upon and respects the social and cultural diversity of Europe."

The Europeer portal is the key tool for pursuing this mission. People involved in the peer education field are urged to use and provide various resources, such as interviews and project descriptions. On the site, users may access a youth AIDS peer education project database, download the "European guidelines for youth AIDS peer education" in 8 languages, search a bibliography of youth peer education literature, and interact with peers and colleagues through various features. The site is designed to facilitate the exchange of information, experience, skills, methods, and research results between projects and to provide support to new initiatives. It also seeks to procure and disseminate expertise in the peer education related areas of project practice, training, health promotion, life skills, policy making, and evaluation. Finally, the site is a tool for facilitating and enabling the capacities and skills of youth peer educators by coordinating information and skills development, involvement, and empowerment through peer-to-peer exchange and solidarity.

With regard to networking, specifically, a list of Europeer national Partners is provided on the site; users are urged to contact them for national information and to contribute to national youth peer education networks. In addition, a sister portal for and by youth peer educators that offers Internet peer educator radio is under construction and was due to go online in late November 2003.
Development Issues
Youth, Peer Education, HIV/AIDS.
Partners

Europeer is sponsored by the European Commission, the Department of Community Medicine at Lund University (Sweden), and The Peninsula Medical School, and the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth. Project Partners include: Fonds Gesundes Österreich (Austrian Health Promotion Foundation), Vienna; 'In Petto', Berchem; National Institute of Public Health, UNAIDS Focal Point, Prague; Lysthuset, Denmark; National Office for Health and Social Services for Berlin; National School of Public Health, Dept. of Preventive and Administrative Health, Athens; Italian Ministry of Public Instruction, Rome; Portuguese National Aids Committee, Lisbon; Spanish Youth Council, Madrid; Division of Social and Preventive Medicine, Malmö University Hospital, Malmö; Dept of Child Health, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter.

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Europeer site.