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Institutions for Youth Work Run by Adults}
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$Date{1989}
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Country:     Austria
Book:        Austria Culture and Society 1945-1955-2000
Author:      Federal Press Service
Affiliation: Embassy of Austria, Washington DC
Date:        1989

Institutions for Youth Work Run by Adults

Internationales Institut fur Jugendliteratur und Leseforschung (International
Institute for Young People's
Literature and Reader Research)

     The Institute has the status of a non-profitmaking association. It has
close links with the "Buchklub der Jugend". Its functions are: to promote
teacher training and further training, to collaborate with teacher training
colleges; to compile and publish booklists; to publish information on Austrian
children's and young people's literature; to provide teaching aids for
literature; to arrange events; to promote Austrian children's books abroad;
and to conduct research in the field of children's literature.

     The institute publishes a quarterly magazine entitled "Jugend und Buch".

     The Institute's office has the address: A-1040 Vienna, Mayerhofgasse 6,
tel.: [phone].

Musikalische Jugend Osterreichs (Austrian branch of Jeunesses Musicales)

     This is a non-profitmaking association which sets out to offer young
audiences high quality musical performances at low prices. It also aims to
provide young composers and performers a framework for their music-making. It
runs 28 offices throughout Austria, has approximately 12,000 subscription
holders and puts on some 300 concerts every year. There are currently
autonomous branch organisations in Linz, Eisenstadt and Klagenfurt which
collaborate only loosely with the head office, while the branches in Vienna
are administered directly. The association receives subsidies from the state,
from the Vienna City Council and from the provincial or municipal authorities
responsible for individual concert venues.

     The Austrian association is affiliated to the Federation Internationale
des Jeunesses Musicales and is popularly referred to as "Jeunesse".

     The head office has the address: A-1010 Vienna, Bosendorferstrasse 12,
tel.: [phone].

Osterreichischer Buchklub der Jugend (Austrian Young People's Book Club)

     The Book Club is registered as a non-profitmaking association with the
aim of promoting good books for young people. Since the 1948/49 academic year
it has been represented in all schools, at every level of Austria's
educational system. At the end of 1985 it had a membership of around 500,000.
The educational objective of the Book Club is to encourage constant,
independent-minded, critical and perceptive reading habits. The Club argues
that a school-child who has never learnt through reading to finish an idea, to
concentrate, to explore the depths instead of being distracted by a width of
visual appeal, will make little progress in life. Scientists have identified a
causal link between linguistic ability and intelligence.

     The Club covers its costs largely from membership fees (approximately AS
20 million, to which must be added subsidies granted by the Ministry for
Education, the Arts and Sport for the teacher's yearbook "Die Barke" and,
since 1981, for the bimonthly magazine "1001 Buch", which is published in
collaboration with the Ministry for Education, the Arts and Sport).

     For pubils the Club produces yearbooks in 12 editions (last edition
running to 500,000 copies), selected reading lists (for various age
categories), exhibition collections for peripheral areas, miniature editions,
pocket books and presentation sets. The Club membership card entitles the
bearer to a 25 percent discount on all Book Club editions in any Austrian
bookshop and to discounts for sporting and cultural activities. For teachers
the Club produces "Die Barke" (a yearbook) and the magazine "1001 Buch" (every
two months), booklists, teaching aids and information for literary studies and
so on.

     The Club's office has the address: A-1040 Vienna, Mayerhofgasse 6, tel.:
(02 22) 65 17 54.

Osterreichischer Jugendherbergsverband (OJHV), Hauptverband fur
Jugendherbergen und Jugendwandern (Austrian Youth Hostel Association)

     The association has no party political allegiances. By virtue of
collective membership with ten youth and sports organisations it has over
100,000 members, and in addition there are 20,000 direct individual members.

     The supreme body is the eight-member Executive Committee, while the
business management is handled by the Federal Secretary.

     The function of the association is to build and to maintain youth hostels
and to sponsor low-price travel for young people. It publishes a quarterly
magazine, "Hostel", for members.

     The association is affiliated to the International Youth Hostel
Federation (IYHF) and the International Office for Social Tourism.

     The association office has the address: A-1010 Vienna, Gonzagagasse 22,
tel.: [phone].

Osterreichisches Jugendherbergswerk (OJHW - Austrian Youth Hostel Scheme)

     The Austrian Youth Hostel Scheme is a non-political association devoted
to building and maintaining youth hostels and other forms of young people's
accommodation, promoting children's, young people's and family hikes,
arranging walks, trips and family holidays and collaborating with other
institutions involved in recreational activities. Through the system of
collective membership with other youth and sports organisations, the
association has approximately 60,000 members.

     Its supreme body is the General Assembly, comprising some 50 members from
youth and recreational organisations. There are nine provincial organisations,
and the business management is conducted by the Federal Executive Committee
whose 12 members are elected by the General Assembly.

     The OJHW publishes "Die Jugendherberge-Sehnsucht" four times a year.

     The OJHW is affiliated to the International Youth Hostel Federation
(IYHF) and to the Federation of International Youth Tourism Organizations
(FIYTO).

     Its head office has the address: A-1010 Vienna, Helferstorferstrasse 4,
tel.: [phone].

     Note on the two Austrian youth hostel organisations: they have joined
forces in one working group calling itself the Osterreichischer
Jugendherbergsring. This body represents both organisations in the IYHF, since
only one representative organisation from each country can be affiliated to
the IYHF.

Osterreichisches Institut fur Jugendkunde (Austrian Institute for Child
Studies)

     The Institute is a non-political association to which all the
organisations affiliated to the Austrian Youth Union belong as members. Its
function is to provide a comprehensive service for every area of youth work.
It publishes a series of brochures under the overall heading
"Report-Forschung-Information" which deal with such topics as youth and
religion, community youth work, or methods of lively group work.

     The Institute's office has the address: A-1150 Vienna, Pouthongasse 3,
tel.: [phone].

Osterreichisches Komitee fur Internationalen Studienaustausch
(OKISTA - Austrian Committee for International Student Exchange)

     The OKISTA is an association to which the following bodies belong: the
Federal Chancellery, the Ministries for Education, the Arts and Sport, for
Trade, Commerce and Industry and for Public Industry and Transport, the
Federal Economic Chamber, the Austrian Chamber of Medicine, the Austrian
Students' Union, the Association of Austrian Industrialists, the Austrian
National Tourist Office and the provincial governments (except Tyrol and
Vorarlberg). The OKISTA is a non-profitmaking service organisation concerned
with travel and further education for young people. Its sets out to promote
international contacts thr