Youth Information Service Bureau

The Youth Information Service Bureau is part of the Lidice House youth education center. We were founded in 1991 under the name International Youth Work Service Bureau, initially with the aim of supporting youth work in Bremen in organizing and conducting international exchanges.

Our work has been supported from the beginning by the Senatorial Authority for Youth in Bremen.

Over the years, our scope of work has expanded: in 1997 we went online with the Bremen youth server jugendinfo.de and shortly afterwards we developed our first media education programs to support youth work in Bremen in its first steps on the World Wide Web.

Thanks to the rapid spread and dynamic development of the internet, media education has become an established area within the ServiceBureau. Having outgrown our original name, we renamed ourselves ServiceBureau Youth Information a few years later.

Our areas of expertise: International youth work – Youth information – Media education

• We provide free advice and support to multipliers in the planning and implementation of international exchange programs.
• We advise and inform young people about various opportunities to spend time abroad.
• We inform young people about youth-relevant topics on the Bremen youth server.
• Through our media education work, we actively promote youth protection and support multipliers in staying connected to young people's media worlds.
• on behalf of the regional youth authority training database for child and youth welfare, fobi.jugendinfo.de.
• We publish the Bremen catalog for children's and youth travel every year and distribute it at many locations in Bremen, where families can pick it up free of charge.
• We organize the international youth circus event Bridges for Youth every two years.
• We organize conferences, training courses and workshops in the field of international youth work and media education.
• We initiate small and large projects: Currently our largest project is “#future_fabric – thinking about democracy.digital”.
• The administration of the Bremen Schnakenberg Foundation is located in the Service Bureau. Families with low incomes can apply here for holiday subsidies.

The Bremen Working Group on Media Addiction published a flyer in February 2022 on school iPads and recommendations for dealing with digital devices in families:
School iPads and other media in the family – Recommendations for dealing with digital devices in families (pdf)