These highlights are based on the presentations made at the Conference. As with the Updates on the NYS situation in each country (pages 19 to 25), they illustrate the variety of NYS programmes, plans and initiatives world-wide, but show that all have in common a period of constructive service by young people for the community (for other people or for the environment). These presentations also highlight some of the problems facing NYS and some of the current thinking in this field. Full copies of the majority of the presentations are available from the conference host, CSV (contact details are on the final page of this report) and may also be included on the Conference web-site
(via http://www.acys.utas.edu.au/topics/nys.htm) during 1999.

• NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE: EMERGING ISSUES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
  
  
• FUTURE PERSPECTIVES OF YOUTH POLICY IN EUROPE
  
  
• NATIONAL SERVICE AND SERVICE-LEARNING: PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION REFORM
  
  
• SERVICE-LEARNING: EDUCATION TO PROSOCIALITY
  
  
• MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE PROGRAMMES - THE CASE OF THE CITIZEN'S SERVICE PILOT SCHEMES IN THE UK
  
  
• TRANSNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH VOLUNTEERING: ITALY AND THE UK IN THE EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE (EVS)
  
  
• INTERNATIONAL LINKAGES BETWEEN NYS PROGRAMMES
  
  
• WORKSHOP: IS NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE A RITE OF PASSAGE?
  
  
• ON MAKING NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE A MAJOR POLICY: BUILDING THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION
  
  
• REGIONAL & INTER-STATE YOUTH SERVICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
  
  
• YOUTH SERVICE AND ALTERNATIVE CIVILIAN SERVICE IN RUSSIA