The research team from University of Vilnius explored the four regions Østfold and Telemark in Norway, Cesis in Latvia and Alytus in Lithuania. They discovered interesting differences and similarities between the young people living in these regions. In this article the research team give a short summary of the report. They write that the youths in Lithuania is more "Religion is more important to youth identity from the researched Lithuanian regions, while Latvian and Norwegian youth identify themselves through culture and customs". They also find youths from Telemark very family oriented compared to others. They are also most oriented to the regional identity, even compared to the youths from Østfold.

A new 17 min. video is ready from the Regional Identity Conference in Alytus May 2003. Comments are by Ilona Navickiene. The video presents the project and the conference in a good way. It should be interesting to all participants, as well as for others who are interesting in information from the project. The video will be distributed to all regions. The team behind the video has done a great job.

We are happy to see that the latvian website is updating their picture gallery. It is well worth a visit.

During the identity conference in Alytus in May 2003 there were held a lot of interesting speeches. Here you can read a presentation of the speakers and their speeches.

In this article Edgars Vimba, member of the Steering Committee is writing about his experiences from the conference in Alytus. He is underlining the transnational aspects in PIPE, that the participants can learn from each other and compare results.

The PIPE conference that was organised in Alytus last week shows that the participation in the PIPE project are growing and now counts more than 1000 students in 10 regions, 25 schools and 20 municipalities.

The Regional Identity Conference is going to be organised in Alytus, Lithuania, during the last week of May. The program will focus on identity issues. Several speakers will highlight different ways to work with identity as a basis for local and regional development. A comparative study of youth identity in 4 of the PIPE regions will also be presented.