Some 180 experts from 10 European countries met at the University of Trier (Germany) to exchange information about youth assistance projects and hear views about the extent of unemployment among disadvantaged youth and development of innovative solutions. "The Failure of Young People to Cope with Life When Unemployed" (Bohnisch) showed how difficult it is to give encouragement to the unemployed by means of social studies concepts and projects. "Systematic Attempts of Social Studies to Diagnose the Life Environments of Socially Disadvantaged Young People" (Uhlendorff) drew on a social studies diagnosis of youth assistance and education planning to show the extent to which the future working lives of youth can no longer be forecast on the basis of conventional criteria. The basic tenet of "Ethnic Discrimination and Youth Unemployment" (Chauhan) was that not ethnic origin but the response to people of other colors was the cause of discrimination. Twelve projects from the European Community member states and Austria that were considered innovative in the field of assistance to the disadvantaged were presented: Escuela Taller de Valdedios (Training Workshops), Spain; Bureau "Maatwerk" (Tailor-made), Netherlands; Acting Up, Great Britain; Initial and Updating Training Federation (AUF), Germany; RADITA, Career Orientation for Foreign Girls, Austria; INTERFACE, Great Britain; Brusgaard Production School, Denmark; Traject M., Netherlands; Chantier Nature (Nature Building Site), France; Tintamarre, France; SILOG--Local Authority Qualification and Employment Project, Italy; and Employment Project Trier-North, Germany. A resolution that demanded investment in the social and vocational future of disadvantaged youth was drawn up to be sent to politicians and decision makers in member states. (YLB)