The SALTO-YOUTH network of Resource Centres organised at least 49 activities in 2008 (courses, seminars, study visits, staff trainings) (at least 42 in 2008, 40 in 2007, 48 in 2006, 45 in 2005, 40 in 2004). SALTO online application & selection procedure was used with most of those activities (easier access, greater transparency, more efficient course management). SALTO-YOUTH coordinated and co-organised further 27 so called "network activities" (BTM, SOHO, TicTac, European Citizenship TCs, ToT, TOM, Appetiser,... - more explanation here), where on-line applications were used as always.
In 2009 the SALTO website (www.salto-youth.net) saw an increase of visits (a visit is defined as one user arriving on one of our pages, till s/he leaves the SALTO pages again. Within one visit a user can view several pages. A user can make several visits to our site).
The busiest period was September-November 2009 (with peaks of 137'000 visits per month).
You downloaded in total over 4'590 different files in 2009 (4500 in 2008, 3800 in 2007) from the SALTO website, and this 471'243 times (425'000 in 2008, 310'000 in 2007, 219'331 in 2006, 115'884 in 2005, 75'935 in 2004). This represents an amazing total of 489 gigabytes of data ('only' 225 in 2008).
You, the National Agencies and SALTO listed 183 activities in the European Training Calendar (172 in 2008, 157 in 2007, 192 in 2006, 169 in 2005, 167 in 2004). Out of it, over 25% of those activities were organised by SALTO in cooperation with National Agencies and 50% of those listed training events were organised by (or in cooperation with) other institutions and NGOs.
In 2009 we added a 'rating functionality' to the SALTO Toolbox for training & youthwork. You can now give from one to five stars to your favourite training methods.
By the end of 2009 there were 270 experienced youth work trainers listed in the TOY database (260 in 2008, 266 in 2007, 215 in 2006, 210 end of 2005, 183 end 2004). Also in 2009 the TOY trainers were 'refreshed' meaning that in-active trainers were put offline (till they update their profile again). This gives you only up-to-date trainer profiles for your international youth training activities.
The information via the various SALTO Newsletters reaches 1X'000 readers throughout 2009 (a bit more than 10'000 in 2008, just under 10'000 in 2007, 8800 in 2006, 7450 in 2005, 6500 in 2004) and new issues of the "Meet'In EuroMed", "SeeYOUth" and "YOUTHin7" magazines were published and distributed on a regular basis.
Many new educational publications, reports, booklets, guides saw the light, see more here!
It is interesting to know where you came from and how you heard about SALTO: according to the statistics appr. 70% of you find your way directly to the SALTO website (860'000 of the visits in 2009, 726'700 in 2008), but we would also like to thank the following websites for their referrals:
... and a bit of interesting details (only out of information provided by users):
We have now (end 2009) 38'000 MySALTO users = with password for the SALTO site (in 2008 'only' 30'000). 39% are registered as Male, 61% Female. Over 6000 of them come from Turkey, but only 14 from Liechtenstein. Three oldest MySALTO users were born in 1932 and live in United States, France and Netherlands. Several youngest users in 2008 were 14 years old.
(figures based on the 2009 webstatistics by Urchin and our Content Management System by webFactory - SALTO is not responsible for possible errors or incoherence)
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