The EAYW aims to promote the development of quality youth work and to support its capacity to react to current and future developments. To this end, it focuses on supporting innovation and futures-thinking in youth work, as a response to the trends, challenges and uncertainties faced by young people in today’s fast-changing societies.
The EAYW offers a platform for exchange and knowledge gathering on trends and developments in and with relevance to the youth field in Europe, and on innovative and forward-looking youth work responses to these trends and developments.
Main work areas: Further developing knowledge and fostering dialogue about emerging and future trends and developments in and of relevance for youth work, as well as approaches and strategies for supporting innovation, futures-thinking and future-readiness (dealing with ongoing changes) in youth work.
Meant for
- youth workers from all levels (local, regional, national, European)
- professionals in areas with relevance for the youth sector and representatives of youth work policies and public services
- National Agencies and other staff working in youth work structures (from NGOs, science and research)
Participants come from a wider European context, and where relevant and needed from other parts of the world. The EAYW targets those who have a keen interest in learning about and contributing to new and innovative initiatives and developments in order to further develop youth work or frameworks for youth work in their own context.
- Biennial European larger EAYW events (150-200 participants)
- Research (Innovation in Youth Work, Futures of Youth Work)
- Smaller online and residential activities (national and international) to engage with research outcomes and topics of the EAYW
- Production of tools and materials on the topics of innovation and futures-thinking in youth work to be used in youth work practice
Main resources
- Study on Innovation in Youth Work and Infographics
- Study on Futures of Youth Work
- Innovation+ Toolbox
- Innovation+ Workshop Module for NAs (contact EAYW coordinator for more info and resources)
- Game Window to the Future
- Futures Toolbox
- Visuals on different topics of the EAYW
- Descriptions of 91 innovative practices
- Reports of 3 EAYW events, various videos and articles
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Who is involved?
National Agencies for Erasmus + Youth and the European Solidarity Corps in Austria, Belgium Flanders, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, France, Croatia, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Slovenia. Supported by an Advisory Board of stakeholders from different areas of youth work.
Get in touch!
For your questions, reach out to the project coordinator: Sonja Mitter Škulj, sonja.mitter@movit.si, SALTO SEE, MOVIT Ljubljana, Slovenian NA for Erasmus+ youth and the ESC.