Empowering Youth Workers: Strengthening European Youth Work through Synergies and Cross-Sector Collaboration

Developing Youth Work in Europe

The EYW project builds bridges between youth work professionals across Europe. We are creating a digital platform that connects expertise, good practices, and innovative methods from the youth work field.

The project will produce two online training modules. The modules will be tested in both formal and non-formal education settings at national level by participating actors and also at Pan-European level. The training platform will be built in stages, with the first beta version providing a testing environment for the modules for project partners.

In the EYW project, we will compile a comprehensive collection of the most current English-language publications and create a digital library that will be available to everyone on the digital platform. A ‘toolbox’ of good practices and a showcase collection will provide concrete models for practical youth work.

Interaction and networking are at the heart of the EYW project. We will organize three webinar series, national policy discussions and roundtable events, as well as an international online seminar. This will also create a new community of practice that will continue its work after the project ends.

Humak’s role is to produce the theoretical knowledge base for the training package, participate in creating the ‘toolbox,’ and organize the project’s concluding international webinar.

Project Objectives

1. Mapping models, tools, and methods among higher education institutions training youth workers and, for example, among organizations; how they address the European and political dimensions of youth work.

2. Examining essential perspectives and challenges in youth worker training and operating environments from a shared political European dimension.

3. Connection to broader European actors and their perspectives to bring about potential youth policy change. At the same time, it is important to expand the project’s sphere of influence and maintain contact with national and institutional actors and processes.