We invite you to the 2nd Webinar of the Youth Work Talks “Xcelerating the recognition of youth work”. The webinar will take place on 8 April 2025 from 10.00 to 12.00 CET and offer a sneak peek into the 4th European Youth Work Convention (EYWC).
We met with Renate Mencendorfa from the Ministry of Education and Science in Latvia to talk about youth work developments in Latvia and the role the European Youth Work Agenda is taking in those developments. Learn about the huge developmental steps that Latvia has taken in recent years in this article.
In March of 2025, the EU-Council of Europe Youth Partnership hosted the seminar “Youth mental health and well-being” at the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg. The purpose of the event was to bring together youth workers, researchers and policy makers to discuss how the youth sector is responding to the mental health and well-being needs of young people.
The Survey Report on national processes 2025 shows how the development of national processes has contributed to putting the European Youth Work Agenda into practice since the 3rd European Youth Work Convention. This article summarises the key insights of the survey findings by highlighting the current state of play of national processes, the progress, challenges and needs. It collects recommendations and expectations towards the 4th European Youth Work Convention by the National Contact Points of the European Youth Work Agenda implementation.
We invite you to the Growing Youth Work Project Lab that will happen on 18 June, from 10.00 to 12.00. Join us if you want to grow projects from ideas to realistic plans!
On the 8th of April 2025, the “Youth Work Talks” held another in its series of webinars, titled “Xcelerating the recognition of youth work”. This webinar provided information about the 4th European Youth Work Convention and its themes. At the same time, it highlighted the topic of recognising youth work, which is the current focus of the event series “Youth Work Talks” by the cooperation project “Growing Youth Work”.
From the 27 to 30 May 2025, about 500 members of the youth work community of practice met in Malta for the 4th European Youth Work Convention. The series of Conventions serves as the most important platform for youth work development across Europe, happening every five years since 2010.
On 28th April 2025 the 4th European Youth Work Convention Preparation Webinar offered an opportunity for all participants of the Convention to prepare together for this unique event.
Zoran Ilijeski from SEGA - the coalition of youth organisations in North Macedonia - shares some of the developments that are taking place in the Macedonian youth work sector. These include the recognition of youth work in law, and the study of youth work appearing in universities. He also shares a very powerful and yet simple vision for the future of youth work in North Macedonia – a vision that most countries would want to embrace.
Estonia has a proud history of developing youth work, and while many other countries may aspire to achieve what Estonia has already accomplished in terms of recognition of youth work, such success stories do not mean the work is finished, nor do they imply that the youth sector in Estonia does not face any challenges. Martti Martinson from the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research shared with us some of the successes, future directions, and difficulties that the youth work sector in Estonia is facing.
