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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 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”.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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).

Lately Jenny Haglund spoke to us about KEKS which is a network of organisations engaged in the provision of youth work, based in Sweden. Jenny is the Secretary General of the KEKS network and has been working with the organisation for 15 years.

What were the key takeaways from the Exchange Forum? What are the realities and challenges for youth work on national levels? And what are future steps? If you are interested to find out more - then read our article!

The “Exchange Forum on the European Youth Work Agenda” in Leuven was all about exchanging on the different national situations of youth work development. It was also a topic of discussion between participants in breaks. One of these conversations explored and compared the diverse national situations of youth work and the different approaches and dynamics from an Austrian, Polish and European perspective. This conversation was between Carola Meier, Aleksandra (Ola) Kulik and Frederike Hofmann-van de Poll. It gives insights into how driving change in youth work development can take different shapes.

On 26 November 2024, we held the kick-off webinar of our “Youth Work Talks”, an event series aimed at establishing a space for professional debate and reflection on pressing issues in youth work development. How was the kick-off webinar? What were the key insights? And how did the community of practice react? Continue reading to find out more!

Andrei Popescu shares insights into youth work and the implementation of the European Youth Work Agenda in Romania. In this interview he reports about current developments, and some of the difficulties being faced – and overcome.