Activities 2022-23

 Symposium Visible Value: Growing youth work in Europe (31 May – 1 June 2023)

 Symposium Navigating Transitions: adapting policy to young people’s changing realities (22-23 June 2022)

 Seminar Growing youth work in Eastern and Southeast Europe: knowledge, realities and ideas for the future (29-30 November 2023)

  Seminar on young people's political participation (10-11 October 2023)

 European Knowledge Centre for Youth Policy (EKCYP), providing knowledge for evidence-based youth policy-making

 Pool of European Youth Researchers (PEYR), generating knowledge on key themes of the work programme

 Research on:

• impact and learning from Covid-19 for the youth sector and further development of the Knowledge Hub
• youth political participation
• digitalisation, artificial intelligence (AI) and young people

 Perspectives on Youth, a virtual platform of dialogue between youth policy, research and practice

 E-library on youth policy evaluation

 Visible Value library of resources on recognition of youth work

 Capacity building project: Shaping Youth Policy (previous edition)

 Contribution to the European Youth Work Agenda:

• facilitating the dialogue withing the youth work community of practice
• supporting better recognition of youth work
• supporting initiatives of the Partner institutions

 European Platform on Learning Mobility (EPLM)

 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) on youth work, youth policy and youth research

Publications and communication

 Under 30’ podcast series, exploring research results, trends in young people's lives and themes relevant for youth policy and practice

Publications to be produced include:

 Training kits

• #14 on value-based learning in mobility
• #15 on developing and implementing evidence-based participatory youth policy

 Youth Knowledge Books:

• #29 on political participation of young people
• #30 on youth in transitions in pandemic Europe

 Insights :

• into developing the youth work environment

 Coyote online magazine:

• #33 on youth and conflict
• #34 on the European Year of Youth and 50^th anniversary of the Council of Europe’s youth sector and its campaign “Democracy Here, Democracy Now”
• #35 on sustainability
• #36 on the 25th anniversary of the Youth Partnership

 Translations of publications – all translations are available on the page of each publication.

 Illustrations and infographics to highlight results of various research projects carried out by the Youth Partnership.

EU-CoE youth partnership's activities and objectives:

• COVID-19 impact on young people and the youth sector: Knowledge Hub 
• Contributing to the European Youth Work Agenda
• Supporting democratic citizenship education with a European dimension - Edu4Europe Forum
• Study on political participation of young people
• MOOC on youth work in Europe and its links to youth policy and young people
• Perspectives on Youth.

Publications and communication

Under 30’ podcast series,

Publications produced in 2021:

• Training kits
  • Revised T-kit 6 on training essentials
  • T-kit 14 on value-based learning in mobility
• Youth Knowledge Books:
  • #27 on social inclusion and digitalisation
  • #28 Youth policy manual (new edition)
• Insights into
  • Youth policy evaluation
  • Digitalisation and social inclusion of young people
  • Youth political participation
  • Youth research
• Coyote online magazine:
  • #31 on the 3rd European Youth Work Convention
  • #32 on young people’s well-being and Covid19

Illustrations and infographics 

• Youth Knowledge Forum
• Study on social inclusion of young people and digitalisation
• Study on political participation of young people
• Expert reflection on youth policy evaluation
• Towards a European Youth Work Agenda
• Youth work essentials brochure and a MOOC on youth work in Europe and its links to youth policy and young people
• Project “Shaping youth policy in practice”
• Perspectives on Youth.
• Youth Knowledge Books:
  • on social inclusion and digitalisation
  • on political participation of young people (editorial work)
  • revision of Youth policy manual
• Youth work essentials
• Coyote online magazine:
  • #29 related to supporting young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods will be continued and finalised.

• Symposium on young people’s political participation.
• Study on social inclusion of young people and digitalisation
• Expert reflection on youth policy evaluation, 
• Research on youth work professions, education and training, on the job support, following up from the mapping of educational pathways for youth workers,
• Supporting youth work, including developing a youth work essentials brochure and preparing a MOOC on youth work in Europe and its links to youth policy and young people
• Open online course on youth policy essentials, 3rd edition
• Project “Shaping youth policy in practice”, 4th edition
• Supporting democratic citizenship education with a European dimension
  • Developing an online course based in the T-kit 7 'European citizenship'
  • Developing knowledge for, and contributing to, the organisation of the forum Edu4Europe: Education for European democratic citizenship forum
  • Analytical papers
• Regional seminar on the state of youth work in Eastern Europe
• Perspectives on Youth, a virtual platform of dialogue between youth policy, research and practice:

The EU-CoE youth partnership contributes several activities organised by partners:

1. Contribution to the conference organised by Jugend fur Europa “Regaining Europe”, discussing the position and role of young people and the youth sector in the debate on the future of Europe
2. Involvement in the project Europe Goes Local, on strengthening youth work at municipal level

3. Contribution to the European Academy of Youth Work

Publications produced in 2019:

• YKB : History of Youth Work-7
• YKB: Education of Youth Workers in Europe and Practice Architectures
• ‘Youth research essentials’,
• EKCYP Insights presenting cross-country analysis of specific questions relevant to youth policy and youth work
• Handbook on quality in learning mobility.

• Symposium on young people and technological developments,
• Continuation of the mapping of educational pathways for youth workers, 
• Open online course on youth policy essentials,
• Youth Policy Seminar “Shaping European policies in theory and practice”,
• Seminar on the role of the youth sector in supporting young refugees,
• Seminar on citizenship education in youth work, 
• Workshop on learning from the history of international youth organisations, their development, place and relevance, co-organised with the Slovenian government
• Regional event on the state of youth work and its relevance for youth policy in South East Europe, 
• Seminar on strengthening investment in youth research in EECA and Annual meetings of PEYR and EKCYP, Chisinau (Republic of Moldova),  18-20 September

Contributions to activities initiated and led by other partners

1. Contribution to the conference organised by Jugend fur Europa “Regaining Europe”,
2. Involvement in the project Europe Goes Local, on strengthening youth work at municipal level
3. Developing an Academy for Youth Work in Europe – towards the 3rd EYWC convention
4. Contribution to the Erasmus+ NAs network strategy against radicalisation leading to violence.

Publications produced in 2018:

• “Support, tips, examples and possibilities for youth work with young refugees”, a publication offering advice and guidance for youth workers
• ‘Youth research essentials’, a brochure presenting what youth research is, what are its core themes and elements, for the practitioners of the youth field
• Study on the role of youth work in combating radicalisation leading to violence.

• Symposium “Youth policy responses to the contemporary challenges faced by young people”;
• New Youth Knowledge Books.
• Knowing youth work in Europe:
  • Mapping of educational paths for youth workers in Europe,
  • Involvement in the project “Youth work at municipal level,
  • Participation in the German “Child and Youth Welfare Congress 2017” and organising a workshop on youth work: towards the 3rd European Youth Work Convention;
• Contribution to the seminar “Shaping European youth policies in theory and practice”;
• Youth participation:
  • Young refugees’ voice workshop,
  • Contribution to the Erasmus + strategic partnership project “Ignite the Spark”,
  • Contribution to the EUth research and innovation project funded under the EU Horizon 2020,
  • Involvement in the forum “Raise your voice for tomorrow’s Europe” - forum on education for democratic citizenship with a European dimension;
• Contribution to the  strategy “Youth work against violent radicalisation”
• Developing youth knowledge networks in Eastern Europe and Caucasus and in the South Mediterranean
• Development of the online course on youth policy.

• Symposium '(Un)Equal Europe? Responses from the youth sector’
• Expert meeting on learning mobility quality standards
• Research Seminar on Trends and Perspectives on Youth Research
• New issues of the Youth Knowledge Books, including Perspectives on Youth
• Follow up to the 2^nd European Youth Work Convention, in particular a workshop on the social dimension of youth work and knowledge gathering on the role of youth work’s role for young refugees
• Training course on participatory and evidence based youth policy
• Peer learning seminar on cross-sectoral policy co-operation in Western Balkans
• Experts meeting on knowledge on youth in South Mediterranean

• Beyond barriers – supporting access to rights of young people in vulnerable situations
• Symposium on youth participation in a digitalised world
• Peer Learning on Cross-Sectorial Youth Policy
• New issues of the Youth Knowledge Books, including Perspectives on Youth
• Quality and recognition of youth work and non-formal education/learning
• Reflection on the concepts and theories of youth work and educational systems for youth workers in Europe - contribution to the 2nd European Youth Work Convention
• Coordination of the European Learning Mobility Platform and its 2nd conference on learning mobility and social inclusion of youth
• Training course on participatory and evidence based youth policy
• Youth policy seminar on barriers to social inclusion of youth in Western Balkans