This page highlights a selection of key resources that provide valuable insights, guidelines, and frameworks for youth work across Europe, with particular references to national or local resources where available.

The resources provide access to practical tools to deepen understanding of diverse practices across Europe.

By exploring these materials, you can seek to align your initiatives with recognised standards thereby strengthening key advocacy goals.

Tips for using these resources:

  • • Familiarise yourself with the key resources relevant to your advocacy goals.
  • • Use the summaries to identify which documents are most pertinent to your work.
  • • Share the ideas from these resources with colleagues and other advocates to enhance collective knowledge.

Follow-up actions / Suggestions:

  • • Schedule a meeting or workshop to assess how these practices and/or standards can be useful for your advocacy efforts.
  • • Create a brief report or presentation summarising the key insights from these resources for your organisation and/or advocacy group.

RESEARCHES-STUDIES 
PODCASTS & VIDEO
OTHER RELEVANT RESOURCES

 

 Visible value - Recognition of youth work
Visible Value-Youth Partnership e-library that explores six areas linked to the recognition of youth work

 Country information on youth work
Youth Partnership: Country reports on youth work collected by EKCYP correspondents.

 Country Snapshots: Recognition of Youth Work
Youth Partnership: Visible Value editors survey (2021).

 Youth Work Essentials
Youth Partnership publication on the essential features of youth work.

 History of Youth Work
Youth Partnership series of publication books dedicated to youth work history.

 European Charter on Local Youth Work
The European Charter on Local Youth Work aims to contribute to the further development of local youth work by stating which principles should guide it and how different aspects of it should be designed to meet these principles.

 Inspiring Quality Youth Work 
A bank of quality indicators, it built a common platform for practical quality development through follow up, peer learning and exchange of methods and best practices.

 European Charter on Local Youth Work 
The European Charter on Local Youth Work aims to contribute to the further development of local youth work by stating which principles should guide it and how different aspects of it should be designed to meet these principles.

 Democracy Reloading Toolkit
The Democracy Reloading Toolkit is built around 4 KEY COMPETENCES (tasks) for municipality staff that have been identified by our research as essential for engaging young people in municipal decision-making: creating a supportive environment within the MUNICIPALITY, empowering YOUNG PEOPLE, developing policy, STRATEGY and structure, and of course MANAGING and validating it.

 Youth worker education in Europe. Policies, structures, practices
Youth Partnership publication that looks at how youth work practitioners learn their trade, what formal and non-formal education offers exist and how education is contextualised in the broader picture of youth work recognition.

 Value and Recognition of Youth Work - Booklet Series

 Thinking seriously about youth work. And how to prepare people to do it
Youth Partnership Knowledge book that explores best ways to communicate the strengths, capacities and impact of youth work.

 European youth work policy goals analysed
A Youth Partnership study exploring the youth work policy goals and objectives, compare, and identify similarities and differences between the two
institutions.

 Insights into developing the Youth Work Environment
Youth Partnership publication to strengthening youth work recognition, quality and support and resourcing for the whole youth work environment.

 European Youth Forum Advocacy Handbook
A handbook to find the keys to engage in meaningful advocacy action.

 Τ-ΚΙΤ 15 Participatory Youth Policy
A methodological and educational support for participatory youth policy making.

 Youth Work Portfolio
A tool that helps individuals, teams and organisations doing youth work around Europe to understand their competence and to develop it more effectively.

 Growing youth work in Europe: A methodology for mapping studies on national youth work ecosystems
The publication is meant to complement the European mapping study "Growing youth work" by presenting the methodology of conducting a mapping at the national or sub-national level.

Researches - Studies

 Growing Youth Work in Europe. Results of the study "Mapping European Youth Work Ecosystems"
Results of the study "Mapping European Youth Work Ecosystems".

 Diversity of Practice Architectures on Education and Career Paths for Youth in Europe - An analytical Report
Research on youth work practice architectures.

 RAY Reports
Research results, reports & publications related to the European Youth Programmes.

 Mapping the educational and career paths of youth workers
Part I. Report by James O’Donovan, David Cairns, Madalena Sousa and Vesselina Valcheva
Part II. Diversity of practice architectures, Tomi Kiilakoski.

 The State of Play of National Processes within the European Youth Work Agenda Implementation - Survey Report 2024
Report that presents and analyses the results of the 2024 survey on the implementation of the European Youth Work Agenda (EYWA) in 24 national processes.

Podcasts & Video

 Advocating for youth work - European Youth Work Agenda in practice
A podcast on advocacy for youth work with Hans-Georg Wicke (Head of JUGEND für Europa), Judit Lantai (Policy Officer on Strong Youth Organisations at the European Youth Forum) and Lukas Stede (leading the Youth Work portfolio in the Advisory Council on Youth in the Youth Department of the Council of Europe).

 Advocacy for youth work
Transcription of the podcast on advocacy for youth work with Federica Demicheli (youth trainer and youth worker , President of NINFEA- National Association of Youth Workers in Italy) and Anna Yeghoyan (trainer and consultant in the youth field, in the Eastern Partnership region).

 How does European and local youth policy influence your work?
Listen to five youth workers from different parts of Europe share how European and local youth policy influences their work. Video part of the "A Day in the Life of a Youth Worker" series, made in the framework of the MOOC on Essentials of Youth Work organised by the EU-Council of Europe youth partnership.

 MOOC on Youth Work Essentials
A self-directed online course developed by the Youth Partnership

Other relevant resources

 Engaging Political Decision Maker
A leaflet of the UNICEF UK Youth Advocacy Toolkit to support in identify relevant stakeholders.