Symposium
Navigating Transitions: adapting policy to young people’s changing realities

On 21-23 June 2022 the partnership between the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the field of youth organised in Tirana, European Youth Capital 2022, the Symposium Navigating Transitions: adapting policies to young people’s changing realities. Around 100 participants including young people and their organisations, policymakers, youth work practitioners and researchers reflected on youth transition patters and experiences. Covid-19 pandemic and other large societal challenges such as war, economic crisis, shrinking space for civil society and limited channels for participation in public life have all impacted on these transition pathways on political, economic, social, and personal levels.

The symposium participants shared inspiring initiatives and learned about resources from the EU-Council of Europe youth partnership such as the new Youth Policy Manual, the e-library on youth policy evaluation, the draft T-kit on participatory youth policy and thematic research initiatives contributing to knowledge-based policies. Finally, they developed messages and proposals for policy changes needed to support better youth transitions.

 The event aims to:

  • addressed and explored the impact of Covid-19 on youth transitions to autonomy, including, but not limited to transition from education to employment, from being sustained by their families/care institutions to financial and economic independence in a new household, from being to having children/forming a family;
  • reflected on how to adapt traditional youth policy and youth work approaches in supporting active participation of young people, their engagement with societal concerns such as anti-racism, environment and climate change, precariousness and inequalities, as well as (re)defining connections and community;
  • contextualised youth transitions in the context of Covid-19 but also other crises impacting transitions to adulthood (e.g. economic, financial, mental health, etc.);
  • examined and reflected on policy measures needed to support young people in their transitions to adulthood;
  • shared good practices of effective and successful youth policy interventions in the context of youth transitions and the impact of Covid-19;
  • connected actors working on these themes, from within and beyond the youth sector, to continue, develop or innovate in relation to that work.
Tirana, Albania 21-23 June 2022
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Resources

 Covid-19 knowledge hub

 Solidarity with Ukraine

 Contribution to EU Youth Wiki: Chapter VII. Health and well-being

 Coyote on Mental Health and Wellbeing

 E-library on youth policy evaluation

Under 30’ Podcasts page

 Compendium of background readings

 Understanding, Problematizing and Rethinking Youth Transitions to Adulthood, by Ilaria Pitti

 Recommendation of the Council on OECD Legal Instruments Creating Better Opportunities for Young People

 Youth services during the Covid-19 pandemic – a patchy net in need of investment, by Dunja Potočnik and Ruzanna Ivanian

 The role of youth work in supporting young refugees and their political participation: education, social capital and agency, by Simon Williams and Charlie Hughes

 Surviving (and even thriving) during a crisis: the experiences of youth organisations during the Covid-19 pandemic, by Viviane Ogou Corbi and Gianluca Rossino

 Technology and the new power dynamics: limitations of digital youth work, by Alicja Pawluczuk and Adina Marina Șerban

 A modest proposal Is it time to develop digital and smart youth work strategies?, by Michele Di Paola

 Towards a better understanding of COVID-19 impact on young people and on the youth sector in Eastern Europe and South Caucasus, by Maria-Carmen Pantea, Tamar Makharadze

 Access to independence and housing exclusion, by Chloé Serme-Morin

 Young people in rural areas: diverse, ignored and unfulfilled, by Adina Marina Șerban, Rūta Brazienė

 Shrinking democratic civic space for youth. By Tomaž Deželan and Laden Yurttaguler

 Young people’s right to assemble peacefully. A mapping study, in preparation of the first review of the recommendation CM/Rec (2016)7. By Maria-Carmen Pantea

 The effects of COVID-19 on young people’s mental health and psychological well-being, by Stefanos Mastrotheodoros

 Youth policy manual

 YKB-24 "Between insecurity and hope. Reflections on youth work with young refugees"

 Step by step together

  T-kit 12 "Youth transforming conflicts"

videos


COVID-19 Knowledge Hub


Defining youth transitions

Opening by Sophia Eriksson Waterschoot,
European Commission

Opening by Matjaz Gruden,
Council of Europe