Youth Policy meets Youth Work: Croatian study visit

The Croatian National Agency Agencija za mobilnost i programe Europske unije organised the study visit “Youth policy meets Youth Work”. Representatives from Estonia, Lithuania, Serbia, and Slovenia got the opportunity to get inspired by examples of successful youth support practices at the local level in Croatia from the 25th to the 28th of April 2022.

During these four days, the participants visited four municipalities: the cities Rijeka, Pazin, and Labin, and the municipality Medulin. They got acquainted with youth work policies of those municipalities and also saw examples of youth work from the local NGOs. All host municipalities were either former EGL participants on the national level or “City For Youth” certificate holders.

Topics

Some of the topics that the National Agency found important to present during “Youth Policy meets Youth Work” were:

• support to youth and youth work within formal educational institutions
  • for example, programs of the civic education in schools and youth (study) programs in the sector of higher education
• Erasmus+ and European solidarity corps projects which brought important outcomes for the youth
  • for example, active youth participation in decision making, local youth programs, and skills development
• inclusion of youth with fewer opportunities
• and general promotion of Europe Goes Local and opportunities offered to the youth work stakeholders.

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You can learn more about the “City For Youth” certificate here: