The Europe Goes Local network will hold a peer-learning seminar on 27-29 April 2020 in Paris which will bring together 60 people both from Erasmus+ National Agencies and municipal institutions, organisations.
We are looking for the facilitator of the seminar who has the following background:
Deadline to apply: 6 December 2019
Please, check the Call for offers for details of the work and the application procedure.
The 3rd European Event of Europe Goes Local took place in Brussels on 4-6 June 2019. The conference brought together approximately 200 actors from municipal level youth work to learn from each other, plan new collaboration activities and have exchanges about the quality development of local youth work with a new support tool, the future European Charter on Local Youth Work. More concretely, the event served as a platform for discussion, deliberation, exchange of ideas and presentation of good practices. The participants represented a diverse range of expertise from the local youth work area coming from 111 different cities and towns and 28 European countries.
The full documentation of the event is available on the project website.
The European Charter on Local Youth Work has been launched at the 3rd European Event of Europe Goes Local. The Charter is meant to be a practical tool to help the quality development of local youth work.
Having the Charter is a definitely a moment to celebrate but not the final step on the way to build more bridges between European policies, funding and local youth work. The next milestone is planned to be a toolkit that can guide the work with the Charter and platform where we collect good practices from local youth work.
Stay tuned to be informed about future opportunities in Europe Goes Local, read more about the Charter here and watch our short video!
JINT vzw is looking for a service provider that would take care of the external online communication of the “Europe Goes Local” project. We are searching for an expert/company with the following experience: Social marketing, ideally in the non-profit sector (familiarity with youth work in an asset); Copywriting; Online journalism, writing articles, conducting and editing interviews; Storytelling (familiarity with visual storytelling is an asset); Creating communication plans.
Fluency in English is a requirement as that is the language of the project.
If you are interested, please, send your bid by the 6th of August 2019.
Please, find the detailed description in the ‘Call for ‘Tenders’.
Europe Goes Local has been selected this year to run a joint session together with the ESPON research project at the European Week of Regions and Cities. Besides presenting the European Charter on Local Youth Work in our part of the session, our panel members will describe the current policy framework in European youth work. The ESPON project focuses on territorial trends in youth unemployment in European regions and cities.
“The European Week of Regions and Cities is an annual four-day event in during which cities and regions showcase their capacity to create growth and jobs, implement European Union cohesion policy, and prove the importance of the local and regional level for good European governance.” explains the website of the event. It will take place in Brussels on 7-10 October expecting 6000 participants and 600 speakers for more than 100 workshops and debates, exhibitions and networking opportunities.
Are you interested in local and regional policies and achievements in the EU? Would you be interested in networking with fellow experts, politicians, project promoters from all over Europe representing diverse policy areas? Visit the official website of the Week and register till 27 September!
Europe Goes Local is much more than a group of youth workers who get together once a year at a European event. We have lots of actions happening at the European, national and local levels. From now, we will start introducing activities that were initiated and carried out by our network members. If you are interested in any of them, contact us for more information!
Think about this vision of a flourishing society: a community whose members, youthful and old, are educated about and occupied with all the serious issues that influence their lives. Among other tools, “lobbying” is an act of attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of legislators or members of regulatory institutions.
Supporting the development and recognition of youth work, it is necessary for the stakeholders to become active in interfering with and influencing local policy making. This requires a fundamental change in youth workers’ attitude as well as adapted and new skills and abilities. It needs further education in areas such as policy intervention, policy advice and lobbying.
In Germany, a model in the years 2013-2015 with these contents and with exceptionally positive outcomes was created. This preparation expects to exchange the Germany model venture to the European dimension. Jugend für Europa, the German National Agency of the Erasmus+ Youth in Action programme and its partners decided to develop an international long term training course for youth workers on the basis of the already existing model, in the framework of the Europe Goes Local project.
The point is to add to a more honed profile and to an improved political situating of youth work. Youth workers are to get out of their uninvolved position and into progressively dynamic roles as step towards developing co-makers of fellow youth work arrangement.
Webinar held in March.
Webinar in October
Webinar in January
The undertaking is planned as a propelled preparing and further training module and will cover the accompanying learning components and errands:
Some additional readings:
The information leaflet of the training course
The presentation of the training course
written by La Sheika Campbell.
We are looking for Brussels-based, English-speaking volunteers to support the implementation of the 3rd European event of the Europe Goes Local project. The event will take place on 4-6 June 2019 in Brussels, at a central location. The event will have about 200 participants who will discuss local youth work.
Volunteers are expected to support the organizing team at the registration desk, guiding the participants and setting up the venue of the event.
Please, see the details of our call here: Call for volunteers.
We are looking for a photographer and a video team to cover the upcoming 3rd European Event of the Europe Goes Local network. The event will take place on 4-6 June 2019 in the centre of Brussels. We expect 200 from all over Europe to exchange about youth work and develop cooperation.
Offers can be submitted separately for one of the tasks or for both if a company can provide the complete service.
Please, see details here in the attached files:
We are looking for a consultant to join the team of Europe Goes Local temporarily. The consultant who will be part of an expert group that will create an on-line toolkit to support the implementation of the European Charter on Local Youth Work in the frame of the project.
Please, see the attached call about the details of the tasks and the expectations towards the future consultant: