Czech Republic, Prague, March 25 - March 27, 2025
European level activity
The European EGL Event 2005 gathered 120 workers in Prague from 25 to 27 March 2025. With this event, Europe Goes Local, a platform for municipal-level youth work stakeholders, aimed to support municipalities in developing a comprehensive, knowledge-based youth work policy and provide a channel for municipalities to make their voice heard in the European policy discussion through a joint input for the upcoming 4th European Youth Convention in Malta in May 2025.
What was the event about?
The event had particular intentions to address the following areas in local youth work:
Facilitate knowledge building and exchanges on local youth work policy development, with a particular focus on how European youth programmes can contribute to its improvement and enhancement.
Highlight successful long-term practices and project processes that have significantly influenced local youth work policy development.
Foster in-depth discussions and exchanges about inspiring practices, emphasising their systemic and practical applicability to diverse local contexts.
Create a platform for municipalities to convey messages to the fourth European Youth Work Convention.
Explore municipalities’ challenges and needs in accessing and using the European youth programmes and identify potential solutions.
What topics were in focus?
This conference in Prague explored the following sub-themes:
The role of the European Charter on Local Youth Work: Using the Charter as a framework for describing the principles and outcomes of successful local youth work policy development.
Knowledge transfer: Exploring how existing knowledge, experiences and good practices can be translated into or transferred to practical, local-level initiatives.
The European youth programmes as youth work development instruments: Explore the use of the European youth programmes as instruments for local youth work policy development, with a focus on long-term impact and sustainability.
Needs analysis and mapping: What do municipalities need to support local youth work policy development? What do they need from European programmes and support structures to successfully (further) develop youth work policy and related strategies? What are the key barriers to better accessing these programmes?
Follow up and assessment: How to do policy-related follow-up and assessment of youth work practice? How can we show that youth work delivers in accordance with policy, that policy actually guides practice?
Expected outcomes
Observations on the central role of municipalities in creating sustainable youth work development: A document outlining the role, contributions, and challenges of municipalities concerning youth work, which will serve as a reference for discussions in the 4th European Youth Work Convention, with a strong interconnection with the European Charter on Local Youth Work, the European Youth Work Agenda and strategic NAs’ projects such as Growing Youth Work.
The report of the event: A report that summarises the thematic discussions and practices presented and underlines the collective insights of the participants, to support knowledge-building and actionable steps. This report will also contribute to highlighting of the role of the European youth programmes in supporting the development of local youth work strategies and inform future policy development.
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