The ‘Futures of Youth Work’ project employed foresight methods originating from the field of future studies. In most general terms, futures studies ‘collect and analyse signals and trends from the past and the present, to create scenarios about probable, possible or desirable Futures’. Although the discipline was developed in the 20th century, it is…
Thursday the 12th September saw the third and final webinar of this year’s bi-annual European Academy on Youth Work, “Looking Forward, Together”. The theme of this Academy cycle has been “Futures of Youth Work” – for those not familiar with the programme of this year, the ‘s’ on the end of ‘future’ is deliberate. …
Are you interested in exploring potential future scenarios? Or perhaps you want to have constructive conversations about the future with your team or group of participants? Maybe you simply want to develop future-thinking competencies? Then get to know our game Window to the Future! Window to the Future is an educational tool that invites…
After two webinars and a very lively residential European Academy on Youth Work event in May, get ready for the final online meeting where we will share strategies to move towards the future, together. The third #EAYW webinar will happen on September 12, 2024 from 10:00 to 12:00 CET! In this webinar, we will…
By the time this blog is up on the Academy website, most of us will already be at home (well, hopefully, if the team stuck at the airport eventually takes off), unpacking backpacks, suitcases, and experiences, reflecting, wondering, envisioning, and slowly returning to the real world. Our windows to the future are clean, we are…
The third Academy day started cloudy and foggy outside, but shiny and energetic in the session rooms. We gathered in the plenary for a turtle-style slow start to reflect on the learned (and the unlearned) from the previous day. If the buzz word of the second edition of the Academy was “innovation”, for this…
Some sun broke through the clouds to greet us on the second morning of the third European Academy of Youth Work (unfortunately it did not stay with us for the continuation of the day). But if you missed the refreshing morning activities provided as a part of the programme: gentle wake up call for your…
3…2…1… We are starting our daily blog with countdown, just to bring you closer to the actual opening lines of our Darko Marković, who once again greeted us from the shiny stage of the Third European Academy of Youth Work. We are finally here in Kranjska Gora, a community gathered around innovation and trends…
This visual summary presents the most important outcomes of the 2nd #EAYW Webinar, where we looked into our relationship with the future and our current strategies to deal with the unknown. Click on the image to download the visual.
On Thursday, 18th April 2024, the second webinar of the Third European Academy on Youth Work took place on the theme of “How future-ready are you?”. Interested to find out more? Then read the excerpts of the report written by Nik Paddison. The whole report can be found here. The second EAYW Webinar was…