Every journey into the future is better with a Companion. The European Academy on Youth Work has launched the Companion for navigating innovation and futures thinking in youth work – a reflective resource created by the field, for the field. Drawing on learning from the Academy’s work between 2018 and 2025, the Companion brings together…
Welcome to the second day of 4th edition of EAYW, or in the words of a colleague from my Deep Dive group: the day we finally started doing something. The ultimate understatement, from my perspective here in the evening, as I sit down to write this blog. Feels more like the day we did everything…
We are happy to to share with you keynote sessions from the 4th Edition of the #EAYW, which are streamed live on our official YouTube channel in Kranjska Gora, from 5 – 8 May 2026. These sessions will provide you a nice opportunity to listen to inputs related to change and hyper-complex world, intergenerational solidarity…
Written by: Ana Pecarski
Didn’t manage to join the webinars live? Or would you like to watch them again at your own pace? Are you looking for practical tools and fresh perspectives on the future of youth work! Then this is the place to do it! Meet your future! webinar series offer practical tools, ideas and reflections to support…
We are excited to announce the launch of the Futures of Youth Work Toolbox – a new resource designed to help youth workers, organisations and policy makers engage with futures thinking in a practical and creative way. This Toolbox builds on the research carried out within the Futures of Youth Work project, which explored possible…
Are you curious to find out more about the third EAYW event, which was held in May 2024 in Slovenia, and the outcomes of the discussions among the 200 participants related to future(s) in youth work? We invite you to take a look at the event report that has just been published! During two…
How can you make your projects more innovative? What are the steps to make your projects more innovative, and what should you look out for? All of these questions are covered in our brand-new Innovation+ Toolbox! This resource has been created in 2023/2024 within the framework of the European Academy on Youth Work (EAYW)…
In conducting the ‘Futures of Youth Work’ research, the team was acutely aware of several inherent limitations that influence the transferability and generalisability of the findings. Donna Haraway’s notion of situated knowledge challenges the idea of objective and detached observation in favour of understanding knowledge as inherently connected to the specific contexts and perspectives…
The journey of piecing together the futures of youth work began with individual diligence and developed into a collective search. Each member of the research team, working with horizon scans, started on a meticulous examination of trends, potential impacts, and the thematic threads by analysing them. The process wasn’t just about connecting the dots; it…