The next residential EAYW event will take place from 5 – 8 May 2026 in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. We are looking for three facilitators (including a digital facilitator) for the event. The 4th EAYW event will focus on Emerging futures of youth work: How ready are we? It will invite youth workers across Europe (and…
16 – 20 June 2025, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia What is needed for youth work to become future-ready and forward-looking? The workshop “Futures of Youth Work: From Survival to Shaping the Future” will explore emerging trends and their relevance in youth work today and the future and offer hands-on experience with tools for developing future-readiness.…
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…
Save the date: The 4th EAYW will take place from 5 – 8 May 2026! This was decided by the Steering Group and the Advisory Board of the EAYW at their joint meeting at the end of October 2024, where they agreed on the objectives and main activities of the EAYW for the coming…
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)…
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…