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We continue to share short summaries of the international dialogue: youth and sports, which took place within the framework of #ErasmusDays 2022
For your attention, a summary of the speech of Pavlina Bafas, undergraduate student of international and European studies at the University of Macedonia, Greece:
Youth work is a broad term covering a wide variety of activities of a social, cultural, educational, environmental and/or political nature by, with and for young people, in groups or individually. Youth work is delivered by paid and volunteer youth workers and is based on non-formal and informal learning processes focused on young people and on voluntary participation.
Main action fields of Youth Work in Europe
Greece
Career services
Youth Information
Youth counselling
Education for disadvantaged target groups
Cultural education
Open youth work
Social care
Sports
International youth work
Youth associations and participation
Recreation and leisure services
In Greece, there is not even one survey specifically addressing youth work services in the country. The only traceable structures are those activated by European programmes and reporting systems
Germany
Extracurricular youth education
Open youth work/clubs
Sports
Target group orientated youth work
Youth associations and participation
Youth social work International youth work
Youth counselling
In Germany, a differentiation can be made as to types of institutions and those bodies responsible. The total number of youth associations operating at local level is nevertheless not documented as they are attributed to the superior categories. It is also possible to list the number of activities provided by youth work institutions, but the categories are global.
Netherlands
Youth participation
Youth information
Youth education
Youth social work
Youth centers
Youth associations
Street work
Sports
In the Netherlands, where responsibility for youth work lies fully in the hand of the municipalities, there is no data on the total budget available for youth work. The activities reported are the result of the opinion of stakeholders at municipal level as to what kind of youth work is important for them.
Italy
Education
Socio-cultural youth work
Sports
Social support
In Italy, funds allocated through the National Financial Law for Youth-related Activities document the financial contingent for different youth work activities. However, little is known about the structures, the youth workers and the participants (besides sports activities).
Romania
Recreational/leisure time activities
International youth work
Youth information
Youth associations
Volunteering
Counselling
Cultural youth work
In Romania, the number of providers of youth work can be listed, but not the number of institutions. The activities realised with financial support from the National Authority for Youth are documented, as is the budget provided by the National Authority for Youth for the support of youth work, and the budget of the ‘Youth in Action’ Programme. The number of youth workers can be reported for the youth work listed.
Spain
Education
Cultural youth work
Leisure time orientated youth work
Youth information
In Spain, there is data on the budget allocated in the Interdepartmental Youth Plan, which represents funds spent on subsidizing youth associations. The best accurately documented sector is that of the National Employment Institute activities towards job insertion and training for young people, for which scattered data is available.
