Act local – connect European – think global! There is a lot going on in the network of Generation Europe – The Academy. Here you can find recent updates and reports on activities in our network.
Dortmund / Brussels. Where do we really stand when it comes to the spaces in which young people organise participation and democracy? What needs to change to secure European youth work in the long term? The policy paper “Young Voices for Youth Work” provides answers to these questions. The document is the result of a […]
Brussels, European Policy Centre (EPC). It happens too rarely that young people who are active in local youth groups and international encounters discuss their demands with representatives of the European Commission, the European Parliament and large umbrella organisations. At the roundtable “Young Voices for Youth Work”, this is exactly what happened: Young people from nine European countries presented the draft of a policy paper with recommendations for European youth policy.
Generation Europe – The Academy is an international network of youth work organisations and a funding programme for European cooperation. As a major funder, Stiftung Mercator commissioned the association transfer e.V. to review the efficiency and effectiveness as part of a formative evaluation over the period from 2022 to 2025.
For five intensive days, young activists from 13 European countries came together in Hattingen, Germany. They met at the Generation Europe Ambassador Conference 2025 to share experiences and develop new skills. The focus of the event was to strengthen their roles as mentors in local youth groups and as multipliers for the concerns of young […]
In the network of Generation Europe – The Academy, we continuously develop and refine strategies for improving and enhancing participatory youth work. We understand youth work as a co-production between young people and the professionals working in the organisations who support them. That is why we have developed and tried out a new training concept. […]
It was the largest youth welfare summit in Europe: The German Child and Youth Welfare Congress (DJHT) took place at the Leipzig Trade Fair, and ended with a record number of 30,000 visitors. A delegation from the network of Generation Europe – The Academy was also on site to present our approach of combining local participatory youth empowerment with European networking.
Celebrating successes, solving problems: representatives from 42 European youth organisations from 14 European countries met in Cologne for five days to evaluate four years of intensive cooperation and plan the next steps for the future. At this year’s network conference of Generation Europe – The Academy, the youth work professionals involved spoke out for maintaining […]
A comprehensive documentation of the results of the European Youth Work Symposium “Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers” in Dortmund, Germany has now been published! Here is the executive summary written by Gisele Evrard.
Another exciting and extraordinary year full of action is nearing its end. It’s hard to believe how much fits into a single year of Generation Europe – The Academy. Let’s have a look back!
Better conditions for youth work to preserve democracy in Europe – that is what youth workers from European youth work organisations and young people from 14 countries are calling for. At the European Youth Work Symposium, they met with representatives from academia, politics and administration. The motto of the event: building bridges, breaking barriers. Those […]