Common grounds
Our overall aim is to enhance the quality of youth work in the EU membership states.
In order to achieve the above stated aim the networks objectives are to:
- Enhance peer learning between local departments of youth work; providing directors and staff opportunities for professional development, mutual support and stimulation.
- Promote the exchange and development of tools for enhancing and making visible the importance and quality of youth work.
- Promote youth work as an arena for non-formal learning.
- Promote the exchange and development of new approaches, methods and practices in youth work.
- Contribute to European youth policies; transmitting knowledge and insight from local government experience and solutions to European policy agendas.
We see local/municipal departments as the most important actors in developing the quality of youth work. Youth work takes place at a local level and without the engagement and participation of local departments no sustainable development will occur.