Europe Goes Local

29/05/2026

📣 Local youth work practitioners can utilize EGL to significantly enhance their professional skills and qualifications, thereby broadening their horizons. I have just returned from a study visit focused on youth participation in rural areas in Bavaria, where 20 youth workers from 13 countries spent four days exploring a wide variety of projects and approaches to youth participation, while reflecting together on the specific challenges inherent to engaging youth in rural settings. - shared with us Claudius Siebel, Chairman of EGL Advisory Board and Senior Project Development Officer in JUGEND für Europa. 💡😍

Read the full interview with Claudius reflecting on the ten years of EGL and its offer to the local youth work 👉 https://europegoeslocal.eu/10-year-interview/interview-with-claudius-siebel/

27/05/2026

📣'Thanks to EGL, our work didn’t just grow—it became visible, recognized, and (almost) impossible to ignore. What started as motivated project work is now something like a local tradition—with a European Charter in our pocket, just in case anyone asks how professional we actually are'. 🎯

Grateful to the Managing Director Karin Peham-Strauß and the team from Jugendzentrum Perg from Upper Austria for sharing their story of how European programs and our platform support the growth and development of their youth work communities 😍

🙋‍♂️Read and share the full story here 👉https://europegoeslocal.eu/10-year-interview/jugendzentrum-perg-egl10/

22/05/2026

EGL Friday! 🎊🎂🎯

In 2017, we started building up the largest network of National Agencies and imagining how the cooperation will grow and contribute to youth participation and other burning issues in youth work. Here's Stephanie Nowkovski from BIJ Belgium (Le Bureau International Jeunesse) kicking off the topics in Ljubljana 😍😍



Video credits: 1st EGL event in 2017 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

20/05/2026

Join us in Tyrol, Austrial! 😍💯

📍Beyond the Peaks: Insights into Rural Youth Work in Tyrol will take place 28 September -2 October 2026

This is an excellent opportunity to:

✅ Learn from youth work practice in Tyrol and become familiar with the diverse landscape of youth work in this region

✅ Share practical approaches supporting youth transitions and explore concrete youth work methods and programmes that support young people in navigating key life transitions and strengthening their connection to rural communities.

✅ Strengthen professional competences in rural youth work and develop knowledge, skills, and reflective capacities by analysing both challenges and effective practices in rural and mountainous contexts.

✅ Exchange amongst peers and mutual learning and create space for youth workers and municipal staff from programme and partner countries to exchange experiences, share good practices, and reflect on shared challenges.

✅ Build sustainable networks and future cooperation and establish professional connections and lay the groundwork for future collaboration and youth projects across rural regions in different countries.

🙋‍♀️This study visit is for Youth workers, Youth project managers, municipal staff involved in rural youth work in their respective countries

More details 👉 https://europegoeslocal.eu/event/beyond-the-peaks-insights-into-rural-youth-work-in-tyrol/

Apply by 7 June here 👉 http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14820

19/05/2026

🙋🏻‍♀️How can youth co-create inclusive spaces working with different generations in the municipality?

Project 'Generation Z Teaches' offers authentic and sustainable solutions and learning, emphasising that the exchange of experiences between young people and senior citizens is fundamental to the personal and collective development and enrichment of all 👏

Read the whole interview with Marta Daniela Costa, Head of the Youth Division in Valongo City Council – Youth Centre in Portugal, who shared with us this inspiring project's milestones and results.🎯

📍 In Focus: Gen Z Teaches, Município de Valongo 👉 https://europegoeslocal.eu/egl-action/gen-z-teaches-municipality-of-valongo-portugal/

18/05/2026

Congratulations Tanja Herceg and Pål!!! 👏🎉

Say hello and welcome to POYWE's new President Tanja Herceg, and Vice President Pål Isdahl Solberg!

Get to know Tanja and Pål a little better:

Tanja:
My work has always been driven by one belief: that open youth work is one of the most powerful tools we have to create equal opportunities.

For 17 years I have led Association Impress in Croatia, building youth work from the ground up while shaping European youth policy from the inside. I have worked as a practitioner, trainer, researcher, pan-European organisational leader, UN Youth Delegate, and policy advisor. That diversity of experience is not just part of my background. It is how I think and how I connect dots.

As the new President of POYWE, I want our network to be a space where practice, research and policy actually talk to each other. Not in parallel, but in real dialogue. Youth work deserves more than recognition. It deserves infrastructure, standards, and a seat at every table where decisions about young people are made.

I am honoured to serve as President and look forward to what we will achieve together.

Pål:
I bring more than 20 years of experience from open youth work, organisational leadership, international cooperation, education and research. My key strengths are building bridges between grassroots practice, professional development and knowledge-building, and helping strengthen the language we use to describe youth work as a distinct field of practice.

For me, POYWE is important because it connects people who are committed to developing and strengthening open youth work across Europe. It gives us a shared space to learn from grassroots practice, build professional knowledge, and further develop youth work as a recognised and meaningful field.

15/05/2026

Friday! 😃🎉

Great memories with Koen Lambert, former Director of JINT vzw, Flemish National Agency, and the first Chairman of the EGL Steering Group 👏
Hear Koen, one of the beloved senior youth work experts who gave wings to the EGL project, talking more about our mission🎯

Video credits: 4th EGL event in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2022

14/05/2026

Meet Sif from the team Tromsø - European Youth Capital 2026!

Sif is a youth worker, Program Manager, and a Strategic Advisor of True North 2026 - Tromsø's bid program for the European Youth Capital 2026 👏🎉

It's great to get to know people in the municipal youth work, all our partners who make things develop at the local level! ❤️

Read the full article here 👉
https://europegoeslocal.eu/egl-action/interview-with-sif-vik/

11/05/2026

'EGL works where participation actually happens, in municipalities, youth councils, schools, and local communities. It helps cities and youth workers move beyond ‘inviting young people to meetings’ and towards involving them in decision-making in meaningful ways'. 😍👏

Many thanks to Petra Papierníková from EduEra for sharing her story of how EGL Mentoring with youth communities in Slovakia builds strong partnerships for the quality development of local youth work. 🎯

🙋‍♂️Share this story from here or via https://europegoeslocal.eu/10-year-interview/egl-mentoring-in-slovakia-a-story-from-the-field/

06/05/2026

Wednesday! 😃🥁

And this time, with inspiring words from Claudius Siebel, from the German National Agency- JUGEND für Europa 🙋‍♂️

EGL network project remains the largest network of National Agencies in Europe, working towards quality development of local youth work 😍🎉

Video credits: 3rd EGL event Brussels, 2019