LinkMeIn - Youth Policy & Practice

LinkMeIn is an EU Youth Strategy Seminar that will take place on 10-13 December 2013 in Budapest, Hungary.

Aim and thematic focus

The seminar aims to offer a platform which allows keeping track of, reflecting on and strengthening the connection and transfer between EU youth policy developments, other youth-related EU policies as well as research and practice.

The seminar will focus on three fields of action of the EU Youth Strategy: EMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL INCLUSION and PARTICIPATION with a particular attention to young people with fewer opportunities. The role of youth work will be discussed as a cross-cutting issue.

Objectives of the seminar

• Support participants to better understand the developments and achievements made within the past 2-3 years in youth-related policy areas.
• To look at the benefits and challenges for youth work and for the various organisations carrying out youth work in a broader sense.
• To reflect on the role and limits that youth work has in supporting the increasing political demands and in responding to the challenges young people are facing.
• To exchange practices on transferring European youth policies to local and organizational level.
• To connect the youth work at European level with other sectors and financial instruments dealing with  employment and social inclusion; looking for future possible synergies for example in the frame of Erasmus +.

Target group

Ca 30-40 representatives of European NGOs, national umbrella NGOs, national youth councils, National agencies of the YiA programme, national NGOs participating in Structured Dialogue activities on employment, social inclusion and participation, active, with a certain experience on linking and transferring European Youth Policy strategy to their work and willing to further develop that link and transfer 

About the organisers

The seminar is organised and hosted by the Hungarian “Youth In Action” National Agency and jointly organised by the SALTO-YOUTH Training and Cooperation and SALTO–YOUTH Participation Resource Centres, and the British, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Polish and Slovak “Youth in Action” National Agencies.

The partnership of the Council of Europe and the European Commission in the field of youth has supported the conceptual development of the seminar and provided support through its networks and knowledge.

More info here.