🌍🧭 European Academy on Youth Work – 4th Edition Conference: Connecting Dots and Moving Forward Together 🇸🇮✨

🌱 About the Event
The European Academy on Youth Work (EAYW) – 4th Edition is a large-scale Conference – Symposium – Forumbringing together the European youth work community to reflect on how youth work can move forward in times of uncertainty, rapid change, and disruption.

The EAYW promotes quality youth work, strengthens its capacity to respond to current and future challenges, and supports innovation, future readiness, and resilience within the youth work field. Residential EAYW events take place biennially and are complemented by research, tools, and smaller learning activities in between.

This fourth edition marks a bridging and closing event of the Academy cycle under the current Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programme generation — celebrating achievements while looking ahead and identifying concrete steps for the future of youth work.

🎯 Focus of the 4th EAYW Event
✨ Connecting past experiences with future action
✨ Reflecting on uncertainty, disruption, and change
✨ Strengthening collective resilience and agency
✨ Inspiring innovation and future-oriented youth work practices
✨ Reinforcing the European youth work community

🧠 Key Themes Addressed
🤖 Artificial Intelligence and technology
🧠 Mental health and social skills
🗳️ Democracy, youth rights, and participation
🌍 Climate justice and environmental responsibility
🕊️ Dialogue, conflict, and social cohesion
🧩 Belonging, identity, and community resilience

🗂️ Programme Highlights
🔥 Plenary Sessions exploring cross-cutting themes such as innovation, change, resilience, and agency
🔍 Deep Dive Sessions allowing in-depth discussion across six thematic tracks
🛠️ Youth work tools and practices supporting future-oriented conversations
🎤 Inspiring inputs from inside and outside the youth work field
🤝 Community-building and networking spaces
🌱 Small learning groups focused on transferring insights back to local contexts
🎶 Bonfire & Market Evening, a festival-style tools marketplace with music, dialogue, and exchange

🧩 Deep Dive Themes
1️⃣ Love, Youth Work & Robots – AI, Technology and Everything In Between
2️⃣ Tell Me How to Say Hello – Mental Health & Social Skills in the Era of ChatGPT
3️⃣ From TikTok to Real Talk – Youth Rights & Participation Beyond the Screen
4️⃣ Us, Them & the Nothing In Between – Youth Work in a Fragile Democracy
5️⃣ Environment & Climate Justice – Are We Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic?
6️⃣ From Division to Dialogue – Supporting Young People in Times of Conflict

👥 Who Is This Event For?
✔️ Experienced youth workers
✔️ Youth leaders and project managers
✔️ NGO representatives
✔️ Youth policy makers
✔️ Trainers and educators
✔️ Researchers and professionals from youth-related fields

Participants should be motivated to contribute to innovative, forward-looking initiatives and to strengthen youth work practice and frameworks in their own contexts.

🌍 Eligible Applicant Countries
Austria 🇦🇹, Belgium 🇧🇪, Bulgaria 🇧🇬, Croatia 🇭🇷, Cyprus 🇨🇾, Czech Republic 🇨🇿, Denmark 🇩🇰, Estonia 🇪🇪, Finland 🇫🇮, France 🇫🇷, Germany 🇩🇪, Greece 🇬🇷, Hungary 🇭🇺, Iceland 🇮🇸, Ireland 🇮🇪, Italy 🇮🇹, Latvia 🇱🇻, Liechtenstein 🇱🇮, Lithuania 🇱🇹, Luxembourg 🇱🇺, Malta 🇲🇹, Netherlands 🇳🇱, Norway 🇳🇴, Poland 🇵🇱, Portugal 🇵🇹, Republic of North Macedonia 🇲🇰, Romania 🇷🇴, Serbia 🇷🇸, Slovakia 🇸🇰, Slovenia 🇸🇮, Spain 🇪🇸, Sweden 🇸🇪, Switzerland 🇨🇭, Türkiye 🇹🇷, Albania 🇦🇱, Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦, Kosovo* 🇽🇰, Montenegro 🇲🇪, Armenia 🇦🇲, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, Belarus 🇧🇾, Georgia 🇬🇪, Moldova 🇲🇩, Ukraine 🇺🇦, Algeria 🇩🇿, Egypt 🇪🇬, Israel 🇮🇱, Jordan 🇯🇴, Lebanon 🇱🇧, Libya 🇱🇾, Morocco 🇲🇦, Palestine 🇵🇸, Syria 🇸🇾, Tunisia 🇹🇳

📍 Location
Kranjska Gora, Slovenia

🗓️ Activity Dates
5–8 May 2026

🗣️ Working Language
English

♿ Accessibility
The venue and activity are accessible to people with disabilities

🎓 Certification
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate

📅 Application Deadline
2 February 2026 (24h UTC)

🔗 Training Page
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14260

🏢 Organiser
MOVIT – Slovenian National Agency for Erasmus+, youth field, and the European Solidarity Corps

📩 Contact
Sonja Mitter Škulj – sonja.mitter@movit.si

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