17 representatives of 11 youth centres holding the Council of Europe Quality Label for Youth Centres gathered on 21-22 January 2021 for a virtual follow-up meeting to the 3rd European Youth Work Convention (EYWC) which took place in December last year.
On the occasion of this unique event, the quality labelled centres were provided with the opportunity to present themselves as a collective for the very first time which was both an empowering and motivating experience. Although national approaches to implement the European Youth Work Agenda may vary from country to country, youth centres in the Quality Label network remain committed to take joint action to achieve goals set out in the Agenda.
Participants see great potential in the Quality Label network of youth centres to fill the gap between the European and local level of youth work and to ensure that the key message of the Final Declaration of the Convention gets disseminated to national and local levels.
Representatives of the quality labelled youth centres underlined the importance of monitoring the progress that is being made to implement the Agenda, hence, a decision was made to organise meetings on a more regular basis in order to further enhance collaboration in this particular field of work.
