Demokratie & Dialog

Youthpolicy Community & Knowledge Base

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:18:07 +0000

We are, with initial support from the Open Society Foundations, developing a global youth policy portal and community at youthpolicy.org, aiming to consolidate knowledge and information on youth policies.

We understand youth policies as policies pertaining to young people’s rights and realities that range across the entire policy cycle – from analysis and policy formulation to policy implementation and evaluation. The portal seeks to address and reflect the variety of actors in the broad field of youth policy, from youth work practitioners and youth researchers to youth policy makers and youth activists.

Youthpolicy.org will feature a knowledge repository and an online community, allowing youth policy actors from across the globe to share and access information, to interact and exchange, to discuss and co-operate. The site will depend on its own community of volunteers, ranging from administrators to practitioners, from researchers to policy makers.

Watch the portal grow at http://www.youthpolicy.org!

Screenshot of youthpolicy.org | Photo by D & D

Berliner Jugendhaus

admin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:37:21 +0000

In Berlin gibt es viele Jugend-Organisationen, grosse Verbände ebenso wie kleine NGOs. Die meisten Jugendorganisationen sitzen über Berlin verteilt und allein in ihren Büros, die häufig zu klein und zu teuer sind. Selten bieten die Räumlichkeiten Platz für Besprechungen, ebenso oft fehlen Lagerräume, für die sich infrastrukturelle Investitionen nicht lohnen. Oft sind in der näheren Umgebung keine weiteren Jugendorganisationen, so dass die Möglichkeiten zur Vernetzung und gegenseitigen Qualifizierung erschwert sind.

Um neue Akzente in der Jugendbeteiligung zu setzen und die Vernetzung und Schlagkraft zu steigern, streben wir mit sieben Partnerorganisationen der Berliner Jugendbeteiligungsszene einen räumlichen Zusammenschluss in einem neuen Berliner Jugendhaus an.

Foto by svenwerk on Flickr

A dippy community

admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:34:37 +0000

The idea for a establishing a European Master’s degree in and for the youth field goes back to the early 1990s, when the field of European youth studies first took shape in what was then called the ‘new Europe’. Rapid, complex and momentous political, social and economic change throughout the region posed policy and practice in the youth field with new issues and challenges. At the same time, non-formal youth education and youth work found themselves faced with new and expanded roles as exchange programmes and highly diverse forms of migration and mobility.

Youth research in Europe had developed in uneven ways in different countries and linguistic-cultural discourse traditions, whereas comparative and intercultural inquiry remained rare. The Council of Europe’s Directorate of Youth and Sport and especially its European Youth Centre in Strasbourg (and subsequently in Budapest) had long fashioned an innovative crucible for European-wide youth policy, youth education and youth work; from the mid-1980s, it had also begun to support debate and exchange between youth researchers. The international community of research and practice that emerged around these initiatives gave rise to the M.A. EYS project.

We conceptualise and implement the e-learning component for the M.A. EYS — a community of discourse, inquiry and practice at dip.youthstudies.eu.

Learning Environment for the European Youth Studies Community | Photo by D & D

A Day in Europe

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:40:14 +0000

On A Day in Europe, we want to share short stories about Europe, one day at a time and every day again. We want these stories to be different from the usual and necessary reporting and commentary.

You will find personal encounters with Europe in all its facets—positive or empowering, depressing or challenging, supportive or critical—as experienced and written by people around the world.

We find Europe’s diversity—a diversity extending far beyond its institutions—enriching and exciting, and hope you’ll enjoy catching a glimpse of it.

Screenshot of A Day in Europe | Photo by Emilian Dechev

Choiceless & voiceless?

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:49:24 +0000

In June 2009, elections for the Parliament of the European Union were held. Everyone has been talking about voter turnout, and many projects were trying to encourage young people to use their right to vote. And yet, hardly anyone talks about the people who do not vote, except when to blame them.

They are mystified, ignored, thrust aside.

We wanted to look into the corners that other people ignore. Who are the non-voting young people? In most European countries, non-voters tend to be concentrated in specific demographic and socioeconomic groups, especially the young and the poor. What is missing, in their opinion, to make voting attractive – or actually even possible?

We wanted to risk an attempt to see behind the curtain of non-voting and non-voters.

Find out more about Choiceless & Voiceless.

Photo by Sebastian Wieschowski / youthmedia.eu

Journeys with Peter

admin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:00:45 +0000

«Born in Flensburg, Europe. Journeys with Peter Lauritzen» is a volume of essayistic contributions from colleagues, fellow travellers and friends of Peter Lauritzen –- one of the European pioneers of political and intercultural education, research & policy — treating some of Peter’s themes of professional and personal interest including non-formal and intercultural education, youth research and youth policy development as well as human rights and European co-operation.

More information about the book is available at .nonformality.org/journeys.

Ausschnitt des Buchcovers. Mehr Informationen zum Buch.

Nonformality

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:15:08 +0000

At nonformality.org, we publish an online magazine, a space for meaningful thinking and constructive discourse on learning, looking at education and learning across the continuum and lifespan – through a European lense and with a youth bias.

Enjoy!

Our online magazine at nonformality.org | Photo by D & D