The Impact of Youth Work in Europe: A Study of Five European Countries

This book is the culmination of a European project funded by Erasmus + Key Action 2 in the field of ‘Strategic Partnerships for Youth’, and the title of the key action was ‘Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices’. The project was entitled ‘Developing and Communicating the Impact of Youth Work in Europe’, and the reference number was 2015-3-UK01-KA205-022861. The project aimed to independently identify the impact of open access youth work in each of the following five European countries – the UK (England), Finland, Estonia, Italy and France. It applied a participatory evaluation methodology entitled ‘transformative evaluation’ which collated young people’s own accounts of the impact of youth work on their lives – collecting their stories. The data was analysed independently in each of the five countries and then compared and contrasted across them.