“Talking Youth Work” is a series of podcast interviews to Youth Work experts and practitioners, that have a say when it comes to Innovation in Youth Work, either because they are using creative methods to empower young people, researching on youth trends, or responsible for Youth Policies at international level.
Like a “shot” of inspiration, all of our guests have a unique point of view about how can Youth Workers shake up, upgrade and innovate on their daily work. If you want to learn more about the approaches and methods presented in the podcast, you can look up step-by-step tutorials on our Tools section, read the Future Labs Handbook or even learn about training Youth Workers on these tools by using our open source Training Program. Enjoy!
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“Talking Youth Work” is a series of podcast interviews to Youth Work experts and practitioners, that have a say when it comes to Innovation in Youth Work, either because they are using creative methods to empower young people, researching on youth trends, or responsible for Youth Policies at international level.
Like a “shot” of inspiration, all of our guests have a unique point of view about how can Youth Workers shake up, upgrade and innovate on their daily work. If you want to learn more about the approaches and methods presented in the podcast, you can look up step-by-step tutorials on our Tools section, read the Future Labs Handbook or even learn about training Youth Workers on these tools by using our open source Training Program. Enjoy!
What's new in Erasmus+ Youth Exchanges with Paavo Pyykkönen, season 2, episode 16
The Talking Youth Work Podcast
51 minutes
9 months ago
What's new in Erasmus+ Youth Exchanges with Paavo Pyykkönen, season 2, episode 16
Dear listeners,
We spoke with Paavo Pyykönen who is a senior program advisor for the Finnish National Agency for the Erasmus+ Youth Program, an european funding line that supports youth work related projects.
Paavo talked about the importance of international youth exchanges, where youngsters can meet peers from other cultures, pursue their interests and grow together as individuals and as citizens. The job of the adults involved is to empower the young people and not treat them like little kids that can't solve problems by themselves. Youth workers should trust that young people can figure things out, and that they know things and have skills that the adults might miss.
We all hope the new funding line will create better opportunities for organizations in the field of youth work to create long lasting and meaningful learning experiences. Besides of the novelties in the new programme that we talked about, Paavo had a good advice for all that want to design projects: people should design projects that answer a specific need of their own organisation or communities, not generic projects that try to tackle too much.
The new Erasmus+ Youth programme has new thematic priorities, such as digitalization and green issues, topics we have covered previously in this podcast when we talked with Laimonas Ragauskas or with Antonio Jovanovski.
It was very inspiring for us to talk with Paavo, he is a passionate person that really believes in the support the Erasmus+ programme gives of the next generations, so they can thrive and create better future for themselves, and for all of us, if we think about it.
We sure enjoyed this conversation; we hope you do too. Let’s Talk Youth Work!
Youth Goals: https://youth-goals.eu
Erasmus+ Guide: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/programme-guide/introduction_en
EU Youth Strategy: https://europa.eu/youth/strategy_en
Any ideas, comments and suggestions, email us at talkingyouthworkpodcast@gmail.com.
First published on Tuesday May 04, 2021
The Talking Youth Work Podcast
“Talking Youth Work” is a series of podcast interviews to Youth Work experts and practitioners, that have a say when it comes to Innovation in Youth Work, either because they are using creative methods to empower young people, researching on youth trends, or responsible for Youth Policies at international level.
Like a “shot” of inspiration, all of our guests have a unique point of view about how can Youth Workers shake up, upgrade and innovate on their daily work. If you want to learn more about the approaches and methods presented in the podcast, you can look up step-by-step tutorials on our Tools section, read the Future Labs Handbook or even learn about training Youth Workers on these tools by using our open source Training Program. Enjoy!
