The study-visit will focus on the analysis of the institution of Youth Ambassadors and their contribution to the process of Structured Dialogue. They will also discuss the good practices which have been applied in each Member State of European Union. The decisions arising from the process of Structured Dialogue directly affect young people therefore the educational meeting aims to exchange thoughts, ideas and further cooperation between those directly involved.Also within the visit will be held special meetings with the following policy makers: the former Commissioner for Education , Culture , Multilingualism and Youth for Europe Ms. Androulla Vassiliou, with Mr. Marios Epaminondas Head of the Education Ministry of the structured Dialogue with the President of the Youth Board of Cyprus Mr. Panayiotis Sentona. It will also take place a meeting between the participants and the Head of Structured Dialogue in the European Youth Forum Ms. Lucille Rieux.The result of the study visit is to create an implementation form setting out all the best practices recorded in each Member State of European Union in the context of the institution of Youth Ambassadors, in order to strengthen more the process of Structured Dialogue.

Youth2019 aims at enhancing the capacity and professionalization of youth workers and organisations working in the field of youth in Europe. The project will give the participants an excellent opportunity to learn from each other, share experiences and best youth work practices. We believe that providing the arena for sharing experiences and mutual learning in a non-formal setting this project will improve the competences of the participants and lead to further networking. Our objective is to increase international co-operation, mobility as well as intercultural understanding through high quality activity program. This is a common projects with different stakeholders in order to further develop youth work in Europe. We organize this project (international seminar and study visit) together with the national event of Finnish youth workers so 30 European participants will join the Youth2019 -conference which gathers 1000 Finnish youth workers 27.-28.3.19 in Turku Finland. There will be a separate English program planned and executed in co-operation with project partners, but also common sessions and plenty of spaces for non-formal and informal learning as well as networking with their Finnish counterparts. We believe that in all levels of youth work there is scope for European dimension and intercultural dialogue This project supports well the objectives of the Erasmus+ programme and this key action as our topics are the key issues of European Youth Policy. We have together with the partners chosen five main topics which are social inclusion, youth work innovations, youth participation and advocacy, youth information and youth research. Social inclusion is a vital issue for all our societies and the well-being of young people, so issues such as radicalization, marginalization, needs of the disadvantaged and youth with lesser opportunities are going to be shared and discussed. Youth participation is one of the key issues in our daily work, and we will look at the different ways this issue has been tackled in all of the countries. With youth work innovations, we share new methods and outstanding examples at youth work. Youth information is developing rapidly all over Europe, and we are well aware that youth information is a prerequisite to many other things in the lives of young people. We will also hear the latest youth research results from Europe and Finland. In addition to improving their individual professional competencies, the project participants will have an overview of the youth work policies and practices in ten European countries and be able to enhance their understanding of different cultural and social diversities. The last day of the activity will be dedicated to evaluation and planning of dissemination activities as well as future cooperation plans. Since all the participants are multipliers they will be able to implement and disseminate the new ideas from the different methods and good practices ito wider audiences after returning to their home countries. So the project outcomes will be disseminated and have impact widely in the European youth work field.

Le projet a consisté en l'organisation d'un séminaire de travail regroupant 35 représentants de conseils nationaux de jeunesse et de ministères en charges des questions de jeunesse en vue d'évaluer dans quelle mesure le processus européen de Dialogue Structuré a pu apporter un impact substantielle aux politiques de jeunesse des pays concernés. Le séminaire a eu lieu du 7 au 10 novembre 2016 à Lille. Les participants ont consacré une journée à cartographier les progrès accomplis et à les analyser, puis une journée était consacrée à la création d'outils et à la diffusion de bonnes pratiques pour renforcer la qualité de la mise en œuvre des résultats européens du dialogue structuré dans leurs pays. Enfin, la dernière journée de travail a permis à chacun de se projeter dans son quotidien pour travailler cette dimension. Enfin, un dialogue avec l'équipe de la présidence Maltaise de l'UE a permis à chacun d'anticiper sur la mise en oeuvre du 5ème cycle de Dialogue Structuré.

"<< Objectives >>The objective of the project was to make it possible for youth workers from different parts of Europe to have an opportunity to get to know each other, learn from each other, share experiences and best youth work practices. We are convinced that having provided the arena for sharing experiences and mutual learning in a non-formal setting this project has improved the competences of the participants and lead to further networking. Our objective was to increase international co-operation, mobility as well as intercultural understanding through high quality activity programme. We have aimed at enhancing the capacity and professionalization of youth workers and organisations working in the field of youth in Europe.In addition to improving their individual professional competencies, the project participants have obtained an overview of the youth work policies and practices in different European countries and have been able to enhance their understanding of different cultural and social diversities. Since all the participants were multipliers they will be able to implement and disseminate to wider audience the new ideas from the different methods and good practices presented and discussed after returning to their home countries.<< Implementation >>The project was implemented within the framework of the biggest annual youth work event Nuori2020 (Youth2020), also organised by Allianssi in Tampere on January 14-16, 2020. This national event gathered about 2700 youth workers from all over the country. Within the big national event we organised this international seminar on different actual topics related to young people and youth work (migration and immigration, prevention of substance abuse and promotion of hobbies, climate change, digitalisation and future of youth work, inclusion and latest news from Europe). In the framework of this project we had 39 participants from 10 countries most of whom were youth workers from national organisations or local level. Also some youth researchers took part. We also had some 30 international participants sent by the National Agencies who were either their staff members or local youth workers. All the sessions of the international seminar were open also to Finnish participants of Nuori2020 event, and this allowed us to mix the international and Finnish participants as in many sessions, there were big numbers of Finnish participants as well. During the event, we also had presentations of Finnish youth work to international participants, e.g. visits to Tampere youth services. After 3 days in Tampere, we moved to Helsinki where we had presentations of youth work in Helsinki and a session of evaluation and planning of future co-operation.<< Results >>The results and impact of the project were very good. There was a lot of networking between the international participants and also with the Finnish participants. The participants were also very happy with the content of the event. To the question ""What is your overall opinion of the event"" 92 % answered ""excellent"" and 8 % ""good"" and full 100 % answered ""yes"" to the question ""Would you participate in a similar event again"". We also asked the participants to evaluate each session separately with the scale from 1 to 5 (5 being the best) and the average of all the answers was 4,3. To ""I learned something new or developed my existing, knowledge"" 60 % answered ""excellent"" and 40 % ""good"".From the organiser's point of view our aims were manyfold. We wanted to increase contacts and create new networks of youth workers within Europe. On the other hand, we wanted to increase the international dimension in our national event. And the third aim was to present the high quality of the Finnish youth work to our guests. We think we succeeded well in all of these aims. Our international participants were extremely happy about the contacts they could establish during their visit as well as the new things they learned from the Finnish work and also from other international colleagues. The feedback from the Finnish conference participants was also very positive. We are convinced that the project had clear impact on the competences of the participants and participating organisations. The project participants are more able togrow their professional competences but as well their intercultural and social competences. This is what they also said in their feedback reports.All the events were open for all interested participants of Nuori2020, and it was clear that many Finnish participants were interested to the topics and took part in the international sessions. One of the main goals was that Finnish youth workers will have exposure to international issues and opportunities, learn more and be more open to intercultural dialogue and mobility. By using speed dating and other informal networking methods we wanted to immerse the European participants to the whole programme and various actors of the Finnish youth work, professional or volunteer.In the official youth policy documents (e.g. Vanupo) in Finland, it is emphasized that one of the international aims of our youth policy is to improve thequality of youth work, and within this aim we wish to share the know-how of Finnish youth work system, and its skills and education structure. With thisproject we have made a substantial impact to these goals as the Finnish youth work got a lot of attention of the projects participants during their days in Finland and afterwards in their home countries."