04/09/2025
🌍 POYWE Exchange: A Webinar Series Fostering Shared Learning and Dialogue
Youth, Democracy, and Freedom of Speech
🗓️ Date: September 30, 2025
🕑 Time: 2:00–3:30 PM CEST
📍 Zoom: use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84055042494
POYWE (Professional Open Youth Work in Europe) is proud to launch POYWE Exchange, a new webinar series designed to promote shared learning, dialogue, and professional development across the European youth work sector. Every third month, POYWE will host a webinar focused on a key topic in open youth work.
The first webinar, hosted by Youth Work Norway, explores a pressing issue: How do young people experience democracy and freedom of speech today? With a noticeable shift toward far-right ideologies among youth in Europe, this session will examine the current landscape and discuss how professional open youth work can and should respond.
🎤 Program Highlights:
Insights from researcher Anna Krasteva: How to speak in crisis time? The agency and experience of the Far-Right youth.
A young person, Rosa Horiat from Oslo Youth Council, shares her experience of today’s freedom of speech climate
A Norwegian youth club presents a successful democracy-focused project
Interactive discussion and Q&A with speakers
👥 Who should attend?
Youth workers, staff in youth organizations, municipal employees, decision-makers, and stakeholders in the youth work field.
Registration is required – sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/weFP4dPbuH
Europe Goes Local
Ungdom og Fritid
BOJA - Bundesweites Netzwerk Offene Jugendarbeit
DOJ/AFAJ
BAG Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit e. V.
Samfés
Impress
Netz - Offene Jugendarbeit
