YouthWiki (Visit an external site. The link opens in a new tab.) is Europe’s online comprehensive database describing the structures, policies and actions of national youth policies within 34 European countries. YouthWiki is available for all and it aims to support European level cooperation and evidence-based desicionmaking. In Finland, the database is updated as a part of the Finnish Youth Research Society’s YouthWiki -project.
Read our lates blog post How should we talk about the digital well-being of young people in the field of youth work? (13.12.2024). The blog is written by Essi Holopainen (M.Soc.Sc., Doctoral student), a former national correspondent of the YouthWiki, currently working as a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki.
The database covers the fields of action identified in the 2019-2027 EU Youth Strategy (Visit an external site. The link opens in a new tab.):
- Youth Policy
- Voluntary Activities
- Employment and Entrepreneurship
- Social Inclusion
- Participation
- Education and Training
- Health and Well-being
- Creativity and Culture
- Youth and the World
- Youth work
The main objective of the YouthWiki is to promote European cooperation in the field of youth and to support evidence-based decision-making. It achieves this by providing coherent, reliable and comparable information on national policies in support of young people, in a user-friendly and easy-to-update way. Besides the qualitative descriptions written in the chapters by national correspondents, there are also comparative maps for example about how youth participation is supported in different countries. To be able to offer comparisons based on qualitative data describing the situation of young people in different countries is seen to be one of the most meaningful reason to have this kind of database.
Data Production
At the European level Youth Wiki is coordinated by DG Education and Culture of the European Commission in the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency.
The information of the chapters is regularly updated by designated national correspondents. In Finland writing takes place at Finnish Youth Research Society by Anu Gretschel and Solja Kumpula.
Regarding proposals for the update, please contact Solja Kumpula by email (firstname.lastname@youthresearch.fi).
Funding
The YouthWiki is funded by the EU’s Erasmus+ Programme and Ministry of Culture and Education. See, also:
European Youth Portal (Visit an external site. The link opens in a new tab.)
