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Shared experience:
- Shared successful practices
- Bringing the community of practitioners together.
- Offers the opportunity to upload tutorials of activities that you can follow step by step.
The system is super friendly:
- Just like Facebook
It can become a support group:
- It can offer you an external perspective
- Gives you feedback
- Can also gives you a reality check, that what you do is going in the right direction.
Cooperations:
- We have people from the municipality that we can connect with
- This also applies to institutions and young people
- It helps find a balance, between the role of the organization, the role of the youth, and the role of the decision-makers.
- language support for having different materials translated in the native languages
Ownership
- It creates pride in being part of this platform and allows you to talk with people from a global level.

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Specialised platform on local youth work

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Specialised platform on local youth work

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- clear focus, based on shared interest

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- Face 2 Face meetings
- Concrete practices
- Potential adaptations/variations of practices.
- Mentoring/Coaching
- Research results related to youth work
- Spaces with open calls for meetings/training courses/conference/partnership building activities
- Successful practices of attracting young people

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Network of professionals who want to further develop local youth work

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Network of professionals who want to further develop local youth work

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- empowers local youth work
- supports recognition of local youth work
- gives visibility to local youth work
- connects public authorities with youth workers and municipalities with each other
- see good practices from other communities
- integrate and stimulate volunteer work
- brings together communities

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Support networking both on national and European level

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Support networking both on national and European level

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Opportunity to meet peers and colleagues, also in sub-groups, based on specific profiles

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Opportunity to meet peers and colleagues, also in sub-groups, based on specific profiles

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- easy user interface
- clear search function and categories (e.g. countries, topics): 'just for you' page cfr. Tik Tok and 'discover' page
- relevant partner finding with links to other relevant partner finding pages
-  short intro text on each topic to avoid that you need to click

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Platform to connect the different stakehokders

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Platform to connect the different stakehokders

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Partners
Collabs
Info & best practices
Funding opportunities
Training offers
Contact database

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A place to share with a community of youth workers and receive feedback

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A place to share with a community of youth workers and receive feedback

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- Similar to the European Year of youth maps of activities, you can have a space where you upload the activities you organized and have there added, small descriptions, annexes, research related to that, and how the municipality contributed (on the platform of the European Year of Youth it takes 2-3 minutes to do that)
- Several days of mentoring can be booked at an individual or organizational level.
- Also showcasing mistakes, this way you can learn from other people's mistakes.
- Using categories and tags to make it easier to search.
- Invitation process to reach youth workers and different stakeholders (even without National Agencies)
- Policies, checklists, and procedures for youth work activities.
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-Good practices
-New partnerships
- Connecting and networking with different NGO in international level
-Experience exchanges
-Inspirational good models
-Promoter of local youth work
- Break the launguage barriers through countries

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Help na's to find participants & volunteers + help volunteers find projects and events

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Help na's to find participants & volunteers + help volunteers find projects and events

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Research between uni's and municipalities

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Research between uni's and municipalities

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- more elaborated personal profiles: link to EGL, personal contact details, country, ...
- info on how to personally contact somebody

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The platform could lower the barrier for YW to gain an international perspective for their work

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The platform could lower the barrier for YW to gain an international perspective for their work

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- opportunities, e.g. twinning possibilities for different municipalities
- support to youth workers
- space/groups for peer learning (group for mentors, facilitators, youth workers)
- instructions: how to get into the different EU non-informal education programmes (maybe specific group in plattform)
- best practise examples (e.g. how to be a good mentor)
- expand the events section (organisations can share events they host, if they are open to public)

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The opportunity to connect

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- training, study visits and networking offers, clustered where relevant by target groups
- information and updates
- access to European Charter on YW and Change Makers Kit
- partner finding
- links to other relevant sources and websites (e.g. CoE, SALTO, ...)
- testimonials and stories

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Keeping personal and professional contacts alive

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Keeping personal and professional contacts alive

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- archive with information on previous events

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React and give feedback to the posts of others 

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React and give feedback to the posts of others 

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Bring other people to the platform in order to make it a unique place of sharing for the community of practice 

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Bring other people to the platform in order to make it a unique place of sharing for the community of practice 

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*find common spots with each other
* Easily connect and find like minded people
*Find youth workers in your area if this platform works properly
*Adapt the platform to the local language( espeasilly for rural areas)
*See somebody first - easy to network afterwards

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Facilitate Partner finding for reliable partners 

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Facilitate Partner finding for reliable partners 

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By showing activities, showing that activities were implemented

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- sharing information about events
- use the plattform as a communication plattform (e.g. mentors with volunteers)
- provide good support in conflict times
- making it visible and understandable for municipalities

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*school platform- fast reply from schools ( for easy connection)
* Have practical information (how did you organise it, what impact it has)
*Acces to other resources ( that other find or create from scratch)
* Easy and intuitive to use ( you don't need to be an expert)

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The possibility to initiate new projects

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- share good practices, tips and tricks
- be able to ask support to other colleagues on the platform
- update, but also delete 'old' news/solved questions/...
- work with topics/themes to give an overview

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- overcome language barriers of youth workers
- translate function

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Information on different languages/translation services 

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Information on different languages/translation services 

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Possibly ubsibg existing technical translation programmes. Many YW are not fluent in English

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- Personal experience of people in the platform so you know on what topic to whom to talk with.
- Partner search
- Filters on topics like, events, countries, specific activities (ex: youth centres) like rooms and groups (to not surf trough to much information that might not be relevant for you).

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- Dedicated people managing the platform to organize it, troubleshoot, and sort information.
- A really good notification system
- Exclusivity, some events you would only find out bout there

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- yearly update of profiles to keep the network up-to-date (e.g. people leaving jobs)
- awareness that people are responsible to keep the platform relevant: if not interest will easily disappear

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The platform offers to the community of youth workers:

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The platform offers to the community of youth workers:

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-opportunities to exchange experiences and to interact
-methods and tools and resources
-promotes youth work to the interested actors - brings actors together to involve in the youth work

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Possibility to contact ppl directly --> usagw for both private and open ways

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Possibility to contact ppl directly --> usagw for both private and open ways

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- 'this person answers in one hour' :-): as a way to get people committed and recognised for their contribution

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*No hate speech
* A form of discussion- chatting to a separate space for the platform
*To have relevant content on the platform
*Online resource center
*Online events (monthly meetings) - to get more active on the platform, share good practices but also with energizers ;)

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Themes will follow the themes of the member

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Themes will follow the themes of the member

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No limitations in topics and themes, but there should be a possibility to find content (structure, filters etc)

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Themes and matters we would like to find at the online space

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Themes and matters we would like to find at the online space

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-sources for grants
-good practices
-partners
-forums for different topics
-study visits

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Structure, search functions #boomerproof

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- make links to other websites, tools, ... to avoid duplication
- needs active moderation

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I contribute to make the platform lively professional community by:

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I contribute to make the platform lively professional community by:

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-sharing activities, methods, calls for applications
-by  including diverse topics

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Interesting content, active use, interaction between users

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Interesting content, active use, interaction between users

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- EGL platform needs a clear focus on what it wants to be and not to be: can not serve all needs
- this can be countered by labels/badges of people: indicate people's expertise, people-to-people, personal contacts possible, ...

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- on target groups (e.g. people working with Ukraine refugees)
- on roles in EGL
Sub-spaces within the platform

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It makes me use the online tool actively:

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It makes me use the online tool actively:

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-useful information, conserned and structured information, divided section
-a good moderation of platform
-translation feature
-the info has to be one step forward
-developed and divided to categories

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- promotional shop window (best practises): show outcomes/impact of municipal youth work
- partnership building space
- groups for specific stakeholders (municipalities, youth workers, mentors, NAs, national working groups etc.)
- making municipalities interested in getting into programmes (space for municipalities to get support on how to apply for funding in EU youth programmes on a national level, national groups)
- (online) training courses for youth workers (with/without certificates)

At the same time how to make sure that we don't double what already exists (e.g. on the SALTO platform)?

Structure on new EGL website seems to fit well: general area for information and promotion; workvivo for connection/exchange/groups.

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Connection with municipality both at the local and international level (how could it be stable if the people are changing?)
There are people with similar interest
User friendly website + app
Interaction with the users
Is it for young people?
Geographical connection when you travel (the GPS can tell you who is near you and connect with them)
Connection for subjects and themes
Centealised and updated info about our work
Good practices

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- very different needs to be tackled
- process needed now to find clear focus
- wider perspective combined with personal page
- keep it simple within the complexity
- customization

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* European Year of youth themes - resources for easy acces with #
*International and national trainings- with translated version for the countries targeted for the tc
*We don't have acces to previous events that we didn't attend regarding youth work ( objectives, reports, standards)
*Education and training - and another part of legistlation (national and regional). Pick documents from other countries as inspiration and disemination

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Forum features
Video + text interaction
Community manager => regular events, rituals and rewards
Value to the community
Quality information + support connecting with national experts and NAs officers
Advocacy tools
A safe space for everybody

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- partnership and networking possibilities
- userfriendly tool
- quick and easily understandable material we can give to municipalities

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Rewards and gamification (but can be tricky)
Curated information about our field (quality content and user friendly fresh news)
Start up kits on youth work
Workshops with experts (online and offline)

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• Added value of the EGL platform •
- for research - mapping the existing practices over time
- 2 directions - offering the leverage for communication with local authorities (advocacy), validation for local youth work
- common language for youth work, needs, quality youth work (shared concepts)
- involvement of national agancies
- a great dissemination tool if you want to reach youth workers
- to open up new partnerships

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All types of youth work
Statistics on the sector
Manuals

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analysis of local problems, sharing those and finding good practices for things you struggle with.
Set up projects together
Biography of organisationsand your goals --> get to know each other
good practices for inspiration, what are other municipalities doing?
make links with cross-domain projects, fe non formal learning with formal learning
online meetings with new people which makes it possible for face to face meetings
make new links

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*easy to navigate - good search function
*To see that the ideas are useful and has an impact- up to date
* Challenge- to encourage other NGOs or countries to post activities or good practices- than we give the ball to others

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chat function
upload files, rooms for groups
thematic sections
educational sessions
tips and tricks
hashtag function, search function
event calendar

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Collaboration to find people/partners

Peer support in real time

Common calendar for big European events

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Selection of workshopgivers and trainers for specific topics
sent in projectfiles for Erasmus+
podcasts, end products from projects
give lectures
links to other sites for networks, publicity for events
lessons from schools, ideas for activities, new projects

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Best of the best practices

Opportunity for Peer support via direct communication/dedicated channels/topics

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Professional social media

To facilitate a difference btw offer and demand

Bridging local and EU level

Mentoring potential - big NGOs tutor, help the little ones

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Easy search function

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Not a dublication of other platforms

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Integraation/ easy switch with other Social media platforms 

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Integraation/ easy switch with other Social media platforms 

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Thematic sections;
- human science - psychology - mental wellbeing
- sports as an elevation
- environment, durability
- diversity and minorities
- Gameification and technology
- popular subcultures
- legislation

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Common ground btw municipal and youth workers