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What would society miss, should the youth sector not have access to both European programmes?

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What would society miss, should the youth sector not have access to both European programmes?

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What is missing and/or calling for today to set up and realise (more) high-quality projects in both European programmes?

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What is missing and/or calling for today to set up and realise (more) high-quality projects in both European programmes?

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How do and can the European programmes (better) contribute to youth work development in Europe and quality projects?

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How do and can the European programmes (better) contribute to youth work development in Europe and quality projects?

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What (other) incentives and drives are necessary to let more young people, incl. those from more diverse backgrounds, have a successful and insightful international learning mobility experience?

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What (other) incentives and drives are necessary to let more young people, incl. those from more diverse backgrounds, have a successful and insightful international learning mobility experience?

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Youth work is not a project, it's an ongoing service.

We need tools/systems to support youth work development, so we could use f. ex. TCAs more.

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Some countries rely heavily on the E+/Corps' funds to set up and develop youth work.

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With more flexibility and more funding, it would be easier to reach out to a wider range of participants, particularly to those with fewer opportunities.

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Recognition for youth workers and the non-formal sector shall be improved

What is youth work? What is most relevant? Maybe also work with examples, but not with exclusive definitions. Who we want to exclude and why? Where is the border about religious groups?

Peer-learning: More circulation of knowledge between those active on national and those active on international level needed

SALTO: Resources are there, but the problem is that most of the resources are in English. -> Having TCA in language groups might be useful.

Accreditation: Helps but needs to be handled strictly (relevance) due to avoid dubious actors.

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more joint recognition to increase the cross-border mobility of youth workers

create a format that would fund programs to develop common standards for youth work

TCA to create modular standards for youth work

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How to tackle AI? How to make it a chnce instead of a danger? What tools can help to get us there?

We need to have better tools for actually seeing if paper and reality of project are matching.

More ressources for training for ESC organisations and volunteers (this is also linked to the limitations of the membership fee)

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EU programmes are the only source of funding in some countries to develop youth work, youth workers and they create a specific space to reflect in an interculteral dimension. Both trough Mobility of YW but also through TCA/NET activities

The programmes could invest more in working with multiplier/ youth workers as the impact can be bigger than working with every indiidual young person

without youth work, the % of ypfo participating at EU projects would be low as there access is ensured through youth work organisations. Through NFE the involvement of the target group is higher. Underline the egalitarian aspect, that everyone learns the same

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A new strand could be set up in the new programme period concentrating on this area.

More support for "beginners" in the programmes, help with the administrative side.

We need small grants for the development of youth work.

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obvious ones being Youth worker mobilities and KA2 projects and TCA/NET projects

More synergies between local level and european level - Europe goes local for example; alignment of local activities to fit the programmes and allow them to be funded; exchange of practices, networking, studyvisits...

not all organisatons have the same starting line - providing support in applying is very important to include also smaller organisations, organisations from rural areas etc.

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professional standards for youth workers

funding youth workers' development on a national level

More in-country mobility programs also

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newcomer programs support the expansion of programs

evaluation of gained competences from mobility programs

More focus on group programs (making "me-programs" to "we-programs")

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There would be less organized youth groups around Europe

The benefits of the programes

internationalization of the youth field

multiculturalism

spreading of European values

diversity

support of active citizenship

language learning

Policy development and youth mainstreaming

No capability to implement things like the EU youth strategy

sharing experiences and best practices

A culture of youth participation in Europe

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Recognise the importance of TCA/NET as powerful instruments for youth work development, including

strategic partnerships on priority topics, steered and initiated by the NA network in partnership with the youth field, expertise partners, research partners, ...

recurrent proven valuable training concepts

training formats for newcomers

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The European dimension is not only important for internationalisation of youth work, but also for the national development of youth work. This shows in youth workers mobility, but also through building networks and capacities for the organisations and the skills they develop through participating.

Also the training events, seminars and participatory activities.

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The micro grants would be a great addition, and the application process should be very light and with high trust towards the applicants. This is also an area where we could have e.g. video applications.

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The value of SOLIDARITY should be more emphasized in the new EU Youth Strategy, also in focus on partner/third countries. Solidarity between citizens of Europe and young people in partner/ third countries of Eastern Partnership Countries and Western Balkans should be more emphasized, especially in the view of Russian invasion in Ukraine, unrest situation in Belarus and recent election results in Russia. Networking initiatives such as Young European Ambassadors should be continued and enhanced. The link to the Europeers network should be added and a synergy link between both networks should be facilitated with the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes.

Financing smaller projects that do not fit into national schemes - eg. more funding for Participation projects and Solidarity projects.

Programmes are already supportive - European grants are working at the local communities level, in rural areas and, sometimes, force local municipalities to think about young people also ina broader local/national context

Programmes should continue to empower individual youth workers who aprticipate in E+ and ESC programmes themseves at the beginning and then come back to their communities with more knowledge, experience and add to their better functioning. Youth workers, youth councils are taught through E+ and ESC projects that youth work is a service, and that it really brings a difference to the society, local community etc.

connecting young people and their needs in the programme should be kept, let's see what the Youthcheck brings - we are all curious :-)

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The UK could be an example of this. Losing the sense of belonging.

The network at european level. And also the feeling of belonging and that we are strong together.

If we are changing lifes those changes will not have that change.

It is an educational tool, a method. Not just mobility. Pedagogically valuable. They contribute to quality and development.

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if no programmes, youth work would be poorer 'provincial'. It enriches the national/local youth work. The funding and the topics are important. Often sustainability is an issue if the funding goes.

the sector is often weak on the national level, withouth the programmes, it would even be weaker and it would also not be important to have a youth policy/ministry resonponsible. YP would be left alone and seen as student or a problem.

EU programmes in the field of youth should not be taken for granted

In the ESC yp bring in their workpower in many small initiatives in very different field, in many organisations they bring in an essential value so also porg. in the field of envoronment, disability, etc.We would really miss the concrete work

A lot of funding is invested in elderly, children but the young people are often forgotten, transition periods in life is longer and solidarity Corps helps.

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Programme does a lot on the level of individuals and organizations (projects implementing, capacity building, educational activities etc.) but need to be supported on systematic level (for example more concrete recognition of youth work and non formal learning in general). Programme is a part of the key, not the whole key for everything we miss.

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Should we also include some possibilities to pitch the ideas to the NAs, in addition to handing in an applications. So e.g. first short application as text or video and then the best would pitch their ideas to evaluators live.

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E+ contrbutes in several ways to the quality of youth work; It is important to create a stronger link to the contribution of projects to the local youth work. We see too many organisations without a link to (local) youth work.

Small scale organisations are there to make the programme more accessible. However, the administrative threshold is too high. The youth sector has a totally differrnt reality. It is powered by volunteers. It should be really accessible.

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Even though we need more funding there is not now many professional youth work development activities that are supporting needed youth work development, connected with national realities and needs. This is sometimes connected with national realities and budget structure/constraints but still can be more pushed/promoted. For example, there are several formats in KA1 for youth workers but not connected with their management developments, specially for small NGO's since they are not skilled enough and only international picture is not helpful enough or sometimes connected with their reality. National reality must have a large part of their developments.

What we mean with high quality? is it the criteria the same for small NGO's and large international NGO's? Numbers are showing that we have enough high-quality projects on the application level but on the implementation level the situation is not always the same but it's really hard to support small NGO's in their projects life cycle with current IT tools, resources and administration in general. Maybe we should ask ourselves what we want to achieve and how can we achieve that.

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It is important to work on the recognition of youth work; the European Youth Work Convetion is an important tool. There should be ownership and budget within E+ to organise this.

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What is needed more?

Support for organisations to consolidate knowledge and expertise across projects.

Support for newcomers and small organisations to find entry in the European programmes.

Embed and support international mobility as a method/tool in youth work (cfr. accreditation as long-term approach towards internalisation).

Support/funding to keep European networks and outcomes initiated and developed through the European programmes, alive/sustainable (e.g. through KA2 projects, through long lasting cooperation)? Project funding limits longer-term internationalisation strategies and sustainable cooperation (offering again many mobility opportunities to young people and youth workers). Not only a European responsibility but also a national one.

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The flexibility to also tailor both the a) priorities and b) application approaches/methods to some degree nationally could help the programmes to even better target local needs

At the background we should also do some better national canvassing of both 'white areas', not targeted groups and missing actions/initiatives to have better systemic inclusion (and not just individual level inclusion).

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Without the programme it would be nearly impossible to connect with other youth organisations in Europe.

The other issue is that, even if some contacts could be established, there would not be common quality standards.

The most important issue is of course that the programmes allow for equal access also to people with fewer opportunities.

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followup and impat of the projects, especially in KA2, are the weakest links, the results should be continued even after the final reports is evaluated to have longer lastinf impact

more capactity building to empower youth organisations to be a part of networks and continue growing and delivering systemic impact

possibly KA2 on national capacity building level (with european dimension but not neccesarily yet european partners) and as a second step, have the international KA2; the first step could be funded in a way of "KA2 accreditation/preparation" - rethinking the KA2

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the demand is higher than the allocted budget - the Youth budget should be higher - x2 or even x3 :-)

the use of AI and digital competences - especially in the context of the learing gap on digital priority between youth workers and young people

media literacy and critical thinking, being aware of risks - these issues should be more strengthened

maybe we should think what is a real youth organization? How it works? Covid revised the existence of many organizations that could not get the money because there were no mobilities, yet organizations were working. There should be ways to fud also indirect costs of organizations not necessarily linked to mobilities.

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The NAs also have an important role as knowledge brokers between available european knowledge and knowledge needed at local level (on youth work and youth participation); SNACs form an important space in this; It would be important to recognise this role of NAs.

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Reflexion on how youth work is in our countries. Erasmus+ has helped a lot to develop a network of youth workers, connected to each other (case of Spain) in Germany there's so much youth work that the agency is just another player and there are not enough youth workers.

Organizations also support each others.

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There is a gap between the high implementation reality of the projects and sometimes the way in which the application is written.

Empower youth workers to become a bridge between youth workers and other stakeholders

Use funding in cooperation projects for youth work and youth work development and involve youth organisations in the implementation of the projects.

Lack of capacity in describing what you as a youth worker are doing, have a good narrative, the why of a project

Importance of TCA/NET in supporting quality in youth work and bringing in the transnational dimimension/networking

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In some countries the programmes are crucial as funding mechanisms to support youth work (developments).

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We would loose intercultural exchange as a powerful tool for young people across borders for dialogue and contributing to respecting and valueing diversity. This is not to be taken for granted at all.

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We need to have more resources for a much more supportive approach to get on board the most challening targets groups, if we really want to push inclusion to the next level.

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The programmes contributed to the youth policies in many countries, the NAs also help the national and local level youth work policies and their implementation.

Mobility of Youth Workers: exchanging practices, learning tools and competences.

The (oftentimes) underfinanced youth field gets support from the programmes, in some cases these are the only financial support for youth work.

It provides definition of youth work – also for those who might not have a national definition of it – and it can provide a vision thanks to the international dimension.

It recognises youth work provided on voluntary basis/by volunteering organisations, not just the professional youth work providers.

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gamification fun elements between young people and/or youth workers so that they compete between each other, but can also share with their success and experience

more flexibility in DiscoverEU (hindering age limit of 18 - narrow target group) and Solidarity projects (group limit of 5 people) in the programme, but also at the national level at the agencies - simplification for administrative procedures

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Better outreach to young people and to organisations providing youth work would be necessary.

National level policy’s connection with the programmes.

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Recognition of international youth work in the national contexts would be beneficial.

Small-scale cooperations should be more focused on organisations having existing youth work structures.

To provide easy access to the programmes and supporting measures by the NAs.

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Oftentimes national youth work exists thanks to the international opportunities of the programmes which become the gateway activities to youth work structures.

International aspect and knowledge exchange of youth work is provided thanks to the programmes.

We would miss the budget of the youth field.

European values and the long term investment in young people would be lost. (You don’t learn democracy from the book, you learn it by collaboration.)

“Without the programmes Europe would collapse.”

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We can always be more inclusive but al numbers shows that we are very successful, that programmes have invest in different mechanisms (like additional support for inclusion, inclusion pots etc.). In addition, we must say that numbers are also underreported (a large part of beneficiaries that don't want to put themselves in inclusion category). We would add that newcommers - spreading of the programme - is even more to be focused on since we want to reach new participants not only inclusion groups. Some overview of numbers of new organizations/participants is also something that we should track and compare more. Evan more analysis of participants reports in other to see how much of them are new or do we always have more or less the same pax.

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Priorities: sometimes there seems to be a gap between the objectives of the programmes and the priorities in support to them and the reporting where we mainly report on priority level and not in relation to the objectives of E+ youth (competence development, quality of youth work and participation)

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SIMPLICITY: tools, wording, visibility

ESC is not the best choice of name....European Solidarity Corps is not that well understandable

Youth workers working with disadvantaged youth are under a lot of pressure ressourcewise and that is why it is difficult to apply for international programmes

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Many options of peer learning and opportunities for diversity would be missed.

EU Youth strategy could not be internationalised

Internationale dimension of youth work would be lost

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This would be a disaster!

How many youth centres would close if there was no Erasmus+ and ESC programmes!

Thousands of volunteers would not help local communities.

How would young people exchange ideas, learn new skills? Social media is so flat, physical mobilities and exchange between young people are a must!

Both programmes teach young people how to better, how to surpass themselves.

Many organizations build on youth work as vocational youth centres - the use different Erasmus funds and work with schools, local communities etc. in various projects and initiaties.

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Accreditation helps strengthen the quality

TCA/NET are importnat tools for the development and implementation of the programme and the projects.

The budget is fully spent - 100% - More funding is needed both for the programme and for the management at the NA level.

Without the programme it would not be difficult to develope youth work in most countries

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Support youth organizations that are newcommers. Before they apply. Guide them through the process.

Does the agencies consider themselves part of the youth field? We have impact obviously but how do they see us? We need to remind them that we are there to help.

We have to be more open, close, so they do not see us as the authorities but allies.

Eurodesk network can also help with that as in the network are organizations, also public administrations and as there are not grants involved it is a more horizontal environment to devoelop programs.

Challenge now with Sports. We need to build a network from the beggining and see how is it going to be liked with the youth field.

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Conitnue (and think about making more visible) synergies between all existing policies and the programmes.

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Application process is far too complicated, especially, if we want to address the youth with fewer opportunities. Simplification!

“Fewer opportunities” is a complicated issue for many reasons, not least because of the stigmatisation. Can the approach here be shifted also from individuals to organisations? Do we engage enough organisations, who work with young people with fewer opportunities.

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We need to link Erasmus+ Youth and ESC to the national youth policies/youth strategies. Both at strategic level and at plan of action-level.

More funding is needed for the NAs to actually have the time and energy to support newcommers, smaller organisations without a large staff to support them, youth organisations reaching out to youth with fewer opportunities. Inclusion actions take time and is capacity demanding.

KA2 and KA154 (Youth Participation Activities) can develope more to better reach youth organisations/organisations with "real" impact on the youth field.

Streamlining of age limits

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We propose not to try this out!

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better information - many young people who would benefit the most are not aware of the possibilities and dont know about Erasmus

peer contact are the best advertising for the programme

invlove more local institutions, municipalities, schools...

Reduce the neccessary bureaucracy

Microgrants in some shape or form could be a partial solution

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Name is important – for example is military-sounding Solidary Corps the best at the current atmosphere? The name should have a meaning which resonates.

How can we change the overall outlook from the personal learning opportunities to have a stronger impact on the organisations and wider society? We recognise it’s partly a question of communications, but it also needs some changes on the programmes

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More monitoring and systematic follow-up on what organisations develop and realise within their projects, is needed, but needs more capacity at NA level.

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Recognition of the youth work as a profession varies from country to country. We should not make too tight categories for youth work, so we do not exclude relevant parties outside. There is also a significant input from volunteers in the field.

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system development & learn from experiences from other countries (innovation) through peer learning.

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Most important fund for NFL will be gone.

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Low key entry points in the programmes are needed, like micro grants or alternative application formats (e.g. video to pitch idea). Proportionality in applications and preparing the application process is needed.

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We are having so many applications of so many organizations not being part of the youth field. They should be more focused on the field.

Link KA2 to more clear objectives as Youth Goals, Youth Work Agenda so the projects will be more relevant.

Maybe having two steps in the assesment process so we can identify the not so relevant projects before they go to the full process of assessment.

TCA/NET is there precisely for that and we should mantain the budget.

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In some countries, Youth work wouldn't be developed

We would miss a lot!

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Need for more dissemination / lack of harvesting of what has been done

Chapter "context" in the evaluation of the applications

Give organisations feedback and incentives on how to disseminate

Create links/cooperation with formal education -> we can get better results if organisation from formal and NFE cooperates together

Micro-grants

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Programmes are a "cohesion power" to stimulate the development of youthwork in all the countries

All the programmes are important to develop YW because they are tools for youth workers

Programmes contribute to YW development by shaping the priorities

Long term strategic activities organised by National Agencies contribute to the development of YW

International dimension plays an important role for stakeholders. Doubling of E+ did quite a lot

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A new doubling of the budget should be useful for the next programme

KA2-Youth should be more focused on development of youth work

Not enough budget to support all the very good KA2 projects

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300 mil EUR a year and dedicated NA officers

lot of capacity building possibilities

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Streamlined quality developed youth work trainings available for all European countries.

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Improves the Quality of youth work by training and development of youth workers

Accreditation allows for long term development of youth work

Different approach to youth work in different countries the programmes help to share best practice and experience

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It could be useful with a common standard for youth work. For some countries youth work as a concept is unknown.

In other countries the EU-programmes is a viecele to implement youth work.

Accreditation is contributing to more sustainable youth work

Dissemination of good practice could be developed.

Its still to difficult and complicated for young people to participate in the EU-programme. It needs to be simplified. For example easier and faster application process.

Important that local authorities become more active in involving young people in inclusion projekts. We also belive in more and closer cooperation with other sectors such as youth departements etc.

Awareness and use of research at nationel level to increase support for the programme.

International opportunities helps/supports both organisations and individuals to grow.

If you were not to have the European Youth programmes it would be a less tolerant society.

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Access is too complicated not inclusive

Video applications could be considered

Timeframes too long for sustaining the motivation of young people

Need more outreach to support the youth orgs and civil society groups

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Need to included other departments in responding to the needs of young people and ensuring their inclusion in the programmes eg mental health local authorities dept agriculture etc

Use the evidence basis to promote and raise awareness of the opportunities

Involve young people more in the full process eg Youth Advisory Groups for NAs

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We would have a less tolerant and inclusive society it would be less diverse and less open and young people would be less aware of the challenges in our society and the need for them to engage to make changes

Civil society organisations would not be as effective at supporting a multicultural society