6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa

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In Greece and Spain recreation activities are joined by most of the participants of youth work. 50% of all participants attend recreation activities in Greece, 28% in Spain and 23% in Norway. Extracurricular youth education plays an important role for Romanian youngsters as 48% of all participants of youth work attend these activities. In the Netherlands sports seem to be the most highlighted youth activity (74% of all youngsters participate in sports) as well as in Norway where 39% of the young people participate in sports too. For the Spanish youngsters sports is also attractive: 26% of the youngsters participating in youth work are practicing sports. In all countries – with the exception of Spain - from where data is available the percentage of girls participating in youth work is slightly higher. In Austria the greatest percentage of youngsters participating in youth work falls upon the group of youngsters aged from 13 to 14 years. The age groups 15-19 and 20-25 are represented with 32% and 13%. Also in the Netherlands youngsters aged from 13-14years and 14-19 years form the greatest group of participants. In Romania there is no data about the age groups but there are no youth work available for youngsters older that 24 years. In Spain and in Norway the main group of youngsters represented in youth work activities are young people aged from 15-19 years. In Norway youngster older than 18 years are not considered as target group of youth work anymore. From Austria and the Netherlands was reported that the age groups were not captured well with the given categories as youngsters aged under 13 years were often participating in youth work too. In Germany only the total number of participants is traceable and even this information is not comparable because of different documentation categories. 118
11 Interview findings To be able to deepen and discuss in a qualitative way the circumstances of the given databases in the different European countries, we conducted interviews with stakeholders of youth work. The findings are first of all presented for the individual countries and then summarised. 11.1 Austria The interviewed stakeholders in Austria were � one person involved in open youth work in the 15 th district of Vienna, � one person involved in open youth work in the 17 th district of Vienna, � one person who is a youth worker and project manager for an association focussing on socio-cultural work and mobile youth work in the 15 th and 22 nd districts of Vienna, � the head of the municipal youth department in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, and � the person in charge of pedagogical issues in the Viennese association of youth centres. Most of the interviewees argue that lack of networking and lack of public interest are the main reasons for the rather fragmentary and meagre availability of data on youth work in Austria. It is difficult to get comparable national data because of the different situations of youth work in the different regions or states. Furthermore, terms used in youth work often do not have a nation-wide definition. Another reason for the rather poor coverage of data on youth work in Austria is lack of interest on the part of the sponsors. There is hardly any initiative taken to improve the availability of data. According to some experts, extensive mandatory records are kept on any group wishing to receive subsidies, but this data is not used for any other purpose. Another reason given by the interviewees is that youth work does not have a sufficiently intensive lobby, especially in the media. There is not much public knowledge about youth work in general. The reason for this is partly the work itself: in open youth work it is difficult to quantify success. On the other hand, experts tend to see improvement in the legitimation of youth work in Austria over the last decade. At regional level standards have been introduced and accepted, but on a nation-wide level there is too little networking and standards are quite far from being assimilated. 11.2 Estonia Interviewees in Estonia were contacted through local youth work coordinators. In total, five youth workers took part in the survey (three females and two males); most of them work in local open youth centres. In one case – in a small rural town – due to the lack of staff and to 119
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The money and time invested in yout
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countries like Austria, Germany, Es
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pleasure, and desire, by strengthen
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young people, such as the Internet,
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6 Country
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6.2 Estonia Youth work in Estonia i
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Volunteering has always been crucia
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young people through local planning
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Spain No national system of reporti
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existence of a compulsory annual da
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were funded with € 1,066,100 and
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