6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa

Table 33: Youth workers in Greek municipalities
Type of Service Total Employed Persons % Number of Volunteers %
Cultural youth work 48 22 46% 26 54%
Extracurricular youth education. 70 70 100% 0 0%
Children and youth recreation 30 8 27% 22 73%
Open youth work, youth clubs, etc. 51 28 55% 23 45%
Youth associations and youth groups 67 4 6% 63 94%
Street work/ Mobile youth work 0 0 0% 0 0%
Sports 37 35 95% 2 5%
Youth counselling 109 19 17% 90 83%
Advised (Adventure) playgrounds 23 23 100% 0 0%
International youth work 3 2 67% 1 33%
Youth social services 10 10 100% 0 0%
Youth education (within the formal system) 10 10 100% 0 0%
Youth employment/career services 5 5 100% 0 0%
Youth information 17 15 88% 2 12%
This list shows that the greatest percentage of volunteers, 94%, is to be found in youth
associations and youth groups as expected, but also in the categories of youth counselling,
youth recreation and cultural youth work.
60% of youth workers at local level are full-time employees, 4% part-time employees, and
36% have a one-off contract with the municipality.
Regarding the qualification of youth workers, differences were noted between youth workers
employed in the sector of education and social youth work and those active in other fields of
youth work. While the percentage of youth workers with a higher qualification is nearly equal,
the percentage of youth workers with no formal education is much higher in the field of youth
work that is not related to education or social services.
Table 34:Qualification of youth workers in Greek municipalities
higher education professional school no formal education
Educational/social services 55% 38% 7%
Rest youth work services 53% 5% 43%
Data about participants in youth work is difficult to obtain at local level too. Not all
municipalities were able to state numbers of participants, so that the data gives only a rough
overview. Children and youth recreation, cultural youth work and open youth work are the
activities that reach the greatest number of children and young people. The ratio between
female and male participants is nearly equal, more girls that boys are to be found in the fields
of cultural youth work, open youth work and youth social services, while boys more often
attend activities such as sports and extracurricular youth education.
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