ON THE WAY
The podcast on implementing
the
European Youth Work Agenda in Germany
The European Youth Agenda, which is implemented in and through the Bonn Process, aims to strengthen, develop and promote youth work.
But what exactly does the Bonn Process involve? What do different actors hope and expect to achieve in the European Youth Work Agenda’s implementation in Germany? And what needs to happen so that, in a few years’ time, we can say the Bonn Process has been a success? To answer these and other key questions, we spoke with various actors in the field of youth work who are involved in the Bonn Process.
The podcast is hosted by Dr Julia von der Gathen-Huy and Julia Hallmann from the Transfer Office.
ALL EPISODES
Episode 5: "Young voluntary engagement in children's and youth work (in sport) before, during and after the Corona pandemic - a special episode"
Guest: Carolin Giffhorn (U27 committee member of the German Sport Youth) and Gideon Metzger (Youth leader at the handball club “HSG Dudenhofen-Schifferstadt” and member of the coordination group of the Junior Team of the German Sports Youth)
Duration: 51 Minutes
Released: 14/09/2023
The fifth episode of our podcast is a special episode in which the European Youth Work Agenda and the Bonn Process are not explicitly discussed. Instead, we introduce two young people – Gideon Metzger and Carolin Giffhorn – who talk about their voluntary engagement in children’s and youth work in sport. They share with us their views on developments before, during and after the Corona pandemic.
The voluntary commitment of (young) people is a supporting pillar of child and youth work in Germany and thus also highly relevant for the implementation of the Bonn Process. For this reason, in the fifth episode of our podcast – a special episode – Gideon Metzger and Carolin Giffhorn get a chance to speak – two young people who have been involved in children’s and youth work in sport for quite some time. In the first part of the interview, they give us an insight into their voluntary commitment, go into their personal motives and motivations and explain what significance their voluntary commitment has in their lives. In the second part, current developments in volunteering in the context of the Corona pandemic are discussed. In this context, Gideon Metzger and Carolin Giffhorn also give us hints on how voluntary engagement in children’s and youth work (in sport) can become even more attractive.
The interview focused on the following questions:
– How did you become involved in volunteering? What were your motives and motivations?
– What is the significance of your voluntary work in your life?
– What changes have you noticed in yourself over the course of your involvement?
– What is the current situation in Germany regarding young people’s voluntary involvement in children’s and youth work (in sport)?
– What impact did the Corona pandemic have on (young people’s) volunteering and what consequences can still be felt today?
– What makes volunteering in children and youth work (in sport) attractive for young people? How can it become even more attractive?
– What are possible obstacles to voluntary engagement?
Thank you very much Carolin Giffhorn and Gideon Metzger – and we hope you enjoy this episode.
Episode 4: "The European Youth Work Agenda as a source of ideas and motivation. Presentation of the programme Generation Europe - The Academy"
Guest: Katharina Teiting, project officer at the Internationales Bildungs- und Begegnungswerk in Dortmund (IBB) and project and team leader at “Generation Europe – The Academy”.
Duration: 32 Minutes
Released: 02/08/2023
In the fourth episode of the podcast we present the programme “Generation Europe – The Academy”. A practice project that uses the European Youth Work Agenda for its own work and at the same time contributes to advancing the Bonn Process in Germany.
“Generation Europe – The Academy” is an international network of youth work organisations and a funding programme for European cooperation. Katharina Teiting, speaker in the fourth episode, presents the complex project and its various components and sub-projects and explains where she sees the links to the European Youth Work Agenda and the Bonn Process. Among other things, the eight priority areas of the Agenda have been used for the conceptualisation and further development of “Generation Europe – The Academy”. Furthermore, the Bonn Process has motivated those responsible for the project to expand and focus the activities of the so-called “Competence Group Lobby” – which, within the framework of the programme, deals with the creation of materials to support local youth organisations in their own lobbying work on the ground. For Katharina Teiting, the European Youth Work Agenda is therefore, among other things, a “source of ideas and motivation”. She considers the Bonn Process as an opportunity to embed her own activities in a larger context or to understand them as part of a European process. In her view, the Bonn Process and practical activities are mutually dependent: on the one hand, the label “Bonn Process” can be used for one’s own visibility and public relations work; at the same time, projects such as “Generation Europe – The Academy” drive the Bonn Process forward in the first place. For the Bonn Process in Germany and Europe, Katharina Teiting would like to see better networking and exchange opportunities for practitioners and more bundled information and transparency on ongoing processes and activities. In her own work, she perceives that many youth organisations are not yet sufficiently aware of the Bonn Process. In order for the Bonn Process to succeed in Germany, she believes that the community of practice should pull together and develop its own perspectives, especially in view of the current challenges facing society. She would like to see an open and solution-oriented exchange on the (further) funding and financial strengthening of youth work and thus of the Bonn Process from decision-makers in politics.
Thank you very much Katharina Teiting– and we hope you enjoy this episode.
Episode 3: „Communicating the importance of youth work to society“
Guest: Katharina Morlang, Education, Qualification and Sustainability Officer at the German Sports Youth in the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB)
Duration: 20 Minutes
Released: 23/01/2023
For Katharina Morlang, the Bonn Process is an instrument to communicate the importance of youth work to politics and society. In the third episode of the podcast, she explains how she sees this succeeding.
Katharina Morlang, the interviewee of the third episode, has not had many points of contact with the Bonn Process so far. In her function at the German Sports Youth and with the experiences of her voluntary commitment in sport as an adolescent, she frames two expectations regarding the shaping of the European Youth Work Agenda in Germany and Europe. On the one hand she hopes that professional exchange will be promoted and on the other hand, the field of children’s and youth work should show with united forces how important extracurricular places of education and development are for children and young people. She herself has experienced that one “takes away an incredible amount”.
She elaborates on these and other thoughts in answering the three questions:
- What is the Bonn Process from your perspective?
- What are your hopes and expectations for the European Youth Work Agenda’s implementation in Germany?
- What needs to happen so that, in a few years’ time, we can say the Bonn Process has been a success?
Thank you very much Katharina Morlang – and we hope you enjoy this episode.
Episode 2: „The Bonn Process is a PROCESS“
Guest: Matthias Hoffmann, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Federal State of Brandenburg (MBJS)
Duration: 31 Minutes
Released: 09/09/2022
Matthias Hoffmann emphasises that the Bonn Process is a PROCESS. But what exactly does that mean? This is all explained in this second episode of our new podcast.
Matthias Hoffmann, our guest in the second episode, looks at the Bonn Process from two perspectives, just as Rolf Witte did in the first episode. As an advisor in the “Children and Youth Policy, Youth Work, Social Work with Young People, State Youth Planning, Digitalisation in Child and Youth Welfare” unit at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Federal State of Brandenburg, he is already closely involved in EU Youth Strategy.
If, as currently planned, the 4th Federal Congress on Youth Work takes places in Potsdam in 2024, he will be involved in the congress as both a sponsor and a cooperation partner. As someone with a dual role, capable of seeing the topic from two different perspectives, Hoffmann answers three key questions:
- What is the Bonn Process from your perspective?
- What are your hopes and expectations for the European Youth Work Agenda’s implementation in Germany?
- What needs to happen so that, in a few years’ time, we can say the Bonn Process has been a success?
Thank you very much Matthias Hoffmann – and we hope you enjoy this episode.
Episode 1: "The Bonn Process is like a 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle"
Zu Gast: Rolf Witte, German Federation for Arts Education and Cultural Learning (BKJ)
Dauer: 22 Minutes
Released: 31/05/2022
Rolf Witte once compared the Bonn Process to a 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. But what exactly did he mean by that? This is all explained in this first episode of our new podcast.
Rolf Witte views the Bonn Process, which he has been involved in for several years, from two perspectives. His primary role is Director of the International Cultural Education unit at the German Federation for Arts Education and Cultural Learning (BKJ). However, he is also the Chairman of IJAB, the International Youth Service of the Federal Republic of Germany. As someone with a dual role, capable of seeing the topic from two different perspectives, Witte answers our three key questions.
- What is the Bonn Process from your perspective?
- What are your hopes and expectations for the European Youth Work Agenda’s implementation in Germany?
- What needs to happen so that, in a few years’ time, we can say the Bonn Process has been a success?