With the process of formulating a common visionary set of European Youth Goals (EYGs) through the Structured Dialogue process 2017/18 a powerful instrument has been created which enables actors in the field to direct actions and measures towards this shared goals across different policy levels, from local to European, as well as across different policy sectors, e.g. health, employment, environment. With this project "Youth Goals Laboratory" a consortium of National Youth Councils together with two research partners aim at contributing to more effective youth policies at the European, national and regional level. The partners will promote the use of the EYGs in order to empower regional-national-EU level decision makers and multipliers as well as young people and youth representatives to achieve progress towards those goals. The project combines research and practical approaches at different policy levels. Thus, it goes beyond the level of implementation of the EU Youth Dialogue and explores structures and patterns behind the implementation level. The project's results will contribute to the discussion of finding indicators for implementing the Youth Goals by publishing three intellectual outputs: (1) "Theoretical Framework for Evaluating Youth Goals Implementation", (2) "Open Source Indicators for Evaluating Youth Goals Implementation" and (3) "Complex Evaluation Model: Guidelines for Detailed Evaluation of Youth Goals Implementation". Focusing on the national level, the project will result in insights in the topic of (4) "Youth Mainstreaming (concept analysis)" in order to provide recommendations to practitioners how to get "from rhetoric to action" by generating a Youth Mainstreaming Map. A third focus on local and regional level will result in a (5) "comparative analysis of Youth Dialogue Ambassador models" in order to identify success factors and transfer knowledge and experience to other EU countries who have not implemented a comparable approach yet.
With the process of formulating a common visionary set of European Youth Goals (EYGs) through the Structured Dialogue process 2017/18 a powerful instrument has been created which enables actors in the field to direct actions and measures towards this shared goals across different policy levels, from local to European, as well as across different policy sectors, e.g. health, employment, environment. With this project "Youth Goals Laboratory" a consortium of National Youth Councils together with two research partners contributed to more effective youth policies at the European, national and regional level. The partners will promote the use of the EYGs in order to empower regional-national-EU level decision makers and multipliers as well as young people and youth representatives to achieve progress towards those goals. The project combines research and practical approaches at different policy levels. Thus, it goes beyond the level of implementation of the EU Youth Dialogue and explores structures and patterns behind the implementation level. Three intellectual outputs show how the search for, use and exploitation of indicators based on the Youth Goals could work. Furthermore, the EU Youth Dialogue was used as an example to show how Youth Goals can be better anchored in the work at national and regional level. In addition a new Toolbox was developed around the Youth Goals. Results of the project can be seen here: www.youth-goals.eu/lab