The purpose of our project "Youth Work in a Changing World" is to enable sharing of experience, insights and ideas on the relationship between policy and practice in the youth sector across Europe. The starting point for the project is the recent publication of the Youth Work Inquiry report from the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Youth Affairs (April 2019), and the Young People's Charter now being developed by the government. This indicates a possible new interest in the field of youth work and the important contribution which it can make to solving key social and other issues. There is a renewed debate around the need for universal / developmental youth work as opposed to simply crisis intervention and provision. The National Youth Agency and other key organisations are reinventing themselves and have launched new strategies and membership offers. n this context we would like to extend our international work into the youth policy area, building on our strong practical, training and digital media expertise. Youth workers and youth leaders elsewhere will be interested in learning about these developments, but at the same time there is a need to ensure that innovation and policy thinking from abroad is shared in the UK: learning should always be mutual. We and all our project partners expect to benefit from this exchange of knowledge. Additionally, we need to take account of the European Youth Strategy and contribute to its realisation, so that it does not remain an isolated and theoretical set of policies. It is the practitioners as well as the policy makers who should turn this into a reality. Finally we believe that by sharing the results of the APPG and opening up a creative dialogue about the meaning, purpose and practice of youth work, we can show that the UK is and will remain an engaged and committed partner on the European level in this sector, no matter what political developments may occur.