Project was a partnership between Agenzija Zghazagh in Malta, Asociatia Centrul pentru Dezvoltare Comunitara Durabila in Romania, Stichting JONG Rotterdam in the Netherlands and YMCA George Williams College in the UK. The Project aimed to develop and strengthen detached youth work services in the partner countries through the exchange of good practice and peer learning and support. The project looked at and learnt from existing services and evaluated the newly established services in Malta and Romania. It developed quality assurance tools that can be used in a detached youth work settings working with youth at risk of social exclusion. It drew on the experience achieved by the Dutch and UK partners to enable the Maltese and Romanian partner organisations to develop their practice in a manner consistent with best practice. This was achieved through the provision of training, supervision and mentoring to youth work managers involved in the setting up of new detached youth work services; the provision of training to youth workers that allowed for observation of existing projects and the sharing of experiences; the drawing up of polices and procedures in line with quality assurance systems; the evaluation of new and existing services through a range of methods including observation, interviews and documentation of activities; The project published an evaluation report which also includes a good practice guideline when establishing outreach and detached youth work services. A number of multiplier events were held in order to disseminate the results of the project.Outcomes include an increased capacity of the Romanian and Maltese partners to implement detached youth work services and to monitor their effectiveness as well as offer the required support to youth workers involved in service provision. The Romanian partner sought to establish links with community leaders such as local councils in order to ensure that the project could continue beyond the duration of the project. In Malta the service of detached youth work continues through national funds now that the pilot phase has been completed.

Unfortunately the project had to stop prematurely on September 30 2019. Due to an internal conflict at Stichting JONG Rotterdam, Marc Boes was not able any more to participate in the Project as the representative of Stichting JONG. The other representative became ill for a long period of time and had to withdraw.Several attempts to continue the project with different roles of responsibility by the other partners failed due to inter organizational obstacles.

"Mapping professional open youth work (in Europe)The project created a strategic partnership for working on underlying principles and concrete tools for mapping professional open youth work in Europe as of today. It gathered ten partners from nine different countries coming from diverse backgrounds - we managed to have partners from the non-formal and the formal education sector as well as grass root youth work and umbrella organisations. It gave this part of youth work the room for professional debate on the core profile of their work as well as some tools for online discussion and showcasing of professional open youth work. It therefore had two pillars that were closely linked to each other:1) Debate and Description of „Principles of Professional Open Youth Work in Europe“The partnership engaged in a very serious discussion about a common defintion and underlying principles of professional open youth work and worked on a document that would respect the various national and background realities and create a clearer profile of this profession in Europe. The result of this process is a ""Declaration of Principles"" which was published and disseminated in September 2016. Read more about the process and the result here: http://magazine.poywe.org/magazine/logbook-issue-3/mapping-a-profession/2) Online platform for debate, capacity building and dissemination of knowledge about professional open youth work in Europe consisting of:The LOGBOOK Platform that was created within this project aims on the one hand to enable exchange of experience and good practice and on the other hand on show casing what Professional Open Youth Work is and what effects it has in Europe today. For achieving this aim it features several things:a) The LOGBOOK E-Magazine was created and three editions were published during the project duration. It features descriptions of the state of the art of youth work in all participating countries, one hot topic per issue (1. radicalisation of young people and the role of open youth work, 2. professional open youth work and young refugees and 3. youth work as a profession), news and information about training, methods and interviews with young people and youth workers.b) A video channel with short videos that explain professional open youth work from different angles - currently there is 19 interviews with youth workers and experts from 12 countries.c) Debate and exchange of experience - to widen the debate we have also created a space for webinars, where we have discussed the final version of our declaration of principles with interested participants.Apart from this concrete results the project helped to build a stronger network of professional open youth work in Europe that is going to be active and in touch also after the end of this partnership. Several participants of the closing event announced that they will translate the ""Declaration of Principiles in their own languages for making it even more accesible for youth workers in their own country. The LOGBOOK Platform will stay and POYWE plans to keep publishing the E-Magazine, continue uploading video interviews that show what professional open youth work is doing and provide webinars for youth workers."