Our work

Consultancy

We provide specialist advice in the field of youth participation, youth engagement and youth policy, helping other organisations develop a strategic approach to youth participation and youth policies led by young people.

photo of SALRO-PI youth partipcaiton strategy document

SALTO-PI Youth participation strategy

Developing an EU wide youth participation strategy for the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes.

Vote outside the box

A guide and accompanying support developed for the Council of Europe on youth voter awareness raising measures.

Research

We provide participatory, qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. We undertake research into the views of young people and the topic of youth participation, building knowledge and understanding of youth participation and youth issues.

New and innovative forms of youth participation...

Research conducted for the Council of Europe Youth Department

ESC Community Impact

Research into the community impact of the European Solidarity Corps

Youth Participation Global Literature and Policy Review

A comprehensive literature and policy review, tracking key developments from 1980 to 2023.

Capacity Building

We provide specialist expertise and capacity for organisations undertaking youth participation initiatives. This includes development and designing new programmes as well as training staff or participants.

European Patient Forum - Summer Training for Young Patient Advocates

Since 2017, we have worked with the European Patient Forum to train over 150 young people with chronic illness to become young patient advocates.

STYPA combines an innovative mixture of face-to-face training, an online community platform and gamified advocacy campaigns. Our alumni now lead many patient rights organisations throughout Europe.

European Union Youth Dialogue: Researcher Role

A participatory programme involving 50,000 young people across Europe, each cycle, and all of the member states of the EU. Since 2017, our team has designed consultation tools to enable this process and has worked with each Presidency of the Council of the EU to implement international youth conferences, helping young people to influence EU policy. This process led to the creation of the EU Youth Goals. More details of our work can be found here.

Evaluation

We provide reviews and evaluations which seek to understand impact and service development from a young person's perspective as well as takign into account the views of other stakeholders and actors.