MYC – Modeling Youth Centers: Project Overview and Results

Modeling Youth Centers (MYC) is an Erasmus+ project dedicated to strengthening youth centres across Europe. With partners from Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Sweden, the project set out with one overarching ambition: to support the creation, reinvention and long-term sustainability of youth centres that truly respond to young people’s needs.

Project Objectives

  • Deepen knowledge
    Gain a clearer understanding of youth-centre models and the conditions in which they thrive, through research mobilities and field observations.

  • Innovate youth centres
    Developing variations, amendments and original models tailored to the needs, resources and realities of partner countries.

  • Strengthen advocacy
    Provide the youth sector with tools such as:
    • tools for advocating, developing and evaluating youth centres,
    • and a card game that helps youth workers and activists prepare for advocacy roles.

  • Measure impact
    To raise awareness and deliver tools to measure effectiveness, providing a structured approach to evaluating the strategic and long-term outcomes of youth centres.

  • Promote youth spaces

    Intellectual Outputs 

As a result of the Modeling Youth Centers project, we produced four key Intellectual Outputs, each designed to strengthen the establishment, functioning and advocacy of youth centres across Europe:

  1. The research output MODELS – A Publication on the State of the Art of Youth Centers in Europe

  2. The operative Manual – How To Create A Youth Center?

  3. The Board Game – Why Youth Centers

  4. Booklet on Quality Indicators for Youth Work