Organizations involved in the SchutzJu project

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The following organizations were involved in the "Protection Concepts & International Youth Work" working group as part of the "SchutzJu" research and transfer project:

In the SchutzJu sub-project International Youth Work (2021-2024), a participatory strategy was developed in cooperation with IJAB - Fachstelle für Internationale Jugendarbeit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V. and the IJAB Practice Coordination (Christoph Bruners). Professionals, volunteers and young people from over 40 organizations in Germany have advanced the development and debate on protection concepts in international youth work formats as part of SchutzJu. They formed the working group "Protection Concepts & International Youth Work". Twenty meetings were held with them between 2022 and 2024.

With a focus on the development of protection concepts in international youth work as a cross-cutting field of youth work, two events were prepared and held in 2023 together with the working group and IJAB:

  • 09. to 10.02.23, SchutzJu-Barcamp at the University of Kassel with 40 participants,
  • 30.11. to 01.12.23, international SchutzJu workshop in Cologne-Riehl with 45 participants from Germany and 15 international cooperation partners.

In addition, the working group developed participatory tools for international youth work that can be used for the preparation and planning of events, work camps, exchange formats or the training of team members, as well as for reflecting on the protection concept of one's own organization.

In international youth work, the focus is on a rights-based, participatory, diversity-sensitive and anti-discrimination and racism-critical, local, transnational, international and decolonial approach, which is necessary for the development of protection concepts.