YOUTH BUILD Project Hosts First Webinar – Building Resilience in Youth Work

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YOUTH BUILD Project Hosts First Webinar – Building Resilience in Youth Work

The first webinar of the YOUTH BUILD project took place on 30 July 2025, bringing together more than 20 trainers, youth workers, educators and a few youth learners from different European countries. The online session focused on understanding resilience, exploring practical tools and discussing the challenges young people face today.

Webinar Objectives

The session was built around four main goals:

Understanding resilience and why it is essential for vulnerable youth
Introducing the YOUTH BUILD project and its resilience-building tools
Sharing practical stress-relief techniques for daily youth work
Reflecting on current challenges experienced by young people across Europe

Challenges Youth Are Facing Across Europe

In the final part of the webinar, trainers and learners discussed common difficulties affecting young people today:

Challenge	Examples Shared
Mental health pressure	Anxiety, burnout, constant stress
Social isolation	Loneliness, difficulty building trust, lack of peer connection
Educational and work pressure	Fear of failure, competition, uncertainty about the future
Discrimination and exclusion	Based on disability, migration status, gender identity, poverty
Influence of social media	Comparison, low self-esteem, cyberbullying

Find below our short presentation

Participant Feedback

“It was inspiring to see trainers from different countries united around one idea: every young person deserves to be heard and supported.”
“The tools are practical and human. I can use them ”

What’s Next?

Second webinar – focusing on ASSESS-BUILD-LEAD framework on 12th August 14:00 CET

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This project has been funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union (Project N. 2023-2-EE01-KA210-YOU-000168327).

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.