But what exactly is in this space between these borderlines? In October, the third European history of youth work seminar took place in Estonia. We learned about the history of something like "youth work" from another eight or so countries, taking our knowledge base to 20 in all – though rarely is it called youth work and it sails under a variety of flags of convenience. Earlier seminars had already produced some consensus about the meaning and practice of youth work. This one complemented and confirmed those views.
Youth work has to work between the social circumstances and expressed aspirations of young people and the demands and expectations of public policy. We have depicted this as the space between the "lifeworld" of youth and the "system" that affects the lives of young people.
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