The strategy will help shape priorities within the European Union's new six-year Youth in Action programme, which starts next year. Priorities will include cultural diversity and the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities.
It is being jointly compiled by the European Commission and Salto-Youth, a European network of centres providing youth work support and training opportunities.
A youth inclusion forum will be held in Belgium in October, enabling European youth workers to discuss the strategy.
Susie Green, co-ordinator of Salto-Youth's Cultural Diversity Resource Centre, based at the British Council, urged British youth workers to get involved. "Just because it's on a European level doesn't mean it doesn't have any impact," she said. "Compared with other countries, youth work here is advanced. So youth workers here could encourage and empower those in other countries."
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