Hi! I'm Hannes from Austria. I'm working for the government of the Tyrol, a federal state of Austria. Our department is called JUFF and it's responsible for matters of Youth, Families, Women, Senior Citizens and the Support of Workers. The youth - section, where I'm working, is supporting youth-work of different kinds outside the school. That means youth-organizations, youth-centres, youth-initiatives and different events.
My duty in this section is dealing with intercultural and international youth-work and the cooperation with youth-centres. In this connection I have a great interest in integrative work towards youngsters of foreign origin.
I enjoyed very much this SSV, because it gave me the possibility to talk with many people from different European countries and to exchange our experiences in the topic of integration. So I got many ideas of how to deal with integration questions in my work. I think this is very important as the challenge of integration is one of the main challenges of Europe in the next years. Furthermore I had the possibility to learn more about the structure of youth work in other countries.
Thanks a lot to Christina, Fernanda, Grazia, Jan and Raffaela who prepared, organized and run this SSV in a very good and interesting way and gave us the possibility to learn about sardinian projects to keep their culture.

Abteilung JUFF - Jugend, Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung
Jugendweb - Tiroler Jugendeinrichtungen im WWW
e-mail-me! Hannes