DBYN Youth exchange -Intercultural Crossroads in Europe-Krakow

Don Bosco Youth-Net ivzw (DBYN) is an international network of Salesian youth work offices and youth organisations which work in the style of Don Bosco. The network brings together 13 member organisations from 13 EU member states. Don Bosco Youth-Net ivzw organises activities such including:

• Youth exchanges: groups of young people from different countries come together to live, play, learn and reflect together.
• Life learning trips: a guided group of young people on a trip to experience and learn from the life of young people coming from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Voluntary service: a young person spends up to one year in another country to do youth work on a voluntary basis. This category also includes voluntary service in group, but groups mostly spend a maximum of 6 weeks abroad.
• Training courses: youth worker and volunteers from different countries take part in a training programme focused on a subject connected to youth work.
• Study visits: youth workers and volunteers from different countries visit youth projects in another country to learn from the projects visited and to exchange information.
• Seminars: youth workers and volunteers from different countries come together for workshops, lectures, on a subject connected to youth work.
• Publications: our publications aim to inform members and volunteers, to promote the network and to support youth work practice in general.