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Knowledge & Information

bOJA wants to know it and transmits knowledge.
We collect information about youth work, process this information and make it available.

Co-Operation & Networking

bOJA works in networks and creates opportunities for co-operation.
Transfer of knowledge and resources, use of synergies, being strong together - that is what we care about.

Quality & Qualification

bOJA makes quality visible.
Open Youth Work is creative, innovative and competent. We create opportunities to discuss quality and to further develop qualities.

About bOJA

bOJA is the centre of competence for Open Youth Work in Austria. The association is the service and networking agency for Open Youth Work as well as the expert office for quality development in the field of Open Youth Work. Our objectives are:
  • Service and Information
  • Co-ordination and Networking
  • Quality reflection, quality discussion, quality development
To make a substantial contribution to the comprehensive but also individual quality of Open Youth Work and its services, actions and methods (this concerns strategic planning, elaboration of concepts and the question of resources - securing resources and increasing them if possible)
  • Positioning and lobbying
Positioning of Open Youth Work in Austria as an important and high quality field in the work with young people in a leisure time context (nationally and internationally)

bOJA is the mouthpiece for the field of Open Youth Work - with the aim of positioning the topics, perspectives and needs of Open Youth Work and the young people who use its services in the national and international (youth) political debate.