Youth Research Dialogue
Dimensions of organisational learning
Our last Youth Research Dialogue in 2025 happened on 10 December.
We shared preliminary key findings from our RAY LEARN research project on organisational learning and development in Erasmus+ Youth and the European Solidarity Corps.
Additionally, we shared spotlights from the RAY LEARN Conference which happened earlier in November. The conference brought together 40 participants: beneficiary organisations of the RAY LEARN research as well as national researchers and National Agency colleagues from the countries involved in the RAY LEARN research project. The event was designed to celebrate, reward and expand participant’s involvement in the study. Furthermore, it provided a space for beneficiaries to network with each other and interact with the preliminary outcomes.
Our guest speaker for this episode brought in valuable insights from a broader perspective on organisational learning, focusing on organisations as living systems.
Together, we reflected on the RAY findings, including challenges, resources and practices. We will discuss how the European youth programmes can (or cannot) support strategic organisational learning. Furthermore, we explored internal and external challenges, potentials and patterns when it comes to organisational development. Finally, we talked about how to move forward with this topic within the European youth programmes and beyond.
Moderated by Tomi Kiilakoski and Domagoj Morić.
Live stream available
If you didn’t have the time to join or want to rewatch the Youth Research Dialogue again, just access the recording of the live stream here:
SPEAKERS
>> Darko Markovic, professional leadership coach, trainer and consultant
Darko Markovic, systemic coach, facilitator and consultant from Belgrade, Serbia, founder of Systemic Solutions Institute. He has been involved in the youth work field, locally and internationally, for 30 years, contributing to strategic processes related to youth work development and recognition. He’s deeply curious about how systemic and long-lasting changes happen and what leaders can do about them. As a coach and consultant, he supports leaders, organisations and larger systems in making necessary future-ready shifts. In March 2025, he published the book “Systemic Change in Organisations”, and he has co-authored a new T-kit “Organisational Management”, expected to be published in 2026. https://www.linkedin.com/in/darkomarkovic/, https://systemic-solutions.org
>> Andrea Horta, RAY transnational research team
Andrea Horta works for Youth Policy Labs, a small research agency and think tank in the youth sector. She has a research background in neuroscience and psychology and currently works as part of the transnational research team of the RAY network.
What is the RAY LEARN research project about?
Find out more HERE.
What are the Youth Research Dialogues?
The overall aim of the ‘Youth Research Dialogues’ series is to not only to make RAY research findings more accessible but also other European youth research studies and create a dialogue between researchers about their findings. The ‘Youth Research Dialogues’ series promotes different topics, e.g. inclusion and diversity, pandemic and youth work, digitalisation etc. In addition to researchers from the RAY Network, the ‘Youth Research Dialogues’ series features research colleagues from different global and European contexts and networks.