Upcoming event

RAY LEARN Conference

The RAY LEARN Conference is hosted in Budapest from 17-19 November 2025. The conference will bring together beneficiary organisations of the RAY LEARN research as well as national researchers and National Agency colleagues from the countries involved in the study. It will be an event to celebrate, reward and expand participant’s involvement in RAY LEARN. The conference will provide a space for beneficiaries to network with each other at the same time as they interact with, and increase their benefit, from the project findings to date.

The RAY LEARN Conference is co-hosted by the National Agencies of the European Youth Programmes
from Finland (host), Belgium (Flemish Community), France, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Sweden (co-hosts). The RAY Network Coordination at the Finnish National Agency leads and coordinates the preparation process and the implementation of the seminar in cooperation with the RAY transnational research team as well
as the facilitation team.

Participants

The RAY LEARN Conference seeks to involve approximately 45 participants, including representatives
from the beneficiary organisations who are participating in RAY LEARN as well as representatives from the involved National Agencies and their national research partners.

There are four participant slots per national partner, which can be filled up with National Agency representatives (one maximum), national researchers (one maximum) and representatives of beneficary organisations.

Aims & objectives of the conference

The conference aims are built on two dimensions: reward & reflection. The main aims include several underlying objectives and can be found below:

• To reward participating beneficiaries for their effort in contributing to the RAY LEARN research
  project by
  • creating a space for them to network
  • creating a space for them to interact with, and benefit more directly from, the project’s preliminary findings
• To reflect on preliminary research findings and facilitate integration
  • at the level of RAY LEARN beneficiary organisations by engaging their representatives as participants of the event.
  • at the level of National Agencies by engaging their representatives as participants of the event.
  • in order to obtain valuable feedback from joint reflections of RAY LEARN beneficiary organisations, national and transnational researchers and NA representatives. With the aim to
    • develop insights for the next round of interviews and reports on national
      and transnational levels.
    • develop conference key take-aways on transnational level, and if applicable
      national levels, to inform programme and policy stakeholders.
• Furthermore, the conference aims to give space for enhancing the visibility of the RAY Network,
  especially the RAY LEARN research project and the dissemination of its findings.

Context

In order to reward participating beneficiary organisations for their prolonged commitment in the RAY LEARN research[1], as well as to offer a space to reflect and discuss preliminary findings, the working group and partners of RAY LEARN as well as the RAY transnational research team and RAY coordination, decided to host a networking and dissemination event for all RAY LEARN stakeholders.

[1] www.researchyouth.net/projects/learn/