Geographically wide communities, long distances, free time activities far away and at same time the demographic change where the amount of youngsters decrease in some areas are reality at the time but especially in the future in Finland. When school, hobbies or public free time activities are far away, depending on area, behind of 10, 20 or even 100 kilometres, young people on those rural areas lack the equal services. Mobile youth work, youth workers on wheels can be one option for the future youth work sector. Going around by cars on the fields of young people’s free time places create new approaches in youth work. Mobile youth work as working method can be labelled under the concept “detached youth work”, that mean doing the work with young people in those various public and semi-public environments where youth hang out. In this type of work the encountering plays important role and the encounters should see as a characteristic method itself. The seminar lecture deals both, the detached youth work, the special type of youth work and its features done in Finland and the theme of periphery / rural youth. Lecture is based on the Mobile Youth Work in Finland Research Project (2021-2022) that was financed by the education and cultural ministry of Finland and carried out in co-operation between Humak University of Applied Science and Finnish Youth Research Society.
Aino Tormulainen, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer and part-time project worker in Humak University of Applied Science. Aino Tormulainen works as a Senior lecturer in Community Ecucator program in Humak University of Applied Science, where community educators are educated. Community educator can work in several different fields building and creating communities. Mainly community educators work in youth work and NGO’s. In Humak Tormulainen has been specialized in youth work field that she teaches and do research and different projects in collaboration with different actors from youth work sectors. She works part time in projects, at the moment she is an expert in Youth Work Centre of Expertise that focus on Equality, equity and non-discrimination in Youth Work. Her background is in girlhood studies and youth studies. She has PhD in cultural and gender studies about girl power phenomena and 90s girl’s popular culture (University of Eastern Finland, 2018).
