Impact
What our work produced in 2025, how we measure change, and what the numbers do not tell you.
The figures below come from our Annual Activities Report 2025. They are not projections or cumulative totals: each one refers to the calendar year stated next to it.
Our impact in 2025
- 2,846
- participants in training courses and events
- 604
- hours of training and participatory spaces
- 31
- organisations and public authorities engaged
- 20
- countries and territories
- 102
- educational materials and digital tools produced
- 113
- exchanges with stakeholders and decision-makers
- more than 903,063
- people reached by our awareness-raising actions
Figures from the BACKSLASH Annual Activities Report 2025.
What the numbers do not say
A count of activities is not the same as a change in someone’s life. We treat these figures as a way of gauging scope, and we measure change separately: through initial and final assessments, follow-up three to six months after a project ends, testimonials, and case studies.
How we measure
Our fourth strategic area is dedicated to evidence, validation and impact. For the 2026-2030 period we committed to a specific indicator framework, reviewed every year, with a mid-term evaluation in 2028 and a final evaluation in 2030.
- Initial and final measurement in at least 60% of relevant interventions.
- Follow-up three to six months after closure in at least 80% of the interventions selected for their strategic relevance.
- At least 150 testimonials collected and at least 30 case studies produced during the period.
- A documented improvement decision from at least 70% of evaluations.
- At least 25 impact communication products published during the period.
Progress against these targets is reported in our annual activities report.
Reach by area
Inclusion and equal opportunities
Removing the barriers that keep young people out
Learning and methodological innovation
Methodologies built with young people, not for them
Collaboration and youth participation
Connecting the local with the European and the global
Evidence, validation and impact
What we claim, we measure
Stories of change
We only publish testimonials and results we can evidence, with the consent of the person quoted. Where we have none for a period, this section stays empty rather than being filled with invented quotes.
