The junior team is a modern form of engagement for teenagers and young adults aged 16-26 who want to get involved in sport at an association or club level.  
The project-oriented structure of a junior team allows for a new, flexible form of engagement in the area of youth work in sport. The members of a junior team are neither selected nor appointed, but simply turn up and join, according to the motto: “Everyone is welcome”. Without any obligations, commitment or vocation.  This means that junior teams can be as varied as the youth organisations themselves. There is no one true way of operating a junior team. The young people themselves determine what form the junior team in a sports association or sports club takes. Individual wishes, resources, creativity and in particular the degree of co-determination is left to the junior teams themselves. Because junior teams thrive on the participation of the dedicated young people.