A statewide survey in Noth Rhine-Westfalia has shown how open child and youth work contributes to the development of municipal building landscapes. It reinforces schools as places for learning through a variety of intensive and specific forms of cooperation. In this way, it contributes to the overall qualification and the opening of schools to informal and non-formal learning processes. It is the special quality of child and youth work, to be a place for learning outside of school, with independent spaces, settings and methods like the playbus.