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Youthpass - Recognition (...current)
Date: Current
Summary link to Recognition:
Although Youthpass is in essence a tool of recognition (see the section of Tools for Recognition), it is also much more than this. It offers this section of its website for sharing about its contribution towards recognition as well as a number of papers and publications which explore the concept of Youthpass and recognition. There are three subsections: About Recognition; Recognition Developments; and Validation Calling.
Link: https://www.youthpass.eu/en/recognition/about-recognition/
Tags: youthpass, recognition, validation
Resource Type: web resource
Youth Sector Strategy 2030
Subtitle: Engaging young people with the Council of Europe’s values
Author(s): Council of Europe Member States
Date: 2020
Summary link to Recognition:
The Youth Sector Strategy 2030 is an act of recognition in its own right and as such is an important policy and document in the road to recognition. The aim of the Strategy is to revitalise pluralistic democracy, guarantee young people’s access to rights, promote living together in peaceful and inclusive societies, and strengthen youth work while retaining the flexibility to respond to new emerging trends and challenges. The new strategy provides policy guidance and a broad political roadmap, or mission statement, for the period 2020-30. An accompanying background document introduces the Strategy, putting it into the context of young people’s lives and of youth policy.
Tags: youth policy, youth sector strategy
Resource Type: web resource, publication (brochure)
Links:
Youth Wiki
Author(s): European Union
Date: Current
Summary link to Recognition:
The Youth Wiki is an online platform presenting information on European countries' youth policies. The main objective of the Youth Wiki is to support evidence-based European cooperation in the field of Youth. It does so by providing information on national policies in support of young people – in a user-friendly and continuously updated way. There are currently 32 countries represented in the Youth Wiki.
The Youth Wiki page has four subsections: Country pages; Policy fields; EU Cooperation in Youth Policy; and Comparative overviews. Recognition does not feature as a specific topic or field throughout the Youth Wiki, however, the Youth Wiki itself is a standard of recognition and a crucial resource for understanding the state of play for youth work on both a European level and a country by country level.
Link: https://national-policies.eacea.ec.europa.eu/youthwiki
Tags: youth policy
Resource Type: web resource
What is the European debate on recognition of youth work about?
Author(s): Council of Europe
Date: Current
Summary link to Recognition:
Since the early 2000s, there has been a steadily growing and more positive attitude to youth work. This is largely as a result of efforts made by youth work organisations and providers to gain better recognition. Their advocacy has resulted in a more strategic approach by the European institutions, encouraging governments to value, recognise and support this kind of work through dedicated policies, programmes and resources. This web page briefly explores and explains about these and other elements related to the recognition process.
Tags: youth work, recognition
Resource Type: web resource
Perspectives on Youth series - online platform
Date: 2019 to present
Summary link to Recognition:
The Perspectives on Youth series went online in 2019. Each subject covered is a useful resource for having a clear picture of current issues in youth work, how an issue affects young people and how it affects the sector as a whole – both at European level and grassroots. The series has now expanded beyond a single publication and allows for multiple inputs from different members of the community of practice which increases the amount of resources available. Resources include: papers, webinars, videos, graphic recordings, audio files, and PDF files.
In general, as with the original series, it is designed to tackle the selected subject areas and is not a direct resource for recognition. However, from time to time there are key inputs in one form or another that do tackle recognition. For example; in the “Social Inclusion, Digitalisation and AI” subject area, a 2021 Partnership webinar on Digital Youth Work and the accompanying paper: A modest proposal. Is it time to develop digital and smart youth work strategies? by Michele Di Paola, do explore recognition in the context of digital youth work.
Symposium on youth political participation
2019
Social values, social rights and solidarity
2019
Social inclusion, digitalisation and AI
2020
Climate change and sustainability
2020
Tags: youth work
Resource Type: web resource, publication
Link: https://go.coe.int/Li9H0
European Youth Portal
Author(s): European Union
Date: Current
Summary link to Recognition:
The European Youth Portal offers European and country level information about opportunities and initiatives that are of interest to young people who are living, learning and working in Europe. It addresses young people directly, but also other stakeholders working in the field of youth (youth organisations, youth workers, policy makers, etc.).
There are four content areas each grouped in a specific section:
Thematic pages related to EU youth policies: “Get involved”
In the this section there are articles about active citizenship from different perspectives
Thematic pages related to opportunities to go abroad: “Go abroad”
EU-funded programme/initiative pages: “EU initiatives”
Policy pages: “EU Youth Strategy”
There is also a section of stories and testimonials by young people, a news page and a space where events are promoted. Recognition does not feature as a specific topic or field throughout the Youth Portal, however, the Youth Portal itself is a crucial resource for exploring and understanding youth work at the European level.
Link: https://europa.eu/youth/home_en
Tags: youth strategy, youth policy
Resource Type: web resource
European Training Strategy in the Field of Youth (2000-...)
Subtitle: The European Training Strategy aims at sustaining quality youth work through capacity building.
Author(s): SALTO Training and Cooperation
Date: 2000 to present
Summary link to Recognition:
The European Training Strategy (ETS) provides a strong affirmation from the European Commission of its commitment to European youth work. The ETS was first launched in 2000 and has undergone many changes, developments and improvements over the years. The implementation of the ETS has been a major step forward in the assurance of the quality and quantity of training as well as the quality of youth work in general. As a strategy it encourages decision makers, experts and practitioners to cooperate on a broader scale to improve the quality of youth work and its recognition. It provides a series of measures, common guidelines and a set of quality criteria for capacity building in the field of youth that can be established on the national as well as the European level.
Link: https://www.salto-youth.net/rc/training-and-cooperation/trainingstrategy/
Tags: european training strategy, quality youth work, youth worker education/training
Resource Type: web resource, publication
Country Information on Youth Work
Subtitle: Country Sheets
Author(s): EU-Council of Europe Youth Partnership
Date: Current
Summary link to Recognition:
This page on the Partnership website includes country information on the situation of youth work collected by the European Knowledge Centre for Youth Policy correspondents. At the time of writing, 24 countries were represented. Each “Country Information on Youth Work” sheet has the same layout and series of chapter headings making the information easily accessible. The sheets each provide a broad spectrum of information on youth work for each country represented. Chapter 3 of each country sheet is specifically on recognition providing an explanation about the state of play of the recognition of youth work in that particular country.
Link: https://pjp-eu.coe.int/en/web/youth-partnership/country-information-youth-work
Tags: youth work, recognition
Resource Type: web resource
Youthpass Strategy
Author(s): JUGEND für Europa and SALTO Training & Cooperation Resource Centre
Date: 2021
Summary link to Recognition:
The Youthpass Strategy is the strategy for recognition and validation of non-formal and informal learning in the European youth field. It contributes to the implementation of related policy processes and describes the directions for Youthpass in light of the changing needs and contexts of its target groups. The strategy serves as a basis for the work of the SALTO Training and Cooperation Resource Centre in developing Youthpass together with the European Commission and the National Agencies for the EU youth programmes. It also seeks to offer inspiration and a framework for cooperation.
Link: https://www.youthpass.eu/en/about-youthpass/youthpass-strategy/
Tags: youthpass, youthpass strategy, recognition, validation, non-formal education/learning, informal learning, youth policy
Resource Type: web resource, publication
FOCUS learning
Subtitle: An exploration of learning in youth work
Author(s): Paul Kloosterman, Natalia Gudakovska, Nora Furlong, Nik Paddison
Date: 2021
Summary link to Recognition:
FOCUS learning is a resource for youth worker trainers and educators. It is the culmination of over 6 years of work exploring the subject of learning in youth work. It has involved numerous members of the youth work community of practice. This website is a resource with a large quantity of materials contained within it that can be easily accessed and used in lectures, training courses, workshop, and conferences on the subject of youth work. The resources are designed and written in such a way that they can be used for basic youth worker training and they can be used for advanced youth worker training / education. The emphasis here is that they are intended for both the non-formal education and formal education of youth workers.
Link: https://focus-learning.eu/
Tags: youth worker education/training, youth worker
Resource Type: web resource, publication
Youth Worker Education in Europe Policies, Structures, Practices
Subtitle: Youth Knowledge series No 26
Author(s): Editors: Marti Taru, Ewa Krzaklewska, Tanya Basarab
Date: 2020
Summary link to Recognition:
This book is an important resource for understanding youth worker education and training. It explores what formal and non-formal education offers exist, and how education is contextualised in the broader picture of youth work recognition. It explores aspects that relate to youth worker education and training, such as financial and organisational resources, legislation, support systems, competence frameworks, quality standards, ethical frameworks and guidance. The book aims to support youth work so that it becomes more visible and evolves into a recognised field of practice among other occupations and professions engaging with young people.
Link: hhttps://go.coe.int/KS7IC
Tags: youth worker education/education, formal education, non-formal education/learning, youth policy, visibility
Resource Type: publication
Youth Work in the Spotlight
Subtitle: Guide to Recommendation CM/Rec(2017)4 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member States on youth work
Author(s): Nik Paddison, Snezana Baclija Knoch
Date: 2020
Summary link to Recognition:
This publication aims to bring the Recommendation on youth work closer to its potential users: policy makers, youth workers, managers of youth work activities, youth leaders, educators of youth workers, youth organisations, in fact to all those who can, in different capacities, contribute to the development of youth work in Europe. The publication explains the different sections of the recommendation, particularly the actions and measures that member states should implement to support youth work and so develop its promotion and recognition. It gives examples of how youth work has developed in different contexts across Europe. It also asks questions and gives tips that should guide action for improving youth work.
This Recommendation was the first recommendation from the Committee of Ministers that was about just youth work as youth work. The many previous recommendations connected to youth work have been about an aspect of youth work; inclusion, rights, employment and so on.
Tags: youth work, youth work policy
Resource Type: publication
Youth Work in Eastern Europe: Realities, perspectives and inspiring initiatives
Author(s): Alena Ignatovitch, Max Fras and Tanya Basarab
Date: 2020
Summary link to Recognition:
This publication provides an exploration of the reality of youth work in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The publication explores definitions, implementation, financing, education, training, methods, quality standards and infrastructure of youth work in European, national and local frameworks. More than 20 inspiring initiatives on youth work development complement the analysis. This is a key resource for understanding youth work and recognition in these six eastern partnership countries. The final chapter of the publication includes a summary of country presentations, each one has a section specifically on recognition.
Link: https://go.coe.int/9AfbF
Tags: youth work, recognition
Resource Type: publication
Youth Work Essentials
Author(s): Tanya Basarab and James O’Donovan
Date: 2020
Summary link to Recognition:
This publication highlights the essential features of youth work that are needed for greater recognition, the publication bases this on the need for youth work to have a wider and more enduring impact on the lives of young people across Europe, and to be widely recognised, resourced and implemented on a continuous basis. It provides a general illustration of the main features of youth work in Europe and offers tips for further reading.
Link: https://go.coe.int/fi0UL
Tags: recognition, youth work
Resource Type: publication
Promoting Quality in Youth Work Practice in Europe
Author(s): James O’Donovan. Co-ordinator: Tanya Basarab
Date: 2020
Summary link to Recognition:
This study indirectly supports the process of recognition, it is part of a research initiative mapping educational and career paths of youth workers and at the same time gathering knowledge on youth work. Its main objective is to contribute to a better understanding and sharing of information about the education and training of youth workers across Europe and what employment / career paths this prepares them for, as well as the implications for the quality of youth work. This process contributes to building a stronger youth work identity and therefore its recognition.
Tags: youth work, youth worker education/training, quality youth work
Resource Type: publication (study)
Link: https://go.coe.int/j5TRv
Perspective on Youth Work Developments
Subtitle: Country Fact Sheets
Author: 3rd European Youth Work Convention
Date: 2020
Summary link to Recognition:
The country fact sheets were developed for the 3rd European Youth Work Convention (December 2020). This event played a key role in launching the implementation of the European Youth Work Agenda as a strategic framework for further developing and strengthening youth work practice and policies in Europe. Both the Convention and the Agenda contribute hugely to the recognition of youth work at the European, national and local levels. The country fact sheets provide basic information about the perspective on youth work developments in a specific country. The country factsheets include information on whether youth work is a recognised occupation, to what extent there is a legislative framework for youth work, who the main youth work actors are, highlights youth work developments that have taken place, the strengths, successes and challenges being faced in that country, what support is needed and where development needs to happen.
Link: https://pjp-eu.coe.int/en/web/youth-partnership/fact-sheets
Tags: recognition, legislation, youth work, european youth work convention
Resource Type: web resource
European Youth Work Agenda
Author(s): German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
Date: 2020
Summary link to Recognition:
The European Youth Work Agenda (EYWA) represents a strong step in the recognition of youth work. As a result of years of focused youth work development from local to regional, national and European level, both the European Union and the Council of Europe cooperated to bring youth work to the next level. The EYWA was first called for in the final declaration of the 2nd European Youth Work Convention in 2015. The task of establishing it comes from the European Union’s Youth Sector Strategy 2019-2027 and the Council of Europe’s Recommendation on youth work from 2017.
The German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth established the EYWA during the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the German Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
One of the objectives of the EYWA is to enhance the promotion and recognition of youth work, however it can also be argued that all the objectives of the EYWA work towards recognition. The objectives include; establishing youth work as an essential part of youth policies, ensuring and expanding the provision of youth work, strengthening the common ground of youth work through co-operation between and beyond the youth work community of practice, supporting the further development of quality youth work, supporting the ability of youth work to tackle emerging challenges and innovate its practices, and ensuring a strong role for youth work in the new normal.
Link: https://www.eywc2020.eu/en/
Tags: youth work, european youth work agenda
Resource Type: web resource
Bonn Process
Date: 2020
Summary link to Recognition:
The Bonn Process is in essence “recognition” in process. It is the joint effort of the community of practice to put the European Youth Work Agenda (EYWA) into action and make it real. The process is intended to strengthen and further develop youth work throughout Europe, to facilitate connections and co-operation within and between all levels of the community, to create a more strategic and co-ordinated approach, and improve the framework conditions for youth work.
The Bonn Process is about growing youth work throughout Europe. It comes under the umbrella of both the EU and Council of Europe respective youth strategies. Member States are encouraged to identify or establish national processes to link the working field with the Bonn Process. The whole youth work community of practice in Europe with their different mandates, roles, and capacities is invited and encouraged to contribute to the development of youth work in the Bonn Process. It also has as one of its stated priorities the promotion and recognition of youth work.
Link: https://www.eywc2020.eu/en/agenda/bonn-process/
Tags: youth work, european youth work agenda, bonn process
Resource Type: web resource
Youthpass and Recognition Essays
Titles and Author(s):
- Promoting and recognising learning in youth work, by Tomi Kiilakoski
- Recognition of non-formal learning in Europe. Challenges and opportunities, by Florin Popa
- Youthpass and Human Resource Development. The missing link towards employability, by Juan Ratto-Nielsen
- Recognition needs zero stage. Convincing ourselves , by Ajša Hadžibegovic
- The Youthpass process and Learning to Learn. Some ideas for practitioners, by Mark Taylor
Date: 2010 - 2019
Summary link to Recognition:
The Youthpass website brings together five publications that explore different aspects related to the subject of recognition. Two of the publications approach the recognition of youth work directly and the other three more indirectly.
The paper, “Recognition of Non-Formal Learning in Europe” explores non-formal learning in the context of youth work. It discusses the main obstacles and challenges to the wider recognition and social impact of non-formal learning in Europe. It discusses the motivations driving non-formal learning recognition, different types of recognition, the main obstacles and challenges, as well as possible ways of moving forward.
The publication “Recognition needs zero stage: Convincing ourselves!” explores that in order to reach social recognition we need to have self recognition. The publication tackles this concept of ‘internal’ or self recognition and explores the reasons for the uncertainties that exist in the sector as well as the poor participation of practitioners involved in the recognition process. The publication acts as a resource when it looks at how a number of recognition instruments can be used.
The other three publications provide insight into the recognition of learning in youth work. Understanding and recognising learning in youth work is not an overt step for the recognition of youth work. However, recognition of learning by the youth workers enables young people to better understand the learning they are experiencing. The more young people are able to recognise their learning in youth work the more they can transfer this understanding into their higher education possibilities, future employment opportunities and to their families, friends and communities in which they live.
Tags: youthpass, recognition, non-formal education/learning, youth work
Resource Type: web resource, publication
Time to Show Off
Subtitle: Research report
Author(s): Paul Kloosterman
Date: 2019
Summary link to Recognition:
This is a long term project that began in 2016 with the current phase due to conclude in 2021 with the launch of the FOCUS learning website, publication and educational materials. The aim of the project was to bring about change in the education and training of youth workers in international learning mobilities as well as at University level. The focus was on the concept of learning in youth work, what it looks like, how it happens, how it can be encouraged, and how that learning can be transferred into other aspects of a young persons life. This is the grassroots essence of recognition, seeing the learning in youth work having an effect in other aspects of a young persons life.
Tags: youth worker education/training
Resource Type: publication
Link: www.youthpass.eu/downloads/13-62-284/Report_YP-TimeToShowOff_Final%20%282%29.pdf
European Charter on Local Youth Work
Author(s): European Youth Work Community of Practice
Date: 2019
Summary link to Recognition:
The charter is a contribution to the recognition of youth work. It transforms a number of political documents into concrete guidelines regarding what is needed in order to establish and maintain quality in local youth work and therefore contribute to the further development of local youth work. It states which principles should guide it and how different aspects of it should be designed in order to meet these principles. The charter is a common European platform for the necessary dialogue on youth work. It functions as a check-list around which stakeholders can gather and discuss what measures might be needed for the further development of youth work.
Tags: quality youth work
Resource Type: web resource, publication
European Academy on Youth Work – Final Report
Subtitle: First edition: Innovation, Current Trends and Developments in Youth Work
Author(s): Dr. Theo Gavrielides with the assistance of Aidan Chase-McCarth
Date: 2019
Summary link to Recognition:
The first edition of the European Academy on Youth Work (EAYW) was held in Slovenia in 2019. The idea behind the concept was to promote the development of quality youth work and to support innovation in youth work and youth work policy. It is intended that the EAYW should become a process and platform which can feed into different political frameworks for youth work development in Europe. Although recognition of youth work was not a specific aim of the EAYW, the final report makes many references to it. One participant stated that the EAYW can help youth workers to reach more “actors from Political and Educational field to get recognition and importance”. In the evaluation, participants noted that they saw the EAYW as a space for learning, networking and recognition.
Tags: quality youth work, youth work, youth work policy
Resource Type: event, publication (report)
Link: www.eayw.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/EAYW-final-report-WEB.pdf
Conclusions of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting within the Council on education and training of youth workers (2019/C 412/03)
Author(s): Council of the European Union / Youth Working Party
Date: 2019
Summary link to Recognition:
This draft Council conclusion provides a focus on the education and training of youth workers across the member states of the European Union. It recognises the common ground that has been achieved regarding the educational and training needs of youth workers, especially through the large number of studies, declarations, programmes, conclusions and recommendations on youth work. The draft itself states, “High-quality, flexible and practice-oriented education and training for youth workers, supported by regular research, is a crucial precondition and a driver for promoting both the quality and the recognition of youth work.”
Tags: youth worker education/training, youth worker
Resource Type: publication (report)
Link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52019XG1209(01)&from=EN
Perspectives on Youth series - publications
Date: 2014 to 2018
Summary link to Recognition:
While not directly tackling the subject of recognition, the series is an important resource for understanding the state of play of youth work according to a particular theme and the current relevant youth policies related to young people. The series acts as a forum for information, discussion, reflection and dialogue on European developments and trends in the field of youth policy, youth research and youth work. It promotes policy and youth work practice that is based on knowledge and participatory principles – all of which makes a key guide post to the recognition state of play.
Volume 1 - 2020 - what do you see?
2014
Volume 2 - Connections and disconnections
2015
Volume 3 - Healthy Europe: confidence and uncertainty for young people in contemporary Europe
2016
Volume 4 - Young people in a digitalised world
2018
Tags: youth policy, youth work
Resource Type: web resource, publication
Youth Goals
Author(s): European Union
Date: 2018
Summary link to Recognition:
The Youth Goals are of themselves an example of recognition. They are the outcome of the Youth Dialogue process that through its life engaged with over 50.000 young people from all over Europe. During the 6th cycle of the Youth Dialogue, they selected eleven Youth Goals that they saw as cross-sectoral areas that affect young people’s lives and represent the challenges they are facing. These Goals are now a part of the EU Youth Strategy. Young people's views and voices to European level policy is a strong example of recognition in practice.
Tags: youth goals, youth strategy
Resource Type: web resource
Link: https://youth-goals.eu/
Validation of Non-Formal and Informal Learning
Subtitle: The European Inventory on Validation: 2018 Update
Author(s): CEDEFOP
Date: 2018
Summary link to Recognition:
This web page contains a number of resources. There are two Synthesis reports; one on Europe in general and the other with a focus on Kosovo*, North Macedonia and Montenegro. There are country reports for each of the European Union Member States, plus a few other countries. There are 5 Thematic reports, for example; digital assessment, and validation for migrants and refugees. Finally there are three case studies from Canada – validation of prior learning; Chile – recognition of lifelong learning; and Hong Kong – training provision in the employment sector.
The focus throughout all the information is very much on ‘validation’ and ‘non-formal and informal learning’ as the title suggests. There are few references to youth work or the recognition of youth work, however as a resource for understanding the broader context of developments and recognition of non-formal and informal learning, this resource is excellent.
Tags: validation, non-formal education/learning, informal learning
Resource Type: web resource, publication (report)
* All reference to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions or population, in this text shall be understood to be in the context of Security Council resolution 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.
The Quality Bonus
Subtitle: The first European Training Strategy conference on education and training of youth workers
Author(s): Snezana Baclija-Knoch and Nik Paddison
Date: 2018
Summary link to Recognition:
The ultimate direction of this report and the conference itself was that of quality. However, the decision to include it here is because of the impact it has had on self recognition. The focus of the conference was on sharing, exploring and discussing ideas and strategies for better capacity building and quality development within youth work through enhanced youth worker education and training. Stakeholders from all over Europe and beyond assessed the state of youth worker education and training and its contribution to the development of quality youth work and systems.
Tags: european training strategy, youth worker education/training, quality youth work
Resource Type: event, publication (report)
Link: www.salto-youth.net/downloads/4-17-4066/ETS_conference_2018_documentation__Final.pdf
Quality Label for Youth Centres
Subtitle: Role, Value and Impact of Youth Centres
Author(s): Council of Europe
Date: 2018
Summary link to Recognition:
In 2008 the Council of Europe introduced the Quality Label for youth centres, as of 2018, there were 20 youth centres in the initiative. This publication explores how the Quality Label is an important factor in the ongoing process of the recognition of youth work, both locally and on a European level. The publication shows how the Quality Label concept supports recognition by creating a promotion of the centres and their work to the wider public; that they are safe spaces for young people, they are grounded in education and learning, they promote positive values and principles, and they are centre points for networking both within the youth sector and the wider community.
Tags: quality label
Resource Type: publication
Link: https://rm.coe.int/youthcentre-en-role-value-impact-165x235-web/16809ec197
EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027
Author(s): European Union
Date: 2018
Summary link to Recognition:
The EU Youth Strategy is an important part of European level recognition of youth work. It provides a strong structure for youth work and is based on the work of young people. During the 6th cycle of the EU Youth Dialogue; “Youth in Europe: What’s next?” 2017 to 2018, young people were called to gather their voices and contribute to create the EU Youth Strategy 2019 – 2027 to serve the EU youth programmes. The direct work of these young people became the European Youth Goals, but they are also credited with directing and influencing the Council Resolution 2018/C 456/01 which in turn became the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027.
The European Youth Portal provides easily accessible information on what the EU Youth Strategy is by breaking it down into its component parts, the three core areas of action, around the three words: Engage, Connect, Empower and the Youth Goals. In the overview it explains that the EU Youth Strategy is the framework for EU youth policy cooperation for 2019-2027. The aims of the strategy are to encourage youth participation in democratic life by supporting social and civic engagement. The main intention is to ensure that all young people have the necessary resources to take part in society.
Tags: youth strategy, youth goals
Resource Type: web resource
Thinking Seriously About Youth Work and how to prepare people to do it
Subtitle: Youth Knowledge series No 20
Author(s): Hanjo Schild, Nuala Connolly, Francine Labadie, Jan Vanhee, Howard Williamson
Date: 2017
Summary link to Recognition:
This publication does not specifically explore the subject of recognition but is an important resource for the understanding of recognition and its standing in Europe. ‘Thinking Seriously’ provides an important reflection on the state of youth work in Europe, it examines and analyses theories and concepts from a number of European regions and countries, and it explores a number of key challenges youth work faces. Finally it extensively explores the recommendations made in the 2nd European Youth Work Convention Declaration.
Tags: youth work, european youth work convention
Resource Type: publication
Link: https://go.coe.int/DlQKi
Mapping the educational and career paths of youth workers - II
Subtitle: Part II. Diversity of practice architectures
Author(s): Tomi Kiilakoski, PhD, Adjunct Professor. Co-ordinator: Tanya Basarab
Date: 2017
Summary link to Recognition:
This publication is a further and deeper analysis of Part 1 of “Mapping the educational and career paths of youth workers”. It explores the differences and similarities across Europe in how youth work and youth workers are perceived and educated and highlights that it is in understanding the similarities that recognition is furthered. The report also looks at why recognition needs to be put on the agenda at both national and European levels.
Tags: recognition, youth worker education/training, formal education, non-formal education/learning
Resource Type: publication
Link: https://go.coe.int/M3Qef
Mapping the educational and career paths of youth workers - I
Subtitle: Part I. Report
Author(s): James O’Donovan, David Cairns, Madalena Sousa and Vesselina Valcheva. Editor: James O’Donovan. Co-ordinator: Tanya Basarab
Date: 2017
Summary link to Recognition:
This report is based on a survey that was conducted in 2017 on the educational and career paths of youth workers. While the survey and subsequent report was not focussed on recognition explicitly, the responses from the 41 country respondents provide a picture of recognition across Europe, particularly related to: youth policy and legislation; education and training for youth workers (including opportunities offered in the fields of both formal and non-formal education and training); quality assurance and competence frameworks and systems; associations of youth workers; and employment opportunities and career paths for youth workers and professionalisation.
Tags: youth worker education/training, formal education, non-formal education/learning, youth worker
Resource Type: publication (report)
Link: https://go.coe.int/txdoG
Improving youth work
Subtitle: Your guide to quality development
Author(s): KEKS. DSP. ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Date: 2017
Summary link to Recognition:
This handbook was developed in order to provide the youth work sector with an easily accessible and concrete model for continuous, systematic and knowledge-based quality development as well as enhanced credibility and recognition of youth work. The handbook was also produced as a response to two main factors. Firstly because of the increased interest at the political level about youth work – this being in relation to the economic crisis, rise in youth unemployment and marginalisation of young people, and secondly because of an ever increasing demand for evidence that proves that youth work effectively responds to these needs. It was felt that the handbook could be used as a resource in order to support the recognition of youth work.
Tags: quality youth work, youth work, recognition
Resource Type: publication (handbook)
Link: www.salto-youth.net/tools/toolbox/tool/improving-youth-work-your-guide-to-quality-development.2138/
Recognition of Youth Work and of Non-Formal and Informal Learning Within Youth Work
Subtitle: Current European Developments
Author(s): SALTO Training and Cooperation and Jugend fur Europa
Date: 2016
Summary link to Recognition:
This publication provides a 2016 overview of recognition developments – things that were being enacted at the time and things that were due to happen. The publication covers developments by the European Union, the Council of Europe, the EU-Council of Europe Youth Partnership, as well as other related organisations and institutions. It includes information on numerous policy developments, a number of established and emerging tools for recognition, various studies that were done between 2012 and 2016, and an overview of some stakeholder events that took place around that time.
Tags: recognition, youth work, non-formal education/learning, informal learning, youth policy
Resource Type: publication
Quality standards in education and training activities of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe
Author(s): Council of Europe
Date: 2016 (revised)
Summary link to Recognition:
Quality standards are not another way of looking at recognition but they do support recognition. This paper provides a solid base for the improvement of education and training activities in and with the Council of Europe and therefore has a positive effect on recognition. The paper intends that the quality standards laid out should contribute to deepening and widening the transparency, accountability, reproducibility, sustainability, quality and innovation of activities so that the Council of Europe can remain a trend-setter and a provider of high quality non-formal education in the youth field.
Tags: quality youth work, youth worker education/training, non-formal education/learning
Resource Type: publication (paper)
EU Youth Report 2015
Author(s): European Commission
Date: 2016
Summary link to Recognition:
The 2015 Youth Report provided a focus on youth work and on the value of youth work. It explains how youth work has been high on the EU youth agenda since 2013. The report explores the “Joint Report of the Council and the Commission on the implementation of the renewed framework for European cooperation in the youth field (2010-2018)”, the “Results of the open method of coordination in the youth field with a special focus on the second cycle (2013-2015)” and the “Situation of young people in the European Union.”
Tags: youth work
Resource Type: publication (report)
Link: https://ec.europa.eu/assets/eac/youth/library/reports/youth-report-2015_en.pdf
Competence Model for Youth Workers to Work Internationally
Author(s): SALTO Training and Cooperation
Date: 2016
Summary link to Recognition:
As part of the European Training Strategy the Competence model for youth workers was launched in 2016. Its intention is to provide networking and cooperation possibilities on an international level for youth workers which will in turn support young people in learning mobility projects. The Competence model provides a set of identified competences for youth workers in order to assist in this process. Providers of non-formal learning, training and education, as well as the Erasmus+ Youth programme are paying closer attention to these competences. Identifying and describing youth worker competences better helps improve the image and recognition of youth workers and therefore youth work in society.
Tags: european training strategy, youth worker
Resource Type: web resource, publication
Link: www.salto-youth.net/rc/training-and-cooperation/tc-rc-nanetworktcs/youthworkers-competence-model/
Cedefop Validation in the care and youth work sectors
Subtitle: European Inventory on validation
Author(s): CEDEFOP
Date: 2016
Summary link to Recognition:
The part of this report that focuses on recognition is chapter 4 – “Validation in the youth work sector”. Much of the recognition explored in this chapter is about having qualifications and learning recognised although there are paragraphs and sub-sections that refer to the recognition of youth work more directly. In general the report provides a good and interesting analysis of the different aspects of recognition.
Tags: recognition, validation, youth work
Resource Type: publication (report)
Quality Youth Work
Subtitle: A common framework for the further development of youth work
Author(s): Report from the Expert Group on Youth Work Quality Systems in the EU Member States
Date: 2015
Summary link to Recognition:
This report contributed to youth work development by demonstrating how a quality approach to youth work helps to enhance both quality and the recognition of youth work. The report looks at how the importance of youth work at national and European policy levels was constantly growing and new policy papers were continuously assigning new roles and tasks to youth work. The expert group believed that the use of a well-structured quality approach facilitates the concerted efforts of all stakeholders – from young person to the political level. The report focuses on quality, makes strong links to recognition and explores how the two concepts are entwined. The report also expresses that a common view on what is quality in youth work would create a better understanding on how the aims of youth work are achieved through its actions. This in turn would help to communicate the results to different levels and stakeholders - from local to European – and therefore be furthering the recognition of youth work.
Tags: quality youth work, recognition
Resource Type: publication (report)
Link: https://ec.europa.eu/assets/eac/youth/library/reports/quality-youth-work_en.pdf
Working with Young People
Subtitle: the value of youth work in the European Union
Author(s): Allison Dunne, Daniela Ulicna, Ilona Murphy, Maria Golubeva
Date: 2014
Summary link to Recognition:
At the time of the writing of this study, the authors reflected that youth work had greater recognition and visibility that it had in the past but that there was still much to be done to fully recognise the contribution and value it has in the lives of young people. The study brings together the evidence of what it is that youth work does and achieves in order to facilitate an understanding and appreciation of youth work. It explores the publications, reports and researches available at that time, it analyses the mapping of national contexts, consults with various stakeholders and examines successful practice.
Tags: youth work, visibility
Resource Type: publication (study)
Link: https://ec.europa.eu/assets/eac/youth/library/study/youth-work-report_en.pdf
Draft Action Plan For The Recognition of Youth Work and Non Formal Education/Learning
Author(s): Bureaus of The CDEJ and of the Advisory Council on Youth
Date: 2014
Summary link to Recognition:
This meeting report sets out the action plan of the Council of Europe Youth Department for the years 2014 to 2016. The plan itself was a conscious step towards supporting the recognition of youth work. It lists a number of measures that would take place over the specified time period. The objectives included directly promoting and supporting the recognition of youth work.
Tags: recognition, youth work, non-formal education/learning
Resource Type: publication (report)
Pathways towards Validation and Recognition of Education, Training and Learning in the Youth Field
Author(s): Youth Unit of the Directorate 'Youth, Civil Society, Communication' in the Directorate General 'Education and Culture' of the European Commission and the Youth Department of the Directorate 'Youth and Sport' in the Directorate General 'Education, Culture and Heritage, Youth and Sport' of the Council of Europe
Date: 2004
Summary link to Recognition:
Although this is not a recent document on recognition, it was one of the first that very clearly talked about the need for the validation and recognition of non-formal education and learning and the first to come from both the EU and Council of Europe. Leading up to 2004, both the European Commission and the Council of Europe, within their respective youth services, had developed very advanced positions on the recognition of non-formal education/learning. The paper argues that non-formal education/learning in the youth field is more than a sub-category of education and training. It stressed the need to raise awareness of the value of youth work among key persons, institutions and young people themselves and asked for the development of effective and flexible ways for validation and recognition.
Resource Type: publication (paper)
Link: https://gr-eat.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Pathways_towards_validati.pdf
Bridges for Recognition
Subtitle: Promoting recognition of youth work across Europe
Author(s): Jonathan Bowyer, Tony Geudens
Date: 2005
Summary link to Recognition:
Bridges for Recognition was an important event for the recognition of non-formal learning and youth work in Europe. It brought together a wide range of stakeholders from the fields of youth work, formal and non-formal education and the labour market, as well as representatives from National and European Authorities. This report shares the methods and instruments of recognition and other good practice that came out of the conference. It highlights the need for a common language, a need for better understanding between formal and non-formal education and explores many of the issues related to the recognition of youth work and youth workers.
Resource Type: event, publication (report)
Link: https://www.salto-youth.net/downloads/4-17-630/BridgesForRecognition.pdf
Pathways 2.0: Towards Recognition of Non-Formal Learning/Education and of Youth Work in Europe
Author(s): EU-Council of Europe Youth Partnership, Salto Training and Cooperation Resource Centre, the European Youth Forum, and the Directorates responsible for Youth in the European Commission and the Council of Europe
Date: 2011
Summary link to Recognition:
The Pathways 2.0 paper was developed as a response to the realisation that the strategy as outlined in the first paper needed to be updated and re-focussed. Pathways 2.0 provided a new impetus towards efforts for recognition of non-formal learning in youth activities and of youth work in general. The paper provided a new vision and an outline on how to sustain and to foster progress and, even more, to go beyond the achievements made at that time.
Resource Type: publication (paper)
Link: https://go.coe.int/4W9mr
Unlocking Doors to Recognition
Subtitle: Setting up strategies for the better recognition of youth work and non-formal education/learning in your context
Author(s): Darko Markovic and Gülesin Nemutlu Ünal
Date: 2011
Summary link to Recognition:
Although this publication is from 2011, it marked a milestone in recognition work coming from the trainer / youth worker part of the youth sector. Although it is out of date in some respects, it is still very useful for exploring the concept of recognition and a youth workers or youth organisations role in it. The publication explores youth work itself, the concept of recognition and a short guide on how to set up a recognition strategy for a youth organisation.
Resource Type: publication
Link: www.salto-youth.net/rc/see/resources/unlockingrecognition/
Symposium on Youth Policy Cooperation in South East Europe
Subtitle: focus on recognition of youth work and non-formal learning
Author(s): Nik Paddison
Date: 2012
Summary link to Recognition:
The symposium and this report continued to place the topic of recognition of youth work and non-formal learning/education on the political agenda of the countries of South East Europe. The initial concept was to focus on South East Europe, however as the symposium was being developed, other agencies and country based institutions asked to be involved. The symposium included delegations from the Eastern European Caucasus Region and from the Programme countries of the then Youth in Action Programme. This highlighted the importance of exchanging good practice and of learning from each other for both policy development and recognition. It also highlighted the importance of the topic of recognition of youth work and non-formal learning/ education across Europe and beyond.
Resource Type: event, publication (report)
Link: www.salto-youth.net/downloads/4-17-2776/Bro%c5%a1ura+CVI_press_OKsplet.pdf
Getting There
Author(s): EU-Council of Europe Youth Partnership, Jugend fur Europe and SALTO Training and Cooperation Resource Centre
Date: 2013
Summary link to Recognition:
This publication brings together three documents – the Pathways 2.0 paper (from 2011), the participants statement from the “Symposium on the Recognition of Youth Work and Non-Formal Learning” (Strasbourg, 2011) and the subsequent “Plan of Action” that was created by an expert group from follow-up actions proposed at the Symposium. The publication aimed to create a decentralised process for the implementation of actions leading to a better social, political and formal recognition of youth work and of non-formal learning/education in the youth field.
Resource Type: publication (paper)
Link: https://go.coe.int/2Y7Li
Competence Model for Trainers Working at International Level
Author(s): SALTO Training and Cooperation
Date: 2014
Summary link to Recognition:
As part of the European Training Strategy the Competence model for trainers was launched in 2014. While it does not of itself contribute to the recognition of youth work, its development through the ETS is a symbol of recognition. Trainers are a core element when it comes to European youth work, particularly in the field of non-formal learning. Their professional expertise combined with their ability to perform within an educational framework affects the quality of training activities in a crucial way. The well-thought-out set of competences serves as a dynamic framework to be consulted by trainers as well as institutions and organisations who plan non-formal education training activities.
Resource Type: web resource, publication
Link: www.salto-youth.net/rc/training-andcooperation/trainercompetencedevelopment/trainercompetences/
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