The Council of Europe Youth Work Portfolio

Tools and Practices about recognition of youth work/ non-formal learning

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Assess your youth work competences and make a learning and development plan!

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The Council of Europe Youth Work Portfolio is a tool to help those doing youth work, primarily youth workers and youth leaders, but also managers and administrators, to assess and further develop their youth work competence and that of the people under their supervision.

The Portfolio is based on the Council of Europe youth work competence framework and guides the user through a process of:

analysing where they are now with their youth work competence
gathering evidence on the quality of their work, their competence for it and ideas for making it better
explaining their work to others in a way that is easy to understand

The creation of a personal portfolio is done online at the Portfolio platform and includes both conducting the self-assessment and drafting personal learning and development plan.

The Council of Europe Youth Work Portfolio has been developed at the European level, but it is not primarily for people and organisations working at the European level or internationally. The Portfolio is addressed to youth workers and leaders working at any level from local to international.

The Council of Europe Youth Work Portfolio is an initiative of the Council of Europe in co-operation with partners such as the European Commission and the European Youth Forum.

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