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Increasing visibility
- Developing ways to measure learning outcomes i.e. youthpass, to make it more readable.
- making a system of recognition of the results and impact of non-formal learning;
- promote the benefits of youth work and non-formal learning;

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Increasing recognition through repeting longer dialogue sessions between stakeholders (e.g. NGOs, politicians, fomal education institutions, funding institutions, etc.). The aim is development of  concrete ideas and strategies, and network building.

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Introduce in member countries long-term evidence-based youth policy planning and connect national youth strategies to EU-level policy documents.

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To implement on EU and national level a framework(s) to measure the social impact of youth work.

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Constantly collecting information of the situation (reality) of the field of youth work. The aim is to enable evidence-based youth policy and to spread information also amongst other actors in the field (e.g. practicioners, funding organisations, etc.)

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Flexible training offered by an official institution where youth leaders are trained in different elements of a port folio to train skills and competencies they want to improve/ are lacking. These elements are decided by the insitution after a skills assessment. This would end in a formally recognized certificate for youth work.

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Youth Work services should receive funding in medium/long term allocations e.g. (3-5-7 years), not 12 rotations. This adds a precarity to the sector, both as professionals but also for the young people who use the services. We need Governments to have the foresight to make long term financial commitments to young people and youth workers.

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https://rm.coe.int/supporting-young-people-in-europe-looking-to-the-future/1680739f47

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Youth work is a broad term covering a wide variety of activities of a social, cultural, educational, environmental and/or political nature by, with and for young people, in groups or individually. Youth work is delivered by paid and volunteer youth workers and is based on non-formal and informal learning processes focused on young people and on voluntary participation. Youth work is quintessentially a social practice, working with young people and the societies in which they live, facilitating young people’s active participation and inclusion in their communities and in decision-making.

Although there is a common understanding of the primary function of youth work, it takes very different forms across EU Member States of the EU is defined or described differently and is associated with different perceptions, traditions, stakeholders and practices. It takes place in different forms and settings. Youth work plays an important role in the personal and social development of young people, their participation in society and in the transitions, they are going through. It is aimed at all young people, including those less engaged with society and/or with fewer opportunities and / or whose full political and social participation is at risk due to individual or structural disadvantages or discrimination.

(EU Council conclusion  on smart youth work
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52017XG1207(01) )

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Contribution to successfully meeting the vision of a continent where young people can seize opportunities and relate to European values.

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Sufficient recognition of youth work would provide more opportunities for young people to develop their skills and competencies, as well as it would improve sunstainability for the youth work field.

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