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Kalaay La - Youth Work with young refugees

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Kalaay La - Youth Work with young refugees

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Since 2016 a group of organisation in the field of children and youth travel is developing concepts and formats together with young refugees.
The  outcome of the project "Kalaay La!" will be presented in a conference in Köln, 11.-12. April 2018. Future steps and strategies will also be discussed.
More information here.

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Mobility and the role of Youth Information survey 2017

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Mobility and the role of Youth Information survey 2017

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(Eurodesk)
More and more research shows that learning mobility has positive effects on personal development,
on employability, on building a sense of EU citizenship and on being tolerant to diversity. Then why is not every one benefiting from a mobility experience?

There are many reasons for not being mobile. This survey aims to provide an insight on young people’s needs, behaviours and expectations when
it comes to mobility-related information. It will help Eurodesk and other information networks in
improving their services while also pointing at policy recommendations to ensure all young people have access to quality youth information. Eurodesk decided to launch this survey in 2017, in the context of the revision of the EU Youth Strategy. Indeed, we believe that youth information should be a pillar of the EU Youth Strategy to ensure inclusiveness and a wider outreach. This survey clearly confirms this need.

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The Future is no longer what it used to be –Brexit, youth in the UK and Europe

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The Future is no longer what it used to be –Brexit, youth in the UK and Europe

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Shock waves hit all the EU institutions and its Member States when the UK referendum result was announced: could this be the beginning of the end of

the EU? No member had ever left before. A reflection paper on the effect of Brexit and British/European young people, in English language in the German youth work publication.

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The European Platform for Learning Mobility in the youth field (EPLM) is an open participatory space for exchange and cooperation between practitioners, researchers and policy makers. By ‘practitioners’ the Platform means programme staff, trainers and consultants, youth workers and other multipliers in the youth field and in youth work.

The EPLM has a mission to engage in the improvement, knowledge, visibility and recognition of learning mobility in the youth field.

[Find out more about EPLM here]

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MOVE Pre-Conference and Final Conference 

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MOVE Pre-Conference and Final Conference 

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Presentation of results from 3 years Horizon 2020 project to wider stakeholders, plus researchers conference.

The final conference of the MOVE project will take place from 7-9 March 2018, Luxembourg. http://move-project.eu/conference

The final conference is a platform for exchange and discussion on youth mobility in Europe from different perspectives. It will reflect challenges, risks and benefits of youth mobility in Europe. The conference will focus on strategies of mobility, fostering and hindering factors of mobility, positive and negative effects, as well as emerging patterns of mobility within the EU. Six main topic streams will guide the flow of the conference, to which a call of papers opens soon:

Mobility Policies and Politics

Youth Mobility and Agency

Social Inequality and Youth Mobility

Regional Aspects of Youth Mobility (focus on post-socialist countries)

Economy and Youth Mobility

Culture and Youth Mobility

The first day will be dedicated to a pre-conference, which targets policymakers and practitioners in the field of youth, the rest of the conference is more targeted towards academics in this field. The programme will include a presentation of the final results of the MOVE project. This will be followed by a panel discussion with policy-makers and experts, and the afternoon will offer participants the possibility to discuss in more detail with the researchers of the project, depending on their area of interest within youth mobility: employment, voluntary work, entrepreneurship, higher education, pupil’s exchange, and vocational training.

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From the European Youth Information and Counselling Agency

In the framework of ERYICA’s DOYIT (Developing Online Youth Information Trainings) project, the first training of eTrainers took place in Croatia in January 2018, about the YoMIM (Youth on the Move – InfoMobility) course. 15 new eTrainers were trained to disseminate the course on the Moodle platform, which provides specific skills to youth information workers to cater for the needs of young people in a mobility situation.

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Summer School - Youth Participation in Research, Policy and Practice

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Summer School - Youth Participation in Research, Policy and Practice

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13 July 2018

language: English

duration: 1 week

fee: EUR 150

registration deadline: 1 May 2018

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Youth Participation in Research, Policy and Practice | University of Groningen Summer Schools | Onderwijs | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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Over the past decades the United Nations Children's Right Convention of 1989 has inspired many minority, as well as majority, countries to develop and implement a great variety of children's and young people's participation activities, ranging from small projects such as writing books and designing social media content, to youth councils in schools and local governments, and national children's and youth parliaments.

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Pre-announcement: "Is Europe really lost?" 

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Pre-announcement: "Is Europe really lost?" 

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Conference on the future and vision of  Europe.  29.-31.10.2018, Bonn.

Organised by German, Italian and Slovenian Youth National Agencies of the Erasmus+ Programme, the Council of Europe/European Commission partnership on youth  and others. More information coming soon.

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"Turbocharging E+ Youth in Action - What can be learned from research for the new generation?"

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"Turbocharging E+ Youth in Action - What can be learned from research for the new generation?"

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After 5 years of research in Erasmus+ Youth mobility, a networking policy event will be held on 27th March at the European Parliament.

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German - Turkish cooperation in the youth field.  

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German - Turkish cooperation in the youth field.  

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"Different views and different Narratives. (Re)thinking bridges between young people in Turkey and Germany"
Conference on youth work and cooperation in the youth field. 25.-28.06.18, Berlin. Organised by Turkish and German Youth NAs and German-Turkish Youth Bridge. More information about the conference here, and about the Youth Bridge here.

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"Towards more exchanges for pupils - unleashing the potential of school learning mobility" 

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"Towards more exchanges for pupils - unleashing the potential of school learning mobility" 

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21st March 2018. Event at European Parliament on the topic of funding for pupil mobility

http://pupilsmobility.eu/
http://recognisestudyabroad.eu/

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Seminar will be held under Croatian Chairmanship (of the committee of ministers of the CoE, May - Nov 2018).
It will bring together member governments, researchers, youth workers, NGOs and Youth Card member organisations to discuss the phenomena of brain drain and the role that the Youth Card could play in preventing it by offering work opportunities to young people. More information coming soon.

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'Knowledge of Young People - maximising impact' 

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'Knowledge of Young People - maximising impact' 

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(European Youth Card Association) this seminar was dedicated primarily to member organisations (although also open to partner organisations) and took place on 23 - 24th January 2018.

The seminar aimed to bring together different perspectives on how to:

· Reach out to young people from different categories and age ranges, both on-line and off-line;

· Create youth engagement on social media and put forward messages that support youth participation and well-being;

·Raise awareness and information about the variety of tools and paths to gather data about young people’s profile and needs: from academic research, to institutions which provide publications on knowledge of youth, to private companies who focus their services on producing knowledge of young people;

· Design youth-catered services and use innovative tools to gather relevant data.

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European Youth Card & Youth Mobility: a way forward to the new EU Youth Strategy

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European Youth Card & Youth Mobility: a way forward to the new EU Youth Strategy

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In 2017 EYCA ran an extensive project aiming to bring the opinions of European Youth Cardholders to policy makers involved in developing the next EU Youth Strategy. The project brought together young people who are not usually involved in youth projects, EYCA members and policy makers for five regional meetings and a European round table hosted in the European Parliament (November 2017) and present the recommendations of young people related to both ESC and the Youth Strategy. The results of direct meetings were doubled by a survey gathering 170 answers from non-organised young people on access to mobility opportunities.

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THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP ON INCLUSION (SPI)
15 Erasmus+ National Agencies & SALTO Resource Centres joined forces to reach out to inclusion organisations (working with disability, NEET, disadvantaged areas). National and international support activities aim to bring Erasmus+ youth projects within reach of more young people from these inclusion groups.

In June, the SPI will organise a harvesting conference in Cascais, European Youth Capital, to make an inventory of the work done, the lessons learnt, the good practices - and set up another cycle of reaching out and project support for those inclusion groups.

See www.salto-youth.net/SPInclusion/

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Embracing Diversity course - Learn to manage diversity

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Embracing Diversity course - Learn to manage diversity

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(SALTO Inclusion & Diversity)
Inclusion & Diversity are two sides of the same coin. One thing is to include a variety of (disadvantaged) target groups in our youth projects, the other thing is to know how to deal with this diversity in a positive way.

This Embracing Diversity course gives youth workers concrete methods for managing diversity in groups and projects. It offers you 4 days to explore various kinds of diversity (e.g. ethnic, ability, socio-economic, religious, LGBT, background, linguistic…) and ways to help young people appreciate diversity and cooperate despite their differences. There will be lots of space for sharing and applying concepts to your youth work practice.

If you (or a colleague) are working with diverse young people (with fewer opportunities) and want to sharpen your ‘diversity management skills’, then please apply!

Embracing Diversity course = Bonn, Germany, from 21 (arrival) to 26 May (departure) = for participants from E+ Programme countries = http://trainings.salto-youth.net/7090 = deadline to apply 11 March !!!

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(SALTO Training & Cooperation, European Commission)
The first ETS Conference will focus on sharing, exploring, and discussing ideas and strategies for better capacity building and quality development within youth work and through enhanced education and training of youth workers.

THE QUALITY BONUS Conference will take place on 26-28 March 2018 in Mainz/Germany and might be for you if
- you are involved in youth worker education and training,
- you are interested in contributing to the further development of quality youth work,
- you are interested in education and training strategies and in discussing them in a European – international environment,
- you might have a good example of practice to share connected to education and training of youth workers, and
- ... moreover, you are ready for a new challenge!

The Conference will be an opportunity to enable stakeholders of education and training to further contribute to the development of quality youth work. It will focus on systems and opportunities for youth workers by exploring topics related to the European Training Strategy (ETS), which provides resources for better strategical approaches.

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EU Validation of non-formal and informal Learning - Festival

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EU Validation of non-formal and informal Learning - Festival

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(European Commission)
The EU Validation Festival is organised along two days 14th and 15th of June 2018 in Brussel (Venue: The EGG). Time is ready to take stock of what has been done on validation of non-formal and informal learning (VNFIL). Since the 2012 Council Recommendations on the validation of non-formal and informal learning a wealth of initiatives and projects have been developed. The Festival will provide an open space for discussion and exchange and will be an opportunity for people involved in validation practices to have their say to the further shaping of validation.

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The next European Youth Week will be in 2019. This year, there will be a chance for more than 8000 young people to have their voice heard on 1st and 2nd June in Strasbourg at the EYE.

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"Zugangsstudie" - Access and obstacles of participating in leaning mobility

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"Zugangsstudie" - Access and obstacles of participating in leaning mobility

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"Zugangsstudie" will analyse ways

of accessing international youth work and the obstacles young people face when it comes to  participation. There will be a specific focus on young people who are not participating.
http://zugangsstudie.de/

In June 2018 a huge (German-speaking) conference is scheduled for further strategy planning and ensuring the sustainability of the results. It will be held close to Cologne. Interested experts of the field can contact zugangsstudie@transfer-ev.de for regular updates.

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Mobility Tasters for Inclusion organisations 

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Mobility Tasters for Inclusion organisations 

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A short 3 day course to give inclusion organisations a taste of international mobility and how to use it as a method in the work with young people with fewer opportunities. This successful course is repeated regularly so that NAs can send new inclusion organisations in the E+ programme at short notice and lead them to an E+ youth project.
During 2018 these will be held in German (AT), in Russian (UA) in English (IE).
www.salto-youth.net/mobilitytaster/

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Upcoming Publication: "Learning Mobility, Social Inclusion and Non-Formal Education: Access, Processes and Outcomes"

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Upcoming Publication: "Learning Mobility, Social Inclusion and Non-Formal Education: Access, Processes and Outcomes"

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Part of the Youth Knowledge series of the partnership between the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the field of youth, this publication is a follow-up to the first volume on transnational learning mobility published in 2013. This book attempts to address two inter-related issues, specifically in the context of non-formal education. The first is learning mobility in the inclusion agenda: how learning mobility can be used as a tool for inclusion by providing opportunities and assets to the disadvantaged and excluded. Recent evaluative research has clearly demonstrated that learning mobility can be a very powerful tool for inclusion, but if it is not handled with proper consideration of the target group, it may produce the opposite effect to that intended. The second is inclusion in the learning mobility agenda: learning mobility has arguably so far mainly been the preserve of privileged, resourceful young people, and projects have perhaps been designed with such participants in mind. We therefore need to focus on how we involve less advantaged young people in mobility projects, and how we engineer and implement these projects to make participation a realistic option for all.

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Skip to Content The youth knowledge books are the outcome of research seminars and expert workshops on priority topics of the EU-CoE youth partnership. Youth knowledge books are produced in English only. Translations in other languages are encouraged. Other publications Other publications The T-kits are thematic publications written by experienced youth trainers.

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MOVE Draft Policy Brief (to be published soon)

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MOVE Draft Policy Brief (to be published soon)

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MOVE (a Horizon 2020 project) studies youth mobility in Europe via a multi-methods approach, looking at how to improve the conditions of mobility and how to reduce negative impacts. The main research questions are:

How can mobility be good both for the socio-economic and individual development of young people?

What are the factors that foster/hinder such beneficial mobility?

This first policy brief is based on selected results from the secondary macro-data analysis and on first insights from the case study analysis. In regard of the macro data analysis, two major problems are tackled; firstly, the overall insufficient data availability; and secondly, the unequal benefits

of mobility for member states due to regional and country specific differences. The qualitative

analysis sheds light on the great variety in the young people’s scopes and needs in the context of

very different mobility fields. The question of supportive and hindering factors towards an individually satisfying mobility experience are focused on in this policy brief.

The analyses hint to the fact that more differentiated responses of mobility programmes are

needed, in regard of the respective economic situations of member states (with respect to the

quantitative findings of the secondary data analysis) and in regard of different individual needs

and scopes of young people (with respect to the qualitative findings).

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Liaisons: a handbook for preventing violent extremism through youth information 

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Liaisons: a handbook for preventing violent extremism through youth information 

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Published by the European Youth Information and Counselling Agency (ERYICA), in cooperation with the Council of Europe, and with the support of the Bureau International Jeunesse (Belgium), the manual is currently available in French. It will be available in English in the coming months.

Hardback and digital copies available:
-         An analysis of the violent radicalisation process
-          The role of Youth Information in the prevention of youth violent extremism
-          A tool box:  More than 50 activities for youth workers, youth information workers, educators and youth organisations.

Due to their daily work with young people, youth workers and youth organisations are often the first to identify the risks and warning signs that young people may be at risk of violent extremism. The manual 'Liaisons' will contribute to equipping those in contact with a young public with the necessary skills to help young people build up their resistance and critical thinking skills, so as not to become attracted by extremist ideas and groups.

The first part of the manual allows the reader to understand the mechanisms and the reasons behind violent extremism. It aims to define the role of youth information and youth work in the prevention of radicalisation leading to violence.

The tool box is a collection of activities that have been selected due to their relevance and their capacity to have a positive impact on young people. The user will find learning objectives, practical information (target group, material, group size), a detailed description of how to carry out the activity, as well as advice, in each activity. Although the different activities have been selected in a logical order to fit with the different chapters, it is not necessary to follow the activities in the order that they come in the manual. Each activity stands alone and can be carried out independently from the others, and there is no need for preliminary training - Liaisons is ready to use!

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RELEASE! Eurodesk publication: Mobility and the Role of Youth Information

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RELEASE! Eurodesk publication: Mobility and the Role of Youth Information

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Eurodesk has surveys young people on the topic of youth information about mobility and which sources they engage with.

Read the publication here: https://eurodesk.eu/2018/02/09/eurodesk-survey-2017-report-about-mobility-and-role-of-youth-information-is-released/

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The New Narrative for Europe event (NNfE) took place in the premises of the Berlaymont on 31st January 2018. A declaration was made by young people during the closing session to the Commissioner. "YOUrope for Youth"- is available in all 24 languages at the European Youth Portal website: https://europa.eu/youth/have-your-say/new-narrative-for-europe_en

As one major outcome of the new Narrative for Europe initiative, an online information toolkit will be developed in 2018 to allow for discussing EU values and priorities, providing guidance for discussions, support materials, and a package for public presentation and moderation.  Within the toolkit there is the selection of 120 European personalities foreseen, followed by an election of 60 names (to start during the EYE event). We are now running the first phase (till 11 March) of the #EUNarrative European Personalities selection with the aim to gather EU citizens' proposals and perception on the best representatives of European values. More info can be found here: https://europa.eu/youth/eu/news/161/53772_en

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(SALTO Inclusion & Diversity)
This video about youth work and cross-sectoral cooperation in the field of inclusion gives you a better idea about why cross-sectoral cooperation is the way to go and how to do it successfully.

It helps to understand better:

What is cross-sectoral cooperation?

What are the opportunities?

How to start with it?

Watch the video here!

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From January, SALTO Inclusion became SALTO Inclusion & Diversity. But we want to keep the contributions of our SALTO Cultural Diversity colleagues alive.

At the end of their mandate SALTO CD produced a booklet with reflections on diversity, identity and youth work - called Europe in Transition. It provokes thoughts about why we are doing all these international mobility projects.

Download it at www.salto-youth.net/europeintransition/ + find all Inclusion & Diversity publications at www.salto-youth.nt/InclusionForAll

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(European Commission)
The Youth Wiki is Europe's online encyclopaedia in the area of national youth policies. The platform is a comprehensive database of national structures, policies and actions supporting young people. It covers the eight main fields of action identified in the 2010-2018 EU Youth Strategy: education and training, employment and entrepreneurship, health and well-being, participation, voluntary activities, social inclusion, youth and the world, and creativity and culture.
https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/en/youthwiki

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The European Union regularly surveys young people's participation in social and civic life, and their involvement in voluntary activities. This Eurobarometer survey, which entailed interviews with about 11,000 youngsters, also reports on their views on what should be the priorities for the EU.
The results by volumes are distributed as follows:
Volume A: Countries
Volume AA: Groups of countries
Volume A' (AP): Trends
Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
Volume C: Country/socio-demographics
http://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/dataset/S2163_455_ENG

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Expert Group Report: Developing digital youth work – An agile mindset is crucial

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Expert Group Report: Developing digital youth work – An agile mindset is crucial

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Policy recommendations, training needs and good practice examples
Digital literacy and 21st century skills play a crucial role as part of modern-day citizenship and modern life in general. Youth work should be able to encourage this. Therefore, youth workers need an agile mindset, willing to try new things,  learn from both success and failure, and be supported to do so.

This publication contains the main outcomes of the expert group on 'Risks, opportunities and implications of digitalisation for youth, youth work and youth policy' set up under the European Union Work Plan for Youth 2016-2018:
• A working definition of 'digital youth work';
• Examples of innovative practices in delivering digital youth work and upskilling youth workers' digital competences;
• Policy recommendations on the development of digital youth work;
• Identification of training needs of youth workers relevant for digital youth work, based on existing competence frameworks for digital skills and for youth work;
• Collection of training material which is available online and which addresses the identified training needs of youth workers relevant for digital youth work.

The results of this expert group will be of interest to anyone involved in developments in youth work in the 21st century, especially youth workers, organisations, training providers, policy-makers, other practitioners and researchers.

Contact: EAC-YOUTH@ec.europa.eu

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Joint policy paper on recognising study abroad

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Joint policy paper on recognising study abroad

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(EFIL and EEE-YFU)

As part of the European Commission’s consultation on recognition of study periods abroad, EFIL and EEE-YFU have drafted a policy paper outlining the current situation in Europe and putting forward policy recommendations. The findings summarised in the paper come from a study that will be published in Spring.

Our input will feed into the European Commission’s proposal for a Council recommendation on on
promoting mutual recognition of higher and secondary education qualifications and study periods abroad , which will be released on 2nd May with the first series of policy proposals aiming at contributing to an European Education Area.

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Based on the conclusions of the Review, the Commission adopted the proposal for a new Recommendation on Key Competences for Lifelong learning on 17 January 2018.
The proposed Council Recommendation defines eight key competences that are crucial to better prepare people for today's societies. It also proposes concrete guidance to Member States to implement, assess and validate them effectively.
Competences are a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes.
Key competences are those which you need for personal development, employability, social inclusion and active citizenship.
The link to the factsheet published on key competences:

https://ec.europa.eu/education/sites/education/files/factsheet-recommendation-key-competences-lifelong-learning.pdf

https://ec.europa.eu/education/sites/education/files/recommendation-key-competences-lifelong-learning.pdf

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2018 European Inventory - Update on validation of non-formal and informal learning

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2018 European Inventory - Update on validation of non-formal and informal learning

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The aim of the present assignment is to update the European Inventory on validation of non-formal and informal learning for 32 countries (EU 28 plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) in order to support the monitoring of the implementation of the 2012 Council Recommendation on validation of non-formal and informal learning.
The 2018 European Inventory will include:
■ Updated country-specific reports for 32 countries (35 country reports in total: 3 reports would be produced for the UK and 2 for Belgium) on the situation of validation of non-formal and informal learning in each country;
■ 35 country fiches;
■ Five thematic reports on specific aspects of validation;
■ Three international case studies on validation in non-EU countries
■ A final synthesis report summarising main findings, including cross-country analysis of validation arrangements;
■ An executive summary (in English, French and German).
Final report to be expected by mid-August 2019.

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(European Youth Forum)

A new policy paper on the ERASMUS+ successor programme was adopted in November 2017. It outlines political demands of the European Youth Forum and its member organisations in view of the negotiations and adoptions of the Erasmus+ successor programme within the post-2020 EU Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF).

The European Youth Forum’s Council of Members meeting will take place in late April in Brussels, and two new policy papers will be up for discussion and vote – one on Sustainable Development and one on the Multiannual Financial Framework of the EU.

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Joint policy paper on individual pupil mobility in the future E+ 

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Joint policy paper on individual pupil mobility in the future E+ 

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Since 2016, EFIL, EEE-YFU and OBESSU have been advocating for a stringer focus on pupil mobility in the next Erasmus+ programme. Now that the proposal for the next funding programme for education, training and youth is being drafted by the European Commission, we are launching together with the ATEE and ESHA the campaign ‘More pupil mobility through partnership between schools and exchange organisations’.

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Recommendations on youth mobility, European Solidarity Corps and the new EU Youth Strategy 

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Recommendations on youth mobility, European Solidarity Corps and the new EU Youth Strategy 

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(from European Youth Card Association, from direct consultations with non-organised young people)

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Youth Work Recommendation (Council of Europe, 2017)

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Youth Work Recommendation (Council of Europe, 2017)

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After participating in the Council of Europe High Level Task Force on Implementation of the Youth Work Recommendation that was adopted by the Committee of Ministers in May last year, the European Youth Forum is starting to prepare its member organisations for monitoring and participation of implementation of the recommendation.

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Roadmap to future EU Youth Strategy:
• Council conclusions on future perspectives May 2017
• Policy debate November 2017
• Presentation within the education May package and adoption by Council 26 November 2018

Presentation of the Package - 2 May 2018 - (Communication to be endorsed by Council in November 2018)
Two accompanying Staff Working Documents
1) on implementation of the Youth strategy (based on MS reports, Youth wiki, evaluation and consultations);
2) on the situation of youth (8 action fields - based on Youth indicators' dashboard with Eurostat & Eurobarometer data)

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RAY (Research-based Analysis of Youth in Action/Erasmus+)

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RAY (Research-based Analysis of Youth in Action/Erasmus+)

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2015 and 2016 data is now available. For country reports, please check each National Agency's website pages.

There are currently two main focuses of research: Monitoring the impact of learning mobility, and long-term effects on participation and active citizenship - for which there will be an event in Strasbourg (RAY partners only) where findings will be shared.  Findings to be published soon.

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Pool of European Youth Researchers - update from recent months

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Pool of European Youth Researchers - update from recent months

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(CoE/COM youth partnership)
* Published a mapping of the competences of the pool
* Established a coordination team
* Communities of practice and communities of research have been defined. One of those is learning mobility - to be discussed further in the meeting 14th May before EPLM conference
* Meeting in mid-September (Moldova) also with Youth Knowledge Centre Correspondants

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Future Youth Information and Counselling Service: Service Quality and Improvement (an Erasmus+ KA2 project)

This project was created due to the lack of evidence-based research in the field of youth information, which blocks the development of the sector. With this in mind, research will be carried out to identify youth information needs, trends, and most relevant topics. This survey will be compared and contrasted with an ERYICA survey which was carried out in 2013, and, perhaps most innovatively, will use future foresight methodology to identify a strategic direction for youth information, something that has never been done before.

In 2017 a survey was conducted
to collect data about youth information needs and services. The aim of the study was to understand the future information needs among the young generation, the current service quality and satisfaction of the users, and identify improvement areas so information services could be designed according to the future demand. Data collection was administered using a questionnaire survey in 20 countries across Europe. Having the survey in so many languages meant that young people could fill it in in many countries, including during a mobility stay abroad, or after returning to their country of residence.
The survey was addressed to both youth information service users as well as non-users to get as broad a picture as possible. Therefore, two different set of questionnaires were used to collect answers from the two different set of population.
Additionally, questions about information literacy were added to the questionnaires to get some insights into the information handling skills of young people today.

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Council of Europe's Study on "New and innovative forms of youth participation in decision-making processes", October 2017

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Council of Europe's Study on "New and innovative forms of youth participation in decision-making processes", October 2017

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The findings and recommendations in the study are intended to inform the Council of Europe youth sector’s future work in this field and its strategic objectives to support young people’s (positive) attitude to influence decisions in democratic processes and increase their
involvement in the development of inclusive and peaceful societies.

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Study "Mapping skills audits in and across EU MS"

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Study "Mapping skills audits in and across EU MS"

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(European Commission)
The study is being finalised at the moment and it will be published by the end of spring 2018.
In May 2017, the European Commission (DG EMPL) commissioned a study on ‘Mapping Skills Audits in and across the EU’, to carry out research in 16 EU Member States on their current practice in relation to Skills Audits. The objective of the study was to create a better knowledge base about the availability of skills audits to different target groups, the variations in how skills audits are carried out, what they entail, who is involved and which identification and assessment methods are being used. It also aims to collect evidence on the demand and supply of skills audits across the EU and the effectiveness of different types of practices.

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SALTO Training & Cooperation Resource Centre, with the support of experts, is currently developing an app. The aim is to enable participants of Erasmus+: YiA activities, and also in wider contexts, to write about the learning experiences. The App will include a kind of online diary which can be used on mobile devices and will also offer a connection to the YouthPass database. The app will be hopefully launched in summer 2018.

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Eurodesk has drastically revamped its homepage to better attract young people to its services.
Find the new website, under the same address, in addition to our programme catalogue, also known as opportunities hub, with opportunities for young people all over Europe.

Www.eurodesk.eu