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Hardly working on promotion among youth (schools and NGOs) in order to be raised awareness about the importance of non-formal education.
NA was part of the national working group for establishment of the new law for youth and youth work with contribution to be involved the non-formal learning. It was accepted and already involved. In the beginning of 2020 it was adopted the law. Apart of the promotion we`re working on other policy development countrywide and it seems have bigger impact after the adoption of the law. On the other hand NA support the promotion and cooperation with the various chambers and employers in order of recognition of YP.

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Youthwork not recognized - usualy considered to be social work or teaching.

Development in recognition of non-formal learning: Declaration of non-formal learning signed by big emploeyers in Slovakia (e.g. Nestlé, IBM, Microsoft, etc.)

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Youth work is still not formalized as a profession, but there is pilot project about this possibility. We are hopping it will be done in the next few years. But we've noticed few situations where Youthpass was recognized and valued by the Croatian univercities as additional value during application or extra ECTS during studing. Youthpass is mostly issued for Youth exchanges and Volunteering, but in the last few years we could see a significant increase in issued Youthpasses for TCA activities and Youth Workers mobility.  Promotion first between our colleagues, then with the whole NA and then try to influence to other relevant stakeholders.

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Youth worker as a vocation/occupation has been recognised as part of the National Vocational Qualification System. There is no formal education for a youth worker in Slovenia. There are also no accredited courses in youth work in Slovenia but there are some courses and modules on youth work or methods of working with youth in some faculties.
There is no national system for validation, and thus, skills audits are a matter of each institution or field.
We are preparing a strategy at the NA on non-formal learning and education.

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Youth work is a profession here as well like in Ireland :). And we have some national tools for recognition non-formal learning as well. Still YP is important tool to use especially working with E+ Yia and ESC.

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identification / documentation / assessment / certification ---- if the first two steps of validation is already covered by Youthpass, can we look for ways to cover the remaining two steps, complementary to Youthpass at the national level?

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There is no education for becoming a professional youth worker. Youth workers are mostly considered to be youth projects coordinators, teachers, social workers, youth mentors.
Youthpass is being recogized mostly in ESC and E+ programmes, not beside that. The value of non-formal learning should be more emhasised.

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In 2015 there was pilot project “Level up!” implemented by Latvian NA and  Estonian NA and it focus was facilitation and recognition of learning processes of young people in youth work – based on Youthpass concept. There was final conference with recommendations about NFI recognition but still for local level we don’t have recognition tool like Youthpass etc. but NA promotes learning in youth work organizing annual course like Passion for Learning etc.
In Latvia we have youth workers and youth affairs specialists. They can attend 10 days courses organized by Ministry of Education and Science. There are also 2 Universities providing master studies at youth affairs and career counselling.

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steps towards recognition of youth work and non formal learning in society during the years, also through the youthpass process (e.g. national civil service)

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steps towards recognition of youth work and non formal learning in society during the years, also through the youthpass process (e.g. national civil service)

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Links between different fields are needed

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Links between different fields are needed

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the focus on leraning and self-assesment as a specifity of the youth field has proved and should be linked also to the formal field -> existing cooperations through RAY could support the links

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Youth work is a profession here with formal recognition up to masters level.  Our National youth council has a similar process to youthpass called Skills Summary - National Youth Council of Ireland.
The recognition of youth work is reflected in national youth policies, however, these are currently being revised.

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Sweden is Part of Europe Goes Local and are discussing the Bonn process and the youth work agenda within this project but I am not updatead about how youthpass is included in this work. The focus of youthpass is first and foremost on the use by young participants at the momet.

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Recognition of Youthpass only inside youth programmes

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Recognitio, of skill for college aplications via youthpass - not in Portugal:)

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Recognitio, of skill for college aplications via youthpass - not in Portugal:)

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Youth worker recognized as a profession in 2019. Currently, national qualification framework is in development, and we are hoping for the formal education and validation for Youth workers. As for the Bonn process, we have priorities defined, and are starting an initiative within the Ministry of Youth and Sports in order to be a part of the Bonn process and to use the priorities to benefit the youth sector in Serbia.

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Open youth work/leisure time is a profession here.  There is no national youth work strategy - it's in the hands of the municipalities so the youth work is mostly done by municipalities.  We have leisure studies / social pedagogy up to a masters degree in university and you need specific education to be hired as a youth worker.  Youthpass is mostly used as a certificate of participation in KA1 and ESC11 (youth exchanges and volunteering projects) but there's still reflection present in these projects.  A further promotion of Youthpass is needed by the NA so that it will be the go-to tool for reflection, learning and cerificate.

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Recogniton of Youth Work but not realy of the youthpass beyond Erasmus + and Esc Porgrammes

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Recogniton of Youth Work but not realy of the youthpass beyond Erasmus + and Esc Porgrammes

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Recognition of skills/work for college applications via Youthpass (for ex. Portugal)

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The formal education for YW has been cancelled, but there are some developments in terms of recognition. The strategy for recognition of NFE for YP process. Also a strategy of what could work in the national context. The strategy still is there, but there are very limited resources. Only one YP person in the NA for example.