“Competences for ALL! - TC on assessing competences of young people with fewer opportunities”

This JINT TC focuses on encouraging youth workers, social workers, public bodies and NGOs to use comparable and transparent assessments instruments for recognizing the competences of young people with fewer opportunities (with focus on school dropouts). General aim: Is to give participants greater knowledge about the process of non formal learning and about assessing competences of young people with fewer opportunities and using different assessment tools in inclusive youth work. Objectives: •To increase knowledge about the inclusion of youngsters with fewer opportunities (especially school dropouts) •To gain competences on how to stimulate the learning process of young people with fewer opportunities •To learn how to support and assess competences of young people with fewer opportunities •To get familiar with different assessment tools, methods and approaches •To exchange good practices about how these assessments can increase employability of inclusion target groups Target group: -Youth workers, social workers working in a non formal way with school-dropouts (active in inclusion field) -Older than 18 -Able to express themselves in English -Strongly motivated to develop their working approach in the inclusion projects -Interested in exploring the possibilities that NFL within YiA is offering to individual and social development -Interested in assessing competencies of inclusion target groups -Able to attend the TC for the full duration of the course