European Strategy for Training in Youth in Action

The Youth in Action programme offers a variety of resources for youth workers and other important persons involved, which should support a qualitative development and implementation of projects with young people.

The five core elements of the European Strategy for Training in the Youth in Action programme are:

• the Training and Co-operation Plans (TCPs) of the National Agencies (NAs) for Youth in Action, including the so-called NA network training courses,
• the activities of the eight SALTO-YOUTH Resource Centres and their wide range of co-operation with the NAs, which can be found at several web pages of this web site,
• Action 4.3 of the Youth in Action programme and the so-called Innovative projects (Action 4.4), both essential possibilities for NGOs to receive financial resources for the support of their youth workers and leaders in order to achieve the aims and objectives of the programme,
• the Partnership Programme between the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the frame of Training, Euro-Med, and Research,
• further education as well as training and co-ordination meetings for NA staff and other key actors to exchange good practice and to develop synergies and co-operation, such as the annual TCP seminars, the meeting of Innovative project promoters, the Quality in YiA conference, or the Stakeholders meeting on European level Training of Trainers.

Many of the resources developed and available for further use are offered on the SALTO web site, such as the European Training Calendar for training courses, seminars, etc., a lot of exemplary methods for further use in the Toolbox or contact details and profiles of available European trainers in TOY.

In July 2006, the SALTO Training and Cooperation RC organised a European conference for the support of the development of quality in European youth work with a focus on the new Youth in Action programme (2007-2013).
The results from the conference for the further development of a common strategy can be highlighted as follows:

• good and important developments should be kept
• further steps in the right direction are to be taken
• new needs are to be evaluated and to be implemented in a common strategy

Last modified: 2007-09-12

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