Youthpass Newsletter July 2018Dear Readers,There is summer out there, and we have a number of other good news to you, too!
Enjoy the summer and the reading, Your Youthpass Team Just Out! Handbook for Individual Support to LearningThe new practical handbook 'ONE 2 ONE. Supporting Learning Face-to-Face' may be especially interesting for you if you work individually with young people and if you aim to: raise their awareness about their personal development needs, help them recognise and make use of their own resources, develop their reflection skills... Download the publication or read it online!
Policy. Recognition. Youthpass.The last couple of months have been turbulent in field of youth policy developments. In all of them, recognition of youth work and/or of learning in youth work plays an important role. On May 22, the European Commission published their proposal for the new EU Youth Strategy (2019-2027), which will be discussed and agreed by the Council of the European Union. The communication outlines three areas of action: Engage, Connect and Empower. Among others, it includes proposals that concern the various aspects of recognition:
Secondly, on May 30 and in synergy with the Youth Strategy, the European Commission published the proposal for establishing 'Erasmus', the new programme for education, training, youth and sport; for years 2021-2027. In the proposal, the youth part of the programme is described in a separate chapter. The new programme should be more inclusive than the current one, reach out to more young people and support, among others, also virtual cooperation. The proposal points out that the recognition of skills and qualifications, as well as the validation of non-formal and informal learning should be supported. Among the measures within the key action 3, "Union tools and measures that foster the quality, transparency and recognition of competences and skills, in particular through Youthpass" will be supported. And last but not least, the month of May brought along the Council Recommendation on Key Competences for Lifelong Learning. With the recommendation, the key competences have been revised and updated. On this occasion, also the competences framework on the Youthpass certificate will be updated. This is to be expected in autumn 2018, and will only concern the certificates that will be issued from then on.
Bulletin BoardDid you know that 68% of the people who had presented Youthpass in an application process had found it helpful for that context? We created an infographic about Youthpass, to visualise the essentials together with some information about the impact that Youthpass has made. Find the infographic and other Youthpass leaflets online. If you would like to hand it out during an activity, you can easily print it out on a colour printer (preferably on a stronger paper). Looking for an easy and captivating way of introducing the 8 Key Competences in your Erasmus+ youth projects? The young people and project leaders in the Strategic Partnership project 'Ignite Your Skills' developed 8 video tutorials to explain each of the Key Competences. The videos can be viewed here. As another interesting product of the project, a Book of Skills was developed. Find out more about the project on their FB page Ignite Your Skills. Save the date - call for participants after summer
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