Second final conference will be organized on 30 July 2019 w CENTRUM MEDYCZNE, ul. Paderewskiego 5, 37-100 Łańcut. We invite all interested parties to the conference. The event will present results of the project, the future for Youth Worker in Poland and Europe, problems of NEETs, especially young people with disabilities.
Viva Femina invites to final conference in Rzeszów on 19 July 2019 at 10:00. The conference will take place in conference room of our local partner – Polski Związek Organizatorów Zakładów Aktywności Zawodowej i Warsztatów Terapii Zajęciowej, ul. Kolejowa 1, Rzeszów.
European Commission defines three main characteristics of youth work:
1. Young people choose to participate
2. The work takes place where the young people are
3. It recognizes that the young person and the youth worker are partners in a learning process Youth work include social, educational, sport, event, political and cultural activities carried out with, by and for young people through non-formal and informal learning.
Third and final partners meeting took place in Vigo, Spain on 11-12 December 2018. During the final meeting partners have summarize work done so far, dissemination activities, methodology of the pilot of the main results. The preparation for workshops and final conferences was also discussed.
We invite you to the Expertise Check-up elaborated during the project and now available in English and partners’ national languages. The objectives of the Expertise Check-up are to
The methodology proposed allows the assessment of the Learning outcomes the youth educator must possess to do an efficient job. Aiming to be exploited by agents both in the professional and voluntary sector, the presentation of a portfolio and an interview a declarative interview have been endorsed, as these seem to be the predominant methodologies used within the youth sector, proving cost effective and flexible.
| The 30th April 2018 it was held a multiplier event of the MAV project in Vigo. The Spanish SME Academia Postal 3 Vigo, S.L. organized it, as partner of the project, in collaboration with Academia Octavio (Research Institute on Youth training Policy), from the Universitat of Vigo devoted for Social Innovation. There was a registration and attendance of 20 people, 85% Youth educators and the rest took part from diverse social enterprises, independent entrepreneurs as well as representatives from other regional administrations of innovation and youth work. Even a youngster of 12 years old did not want to miss the event. |
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| Mapping, Assessing and Validating Competences of Youth Educators Working with NEETS – MAV
The desk research has shown there are some differences between the project partner countries with regards to various aspects related to the concept of “youth worker”, such as: definition, scope, official recognition and standardisation. More results you can find on our website: http://mav1.eu/ |
Second partners meeting took place in London on 11-12.04.2018. The main topics discussed were:
• Finalization of youth educator profile
• Expertise checkup for youth educators and its online version
• Valorization avtivities done in each country
• Organization of the pilot in partners countries
Last partners meeting: Vigo, Spain December 2018
Relations between a youth worker and a young person are largely dependent on the personality of the teacher, who he is as a human being, but also as an educator and educator. From the personality of the youth employee or – as M. Grzegorzewska would describe (cf. Grzegorzewska, 1959, p. 16) – his deeper correlations with young people are conditioned more than on the substantive and methodical preparation, which translates into the effects of work.
The desk research in frames of MAV project has shown there are some differences between the project partner countries with regards to various aspects related to the concept of “youth worker”, such as: definition, scope, official recognition and standardisation.
At one end the spectrum there is the United Kindgom, which has a system in place for youth workers which dates back to the late 1930’s, with National Occupational Standards defining what are the qualifications needed to be a youth worker, and a different range of qualifications and training paths to become a qualified youth worker.
At the other end there is Spain, where there is at present no professional figure as “youth educator”, however youth work is being conceived in a broad sense. This means that anybody working with youths at different levels can be considered a youth worker (teachers of pupils aged 15-35, school counsellors, job agents, sports instructors, etc.), while the profession that can be more easily associated with working with youths facing social and labour difficulties, is that of the social worker. In between, we have Poland and Slovakia. In Poland, although the figure of the youth worker is well defined, there is currently no common system for validation of the qualifications of youth workers, however some large organizations use a system based on standardized training and a way of validating the acquired knowledge. In Slovakia, the profile of the youth worker is also defined by law, although the term was introduced in Slovak Republic policies only in the last decade.