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Título: TC - "Dare to dream - Into the world. Competences for life"
Duração: 9 dias de 04-11-2016 a 12-11-2016
Idades dos participantes: Dos 18 aos 30 anos
Jovens portugueses: 2
Líderes portugueses: 0
Número total de participantes: 20
Idioma: Inglês
Países participantes: Portugal, Roménia, Chipre, Estónia, Bulgária, Hungria, República Checa, Polónia, Itália, França
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Resumo: In brief, the TC "Dare to dream - Into the world. Competences for life" is about empowering and enhancing the competences of the youth workers so that they support young people to exploit their experiences for personal, professional and social growth.
Objectivos: The objectives of the project are for youth workers
1. to gain knowledge related to the transferability of informal and non-formal learning into competences
2. to develop understanding why a life purpose is important especially for young people
3. to enhance their skills to guide the young people to use their experiences in order to find and pursue their purpose in life
4. to increase their motivation in supporting young people in using their competences (professionally and personally)
5. to develop a personal follow-up plan to use with the young people they work with
Alojamento: Accommodation and food will be covered by the organizers.
Descrição: The EU Youth Report 2015 has indicated that the current generation of youth is the best educated ever. One in three Europeans (between 30-34 years) has a tertiary education degree while 82% of youth (between 20-24 years) have completed upper secondary education. At the same time, youth show promising achievements in social and civic engagement. One in four youth has been a volunteer and 50% of youth are active in organization, club or association. This indicates the tremendous potential that young people have and the amount of things that can be achieved by putting all these in practice. Yet, reality shows that 13,7 millions of youth (between 15 and 29 years) remain out of employment, education or training. This illustrates a significant contrast between the potential and the reality and moreover, the block, the obstacle which remains between the potential and the practice.
Previously, youth work has focused a lot in developing the potential, the competences and the capacities of young people. European Commission has put forward dozens of programmes that invest in young people, reinforce their education, boost their employment and encourage their mobility. Nowadays though, a new need arises; the need to make the potential a reality. This means that we already have competent young people, so we need to start transferring the competences into practice, moving from the place of acquiring to the place of applying, implementing and achieving. It is time to support young people in order to “dare to dream and get into the world”.
Youth workers can play a key role in supporting young people to unlock and apply their potential. As described by the EC “Youth work develops the life management and social skills of young people which assists their transition to the labour market” . Practicing youth work ourselves, we know very well that youth work does not only support young people in entering labour market, but also in achieving personal development and social change! In an attempt to move from the place of competences/potential to the place of practice, there are 2 steps that need to be undertaken
1. Youth need to be supported to realize the competences they have and find ways to put them into practice, to apply them in real life for their personal and professional development and get into the world.
2. Youth need to embrace a purpose in life, a direction that will guide them throughout their life and is relevant for their personal, professional and social development. This is particularly important element, since without a meaningful direction, the application of the competences can dangerously fail. Young people need to dare to dream, to envision themselves and the society in the future and strive to achieve it by practicing their competences. The need for have a purpose is underlined through the research conducted by KPMG in Cyprus. The research reveals that Cypriots youth are concerned about the future, yet they adopt an apathy, rather than a determination for the future, showcasing the lack of a dream and a purpose.
In this context, the project “Dare to dream into the world. Competences for life” has been developed. The project aims exactly to reach its title; to enhance the competences of the youth workers so that they support young people to exploit their experiences for personal, professional and social growth
