Report - Salto
Report - Salto
Report - Salto
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It is amazing, all the things you learn by taking part in youth<br />
work: communication, creativity, cooperation, sensitivity,<br />
leadership or building rafts from rubbish… It would be a<br />
waste not to recognize all these valuable competencies that<br />
young people acquire through their active participation in<br />
youth activities.<br />
Many recognition initiatives have been undertaken and<br />
many instruments developed to make young people’s<br />
learning in youth work visible, to document it and why not<br />
have it validated by accredited organisations.<br />
• Young people could increase their self-knowledge and<br />
improve their employability and opportunities in life<br />
• The youth work sector would be accepted as a valid<br />
learning environment complementary to other education<br />
or even in partnership.<br />
• Society and employers gain from the diversified<br />
skills available and formerly hidden or unconscious<br />
competencies become apparent<br />
The stakes for recognising youth work and the skills<br />
gained by young people in youth activities are very high, but<br />
at present the recognition efforts are scattered. Therefore<br />
the SALTO-YOUTH Inclusion Resource Centre organized<br />
a European conference to build bridges; bridges between<br />
different recognition initiatives and instruments and most<br />
of all bridges between different stakeholders. Bridges for<br />
Recognition.<br />
This report documents different recognition initiatives<br />
and various existing recognition instruments. It contains<br />
suggestions for action to bring recognition of youth work<br />
across Europe closer to reality.<br />
This report as well as other conference documentation can be<br />
downloaded from<br />
www.SALTO-YOUTH.net/BridgesForRecognition/
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