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C-STICKs JES vzw
MOVE Mutual recognition of skills and competences
learned through volunteering Towards a European
debate

• Stijn Vlasschaert
• Marjan Van de maele

ESF Bijdragen tot de ontwikkeling van de
werkgelegenheid door het bevorderen van
inzetbaarheid, ondernemerschap, aanpasbaarheid en
gelijke kansen, en door het investeren in
menselijke hulpbronnen
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JES (Youth in the City)

• Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent
• Action fields
• Training for youth work volunteers,
• Training and guidance (construction, hotel and
  restaurant,)
• Facilitator for youth culture,
• Organisation of adventurous activities in the
  city,
• Organisation of city discovering tours
• Outreach work for young people (NEET)

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JES volunteers

• Facilitator for adventurous activities in the
  city
• Facilitator for youth work training
• Guides for city tours
• Facilitator for youth culture festivals

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C-STICKs Aims 1

• To develop a digital tool for young people in all
  JES-activities on a USB flash drive
• To identify and assess their competences
• And to make personal development plans

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C-STICKs Aims 2

• To gather and to develop useful methods to work
  on competences with lowly skilled young people
• Become acquainted with terminology
• Discover their own competences and be able to
  talk about them
• Translate this in a personal development plan

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C-STICKs Introduction to competences

• Different roles of a youth worker
• Guide ? to be able to take the lead, to have
  didactic capacities, to guide a group
• Referee ? to make and defend rules, to give clear
  instructions
• Clown ? to be able to motivate, to take
  initiative, to be funny
• Construction worker ? to be able to organize, to
  cooperate, to work independently
• Friend ? to be able to listen, to have empathy
• Inventor ? to be creative, to experiment, to be
  flexible

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Stimulate self-reflection
Which role do you take more and less often?
Guide
Clown
Friend

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Stimulate self-reflection
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Exploring and assessing your own competences
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Exploring and assessing your own competences
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Digital portfolio

• A digital portfolio (on a USB flash drive)
• Easy to handle for young
• people
• Possibility to update
• Possibility to integrate in
• other web-applications like ,
• the website of the Flemish
• employment service,
• vacature.com,

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C-STICKs digital portfolio