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Reconition and identification of competences

• Focus on the recognition and identification of
  competences by young people

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Recognition and identification of competences

• Primary goal
• To enable young people to become aware of their
  capacities
• Focus on the personal development of young people
  
• A person is aware of what hes capable of. If he
  can identify, recognize and prove his
  competences.

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Recognition and identification of competences

• Difficulties
• Reflecting on own behaviour is often confronting
  and threathening.
• The concept competence is often a new concept
  for youngsters
• Youngsters sometimes dont link what they do in a
  youthclub with learning.

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Recognition and identification of competences

• Formaat Open Youthwork Flanders wants to develop
  a methodology to support young people in the
  process of becoming aware of their competences.
• The result of such a methodology?
• youngsters have a relatively clear view on their
  competences and how/where they have obtained them
• Youngsters have put together a competence
  profile
• Competence profile?
• Summary of ones main competences
• Electronic, paper, digital,
• Competence-profile ? Portfolio

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Recognition and identification of competences

• Other important goals of a methodology
• To make clear that young people also learn a lot
  of things in their involvement as a youthclub -
  volunteer
• To introduce the concept competence
• To learn young people to think in terms of
  competences
• To stimulate youngsters to reflect on their own
  behaviour and competences

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Identification, Recognition and Validation of
competences obtained in youthwork

• Timing from august 2006 till 15 october 2007
• Location Province of West-Flanders
• General Goal
• Youngsters are aware of the competences they
  obtain through a voluntary involvement in
  youthwork. This competences play an important
  role in their personal and professional
  development.
• To achieve this the research is split into three
  phases.

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Fase 1 Research in Youthclubs

• Goal
• Youngsters are aware of the competences they
  obtain through a voluntary involvement in a
  Youthclub'
• Most important tasks
• The development of a list of the keycompetences
  (and their most important indicators) that can be
  obtained in Youthclubs
• The development of a methodology to recongize
  competences of youngsters
• Timing
• September 06 till March 07

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Fase 2 Introduction of the project to the
other forms of youthwork

• Goal
• Youngsters are aware of the competences they
  obtain through a voluntary involvement in
  youthwork.
• Most imporant tasks
• The organization of a conference to introduce our
  project to other kinds of youthwork and share
  visions about the recognition of competences
  obtained in youthwork
• Invite youthworkers and organizations to adjust
  the developped methodology to the context and
  demands of the broader youthwork.
• Timing
• March 07 till june/july 07

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Fase Three introduction of our project to
the jobmarket.

• Goal
• Competences obtained in youthwork are valuable
  to the personal and professional development of
  youngsters
• Most important tasks
• The organization of interviews with partners from
  the employability-sector to learn how they feel
  about the usefullness of the validation of
  competences obtained in youthwork.
• The development of a document enlisting a few
  important criteria for an instrument for the
  validation of competences obtained in youthwork

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What is allready developped?

• List with 23 keycompetences
• Framework for a methodology consisting of 3 steps
• Competence game Competence-Sprint

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List of keycompetences
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List of keycompetences

• For example The competence Autonomy
• Description The youngster knows how to plan,
  carry out and controle a task autonomiously
  and asks for help when needed
• Example Joline can take care of an
  openingnight of the youthclub on her own.
• Actions The youngster knows whats needed to
  carry out a certain task.
• The youngster can carry out tasks on his own.
• The youngster respects appointments.

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Framework for a methodology

• Introduction of the concept competences (the
  competence game)
• Reflecting on competences
• Youngsters reflect on their own competences
• Youngsters give feedback on the competences of
  peers
• Methods
• Competence card game
• Putting together a competence profile and filling
  in the Europass CV
• Youngster make a summary of their main
  competences
• Based on this document youngsters put together
  their Europass CV.
• Why Europass
• Well kwown and accepted instrument
• To give youngesters a taste of what they can do
  with a competence-profile

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Competence game

• Competence-Sprint
• General goals
• introducing the concept competences to young
  people
• To show volunteers they actually can learn a lot
  as a volunteer in a youthclub (or in youthwork in
  general)

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