Visegrad Youth. Comparative review of the situation of young people in the V4 countries Ewa Krzaklewska Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland Pool of the European Youth Researchers, COE&EU Youth Partnership
Dec 14, 2015
Visegrad Youth.Comparative review of the
situation of young people in the V4 countries
Ewa KrzaklewskaJagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Pool of the European Youth Researchers, COE&EU Youth Partnership
Plan of review
Young people situation in the V4 countries – background information
Comparative analysis of the four focus themes
1. Employment & Entrepreneurship
2. Voluntary activities and their international dimension
3. Participation
4. Non-formal learning
Population data
=> Population aging, low fertility, late motherhood
Involvement in education
Risk of poverty
Employment & Entrepreneurship
Counselling
Good practice
Voluntary activities and their international dimension
Potential for growth
New attitude:
- Information accessible
- New media
- Institutional engagment
- Business
- Local activism
Volunteering
Lack of recognition/
prestige
Not in a career model
Low awarness
Low NGO recources
Lack of understandin
g why it is needed
Good practice
Participation
Hear my voice!
Youth participation
- Youth organisations (10-15%)- Community planning- Private expressions/artistic actions- Online participation
Good practice
Non-formal learning
Non-formal learning is purposive but voluntary learning that takes place in a diverse range of environments and situations, for which teaching/training and learning is not necessarily their sole or main activity (Chrisholm 2005)
ERASMUS PROGRAMME PARTICIPATION
Good practice
Recommendations 1
Employment- Quality employment- Internships- Individualised counselling - PES- Promoting entrepreneurial activity- Promoting women participation in the
labour market
Recommendations 2
Promoting volunteering- As a part of curricula- As a tool for social inclusion- Of an intercultural/international character- Strengthening NGO’s capacity
Recommendations 3
Strenghtening youth participation- Strenghtening local participation- Finding you ways to involve young people
e.g. online- Appreciate alternative participation by
listening actively to its results- Empowering young people as leaders
Recommendations 4
Non-formal learning - Recognition of diverse forms of non-formal
learning- Investments into youth workers
competences- Widen access to intercultural encounters
PLUS: V4 collaboration should be encouraged!