To pass... or to YOUTHPASS?

During the training course you will have the opportunity to deepen the understanding and knowledge of Youthpass by exploring its potential as a tool in the Youth in Action activities and as an instrument for recognition of youth work. The course will create possibilities to explore the meaning of learning-to-learn, Key-competences, assessment and dialogue process in your educational practice with young people. During the training days in Italy the important focus will be kept also on identifying the strategies for multiplying the philosophy of the Youthpass and developing concrete multiplying actions after coming back to your environment. The aim of the training course is: To increase the understanding of Youthpass in the Youth in Action Programme and support its implementation process to recognising non-formal education and learning in Europe and on National level Objectives are: - To provide participants with learning opportunities on international level by creating possibilities for sharing experience and developing expertise in non-formal education further - To deepen the understanding and knowledge of Youthpass by exploring its potential as a tool in the Youth in Action Programme and as an instrument for social recognition of youth work - To explore the meaning of components (e.g. learning- to-learn, Key-competences, assessment, dialogue process) in educational practice with young people and by implementing the Youthpass in this training - To raise the awareness on the wider recognition context of non-formal education and learning through the reflection on the recent developments in youth and education policies in Europe - To enhance the networking for supporting the further recognition work by providing the possibilities for participants to make contacts internationally and by identifying the potential and recourses for networking at their level of influence - To identify the capacity and strategies for multiplying the philosophy, idea and concept of Youthpass by developing concrete multiplying actions on personal, organisational and other levels