visegrad youth. comparative review of the situation of young people in the v4 countries ewa...

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!

Thank you!

Ewa Krzaklewska

ewa.krzaklewska@uj.edu.pl