Youth in transition - interim results

Local goals!

All partners have their own goals, within the joint goals

> ownership!

Denmark

Example: UU DANMARK

Germany

UU DANMARK works strategically with a coherent program and project portfolio tied together in a framework called “UngeVærk” (“YouthWork”)

We aim for synergy of resources, knowledge and results.

Pia Vigh

ungeværk.dk

Slovenia

Iceland

Youth Guidance Denmark: an association of the municipal youth guidance centres in Denmark.

The youth guidance centres focus on guidance related to the transition from compulsory school to youth education or, alternatively, to the labour market.

The purpose of UU DANMARK is to

• develop guidance methods and practises
• and to formulate policy based on our practise

uudanmark.dk

Regina

Lamscheck-Nielsen

Professional project management,

preferably on the sector of youth education and its related domains

PARTNERSHIP

Vocational expertise: country studies, analyses, evaluations, strategy work, competence profiles, learning outcomes, work-based learning

moeve.dk

Oct. 2018 - March 2021

Interim results, Sept. 2019

Youth-it.cool

Practice with NEETs:

DK: 200

IS: 30

SI: 50

supported in chain responsibility*

organised by scouts**

towards vocational maturity

transitions eased by scouts**

*Chain responsibility: Cross-professional & cross-sectoral coordination and cooperation

**Scouts: coordinators with counseling skills

with personal progression

Individual pathways

Our target group

Secondary target group:

• Youth counsellors, educational counsellors, social workers, VET teachers with special tasks, employment counsellors etc.
• Politicians and other decision makers both locally/regionally and nationally.

Primary target group: NEETs

"Not in Education, Employment, or Training"

Youths who risk becoming social outsiders with limited chances of a self-sustaining life

Often lack of both motivation and relevant skills

Transitions are the most sensitive phases on their pathways to education or employment

Challenges

• Young people feel lost "in the system", and the professionals experience frustration when cooperating in the interfaces between their professions

• Despite political focus the total number of NEETs is not decreasing
• Yet demands of society are increasing; the European societies are aging, and the trades are calling out for skilled workers

NEETs with a potential to create a sustainable life for themselves

Intellectual

outputs

Principles:

• Co-creation among all partners in (nearly) all IOs
• EU version + country versions

Country versions according to local conditions and needs!

Quality assured by Hamburg University

Dissemination

Interim results: (IO2) Vocational maturity

Interim results: (IO1) Analysis

"The needs of the NEETs & the needs of the professionals"

Analysis

Data collection

Theory

Taxonomy

Interim results: (IO6) Individual pathways

Counseling readiness > Choice readiness > Educational readiness > Vocational maturity

Research:

• Katznelson, N. - Motivational orientations
• Mik-Meyer, N. - Approaches to cross-professional cooperation
• Law, B. - Career Learning
• Schulte, S. - Educational and vocational maturity

Meetings & presentations

DK, SI, IS:

• Focus group interviews with NEETs
• Online surveys with professionals
• Video observations of encounters with NEETs (DK)

EU, DK, SI, IS:

• Desktop on contexts
• Statistics on NEETs

The needs of the NEETs:

• Individual approaches
• Awareness of progression
• Trust, close personal support and motivational scaffolding
• Authenticity & persistency from the professionals

The needs of the professionals:

• Cross-professional alignment
• Empowerment on knowledge and methods

Transfer of knowledge & tools

6 universal dimensions

Setting goals | Motivation | Resilience | Flexibility | Professional skills | Social settings

Multiplier event - winter 2020/2021

to be published freely from March 2020

Nomination

https://youth-it.cool/2019/07/vocational-maturity-the-six-dimensions/

• Guide: "How-to"
• Didactic with pedagogy and counseling principles
• Supportive organisational settings behind

How-to guide

menti.com 65 60 52

DK showcase

https://youth-it.cool/2019/08/interim-result-vocational-maturity-tool/

Website, social media, newsletters

https://youth-it.cool/

Data collection of impact on the NEETs: Progression according to the taxonomy

In action!

Interim results: (IO5) Training

4 modules

Methodology &

curriculum with learning outcomes, methods and materials

Interim results: (IO3) Trial runs of tool

Module (4)

Module (1)

DK: 100 NEETs

SI: 30 NEETs

IS: 15 NEETs

Scout´s profile

Vocational maturity:

tool and methods

Module (3)

Module (2)

Showcase Denmark

Cross-professional and cross-organisational cooperation

Individual pathways: design & co-design with NEETs

Tests in direct transition to VET, in the beginning of VET and at school-based training centers

Interim results: (IO7) Political recommendations

Guiding principles and quality criteria - produced and discussed

1) Feedback from NEETs on technical construction

2) Feedback from professionals on an added value for counseling

Composition

& content

to be applied on

Local level:

concrete actions described rather succinct

National / EU level:

notes paradoxes and bear the hallmark of generic indications

3) Spontaneous feedback from NEETs

In general

Actual recommendations

Shortlist of stakeholders on EU level

Interim results: (IO4) Scout* profile

*Scout: Coordinating individual pathways for NEETs and supporting NEEts on their pathways

Skills

Attitudes

• Organiser, coordinator
• Advocate of the NEETs
• Insight in system, § and ressources for the NEETs
• Continuous follow-up

Competences

Knowledge

Pia Vigh, UU DANMARK

Regina Lamscheck-Nielsen, Moeve

EuroGuidance, 2nd Oct. 2019