Enhancing professional development of coaches supporting youth initiatives, developing and testing a new European competence standard established by MoU ECVET and a transnational common curriculum applied through joint training events and mobility Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enhancing professional development of coaches supporting youth initiatives, developing and testing a new European competence standard established by MoU ECVET and a transnational common curriculum applied through joint training events and mobility

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

Project Summary

In the field of youth work, the role of the Coach, a figure that stimulates and follows the work and the goals of young people step by step, has long been of great importance.
It is a highly qualified consultant, specialized in “existential training” and can provide tools and methodologies to focus on and implement projects of any kind, from personal development to sports, to working life.
The Coach is also and above all a trainer and facilitator able to stimulate, in their interlocutors, all the motivations for achieving the goals; To identify the best solutions in the shortest time; To identify the talents and needs of the other.

Various educational, training and youth organizations, in collaboration with public sector bodies, civil society organizations and civil society organizations in different EU countries, have supported an Erasmus + strategic partnership aimed at strengthening the professional development of Coaches, Through the development and experimentation of a new European competence standard established by the ECEV MoE and a common transnational curriculum implemented through joint training events and mobility.

The project aimed at:
– Analyze the professional field of young people in the participating countries, the results of the skills studies required for coaching in youth initiatives, as well as the experiences and good practices already implemented for their development, as well as the design of common standards of competence using ‘EQF approach to ensure transparency and recognition of learning outcomes by applying the ECVET process;

– Capitalize and implement these results and apply the EQF system to define the design of a common European standard of competence;

– To formulate, through a Memorandum of Understanding ECVET (MoU ECVET “Coach in Youth Initiatives”), the common European standard for the creation of correspondence for the evaluation and transfer of the learning outcomes achieved in the project;

– Design a common European curriculum (training standard) corresponding to the competence standard established by Mo ECVET;

– Designing, organizing and implementing a coherent joint transnational learning program (in particular through joint training and mobility events) tested in the project to enable Coaches of Youth Initiatives and other interested people in the participating countries to recognize the results of ‘ Learning based on the standard skills set up by the MoU ECVET.

The aim is that these activities promote mobility and the ability to become professional in the field of youth work, contributing to the emergence of a generally accepted standard of skills and training standards and promoting the implementation of the skills of people involved in the work ‘Coaching activities of youth initiatives (and indirectly improving the quality of learning processes experienced by young people engaged in youth initiatives). In addition, the aim sought is to expand the number of public and private administrators and users Finalists involved during and after the project, through specific dissemination and enhancement actions, including at European level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 281135,3 Eur

Project Coordinator

ARIS FORMAZIONE E RICERCA SOCIETA COOPERATIVA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Arte Cultura Comunità e Dintorni
• ASAD Cooperativa Sociale
• Regione Umbria
• Tradenet Global Szakképzés-szervezési Innovációs Nonprofit Korlátolt Felelösségü Társaság
• GIP FCIP DE PARIS
• DIESIS COOP