The Competences Manual | 8 Key Skills for Youth Employment

Editorial Staff — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 10:05:13 +0000

Introduction

Are you an educator or do you work with young people in the mobility projects of the Erasmus+ programme?

Discover the “COMPETENCES MANUAL”, written by “Mobility+“, in which you can find useful tips and guidance on how to enhance the 8 useful key skills to find employment during international mobility projects!

The eight competences

In this online manual you will find all the indications to develop and promote the “8 key competences” identified by the European Union:

Literacy competence
Multilingual competence
Personal, social, and learning to learn competence
Citizenship competence
Cultural awareness and expression competence
Entrepreneurship competence
Mathematical competence and competence in science, technology, and engineering
Digital competence

These skills are essential to enable young people to find employment.

Studies have shown that young people who take part in international mobility experiences or who have studied for a period in a foreign country find work more easily, because, thanks to these experiences, they adapt more quickly to new situations and are better problem solvers.

The manual

The handbook will introduce the development of these key competences into youth mobility projects and will provide educators and youth workers with useful tools.

For each of the 8 competences the following information will be provided:

The official EU definition.
A summary of the definition.
The use of the competence within the workplace.
Concrete examples at 4 levels.
How to validate the competences by looking at activities.
Mini test about the competences.
Keywords to express each competence.
Testimonies of mobility participants and adult education workers where the competences were acquired.

Where to get it

The manual is available online for free and can be downloaded in PDF format from the official website.

It is available in the following translations:

Covid-19 Effects on European Youth: Employment and NEETs

Editorial Staff — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 10:10:28 +0000

The committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL), part of the European Parliament, has just published a fresh new study on the state-of-the-art of the Covid-19 pandemic’s effects toward European youth, taking into consideration the employment status and the NEETs phenomenon.

Covid-19 Effects on Youth Employment

The study is an analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on young people, providing up-to-date information on their economic and social situation, with a focus on employment.

Young people have particularly felt the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of employment, education, training and mental well-being.

The vulnerability of young people comes either from:

temporary contracts of employment, or
working in the most affected sectors, such as retail, hospitality and tourism.

Moreover, the effects of Covid-19 were not limited to employment and in spreading the NEET phenomenon, as they hit also the school and education sectors, because of closures and restrictions over training opportunities.

The study analyses the effects of COVID-19 on youth unemployment, inactivity, social exclusion, work-based learning and mental health, plus NEETs generation. The analysis goes on the basis of quantitative indicators and qualitative information from policy documents. It discusses the probability of longer-term “scarring effects” comparing the impact of the current crisis to impacts observed during and in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in 2008/2009.

Key Results

Youth employment and unemployment rates developed in waves reflecting lockdown and containment periods. Although rates recovered since the first quarter of 2021, the EU youth employment rate was still lower and the EU unemployment rate still higher than before the onset of the crisis.

See the full report.

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