Conference description:
This seminar took place on February 20-22, 2019, in Helsinki, Finland. It was held on the
Finnish presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. The seminar was
focused on education and professional training of youth workers. At the same time, it served
to implement the Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
on youth work adopted in May 2017 (CM/Rec(2017)4), which applies to youth work in all its
diversity. With this recommendation, it encourages the 47 Member States (whose representatives we were there) to develop their policies and practices in the field of youth work and to take measures to support youth work at local to European level. Member States were invited to develop a coherent and flexible competence-based framework for the education and training of both paid and voluntary youth workers. At the same time, it provided a discussion forum for local, regional, national authorities responsible for the development of youth work in their countries, youth workers, educators and trainers of
youth work, researchers, young people, non-governmental organizations active in youth
work. Together with Lifeology, we also contributed to trainings with the aim of developing a
competence-based framework.
