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AimsAims

…aimed to… stimulate the recognition of skills

& learning by young people through participation in youth work activities,

enhance the social recognition of youth work in society (by schools, employers)

raise the visibility of youth work and its recognition within and outside the youth sector

ProgrammeProgramme

…consisted of… Political updates about the im-

portance of recognition of youth work Defining key terms in recognition Exchange of good practices of validation Discussing the needs of different

stakeholders towards recognition Debating controversial issues in the field

and giving recommendations for the future

ParticipantsParticipants

…invited… 120 participants (and 12 staff) of which 45 speakers & facilitators… and 28 reporters + 1 general rapporteur. 8 representatives from the Educational Sector 6 people from the Labour Market 29 YOUTH National Agencies 6 SALTO-YOUTH colleagues 41 Youth Organisations or Youth Trainers 30 Policy Makers (European, National, Local)

Virtual ParticipationVirtual Participation

…took also place online… ……at http://communities.trainingvillage.gr/youth/at http://communities.trainingvillage.gr/youth/……via www.SALTO-YOUTH.net/BridgesForRecognition/via www.SALTO-YOUTH.net/BridgesForRecognition/…and via web cam… Appr 40 new members in the virtual community Appr 1350 visitors to the Virtual Community in the month

before Bridges (compared to appr 320 visitors/month otherwise)

11 background documents from the SALTO Bridges sitewere downloaded 1110 times in the run-up to Bridges

19 people followed parts of Bridges via WebCam

Participant EvaluationParticipant Evaluationat Bridges for Bridges for

Recognition…Recognition… 100% gained

knowledge about Recognition (79% a lot-21% a little)

100% build up a network of Recog-nition contacts(64% a lot-36% a little)

100% got motivated for Recognition(75% a lot-25% a little)

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Programme Evaluation Programme Evaluation 11Participants

liked best…… 82% judged the

Opening Speaches positively

88% rated Terms & Concepts above average

74% liked the Expectations Panel

94% enjoyed the Good Practice workshops

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Programme Evaluation Programme Evaluation 22Participants

liked best…… 75% judged the

Networking Fair positively

76% rated the Stakeholder Needs Discussions above average

88% gave positive marks to the Hot Issue Discussions

94% liked the Bridges Conclusions

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PracticalitiesPracticalitiesParticipants

appreciated postively……

The Registration Procedure (96%)

Information before Bridges (98%)

Accommodation (96%)

Food (97%) Venue (97%) Bridges Staff

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VisibilityVisibility

…was visible to… 381 applicants & 120 participants 6511 SALTO newsletter receivers 51 YOUTH National Agencies/Coordinators/

SALTOs and their communication channels 539 users of the TrainingVillage YOUTH Virtual Platform

and 129 users of YES-forum.org 1596 European-Youth-Exchange list receivers and other mailing lists 19 people via webcam and 6450 visitors to the SALTO website (jan

05) Thousands of visitors to the European Youth Portal (News item) 55000 readers of De Morgen newspaper (Belgium)

Distribution of ResultsDistribution of Results

…will be spread to… All Bridges applicants & participants Via the SALTO website and newsletter

www.SALTO-YOUTH.net/BridgesReport/ To a variety of mailing lists (from different sectors) To the users of the TrainingVillage Virtual Platforms, to

the YES-forum and other relevant discussion groups To the network of YOUTH National Agencies & Coordinators To publications of a variety of organisations from different

sectors