Transcript Presentation by Mr Francesco Volpini, Director of CCIVS

4th Connecting Civil Societies of Asia and Europe Conference
Changing Challenges, New ideas
Workshop 2 : Creating skills and competences for living and working in the ASEM area
Co-ordinating Committee for
International Voluntary Service (CCIVS)
International Network
Service Civil International (SCI)
Eastern Africa Workcamp
Association (EAWA)
Cotravaux
Concordia
CCIVS
EAWAYTS
International Network
UVP
SAWC
UVDA
ICYE
AJUDE
AUB
YAZ
St Martin
Peace Works
FAGAD
Cotravaux
JR
ICYE Nigeria
ZID
VCZ
VWAN
REMPART
VAWAN
SCI
France
CONCORDIA
SJ
YRS / VSS
SCI Germany
SCI
SEEYN
COCAT
IJGD
SCI Malaysia
MS
SIW
IVP Australia
IIWC
IWO
DEJAVATO
SJ Vietnam
UNA
NICE Exchange
INEX SL
LUNARIA
NVDA
MCE Mongolia
CIEE JP
ALLIANCE
"Since wars begin in the minds of men it is in the minds of
men that the defenses of peace must be constructed."
« Education is everything that humanity has learned
about itself »
J. Delors
Learning to be
Learning to live
together
Learning to do
Learning to know
EDUCATION
Learning to Know
Learning to do
by combining a sufficiently broad
general knowledge with the
opportunity to work in depth on a
small number of subjects. This
also means learning to learn, so as
to benefit from the opportunities
education provides throughout life.
in order to acquire not only an
occupational skill but also, more broadly,
the competence to deal with many
situations and work in teams. It also
means learning to do in the context of
young peoples’s various social and work
experiences which may be informal, as a
result of the local or national context, or
formal, involving courses, alternating
study and work.
Learning to be
Learning to live together
so as better to develop one’s
personality and be able to act with
ever greater autonomy, judgement
and personal responsibility. In that
connection, education must not
disregard any aspect of a person’s
potential: memory, reasoning,
aesthetic sense, physical capacities
and communication skills.
by developing an understanding of
other people and an appreciation of
interdependence, carrying out joint
projects and learning to manage
conflicts in a spirit of respect for
the values of pluralism, mutual
understanding and peace.
Learning to Change
Using Key competences as a tool to describe the learning
outcomes from experiences gained within Non Formal
Education programmes is relatively new.
The decision to go down this path is part of an overall
strategy to support young people in their personal lifelong
and life-wide learning process and to promote the
recognition of youth work in the wider society and its
importance in political priorities.
One part of this strategy is the focus on employability but
the other part is the future life of young people coping with
the challenges that come from changes in societies. This
common Key competences framework helps us in using a
more coherent language to talk about learning experiences
across different environments.
-Communication in mother tongue
- Communication in foreign languages
- Mathematical competence and basic competence in
science and technology
- Digital competence
- Learning to learn
- Social and civic competences
- Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship
- Cultural awareness and expression
Radar
Cultural awareness and
change in perceptions
Social and civic
competences
Personal and
professional
development
Project
activities
(Process)
Communication
and networking
Project outcomes (Results)
Radar
AE Alumni
1: Cultural awareness
2: Personal/professional development
3: Social/civic competences
4: Project activities
5: Communication/networking
6: Project outcomes
AEYVE Alumni
1: Cultural awareness
2: Project activities
3: Social/civic competences
4:Communication/networking
5: Personal/professional development
6: Project outcomes
Local communities
1: Cultural awareness
2: Personal/professional development
3: Social/civil competences
4: Project activities
5: Communication/networking
6: Project outcomes
Organisations
1: Project outcomes
2: Project activities
3: Communication/networking
4: Social/civic competences
5: Cultural awareness/change in perceptions
6: Personalprofessional development
VENN, VIDI, VICI
Local communities
Volunteers
Organisations
Women empowerment
Recognition of young people capacities
Cultural open-mindedness
Trust
Respect
Community development and bridge
Awareness-raising about the local feature of issues
« Claudia (MTV volunteer) told
me once ‘Don’t give up even
if you are alone!’ which I
haven’t and now I am in
charge of a study about
mangroves for Diponegoro
University! »
Importance of volunteers’ feedbacks
Better understanding of global situations
Specific partnerships
« Some volunteers don’t feel they
have the right to complain but they
have. I met once a Korean volunteer
in a workcamp who was more
nervous about complaining than
about the fact he got a broken tent! »
Self-confidence/self-esteem
Communication skills
Cultural awareness and open-mindedness
Creativity
Patience/flexibility
Relationship-building
Sense of responsability
Team work
Organisation/scheduling
“Accept the
culture and
work around
it”
Adaptation
Motivation/interest
Friendship
Language learning
Intercultural learning
Experience and competences development
Opportunity to get in touch with people
Problem-solving skills
Recognition of IVS
Open-mindedness to different working styles