Following the launch of the research study “The Impact of Non-Formal Education in youth organisations on Young People’s Employability” last October,here you will find the links to the online final version of the full report as well as the executive summary.
– full report of the study: http://issuu.com/yomag/docs/reportnfe_print
– executive summary: http://issuu.com/yomag/docs/nfe_employabilitystudy-executivesummary
The study is available in English and Spanish (kindly translated by the Spanish Youth Council).
Background information on the Study:
The research study on The Impact of Non-Formal Education in youth organisations on Young People’s Employability commissioned by the European Youth Forum to the University of Bath/GHK Consulting provides the long awaited evidence of the need for more political and financial investment in youth organisations to ensure that they can deliver quality Non-Formal Education to more young people, thus providing more needed skills to more young people and ensuring a better access to the labour market.
Through consultation with 245 youth organisations, a survey with over 1,300 young people, desk research and focus groups with employers from across Europe, this research assesses whether the competences and skills obtained through non-formal education in youth organisations contribute to the employability of young people.
It concludes that long-lasting and frequent engagement and participation in youth organisations brings high soft-skills development. Amongst the six skills mostly demanded by employers, five are also among those developed through involvement in youth organisations: such as communication, team work, decision-making, organisational skills and self-confidence. For young people who participated in non-formal education activities abroad, this includes also higher development of language, intercultural and leadership skills.
The study also proofs that experience in youth organisation and the skills this develops are valued by employers especially when young people have no – or very little – formal working experience, thus making the work of youth organisation an important contribution to the transition of young people from education to the labour market. The participation in youth organisation is particularly valuable in developing social capital (network and connections) and in creating new vocation paths, especially for NEETs, early school leavers and young migrants.
