The Youth Achievement Awards are growing in recognition in Europe and provide a strong model for accrediting activities young people engage in through non-formal education.
The British Forces in Cyprus and Germany use the Youth Achievement Awards with their young people. There is also interest in the Awards in Iceland, Belgium and Antwerp. We are also working with the French Red Cross who is developing a youth award for France, using elements of good practice from the Youth Achievement Awards.
UK Youth is represented on the "European Network for the Promotion of Youth Leisure and Voluntary Activities and Recognition of Youth Non-formal and Informal Learning"; a European network of organisations that share similar objectives and wish to learn from each other’s experiences. For more information, please go to: http://www.nuortenakatemia.fi
Together with The Youth Academy in Finland, the Scouts in Holland and Nefiks in Slovenia we are currently preparing a large EU project on developing systems of recognising and validating non/informal learning in Europe.
We are also in the second stage of a Leonardo bid: Validating Young People’s Informal and Non-formal learning via Youth Work (VYPIN) in partnership with the European Confederation of Youth Clubs (of which UK Youth is a member) and Euroconsulting.
