The civil service in Italy. A
glance to the non-formal education.
The n. 64 law issued the 6th of March 2001 enlarged the voluntary civil
service to the girls aging between eighteen and twenty-eight years old as
well as the the boys of the same age limits, who are not capable of military
service. The law of 2001 regarding the implementation of the national civil
service considers, among the other goals, to defend the Country through
means different from those military, to promote the solidarity and
cooperation at national and also international level, to tutor the country
cultural heritage (such as environment, art, culture, civil protection) and
civil education (education for all, social cultural and professional for the
youngsters). The goals are involving all those boys and girls who deem
important but also useful to spend themselves in the communities, to work
and cooperate with others, to be actively engaged in the job and market
world.
The compulsory military service is abolished from the 1st January 2005 and
the military service is reorganized on voluntary and professional. Therefore
the denial of doing the military service, which actually prompted the
creation of the civil service, will lose the initial meaning.
The activities within the Leonardo da Vinci project Civil Service
Apprentiship (CSA), analysed the most relevant experiences concerning the
civil service all over Europe, with a peculiar glance on the non-formal
learning mechanisms. The final purpose is to create a map of the competences
coming from the non-formal learning due to experiences acquired during the
voluntary civil service.
The analysis of the non-formal learning experiences, in Italy, has been
focused mainly to those aspects of the civil service related to projects and
concerned with the activities of youngsters, mostly women, involved to help
the citizens by and large (youngsters, immigrants, handicapped, elders), to
promote cultural setups such as sport performance, communication and
research as well as social like communication centers.
The projects which have been analysed aim at teaching, sharing experiences,
pushing the collaboration and let the involved volunteers develop.
The managers of the involved organization have started cultural activities
toward youngsters, immigrants, women and elders with social difficulties
and/or handicaps.
These initiatives, according with the local conditions and the goals of each
project intended:
• to promote integration among different cultures, behaviors, ideologies and
religions;
• to create information centers on the issues of the labour market so that
they could become set points on the territory in order to make more easily
to enter in the labour market;
• to promote training courses;
• to set up surveys capable of looking closely the problems related to
motherhood, handicaps, retirement etc.;
• to promote cultural and sport activities.
The projects intended to involve the volunteers in order to:
• activate the attitude to criticize their daily experiences;
• acquire the know-how to perform a good communication;
• increase the performances and the activities related to receive, accept
and share;
• make possible the life experiences to become true choices related to value
contents.
The personal objectives derived from interviewing the volunteers regard the
willing to experience and challenge themselves in
work conditions either from a professional or personal point of view.
The experiences of civil service contribute to develop, improve and
professionalize, from their standpoint, several personality traits and
technical and professional expertise.
In the analyzed projects the volunteers were selected through a twofold
evaluation:
• in a first instance the evaluation was obtained on the basis of the
studies curriculum and education;
• secondly it was based upon the drives put forward for the choice made by
the volunteers.
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