The civil service in Europe
Final transnational meeting of
Project Civil Service Apprentiship
On 22 November 2006 have been
held in Roma at CNEL the Final meeting on project Civil Service Apprentiship.
The project Civil Service Apprentiship, co-financing from Leonardo da Vinci
Programme 2000 – 2006, has focused on aim to make skills more valuable,
subjected to monitoring and able to be tested. The skills involved are those
learnt in a not formal way, from volunteer civil service practices by young
people, a first aim that cannot be avoided in order to make fruitful use of
these skills necessary to get a job, mainly for women. The aims of the
project were valorization of European experiences of volunteer civil service;
design of effective training approaches able to transform skills from not
formal activity into a chance to raise employability; development of tools
and methods of monitoring and evaluation to promote the diffusion of a clear
and measurable not formal learning, above all in a context of civil service;
definition of guide lines to design paths learning of not formal learning,
whose competencies would appear able to be monitored and measured.
The partner have been attend were: Italy, with Cenasca Cisl, project leader,
Cesfor, and l’Erifo, the Bulgaria with EPA 21st CENTURY, the Spain with CECE
and Netherland with Stichting Europees Centrum EVC.
The expounded outcomes during the meeting had a similar traits: the
activities had always respected a twofold level one general, to uniform, and
one particular, to set off the differces between countries’ partner.
From the opening of the meeting with the welcome of the President of the
Cenasca, Arsenio Carosi, and Vice-president of the CNEL, Giuseppe Acocella,
has spoken about the twofold garment of the not formal training like
training of the young people not only for an active inclusion in the working
world but also like coaching to one aware citizenship. In particular they
have been emphasized like more competent and more aware young people create
societies with a constant and long-lasting development. This concept has
been repeated also during the presentations of analyses’ outcomes about the
excellent experiences, adding the importance of the state-controlled like
guarantee for the certification of the competences and like greater aware by
the institutions about the importance of a planned moment of passage from
the training to the job. From the analyses of the excellent cases executed
by the partners have been confirmed also an other element that the not
formal training prepares not only to a “job” but also to a professional
relationship and take great care over the enhancement of the social values.
The project previewed also a certification of the acquired competences, the
Declaration of the Competences, issued by the institution with the young
people has carried out the civil service. The Declaration is the result of
three step: it turns out of a questionnaire filled in income, in order to
emerge the competences in possession of the young person at the beginning of
the experience, and a questionnaire filled in outcome that evidences the
acquired competences and, third, the description of the gap that coincide
with the learning was over during the civil service. First part of the
morning has been concluded from Francesca Trani, by Isfol and tutor in
charge of the project. Trani has introduced the program of European
Community 2007-2013 emphasizing as it come out by these outcomes and like
they are important to become the base of the successive programming.
The second part of the morning has been spent with a round table with title
The civil service: Citizenship and competences, the chairman was Arsenio
Carosi, President of the Cenasca Cisl.
The round table have been open by Undersecretary to Welfare Ministry
Cristina De Luca, that express a interest by the Government about this kind
of training that train whether to job world or a aware and proactive
citizen. To strengthen this interest announce that on 15 on December will be
a meeting in Rome with 5000 young volunteers that have been carried out to
civil service. In this meeting will be present also the Italian Republic
President Napolitano.
Fausto Casini, of the CNCESC, Maria Paola Tavazza, of the Federsolidarietà,
and Don Giancarlo Perego, of the Caritas, have been notice as the non formal
training is a vocational training but also a personal coach to be a aware
and participatory citizen.
They have expressed the importance to guarantee the quality and to open the
possibility to participate to the project of civil service to all young
people, also to the foreign
In order to guarantee these two items is necessary that the organizations
that host the voluntary young people are organizations that have the culture
of the civil service that is that they converse with the volunteer in
constructive way, but also, referring in particular to the project, than the
monitoring will be adjust to a level more low, to allow a wider access.
The meeting has been closed by Sergio Betti, Secretary Confederal Cisl that
he has intentional to point out to a own worry that is the risk that behind
the civil service can hide a use of the young resources to low cost and that
the civil service cannot succeed to being instead a moment of professional
and civil increase.
To deepen the argument it is possible to download the documents from the
project website
www.info-civilservice.net .
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