From 17-18 May in Bordeaux (FR) will take place the “Meeting of the European Platform on Learning Mobility (EPLM) Steering Group”. The EPLM focuses on the learning mobility of young people and of practitioners in the youth field, and particularly in various forms of youth work, which, in the view of the EPLM, should be supported by European youth policy.
The EPLM focuses on non-formal learning with links to informal learning as well as to formal education. Learning mobility in this framework aims to increase participation, active citizenship, intercultural learning and dialogue, individual competency development and employability of young people. Mobility is also to be understood as a possible source of genuine and diverse learning experiences, and it therefore becomes important to critically investigate links between learning mobility (settings and contexts) and identity building. The EPLM, in its work, not only considers European youth mobility policies and programmes, but is also more generally interested in learning mobility as a set of complex social processes transforming the conditions of growing up in Europe.
Moreover, the EPLM focuses on physical and organised learning mobility but does not overlook the virtual mobility facilitating and supporting physical mobility experiences.
A Steering Group guides the EPLM for a certain period of time. The members of the Steering Group represent a wide variety of stakeholders, programmes and formats in the field of learning mobility. The Steering Group consists of researchers, policy makers and practitioners. All those include: young people’s representatives and youth NGO’s – including the AER Youth Regional Network, European Youth Forum, policy makers from European institutions, national youth ministries and regional, local entities, researchers from universities and institutes, national agencies of the Erasmus+ programme, the trainers community, youth work practitioners and youth workers, youth information services, social work and employment / vocational education, and training sectors. The Steering Group is also responsible for the organisation of conferences to be held on a bi-annual basis.
In the coming Steering Group meeting the Youth Regional Network of the Assembly of European Regions will be presented by Mr. Vahram Vardanyan (Yerevan, AM), President of the YRN Committee on Economy and Regional Development.
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