In Europe, a current trend can be identified among NEETs, it concerns the rejection and the immurement at different levels of the society. Young people feel excluded from the society where their situation is not taken into account; young people reject a society that does not try to get them involved.The Eurofound report « NEETs Young people not in employment, education or trainin : Characteristics, costs and policy responses in Europe » underlines the civic apathy and the lack of involvement of the young people, analyzing this trend as a social risk.This study underlines the danger of this massive exclusion of the young people and the rejection of the institutions and the society. In parallel, they get attracted to extremism, such as political extremism (extreme right-wing in various European countries), as well as religious extremism.The European model and project is called into question. Including the basis such as democracy, freedom of expression, the right to be different or the freedom of conscience.The answers to these issues and risks of NEETs (risks for themselves and for the society) should go further than just promoting the search of a job or the return to studies.Com-Pass aims at giving an innovative input to this issue by developing a social and civic approach, with 3 steps:- to understand the NEETs’ path and get the NEETs involved in the society through the storytelling digital approach ;- to develop an educational approach so that NEETs can have a conscience about themselves and get confidence, within their environment and the society. The REAL-E method is based on the criteria of Repère-Equilibre-Adaptation-Limites-Echanges (Landmark-Balance-Adaptation-Limits-Exchanges);- to determine and highlight the skills and competences of the people involved in the project through an e-portfolio platform , based on the soft competences of the people – the comp-pass platform.This final objective of this 3-steps process is to get the young people motivated to get back to employment, training or any other kind of re-socialisation project (such a volunteering).This project is implemented by 7 partners, all of them with a lot of experience in the youth work and in non-formal educational methods.During 24 months, the 7 partners of the project develop 2 different trainings (one about storytelling and the second one about REAL-E), they make the experimentation of this method with 10 NEETs per partner, so 70 young people in total.As such, 14 facilitators of the partners will be trained to use the educational tools developed, through 2 short-term trainings.While the project deals with NEETs and the development of youth workers’ competences, the partnership will work on the comp-pass platform. This unique tool will allow:- to get a sense of belonging and to help the young to get confidence about themselves;- to develop learning by doing activities through the development of IT competences;- to make a presentation of themselves through an innovative and creative tool (CV of the future);- to create CV with hyperlinks making the link with the e-portfolio profile;- to include references and recommendations (multimedia, scanned documents, video/audio);- to make accessible any important and useful information for employers, training centres, hosting organisations;- to help the tutoring of the young people, through coaching/follow up.This 3 project outputs will be free to use through various networks: partners’ websites, project website, European networks of dissemination, amongst others.The outputs of the Comp-pass project, developed for social and youth workers will be disseminated to a wide range of people and organisations during and at the end of the 24 months of the project, using our resources and networks .The impact and benefits at mid and long-term is the capacity of youth workers to help the NEETs and to help them be part of the society.
Several reports since 2012 have identified the problem of young people in a situation of exclusion as a priority to which youth work, political authorities must pay close attention and find solutions. The heterogeneity of the Neets group in a country is reinforced by the realities that differ in the European states. Being Neet refers to very different realities depending on whether you are French, Bulgarian, Portuguese or Hungarian. The Neets, however, have in common precariousness, exclusion or the feeling of exclusion and a particularly low self-esteem. Comp-Pass aims to contribute to the answer to this problem by working in particular on the valorization of the young people in this situation and by accompanying them to become aware of the potentials which are in them, to discover them to re-motivate and rebound. This observation and this need, shared by European partners, gave rise to the Comp-Pass project. Comp-Pass's ambition was to work with young people to identify the skills that are theirs, to identify through their background and their stories the skills they have acquired, to name them, to appropriate them and thereby to gain self-esteem, feel valued, feel able to do. This approach is based on 3 elements, which together make up the Comp-Pass toolbox: - a method: the REALE method, working method on benchmarks, equilibrium, adaptation and exchange limit - a technique: digital storytelling or how to use ICTs to tell autobiographical stories without revealing themselves - comp-pass portfolio: acquiring acquired skills requires to name them, to visualize them, to understand the circumstance of their development. This is what allows the comp-pass e-portfolio, a central tool in the process. It is around the development of these 3 elements that a consortium is created around the French coordinator of the project, Pistes-Solidaires. As a youth organization, a player in European youth mobility via Erasmus / + EVS, Pistes-Solidaires has been encouraging youth mobility for many years with fewer opportunities. 6 other European youth organizations, which are also members of the LE.MO.N network (Learning Mobility Network), constitute the partnership: Pina (Slovenia), AMC (Portugal), Replay Network (Italy), Fekete Sereg (Hungary), Cazalla intercultural (Spain) and Know and Can (Bulgaria). During the 24 months of the project, together they will innovate and develop the method, the technique and the specific portfolio tool according to a research-action-research approach. That is to say: develop educational content and support, implement them concretely to validate their relevance, make adaptations from the test phase, and finally finalize developments and consider adaptations to other users , other organizations. Thus two trainings brought together the trainers of the 7 partner associations for a transfer of skills and knowledge on storytelling, as a first step and for the definition of the comp-pass pathway via the REALE method in a second time. This capacity building work involved 14 youth work professionals from partner associations, with each participant taking part in the 2 training phases. Once the developments and the e-portfolio system were built, it was then the REALE method that was created, developed through a playful approach, a board game, that everyone tested with local Neets youth groups. More than 300 young people took part in the project directly, and over 210 completed the REALE course in its entirety. The results of the project are all beyond the initial expectations: - for the organizations: a gain in capacity in the work with the Neets and a local recognition of expertise on the subject - for young people: immediate impacts, successful leads, rapid, tangible and strong changes in situations that confirm the interest of the method and our approach - for productions: They bring all high quality, relevant and useful support combined together, but also separately. They can be used separated the one to the other in youth work (multiple exploitation and transfer to other areas possible) In terms of impact, this method leads to strengthen partnerships with organizations in charge of the youth guarantee, for example, or the training of counselors / educators working with the Neets. In the longer term, tools such as the e-portfolio constitute a real support for any work of accompaniment of the young people and in the recognition and the valorization of the skills and competences gained through a learning mobility (It is tests now in a strategic EVS which addresses to Neets).