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07 SES 10 A, Different Pathways to Social Justice and Inclusiveness in Education
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Contribution
European Voluntary Service (EVS) was established in 1996 (Commission of the European Communities 1996) as a pilot programme which turned into a continuous voluntary scheme run throughout Europe for the subsequent 20 years (European Parliament 2000, 2006, 2013). The EVS has been continuously developed in terms of age range of the target group (from 18-25 in 1996 to 17-30 nowadays), number of participants (from approximately 1100 volunteers per year in 1996 to more than 6000 volunteers per year between 2007 and 2013), and budgetary allocations (from approximately 13 million ECU per year in 1996 to more than €44 million per year in 2007-2013). Even though the EVS scheme has changed over the past 20 years, mostly becoming more sizeable in terms of finances and number of participants, for the past 16 years, the EVS has always been a part of a wider scheme including also youth work: youth programmes.
Starting with the Youth programme (2000-2006; European Parliament 2000) through the Youth in Action programme (2007-2013; European Parliament 2006) and the current Erasmus+ programme (2014-2020; European Parliament 2013), the EVS has been labelled a flagship of the youth programmes (European Commission 2006, 2015). Although the connections between the EVS and the youth work segments of the youth programmes are understandable, since the target groups overlap and both of these contain a strong international aspect, there are at the same time many differences. While the youth work segments build largely on the non-formal learning aspect, in case of the EVS the learning is more of an informal character. While the youth work segments are usually based on rather short term stays, the EVS mostly focuses on long term sojourns. While the youth work segments are specifically designed experiences taking place in a rather safe environment, the EVS is a real-life situation. All of these aspects make these two main parts of the youth programmes quite distinctly different. Despite the differences between the EVS and the youth work segments of the youth programmes, the main objectives are common for both of these and rather stable over the years: active citizenship, intercultural learning, and solidarity development (Commission of the European Communities 1996; European Parliament 2000, 2006, 2013).
The research question thus arises: Are all of these common objectives achieved by both components of the youth programmes or are there any objectives which are more likely to be fulfilled by either of the two main components?
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References
Commission of the European Communities. 1996. European Voluntary Service for Young People. Online, available at http://aei.pitt.edu/6291/1/6291.pdf European Commission. 2006. The European Voluntary Service celebrates its tenth anniversary. Online, available at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-06-1624_en.htm European Commission. 2015. European Voluntary Service celebrates 20 years in 2016. Online, available at http://ec.europa.eu/youth/news/2015/1205-european-voluntary-service-20-years_en.htm European Parliament. 2000. Decision No 1031/2000/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 April 2000 establishing the 'Youth' Community action programme. Online, available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32000D1031 European Parliament. 2006. Decision No 1719/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2006 establishing the Youth in Action programme for the period 2007 to 2013. Online, available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32006D1719 European Parliament. 2013. Regulation (EU) No 1288/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 establishing ´Erasmus+´: the Union programme for education, training, youth and sport and repealing Decisions No 1719/2006/EC, No 1720/2006/EC and No 1298/2008/EC. Online, available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32013R1288&from=CS
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