Existing arrangements

In Slovakia, skills and competences acquired through participation in youth work are not formally recognised or validated through a dedicated national procedure. While the country has general frameworks for the validation of non-formal and informal learning (see Section 6.4), these are primarily focused on vocational qualifications and do not specifically address youth work.

There is no institutionalized system that allows young people to receive formal accreditation, qualifications, or credits within the formal education system based solely on competences gained through youth work.

Skills

National project KOMPRAX – “Competences for Real Life”, implemented by Iuventa - Slovak Youth Institute in 2011-2015, was the largest national initiative to support non-formal education in youth work. The aim of the project was to enable young people and youth workers to have access to the renewed and flexible acquisition of competencies in youth work with comprehensive counselling services.