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Quality and Criteria for eligibility
The province of Styria cooperates with people engaged in youth and children work for the
operational implementation of the fields of action and their direction of effectiveness. The
province of Styria promotes educational and advanced training of people working with children
and young people by establishing a training course for youth and social work. It ensures the
comparability of trainings at a higher education level of persons who work with children and
young people to guarantee the quality of children and youth work and to provide youth and
children workers with versatile development opportunities.
The province of Styria promotes institutions and projects. The current criteria for eligibility
provide a clear framework with regard to the necessary strategic orientation and quality of the
work with children and young people.
People who work with children and young people have the following qualifications:
Basic pedagogical education (for example university study, college...), additional issuespecific
certificated trainings
Experience in using and applying the methods
Institutions and projects are characterised by:
Good functional concepts and variety of methods. They refer to existing offers of
the respective field of action.
Inclusion of target groups in the process of development and evaluation as part
of quality control processes
Obligation to self-evaluation with regard to measuring the effectiveness
The application of the offers is designed in a way that the selected media, regional
structures and accesses enable the participation of the intended target groups
(see also diversity of the target groups)
All arrangements and activities, in any case, meet the principles of children and youth
work in Styria (see also the section basic principles)
Adherence to the law for the protection of youth in Styria
The province of Styria particularly supports the development of
cooperative and interdisciplinary ideas which promote innovation as well as
networking
projects which have the potential to show structural changes
Youth and children work requires a profound planning basis in order to set the right priorities
in the province of Styria. Accounts of promotion (projects and basic promotion) provide a quick
overview of statistical data and qualitative characteristics of institutions and projects.
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This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co -financed by the ERDF