YouthInfoComp
Background Work
leading
to
the
development
of
In September 2019, Eurodesk, ERYICA, EC-CoE
YouthInfoComp began in 2019 when Eurodesk
Youth Partnership and Salto Training Resource
was invited by the Directorate General for
Centre formed a partnership to compile a sub-
Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG
mission to ESCO. The group ran a survey among
EMPL) of the European Commission to join the
youth information worker stakeholders between
ESCO Community Fora.
November and December 2019, which garnered
103 responses from 25 countries. Outcomes ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifi-
from the survey were sent to ESCO and further
cations and Occupations) is the European mul-
input (a definition, translations, updated skills
tilingual classification of skills, competences,
terms) was also sent in August 2020. As of No-
qualifications and occupations. ESCO works as a
vember 2020, the Youth Information Worker (YI
dictionary or taxonomy, describing, identifying
worker) occupation has been included in ESCO
and classifying professional occupations and
and it was reviewed by Member States in January
skills relevant for the EU labour market and edu-
2021. A new version of ESCO will be published by
cation and training.
the end of 2021.
The aim of ESCO is to support job mobility across
Based on this groundwork, Eurodesk and ERYI-
Europe and therefore a more integrated and ef-
CA developed a competence framework to sup-
ficient labour market, by offering a “common
port the development and understanding of the
language” on occupations and skills that can be
YIW profession and its core values. A call was
used by different stakeholders on employment
subsequently published to establish a working
and education and training topics.
group to lead the development process; the working group met in November 2020, January 2021
ESCO provides descriptions of 2,942 occupa-
and March 2021, and oversaw the conceptual
tions and 13,485 skills linked to these occupa-
development, drafting, and consultation for the
tions, translated into 27 languages (all official EU
framework and publication.
languages plus Icelandic, Norwegian and Arabic). However, at the time, ESCO did not include a description of the youth information worker profession or the skills linked to it.
8 / Introduction
