Background

Background Background

Work leading to the development of YouthInfoComp began in 2019 when Eurodesk was invited by the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL) of the European Commission to join the ESCO Community Fora.

ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations) is the European mul-

tilingual classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations. ESCO works as a dictionary or taxonomy, describing, identifying and classifying professional occupations and skills relevant for the EU labour market and education and training.

The aim of ESCO is to support job mobility across Europe and therefore a more integrated and efficient labour market, by offering a “common language” on occupations and skills that can be used by different stakeholders on employment and education and training topics. 103 responses from 25 countries. Outcomes

from the survey were sent to ESCO and further input (a definition, translations, updated skills terms) was also sent in August 2020. As of November 2020, the Youth Information Worker (YI worker) occupation has been included in ESCO and it was reviewed by Member States in January 2021. A new version of ESCO will be published by the end of 2021.

Based on this groundwork, Eurodesk and ERYICA developed a competence framework to support the development and understanding of the YIW profession and its core values. A call was subsequently published to establish a working group to lead the development process; the working group met in November 2020, January 2021 and March 2021, and oversaw the conceptual development, drafting, and consultation for the framework and publication.

ESCO provides descriptions of 2,942 occupa-

tions and 13,485 skills linked to these occupations, translated into 27 languages (all official EU 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. In September 2019, Eurodesk, ERYICA, EC-CoE Youth Partnership and Salto Training Resource Centre formed a partnership to compile a submission to ESCO. The group ran a survey among youth information worker stakeholders between November and December 2019, which garnered