The Conference on Quality Assurance of Lifelong Learning, the closing event of the YFJ Non-Formal Education Week, brought together 50 providers of all types of education together with academic experts and high-level representatives of European and Global Institutions. All the documents and presentations can be found here:
The network works on capacity building of the members and runs the quality assurance process that members can sign up for. If members consistently use the quality assurance scheme in their non-formal education programmes and are positively reviewed by their peers, they can receive the label : Provider of Quality NFE. The network will develop the label by 2013.
The network has two types of members: providers of Non-Formal Education and Education Stakeholders (institutions, other education providers, parents, etc). The members go through the quality assurance procedure and report on it to the stakeholders to develop a common understanding of Non-Formal Education and to build trust in the quality of NFE.
The European Youth Forum is facilitating the political process towards an agreement on how to organise quality assurance of Non-Formal Education on European level. Together with institutions and partners, we aim to have an official agreement in the form of a European Framework on Quality in Non-Formal Education.
