Non Formal Education Classroom at University

Non formal Eduation becomes day by day one of the tool with which policy makers and local, national and International government bodies try to foster knowledge and skills of their citizens and in particular young people. There are several programmes at local, national and European levels such as Servizio Civile Regionale, Servizio Civile Regionale Estivo, Servizio Civile Nazionale, Servizio Civile Internazionale, Youth Exchange, Seminars, Training, European Voluntary Service (EVS), Leonardo and Grundtvig Programme under Erasmus+ Programme. However, there are few research in which those programmes are analyzed in-depth and in long term approach. Moreover, there are few experiences of teaching of Non Formal Education at Higher Education context. This Project aims to introduce as a pilot project Non Formal Education for Students of Higher Education and trasfer the knowledge of the research Univesity of Macerata started since 2010 on the role of Non Formal Education (www.eu4youth.eu). In order to do so, the applicant would introduce the Theoretical approach of Economic of Education, the methodology used on the research, the statistical approach on how to measure the effects of Non Formal Education and finally presents to the students some key actors of Non Formal Education such as Programme coordinators and NGOs coordinators. Therefore, the module is organized with an theoretical introduction, a series of conference with the key actors and finally a series of computer lab classes in order to teach to the students to develop a research on Non Formal Education and analyze the data. The project last 36 months and each year will be offered to the Students 60 hours of teach, conferences and computer lab activities. Monitoring and Evaluation will be done during the project and at the end will be published a book in which will be gathered the results and the achievement related to the project. A final Conference will be held in Brussels in order to present the main results.