to have the competences, i.e. knowledge, skills, attitudes and values, necessary for carrying out youth work in accordance with the principles and actions described in this Charter.

Competence could be defined as your ability to use your knowledge and skills in order to achieve set aims, and where ability consists of motivation and attitudes. This means that youth worker education and training as well as further competence development need to focus on all these factors in order to be successful – it should develop motivation and attitudes as well as knowledge, skills and the understanding of to what end these should be used.

The possible competences needed range from social pedagogic skills, over digital skills, to project management and they can, together with many more, be found through the references below. However, the basic competence will always be the ability to stimulate and support young people to engage in and take responsibility for activities that are based on their own needs, interests, ideas and experiences, thus contributing to their personal and social development through non-formal and informal learning.