1. Youth Coaching & Compulsory education or training (AusBildung bis 18)
Thomas Eglseer BundesKOST Austrian Coordination Unit AusBildung bis 18
Study Visit Turkey – Austria, 1st June 2017
Venue: Federal Ministry of Education
Technical Assistance Project for Promoting Lifelong Learning-II
Provided by Austrian Association for Education and Economics

2. What is the BundesKOST? Austrian Coordination Unit AusBildung bis 18
Austria’s national hub concerning the initiative “AusBildung bis 18” (Compulsory education or training) and for the transition from school to work
Financed by the Service Agency of the Austrian Social Ministry (Sozialministeriumservice)
Encourages nationwide networking and cooperation of relevant stakeholders
Offers analyses and interprets data and statistics on programmes (e.g. Youth Coaching, AusBildung bis 18,…)
Works on projects such like a national wide project map of the support systems
Administration and Processing of the Monitoring System MAB – Monitoring Ausbildung bis 18

3. Policy background Austria
6,9% ESL between years (EU-28 average: 10,7%)
9th position in EU-28
The risk of becoming unemployed is twice as high for ESL
ESL=young people in education do not obtain more than a lower secondary degree
7,7% NEET aged between years (EU-28 average: 11,5%)
7th position in EU-28
NEET=Not in Education, Employment or Training
Early school leavers
NEET
Youth unemployment
Europe 2020
11,2% of young people between 15 and 24 years are unemployed (average in 2016) 5th position in EU-28 (EU-28average: 18,7%)
EU-2020-Strategy: The overall number of ESL should be decreased in EU member states by strategic interventions
Data: Eurostat 2016

4. Youth Guarantee in Austria
2013: EU Council recommendation on establishing a youth guarantee
„ensure that all young people under the age of 25 years receive a good-quality offer of employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a trainership within a period of four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education.“
Target group: NEET, Early School Leavers, ‘drop outs’ from the education system
Wide range of institutions are involved in avoiding drop-outs, bringing young people back into education or integrating them in the labour market and providing social and vocational support
Policy measures: Early intervention – prevention (e.g. Strategy on Eearly School Leaving), intervention (e.g. Youth Coaching), compensation (e.g. Vocational School)
Most-important nation-wide programmes are inter alia: Training Gurarantee, Vocational School, Apprenticeship Coaching, Early School Leaving Strategy, Compulsory education or taining (“AusBildung bis 18”), Youth Coaching,…

5. Compulsory education or training – AusBildung bis 18
…is an initiative of the Austrian Federal Government
The compulsory education or training law was passed in Austria on 1 July Every person under the age of 18 must attend another school or do vocational training after compulsory schooling. This applies to all young people whose compulsory schooling ends in 2017.
Parents are obliged to notify the coordination centres if their child has not been in school or vocational training for four month and is thus failing to comply with the requirements of compulsory education or training
Young people comply with compulsory education by e.g.
Attending secondary school
Participating in an apprenticeship training programme
Attending labour market policy measures
Attending a language course for young people who need special support to learn German
Participating in a scheme for young people who require assistance,…

6. Compulsory education or training – AusBildung bis 18
The aim is…
…that every person under the age of 18 shall be supported in his or her decision on the (vocational) education pathway and shall attend and complete a formal education or formation up to the age of 18. Those who are in danger of dropping out should be supported individually to reach the highest possible educational attainment.
How does the young person gets assistance?
Coordination centres
Youth Coaching
AMS (PES – Public Employment Service)
-> Together with the young person a perspective plan will be created which should offer opportunities in more education, vocational training, etc.

7. AusBildung bis 18 & Youth Coaching
Key institutional actors are.…
Key institutional partners are.…
Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection
Federal Ministry of Education, Federal Ministry of Families and Youth, Federal Ministry of Science, Research and the Economy, and further ministries
Provinces, Chamber of Trade, Chamber of Labour, Austrian Trade Union Federation, National Youth Counsil, etc.
SMS Service Agency of the Austrian Social Ministry
AMS Public Employment Service
School
Economy
Communities
Parents
Further institutions, programms, measures which provide support to young people getting higher education and training…
BundesKOST
&
9 coordination centres
AusBildung bis 18
&
Youth Coaching
Combined efforts by federal government, federal states and communities!

8. YOUTH COACHING

9. Youth Coaching Why was the programme established?
Well-established nationwide programme run by the SMS (Service Agency of the Austrian Social Ministry)
started in 2012 in 3 federal states; since 2013 nationwide
35 different projects (contractual partner SMS) and
488 youth coaches provide Youth Coaching (2016)
Funded by national funds and co-funded by EU (ESF)
Why was the programme established?
To reduce Eearly School Leaving by providing support for potential dropouts
To help to re-integrate young people who have already dropped out of the educational system

10. Youth Coaching
Delivered by 35 projects nationwide

11. Youth Coaching What is the programme?
Provides individual counselling and guidance on educational and vocational options and reduces the risk of marginalisation or exclusion
Provides individual support in case of problems, and in particular those that might interfere with training abilities
A service for young people in schools as well as for those who have droped out
The programme is free and voluntary for all participants

12. Youth Coaching What are the targets?
To prevent pupils from dropping out of school or training, thereby reducing low-level qualification
To retain young people within the (vocational) education system
To re-integrate young people who dropped out of the (vocational) education system
To support young people until the age of 18 in complying with compulsory education or training (AusBildung bis 18)
To identify gaps and needs for additional programmes
To elaborate realistic prospects together with young people relating to their education and career
…Enhancement of educational and training opportunities

13. Youth Coaching Youth Coaching addresses young people…
completing their 9th year of compulsory school and older students (particulary at risk of school drop out)
“outside the system” (“NEET” – Not in Education, Employment oder Training) up to age 19
with special educational needs and/or disabilities up to age 24
for all who need help to come to a decision in terms of education or career
up to age 18 who don’t comply with compulsory education or training (AusBildung bis 18)
Young delinquents up to age 21
Main target group: young people aged 15 to 19

14. Youth Coaching How does it work? Overview of the stage/phase model
Stage 0 (MAB)
= initial contact for young people under the age of 18 to comply with compulsory education or training (AusBildung bis 18)
Inform young people/parents/guardians about compulsory education or training / AusBildung bis 18
Overview of the stage/phase model
Stage 1
Initial meeting
Initial contact
Overview of Youth Coaching, general information
Determine need for support by Youth Coaching
Duration: approx. 3 to 5 hours
Stage 2
Advice
Clarify situation and agree on objectives
Vocational guidance and support in decision-making
Duration: approx. 8 to 15 hours within 6 months
Stage 3
Support
Intensive counselling through case management
Analyse strengths and needs, profile of personal skills & abilities
Duration: approx. 30 hours within 12 months
Subsequent system
Stay in or re-enter educational system
Transition to vocational training system or labour market
Continued assistance for young people with disabilities and/or former special educational needs through youth employment assistance where required

15. Youth Coaching How to access Youth Coaching?
Identifying young people at risk by cooperating with schools
Young people in the target group can be refered by other institutions
Young people who don’t comply with compulsory education or training are contacted by Youth Coaches (Monitoring System AusBildung bis 18)
Young people in the target group can access Youth Coaching on their own initiative
What are the cooperation partners?
Parents / Guardians
School
Economy
Other partners

16. Youth Coaching Data / Outcomes 2016 (Monitoring System - MBI)
participants in 2016
57% male, 43% female
Age: 58% 14-15, 35% 16-19, 7% 20-24
82% young people at the end of their compolsory schooling and 18% dropouts/NEET (young people who are not in education, employment oder training)
Everyday spoken language: 57% German, 12% Turkish/Kurdish, 10% Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, 21% Other language
67% young people without disabilities, 33% young people with disabilities
Just 1% droped out the programme, 99% finished
Recommendations at the end of the coaching: 48% for higher education at school, 30% for apprenticeship, 2% job, 20% for other programmes or support systems

17. Youth Coaching Data / Outcomes 2016
Results of the participants survey:
85% of participants evaluated Youth Coaching as being very succesful for themselves
81% got more clarity about their further steps in education or training
Youth Coaching is an outstanding programme
at the transition from school to work!
Different systems work together!
Positive effect on reducing dropouts and Early School Leaving
Support for young people with difficulties at the transition from school to work

18. Thank you! Thomas Eglseer
BundesKOST Austrian Coordination Unit AusBildung bis 18