Experience of the Project Approach to Non-Standard Forms of Youth Employment ‘Volunteering’ and ‘Voluntourism’ (Based on the Example of Public Authorities in Mariupol)

Galina A Krapivina,Milana V Pakhomova,Nataliya P Boretskaya,Yuliya O Burtseva,Olena V Chasnikova

doi:10.5755/j01.ppaa.20.3.28403

Abstract

The topic of the study is especially relevant because of the non-standard form of employment (NFE) ‘volunteering’ has acquired across the global. Similarly, NFE ‘voluntourism’ has recently been acquiring the form of a social movement and the development of mechanisms for public administration of these activities is far from complete. The aim of the article is to summarise the world experience of the project approach of public authorities to youth policy and the introduction of NFE of youth ‘volunteering’, as well as to analyse the experience of the micro-project approach of public authorities in Mariupol, Ukraine. The study is based on a comprehensive and systematic approach to public management of youth employment and uses methods to describe, summarise, analyse and synthesise the results of observations and experiments. The generalisation of the world experience of the project approach of public authorities to the introduction of non-standard forms of youth employment ‘volunteering’ and ‘voluntourism’ and the modern experience of its use is supported by UNESCO, which allows expanding its scope. It established that experience of the project approach of public authorities on creation of NFE ‘volunteering’ in the city of Mariupol, Ukraine, can be considered as innovative technology of information education. Thus, the project approach of public authorities with the use of NFE ‘volunteering’ and ‘voluntourism’ plays a specific useful role in professional and life situations of young people and allows them to perform social functions of professional, community and personal goals and competencies.

Highlights

The public authorities of many countries of the world paid great attention to the non-standard forms of employment (NFE) of youth
The main idea of the project was to build a platform for interaction of all non-standard form of employment (NFE) ‘volunteering’, youth student organisations, social initiatives with the public authorities of the city and organisations that need youth support and initiative
During the main stage of the microproject students majoring in Social Work of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Pre-Azov State Technical University (PSTU) founded the public organisation ‘Future of Mariupol’

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Introduction

The public authorities of many countries of the world paid great attention to the non-standard forms of employment (NFE) of youth. The public authorities set them the task of uniting and establishing contacts between people of different origins and different professions for the socially effective use of free time. These houses of culture in France were not part of the infrastructure of local communities. These were separate institutions that organised and coordinated the involvement of free time of young people in their area (Marchenko, 2018; 2019). In many cities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries, youth centres (according to the programme approach of public authorities) are created at university complexes. The ‘Organisation of Young Friends of Nature’ of Austria and the ‘World Association of Young Christian Women’ are the most common programme approach of public authorities to the organisation and forms of work with youth in the world (Table 1)

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