DFW2W – Our scope of Work & Areas of Specific Expertise:
- Accredited work placement Company
- Solving Young Jobs Puzzle
- Ýoung Entrepreneurship
- Work Based Learning
- Social Media Savvy (Digital Professional Identity)
- Social Innovation
- Digital Teaching and Learning
DFW2W initiates, creates, develops, implements all kinds of projects to solve the young jobs puzzle, boost young entrepreneurship, upgrade digital teaching and learning, practice by doing, supporting European, national and local governments, youth organisations, educational institutions and welfare to work organisations.
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Digital Events Coming up / Do you want to join our Digital Events?
- Read about our Social Media Savvy Learning, Teaching and Training activies in Campobasso
- ProCKD Transnational Project Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey: January 10-11th 2022
- Sesycare Transnational Project meeting, Istanbul, Turkey: January 11th – 12th 2022
- Kick off Meeting ‘Need to Connect’, Rekyavik, Iceland: January 17th -18th
- Kick Off Meeting ‘ADU Alliance for Green Entrepreneurship’, Sofia, Bulgaria, January 20th-21st 2022
- Transnational Project Meeting VET-WBL, Skopje, North Macedonia, January 24th-25th 2022
- Transnational Project Meeting Places3T, Brussels, Belgium, January 24-25-26th 2022
- Learning Mobility EDDI, Tahiti, French Polyenisa, February 15-18th 2022 (postponed – new dates coming soon)
- Final TPM and Multiplier Event ReConnect, La Valetta, Malta, February 20-23rd 2022: Read about the latest developments here
- Kick Off Meeting EMOC2, Cordoba, Spain, February 21-22nd 2022
- Learning Mobility ProCKD, February, Leiderdorp, Netherlands 23-24-25th 2022
- Learning Mobility Sesycare, Leiden, Netherlands, February 26-27-28th 2022
- Multiplier Event PhotoFX, Leiden, Netherlands March 5th 2022
- Empower.Ment Learning Mobility Italy /LTT(Training days): 7, 8, 9 and 10th June 2022
- Empower.Ment Learning Mobility Greece (Training days): 19 20, 21 -22th September 2022)
- Other brand new projects dates follow soon!
- Read about our EfDP Dutch hosting event on October 7-8th, here
- Soon we will publish about our Sesycare project event on 23-24th September in Athens, Greece
The Dutch Foundation of Innovation Welfare 2 Work (DFW2W)
DFW2W is an independent, non-profit organisation, based in the Rotterdam Region (Holland), which supports professionals (e.g. European institutes, municipalities, councils, provinces, governments, employment agencies, training providers, youth work organisations, non-profit organisations) and young people (aged 14-35) to reach their full potential in the fields of youth work, youth employment, job matching and mobility, traineeship, education, income, social innovation, inclusion, welfare, young entrepreneurs, of life.
For the most recent news of our work and projects, see the You Tube video Social Entrepreneurship is Entrepreneurship, the new initiatives and the Sidebar on the right as well (with our Recent Project News). We have faced the first and now we are in the middle of the third wave of the Corona Virus outbreak… All of our projects have suffered heavily and the time schedules have been delayed and postponed. We also have some good news. Some of our new approved projects are: SesyCare, EDDI, ProCKD, PhotoFX, Places-3T, EMPOWER.ment, Social Media Savvy Part 2, Creating VET Business Partnerships for WBL and ECVET for Digital Publishing.
Extended Project due to Corona The following projects have been extended due to Corona: ReConnect (extended for 6 months), EAER (recently completed), Journey to Work 6 (also known as #GoingDutch), Elevate, EEAR, Digital Tourism (was extended for an extra year by the EC and has ended end 2021) and Young Migrant Entrepreneurs (YME- is completed mid 2021).
The Dutch Foundation is a specialist on the fields of research, innovation and digital development in the fields of
The Team of the Dutch Foundation of Innovation Welfare 2 work
(informal) education, employment, labour mobility, social inclusion, counseling, cultural activities, entrepreneurship & European partnerships. Carla de Vreij, of the Dutch Foundation (see picture on the left) says: ‘Our goal is to set up partnerships and platforms for innovative good practices in our fields of , developing digital information for young citizens and professionals about employment strategies, mobility, legislation and regulation, the social map of the Netherlands and other countries, such as Turkey, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Belgium, Bulgaria, but also United States of America, Australia, South Africa, China, etc.). Social innovation is one of our priorities.’ DFW2W is engaged and involved in international, national, regional and local projects as well. These projects target young jobseekers, young entrepreneurs, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), employers & governmental bodies.
DFW2W is active in a wide range of topics in the European Union, from Early School Leavers and Work to Human Rights, Sustainabillity, Tourism, Entrepreneurship and Sports. Look closely what kind of projects we are currently running and the good practices done. Projects we have done in the past are for instance: Youth Worknet, (a.k.a. the European Youth Jobseekers Community), PROFARM NetMe-In and Social Media Savvy. Click on the topic titles above for a summary of what DFW2W does in that area, and for useful links to relevant projects, websites, partners and documents. We have been involved in the Journey to work Programme since 2013: Currently we run Journey to Work 6: A continous Success Story.
The Dutch Foundation is launching new initiatives in 2021, focused on young people between the ages of 18 and 35 to boost youth employment, and young entrepreneurs like ‘Young Migrant Entrepreneurs 2 – Entrepreneurial Hubs’, Places-3T, branding yourself Social Media Savvy 2, ReConnect, Creating VET-Business Partnerships for WBL – see also the most recent news items !), and many more to improve and modernise education and anticipate on the #FutureOfWork, more investment in skills of young people, and better opportunities to learn, work and study abroad.
