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.
-UPDATE July 2022 !!-STAY AT HOME–WORK AT HOME-CORONA VIRUS -Our current EU project policy!
Digital Events Coming up / Do you want to join our Digital Events?
- Dutch ProcKD Snapshots
- Dutch Sesycare workshops
- EfDP Meeting in Sevilla, Spain read more here
Photo FX Transnational Project Meeting Hungary, Holloko, March 22-23rd: Dutch PhotoFX workshops- Transnational Project Meeting Social Media Savvy 2, Leiden, Holland, May 5th-6th 2022
- Kick off meeting EMO2C Cordoba, Spain: May 30th – 31st 2022
- Empower.Ment Learning Mobility Italy /LTT(Training days): 7, 8, 9 and 10th June 2022
- Transnational Project Meeting ProCKD, Madrid, May 9th-10th 2022
- SMS 2 Days: June 27th 2022
- Social Media Savvy (Part 2) Multiplier event: June 28th 2022
- Finetuning EfDP Modules and Assessments – Transnational meeting Villa Montesca: July 14th-15th 2022
- July 25th – August 8th 2022: Dutch Foundation Holiday Break!
- Empower.Ment Learning Mobility Greece (Training days): 19 20, 21 -22th September 2022)
- Read about our EfDP Dutch hosting event on October 7-8th, here
- Other brand new projects dates follow soon!
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 our new initiatives
and the Sidebar on the right as well (with our Recent Project News). We have more or less survided the several Corona waves due to the CoVID-19 Virus outbreak. All of our projects have suffered heavily and the time schedules have been delayed and postponed, but we have catched up! And we have started some new frsh projects like Need to Connect, EMO2C, DisFinLit, and many more.
Extended Project due to Corona The following projects have been extended due to Corona: Journey to Work 6 (also known as #GoingDutch) and EfDP.
The Dutch Foundation of Innovation Welfare 2 Work is a specialist on the fields of research, innovation and digital development in the fields of Entrepreneurship, 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: PhotoFX, ReConnect, Creating VET-Business Partnerships for Work Based Learning, Digital Tourism, Young Migrant Entrepreneurs, 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 are finalizing our final run: Journey to Work 6: A continous Success Story.
The Dutch Foundation is launching new initiatives in 2022, 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, – 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.
