Non-formal education and soft competences – from personal experience
Non-formal education and soft competences – from personal experience

Summary/Abstract: It is generally recognized that to be fully successful, education has to be performed parallel in three formats: formal, non-formal, and informal. While formal education is principally about knowledge, the other two are largely about soft competences. Soft competences include personal abilities, behavioral traits and personal motivators and to achieve them young people have to perfect abilities such as problem-solving, decision-making, teamwork, and interpersonal skills necessary to both team and individual performance. It is in this context that the Faculty of Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University in cooperation with Children University offers children (age groups 6–7 and 8–9) chemical workshops, a teaching-learning activity typical of non-formal education. The objective of the workshops is to practice soft competences while performing chemical experiments. Herein we describe the workshops with successful experiments on effervescence.

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