Excerpt from the handbook:
‘Hobby activities offer young people plenty of opportunities to acquire basic life skills and qualities such as self-expression and courage, cooperation and problem-solving, creativity and entrepreneurship. Knowledge gained at hobby schools com-plements that of regular schools and together they create the prerequisites for young people’s all-round development. Young people can meet peers with similar interests and they often get ideas for choosing their future profession.’
Click on the picture and take a look at The Summary of the HUKK-AP Project – the Programme of Involving and Developing Hobby Schools. You will find key lessons and recommendations also useful for working with autonomous employments: