One third of young people in the EU are at risk of social exclusion. Youth workers are facing the increasing complexity for the youths’ inclusion, because the risks of exclusion arise are multiplying, and they must deal with these challenges in a holistic approach (Kieselbach,2007). Youth work plays an important role in enhancing social inclusion. The aim of the project is to facilitate the exchange of competences and experience between 2 organisations from Romania and Spain to improve their youth work quality, through the professional development of 12 youth workers, to be active agents of inclusion, to fight against discrimination and to foster the development of social, civic, intercultural competences among youths. Target group:
- Youth workers
- Young people with fewer opportunities experimenting marginalisation
- Local organisations with experience in social inclusion
- Local decision makers representing the youth sector
- Representatives of the education system from universities
- Freelancer trainers with experience in youth work and social inclusion
- Young people from Romania and Spain facing economical obstacles
The project will develop a new programme which will facilitate the development of social, civic, intercultural competences of 240 youths with and without economical obstacles from Romania and Spain, and will raise the tolerance between them.We want to develop and share effective methods in reaching out to marginalised young people and in preventing racism and intolerance among young people. During the project we want to offer the occasion for 12 youth workers to critically explore the meaning, relevance and implications of social inclusion in youth work in all its dimensions and to understand the connection between social inclusion and social, civic and intercultural competences.
During the project we will develop, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate innovative and professional non-formal activities to foster the development of social, civic, intercultural competences among young people with and without fewer opportunities and at the same time we will ensure social inclusion. The project will develop new measures and methods to:
During the project we will develop, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate innovative and professional non-formal activities to foster the development of social, civic, intercultural competences among young people with and without fewer opportunities and at the same time we will ensure social inclusion. The project will develop new measures and methods to:
- Improve the quality of youth work in the organisation to identify marginalised youth with economical obstacles and understand the facing challenges
- Improve the quality of youth work to fight against discrimination and raise the understanding between youth with and without fewer opportunities
- Create a clear and common framework to be used by the 2 organisations in youth work, to reach the marginalised youth, to increase tolerance and acceptance among the youths with and without fewer opportunities and develop their social, civic and intercultural competences
During the project the experts from the two organisations will develop 4 intellectual outputs to be used during the project to ensure social inclusion, to develop social, civic and intercultural competences for young people with and without fewer opportunities and to reach the marginalised youth:
- An E-book, a research to investigate the existent situation on reaching marginalised young people
- An Open education Resource to be used by the youth workers, youth leaders, youth supervisors to ensure social inclusion and to create the design of an activity that involves jointly youth with and without fewer opportunities, to raise tolerance and fight against discrimination
- 21 new non-formal education methods, can be used with and without fewer opportunities, with particularities for each fewer opportunity to develop social, civic and intercultural competences, raise tolerance and promote non-discrimination
- A board game to increase tolerance, eliminate stereotypes and prejudice between young people with and without fewer opportunities and raise awareness on social exclusion and diversity.
The project will develop the necessary methodology to plan, monitor, implement and evaluate the non-formal education workshops using new innovative instruments. YOUTH WORK 2.0 PROJECT IS FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION THROUGH ERASMUS+ PROGRAMMESPRIJIN SI DEZVOLTARE ASSOCIATION ROMANIA is the Project Coordinator and Applicant and Inercia Digital is the Project Partner.
