The Post-YU Trilateral Bottom Up Learning (PYTBUL) is a strategic partnership project in the field of youth primarily aimed for developing new, innovative and complementary tools and models for empowering youth in the region and fostering youth self-employability. Three partner organizations, Zavod Bob from Slovenia, Volonterski centar Istra from Croatia and Impact Hub Belgrade from Serbia, have gathered forces and created a project plan to address the important issues concerning youth. The project duration is 16 months - from September 2015 till December 2016. The project aims are based on the worsening situation on the labour market in the countries of the participating organizations where youth are rapidly getting excluded. They are constantly pushed to the edge of social security and exploited as poorly paid labor. The government structures seem to be unable to propose relevant solutions while the youth have the necessary resources to find solutions for themselves. It was demonstrated in numerous occasions through the activity in the youth sector. However, the efforts of the youth and the impacts of the youth sector remain unrecognized which is reflected in the amount of funds for youth activities, lack of interest for the systemization of jobs in the youth sector, lack of recognition of informally acquired competencies, which is the dominant way of obtaining them in the youth sector etc. The youth, youth workers and senior professionals from the partner organizations will cooperate in designing tools and models for improving competencies for youth employment and self-employment, they will exchange experience and good practice examples in the international events and present the results of their project work in the final multiplier event. The international events will be hosted by each of the partner organizations: Impact Hub Belgrade in Serbia in April 2016, Volonterski centar Istra in Croatia in September 2016 and Zavod Bob in Slovenia in November 2016. The final multiplier event will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia in December 2016. The Knowledge Exchange Base, a web platform, will serve as the main communication tool, addressing different publics/target groups. It will serve as a board for pinning various topic clouds: youth employability, personal success stories, legislation, knowledge exchange etc. The bottom up approach dictates methodology that will enable young people to actively participate in all project stages: project planning, implementation and evaluation. The competencies, acquired and/or developed in the process, contribute to their (self)employability which makes the PYTBUL project an example of good practice by itself. In their local activities the participating organizations will provide activities for their local youth and the youth workers (i.e. multipliers) to enable their active participation in the process of the design of the mentioned outputs. Besides the activities for youth the emphasis will be put on addressing policy makers and other relevant stakeholders with the intention to improve the position of youth and the youth sector in the region. In this regard the “Declaration on value of youth work” is an important document that will be created in the project, containing comparative analysis of legislations regarding youth sector in the three participating countries, examples of good practices, the assessment of the impact that the youth work activities have on developing competencies for youth self(employment) and policy recommendations. The project environment will result in new or enhanced local/ national collaborations and cross-borders partnering with organizations with different focuses/expertise. This trilateral has a potential to grow into a network of youth organization from across the post-YU region...
Post-YU Trilateral Bottom Up Learning (PYTBUL) je strateško partnerstvo, namenjeno razvoju novih, inovativnih orodij za intelektualno emancipacijo mladih, ki bodo dopolnjevala in/ali zapolnila vrzeli v že obstoječih možnostih za (samo)zaposlovanje mladih. Moči v partnerstvu smo združevali Zavod Bob iz Slovenije, Volonterski centar Istra s Hrvaške in Impact Hub Belgrade iz Srbije. Projekt je trajal 17 mesecev - od septembra 2015 do januarja 2017. V projektu smo razvili orodja in modele za podporo mladim pri (samo)zaposlovanju, izkušnje smo izmenjali na štirih mednarodnih srečanjih, rezultate pa predstavili na Dogodku za razširjanje rezultatov. Partnerske organizacije smo z delovanjem v svojih lokalnih okoljih mlade in mladinske delavce pozvale in vključevale kot aktivne sooblikovalce projektnih aktivnosti in rezultatov. Mladi, mladinski delavci in drugo strokovno osebje partnerskih organizacij smo v sodelovanju razvili orodja in modele za podporo mladim pri razvijanju njihovih kompetenc pri (samo)zaposlovanju: - PRiKAZ, Program za razvoj kompetenc za avtonomne zaposlitve - Add+venture, spletno orodje, ki mladim podjetnikom omogoča samorefleksijo, interaktivno povezovanje, vrstniško učenje preko dobrih praks in osebnih zgodb, mentorstvo, ter spremljanje razvoja njihove poslovne ideje, ne glede na (ne)profitnost - Youth Volunteer Management Guidebook, ki naslavlja specifike mladih prostovoljcev, upravljanje in priznavanje njihovega dela in pridobljenih kompetenc ter osmišljanje v kontekstu mladinskega dela - Predlogi točkovanja za štipendije najbolj aktivnih mladih v mladinskih aktivnostih s poudarkom na njihovi aktivni participaciji in soustvarjanju. - Spletna stran projekta Knowledge Exchange Base (pytbul.org) nam je služila kot orodje za izmenjavo in zbiranje informacij na teme: zaposlovanje mladih, zgodbe mladih, ki jim je 'uspelo', zakonodaja, mladinske politike v regiji, raziskave analize s področja ipd.. - 'Deklaracija o pomenu mladinskega dela' pomemben dokument, ki je nastal na osnovi primerjalne analize obstoječe zakonodaje, ki ureja mladinski sektor v Post-YU regiji, primerov dobre prakse, ocene vpliva mladinskega dela na razvoj kompetenc mladih za (samo)zaposlovanje in priporočil politikam. Osnovana je kot poziv trem deležnikom, ki so jih mladi definirali kot poglavitne za mladinski sektor: odločevalcem, mladinskim delavcem in mladim. S povezovanjem v tem strateškem partnerstvu smo razvili nove povezave v lokalnem okolju in mednarodno, zlasti v procesu prepoznavanja dobrih praks na mednarodnih srečanjih pri partnerskih organizacijah. Načrtujemo nov projekt sodelovanja, ki smo ga razširili na povezovanje z organizacijami iz Makedonije. ENGLISH Post-YU Trilateral Bottom Up Learning (PYTBUL) is a strategic partnership project in the field of youth primarily aimed for developing new, innovative and complementary tools and models for empowering youth in the region and fostering youth self-employability. Three partner organizations, Zavod Bob from Slovenia, Volonterski centar Istra from Croatia and Impact Hub Belgrade from Serbia, have gathered forces to address the important issues concerning youth. The project duration was 17 months - from September 2015 till January 2017. The project results are: - PDCAE, Program for Developing Competences for Autonomous Employment – a program of non-formal learning - Venture Growth Road-map, an online tool enabling young entrepreneurs to self-reflect, connect, establish peer-to-peer learning practices; engage in mutual mentorship and start and track their venture development. - The Youth Volunteer Management Guidebook, addresses the specifics of young volunteers and the management of their work, certifying of gained competencies – and comparing it to general youth work. - Local scholarships policy recommendations consist of recommendations on the criteria, procedures, amounts awarded per student per month and the consequences of receiving a scholarship. - Knowledge Exchange Base (pytbul.org), the project website/blog containing (1) latest news from PYTBUL (2) information on policies, analysis and other documents concerning youth sector and (3) sharing stories of young people who DID IT - Declaration on Value of Youth Work created based on comparative analysis of legislations regarding youth sector in the countries of participating organizations, examples of good practices, and the assessment of the impact that the youth work activities have on developing competencies for youth (self)employment and policy recommendations. It contains recommendation for three important stakeholders for emancipation of the youth sector: youth themselves, youth workers and decision makers. In this partnership we established new connections in local and international environments, especially in recognizing good practices on the international project meetings. We are now planning a new cooperation project that includes as well connecting with youth organizations from Macedonija.