Among social organizations of non formal education from Italy, Germany, Bulgary and Spain, a Strategis Partnership is created through this project. The aim is to promote the Emotional Intelligence through different methodologies. The addressed and participants of the project will be young people between 13 and 30 years old, educators, and youth workers. It will involve a process which will develop trainning for youth educators; a multiplier effect of the knowledge to the organizations; activities where practice the new methodologies and experience the beneficies of the emotional education; and an analysis and scientist research of the changes on the emotional competences of the participants. For the closing up and conclusion, an event will take place, where we will disseminate the benefits of the process where hundred of young people have taken part along these four countries. It will be the moment also where we will demostrate a democratic participation, providing the results of this project as a proposal of the Emotional Competence as a new key competence in the non formal education recognition sistem of European Comission through Erasmus + Programme, the Youth Pass.
This project is motivated by the training seminar on emotional education that we carried out in the month of November 2015, between Hungary, Italy, Germany and Bulgaria. The main objective of this project has been: to introduce emotional competence within the youth pass. The youth pass is a process, a tool for people who are part of the different projects funded by Erasmus + to document and recognize the results of their learning process. In this process eight key competences are recognized, which reflect very well many of the lessons learned during this process, but lack an essential, emotional competence. We believe in the importance of emotional education, since it promotes well-being, happiness, helps to be better people, to be better with themselves and with the people around them, because today we have content within our reach, at any time, anywhere ... but education is not putting certain content within reach, but accompanying them in a process, helping them in their personal growth. This need has been exposed in our association since it is necessary to respond to the emotional part of children and young people. The educators who carry out the s activities in the neighborhood, are committed people who work from the neighborhood and for the neighborhood. These activities are a tool to accompany them in non-formal education. Because emotional competence has historically not been valued, we have not dedicated enough time to this important aspect for the integral development of our young people, and therefore we see the need to pay special attention to emotional education within the non-formal education and not only in our organization, but in all those with which we work. With this project we have taken advantage of the different potentials of each association and we have shared different methodologies, creating an innovative methodological area among all of them to be able to work on this competence in non-formal education. The objectives of the project have been: General purpose: • Introduce emotional competence within the youth pass. Specific objectives: • Connect and promote networking with different European associations. • Reflect on the need to introduce emotional intelligence in non-formal education. • Train youth workers, youth leaders and multipliers on emotional education • Share methodologies to work emotional education with children and young people • Create an innovative methodological area to work on emotional education in non-formal education. • Share methodologies and knowledge with all of them • Introduce emotional education in the daily activities of our associations • Document the learning and personal evolution of emotional competence once emotional education is introduced in our organizations. • Share the experiences lived by the young people during the introduction of this competence in the activities. • Carry out a multiplier event where they explain the benefits of emotional education within non-formal education. • Motivate the commission to introduce emotional competence in the youth pass • Create a webblog where all organizations can share and are up to date on the progress of the project. • Create a support in which the entire project is collected to serve as a guide for other associations. • Ensure scientific support to endorse the process. This project has benefited, on the one hand, the organizations participating in the project, the yotuh workers and youth leaders who have been trained in emotional education and in the different methodologies that can be used to implement it in activities with children. and young people; and third, young people between 13 and 30 years old. The project has been divided into five main activities: a transnational meeting in which the curriculum that was implemented in each of the associations was worked on; a seminar in which three youth leaders from each organization were trained on the different methodologies used by each of the member associations: theater, mindfulness, positive psychology and neuroscience. Once trained, in each country the corresponding implementation was carried out and ended with a meeting to share the results of the implementation of each country. The last event was invited to representatives of national agencies to share the results of the project and convey the need to incorporate emotional competence in the youth pass. The results of this project have been very beneficial since it has allowed to fulfill most of the objectives