This project aims to experiment, create and disseminate new methodologies to promote reading among young adolescents/teenagers from non-formal education. The logic behind the project design is to have the reading process accompanied by initiatives that promote new scenarios and spaces of expression, renewed channels of participation and dialogue, in which adolescents/teenagers can develop and share tastes, concerns and literary curriculum. The action foresees a two-year strategy in which professionals from the reading promotion and from the dynamization of literature in the field of youth, coming from three countries but with previous experience in transnational cooperation, will exchange good practices and experiment with new methods. The objective will be a detailed analysis and diagnosis of both the literature for young people and the activities of reading promotion in the field of non-formal education, that are being carried out successfully in Europe. The professionals will come from three different counties (Spain, Italy and Portugal) with previous experiences in transnational cooperation. The methodological matter/issue will be approached from 3 main perspectives, according to the specialties of each one of the entities that form the strategic association of professionals: a) creative and artistic methods and strategies; b) gamification and play strategies; c) social research related to oral tradition and local history. The issue of youth literary repertoire will be addressed through a virtual reading club among professionals who work with youth and reading promotion. The action will bring to the exchange project activity called "The young Europe reads and creates", in which a total of 21 adolescents from the 3 countries and 7 professionals of the promotion of youth reading, will share 7 days of coexistence in Galicia. This exchange experience has been conceived as a laboratory in which the project partner/professionals will have the opportunity to test the activities, methods and resources created with different destinations to the local ones, to determine if they are valid and transferable, since they will be exhaustively evaluated by the young participants. This activity is a very valuable initiative for the adolescents themselves as they will share their concerns and tastes. It will be an enriching experience at all levels: linguistic empowerment, creative and artistic expression, social participation ... The visibility of both local and mobility/exchange initiative will be recorded and disseminated through a collaborative blog between the professionals involved and the groups of adolescents from the 3 countries. The result of this this process/project will be the implementation of a guide with methodological and practical recommendations for professionals who work in the youth field looking at the reading as a tool for the achievement of their performance: teachers, librarians, monitor, sociocultural animator, social educators, pedagogues, psychologists and psychopedagogues, librarians...
The objective of "Reading and non-formal education_ACNE" has been to experiment, create and disseminate new high-quality methodologies to promote reading among young adolescents in the frame of non-formal education; to promote new scenarios and spaces of expression. It, therefore, aimed to renew channels of participation and dialogue in which adolescents have been able to develop and share interests, concerns and literary curriculum. To achieve this goal, a 20-month strategy was designed and developed with great success, involving 3 European organizations and their extensive network of local partners (professionals in the area of readings’ promotion and stimulation of literature for young people). They shared good practices, experimented with new methods; they made a detailed analysis of the literature for young people and a diagnosis of the activities to promote reading in this specific context that have been successfully carried out in Europe. Methodological aspects have been approached from 3 main perspectives, according to the specialities of each of the actors that make up the strategic partnership: a) creative and artistic methods and strategies; b) gamification and playful strategies; c) social research related to oral tradition and local history. A large number of local initiatives were carried out in the three countries; different strategies and resources were tested and evaluated in direct collaboration with reading groups, youth clubs and cultural associations. In particular, the issue of the youth literary repertoire was worked through a virtual reading club where reading promotion workers could give their contribution. In this virtual reading club, 6 literary works of proven success were selected and analyzed and commented into the project blog and in of the transnational meetings. It has been a very revealing proposal since it has helped to achieve a better understanding of the literary universe of young people and to guide our professional practice. "La joven Europa lee y crea" has been the activity that gave the project a special meaning: this mobility program permitted to 23 adolescents from the 3 countries and 7 professionals in the promotion of youth reading to share 7 days of coexistence in Galicia. Thanks to the mobility we had the invaluable opportunity to test activities, methods and resources created during the development phase of local initiatives; it has therefore been possible to determine their validity and transferability to other contexts and realities, as they have been thoroughly evaluated by the young participants.The results have been extremely satisfactory both for the professionals, who have increased their professional capacities to work with the youth group, and for adolescents, who have developed a clear and unequivocal linguistic, creative and, above all, social empowerment. An indicator of this success and impact is the creation and consolidation of local initiatives (such as the birth of new reading groups or the continuity of activities developed during the partnership. This Success is tangible also at the transnational level: for example, new projects have been created in collaboration with the adolescents and a selection of those that will have a strong “replicability” character will be submitted to the next Erasmus Plus call. In these new projects they have demanded more commitment and responsibility. As a result of this process, various graphic and audiovisual materials have been developed. This material will be of great benefit to professionals in the field of youth who consider reading as a tool to fulfil their role: teachers, librarians, monitors and sociocultural animators, social educators, pedagogues, psychologists and psycho-pedagogues, librarians: A selection of the graphic and audiovisual materials produced by the project is listed below: -"Manifesto for a passion": this is an illustrated compendium of reflections and practical recommendations to promote youth reading, the result of several dynamics developed during the Exchange. - A total of 16 videos in which young people participating in the Exchange share their reading experience and opinions and advice to encourage reading.