PiFbase International is a strategic partnership involving four organizations from Sweden, Finland, Croatia and Romania focusing on the development of Innovation. Youth workers and the whole youth sector need to come up with innovative solutions to the challenge of reaching out to youngsters who do not engage in activities that would improve their competences and employability. There is also a need to equip young people and youth workers with the necessary competences to successfully manage and support diversity, since this will ultimately benefit young people with fewer opportunities and their inclusion in society. Our overall aim is to improve the quality of youth work when working with disadvantaged groups, by implementing and quality assure an innovative method (PiFbase) in four different countries. The implementation and quality assurance of the method serve as a tool to develop and share effective methods and practices in reaching out to marginalised young people and will be the core of a common knowledge acquisition during the project. Our objectives are: * Professionalize youth workers by setting quality standards and ethical and professional codes related to the coaching role and develop high quality skills and competences, particularly in their work with inclusion and diversity *Create space for youth workers to share experiences and know-how in reaching out to marginalized young people * Create a set of intellectual outputs to support youth workers in their personal and professional development * Improve capacity building, management and collaboration skills within the four organizations * Increase organisations’ ability to work with young people with fewer opportunities through promotion of social entrepreneurship * Improve strategies and methods on how to conduct qualitative youth work including collaboration with local communities and initiate cross-sectorial cooperation Partner countries will target different groups of disadvantaged youngsters (geographical, socio-economic, refugees etc.) The project will work directly with minimum 40 youngsters when implementing the PiFbase method, where young people get to learn social entrepreneurship by fulfilling someone else's dream, in four countries. Activities includes a three part training for coaches covering the themes of learning environment, proffesionalization of youth workers, social inclusion and diversity and quality in youth work. To benefit from the transnational part of the project, an experience exchange mobility is also included. The project will develop intellectual outputs such as a handbook/app for coaches, a learning book/app for participants, quality assurance toolkit and best practices resource. During the project period the method will be implemented three times in four different countries which will provide unique insight on how to implement and improve a method targeting hard to reach youngsters. The methodology to be used throughout the project will be total quality management where a particapatory approach is essential. Dissemination activities (including multiplier events) throughout the project is an important part of the project and will help to reach the project's objectives, reach youthworkers, organizations and other stakeholders to keep the results sustainable after the project ends. The results and impact of the project includes (but not limited to) * A quality assured method to use when working with young people and social entrepreneurship - impact will be more youngsters from disadvantaged groups who are active citizens and included in the society • A programme that have been tested to train PiFbase coaches but also can stand as a model to train youth workers in general -the impact will be more confident coaches and youth workers in general which will result in more qualitative youth work • A team of certified coaches who can conduct coach trainings and facilitate the certification of new PiFbase coaches and also use this knowledge when conducting other projects and carry out youth work - The impact will be a professionalization of youth workers and qualitative conducted youth work with trained youth workers • A method material including apps that can be used in the further implementation of PiFbase but also serve as an inspiration material when developing new projects and methods, especially when working with disadvantaged youngsters - The impact will be more qualitative conducted youth work which will benefit the sector and most importantly the youngsters but also give credibility to both the profession and the sector. * Cross-sectorial collaboration between NGOs and public and private bodies in four contries - The impact will be a reformation of youth work and bring a stronger credibility to collaborate with NGOs The longterm benefits of the project will be youth work sector characterized by inclusion, quality, innovative practices and cross-sectorial collaboration which will ultimately improve people's lives.
PiFbase International was a strategic partnership involving three youth organizations from Sweden, Finland, and Romania. Youth workers and the whole youth sector need to come up with innovative solutions to the challenge of reaching out to youngsters who do not engage in activities that would improve their competencies and employability. There was also a need to equip young people and youth workers with the necessary competencies to successfully manage and support diversity since this will ultimately benefit young people with fewer opportunities and their inclusion in society. Our overall aim was to improve the quality of youth work when working with disadvantaged groups, by implementing and quality assure an innovative method (PiFbase) in three different countries. The implementation and quality assurance of the method served as a tool to develop and share effective methods and practices in reaching out to marginalized young people. The objectives were: * Professionalize youth workers by setting quality standards and ethical and professional codes related to the coaching role and develop high-quality skills and competencies, particularly in their work with inclusion and diversity *Create space for youth workers to share experiences and know-how in reaching out to marginalized young people * Create a set of intellectual outputs to support youth workers in their personal and professional development * Improve capacity building, management, and collaboration skills within the four organizations * Increase organizations’ ability to work with young people with fewer opportunities through the promotion of social entrepreneurship * Improve strategies and methods on how to conduct qualitative youth work including collaboration with local communities and initiate cross-sectorial cooperation Partner countries targeted different groups of disadvantaged youngsters (geographical, socio-economic, refugees, etc.) The project worked directly with youngsters when implementing the PiFbase method, where young people got to learn social entrepreneurship by fulfilling someone else's dream, in three countries. Activities included a three-part training for coaches covering the themes of learning environment, professionalization of youth workers, social inclusion and diversity, and quality in youth work. To benefit from the transnational part of the project, an experience exchange mobility was also included. The project developed intellectual outputs such as handbooks and toolkits for coaches, learning- and reflection books for coaches and coachees, a quality assurance toolkit, and a training package and game for social inclusion. The results and impact of the project include (but not limited to) * A quality-assured method to use when working with young people and social entrepreneurship - the impact will be more youngsters from disadvantaged groups who are active citizens and included in the society • A training program that has been tested to train PiFbase coaches but also can stand as a model to train youth workers in general -the impact will be more confident coaches and youth workers in general which will result in more qualitative youth work • A team of certified coaches who can conduct coach training and facilitate the certification of new PiFbase coaches and also use this knowledge when conducting other projects and carry out youth work - The impact will be a professionalization of youth workers and qualitative conducted youth work with trained youth workers • A method material including interactive tools that can be used in the further implementation of PiFbase but also serve as an inspiration material when developing new projects and methods, especially when working with disadvantaged youngsters. General tools for youth work such as training package and game for social inclusion and quality toolkit - The impact will be more qualitative conducted youth work which will benefit the sector and most importantly the youngsters but also give credibility to both the profession and the sector. * Cross-sectorial collaboration between NGOs and public and private bodies in three countries - The impact will be a reformation of youth work and bring stronger credibility to collaborate with NGOs The longterm benefits of the project will be a youth work sector characterized by inclusion, quality, innovative practices and cross-sectorial collaboration which will ultimately improve people's lives.