Main results of the project "Youth work - uprising beyond the borders” that will be jointly implemented by NAPOR and Estonian Youth Work Centre are: Created recommendations and identified areas for improvement of national mechanisms regarding quality youth work, based on experience from study visits to Serbia and Estonia; Created evidence based proposal of new policy at national level that will be tailored to ensure sustainable system for youth work practice; Supported professional development of youth workers and their empowerment to introduce innovative methods and approaches into daily work and Initiated youth workers programs and policies improvements on the level of local organizations and local public institutions represented by youth workers involved in the project. The idea for this project came after assessing common needs on improving quality of youth work, area in which both partners are highly experienced, being central bodies on national level for development of youth work. Several international activities are planned in order to reach the results: study visits for 38 youth workers organized, in Serbia and Estonia, development of Analyses document on good practices that focuses to demonstrate the context of youth work, cooperation with youth field institutions and showcase examples of youth work practiced among involved countries, production of Policy brief on involvement of youth work into local public institutions in Serbia, Online campaign pointing out the competence of people working with youth through youth work programs, places where they work and type of youth work they practice and final event Share!, in the form of video web conference with the live broadcast. Careful plan for dissemination and exploitation of results of the project is designed in order to promote the project outputs and outcomes to wide range of organizations and institutions working on national and European level in the field of youth work.
The project "Youth work - uprising beyond the borders” was realized from October 2018 until November 2019. Project is jointly implemented by the National Association of Youth Workers - NAPOR and Estonian Youth Work Centre - ENTK, Estonia. Activities done during the project were: study visits in Estonia and Serbia, national meetings, SHARE conference and creation of e-publication based on campaign and creation of Analysis document. All project activities are implemented with the support of both partners, as well as their member organizations. In total 36 participants participated in the study visits and national meetings, 69 people were present on the SHARE conference, 20 youth workers participated in the campaign by sharing their stories. During the project, different organizations and institutions were presented (national level organizations, university, ministries and local level institutions) and their representatives participated in project activities such as study visits and the SHARE conference. The campaign implemented during the project had an influence in bringing closer youth work to youth; youth work practitioners, organizations and institutions. In that way, the wider audience could get to know what youth work is, who the youth workers are and what kind of job they are doing. All stories/interviews are compiled in one document and will remain open to the people after the project. Created document: Analysis of good practice summarizes advantages and challenges in both countries, giving also overview of different youth work practices. All created documents are at the Erasmus + result platform.