Youth work plays an important role in enhancing social inclusion. The aim of the project is to facilitate the exchange of competences and experience between 2 organisations from Romania and Spain to improve their youth work quality, through the professional development of 12 youth workers, to be active agents of inclusion, to fight against discrimination and to foster the development of social, civic, intercultural competences among youths. Target group/ direct beneficiary: - 12 youth workers, no age limit 6 from Romania and 6 from Spain -From each country: 10 youths with fewer opportunities experimenting marginalisation, 15-30 years old, 10 local organisations with experience in social inclusion, 2 local decision makers representing the Youth sector, 2 representatives of the Education system from a University, 6 freelancer trainers with experience in youth work and social inclusion - 240 youth, 120 from Romania from witch 60 with economical obstacles and 120 from Spain from witch 60 with economical obstacles, aged 15-30 years old. Using non-formal education principles, the organisation will implement: -consultative meetings with expert to identify measures, methods and good practice that the organisation uses to reach marginalised young people and in preventing discrimination and intolerance -non-formal activities to teach the 12 youth workers how to use the produced intellectual outputs -learning workshops, where the 12 youth workers will organize workshops for 240 youths to develop their personal, interpersonal, civic intercultural competences - workshops to fight against discrimination, to eliminate the prejudice and stereotypes between the youths and to develop social, civic and intercultural competences and to develop an action plan what they can do in the community to be active and to participate in the democratic process -support the 240 youths to implement their action plan in the community The project will develop new measures and methods to: -raise the quality of youth work in the organisation to identify marginalised youth with economical obstacles and understand the facing challenges -improve the youth quality to fight against discrimination and raise the understanding between youth with and without fewer opportunities -create a clear and common framework to be used by the 2 organisations in youth work, to reach the marginalised youth, to raise tolerance and acceptance between the youths with and without fewer opportunities and develop their social, civic and intercultural competences The 12 youth workers will reach marginalised youth by use accessible means of communication and distribution of information to reach the marginalised youths; ensure the social inclusion of the 120 youths in the big group; will develop civic, social and intercultural competences for the youth, to apply their competences. The project will develop necessary methodology to plan, monitor, implement and evaluate the non-formal education workshops using new innovative instruments. The project will ensure a context where the 240 youths can develop their action plans and will ensure also the premises for the them to participate in an effective and constructive way in social and working life and to fully participate in civic life, based on knowledge of social and political concepts and structures and a commitment to active and democratic participation. During the project the experts from the two organisations will develop 4 intellectual outputs to be used during the project to ensure social inclusion, to develop social, civic and intercultural competences for the 240 youth with and without fewer opportunities and to reach the marginalised youth. The project will create synergy between the education, VET and Youth sector. The other organisation/ youth workers/ professors and other stakeholder can use the project results and outputs: - Use the research IO1 in their future projects and to reach marginalised youths - Use the IO2 e-learning platform, the videos to understand better, non-formal education, how they can use it during their activities, how to develop productive and secure environment for the youth with and without fewer opportunities jointly in the same activities, how to fight against discrimination and promote social inclusion in their activities and how to develop social, civic and intercultural competences - Use the tool from IO2 to design, plan, implement, evaluate, monitor and follow-up their activities, and will be easier for them to approach the social inclusion and fight against discrimination among their groups - Use the IO3 methods during the activity to actively engage the participants of their group - Use IO4 game to promote social inclusion and to form social, civic and intercultural competences among the group
Youth work plays an important role in enhancing social inclusion. The aim of the project was to facilitate the exchange of competences and experience between 2 organisations from Romania and Spain to improve their youth work quality, through the professional development of 12 youth workers, to be active agents of inclusion, to fight against discrimination and to foster the development of social, civic, intercultural competences among youths. Target group/ direct beneficiary: - 12 youth workers, no age limit 6 from Romania and 6 from Spain -20 youths with fewer opportunities experimenting marginalisation, 15-30 years old, 22 local organisations with experience in social inclusion, through 26 representatives and youth workers, 2 local decision makers representing the Youth sector, 6 representatives of the Education system from a University, 11 freelancer trainers with experience in youth work and social inclusion, from Romania and Spain - 240 youth, 120 from Romania from which 60 with economical obstacles and 120 from Spain from which 60 with economical obstacles, aged 15-30 years old. Using non-formal education principles, the organisations implemented: -Consultative meetings with expert, where we identified measures, methods and good practice used by organisation to reach marginalised young people and in preventing discrimination and intolerance -Non-formal activities to teach the 12 youth workers how to use the produced intellectual outputs and develop non-formal activities -Non-formal activities for 240 youths, implemented by the 12 youth workers where they developed the youths personal, interpersonal, civic, social and intercultural competences and ensured the social inclusion. Through the activities, we have ensured the context where the 240 youths developed their active participation plan and ensured the premises for the them to participate fully in an effective and constructive way in civic, social and working life. The young people participated socially and civically in the community through concrete actions/ measures/ activities. During the project the experts from the two organisations developed 4 intellectual outputs, a research, an OER, 21 new non-formal education methods and a boardgame, for experts that helped them: - Reach marginalised young people - Fight against discrimination and ensure social inclusion - Raise the tolerance and understanding between young people with and without fewer opportunities -Develop the social, civic and intercultural competences at the young people with and without fewer opportunities - Create, plan, implement, evaluate and monitor non-formal education activities with young people with and without fewer opportunities jointly The resources are addressed to youth workers and organisations who works with young people with fewer opportunities (or wants to work with them), but it can be used by any other expert or organisation from the Youth, Education, Adult education and VET field. The project developed new measures and methods that raised the quality of youth work in the organisation to identify marginalised youth with economical obstacles and understand the facing challenges, to fight against discrimination and raise the understanding between youth with and without fewer opportunities. The used methodology created a clear and common framework used by the 2 organisations to reach the marginalised youth, to raise tolerance and acceptance between the youths with and without fewer opportunities and develop their social, civic and intercultural competences. The project developed the necessary methodology to plan, monitor, implement and evaluate the non-formal education workshops using new innovative instruments.