The project is build up by a consortium made by three youth NGO’s from Romania, Spain and Poland and their associated partners (one Polish school, one Spanish enterprise and one Romanian enterprise) with the aim of developing tools and strategies for planning and assessment for youth workers working with youth facing NEET’s conditions from rural areas. The project was developed upon the needs identified by the youth workers from the 3 associations in their daily activities. The overall need that the project is addressing is lack of strategic planning and assessment that youth workers are facing both in their work with youth who don’t have any educational and professional objectives, but also in their organizations, where the activities are planned just on small and medium term. Objectives of the project Overall objective: Develop and select effective strategies and tools to support youth from rural area facing NEET’s conditions or early leavers from education and training to self-monitoring, self-assessment and goal setting through the exchange of good practices between three youth association from Romania, Spain and Poland. Specific objective 1. Developing a network of small youth NGO from rural area working with youth at risk in order to create and adapt methodology for this specific group during 17 months of the project. 2. Increase the competencies in planning and assessment of 12 youth workers working in rural areas in Romania, Spain and Poland during 3 staff training events and follow-up activities; 3. Empower 27 youth from Romania, Spain and Poland, age 16-22 facing NEET’s conditions and 3 group leaders, by training them to plan personal development and to be more active in their communities. 4. Empower 144 youth from rural areas from Romania, Spain and Poland, facing NEET’s conditions by training them how to plan personal development. Main activities: 3 learning activities for youth workers and one blended mobility for youth. Expected results: - 3 transnational project meetings: 1 Kick-off meeting with 6 participants, 1 Mid-Evaluation with 6 participants, 1 Final Evaluation with 6 participants. - 6 persons working in small NGOs better equipped with project management tools. - 3 international learning activities for youth workers. - 1 international learning activity for youth. - 36 youth workers (12 Romanians, 12 Spanish, and 12 Polish) better equipped with tools for individual planning and assessment. - 27 youth facing NEET’s conditions from rural areas from Romania, Spain and Poland and 3 group leaders empowered during a 5 days international mobility. - 144 youth facing NEET’s conditions from rural areas from Romania, Spain and Poland empowered
The project implementation was influenced by the Covid pandemic. Because of this the project suffered changes in terms of duration of implementation and specific target groups involved in the project. Initial period of the implementation, from 1st of February 2019 till 30th of June 2020 was extended with the permission of the National Agency till 31st of August 2021. The specific objectives of the project were achieved as followed: Specific objective 1. Developing a network of small youth NGO from rural area working with youth at risk in order to create and adapt methodology for this specific group during 17 months of the project. The intial objective was modified, by extending the project with 14 months. 2. Increase the competencies in planning and assessment of 12 youth workers working in rural areas in Romania, Spain and Poland during 3 staff training events and follow-up activities; The intial objective was modified by increasing the number of youth workers involved in the project with 10. The number of the youth workers involved in these activities is increased as the partners had to select different youth workers for the training courses as the intial group selected was not available for all 3 learning activities. The youth workers selected are involved in the activities implemented by the partners as full-time/part-time youth workers or specialized trainers involved in different activities and projects. 3. Empower 27 youth from Romania, Spain and Poland, age 16-22 facing NEET’s conditions and 3 group leaders, by training them to plan personal development and to be more active in their communities. During the implementation the project manage to empower 25 youth from Romania, Spain and Poland, age 14-22 facing fewer opportunities by training them to plan personal development and to be more active in their communities. The objective was adjusted by reducing the number of Romanian participants from 9 to 5, increasing the number of Spanish participants from 9 to 11 and modify the age group of the participants. The pandemic conditions, influenced the partners's posibility to extend the selection of the participants and limited the options to identify youth facing NEET conditions. 4. Empower 144 youth from rural areas from Romania, Spain and Poland, facing NEET’s conditions by training them how to plan personal development. The project managed to empower youth from rural areas from Romania,Spain and Poland, facing fewer opportunities by training them how to plan personal development. Results achieved by the project: - 3 Transnational Meetings implemented ( 2 Transnational meetings implemented by direct participantion: Kick off meeting - Cluj Napoca (6 participants), Mid- Evaluation - Illescas (6 participants), Final Evaluation - Online (3 participants) - 6 persons working in small NGOs better equipped with project management tools. - 3 international learning activities for youth workers. - 1 blended mobility - international learning activity for youth. - 22 youth workers (6 Romanians, 7 Spanish, and 5 Polish) better equipped with tools for individual planning and assessment. - 25 youth facing fewer opportunities from Romania, Spain and Poland empowered during a 5 days international mobility. - 144 youth facing fewer opportunities from Romania, Spain and Poland empowered