The SFY - Skills For Youth project aims to develop, implement and transfer good practices in the use of the Fair Play philosophy as a means to educate young people to a correct civic participation, through the creation of opportunities for the increase of youth workers skills through Joint Staff Training Events. The objective is to obtain both an effective cross-fertilization and internationalization of the activities of the partner bodies, in order to improve the quality of the socio-educational actions and work of youth workers, and to positively impact on the quality of life of the young participants, reducing the risk of marginalization or negative inclusion in society thanks to innovative methodologies and integrated actions at European level. Specific objectives of the SFY Project: - develop new approaches for informal education and social inclusion of young people; - improve the ability of operators to manage diversity in their targets; - innovate strategies for the management of violence, discrimination and bullying among young people; - increase the quality of the work environment, stimulating the professionalization of youth workers; - promote social innovation and stimulate the activation of the educating community; - improve the ability of organizations to work in international networks. The project will unite different types of organizations in the sector to create a multilevel cooperation lasting 20 months: from 01/06/2019 to 31/01/2021. Main activities: Joint Staff Training Events: three events (PL Sept 19, PT Apr 20, IT Sept 20) aimed at improving the skills of young workers in the use of Fair Play as a means for civic education and for the fight against phenomena of social marginalization. 3 On-site experimental activities: for the creation and testing of a shared methodology for the use of FairPlay in informal youth education (Oct-Nov 19, Jul-Aug 20, Oct-Nov 20) 4 Transnational Project Meetings: meetings for the Project Staff for management, monitoring and evaluation activities, as well as for the definition of the shared methodology and the production of dissemination tools (HR June 19, EL Apr 20, LV Aug 20, ES Nov 20). The activities will be organized with specific attention to the different targets and will be oriented towards favoring a complete involvement of the participants, avoiding lectures in favor of methodologies such as peer learning, learning by doing, gamification. The management, by the Project Staff, will follow the division into WP defined in the design phase, in order to ensure an effective monitoring of the implementation of the activities. SFY wants to result in a positive and long-lasting impact: Partner organizations and youth workers: -cross-fertilization of socio-educational strategies at European level and internationalization of activities; - start of multilevel and trans-sectoral cooperation; - improvement of skills and work quality of youth workers and stimulation of international mobility. Young people: - better knowledge of the rules of Fair Play and their applications to social life; - better knowledge of the EU and of the opportunities offered in the fields of education and youth; - increased participation in citizenship actions and social inclusion; - improvement of living conditions, personal autonomy and the possibility of emancipation from contexts of unease; - greater understanding of the history and values of the EU and awareness of the importance of solidarity, loyalty and legality. Community: - increase in sensitivity towards the youth sector; -creating innovative and replicable socio-educational strategies available to the community; -stimulate the debate and policy making in the youth sector; - reactivation of the educating community and social innovation.
Il progetto SFY ha voluto raggiungere i seguenti obiettivi specifici: - sviluppare nuovi approcci per l’educazione informale e l’inclusione sociale dei giovani; - migliorare le capacità degli operatori di gestire la diversità nei loro target; - incrementare la qualità dell’ambiente lavorativo, stimolando la professionalizzazione degli operatori giovanili; - innovare le strategie per la gestione dei fenomeni di violenza, discriminazione, bullismo tra i giovani; - promuovere l’innovazione sociale e stimolare l’attivazione della comunità educante; - migliorare la capacità delle organizzazioni partner di lavorare all’interno di network cross-settoriali e internazionali. Per raggiungere gli obiettivi il progetto ha programmato la realizzazione di attività diversificate (3 joint staff training, 4 transnational project staff training, attività sperimentali in sede) con l’obiettivo di fornire occasioni per lo scambio di competenze e buone pratiche tra CNIFP, EFPM e organizzazioni partner, per assicurare la condivisione delle questioni relative al management del progetto e stabilire duraturi rapporti di collaborazione tra i partner, per testare l’efficacia delle pratiche condivise e favorire una ricaduta positiva del progetto sui giovani.
Il progetto SFY – Skills for Youth nasce per sviluppare, implementare e trasferire buone pratiche nell’utilizzo della filosofia del Fair Play come mezzo per educare i giovani ed una corretta partecipazione civica, attraverso attività di training congiunto destinate a operatori giovanili e volontari di associazioni culturali e sportive a livello base. Il progetto ha risposto ad un bisogno di portare il Fair Play fuori dell’ambito sportivo, in quanto strumento in grado di arricchire e rafforzare le capacità degli operatori giovanili di trasmettere valori e attuare progetti di legalità, cittadinanza e integrazione. Il linguaggio del Fair Play, ispirato all’ambito sportivo, ha risposto al bisogno di trovare una modalità comprensibile ai giovani nel trattare tematiche di cittadinanza, integrazione e legalità, fuori della scuola, assicurando un maggior successo delle azioni di empowering ed educazione informale. Il carattere cross-settoriale e multi-livello della partnership ha inoltre risposto al bisogno, emerso nel corso del progetto, di creare connessioni tra organizzazioni giovanili, culturali o sportive di base e organizzazioni nazionali e internazionali, permettendo lo scambio di competenze a livello verticale.