BACKGROUND In the intervention work with young people, although there is a wide range of practice at European level, there is still no sharing and dissemination of practices carried out in European countries in order to identify and define the best and/or most young people's problems and needs. In addition, young people adopt an attitude of criticism and resignation to their problems and feel excluded from the decision-making process. Youth workers do not yet have adequate skills and tools to include young people in processes of active participation, co-management and co-responsibility. By precisely disregarding the needs of young people and lacking tools to help them diagnose them, they have difficulty reaching their target group and ensuring an active and empowering intervention of social transformation. OBJETIVES 1) Identify, collect and systematize European good practice of intervention and response to the problems in youth; 2) Reinforce European networks and the ability to operate at transnational level; 3) Plan, test and validate strategies and practices in the youth context; 4) Systematize a methodology (quantitative and qualitative) for obtaining, data analysis and support the development of a participatory strategy and their plans in youth; 5) Stimulate a critical attitude, active and entrepreneurial society for the development of new youth policies; 6) Develop knowledge, tools and content of free access to target groups. PARTICIPANTS Participants are: - Youth workers. Indirect participants/beneficiaries are: - groups of young co builders who collaborate with the managing teams, assist the development of content, critics; - Young "targets" for the application of the methodologies, i.e., all the young people of the regions of partners. PARTICIPANTS PROFILE 1) Youth workers over the age of 25; 2) Share the problem, needs and objectives; 3) Motivated to contribute at all stages, from planning to completion and sustainability; 4) Motivated to disseminate the results; 5) Proactive in creating impacts in themselves, in the target group and the communities of which they are part of; 6) Interested in continuing to participate and develop projects that focus on the priorities of Erasmus+; 7) Motivated to develop and stimulate the civic, participatory and entrepreneur spirit. ACTIVITIES 1) Transnational meetings – initial meeting/preparation, to be held in August 2019; intermediate meeting/monitoring, to be held in January 2020; interim meeting/monitoring, to be held in May 2020 and final meeting/evaluation, to be held in September 2020; 2) Preparatory and follow-up meetings (online) – July 2019 to October 2020; 3) Training courses/ Seminars – December 2019 and July 2020; 4) Identify, collect and systematize – September to December 2019; 5) Implementation and planning – January to September 2020; 6) Job shadowing – January to July 2020; 7) Seminar – September 2020. METHODOLOGY Non-formal education. RESULTS AND IMPACTS As a key result, we highlight the development of methodologies for guiding and obtaining the diagnosis of needs for the elaboration of strategic youth plans. The expected impacts on this project are: 1) Training of youth and youth workers; 2) Development of competences and learning based on NFE; 3) Improvement of the quality of youth intervention; 4) Openness to multicultural individual and collective learning; 5) Increase of social, civic and democratic participation; 6) Increase in the spirit of initiative and entrepreneurship; 7) Increase in inclusive and participatory behaviors; 8) Increase in territorial synergies; 9) Development of new initiatives for civic participation, entrepreneurship and innovation; 10) Promotion of values such as democracy, innovation, respect, change, tolerance, trust and dignity. BENEFTIS 1) The adequacy of youth interventions will be reflected at the real needs of young people; to value youth action and the active participation of young people; the development of the sense of identity and belonging, social inclusion, intercultural dialogue and multiculturalism; the consideration of non-formal education methodology as a training methodology for youth action. 2) Systematization of a methodology for guidance based on European practices of youth intervention, uniform, comparable, validated data collection and processing in terms of diagnosis and strategic planning.
-Identify, collect and systematize good European practices for intervention and response to problems in youth; -Strengthening European networks and the ability to operate at a transnational level; -Planning, testing and validating youth strategies and practices; -Systematize a methodology (quantitative and qualitative) for obtaining, processing data and supporting the development of a participatory strategy and respective plans for youth; -Stimulate a critical, active and entrepreneurial attitude in society for the development of new youth policies; -Develop knowledge, tools and freely accessible content to target groups. All of this allows for the adaptation of youth interventions to the real needs of young people; the valorization of youth action and the active participation of young people; development of the feeling of identity and belonging, social inclusion, intercultural dialogue and multiculturalism; considering the methodology of non-formal education as a training methodology for youth action; systematization of a guidance methodology based on European practices of intervention in youth, uniform, comparable, validated for obtaining and processing data in terms of diagnosis and strategic planning.
In intervention work with young people, although there is a broad context of practices at a European level, there was still no sharing and dissemination of practices carried out in European countries so that it is possible to identify and define which are the best and/or most adjusted in the response to the problems and needs of young people. Furthermore, young people adopt an attitude of criticism and resignation in face of their problems and feel excluded from the decision-making process. YW still did not have adequate skills and tools to include young people in processes of active participation, co-management and co-responsibility. By not knowing precisely the needs of young people and lacking tools to help them diagnose them, it causes difficulties in reaching their target group and ensuring an active intervention that enhances social transformation. As such, we respond to the needs to improve the quality of youth intervention; tailor interventions to the needs of young people; value the contributions of young people; develop the feeling of identity and belonging, citizenship, social inclusion, intercultural dialogue and multiculturalism. Thus, the project is based on a genuine and appropriate needs analysis.