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Competitive Youth Workers in Support of Young Vulnerable People

2019-3-RO01-KA105-0779402019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: RO|PL · Grant: €11,958
Social dialogueOpen and distance learningRecognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

Objectives

Developing the professional dimension of youth workers, in the context of a European cooperation partnership between Romania and Poland. There will be used non-formal and informal education tools, tools to support the activities that the youth workers carry out with the disadvantaged young people, with the role of promoting European values ​​and acquiring specific competences, in order to prevent the marginalization of young people at risk. The quality of this project arises from the mobility that will be implemented among the youth workers from the partner countries, an opportunity granted to the youth workers within the Social Assistance Directorate to visit a country with more experience in addressing the social problems of disadvantaged young people. The project supports the development of the participants in personal and educational level, as well as learning about the issues in the host country, presenting the problems existing locally, with a view to a qualified intervention, to realize the exchange of good practices between the two groups of workers, to travel in intercultural spaces different from their own space in which they live, in order to know new customs and traditions. The intervention of the youth workers will be on the young people, who face problems of: poverty, lack of education, unemployment, domestic violence, drug addiction, alcohol, etc., discrimination on ethnic and religious principles, racism and other forms of intolerance. The youth workers, when returning to the country, will have the mission to disseminate to other specialists who will intervene on young people at risk of social exclusion, with ages up to 30 years. For the team of youth workers will be the opportunity by which they will acquire new knowledge in the areas in which they activate by following this non-formal and informal education course, they will improve and expand their area of ​​action in the social and youth field, they will improve their linguistic knowledge and personal development, they will meet specialists working in the European space, with whom they will be able to exchange good practices on various specializations. The specific objective of the project is to improve the professional skills by achieving a mobility, based on non-formal and informal education methods, for 16 youth workers from Romania and Poland, working with disadvantaged young people. The specific objective will be achieved through a training course for a period of 7 days. The youth workers will participate in a training course based on non-formal learning methods that encompass as a whole the personal development of the individual based on techniques that encompass interpersonal skills, teamwork ability, self-confidence, discipline, responsibility, ability to work. planning, coordination and organization / management skills for difficult situations, ability to solve practical problems, etc., education methods in which the focus is on learning by action, learning the methods of managing activities with volunteers. Through the methods of informal education, the participant in the project will be given the opportunity to adopt certain attitudes, to externalize certain behaviors and to internalize certain values, thus outlining his or her psychosocial profile. In this way, the youth worker will complete the knowledge acquired through the other forms of education to which he has participated over the years in the educational units and the skills developed in the workplace, as they have an increased relevance in the personal development of individuals and are complementary to those acquired through formal education. The project is part of the provisions of the Youth Objectives - Inclusive Society - by improving the educators' ability to work with marginalized young people and ensuring equal access to learning environments, information and social services for these young people. The project aims to provide participants, respectively the youth workers in Romania, learning opportunities and good practice experience in Poland, by implementing a common vocational training program for the two countries, to support the mobility of workers, with the purpose of achieving the specific objective of the project. The project is part of the general objective of the EU Strategy for Youth 2019-2027, on eradicating poverty among young people and all forms of discrimination and promoting their social inclusion. This project is part of AC1 that supports staff mobility: learning opportunities and professional development in another country for DAS youth workers. The project is also an opportunity for youth workers in Poland to develop their professional skills and interact with specialists in Romania.

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