CONTEXT / BACKGROUND: The YINT partners have extensive experience in creative methodologies for ESD for diverse youth including hard to reach groups like migrants and refugees. Existing efforts facilitate social inclusion, environmental awareness, active citizenship and social enterprise. To date our partners relied heavily on delivering face to face content. In recent years partners started considering blended learning to reach wider audiences and this has become pertinent in the current pandemic situation Thus, this project builds on transforming existing innovative material into online and blended learning offerings. Most young migrants and excluded youth have access to mobile phones and educational materials will be mobile optimised. There will be a strong focus on creativity and the arts due to the need of exploring new ways and approaches to mobilize and engage a broader range of young people than what we do today. AIM The aim of YINT is to make a valuable contribution to creating a resilient, low-carbon society in Europe in that the project raises awareness of climate-friendly lifestyle choices among young people and mobilizes young people to act and showcase youth empowerment in response to the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Climate Agreement, the ‘Sustainable Green Europe’ and others. OBJECTIVES To engage with ‘hard to reach’ groups in the Erasmus+ project and in the wider and continuous work of the partner organisations. To strengthen capacity of the partner organisations and increase their impact in ESD for youth in a time of COVID by building deep and lasting partnerships and co-developing innovative intellectual outputs that respond creatively with blended learning opportunities and approaches targeting youth on a broader scale than its usual targets. Target groups will be the already engaged and the ‘unreachable’ youth. They will be either receiving, utilizing, shaping and/or testing the IO’s produced - whereas the participants in the project, the national teams, will be composed by both organisational representatives (youth workers/facilitators) and youth representatives. A number will be around 50 youth reached in all countries, making 300 in total. ACTIVITIES New methods and approaches – based on arts, creativity and blended learning The project will produce three intellectual outputs as tangible results of the project cooperation. Youth participants and youth leaders will be active in collating the results of the Intellectual Outputs from the target groups. IO1 Youth in Transition facilitator & teacher’s coursebook (on/offline actions) IO2 IO2 ESD-Community of Practice (COP) IO3 E-platform/Online Laboratory/App To ensure that the IOs get well utilised there will be two training events and 3 multiplier events. Lessons learned from the training will refine the IOs giving youth and youth leaders an active role in co-creation resulting in their ownership to apply the materials. i) Joint Staff training - Partner staff and youth leaders will gain skills and confidence to apply the IOs. ii) Youth bended learning - Young learners from ethnically and socially diverse backgrounds to trial the IOs and gain exposure and empowerment. The multiplier events will be organised for local stakeholders in Austria, Sicily and Denmark to introduce them to the IOs and invite them to engage with them. EXPECTED RESULTS YOUTH LEADERS USING HANDBOOK & participants engaging in social inclusion & ecologically sustainable actions in target communities. ACTIVE COP in partner countries with youth contributing towards equity, social inclusion and sustainable development in their communities ENGAGED YOUTH WORKERS in partner countries sharing and exchanging on arts and artistic expression in citizenship including intercultural dialogue, stories for civic engagement, social justice and sustainable and low carbon life-styles, reaching and showcasing new methods and tools for youth workers across the field (both on and off line) EASY ACCESS ONLINE – Diverse inter-ethnic youth engaging with app and online laboratory in interactive creative initiatives supporting social integration and youth led content creation. E-PLATFORM creating a hub demonstrating Youth in Transition projects incorporating social enterprise, ecological sustainability and social integration produced by youth with examples, quizzes, films, stories for civic engagement and low carbon life-styles IMPACT Improved social inclusion and ecological awareness for youth and their communities in partner countries Vibrant youth led COPs in partner countries & beyond contributing to socially just, resilient low carbon society. A movement of young people from socially diverse backgrounds sharing experiences digitally on civic engagement, social inclusion, social enterprise & eco friendly society Increased multi stakeholder engagement on youth social inclusion & climate awareness at local, European & international levels.
- We wanted to be experiental, to cross some bridges, to work with blended learning, arts/creativty and new partners (like in the Community of Practice). - We wanted to allow ourselves to play more, to experiment and see what is possible. - We wanted to learn more about the realities and perspetives of (the very large and heterogenious) group we call 'marginalised youth'. And we wanted to promote sustainable lifestyle choices, engagement and empowerment among more young people and make the sustainability agenda more relevant and engaging for a wider group of youth.
All partners work in the field of ESD, but wanted to exceed the normal targetgorups, to reach those, we do not normally reach and who do not themselves seek our ESD activities. How to adapt and invent activities matching the needs and interests of hard-to-reach youth groups? And how to expand the reach of our work, to unknown challenges with new target groups? On the other hand, a partner like Don Bosco, who works with marginalised youth (mostly immigrants), have seen the need for learning about and introducing sustainability and ESD into their work with social inclusion and entrepreneurship. Furthermore, some of the partners have also wanted to explore how to use arts and creativity in our work - alongside with blended learning - in order to reach more people. This made the conjunction os ESD, arts/creativity, blended learning and social inclusion.