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YW-Establishing Youth center: where to start?

2020-1-NO02-KA105-0016762020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: NO|BG|LT|MD|RO|AM|PL|PT · Grant: €26,690
International cooperation, international relations, development cooperationYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Rural development and urbanisation

Objectives

Training courses in Lithuania gathered 35 youth workers and youth affairs specialists from 8 countries: Norway, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Portugal, Bulgaria, Armenia, and Moldova. This project's main aim was to learn what it takes to establish a proper youth center, how to get funding for it, and how to attract youth. Objectives of the project: 1) Analyse different forms of youth work: open youth work, digital youth work, street / detached youth work, and mobile youth work, and learn youth work principles, for participants to understand what youth work forms suits their context the best. 2) Learn the main principles of youth-friendly space design; 3) See youth work development success stories: visit local youth centers to see how they are established and managed; 4) Learn about different funding schemes for youth centers in Europe; 5) Find out how to use the European Solidarity Corps and Erasmus+ program in the daily activities of a youth center; 6) To make contacts for further cooperation on writing and managing projects.

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