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Accredited project in the field of youth

2021-1-CZ01-KA151-YOU-0000111152021Mobility of young people for accredited organisationsfinalized
Countries: CZ · Grant: €29,697

Objectives

The project was divided into two main activities based on the needs of the IYNF network and partner organisations. In general IYNF is following a specific topic every year in order to build further on its quality standards in youth work. Youth work is an important part of the lives of young people as it offers a place for holistic development. A place where they can develop their personal, socio-educational and professional competencies and skills. Youth work encourages young people to find their place in society and to become active and responsible citizens. Therefore certain quality standards should apply to youth work and its activities to create safe youth spaces and to support this development in the best possible way. Based on this IYNF developed a long-term concept of developing quality standards for youth work within the Naturefriends movement and beyond. 1. The Global North is contributing to climate change by the biggest share. This is a big factor leading to inequality in climate change impacts and opening a question of climate justice. What can we do for climate justice? Is climate justice education included in school plans? Is climate justice a priority for our leaders? The ways of bringing the attention of young people active both on a local and international level to the topic of climate justice are abundant, but we believe that one of the best and most attractive tools for this aim (since attractivity of the topic and its interpretation is what counts in the nowadays world full of agendas and topics) is the use of educational games and gamification in general since people love to play but when children are getting older and becoming (young) adults they will learn to suppress their natural compulsion to play. Therefore games can have a deeper impact than other methods especially if young adults start to play again as they are not that far from this stage of development as people in their mid-age or even older people. That is the reason why we have to use games in non-formal education to bring back the delight while playing a game as this is the motivation to start into the learning process. 2. Resilience is the negotiation between the young person and their environment. Based on this they define for themselves how good their mental health is . It is a subjective process and depends on problem-solving, critical thinking ability as well as their self-esteem and confidence. The stronger the resilience of young people is the earlier they identify themselves as healthy. The resilience skills depend on the person itself, the social contacts such as family and friends, the society and the complete environment they are in. All these different levels bring potential hazards (poverty, employment, education, anxiety about societal topics like climate change or racism etc.) to young people. Depending on their abilities and skill and their level of resilience they can deal with these hazards and maintain their mental health. Therefore IYNF wanted to empower youth workers and youth leaders with a set of both soft and practical skills to become advisors with the main aim to implement the strengthening of resilience and mental health as a quality standard in youth work by strengthening resilience through outdoor education. In order to empower other organisations to also implement this topic IYNF created a Toolkit with methods to support these organisations in this topic.

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