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Non Formal Education in Action!

2021-2-PL01-KA153-YOU-0000394602021Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: PL|PT|CY|HR|ES|IT|TR · Grant: €21,671
Key competences developmentNew learning and teaching methods and approachesCreativity, arts and culture

Objectives

Objectives for this training course were directed to 21 youth workers, that participated in this project, and furthermore pass their knowledge and teach skills they gained to others: 1. During the 8 months of the project, 21 youth workers that participated will understand the role, importance, and possibilities of NFE methods in their work with youth. 2. By taking part in a project 21 youth workers will improve, explore meanings, roles, and complementarities of different educational approaches and methods (formal, non-formal, informal). 3. During the 8 months of the project, participants will understand the principles of NFE and its effects on elements as program building but also we will teach and stimulate the participants to feel and reflect on the power of Non-Formal Education by experiencing a different kind of non-formal educational methods. Our main goals were to give a chance to youth workers who are lacking skills and knowledge in the topic of non formal education but also regarding gender issues to give tools to work with important topics, but also to raise awarness about possibilities and benefits of nfe. We also wanted to make a change in the attitude of the youth workers participating in our project. Besides that, we wanted to give a chance to every participating organization to make the quality of their youth work better, to create a safe space for future cooperation and learning in the multicultural environment. An opportunity to exchange good work practices and collaborate in the future. Our goals included also: raising awareness of the power that NFE can bring, and reflecting on NFE -raising awareness that NFE methods are suitable for the age group they work with and the various topics - raising motivation level among the youth workers in their work with young people of certain ages - giving youth workers new tools, methods, and ideas that they could use in their daily youthwork - showing importance on touching sensitive topics such as gender issues, gender inequalities, discrimination, stereotypes, communication in the daily youth work with the use of NFE - teaching where to find useful resources and how to readapt existing methods - improving the skills of the youth workers in implementing non-formal education methods and innovative methods in their daily work - reinforcing synergies and transitions between formal, and non-formal education and ensuring a better recognition of competencies gained through the learning process - enhancing the international dimension of education and training in particular through cooperation between partner countries and participants, and by all means making education more attractive and accessible for certain age groups. We also wanted to support lifelong learning, support using drama and theatre techniques along with non-formal learning in working with youth, and supporting meaningful topics. Our goal was to give youth workers proper knowledge of the topic, tools they could use in a daily work but also to boost their attitude towards using NFE methods. We wanted to create safe space and environment for cross cultural experience, sharing and create new links and initiatives. With all our goals we wanted to support professional development of youth workers and improve the quality of work and help participating NGOs to be more attractive and visible and therefore more accessible for youth and youth workers. We wanted to create possibility for NGOs to create new partnerships and space for new actions in order to target the possibly highest number of youth struggling with the problem of gender inequalities but also raising awarness about the existance of such a problem and possibilities of how we can fight it. We also wanted to create a possibility for everyone to reflect on the given topis and stimulate youth workers to take actions. We want to make sure that the youth work field: - Have more prepared trainers equipped with suitable NFE methods - Increase trainers' awareness of the consequences of discrimination, bullying, racism - Is more active in Erasmus+ projects - Improves partnerships - Improves digital tools and provide better remote methodologies for associations

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