OBJECTIVES General To promote the social inclusion of young people by creating a manual for non-formal education that enriches opportunities aimed at their full personal, social, and professional development. Specific 1: To develop a high-quality reference resource for knowledge and application of NFE; 2: To increase the methodological, conceptual and practical knowledge of the NFE among YW and organizations; 3: To promote the recognition and foster the legitimacy of NFE in the development of key competences and learning for the integral development of the individual; 4: To increase quality and innovation of current non-formal youth work, practices, and activities through sharing expertise and co-production in transnational collaboration; 5: Re-affirm the purpose and added value of the NFE in individual, social, organizational, and sectoral transformation, and change.
Much youth work and education are labelled as NFE, yet it is not. It misses the essential dimensions to result in effective learning outputs. According to the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027, it is crucial to work on the social inclusion of young people, in its various facets, and to enable them to be autonomous architects of their lives. Concretely: creating an easily accessible innovative approach to NFE, in methodological, conceptual, and practical terms, enabling everyone to have access to a quality resource in fostering youth work. Empowering YWs/organizations was the fundamental first step towards being able to invest in young people and make them and their concrete learning a priority. Leading towards a bigger participation of young people and a snowball effect for social change. For the above, we have built this consortium, with strong experiences and multidisciplinary dimensions (research, practice, editorial and more). Merging digital with mobility, theory with practice and the synergy between professionals, contexts, and sectors, we were able to promote a path of change where the NFE will be recognized, valued, and properly applied as an enabler for change/impact.