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Kiko Ta Kiko

2022-2-NL02-KA153-YOU-0000914072022Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: AW|EL|NL|ES|HR|FR|IT|SE · Grant: €38,121.51
Tackling geographical remoteness and involving rural areasInclusion of marginalised young peopleDigital literacy, Information, constructive dialogue, fakenews

Objectives

Kiko a Kiko (What's Up?) had three overarching objectives: 1) To boost youth worker skills and knowledge to equip them with new competences to modernise and internationalise their youth work using Erasmus+/ European Solidarity Corps as a tool, specifically including organisations from overseas regions/territories 2) To share transferrable practices aimed at reaching out to young people with fewer opportunities in order to engage them in international mobility 3) To develop a platform and local/international network for youth organisations to develop international mobility projects Objective 1 & 2: TCTP work with various inclusion organisations on Aruba and in the overseas regions./territories, who are motivated to use the Erasmus+ and ESC programmes, but have two obstacles; either not having enough knowledge within the organisation, or an understanding of how the programmes support inclusion or not having international partners they can begin co-operation with (an increased problem for partners from OCT/Rs). Local organisations had already begun to raise their knowledge on E+ and ESC when attending seminars: Room for Inclusion or Let's Rock (both of which Kiko ta Kiko has arisen from). Through Kiko ta Kiko we planned to impart knowledge of both Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps from the outset of the programme as well as increasing participants knowledge and confidence in using different actions. This objective meets the intention of Erasmus+ to support the professional development of youth workers and building capacity within youth work organisations. In addition to supporting participants in understanding the programmes we also have feedback from organisations that there are not enough opportunities to meet with similar organisations, especially those working in inclusion, and we decided to dedicate time in the seminar to, partnership building and future project planning with the partner organisations as we considered partner collaboration an essential element to the success of this project to develop opportunities for our young people, locally and internationally. We carefully selected partners where we could anticipate future synergy. All organisations work with inclusion groups and understood the greater obstacles of mobilising these young people. There is a strong emphasis on sport/outdoor education and arts in selected organisations and Kiko ta Kiko planned to build on this interest. Kiko ta Kiko, had the objective of bringing partners together, to learn from each other and to plan future collaboration. We identified much field expertise in the selected partners (both inside and outside of the Erasmus+ programmes.) This seminar arose from an identified need expressed by partners to develop safe international opportunities for their young people to have a first experience of non- formal learning together with their European peers. It was important to us that this project offered an opportunity for shared rather than one directional learning. Prior to the seminar we produced a questionnaire for participants and participating organisations in order to hone the seminar (in particular the study visit days) to the needs of each partner. TCTP has over the last 4 years built strong relationships with partners in our local community whom we wanted to introduce international participants to in order to share good practice. We planned the study visit days to split participants into three smaller groups for better immersion and also to offer targeted visits, in the fields of sport/outdoor education, arts, criminal justice and general social inclusion. The final programme of visits was be arranged after we receive feedback from partner organisations about their main objectives for these visits. The needs identified by partners were: 1) Need to raise youth worker knowledge in international opportunities available through Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps 2) Need to raise youth worker skills in the application process of the above programmes 3) Need to increase YW competence in developing and delivering international programmes 4) Need to develop partnerships to create synergy between international organisations especially from the OCRs/OCTs 5) Need to offer cross sectoral activities in order to open up wider opportunities to staff and youth workers Objective 3: Related to the Erasmus+ priority of reaching out to marginalised young people and creating opportunities for non-formal learning both on an local level and also internationally with partners in Kiko ta Kiko. It was also anticipated that youth workers would begin to look at wider opportunities with other nations once their knowledge of the programme increased.

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