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The journey

2023-1-PL01-KA153-YOU-0001343362023Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: PL|EE|LV|MK|IT|MT|FR|EL · Grant: €26,682
New learning and teaching methods and approachesQuality and innovation of youth workEntrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

Objectives

The main aim of the project “The Journey” was to let youth workers actively working with young people discover outdoor education and adventure based learning and develop their competencies to apply new gained knowledge in their practices especially in relation to developing entrepreneurial mindset among youth as a way to address the labour challenges of nowadays. The main activity of the project - the training course “The Journey” took place on 11-19 May 2024 and gathered 26 participants - educators:youth workers, teachers, trainers, facilitators, youth leaders and activists from 8 partner countries: Poland, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Malta, North Macedonia. The project was supported by the Polish National Agency of Erasmus+: FRSE. The applicant organization is Fundacja Młodzi dla Europy. Objectives: -discover outdoor and experiential learning, their historical perspective, principles and models; -articulate and reflect on participants’ own values base for outdoor and experiential learning; -reflect critically on current practice and applications of outdoor and experientiall earning -To give the participants an opportunity to directly experience various outdoor methods and techniques and reflect on ways of incorporating these methods and techniques into their daily youth work developing the competences of entrepreneurial mindset with young people including young people with fewer opportunities -to reflect on the opportunities of hikes and low-rope courses in outdoor as a way to train competences related to entrepreneurial mindset -To raise understanding of the participants on outdoor methods and techniques in relation with active youth participation and fighting youth unemployment and encourage the participants to apply outdoor based learning in their practices learn about certain methods in outdoor and their benefits; -understand and handle risk and safety in outdoor settings; - explore, share experience and build skills in the field of outdoor and experiential learning -To increase knowledge of the participants on Erasmus +, support creating new project ideas based on using outdoor methods and promote networking and cooperation.

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