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Learn out of the box

2023-3-EL02-KA152-YOU-0001777612023Mobility of young peoplefinalizedGood practice
Countries: EL|ES|BG|IT|LT · Grant: €21,844
Information and communication technologies (ICT)New learning and teaching methods and approachesDigital content, technologies and practices

Objectives

Lbox, Learning out of the box, was designed to address the growing levels of youth anxiety and disappointment regarding unpleasant school experiences and grade failure. We tackled this issue by creating and disseminating experience with detailed information about how to get into life changing non formal educational activities, with youngsters who are experienced and who didn't have the possibility to otherwise get access to, either by fewer opportunities and backgrounds, social or geographical problems, etc. As this is a problem that affects everyone across Europe, all the partners agreed that it's a topic that should be addressed and tackled in order to change these youth’s issues by society. All the partners of this YE were experienced with non formal activities, inclusion, arts for educational purposes, ICTS in education, learning disabilities and education generally. We tackled this issue by creating and disseminating experience with detailed information about how to get into life-changing non-formal educational activities. All partners were committed to fight discrimination in education and offer to youths life-changing experiences. Working together with all partners, meeting personally and through internet conferences, we concluded that, day by day, youngsters from all across Europe get more stressed out and confused if they do not “fit” in the education system of their country. Through non-formal and informal education, with a special attention to youngsters from a fewer opportunities background and young migrants who had less access to information and were experiencing a challenging transition into a balanced adult life in community. “Lbox” brought everyone together, regardless of age, gender or social origin. It promoted dialogue, open discussion, debates and knowledge sharing, and created an environment where they could develop solutions and learn from each other. In parallel with this awareness, we promoted an integration aiming to prevent individualism, discrimination, intolerance and violent radicalization. We highly achieved the following objectives which were defined at the beginning of the project. -Provide opportunities for young people with fewer opportunities through sport-based non-formal education, promoting diversity, intercultural dialogue, and common values of freedom. - Raise awareness on the importance of variety in education methods and that from everyone and everything can teach you something new and important; - Develop skills and competencies on youngsters to become active learners and European citizens; - To make use of non-formal activities to reach out to marginalized young people, youngsters from underprivileged backgrounds and people with disabilities or fewer opportunities. - To empower youth through communication as a strategic tool to nurture tolerance and respect of human rights, inciting active civic participation against violence, discrimination, and social exclusion. We successfully developed an 8 days (including the travel days) youth exchange, where we got deeper into the topic and more easily raised the desired awareness and inspired youngsters to be open-minded and they are now capable of learning out of the box regarding the way of learning as well as the learning tools. Now participants have enough knowledge to identify their personal learning style, so they are able to use it in their lives in order to have better results. Also, all the participants understood that there are many factors which affect the learning style. Everyone is different and everyone has something to teach you, something unique, this was the main aim of the project.

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