Through this project we wanted to equip 33 people from 4 countries (Romania, Turkyie, Bulgaria and Italy), out of which 28 youth workers to gain and increase their professional skills, develop new tools through Coaching, creating a new range of soft skills, such as creativity, self-esteem and motivation, critical thinking, which are applicable to their target groups. The project aimed to empower 28 youth workers to better cope with their jobs by creating an interactive space for connection and learnings. One objective was related to the 5 people from the group, who develop their training and facilitating techniques by delivering activities during the project’s implementation period. Another objective was to enable 100 young people from our countries, but not only, to develop competencies that will ensure their long-term professional and career by engaging in a Community building process for them, through online and offline activities that were taking place during the 12 months, with more than 100 people attending the online workshops. Moreover, the project aim was to create the base for transnational cooperation between partners by elaborating a booklet with the non-formal tools and methods learned throughout this project.
We wrote this project as a response to today’s issues and problems that appear in society, especially at the grass root level and where it is challenging to create an impact from the point of view of authorities, public buddies and decision makers. In this way, ComPoSe project came as a result to the needs that we have identified in the period prior to the writing phase: together with our partners we work with people, both youth workers and professionals but also young people in our communities and we noticed that the most important part is related to building a community, maintaining it for a longer period of time and creating results and useful outcomes within it. Furthermore, we noticed that the need for community engagement of youth in small communities becomes the most important need for our target group and for us, together with the need for developing the motivation and strength for youth workers and the need of learning methods and practices in working for a community and its development. These were the main starting points for us and for our partners, but with support and input from the youth workers and young people that we are collaborating with before the project implementation.