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“Cien lenguajes para educar: descubriendo Reggio Emilia”

2025-3-ES02-KA153-YOU-0003761192025Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: ES|RO|IT · Grant: €15,986
Research and innovationKey competences developmentNew learning and teaching methods and approaches

Objectives

The project aims to foster a pedagogical transformation in the field of youth work, inspired by the educational philosophy of Reggio Emilia. Although this approach was originally developed for early childhood education, its principles —the learner as protagonist, the environment as the third teacher, the “hundred languages” as diverse forms of expression, and pedagogical documentation— are fully transferable to working with adolescents and young people in secondary education and community contexts. Through this mobility, youth workers and teachers will gain practical and reflective tools to motivate, include, and empower young people, responding to current challenges such as digital overexposure, lack of motivation towards learning, or the absence of creative and participatory spaces. The objectives of the project, from the perspective of youth work, are: To foster youth protagonism: placing young people as active agents of their own learning and community life, acknowledging their interests and languages of expression. To enhance creativity and innovation: using open, recycled, and sensory materials that stimulate divergent thinking, art, music, audiovisual communication, and new technologies. To promote inclusion and equity: ensuring that all young people, regardless of their socioeconomic or cultural background, have access to meaningful learning and participation opportunities. To strengthen intercultural cooperation: encouraging encounters between young people and educators from Spain, Italy, and Romania, creating a European dialogue that values diversity as an educational resource. To develop key competences for the future: critical thinking, communication, teamwork, resilience, and intercultural awareness, relevant for both education and young people’s personal and professional lives. To multiply community impact: transferring learning outcomes through local microprojects in secondary schools, youth associations, and rural communities, ensuring that benefits reach a wider audience of young people. Ultimately, the project seeks to bridge pedagogical innovation with youth work, offering experiential and creative methodologies that help shape autonomous, critical, expressive, and socially engaged young people, while building a European network of educational cooperation.

Project partners (3)