Projects is capacity building activity of consortium from Finland, Spain, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, Lithuania, Kosovo and Serbia with the aim to enhance quality of non-formal education activities in the youth field through supporting critical reflection on dominant paradigms, principles, techniques, processes in NFE and via integration of e-Learning and ICT in youth work in Europe. Project will explore added value of ICT by strengthening potential for innovation through the exchange with practitioners and different sectors.The need for the project is twofold. On one side we wish to open a discussion within youth workers and trainers’ community in Europe, about the dominant paradigms, principles, techniques, processes in non-formal education (NFE), so to strengthen the potential for innovation in NFE activities in the youth field. On the other side, we wish to provide new knowledge and skills to “analog” youth workers and trainers community and find creative ways on how to combine "analog" tools in youth work with digital tools and e-Learning to attract growing number of young people using Internet and Social Networks.Target groups are active youth workers and trainers active within Consortium that have never lead on-line eLearning course, trainers and youth community work in Europe and young people from 8 countries who have never used eLearning tools.Our project is deigned from 9 interconnected activities that constitute the main flow of the project:1) 1st Activity – Kick-off meeting2) 2nd Activity – Seminar “NFE in Europe reloaded”3) 3rd Activity – Training course no. I “Development of the eLearning skills/ Introduction to Moodle LMS to youth work practitioners”4) 4th Activity – First group of online eLearning courses5) 5th Activity - Mid-term on-line meeting of Project partners6) 6th Activity – Training course no. II “Development of the eLearning skills/ Introduction to Moodle LMS to youth work practitioners”7) 7th Activity – Second on-line eLearning courses8) 8th Activity “Make, Share, Care: Conference on eLearning and Social Media used in youth work in Western Balkans and EU”9) 9th Activity – Evaluation and follow-up meeting. Main outputs of the initiatives are enhancing the quality of non-formal education and youth work in Western Balkans and EU by building capacity of youth workers, trainers, teachers, educators, researchers from 8 participating countries because those groups have the biggest potential to multiply the effects in their communities because they are working with thousands of young people annually on local, national and international level. Furthermore, young people, with guidance of youth workers, will use the Internet more positively, safely and effectively for purposes of eLearning and exploring and with reduce danger of cyberbullying, abuse and others risks. The result on all target groups is going to be increased motivation to combine analog and digital tools in youth work in Europe.
Projects is capacity building activity of consortium from Finland, Spain, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, Lithuania, Kosovo and Serbia with the aim to enhance quality of non-formal education activities in the youth field through supporting critical reflection on dominant paradigms, principles, techniques, processes in NFE and via integration of e-Learning and ICT in youth work in Europe. One of the output of the project is an e-based publication with the title "NFE reloaded” that articulates those reflections, and that is available in the languages of the partner countries. It is a contribution to the EU linguistic diversity and will further raise the potential for dissemination and exploitation of the project outcomes. The publications on English and all project partners' languages can be found on following link http://iqnf.education/mod/page/view.php?id=5 Second aim of the project was to provide new knowledge and skills to “analog” youth workers and trainers community and find creative ways on how to combine "analog" tools in youth work with digital tools and e-Learning to attract growing number of young people using Internet and Social Networks. So, other outputs of this project (besedes e-poublicatiin) are 8 online courses that were created during and after the training of youth workers and NFE practitioners to familiarize themselves with elements of online learning, principles, technical conditions, methods of preparing materials to be useful and interactive, technical tools necessary for creating a course... The topics of online courses that were developed during the project are: • online safety for young people, • empowering young people with skills and knowledge about youth activism (course for youth) • empowering young people with skills and knowledge about youth activism (course for youth workers) • career guidance for the high school students • cultural perspective of gender equality • non-formal education and how competencies and skills gained through it can benefit people in all fields of life • participation of youth in the community, democratic processes and society • getting to know some basic concepts related to self-confidence, so to be more proactive in sociaty. Project was deigned from 9 interconnected activities that constitute the main flow of the project: 1) 1st Activity – Kick-off meeting 2) 2nd Activity – Seminar “NFE in Europe reloaded” 3) 3rd Activity – Training course no. I “Development of the eLearning skills/ Introduction to Moodle LMS to youth work practitioners” 4) 4th Activity – First group of online eLearning courses 5) 5th Activity - Mid-term on-line meeting of Project partners 6) 6th Activity – Training course no. II “Development of the eLearning skills/ Introduction to Moodle LMS to youth work practitioners” 7) 7th Activity – Second on-line eLearning courses 8) 8th Activity - Conference (working title was “Make, Share, Care... , but final was "ONL youth - are we lost in online space?) 9) 9th Activity – Evaluation and follow-up meeting. In project (decently and indirectly) were involved about 2500 people: • 67 seminar and training participants • 200 – 280 participants in online courses (that were created in the frame of the project) • 80 conference participants • more than 2000 people that were informed about project, NFE, online learning - through TV shows, project website, social networks... All activites, video evaluation, and project outputs can be found on the project webiste www.iqnfe.education