The Project “Track One” aims to increase the quality and thereby outreach of youth work by encouraging innovative and collaborative practices between organizations/institutions who are interested to use and practice outdoor adventure education as the main working methodology. This project focuses to increase the efficiency of the youth work through promoting and raising capacities in Outdoor and Adventure Education. The project consists of 3 Stages and 10 capacity building and mobility activities.First stage invests in professional growth of the youth workers and youth leaders, through training course and fellowship and study visits.The second stage will be focusing more interphase activities and local activities, practice and working on grassroots level.The third stage is oriented to digest, sum up and document the gained practices, focus on tools for dissemination and follow up Through the whole duration of the project its activities are build up in a way that they encourage building up and strengthening relationships between the project partners and other civil society organizations & public bodies. To start with, during the motilities of the Track One project there are several visits envisioned. (Job Shadowing & Both Study visits.) It involves youth center, climbing gym which is actually doing youth work, school and civil society organizations. Moreover, one of the central parts of the project is Stage 2, local empowerment, which involves cooperation with NEW schools/youth centers in the region the partner organization operates in. Therefore new relations with them will be built and reinforced during the whole project. We have applied for separate funding for this stage because we consider this aspect crucial for the achievement of the goal of the project. We do believe these new cooperations will not finish together with this project and continue further afterwards.Also, very importantly, as stated above in the description, on the meta level our purpose is to lobby the OAE in the formal education system in our countries. So we would like to send all the outcomes to ministries of education/youth/sport (specific in different countries) in our countries as a recommendation and invitation for future collaboration, that hopefully will bring some more OAE into schools.Another cross-sectoral cooperation will be in case of Georgian partner DRONI. As during the project there is several activities taking place in Borjom-Kharagauli National park, the organization will deepen the partnership with the park administration and Agency of Protected Areas of Georgia. The cooperation has started during previous outdoor projects and some positive results has been achieved. The project has a great emphasis on youth work development through Outdoor and Adventure Education, and it seeks for cooperation and interactions with various stakeholders active in youth field.
The objectives of the project were as follows: - To explore and promote outdoor education as an effective and inclusive tool in youth work; - To create space for sharing knowledge, exchanging experiences and good practices among youth workers and partner organizations, particularly using outdoor adventure education in Youth work;- To Increase knowledge of the theoretical and pedagogical background of outdoor and Adventure Education methods;
Track One was a long-term project using Outdoor Adventure Education methodology as a main tool and means to empower partner organizations and conduct quality youth work for young people in 6 countries involved in the project directly, and beyond, through wider networks. There were 6 organizations involved in the project, 3 from the Program countries, with specific profile and experience in using Outdoor Adventure Education: And 3 organizations from the Eastern Partnership region.
<< Background >> Track One was a long-term project using Outdoor Adventure Education methodology as a main tool and means to empower partner organizations and conduct quality youth work for young people in 6 countries involved in the project directly, and beyond, through wider networks. There were 6 organizations involved in the project, 3 from the Program countries, with specific profile and experience in using Outdoor Adventure Education: And 3 organizations from the Eastern Partnership region. << Objectives >> The objectives of the project were as follows: - To explore and promote outdoor education as an effective and inclusive tool in youth work; - To create space for sharing knowledge, exchanging experiences and good practices among youth workers and partner organizations, particularly using outdoor adventure education in Youth work;- To Increase knowledge of the theoretical and pedagogical background of outdoor and Adventure Education methods; << Implementation >> Track One had been designed with a specific, logical structure that it followed. Although there were many changes on the way in terms of timeline as well as numbers and consistency in groups, all of which was consulted with and allowed by the EACEA, we managed to follow the structure and conduct the project the way it was planned, overally. These changes were mainly caused by Covid Pandemic, but also by war in Ukraine and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. << Results >> Track One was a long-term, large-scale project that was going on for 3 years and it had multiple, multi-layer results on different levels.-Impact on participants-Capacities of the partner organizations-Tangible results - Digital Platform, booklet, video-Network and future partnership