“GLOBERS: Global Learning to Overcome Barriers Encouraging Respect and Solidarity” aims to create an enabling environment for global citizenship education in the context of inter and transcontinental migration processes and to build capacity of the organizations involved in international volunteering mobility on global level. The project promotes international volunteering mobility as a pathway on raising active and global citizenship and boosting understanding of the rights deriving from it and the European values in general. GLOBERS is focused on involvement of young people with fewer opportunities in volunteering activities, it contributes to the new EU Youth Strategy in particular to increasing participation in cross-border learning mobility and solidarity under Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps with an emphasis on those with fewer opportunities” and “Developing and disseminating practical toolkits for quality youth work” [COM(2018) 269 final]. The proposal fosters cross-sectorial cooperation and builds capacity between organizations from Europe, Asia and South America active in the field youth participation and volunteering in order to boost youth and in particular youth with fewer opportunities to becoming active global citizens. The specific objectives of GLOBERS are: - build capacity of the partnership in the field of European Solidarity Corps, international volunteering and non-formal learning activities that promote global and active citizenship education;- support peer youth organizations in recreating activities on GCE for their target groups thanks to the handbook created and disseminated as project output;- reinforce youth workers’ skills from partner and program countries in the field of management of European projects, global citizenship education and youth participation, with particular regard to human and migrants rights and sustainable development, through the exchange of best practices and creating workshops’ agenda;- create quality conditions for offering 9 volunteering mobility activities to young people with fewer opportunities in order to support them with reinforcing transversal skills, improving personal civic and social competences, foster intercultural learning and employability potential;- increase awareness about global citizenship in the participating communities throughout volunteers’ workshops and on global level throughout the online postcard competition, foster a better understanding of migration as a natural process in global community, promote empathy and solidarity; - overall to promote global citizenship, active citizenship, European values, spirit of volunteering and non-formal learning in partners’ communities;In order to achieve its aims, GLOBERS foresees 2 mobility of youth workers who will develop the agenda of the workshops about GCE and 9 cross-continental volunteering mobilities where volunteers will conduct above mentioned workshops for children and youth in hosting community.
GLOBERS project aimed at building capacity of the cross-continental partnership in the field of non-formal learning activities and provide quality learning environment for 8 international volunteers.The project also aimed at creating enabling environment for building new NFE methods for reinforcing global citizenship education frameworks,that has been achieved through workshops 8 international volunteers did in partner countries and handbook in order to reach & activate youth work sector on GCE
GLOBERS project involved 10 partners from 8 countries based on 3 continents in a multi-step cooperative-based work focused on global citizenship education (GCE). The partners brought diversity & expertise into creating methodology framework that was successfully tested in each country throughout the workshops led by 8 international volunteers in the hosting countries, and thanks to collected feedback we could create a handbook that shall contribute further to sustainability of project results.
<< Background >> GLOBERS project involved 10 partners from 8 countries based on 3 continents in a multi-step cooperative-based work focused on global citizenship education (GCE). The partners brought diversity & expertise into creating methodology framework that was successfully tested in each country throughout the workshops led by 8 international volunteers in the hosting countries, and thanks to collected feedback we could create a handbook that shall contribute further to sustainability of project results. << Objectives >> GLOBERS project aimed at building capacity of the cross-continental partnership in the field of non-formal learning activities and provide quality learning environment for 8 international volunteers.The project also aimed at creating enabling environment for building new NFE methods for reinforcing global citizenship education frameworks,that has been achieved through workshops 8 international volunteers did in partner countries and handbook in order to reach & activate youth work sector on GCE << Implementation >> Despite of the pandemic challenges in the middle and the necessity to request an amendment, we consider all project initial objectives have been successfully reached. The project involved a YWM in Italy in February 2020 when the partners settled the methodology framework and developed the workshops, 8 long-term cross-country volunteering mobilities (out of 9 initially foreseen), YWM in Slovakia to analyze workshops and develop the handbook and final meeting in Belgium to evaluate the results << Results >> As a result 8 volunteers from Italy, Slovakia, Brazil, Colombia, Portugal, Nepal and Vietnam did their unique international learning experiences up to 12 months in different hosting organizations, while not only contributing to the daily work but also implementing each 5 workshops on GCE in local communities. Partners have successfully built their capacity in the field of NFE & GCE,invested in the human capital of their youth workers who finalized & disseminated a unique handbook on GCE globally