Inspirací to začíná Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inspirací to začíná

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The project was focused on support of transfer of innovative tools used by individual partners to solve problems concerning disadvantaged groups of youths in the labour market.
The goal of the project was to help young people from children’s homes to succeed in their transition from an institutional facility to an ordinary private and work life. The aim of the project was not to substitute already existing activities of children’s homes but to provide young people with further help in their social and work integration and their entry into ordinary life. Partial goals of the project were to teach, help and show youths from children’s homes how:
– to plan, realize and evaluate various life steps and goals (preparation for future) towards full-blown experiences in their further private and work life
– to react in various life situations (every person has different personality, preconditions, possibilities)
– to make decision in various life situations (find employment, accommodation, money handling, …)

The partial goals of the project were:
– to evaluate the employment of foreign partner’s know-how in the legislative framework of custody concerning endangered children and youths
– to increase the quality of services that are provided to endangered young children in the labour market and employment area
– to inspire key participants in custodial care of endangered young people growing up without families with work methods with endangered youths

The significant contribution of the project was the transfer of practical experiences from working with the endangered group of young people from all three partner countries. Each country has its own specific approaches to education and preparation of young people for their independent life and thus the goal of the project was to draw inspiration and experience among the partners and put them into practice in their countries, according to their legislative possibilities.
Among the innovative elements of the project belonged: ‘help to self-help’ – this global goal of the project represented the help for disadvantaged young people growing up without families to be able to help themselves in their future life:
– complexity as well individual approach to every participant and interconnection of particular activities that lead to better employment of the target group in the labour market,
– continuity to the detailed Entry Analysis of the Target Group – the project solved insufficient preparation of young people for their life in society as well as for labour market requirements,
-development of cooperation among the foreign partners, individual children’s homes and ‘half-path homes’, the transfer of best practices among the foreign partners, children’s homes and ‘half-path homes’ mutually.

During the realization of the project two educational materials were created:
The Didactic Material for Education of Endangered Young People
The Didactic Material for People Working with Endangered Youths
The both educational materials are fully available in printed as well as electronic form; furthermore these materials are available on CD and on the Internet.
The materials were created and verified during the realization of the activities O1 and O2,
Moreover a DVD containing the information from all three international conferences is available where a possibility of employment of innovative tools and modern work methods are presented.
The total number of supported people:
Educational activities: – the pilot project – 24 young people (12 in the Czech Republic and 12 in Slovakia)
– 24 people working with endangered youth (12 in the Czech Republic and 12 in Slovakia)
The International Conference: – 150 people (50 in the Czech Republic, 50 in Slovakia, 50 in Germany)

We suppose that the foreign partner’s know-how, individual care and complex approach towards the target group will lead to permanent sustainability of knowledge, skills and abilities which the participants gained during the project.
From a long term point of view the project should have helped young people to be able to help themselves in their future life. From the similar projects realized by the foreign partner from Germany obviously emerged that at least 60% of people who had participated in such projects, have gained permanent employment.
The project sustainability and its activities were influenced primarily by motivation and effort of key participants in care of endangered children in the Czech Republic and Slovakia who were the representatives of target group of organizations in this project and by the application of innovative elements used abroad among established ways of work oriented on professional carrier and employment of endangered young people.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 184468,39 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centrum evropske spoluprace s.r.o. & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Jugendförderverein Parchim/Lübz e.V.
• Detský domov Nádej