Active pedagogy for youth in favor of a more inclusive Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Active pedagogy for youth in favor of a more inclusive Europe

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Inclusion – equity; Regional dimension and cooperation

Project Summary

Europe has been facing an identity crisis as well as a rise in extremism over the last years, which lead to various forms of exclusion and discrimination. In 2015, the last Eurobarometer on this subject stated that more than 50% of European citizens found that discrimination on ground of ethnical origin, sexual orientation, religion or disability was widespread in their country. Young Europeans are particularly concerned by discrimination. In order to cope with this complex reality, whether local or global, global education has an essential and priority role to play in the fight against discrimination and social inclusion promotion. Global education can be based on several types of pedagogies, among which is active learning. This pedagogy and its innovative teaching method has proven itself in a local and heterogeneous way, as it impacted the level of awareness and engagement of young people as actors of change. Since the beginning of the XXth century, active learning initiatives are growing across Europe but the lack of coordination and exchange on this method is an impediment to the optimal implementation of this social innovation in a transnational way.

Our project aims therefore at addressing this difficulty by fostering collaboration and coordination among active learning actors in Europe, through best practices’ exchange.
The project is coordinated by the association Le Partenariat – Centre Gaïa (France), in collaboration with Anthropolis (Hungary), Kurioz (France), Scotdec (Scotland), Mobilizing Expertise (Sweden) andJovesolides (Spain).
It seeks to impact on European youth aged from 15 to 29 years old, through European actors capacity building on active learning principles applied to global education, either to develop (improve or create) activities of the project partners in themselves or to support youth workers skills in Europe to encourage inclusion of European youth.
Each partner will organize a 3 day seminar, during which best practices will be exchanged and more specifically focusing on youth with disabilities and youth prisoners for France, refugee youth for Sweden, NEET (Not in Employement, Education or Training) for Scotland, childcare youth for Hungary and Roma and immigrant youth for Spain.
Four specific documents will be designed by each partner to take up at least four of the good practices identified during its seminar: two good practices targeting the direct activities of the project partners towards the target audience, and two others aimed at the supervisors of the target audience.
In total, the 24 good practices emerging from these seminars will subsequently be disseminated widely through the establishment of a campaign of national dissemination events and online publications relayed by national-level reference media and European Union (DevelopmentAwarenessRaising and Education Forum, Networking EuropeanCitizenship Education, Citizens for Europe, Gene, Concord ..).

The quantitative impact of the project is estimated at about 30 employees of the partner associations, 12 partners directly associated with the seminars, at least 70 youth supervisors directly affected by the partners, and at least 30,000 people affected by digital communication.

After the end of the project, the dissemination of good practices can continue very easily, as project partners have planned to integrate them into their existing activities, or use them to develop new ones. In addition, putting the various content, tools and methods online will make it possible to set up a baseline for both project partners and youth leaders, all with the aim of fostering the social inclusion of young people.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 87090 Eur

Project Coordinator

Le Partenariat & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ANTHROPOLIS ANTROPOLOGIAI KOZHASZNU EGYESULET
• JOVENES HACIA LA SOLIDARIDAD Y EL DESARROLLO
• KuriOz
• MOBILIZING EXPERTISE AB
• SCOTTISH DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION CENTRE