AdultLife Erasmus Project

Project Title

AdultLife

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Research and innovation; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

AIM AND APPROACH
The project AdultLife is a strategic partnership that aims to support young people in transition to adult life by making information about the process available in an understandable, relatable and youthful way, on the following topics:

Employability,
Housing,
Financial Literacy,
Mental Health
Well being,
Citizenship and Participation.

To achieve this, the project is designed by young people and puts young people in the conceptualization and decision making of it’s outputs. To have a better understanding of the target group’s needs and to make sure the outputs have a tangible response to them, multiple stakeholders will be involved in this project like high schools, universities, youth workers, teachers, youth centers, youth information centers and municipalities. The involvement of all of them will be mediated by a participatory design methodology where multiple interviews and focus groups will take place with the objective of bringing together all of their perspective on the adulting phase and make them decide what suits better for the achievement of the project’s objectives.

CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND
This proposal comes from a need that young people have a hard time understanding the information provided because is perceived as too bureaucratic and isn’t created by and for young people; Also the touchpoints where the information is provided lacks the bridges and communication style to the platforms used by young people for example social media. The two factors combined makes the access to information of quality around the many topics of the adulting process difficult, which translates in youngsters that aren’t fully aware of what their rights are, how to make responsible decisions and how to participate in society in its social, economic and political dimensions.

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS
The proposed outputs fit the project’s objectives because they are conceptualized in a young adult focused and strategic way. At first they will grab their attention in social media with the VIDEOs, these serve as a bridge between social media where the target groups are widely present and the outputs with more detailed information and with the WEBSITEs or the PODCASTs; and the SURVIVAL MANUAL/DIARY serves as daily companion for the soon to be young adult. It’s content has not only information about this transition but also will have templates where they can plan their future alongside the usual purpose of a year planner; The ONLINE KITS FOR EDUCATORS and MOOC are designed to give educators working with young people in transition to adult life the tools to properly accompaign and use the delivered information with their youngsters.

ACTIVITIES
Apart from the development of the intellectual outputs following participatory approaches and design thinking, there will also be 4 transnational partner meetings, a staff training for youth workers, 3 national multiplier events, and a europewide webinar.

INDICATORS AND RESULTS
OUTPUTS
3 national websites with all topic info, library for educational providers
12 Podcasts per partner organization, 1 podcast per 1 subtopic (check the added topic list)
60 survival manuals in national language per organisation, 30 manuals in english
1 MOOC on adult life for education providers
1 Educational kit for education provider, containing at least 10 methods
9 Videos – 1 general introduction to adult life, 8 on the topics: 2x employment, 1x housing, 2x finances, 2x mental health, 1x citizenship + 1 making of / behind the scenes). Videos max 3 minutes. Also produce 30 sec teaser for sm. 3 emotional promotional devotional videos on our organisations

DISSEMINATION
1000 Followers on social media
1000 Views on youtube
50 participants in Europewide webinar for promoting all IOs
6000 podcast listener per each partner (of total minimum 12 podcasts included all topics)
100 Downloads of the educational kit
100 Educational providers participating in MOOC

IMPACT AND LONG TERM EFFECTS
Approaching youth through the innovative way of informing them about the topics needed for transition to adulthood is the core theme of the project. Through the resulting outputs adapted for different audiences – youth and educational providers we aim to increase the awareness, knowledge and skills for them as direct participants in the process. The project creates innovative and attractive information channels which on the long term will adjust the educational balance towards these topics. Recognition of cross sectoral collaboration will increase and bring the necessary information for transition to being an adult to a wider audience on community level.

Therefore the project is organized in the following phases:
Research; Prototyping and testing ; Production and dissemination – After all the outputs have been tested the shall be produced and disseminated each of the involved partners and to put in place a local, regional, national and European dissemination strategy in order to increase the transferab

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131219 Eur

Project Coordinator

EduEra & Country: SK

Project Partners

• Collippo – Associação Juvenil
• coobra – cooperativa braccianti