Make Change Yourselves: Turning Challenges to Your Advantage! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Make Change Yourselves: Turning Challenges to Your Advantage!

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

The project is based on an innovative double learning approach which leads to double change! The participants are youth workers who learn to work for change by participating in the programme through workshops, from resource persons and their peers and in practice. At the same time, the participants work for change with marginalised and disadvantaged young people, who themselves learn and change whilst becoming actors for change.
The eye-to-eye communication (resource people in the programme- professionals as participants – volunteers and young people) is underpinned by a participatory, asset based approach leading to empowerment which lifts up personal human dignity. Integrity of learning and learning to build up the integrity of personality go hand by hand.
Learning, practice and spirituality are closely linked as the learning processes are close to everyday life and work. At the same time, learning and understanding gained throughout this learning and working process will be crucial for further research and developmental activities in the field. interdiac programmes integrate practice/action, learning and research.
The added value of this project is that through an international process we can achieve innovative conceptual and practice based learning and produce working material which can be easily adjusted to other contexts, educational institutions and other organizations in the field. The materials will be transferrable to settings of formal and non-formal learning.
The blended learning methodology ensures that the programme will be learner centred and rooted in diverse contexts. The recruiting of resource persons from diverse contexts of interdiac partner organisations and University partners will also ensure the relevance of the programme internationally. The contextuality will also be underpinned by reflective practice and the related co-learning through the 8 Mobility Exchange programme.
9 partner countries will participate in this project. The dissemination strategy will involve people and institutions in Europe and worldwide, as the applicant has strategic partnerships with worldwide umbrella organization, LWF.
Authentic stories of the transformed young people as well as of participants and their organizations will be the best witness, ensuring a continuing life for the fruits of this project and at same time issuing an encouraging invitation to ‘Make Change Yourselves’.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 290069 Eur

Project Coordinator

Mezinarodni akademie pro diakonii a socialni cinnost, stredni a vychodni Evropa,o.p.s & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• WCC Armenia Round Table Foundation
• COMMISSIONE SINODALE PER LA DIACONIA
• EELK Diakoonia- ja Ühiskonnatöö SA
• Living Hope
• DIAKONIA-AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY
• Relevant n.o.
• Nodibinajums Latvijas evangeliski luteriskas Baznicas Diakonijas centrs