youth mentorship moves organisations Erasmus Project

Project Title

youth mentorship moves organisations

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Access for disadvantaged; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Many young people lack a healthy self-confidence, because experiences of failure make it difficult for them to find their place in our accelerated society. The project strengthens young people and provides them with resources to face individual and social challenges in a self-determined way. Specialists in youth work are confronted with a wide variety of backgrounds when designing needs-oriented educational programs. To ensure that the diversity of our society is seen as a stroke of luck and not as an obstacle, a transferable concept is to support organizations and professionals in youth work. Enabling participation of all is the principle of our project work. Individual potentials are promoted through open access to creative pedagogical approaches. The young people should develop an awareness of these and their effectiveness. An inclusive mentorship program will be established as a further development of the successful work. In order to actively contribute their strengths, ALL young people are offered the opportunity to professionalize their interests and youth work and to test themselves in activities of the project. In addition, institutions will be assured of a long-term readiness to take on responsibility and continue their work. Furthermore, the proximity to the target group enables organizations to react to their impulses and meet their needs.

Through partnership and cooperation with international partners who share similar principles and convictions, competencies can be expanded, methods exchanged and thus learn from each other with foresight. In addition, the aim is to strengthen the young people in their self-concept, which can be achieved by making them aware of their own and other identities and cultures. Working on an international level in a strong community offers a platform for personal encounters and exchange, which supports personal development on an individual level. Through direct dialogue, an awareness of one’s own and other people’s position is created and an appreciative and understanding way of dealing with each other is promoted in order to experience and maintain the strength of a community.

outcomes:
Guideline Mentorship Program (IO1)
The development is part of the project process. This makes approaches transferable and sustainable. The program and the guidelines are divided into three parts.
Part 1) The core curriculum builds on the experiences and achievements of the participants from the projects and links these with the theoretical foundations and guidelines of the “Starkmacher-Principle” in order to familiarize the participants in greater depth with it.
Part 2) comprises the concrete promotion of individual strengths, as already initiated in the projects. The participants are encouraged to become aware of their talents in their own field of interest and to make use of them.
Part 3) Participants are trained to become Youth Leaders by introducing them to the knowledge and methodology of youth work. These enable the young people to lead groups themselves and to convey their individual contents (see part 2).

Guide to Project Work in the Creative Sector (IO2): Central Outcome is a guide to project work in the creative sector with young people with a focus on various socially or personally relevant topics. A main part comprising the core curriculum for the Strengthening Philosophy (see above) is supplemented by guidelines for the preparation of exemplary topics and can thus be used by other organizations according to individual needs.

Three major goals are pursued with the collaborative work on outcomes:
1. strengthen strengths (IO1&2): young people are encouraged to enrich their individual and general environment. The overall aim is to develop a positive self-concept by reflecting on personal and cultural resources in order to be able to act in larger contexts in the long term.
2. participation (IO1&2): The feeling of rejection is countered by active participation in social events. It creates space for encounters and experiences that many young people would otherwise be denied for various reasons.
3. sustainability (IO1): The Mentorship Program Guide provides a “tool” for professionals and organizations to promote participation and facilitate access to groups. It creates opportunities for young people to make their individual potentials visible and use them in project activities. Institutions benefit from the proximity and involvement of the target group with regard to the sustainability and continuation of the offers and the appropriate reactions to ever new impulses.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 240423 Eur

Project Coordinator

STARKMACHER EV & Country: DE

Project Partners

• PUNTOZERO SOCIETA COOPERATIVA
• Petrklíč help, z.s.
• Verein Jugend für eine geeinte Welt