Skills For Youth Erasmus Project

Project Title

Skills For Youth

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: Social dialogue; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The SFY – Skills For Youth project aims to develop, implement and transfer good practices in the use of the Fair Play philosophy as a means to educate young people to a correct civic participation, through the creation of opportunities for the increase of youth workers skills through Joint Staff Training Events. The objective is to obtain both an effective cross-fertilization and internationalization of the activities of the partner bodies, in order to improve the quality of the socio-educational actions and work of youth workers, and to positively impact on the quality of life of the young participants, reducing the risk of marginalization or negative inclusion in society thanks to innovative methodologies and integrated actions at European level. Specific objectives of the SFY Project: – develop new approaches for informal education and social inclusion of young people; – improve the ability of operators to manage diversity in their targets; – innovate strategies for the management of violence, discrimination and bullying among young people; – increase the quality of the work environment, stimulating the professionalization of youth workers; – promote social innovation and stimulate the activation of the educating community; – improve the ability of organizations to work in international networks. The project will unite different types of organizations in the sector to create a multilevel cooperation lasting 20 months: from 01/06/2019 to 31/01/2021. Main activities: Joint Staff Training Events: three events (PL Sept 19, PT Apr 20, IT Sept 20) aimed at improving the skills of young workers in the use of Fair Play as a means for civic education and for the fight against phenomena of social marginalization. 3 On-site experimental activities: for the creation and testing of a shared methodology for the use of FairPlay in informal youth education (Oct-Nov 19, Jul-Aug 20, Oct-Nov 20) 4 Transnational Project Meetings: meetings for the Project Staff for management, monitoring and evaluation activities, as well as for the definition of the shared methodology and the
production of dissemination tools (HR June 19, EL Apr 20, LV Aug 20, ES Nov 20). The activities will be organized with specific attention to the different targets and will be oriented towards favoring a complete involvement of the participants, avoiding lectures in favor of methodologies such as peer learning, learning by doing, gamification. The management, by the Project Staff, will follow the division into WP defined in the design phase, in order to ensure an effective monitoring of the
implementation of the activities. SFY wants to result in a positive and long-lasting impact: Partner organizations and youth workers: -cross-fertilization of socio-educational strategies at European level and internationalization of activities; – start of multilevel and trans-sectoral cooperation; – improvement of skills and work quality of youth workers and stimulation of international mobility. Young people: – better knowledge of the rules of Fair Play and their applications to social life; – better knowledge of the EU and of the opportunities offered in the fields of education and youth; – increased participation in citizenship actions and social inclusion; – improvement of living conditions, personal autonomy and the possibility of emancipation from contexts of unease; – greater understanding of the history and values of the EU and awareness of the importance of solidarity, loyalty and legality. Community: – increase in sensitivity towards the youth sector; -creating innovative and replicable socio-educational strategies available to the community; -stimulate the debate and policy making in the youth sector; – reactivation of the educating community and social innovation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 112456 Eur

Project Coordinator

Comitato Nazionale Italiano Fair Play & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Associação Sójovem das Saibreiras
• Balkaniko Institouto Epixeirimatikotitas MKO
• MLODZI DLA ROZWOJU EMKA
• Biedriba GRIBU BUT
• Mladinski svet Grosuplje
• Associació Esportiva Nou Barris