emPOWERing the informal Erasmus Project

Project Title

emPOWERing the informal

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

“emPOWERing the informal” is a project that has as main objectives:
1.To increase the capacity and professionalism of youth workers in managing informal groups by
understanding, adapting and implementing of existing EU tools for assessment and development of youth work competence and management competences.
2.Mapping existing legal framework and practices that focus on informal groups through research and analysis of the evolution of informal groups as a social movement, aiming to making suggestions at national and international level on how policies can be improved to favor the growth of informal groups and the impact they have upon youngsters and the community they are based in.
3.To promote to the public and private sector the missions of informal groups in the youth field and their skills and knowledge acquired by the young people in informal and nonformal contexts, and to favor their implication in the support of youth towards their first and/or stable employment.
4.To create working synergies in the process of promoting a more active participation in society
based on collaboration, accepting and encouraging diversity and equal opportunities of young
people, promoting active citizenship and a non-discriminatory behavior.
In order to reach the objectives mentioned the project proposes several activities among which we mention a few:
1. Creating tool that has as a starting point the Council of Europe Youth Work Portfolio and comes in
support of youth workers to manage and involve informal groups in the youth field
2. Creating a tool with examples of activities and non formal education and social intervention methods that help youth workers and informal groups to implement activities in their communities
3. Developing a Good Practice guide of practices in managing informal groups of people and
empowering them to become active citizens
4. Developing www.theinformals.com -an online platform for informal groups from all the countries involved.
5. Conducting one Research done on defining the informal groups of young people and also in
identifying the existing legal framework that focuses on informal groups.
6. Involving 70 young people in activities planned in each partner community with the aim of
promotion active citizenship, social inclusion, equal rights and non-discrimination
7. Organizing 11 multiplier events in order to promote and disseminate the results and resources build inside the project.
8. Organizing 1 Youth Mobility for informal groups and 1 Mobility for Youth Workers
The expected impact is: (1) a better acknowledgement and recognition of informal groups and the role of youth workers in managing them, (2) a better interaction with local authorities responsible with youth policies, (3) promoting EU good practices in the youth field towards local relevant actors and facilitate a cross-sector collaboration at a national and international level, (4) to improve the efficacy of youth worker’s support tools, and, finally, (5) to enhance the importance of the learning processes and learning outcomes that occur in informal and non formal contexts and have an impact upon the professional development of young people and, therefore, an impact upon the insertion of youth on the labor market.

Project Website

https://empowering.fitt.ro/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 246804 Eur

Project Coordinator

FUNDATIA JUDETEANA PENTRU TINERET TIMIS & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Green European Foundation
• MUNICIPIO DE CASCAIS
• EXPERIMENTACULO ASSOCIACAO CULTURAL
• Asociación para la Participación, Oportunidad y Desarrollo
• Szubjektív Értékek Alapítvány
• MUNICIPIUL TIMISOARA
• UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA