Improving Education – Improving Life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Improving Education – Improving Life

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The strategic partnership “Improving Education – Improving Life” was a first of a kind project that L’asso asbl has developed together with our partners from Europe: Luxembourg, Poland, Macedonia and Estonia.The previous cooperation and researches conducted by the partners of the project revealed many important things in common in their countries, such as insufficient level of education, rising unemployment, especially among young people, not enough qualified youth workers especially in field of non-formal education and youth with fewer opportunities, insufficient cooperation of NGOs with local authorities, insufficient number of NGOs working in the field of youth.

After several non-formal discussions and mail exchanges we realized that all organizations, forming the strategic partnership combine the following common aims, such as:

– promoting young people’s social inclusion, notably through projects tackling the issue of youth unemployment and innovative support
– developing and promoting new methodologies and tools uptake in youth work and non-formal learning
– developing basic and transversal skills in the field of youth, using innovative and pedagogical approaches and developing appropriate assessment and certification methods based on learning outcomes.

According to all these needs, L’asso asbl together with our project partners have established common objectives of the project such as:

– to give opportunities to youth workers organizations to develop a quality European mobility projects to support young people in the realization of mobility projects and to facilitate their professional inclusion;
– to reinforce the European cooperation in order to improve capacities of organizations involved in the field of youth education and professional inclusion to support young people in the realization of mobility projects;
– to share practices, existing methods and tools in different European countries used to support youth workers in the realization of projects and activities in the field of youth and non-formal education;
– to better understand the needs and problems of youth workers and people working in non-formal education;
– to create new methodology and tool to train and reinforce the capacities of youth workers in the European mobility projects;
– to gain a better understanding of importance of non-formal education and its working methods in combating youth unemployment and social exclusion;
– to favor dissemination of the tool and methods, created by diffusing results of this project at local, national and international levels.

In a frame of our strategic partnership, we organized several international meetings and trainings of youth workers and youth leaders in order to exchange practices and to develop a final design tool in the form of publication with selected working methods in the field of non-formal education as well as social inclusion in youth work.

Furthermore, we conducted activities in the field of practical educational experience: Study Visit activity. To ensure the sustainability and dissemination of the project’s results, after finishing the project’s lifetime we conducted several meetings and conferences at local / regional levels in every country of the participating partners in order to start a dialogue with local authorities and institutions about the need of developing a common strategy to fight the unemployment and low level of education among youth. During these local activities, we took discussions about the possibilities of using non-formal education and its methods in combating youth unemployment in the future.

We evaluate this project as a success and we are planning to continue to develop similar projects in the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 47785 Eur

Project Coordinator

LASSO & Country: LU

Project Partners

• Limitless
• Amanet – Dobra Misla
• BE ACTIVE