Positive Relationships Open Tangible Opportunities for New Developments Erasmus Project

Project Title

Positive Relationships Open Tangible Opportunities for New Developments

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

Project Summary

Our project’s goal is to establish a space for dialogue between the youth, private and government sectors with specific attention to Europe and Mexico/Central America so to work towards:
Acknowledgement of NFL as a vital element in the formative professional path of young people
Recognition of NFL by formal learning institutions, market actors and government institutions
Enhancement of the capacities of young people through engagement with NFL activities so to create multipliers and increase awareness of the value of NFL
Establishment of a dialogue between representatives of the youth, government, educational and market actors to better coordinate NFL training activities and integrate them into the formative path of young people
Formalisation of the above mentioned training approach into a tool that can be used and integrated into formal and nonformal training

This will be achieved through implementation of:
Youth trainings
Job shadowing
Youth conferences (involving representatives of government, universities and private sectors)
and preparation of Handbook and a Report on formal/non-formal interactions

Our methodology will make use of non-formal learning across all activities with use of creative methods, coaching participants through reflective exercises, contact sessions, energizers, cultural exchanges and games with the goal to help integrate them into the group, boost their emotional intelligence and learning, dwell on participants’ skills and experiences to increase their understanding of different realities, cultures, and approaches to an issue. At the end of each working day participants will be asked to reflect and evaluate the outcome of the sessions together with the trainers and steering group.
By doing this, we will be looking to involve young people through (individual and group) mobility activities, while prompting a reflection on the way to use newly acquired skills on the job market. This will be made possible through involvement of other sector’s (private, public) actors and identification of mechanisms to make this multi-sectorial interaction regular while identifying good practices that can be classified and serve to next projects.
While doing this, we expect to involve nearly 200 young people in various aspects of mobility, 800 with local conferences and 64.000 indirectly

In terms of impact we expect to:
Foster a two-way dialogue with private sector partners, to better understand what elements and aspects of NFL can benefit the training of young people and their preparation to compete on the job market (or their capacity to become market forces themselves by creating a company).
Use this experience as a good practice and call for a dialogue with government structures for a better integration non traditional learning path. This can be done by either the creation of mechanisms embedding NFL into formal learning or fostering interaction between formal and non formal learning.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 150000 Eur

Project Coordinator

MTÜ NOORTEVAHETUSE ARENGU ÜHING ESTYES & Country: EE

Project Partners