The Visions of Youth Work Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Visions of Youth Work

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 neighbouring and enlargement countries

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Aim of the project “The Visions of Youth Work” was to build capacities of youth organizations to mobilize community around youth work by using visual messages and digital communication as a tool. In order to make sure that goal is achieved we set objectives and milestones for this project ensuring that they all lead to finale result mentioned in aim. After whole project cycle implementation we can say that now we have a community of youth work practitioners able to prepare digital media communication strategies and to implement them on social media all with a goal to mobilize community around achievements and struggles youth work is having. But not just that, they are also able to respond on received feedback and to improve their work based on it. We believe this to be great achievement as it will ensure sustainable growth.
To achieve aim and objectives we implemented set of activities:
For a starting point of the project team met in January at preparation meeting (Activity 1) to agree upon the route of process implementation and to set the frame for organizing the study visit (Activity 2) in April 2017. Study visit served for raising capacities of consortium to act as mentors on this project. Based on capacity analyses it was concluded what kind of knowledge and skills consortium need to be able to perform this task. This activity resulted with fully skilled members of consortium ready to take over their tasks but also with restructured set of milestones and curricula for learning. It also resulted with structured curriculum based on milestones that consortium set in bit different order then proposed initially.
During the trainings for (1) visualization and (2) dissemination (Activity 3 and Activity 4), focus was given to explaining the benefits of digital communication in presentation of youth work results and participants were thoroughly lead through the following learning agenda: digital and social media landscape, mission and vision model production, target group identification and segmentation, organizational values, achieving communication goals, defining messages, how to use media mix, which content tool they should use, communication strategy, communication management, visualization as a tool for achieving goals, metrics for successful digital presentation and how to learn through showcases. The results of both training (mobility activities) were fully developed and implemented campaigns (30 of them- 1 per each participant) presenting current project/program of their organization and with measured achievements during the life of The Visions project. Except campaigns, results of this process were also organizations that raised their capacities to use visualization and communication strategies to reach communities.
Last phase of project was focused on finalization and exploitation of results. Consortium through mentor-ship process supported participating organizations to implement their campaigns and reach as many people as possible. Besides supporting campaigns Consortium was working on additional dissemination activities such as social media campaign for presenting online Users guide and also the implementation of workshops made for the purposes of direct communication about Users guide with youth organizations who could benefit from it the most- Online consultation and dissemination phase of the project (Activity 5). This activities served to show cases created through project and promote impact that users guide can have on organizations that use it. During the Evaluation meeting (Activity 6) all activities, lessons learned, follow up possibilities etc. were discussed and Consortium showed its satisfaction with the achieved results.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 80943 Eur

Project Coordinator

UDRUZENJE GRADJANA BUM & Country: RS

Project Partners

• DIKTYO SYLLOGON EPARCHIAS ELASSONAS KAI SYLLOGON APODIMON EPARCHIAS
• TUSBA GENC GELISIM DERNEGI
• UDRUZENJE PRONI CENTAR ZA OMLADINSKI RAZVOJ
• YOUTH FOR EXCHANGE AND UNDERSTANDING INTERNATIONAL AISBL
• TRETAROKA – DRUSTVO ZA RECIKLAZNE IN KREATIVNE PROJEKTE
• BACKSLASH