Recognition of non formal education, Empowerment of Young people, Development of outreach youth work 2.0 Erasmus Project

Project Title

Recognition of non formal education, Empowerment of Young people, Development of outreach youth work 2.0

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

RED2.0 project (Recognition of non formal education, Empowerment of Young people and Development of outreach Youth Work) was a 24 months project coordinated by YUPI organization in Portugal, in close partnership with Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Cape Verde, Uruguay, Peru, Chile and São Tome for a total number of 500 young people and more then 50 youth workers and indirectly reaching more than 1200 more young people in the 10 countries involved from South America, Africa and Europe. RED2.0 contributed to the recognition of non formal education as a tool for the development of local and national systems of alternative education to outreach young people (the kelluween platform and contents created for Volunteer management during the EVS activities is a great example of that) and the creation of life projects for the youngsters involved. This target group was composed by young people that are “hard to reach” through education systems (drop-out) and job/occupation because of low level of academic studies, low motivation to engage in meaningful occupation, undefined life projects and families/context that don’t facilitate other learning opportunities.
Our main goal to empower and capacitate these organizations to work in this sector was definitely acgieved, creating an international network of partners interested and implementing a system of training for youth workers that reflects the needs of outreach youth work and also adapted and replied in all partners to develop this field of youth work, through a training kit on the topic and a referential training that was created through this project. The activities plan was composed by a coordinators meeting in Portugal, mobility of 11 youth workers, involvement of the target group in 10 EVS experiences, an intensive training course for professional development and collective creation of a system of training, a pilot phase for implementing/testing the training referential in two different realities (Uruguay and Cape Verde), implementation of ideas from EVS volunteers supported by youth workers, a final conference to disseminate and involve more youngsters to understand the potential of EVS and youth work for their personal development, and 2 evaluation meetings, in parallel with the online platform created to accompany the EVS experience and training materials and referential kit compilation. The project contributed to the practice of the guidelines of the Youth guarantee policies regarding the outreach young people and developed practical tools to support youth workers and outreach youth work to be acquainted with competences to allow the development of this sector, with the aim at allowing young people in this target group to build their own life projects and engage in active participation, meaningful occupation and contribution to the community.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 145219,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

YOUTH UNION OF PEOPLE WITH INITIATIVE ASSOCIACAO PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO SOCIAL E COMUNITARIO & Country: PT

Project Partners