Living Land Erasmus Project

Project Title

Living Land

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits); Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Living Land project develops an experimental framework for Youth Employability and Engagement
Approach, promoting youth worker’s capabilities. LL aims to support and enhance young skills and
competences through a link between social workers (in the PA- Public Administration) and youth
workers (in NPO- Non Profit Organization). This approach uses youth work as an occasion to
support vulnerable young group entering in the job market, but also feeling part of their communities.
PA (municipalities, province, mountain community/parks) work together with the local NPO detecting
vulnerable situations (NEET, unemployed young, economic and social disadvantages, disabilities,
school drop-out), offering inclusion activities, bringing them closer to the job market. These activities
aim to involve young in apprenticeship or traineeship experience linked with social and citizenship
skills empowerment. The young involved become part of their community, with a strategic role and a
leadership, promoting their empowerment and the recognition of their formal and non-formal skills
and capabilities. It also fosters young assessment of transversal skills, in a Life Skills perspective.
The 2 years’ project develops an innovative methodology at a local level, able to empower youth
employability services and youth workers’ competences. We’d like to build a model accessible,
replicable by different bodies or groups (NPO or PA) in order to facilitate any kind of non-formal
activities to be carried out locally, valorizing, mapping and linking existing experiences for young. The
key objective is to innovate youth workers approach, taking in charge vulnerable young. The other
key objective is the creation of intervention model (LL Web Platform and Guidelines KIT) aimed to
strength skills of youth workers and policy makers. The project would like to create an effective and
operational tool to implement employability policies at local, national and European level. The local
and final events and dissemination activities will be strategic in order to communicate and inform the
effective impact that the project could arise. During the transnational meeting, partner will exchange
point of views and will define the content of the intellectual outputs. The training will be useful to 20
youth workers ready to run out the pilot test locally. LL Guidelines KIT (01 output) will be a tool for
training and it will contain examples, best practices and information about youth employability
strategies. LL Web Platform (02 output) is an open access platform, with an easy and comfortable
approach to be used by each youth workers or bodies (PA or NPO) to implement activities for young
locally. LL is based on the young needs expressed in several year’s experience by the partners.
Especially the needs to imagine a possible future and find a place in the world, giving meaning to
their time; to know and test skills and competences, getting involved in an adult perspective; to have
an adult key player as a reference that welcomes and accompanies them during the experience and
beyond; to share experiences with peers and belong to a real group; to be recognized and discovered
in their capabilities by the adult community; to learn new things, through a theoretical-practical
training, and to compete in new contexts, different for example from school and family. LL stresses
the youth spirit strengthening the capabilities of youth workers in charge to support them.
The project, through a pilot action, at the end and after the project end involves at least 1 PA in each
Country and 3 NPOs collecting and uploading to the platform some experiences addressed at least
to 150 young among Europe. The project is based on the recent EU reflections about Traineeship and Apprenticeship systems, whose relevance and priority is emphasized by the EU documents and
national local policies, such as The Guidebook for Policy Planners and Practitioners, but also reflects
the suggestions of National Ministries regarding the construction of stronger competencies of youth
workers in charge of these measures, who play a critical role in helping young people make a
smoother transition from school to work (STW) or to find the right way to express their competences
and skills. Empirical evidence suggests that both types of schemes can significantly improve young
people’s employment prospects by contributing to the acquisition of work-related skills and
experience in close alignment with employer requirements, leading to nationally recognized
qualifications, enhancing young people’s links to the labour market, and providing young people with
valuable first work experience. The consortium, involving 5 partners in 5 EU countries, is
representative of a wide spectrum of Countries and of skills thanks to the involvement of important
and articulated professional profiles and experiences.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 137017 Eur

Project Coordinator

Consorzio Consolida Cooperativa Sociale Onlus & Country: IT

Project Partners

• FUNDACJA INSTYTUT INNOWACJI
• iDEMO Institut za demokraciju
• Contextos – Cooperativa para o Desenvolvimento e Coesão Social CRL
• STICHTING CAAT PROJECTS