Open Youth Work For Open Society – Give A Chance To Informal Youth Centres Erasmus Project

Project Title

Open Youth Work For Open Society – Give A Chance To Informal Youth Centres

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: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The project “Open Youth Work For Open Society – Give A Chance To Informal Youth Centres” responds to the need of the partners involved to create a dossier that is an argumentation aid for decision makers to support open youth work. As open youth work we understand an unrestricted access to spatial, material and personal resources, which allow young people to develop their personal competences in an informal context.
In order to achieve this goal, we need to present the different perspectives of those involved. These are the perspectives of young people, youth workers and social scientists. We will collect and evaluate empirical studies, collect, develop and publish good examples of successful open youth work, and publish young people’s ideas about what open work should achieve and how it should be equipped. In order to achieve the latter, a youth encounter will take place in Romania within the framework of this project, in which the young people (6 from each country and a group leader, together 35 participants) will jointly develop this idea.
In a second step we will create three argumentation aids for open youth work.
The first is aimed at decision-makers and administrations. It summarises the opportunities and results of open youth work and places them in a context of positive social development. This is done in detail and is primarily addressed to specialist politicians and the specialist departments of local administrations. There will be a summary in the form of a short handouts addressed to all parliamentary decision-makers.
The second contains recommendations for action for universities in order to sharpen the profile of youth workers in open youth work and to better shape it.
Both are discussed with representatives of the respective target groups and tested for practical usability.
The third argumentation aid is aimed at citizens. It is intended to provide media content that is produced by the partners jointly with their young people. These can be pictures, Youtube videos and sound files that present open youth work in a comprehensive and creative way and make it understandable.
With all components an extensive dossier develops, which does not exist in this form so far. It will be available online in English and all languages of the participating partners (Germany, Italy, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia).
The partners involved in the project are “ARCI Strauss” (Italy), “Curba de Cultura” (Romania), “Narandzasti” (Serbia), “RIS” (Slovenia) and “Roter Baum Berlin” (Germany). They represent countries in which different models of youth work exist, with Slovenia even having its own legal basis, all the way to Italy, where there is no entitlement to state-supported youth work. The partners agree that we see the model of open youth work as particularly positive for the development and participation opportunities of young people and that for this reason we want to support the objective 9 of the European Youth Goals (SPACE AND PARTICIPATION FOR ALL).
In order to achieve the objectives and results, we target a project duration of 24 months (September 2019 to August 2021). We will work closely together online. The important milestones will be discussed and finalised in 4 transnational meetings, each in one of the partner countries.
In each of the 5 partner countries we will also organise a multiplier event in the format of a symposium, which will present and discuss the results of the work and thus contribute to their dissemination and use.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 115744 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNTERNEHMERGESELLSCHAFT HAFTUNGSBESCHRANKT ROTER BAUM BERLIN & Country: DE

Project Partners

• ASOCIATIA CURBA DE CULTURA
• RAZISKOVALNO IZOBRAŽEVALNO SREDIŠČE DVOREC RAKIČAN
• Narandzasti
• Strauss APS