Let’s Grow Together! – New paths for social inclusion Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s Grow Together! – New paths for social inclusion

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Inclusion – equity; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

BACKGROUND AND PROBLEM
The Let’s Grow Together! – New paths for social inclusion project seeks to address social exclusion resulting from the scarcity of alternative, innovative and participatory methods for the development of key competences in children and young people.
A significant proportion of children and young people are extremely unmotivated to learn by the methods used in the formal education system (traditional approach of knowledge transmission following a pre-defined program), which has serious consequences. The ultimate consequence, however, is the increase in the number of socially excluded children and young people, especially those with fewer opportunities, because of the lack of support and means to overcome the many obstacles in their lives.

OBJECTIVES
1. Promote the social inclusion and equal opportunities of children and youth by providing new methods of developing key competences and common values, complementary to those employed by formal education and training systems;
2. Encourage sharing among participating organisations of innovative and participatory methods and practices (based on sport, art, digital media and/or non-formal and informal learning) aimed at enhancing competences and learning in children and young people to subsequently devise (and apply) a basic methodology that effectively promotes their full development and equal opportunities;
3. Create and/or strengthen collaborative networks between organisations active in the field of art, sport, politics and/or non-formal, informal and formal education of children and young people;
4. Increase the capacity of organisations (and their staff) to operate at transnational level and to implement joint initiatives aimed at promoting participatory, alternative and attractive learning methods.

ACTIVITIES, PARTICIPANTS (NUMBER AND PROFILE)
1. Project design, management and preparation
– 2 elements belonging to each organisation;
– Group of children and young people from each organisation: the reference number that will be used will be the 20 participants, in which at least 5 will be children and young people with fewer opportunities.

2. Transnational meetings
– 2 elements belonging to the participating organisations, preferably those with project management and implementation functions.

3. Training course
– 2 youth workers from each organisation.

4. Local events
– Same as activity 1.

5. Presentation – local dissemination event
– Same as activity 1.

6. Blended mobility
– 1 youth worker from each organisation (to track and facilitate engagement and interaction between participating youth, preferably mentor) + 5 young people with fewer opportunities from each organisation (selected from and by the youth group with whom organisations work locally).

7. Closing – local dissemination event
– Same as activity 1.

8. Project monitoring and evaluation
– Same as activity 1.

METHODOLOGY
The preferred methodology in the project will be non-formal education and informal education, as complementary methodologies to formal education.
They will be participatory, inclusive and innovative methodologies in the process of developing key competences in the participants.

RESULTS AND IMPACTS
– Basic, participatory, innovative and attractive methodology for the development of competences in children and young people, which can be adapted to various territories and social contexts at European level;
– Developing the capacity of participating organisations to design, implement and participate in projects and initiatives at national and/or transnational level;
– Development of collaboration networks;
– Empower youth workers from participating organisations with crucial competences to improve their intervention with target groups;
– Empowering participating children and young people with key competences for their full development as European citizens, in line with the recommendation of the Council of the European Union (22 May 2018) on key competences for lifelong learning.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65660 Eur

Project Coordinator

DCTR – ASSOCIACAO CULTURAL & Country: PT

Project Partners

• ROOFTOP THEATRE LIMITED
• Fundacja Inkubator Innowacji
• FUNDACJA CENTRUM AKTYWNOSCI TWORCZEJ
• PROACTING – Associação para a Promoção do Empreendedorismo e Empregabilidade