ALL IN Erasmus Project

Project Title

ALL IN

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

„Inclusion” nowadays has become a term which is used by many people. It is also one of the priorities of European Union. But the term has become “a fashionable concept used to describe several responses to social realities such as marginalization, poverty, ghettoization etc., but this word can be misleading and to satisfy a certain politically correct vision of society and reinforce prejudices”. There are around different definitions about inclusion, from where many of them are also used in youth work and in defining aims and objectives of projects under Erasmus+, without putting much thought in the concept of inclusion. But inclusion should not be an option, but a must in youth work. Together with our colleagues, we have been discussing the inclusion model of European Commission and how youth workers or youth leaders are practicing “inclusion in reality” and have come to conclusion, that from one side there is luck of understanding what “inclusion” (for us those questions have raised: include from where, into what and including whom?) means and also youth workers luck of practical skills and support, how to implement the concept into reality to make their work more inclusive. Youth workers, youth leaders, project managers nowadays are playing big role in bringing different groups of young people together. Unfortunately they don’t have experiences and knowledge and sometimes also support, what steps to take to make their activities more inclusive and open and open them for different groups of society, where young people can learn and live together shoulder by shoulder without “pointing out” that “that one is young person with fewer opportunities”. And “doing inclusion without talking about it” must become a standard in future. Partnership building activity “All In” will involved 8 partner organizations from Austria, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Belgium, Scotland and Slovenia with aim to to develop and test training module and support material for youth workers, youth leaders, project coordinators and other people involved in youth work, how to make their work with young people inclusive (inclusive to ALL approach) in this way fostering quality improvements in youth work. SPECIFIC GOALS: – developed and tested training module about inclusive approach to ALL in youth work; – developed and tested support material for the training module; – trained trainers who will be able to carry out trainings based on training module on local/regional/national or European level; – work through different channels to make the created products sustainable also after the end of the project. TARGET GROUPS: in short and long term – youth workers, youth leaders, project managers, trainers, other people involved in youth work (in participating organizations and countries). With our products we want to achieve that it becomes a certain standard in future education of people involved in youth work. Indirect target groups: young people who will benefit from the more inclusive and qualitative youth work afterwards and a part from Inclusion and Diversity strategy in youth field will be achieved (“Unity in diversity”). The Strategic Partnership will lasted 26 months and will included these fallowing activities & results: 1) Development of training module for youth workers, youth leaders, trainers, project managers and others involved in youth work about how to make their work inclusive with young people (training module is seen here as innovation, because will be created in the way that it can reach different target groups within youth field. Module consists of several blocks and people can choose to attend what is necessary for them. We believe that youth worker can have different needs towards inclusive youth work, than a project coordinator.).Training module has been tested in participating organizations realities and on international level as a integral part; 2) Development of support material, which will include practical examples of inclusive youth work, activities, etc.; 3) Training of 16 trainers on international level, who carried out trainings to local youth workers & other people involved in youth work; 4) 1 day Interactive Forums in every partner organization to promote the results of the products. 5) creating Project home page, which allows to use the created materials also for people and organizations outside the Strategic Partnership. The project itself and the carried out activities will fallowed the principles of non formal education, met the accessibility standards that allowed participation of disabled people in all activities as much as possible. The Project results are stainability tended as the usage of the developed products will really start when the Project is over. The results will be used not only by organizations involved in this Partnership, but will be promoted to other organizations/institutions around Europe as well.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 214837 Eur

Project Coordinator

YOUTH IN PROGRESS Oesterreich Verein zur Foerderung der Eigeninitiative junger Frauen und Maenner & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Bulgarian Centre for Lifelong Learning
• RED ACOGE
• YOUTHLINK SCOTLAND
• Asociación entidad prestadora de servicios a la juventud de formación laboral y ocio inclusivo CAPACIDADES
• SCS LogoPsyCom
• ZAVOD ZA IZOBRAZEVANJE IN INKLUZIJOODTIZ
• VICOLOCORTO ASSOCIAZIONE