Avas Khetane – Get Together Erasmus Project

Project Title

Avas Khetane – Get Together

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Romas and/or other minorities

Project Summary

Association Co-Efficient and its partners has a wide range of experience/expertise of involvement young people with fewer opportunities into local and international actions/learning experiences. Inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities is a main horizontal objective of our daily work, offering regular community and development services in our Afterschool service at Gyöngyös.

Early school leaving (ESL) is a concerning phenomenon across Europe, but particulary in Hungary and Romania. A joint empirical research conducted by Association Co-Efficient and Nevo Parudimos between 2015-17 (LEADNFL) confirmed that ESL is having a particularly negative effect on marginalised Roma youth living in poverty, often experiencing double discrimination an facing the negative consequences of ESL.

Youth work had a particular responsibility during the lockdowns experienced in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic: marginalised young people couldn’t follow the digital curriculum for a variety of reasons, further boosting the negative effects already experienced. The problem was not only access to digital tools, but more deeply routed: a mismatch in institutional expectations and available support.

’Avas Khetane – Get Together’ project aims for a paradigm shift by developing a long-term structural methodology using art and experiental learning as a tool, tailor-made with individual development plans for the needs of young people with fewer opportunities, endangered by ESL. The project combines the expertise of youth workers and teachers, as it is cross-sectoral involving primary schools a grassroot human service providers engaged in youth work.

The partnership aim to gather best practices, develop the tailor made methodology, pilot it with the involvement of 30 young people and widely disseminate the results via the intellectual outputs.

ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT
1. Kick-off in Hungary – start of the project (3 working days + two travel days)
2. 3 subsequent Transnational meetings- TMs scheduled for major milestones
3. IO1– methodology handbook based designed, tested by a cross-sectoral and multinational team of experts.
4. Dissemination: national conferences organised by Hungarian and Romanian partners to disseminate the results of the project and an international conference aimed at mainstreaming the results for the wider European audience.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 127257 Eur

Project Coordinator

Együttható Közösségépítő Egyesület & Country: HU

Project Partners

• ASOCIATIA NEVO PARUDIMOS
• Scoala Constantin Daicoviciu
• Gyöngyösi Egressy Béni Két Tanítási Nyelvü Általános Iskola
• ZDRUZENJE REGIONALNA ROMSKA OBRAZOVNA MLADINSKA ASOCIJACIJA KRATOVO