Boost yourself up! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Boost yourself up!

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: Health and wellbeing; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The Project Boost Yourself UP! is partnership for creativity between 4 youth organisations: Youth Support Centre, Cooperativa Sociale Immaginaria A R.L.Onlus, CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRAINERS PLATFORM and PLATFORMA GIA TIN EKPAIDEUSI KAI KATARTISI POLITON – ELLAS from Poland, Greece and Italy.

The main aim of the project is to give partners time and space for exchange of practice, knowledge and competences between their youth workers in order to implement engaging events for their young people to re-connect them, re-open for society and empower for changes during the covid-19 times.

We will focus on exchange of ways of working with young people, in order to develop new ways of working with young people using art and creative methods.

The project will equip partner organisations with a set of new, innovative and useful competences, tools, methods for their youth workers’ professional development, as the activities were designed to raise professional level of the role of the youth facilitator in order to enhance life balance and sense of initiative in young people again during the pandemic stress as well as in order to develop their skills and competences such as: social empathy, stress and burnout management, leadership, team work, active participation, open-mindset, flexibility, creativity, soft skills. Project is targeting young people from communities of partnering organisations engaging them during local activities and online webinars.

Objectives of the project:
– to increase professional development of partner organisations through exchange of good practice, ideas, methods;
– to equip partner organisations and their youth workers with key skills, knowledge and competences based on creative and artistic approach, methods, tools in boosting youth up
– to create a network of self-confident youth facilitators ready to work with young people on local, national and international level using interactive, innovative and inclusive ways
– to reinforce in young people the awareness on importance of self-development, self-awareness, self-care, self-boost
– to engage, connect, empower young people on local level and raise their consciousness about new challenges, obstackles and solutions
– to increase in youth active participation, motivation, social care and self-satisfaction on daily basics
– to support flexible mindset of young people, enhancing their inner readiness for a change and adjustment to changes
– to strengthen relationships among partner organisations, allow them to raise their capacity, develop and reinforce networks on local and international levels
– to promote Erasmus + Programme, European Union values and non-formal education

The Project is the platform while participants will be mainly sharing and learning from each other. In the project will participate members from partner organisations who are: social workers, teachers, youth workers, youth leaders, cultural workers, local active citizens that claim a clear need for developing knowledge, skills and comptences in working with young people, especially with young people with fewer opportunities or special needs, who became after the pandemic stressfull period more anxious and excluded. Participants of the activity are 18 – 45 years old with experience of minimum a year in youth sector.

The Project consists of
A) 3 Short-term joint staff training events:
1. Crisis Management and Well-being in Youth Work – with participation of 22 participants
2. Facilitation Laborarory – with participation of 16 participants
3. Creative self-boost – with participation of 10 participants
B) Local Activities – set of workshops/meetings – for local youth and community – with participation of 25-35 participants per partner organisation
C) Online webbinars and coaching sessions – for participants of the project and wider public

Envisaged results and impact:
-high-quality and innovative teaching and learner assessment
– sustainability and practical application of the knowledge
– wider visibility online
– increased number of young people involved in the local activities
– new partnerships
– new contacts with local stakeholders
– improvement of online communication
– updated websites
– well-equipped youth workers
– better connections with local community
– practical application of the knowledge
– high quality content
– practical reflection to integrate this knowledge into the context of each participant
– new set of skills, tools, methods
– new knowledge and approach
– exchange of practice
– new experience in facilitation
– building the network
– new competences on supporting young people
– new competences on creative facilitation
– reaching balance between work/private life
– ability to cope with stress, crisis, burnout
– resumption of young people to the society
– restoration of activities to agendas of young people free time
– boosting artistic and creative expression
– support in crisis and stress management
– increasing motivation for active participation

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59725 Eur

Project Coordinator

YOUTH SUPPORT CENTRE & Country: PL

Project Partners

• PLATFORMA GIA TIN EKPAIDEUSI KAI KATARTISI POLITON – ELLAS
• CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRAINERS PLATFORM
• Cooperativa Sociale Immaginaria A R.L.Onlus