Challenged! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Challenged!

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

After researches made in rural youth centres and long discussions between psychologists and youth workers/trainers, Management of Challenges was selected as the best method for low-performing youth with low self-esteem. It will let youth to move from a passive emotional state (problem) to an active, motivated attitude (challenge) in order to create the foundation for successful action.
Erasmus+ project CHALLENGED is covering EU Youth Strategy as focuses on three core areas of action, around the three words: Engage, Connect, Empower.
Strategic partnership CHALLENGED devoted to rise self-esteem of low-performing youth, learn how to deal with problems, focus on positive thinking, be more active in their social life.
Beside this, CHALLENGED goes together with 6th European Youth Goal “Moving Rural Youth Forward”, also with Sustainable Development Goal ensuring equal opportunities and rights to all, means that conditions are created to enable young people to fulfil their potential in regions.
Psychologists, youth workers and experts in non-formal education from Lithuania, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland will join their experience and knowledge highly focusing on target group’s needs, in collaboration will develop these intellectual outputs:
– Methodology for youth workers “Challenge Management: from problem to challenge!”;
– Digital Diary of Challenges.
All results will be provided in English, Lithuanian, Italian, Portugal, Bulgarian, Romanian and Polish languages. Although, CHALLENGED project developed in youth field, also all outputs could be easily to be adapted to adult, higher education, VET fields.
At least 48 youth workers and 240 youth from the regions will participate in the project educational activities, at least 180 various representatives as youth workers/youth leaders, organisations woking with youth, educators, psychologists, staff of educational institutions (e.g. schools, universities, etc.) and other stakeholders will participate in multiplier events in Lithuania, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland with aim to share developed intellectual outputs of CHALLENGED project, accumulated experience, best practices to motivate participating organisations to accept a CHALLENGE and implement CHALLENGED methodology in their daily activities, in this way creating Youth Challenging Community in Europe.

Project Website

https://challengedyouth.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 141920 Eur

Project Coordinator

VSI INOVACIJU BIURAS & Country: LT

Project Partners

• Fundacja Kopalnia Inicjatyw
• ASOCIATIA ,,ASSOCIATION COLOUR YOUR DREAMS”
• Academy for active youth association
• International Institute of Applied Psychology and Human Sciences associazione culturale
• ASSOCIACAO PARA A EDUCACAO DE SEGUNDA OPORTUNIDADE