Comp-pass Erasmus Project

Project Title

Comp-pass

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Several reports since 2012 have identified the problem of young people in a situation of exclusion as a priority to which youth work, political authorities must pay close attention and find solutions.
The heterogeneity of the Neets group in a country is reinforced by the realities that differ in the European states. Being Neet refers to very different realities depending on whether you are French, Bulgarian, Portuguese or Hungarian. The Neets, however, have in common precariousness, exclusion or the feeling of exclusion and a particularly low self-esteem.

Comp-Pass aims to contribute to the answer to this problem by working in particular on the valorization of the young people in this situation and by accompanying them to become aware of the potentials which are in them, to discover them to re-motivate and rebound.

This observation and this need, shared by European partners, gave rise to the Comp-Pass project.

Comp-Pass’s ambition was to work with young people to identify the skills that are theirs, to identify through their background and their stories the skills they have acquired, to name them, to appropriate them and thereby to gain self-esteem, feel valued, feel able to do.

This approach is based on 3 elements, which together make up the Comp-Pass toolbox:
– a method: the REALE method, working method on benchmarks, equilibrium, adaptation and exchange limit
– a technique: digital storytelling or how to use ICTs to tell autobiographical stories without revealing themselves
– comp-pass portfolio: acquiring acquired skills requires to name them, to visualize them, to understand the circumstance of their development. This is what allows the comp-pass e-portfolio, a central tool in the process.

It is around the development of these 3 elements that a consortium is created around the French coordinator of the project, Pistes-Solidaires. As a youth organization, a player in European youth mobility via Erasmus / + EVS, Pistes-Solidaires has been encouraging youth mobility for many years with fewer opportunities. 6 other European youth organizations, which are also members of the LE.MO.N network (Learning Mobility Network), constitute the partnership: Pina (Slovenia), AMC (Portugal), Replay Network (Italy), Fekete Sereg (Hungary), Cazalla intercultural (Spain) and Know and Can (Bulgaria).

During the 24 months of the project, together they will innovate and develop the method, the technique and the specific portfolio tool according to a research-action-research approach. That is to say: develop educational content and support, implement them concretely to validate their relevance, make adaptations from the test phase, and finally finalize developments and consider adaptations to other users , other organizations.

Thus two trainings brought together the trainers of the 7 partner associations for a transfer of skills and knowledge on storytelling, as a first step and for the definition of the comp-pass pathway via the REALE method in a second time. This capacity building work involved 14 youth work professionals from partner associations, with each participant taking part in the 2 training phases.

Once the developments and the e-portfolio system were built, it was then the REALE method that was created, developed through a playful approach, a board game, that everyone tested with local Neets youth groups. More than 300 young people took part in the project directly, and over 210 completed the REALE course in its entirety.

The results of the project are all beyond the initial expectations:
– for the organizations: a gain in capacity in the work with the Neets and a local recognition of expertise on the subject
– for young people: immediate impacts, successful leads, rapid, tangible and strong changes in situations that confirm the interest of the method and our approach
– for productions: They bring all high quality, relevant and useful support combined together, but also separately. They can be used separated the one to the other in youth work (multiple exploitation and transfer to other areas possible)

In terms of impact, this method leads to strengthen partnerships with organizations in charge of the youth guarantee, for example, or the training of counselors / educators working with the Neets.

In the longer term, tools such as the e-portfolio constitute a real support for any work of accompaniment of the young people and in the recognition and the valorization of the skills and competences gained through a learning mobility (It is tests now in a strategic EVS which addresses to Neets).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 222213,28 Eur

Project Coordinator

PISTES SOLIDAIRES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• REPLAY Network
• SDRUDZENIE ZNAM I MOGA
• KULTURNO IZOBRAZEVALNO DRUSTVO PINA
• ASOCIACION CAZALLA-INTERCULTURAL
• CEMEA DEL MEZZOGIORNO ONLUS
• FEKETE SEREG IFJUSAGI EGYESULET
• ASSOCIACAO MAIS CIDADANIA