Cross-sectorial cooperation for reaching out to the youth Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cross-sectorial cooperation for reaching out to the youth

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: Inclusion – equity; Quality Assurance; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Erasmus + KA2 project “Cross-sectorial cooperation for reaching out to the youth” will be implemented for 15 months, from 1st of August 2020 to 1st of November 2021, with the aim of developing the competences and tools needed for cross-sectorial cooperation in order to improve the quality of youth work. The project will be implemented by partners from Latvia, Germany, Norway and Lithuania. With the support of the Erasmus + program, the project will provide support to those involved in youth work, strengthen and maintain high-quality and sustainable cross-sectorial cooperation. There will be organized two transnational meetings, a study visit to Germany and two trainings, providing a basis for developing and raising the quality of youth work in Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Germany. It is important for effective cross-sectorial cooperation at municipal level that local authorities, politicians and NGOs are able to learn from each other, share perspectives on how they see local realities, and jointly develop tools to improve the quality of youth work at local level and serve as a resource for the EU level. Sharing expertise and developing competences at international level is important for improving the quality of youth work, so that innovative solutions can be implemented at local level. Project participants will have the opportunity to learn and develop their competences, improve existing cross-sectorial approaches to co-operation, share their good practices and, overall, improve the quality of youth work in their area. The project will enable partners to develop quality youth work and recognition of youth work. Target audience of the project: youth workers, youth specialists, representatives of social services, representatives of educational institutions, culture and sports, representatives of non-governmental organizations, representatives of municipal management (decision-makers) and business sector, youth center managers and employees, municipal security services and migration authorities staff, youth leaders. The results of the project will have a significant impact on young people in these countries and on a wider scale, through results that will be made publicly available online.
Objectives of the project:
– To provide participants with knowledge of cross-sectorial cooperation for youth policy .
– Share and develop cross-sectorial cooperation tools and identify good examples from different European countries.
– To learn to use different approaches to analyze the well-being of young people.
– Develop evaluation tools for existing cross-sectorial cooperation models to assess their quality and use the results to improve the quality of youth work.
– Establish an international platform for the development of quality youth policy tools and exchange of experience on cross-sectorial cooperation at youth sector.
– Promote the opportunities offered by the Erasmus + program for developing cross-sectorial cooperation at European level, through project publicity and dissemination activities.
– Develop a set of educational and informative materials on cross-sectorial cooperation at youth policy .
– Strengthen project partners’ capacity and cooperation in transnational projects, providing wider development opportunities and innovative solutions to local problems in the youth field.
Project results: a compilation of methodological and good practice examples on cross-sectorial cooperation in youth work in Germany, Latvia, Norway and Lithuania; training kits on basic principles, methods, strategies, tools for evaluation of cross-sectorial cooperation, tools for evaluating cross-sectorial cooperation and approaches to improving the quality of youth work; a summary of study visit; more than 80 project target group representatives will have participated in training and study visits, developing their competences in cross-sectorial cooperation; at least 50 members of the target group have upgraded their competences in providing and developing youth services according to the needs and interests of young people, and have developed their competencies in different cross-sectorial cooperation approaches that promote the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities; a developed partnership network for cross-sectorial cooperation in youth work at European level; Testing and integrating 4 different cross-sectorial approaches in youth work practice in Latvia, Germany, Lithuania and Norway; the competences of at least 70 target group members have been developed, which will help to improve the quality of youth policy planning and implementation at local level, impacting at least 10 municipalities in which the project participants work daily. A tool for evaluation of cross-sectorial cooperation in the field of youth will be developed, a set of criteria that will help participants identify strengths and weaknesses and provide a basis for further development of youth work.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 77308 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ogre Municipality & Country: LV

Project Partners

• Medvirkningsagentene
• arco – Erlebnispädagogik e.V.
• POLITIKOS TYRIMU IR ANALIZES INSTITUTAS