Easier Transitions Erasmus Project

Project Title

Easier Transitions

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

Our project comes as the result of a networking event organised by the lead organisation in Manchester 2 years ago. It was apparent by the standard of the young people from the UK that all the other partners wanted to share the skills the UK young people seem to have developed through youth work. Preparation since has created a strong trust and working relationship among the 4 partners who shared a common interest in developing work skills among young people through youth work. The project will be led by Young People supported by staff in each country and a project manager.
1. Young people from the UK reflected on their own experience of learning in non formal settings and sharing best practice with young people from 3 other European Countries using a variety of methods: virtual training, animation, training materials on outcomes identification and measurement. Young people (many of whom come from backgrounds with fewer opportunities) got together to improve their chances of transition into the world of work through a project devised by themselves. The project was both ?physical? and virtual (physical in that the learning happens through actually doing things together for others) and virtual in the sharing of the results and the l earning among young people of different countries, experiencing same problems, barriers and yet with different local context
2. It was also innovative because we created an open source website of materials for use in non formal settings with short animations created by young people with help from professionals. We also created an app that young people and youth workers can access in their phones to measure, describe and record different life skills and transferable skills they acquire through youth work and other non formal learnings. We have used animation for a lot of the materials to be created. Animation has been identified by the young people from the partnership countries as a very useful tool for training because:
– it can easily be understood despite language and other barriers
– it engages the audience and it is easy to concentrate and not to switch off
– it is fun and different
3. Finally there will be a training on outcomes for young people also available in the open source website which will share best experiences of how to design and deliver youth work that has a positive impact on young people?s lives and futures and their transition from education (formal and non formal) to employment. Thus IT will be used and taught so that young people and youth workers will be fully fluent in this communication media and essential skill.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 100698 Eur

Project Coordinator

Wonder Foundation & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Biedriba Kopienas Attistibas Centrs (KAC)
• Fundación Canfranc
• FUNDACIJA SURSUM DRUSTVO ZA IZOBRAZEVANJE IN KULTURO