Fatherhood Erasmus Project

Project Title

Fatherhood

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: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The Fatherhood, gender roles and parenting, project aims to meet the need of young fathers (18-30 years old) for training and support in their role as parents. The project builds on an innovative approach to youth training focusing on young fathers as the main target group. The main objective is to empowering and training young fathers to actively engage in the parenting role. The end product of the project will be online training for young fathers open and accessible in partner languages, English, Spanish, Greek and Icelandic.

The target group will be engaged using direct and indirect approaches. Direct participation through young fathers involvement in training and video production and indirect participation using social media forums like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube as well as organized online events on Zoom with experts and trainers. This will ensure that the outputs produced in the project are developed with and for young fathers. A total of 20 peers or young fathers will be involved in peer training and video production, 5 from each partner country, as well as partners will involve reference groups of 8-10 professionals and peers in each country that will actively engage in the development of project outputs. A total of 40 young fathers will be involved in the piloting of the online training, providing feedback to the finalization of the Fatherhood learning platform. Unforeseen number of fathers will follow project outcomes either individual videos or take partner in the overall training program.

The online training will include training content and videos. The Fatherhood training package will be designed using methods of positive psychology, emotional intelligence and mindfulness as well as coaching, character education and motivational techniques, partners will produce a central curriculum including learning objectives and applied methodology that can then be transferred to other regions/countries and groups within Europe. Peer videos or interviews with 5 selected young fathers from each participants country in their language, interviews with 4-6 professionals in English that will be subtitles in partner languages as part of the training material. A handbook for producer will be published online in English providing information and necessary tools for preparation, directing and production of the Fatherhood videos as well as a description of the overall reviewing process and cooperation with the young fathers and professionals involved.

Partners believe that project will greatly impact all young fathers and that the material and training developed will be sustainable and practical for our target group of young fathers both within the Fatherhood training platform as well as on relevant training and communication platforms adapting and using material and methodologies designed within the project. The objective is that after project finalization social media forums and channels will continue to be both active and helpful for young fathers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 223699 Eur

Project Coordinator

Quasar & Country: IS

Project Partners

• SYNERGASIA ENEGON POLITON
• The Shanty Educational Project Limited
• GROWTH COOP S.COOP.AND
• Einurð