From North to South: exchange of Good Practices in Youth Work Erasmus Project

Project Title

From North to South: exchange of Good Practices in Youth Work

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Project “From North to South: exchange of Good Practices in Youth Work” is KA2 exchange of good practice strategic partnership project. This project will last for 7 months and will enable partners Italy, Spain, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia to share good practices in the field of youth work.

Aim of the project is:
To share Northern and Southern best practices in the field of youth work and provide youth worker with competencies needed for daily youth work.

Objectives:
1 To show unique features of Northern youth work traditions;
2 To share best practices of youth work applied to unprivileged youth (NEETs, ROMA, refugees, young offenders);
3 To share the Don Bosco experience and its Preventive System;
4 To develop participants competencies based on Lithuanian youth worker certification system;
5 Develop an understanding of quality youth work integral with European youth work values (diversity, rule of law, democracy, tolerance and other);
6 To create youth work support system for quality international youth work in the partner countries;
7 To create space for the cooperation of participants and ensure the quality of future Erasmus + projects;

Activities of the project:
We plan to implement 2 educational activities in the framework of the project. Firstly, a 5 day Study visit in Italy “Study visit: youth work in Italy starting from Don Bosco” which will gather 23 participants from 5 project countries. Secondly, a Training course “Grass-roots youth work – training on competencies of youth work, forms and methodologies of youth work” in Lithuania. It will be a 7-day training course providing youth workers, youth leaders and civil servant competencies needed for daily youth work activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59880 Eur

Project Coordinator

SFERA ITALY & Country: IT

Project Partners

• POLITIKOS TYRIMU IR ANALIZES INSTITUTAS
• Associacio Cultura Creativa
• Ungdomsfronten
• Jaunatne smaidam