Inclusive Youth Work Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inclusive 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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; Inclusion – equity; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Inclusive Youth Work project with Erasmus Plus Key Action 2 program under Strategic Partnerships for youth is the initiative of 4 organisations from 4 different countries to join forces for one main objective of building capacities of participating organisations in improving and innovating inclusion of youngsters with disabilities through fostering specific competences among youth workers of benefit to young people’s active participation in society and youth work.
The Project Objectives are the following:
1. To empower youth workers by providing methodology and trainings in topic of inclusive youth work.
3. Creation and development of training module about inclusive youth work in 5 languages based on current best experiences of the partner organisations reflecting country reality
4. To rise awareness about social inclusion and youth with a disabilities and establish new approaches of youth work by integrating social work, non-formal learning and youth work
5. Creating international social network of inclusive youth workers to support their everyday work.
In order to reach above mention goal and objectives, it is anticipated to conduct following activities:
Local activities in national working group to settle the ground for initial planning and assessing current needs, expectations and fears to be discussed during the 1st Transnational project meeting. 1st transnational project meeting with an aim to coordinate the project activities and create the most effective grounds for most effective cooperation. Then study visit will be followed with an aim to share and learn the example of Armenian reality of cooperation of different youth centers and projects that foster inclusive youth work without financial support of municipality or government. 5-day seminar in Slovenia aims to create training module “Inclusive youth work” based on partners’ experiences, study visits and involved specialists. Online meetings aimed to form and design training module will be done in order to finalize the first version. 5 days (+2travel days) training course “Inclusive youth workers” will be conducted for youth workers who are working in youth center/projects to develop their competences and knowledge for including youngsters with and without disabilities to their everyday youth work in centers/projects. Training course and its online continuous learning activities aim to build capacities of organisation through enhancing the competences of their youth workers. Practice period is an essential part of manual development process for adopting it to local reality, testing created manuals and at the same time supporting young people directly. Final transnational meeting will be gathered for evaluation process, finalizing the module after the gained feedback/practice, sharing of the results and discussing follow-up dissemination strategies. In order reach as wide audience as possible, project results will be shared with youth workers, state institutions, universities, schools, NGO workers, social workers, NGO leaders as an important added value for the project.

Project Website

https://tntk.tartu.ee/tartu-noorsootoo-keskus/kaimasolevad-projektid/erasmus-ka2-inclusive-youth-work/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 83231 Eur

Project Coordinator

TARTU NOORSOOTOO KESKUS & Country: EE

Project Partners

• Armavir Development Center
• Fundacja proFesjonalni Aktywni Qlturalni Mlodzi
• RESEARCH-INTELLECTUAL CLUB DIALOGUE OF GENERATIONS NON-ENTREPREUNARIAL (NON COMMERCIAL)