Our Self Consciousness On Peer Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Our Self Consciousness On Peer Education

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law); ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Peer education is a social promotion strategy based on the idea that it is possible to capture the isolation of peers within their networks to influence the knowledge, attitude, motivation and behavior of young people. Furthermore, as a methodology for promoting health and well-being, it is today one of the most significant and effective pathways in the prevention of risk behavior, since it identifies tools and strategies to enhance mutual change, combining the role of the adolescent’s guide with the competence of the adult and facilitate the processes of integration, dialogue, inclusion and personal growth. In this perspective, the Il nostra S.C.O.P.E. aims to promote peer education by selecting best practices from each partner organization at the end of a common training program for young people with fewer opportunities (disadvantaged, NEET, suburbs or with migrant backgrounds) thanks to the acquisition of legislative, civic, artistic, audiovisual and intercultural, addressing discrimination, segregation and the pressing challenges related to social exclusion and unemployment through the development of a positive self-concept, trust and ability to communicate and socialize.
The joint training program was developed on three pillars:
(1) Citizenship; Citizenship workshops have been set up to activate small processes of change both for the individual and for the group / company. A change promoted by small actions to improve our surroundings.
(2) Art and culture, based on current strategies and artistic techniques to develop self-esteem and self-recognition in a social context; dance, theater and music listening workshops have been set up. The beauty of art was used as a tool to create inclusion and active participation.
(3) new media education. Photography, radio and web radio workshops have been created.
The direct target groups are:
(1) Adolescents with fewer opportunities who participated as pupils in the training course – 10 pupils per partner country (age group 14-18);
(2) Young people with fewer opportunities who already have previous experience of working with children / adolescents and who have been trained as tutors – 3 tutors for each partner country (age group 20-25);
(3) Adolescents and young people with fewer opportunities who have no previous work experience and who will support tutors as co-tutors of training activities – 3 co-tutors for each partner country (age group 16-20).
The tangible results expected for the long-term impact are:
– national documents and an international summary document on situations of social disadvantages and on current methodologies and strategies (good practices) to address the issue in all partner countries;
– Training program in EN and in all partner languages The common training program is based on the three pillars of the project (see above);
– Guide for trainers: tangible document explaining the activities (and their meaning) to be carried out for each pillar and the strategies / approaches in accordance with the topic (and the group), as well as the interaction between tutors, co-tutors , participants and reference adults.
Intangible results recorded:
– greater self-confidence for young people with fewer opportunities and greater future chances of being accepted into society
– new skills and competences for music and theater experts, psychologists, pedagogues, educators and new media experts, working with people with fewer opportunities, involved in the project who will further disseminate their new skills acquired after the end of the project, creating an effect wave.
– greater awareness by national agencies about social inclusion and the emancipation of children and young people with fewer opportunities
– A new hope for families with a socially difficult background to see their children take part in better social positions and positions.
The Our Scope Project was not a project with a beginning and an end. It was a process of change. A change started from below, from difficult situations and contexts, mainly wanted by the real protagonists of the project: the young. A project that has been research, experimentation and innovation thanks to a strong collaboration between the partners. A process that gave birth to other small local projects. A group of young French people has opened a cultural association, the Italian peereducators have been hired by the Inventare Insieme Association to continue their activities. The Bulgarians, the Northern Irish and the Spanish are also continuing their activities through forms of volunteering and involving many other young people.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 145510 Eur

Project Coordinator

Inventare Insieme (onlus) & Country: IT

Project Partners

• North West Play Resource Centre
• FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE CULTURAL BPOCS
• ASOCIACION CAZALLA-INTERCULTURAL
• GCSMS MDA34