Out with burn out ! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Out with burn out !

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Burn out is a result of cumulating unreacted stress in the long term, which shows its consequences in physiology, emotions, relations with others etc.It touches many stages of life, in the way that the person who suffers from it, at first does not realize the real reason behind those negative changes. It all results in worse well-being and health problems. Some of the consequences are: willingness to be isolated, worse relations with others,no interest in previous hobbies, problems with dealing with emotions, worse efficiency and effectiveness, losing the joy of work and daily activities, problems with concentrating, memory, creative thinking. The stress and pressure connected with social engagement results in losing the motivation and power to work and de facto to change the world into better place-this what for people working in3rd sector has the highest value.“Burn out” becomes more often a topic under the discussion-mostly in business, still not in3rd sector. Aim is to emphasize that burn out is a common problem, and also has high space in3rd sector touching people like youth workers, leaders of NGOs, activists, educators etc. All involved organizations work for local, national or international well-being,solving problems of youth and other groups. Many times forgetting about themselves, and their own well-being.As commonly known-it’s important and better to prevent than to cure. The organizations involved in project implementation have great experience in working in the third sector–as organizations and/or people who create those organizations. Spending many years on working for others.In order to be able to bring help to others, it’s important to know how to take care of yourself. Current data say that it’s common to change the workplace after2-4years of working.The same data shows that more and more often it’s recommended to change their professions after some years of working.It’s recommended to do so,in order to avoid the feeling of burn out,in order to overcome the feeling.
The project focuses on exchanging good practices between the partners on the topic of social burnout to increase the knowledge and awareness about the symptoms – how to recognize them, what are they and how to manage with social burn out. There will be organized three Joint Staff Trainings, each of them will be focused on different objectives: the attitude at work (to be able to assure yourself with inner harmony), assertiveness etc; the ETS Competence Model due to which we will be working on chosen competences in order to minimalize the risk of social burn out; and learning new methods to overcome the problem by mindfulness, yoga, meditation, alternative medicine and get back to the previous harmony in order to be able to provide other actions in the third sector without the need of changing the profession. The path of learning from each other is structured. Nowadays the topic of social burnout exists but it is underestimated. The scale is much higher than we have the data about, and it is important to be able to prevent from extending the scale of the problem and be able to cure when it exists. Those are the main aims to which the project is a response.

Project Website

http://levelupngo.com/en/project/out-with-burnout-8/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 46815 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stowarzyszenie LEVEL UP & Country: PL

Project Partners

• ASOCIATIA A.S.E.L. RO
• Institutul de Instruire in Dezvoltare “MilleniuM”
• POSITIVE YOUTH