Practice organisation in Youth Work studies: Exchanging Best Practices Erasmus Project

Project Title

Practice organisation in Youth Work studies: Exchanging Best Practices

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The importance and quality of youth work has been highly prioritised in the EU youth agenda since 2013. The task to prepare professional qualified youth workers lies largely on the HEIs and their study programmes. The quality of the practical experiences, including work placement, the skills of self reflection and analysis, determine the actual preparation of the student to become a qualified youth worker with a professional identity.The Project address the issue of the quality of practical experiences in the preparation of youth workers by the HEIs. The objectives of the Project are 1) to exchange and analyse existing practices of organising practice in Youth Work study programmes in Estonia, Finland and the UK, and 2) build a closer network within the new partnership for future cooperation.The main activities carried out in the Project are four meetings for the Project Team. The aim of the meetings is run intensive workshops and hold study visits to the partner organisations. The 12 participants, forming the Project Team, are all programme managers and key decision makers in developing the youth work studies in their organisations. As a result of the Project, 1) the participants have a thorough comparative knowledge of the partners’ Youth Work programmes, 2) each partner has an Action Plan for using the gained knowledge in programme development; and, 3) the partners have agreed on a further cooperation framework. The impact of the Project, foreseen upon its completion, is in the actual changes/improvements in the practice/placement organisation in the Youth Work programmes of the partners. In the longer term, the Project has a potential positive impact on the quality of youth work through the improved practical component of the Youth Work study programmes.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 26740 Eur

Project Coordinator

TARTU ULIKOOL & Country: EE

Project Partners

• SUOMEN HUMANISTINEN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY HUMAK
• NEWMAN UNIVERSITY
• TALLINN UNIVERSITY