Promoting Youth Participation in Local Communities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Promoting Youth Participation in Local Communities

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: Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

In many EU countries and at the European level, there is a general desire to support and further improve youth participation, as can be seen in the strategy for the youth sector 2020-2023.

YOUC aims to enhance the expertise of young activists and educators to involve marginalised youth in activities for the benefit of local communities, to improve youth empowerment, social inclusion and networking with local decision makers and ordinary citizens.

The partnership has developed :
– A guide for promoting youth civic participation at the local level which consists of a methodology and a set of tools that youth activists and educators can use in their projects. The topics of the guide are
– Involving young people at risk and keeping them involved
– Diagnosing the needs of local communities
– Understanding and cooperating with the local institutional context
– Defining the objectives and action plan of your project
– Monitoring and evaluating the results of your project
– Evaluating your own learning

– A face-to-face training programme for young people involved in civic participation projects: contains 26 lesson plans and related teaching materials that youth activists and educators can use to train and guide vulnerable (at-risk) young people involved in local change projects by addressing the questions of Why mobilise in a project? How to build a team and value individual skills in a collective approach? How to diagnose the needs of local communities and identify the local context for the implementation of initiatives to benefit local communities? How to define objectives and corresponding action plans and take action? How to monitor and evaluate results?

The guide and the training programme can be downloaded from the project website https://youc-project.eu/the-project/, the Erasmus+ results platform, Epale, OER Commons.

– An online training programme for educators, youth activists and young people at risk: The online training is based on the methodology and material contained in the previous intellectual productions, but with a fluidity, interactivity and ergonomics that make it easy to use and read. Evaluation questionnaires have been integrated to test the learners’ knowledge. https://youc-project.eu/our-courses/

500 people: young activists, young people at risk, youth educators, staff of youth associations were mobilised (mobility in France, steering locally, participation in meetings) during the project to work on local participation of these young people to solve problems in their local communities.
They were able to test the intellectual productions in order to improve them.

The project methodology is based on experiential learning, cooperative learning, peer education and participatory action research.

The consortium is composed of youth and research organisations based in FR, PL, ES, LV.

44,140 people have been reached by YOUC actions in direct and indirect ways.

Project Website

https://youc-project.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 163487 Eur

Project Coordinator

CDE Petra Patrimonia & Country: FR

Project Partners

• MAGENTA CONSULTORIA PROJECTS SL
• SOCIALAS INOVACIJAS CENTRS
• VIVA FEMINA