Schools and (social) streetworkers – the same target group, the same goals Erasmus Project

Project Title

Schools and (social) streetworkers – the same target group, the same goals

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 2019

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

CASVISITS SCOOLS
This project is striving to improve the capacities of youth workers – streetworkers and thus increase the quality of youth work in 6 member states of the EU. It is devoted to supporting cooperation among streetworkers on international level, exchange of good practice, sharing and confronting ideas, practices and methods in the field of COOPERATION OF SCHOOLS AND STREETWORK. Streetworkers often work with children who are leaving the formal education system too early (they do not finish the elementary school, or they are not qualified, NEETs). The specific partnership of this project will provide inspiration – how can we work with this group of youngsters, how to help them get back to the “system”, job market, get qualification.
The aim is to foster the European objective of promoting high-quality youth work with marginalized youth (or vulnerable youth, youth with fewer opportunities) and professionalization of youth – street – workers. The project partners, all working with a special method of youthwork – streetwork – will focus on sharing good practice regarding cooperation of schools (formal education) and streetwork (informal education).
Sharing of good practice will be done via method of short, but intense and detailed reciprocal study visits of project partners from the Czech Republic, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Germany, Estonia and Finland. All project partners are joining together large numbers of outreach workers in their countries. Eg. Czech Streetwork Association (CAS), the applicant, joins together more than 90 outreach work organizations from all over the Czech Republic.
A collection of professional reports from the study visits will be produced to allow as many interested stakeholders as possible to gain good practice and experience from this series of study visits.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 102150 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ceska asociace streetwork, z.s. & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• BEROEPSVERENIGING KINDER- EN JONGERENWERKERS
• Gangway e.V.
• HELSINGIN NUORTEN MIESTEN KRISTILLINEN YHDISTYS RY
• BOB, zavod za izobrazevanje in kulturne dejavnosti, Ljubljana
• Tallinna Haridusamet