Sexual Education for youth empowerment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sexual Education for youth empowerment

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Health and wellbeing; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The project “Sexual education for youth empowerment” initiated by Dominou Association brings together 4 youth organisations and local authorities from SE, SP, PT and RO that will work with local authorities, schools, parents for creating an innovative OER multilingual platform on the subject of holistic sexual and health education. The project is cross curricular because it addresses a main priority of the youth sector, “Promoting, engaging and empowering young people” and a school priority education, “Tackling early school leaving and disadvantage”. There’s nothing simple about teaching young people about sex these times of precocious pre-teens, pregnancy among teenagers, and sexually transmitted diseases.

Aim: transfer of knowledge and innovation in modern and gamified sexual education tools and activities for youth workers by development of an innovative OER multilingual platform and establishing a network of networks of organizations active in health and sexual education & promotion of qualitative development of youth work

Objectives:
O1: Creating an innovative OER multilingual platform on the subject of holistic sexual and health education by transfer of good practices from SE, RO, SP, PT and development of modern gamified new tools accessed by at least 1200 youth workers working with disadvantaged young people that will function during the project lifetime (2020-2022) and at least 5 years after.
O2: Creating a 6 day training course for 18 youth workers, youth trainers, other professionals educating youth on the topic of sexual education for disadv. young people, tested in national and intercultural settings and transferring these competences for 300 RO youth workers during the project life
O3: Promoting health and sexual education to local communities from 5 countries (RO, SE, PT, SP) and at least 240 young people, out of which 200 disadvantaged, to increase youth empowerment, gender equality, equity in access to sexual education and healthy lifestyle and decrease early school leaving
O4: Creating an international network of 4 organisations, experts in sexual and health education at international standards

Activities:
International level:
Learning Activities(Training in SE for 18 youth workers; Youth exchange in RO and PT, 40 youth and 8 leaders each);
3 Transnational meetings (2 participants/ partner/ meeting, in total 24 staff)
Multiplier event (205 stakeholders)
Intellectual output – E-learning Platform(min 1200 youth workers enrolled on the platform)
National:
Pilot testing the platform(20 youth workers trained in the programme)
Round table and webinars with national stakeholders(2800 staff and stakeholders)
Local:
youth work activities testing sexual education methods(involve 240 young people, 83% disadvantaged)
parent workshops and seminars(200 parents )
local/online center for sex ed counselling(300 young people counselled)

Types of target groups: working on youth field educators/street workers, heads/coordinators of youth centers, trainers, teachers, school counsellors, class mentors, school psychologists, active members of youth associations, disadvantaged young people involved in Peer Education programs and participants working on Youth policy and inter-sectoral working groups: policy makers, pedagogues, social workers, heads of services, coordinators of educational campaigns, representatives of institutions and NGOs

Methodology used for the innovative cross curricular intellectual output:
platform development: SCRUM agile process framework and online gamification principles for learner engagement
methods, activities and tools: OCTALYSIS gamification framework, non formal education methodology and principles
Learning activities use non formal methods and modern ICT tools to attract digital natives.

Results of the project:
The project will create high quality learning outcomes both in the professionals involved and in the youth, in the field of sexual education, respecting the World Health Organisation Standards
Innovative collection of non formal and gamified methods, activities and videos presented in a modern, sustainable and easily transferable format – a multilingual e-learning platform
2800 stakeholders will gain awareness of importance of sexual education and use some of the project tools

Impact of the project:
Main impact will be in RO, by cross curricular transfer of the methodology
Improved health and empowerment for the disadvantaged young people the youth workers following the e-learning courses work with
All partners’ impact in their communities and cooperation with stakeholders grows

The sustainability will be provided by frequent long-term use of intellectual output O1 – e-learning, because of the gamified learning process which will ensure users like and promote the platform. The gamified platform will be self sustainable so it requires minimum human effort, which will make it relevant for years, free and with open access to materials, documents and media produced

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 159271 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASOCIATIA DOMINOU & Country: RO

Project Partners

• EUDUCATE
• Edu2grow
• Göteborgs stad, Socialförvaltning Nordost