TOGETHER WE CAN Erasmus Project

Project Title

TOGETHER WE CAN

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: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Inclusion – equity; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The need to propose a project is to discuss issues such as the use of drugs among young people and the education to legality starts from some statistical observations conducted by the Department of Pathological Dependencies at the European level that show how the consumption of drugs is constantly increasing. Among all, cannabis remains by far the most widespread narcotic substance, with percentages five times higher than other substances, as well as being the most likely to be used at all ages.The growth in recent years of the consumption of heroin and the fact that minors are greatly increased are also scary in Europe. This is despite the numerous efforts made by the institutions in the area of ​​repression and prevention. To this , is added a shortage of adequately effective and significant prevention training paths.General Objective of the Project is to promote the social inclusion of at-risk groups in education, training and youth activities and encouraging young people’s planning and leadership, through the adoption of educational programs based on the approach known in the literature as “Comprehensive Social Influence” (CSI) , able to prevent the use of substances among young people.
During LTT -C1 partners will share their best practices on substance misuse , In each Transnational meeting we will focus on some identified Best Practices and the period between one meeting and another will be dedicated to testing activities. The testing consists in initiating practical experiments of the BPs identified during the MT and evaluating the learning outcomes obtained and their reliability through external observation and some evaluation tests given to the participants. Specifically, it will have 4 phases: Administration / External observation / Review / Analysis of Impacts / Evaluation.
The project includes 6 transnational meetings. Transnational meetings will play a fundamental role. In particular, they will allow the partners to meet physically, therefore know each other better and will have the purpose of providing an overview of the objectives and results achieved , assessing the past period to integrate the results and lessons learned for the following period.
Technical meetings will be organized following a professional approach and taking into account the intercultural dimension of the European cooperation project. Furthermore, they will favor possible corrections in the planning of communication in the intervals between the meetings.
In general, the first meeting will be dedicated to project management while from the second onwards, after the Training, during each Meeting we will focus on the analysis of specific BEST PRACTCES adopted / or identified by each partner.
Target group are ; Youth / peer workers are an important part of youth work in prevention for young people, because they can approach their peers more easily than adult experts.
, From the project it is expected that the participants increase their awareness of the risk of falling into drug addiction and abuse and of the consequences that this generates. In particular:
● To raise awareness of the risks and damages deriving from the use of drugs and to propose them better behaviors and lifestyles in order to avoid such events;
● The participants learn the use of drugs as an “inadequate behavior, to be avoided as it puts at risk their own and the other’s health, the psychic and social integrity as a whole” and transmit them a “disvalore and not a plus value ”
● that the participants become a vehicle for communication with other young people on the risks that the use of drugs can cause;
Expected results are :
-Support NGOs , youth centers , schools in develop non-formal education for prevention, advocacy and communication interventions aimed at reducing harm related to drug misuse in specific target groups;
-Facilitate operational capacity building of the NGOs through information exchange, training, technical assistance, and by promoting international cooperation.
-The Project will give youth workers , practical skills and knowledge in enhancing the personal and social competence of young people through the development of Life Skills. This includes the acquisition of situation specific skills and strategies, while addressing values and knowledge relevant to decisions being made about drug use.
-The Project will reinforce existing knowledge ,pro-social and healthy skills reduce misinformation , negative attitudes , risky behaviour
The Project is pioneering methods of Non-Formal Education with new partners that have the scope, breadth and ability to reach large, new and highly vulnerable audiences. Main result of the project will be the selection and construction of a drug prevention intervention model using a Non-Formal methodology (catalogue / Booklet)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 80474 Eur

Project Coordinator

Youth 4 future Ltd & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Incirliova Genclik Kultur Sanat ve Gelisim Dernegi
• ASOCIACIJA EUROPOS JAUNIMAS
• Asociatia Window Romania
• Association FenêtreS
• WYZSZA SZKOLA BIZNESU I NAUK O ZDROWIU
• HANTA ASSOCIATES LIMITED