Towards No Drug Abuse Erasmus Project

Project Title

Towards No Drug Abuse

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Inclusion – equity; Healthy lifestyle, active ageing

Project Summary

The use of alcohol and tobacco is widespread in most countries and this has been the case for centuries. The age, at which young people begin to smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol varies across the countries, but young adolescence and adulthood is a period in life when this is likely to occur. In this period in life young people are also at the greatest risk of trying other psychoactive substances as well. The spread of illicit drugs in the western world resulted in an increasing number of young people experimenting with drugs. In many industrialized societies, drug use has become one of the most serious problems.

The “Towards no drug abuse” project started from this premise and lasted 2 years and involved 6 European countries involved in the topic of drug addiction and non-formal education with young people.

The project had a dual objective, namely:

1) Adapt and transfer the identified best practices relating to prevention methodologies based on non-formal education to the 6 partner countries;
2) Spread these best practices at local, regional, national and European level by involving a multi-actor partnership that starts from youth organizations, to schools.

The project led to the creation of a Tangible Output, That is:
The creation of an Intervention Guidelines for educators and Youth workers in the field of drug prevention (Peer Exchange Guidance) within which the Good Practices cataloged and tested are explained.

Main Activities:
1.6 TPM
2.1 Training Activity in Braga;
3.Catalogation of Best Practices;
4.Analysis and evaluation;
5.Testing of the Cataloged Best Practices;
6. Booklet creation;
7.Dissemination activities.

Impact:

– encourage the spread of prevention methods through non-formal education in schools and youth sectors;
– help to provide adequate information to different target groups of the population, in particular teachers, youth workers, parents, students and adolescents;
– provide youth workers with teaching tools to be used in their association activities to promote prevention activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 72705 Eur

Project Coordinator

CENTRO DI AGGREGAZIONE SOCIALE E DI PRIMA ACCOGLIENZA GRUPPO MARANATHA’ ONLUS & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Association FenêtreS
• Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa, Delegação de Braga
• Asociatia Window Romania
• ERGASIA EKPAIDEFTIKI ANONYMI ETAIRIA
• Sehit Polis Nedip Cengiz Eker Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi