Working to Approach Youth Workers as Agents of a Response to Disability Erasmus Project

Project Title

Working to Approach Youth Workers as Agents of a Response to Disability

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

“Working to Approach Youth Workers as Agents of a Response to Disability” (WAYWARD) is a Capacity Building Youth project involving 7 partner organizations from Europe, Asia and Central America with the overarching am of empowering personal development, overcoming of stereotypes and social inclusion of young people (age 18-25) with mental disability in partner countries through the empowerment of youth workers and NGOs in terms of understanding and methodological toolset based on the ETS (Education Through Sport) methodology.ETS, combining in a positive synergy the inclusive potential of ETS and Sport provides grassroots organizations with a powerful tool to enhance young disabled people’s motivation to participate in society, at the same time countering phenomena of social stigma through positive awareness and providing young people facing mental disability with the transversal backpack of skills for successful integration in all spheres of education, society and, prospectively, labour market.WAYWARD results:1) Training Format enabling operators active in the field of youth to foster motivation, skills and social inclusion potential at the level of mentally disabled young people through ETS.2) Manual, which will serve as a supporting material for youth organizations and operators in their work with the niche target of mentally disabled youngsters.3) Multilingual Web Platform whereby to provide visibility to project activities/materials, opportunities of e-learning to external operators by means of online educational modules as well as disclose future activities to be implemented by project partners at the international and local events.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 148891,29 Eur

Project Coordinator

AETOI THESSALONIKIS & Country: EL

Project Partners

• CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
• ASOCIACION MEXICANA DE VOLUNTARIADO INTERNACIONAL
• LOVE AND CARE FOR PEOPLE COMPANY LIMITED BY GARANTEE
• MINE VAGANTI NGO
• ASOCIACIA ZA RAZVITIE NA BULGARSKIASPORT