Workshops, Awareness, Values, Engagement Erasmus Project

Project Title

Workshops, Awareness, Values, Engagement

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Creativity and culture; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

WAVE (Workshops+Awareness+Values+Engagement) is a 2,5 year educational project that aims to create a new method of guidance counselling and career decision making for European students and NEET youth, based on creative and participatory group work that anchors decisions about school and work on a community-based and collective dialogue about how to contribute to meaningful and sustainable future(s).

When young people are faced with uncertainty about the future (questions about the environment, economy, society) and their role in it, and the compulsion to make potentially life-altering choices (school- or careerwise) simultaneously, tremendous pressure and isolation looms over them. This may lead to misinformed, desperate, unsure decisions, or worse, neglect and denial in making a decision – leaving a young person stagnated and not knowing how to realize itself academically or professionally, and meaningfully contributing to the cohesion and prosperity of the society it is part of.

TILLT AB, STOP-KLATKA, and Teatro Prova have many years of experience working with drama therapy as a form of alternative/popular education, young people as target groups, and socially-engaged projects in which artistic methods and exercises are used to inspire and empower individuals to create innovative approaches to longlasting social problems.

The partnership has the objective of developing an innovative guidance counselling method, to better equip guidance counsellors to work more innovatively and with groups; to support students’ choices, leading to better academic performance, wellbeing and employment; to contribute to a more innovative and well-functioning school system and school-to-work transition process across Europe.

WAVE engages 300 students/youth as active participants of the method development, of which 9 become ambassadors of the project (receiving a Youthpass certificate) and joining transnational training events, as well as inform 125 educational staff (guidance counsellors, teachers, parents, youth workers, civil servants) about the method.

After a period of preparation, partners will work directly with target groups (young people and guidance counsellors) to develop the method via workshop series, including transnational training activities for 9 young participants, and later turn the method into an interactive e-book, that will then be presented in 3 national seminars and 1 final conference.

The main result of the project is the method itself, both the know-how and working process developed by partners, as well as an e-book that can inform and educate others on how to work with the method. The method will empower 300 students/youth to make choices in dialogue with peers instead of in isolation, and equip 125 educational staff to work with the method or develop it further if required. Furthermore, 9 students/youth showing special interest in the method and or studies/career in education will develop specific skills for that purpose in an international setting.

The long term benefits of the project are improved provision of information/career guidance by schools and educational staff, that facilitates transitions between different levels and types of education and training, as well as between education/training and the world of work, in a way that tackles skills gaps, and answers young citizen’s own formulations of their desired/sustainable future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 80680 Eur

Project Coordinator

TILLT AB (SVB) & Country: SE

Project Partners

• Stowarzyszenie Praktyków Dramy STOP-KLATKA
• Il Teatro Prova Società Cooperativa Sociale