Youth Can Make Change Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth Can Make Change

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 neighbouring and enlargement countries

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Unemployment, rise of xenophobia and racism, floods of immigrants aspiring to a better life.
Europe is in need for innovative solutions that will enhance employability without infringing the core humanistic values of its constitution. It is our belief that the answers should come from the young people who will be equipped with empathy, leadership, creativity and problem solving skills. The project is founded on the idea that formal education fails to reply to this challenge and that innovative non-formal tools are required to offer to young people the necessary 21st century skills.
The project “Youth Can Make Change” aims to: a) to develop the creative skills and innovativeness of youth workers and teachers so that they can efficiently identify the needs and problems of young people and propose original solutions and b) to give to youth workers the tools to become multipliers and further develop the 21st century skills, creativity, and innovativeness of young people and empower them to become the active actors of social change.
The project consists of two training courses, a pilot phase and an evaluation event. The first training is dedicated to design thinking. It will teach youth workers and teachers the seven stages of design thinking, which will enable them to create high-impact youth projects, initiate changes in their communities, and generate social innovations. The second training is dedicated to the Design for Change methodology. It provides a non-formal method to empower children and youngsters to feel that that they can shape their societies and encourage them to take actions. The project entails a pilot implementation phase where the participants will put in action the learnt methodologies, will initiate partnerships and test implementation strategies. During a final evaluation event the pilot phase will be analysed and strategies for the dissemination of the methodologies in Europe will be planned. Also, the project includes the creation and translation of toolkits into the partner languages. The aim is to give to the partners the concrete tools to act as multipliers and conduct further local and international projects.
Even though the DFC methodology is high-impact and low-cost, it is not developed in Europe. The project aims at the strengthening of the European DFC network, as the platform for further cooperation and development of tools and methods, particularly in the scope of the Erasmus Plus programme. Therefore it brings together three organisations who are experienced in the DFC methodology, those with capacities and infrastructure to quickly adopt and implement it and one school that will test the non formal methods in their formal education surroundings. By the end of the project the new organisations will become accredited country representatives and a part of the Global DFC network. This will offer them the possibility to develop their organisation as leading stakeholders of innovation in education in their country.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 55363 Eur

Project Coordinator

VEGA OMLADINSKI CENTAR & Country: RS

Project Partners

• KONGLOMERAT E.V.
• PERTEJ BARRIERAVE
• G.GEORDIADIS D VACHTANIDIS E BAROSO KYRIAKIDOU NON-PROFIT
• OCEAN ZNANJA U REPUBLICI HRVATSKOJ
• GENCLIK SANAT ARASTIRMA VE EGITIM DERNEGI
• ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE – KUMANOVO
• OSNOVNA SHKOLA JAVAN CVIJIC ZMINJAK/SABAC