Youth worker in debate Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth worker in debate

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: Migrants’ issues; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

“Youth worker in debate” is an Erasmus + K2 Strategic partnership project – Exchange of good practices in the youth sector. The project has a duration of 24 months with the start date of June 2019. The participating organisations belong to three countries – Italy, Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – which well represent the basic value of the European Union: “United in diversity” (including in this concept the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as a candidate country) and represent a set of heterogeneous realities whose competences are completed and enriched. The project has two main priorities: to promote, through the methodology of the Debate, the quality of youth work and the empowerment of young people. The flow of project activities and the work plan outlined have been planned in relation to and in line with these two priorities, with the aim of promoting, through a process of non-formal education and through youth work, the ability of young people to develop their own critical thinking, increasing their participation and their sense of belonging to the values ​​of global citizenship. In line with the priorities and objectives of the project, the participants (about 40 in total) are young people aged18 to 30 who will participate, during the two years of the project, to a series of common activities, both at local and transnational level.
In short, the activities envisaged by the project are divided into three phases.
The first phase is focussed on training activities on the Debate methodology for the young workers that will start through a joint training activity of five days in Italy.
The second phase foresees, in all three partner countries, at local level, the implementation of a non formal educational path to the Debate methodology for a group of 8 young people (for a total of 24 people). The activities will last approximately 12 months and will be implemented through three workshops managed by the youth workers who will have taken part to the first phase of activity and to the joint training activity staff; the workshops will be supported by the use of Google Classroom,
Finally, during the third phase, at the end of the training workshops, the young and the participating youth workers, together, will take part to the final blended mobilities in Greece during which transnational Debate activities will be organised.
During this phase of activity the participants will be invited to elaborate proposals on the chosen theme (immigration) to be presented to the local authorities of each individual country. The topic has been selected in relation to the analysis of the national contexts of the three countries and in relation to the relevance of the topic within the European and global context. The project path will allow the reading of the phenomenon from an extended point of view with the aim of assessing the phenomenon from a historical perspective at national, European and international level. This approach will allows the analysis of the phenomenon in a broader context: internal migrations, intra-European migration and extra-European migration.
The expected results are related to a progressive improvement of the competence and skills of the young workers and young participants, as well as of the participating and associated organisations. As anticipated, within the project the use of the Google classroom platform is envisaged, as a supporting tool; the implementation of a project site; the drafting of guidelines for the use of the Debate methodology in the field of non-formal youth education; the drafting of a series of proposals to improve immigration policies. The project represents an opportunity for growth for all participants and was designed with a view to future development and transfer of experience, in different contexts and on different topics.

Project Website

https://youthindebate.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 56502 Eur

Project Coordinator

Bluebook s.r.l. & Country: IT

Project Partners

• UNITED SOCIETIES OF BALKANS
• Youth Empowerment Association