YOUTHLAND19.27 – Diagnostic, strategic planning and youth participation Erasmus Project

Project Title

YOUTHLAND19.27 – Diagnostic, strategic planning and youth participation

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Rural development and urbanisation; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

BACKGROUND
In the intervention work with young people, although there is a wide range of practice at European level, there is still no sharing and dissemination of practices carried out in European countries in order to identify and define the best and/or most young people’s problems and needs.
In addition, young people adopt an attitude of criticism and resignation to their problems and feel excluded from the decision-making process. Youth workers do not yet have adequate skills and tools to include young people in processes of active participation, co-management and co-responsibility. By precisely disregarding the needs of young people and lacking tools to help them diagnose them, they have difficulty reaching their target group and ensuring an active and empowering intervention of social transformation.

OBJETIVES
1) Identify, collect and systematize European good practice of intervention and response to the problems in youth;
2) Reinforce European networks and the ability to operate at transnational level;
3) Plan, test and validate strategies and practices in the youth context;
4) Systematize a methodology (quantitative and qualitative) for obtaining, data analysis and support the development of a participatory strategy and their plans in youth;
5) Stimulate a critical attitude, active and entrepreneurial society for the development of new youth policies;
6) Develop knowledge, tools and content of free access to target groups.

PARTICIPANTS
Participants are:
– Youth workers.
Indirect participants/beneficiaries are:
– groups of young co builders who collaborate with the managing teams, assist the development of content, critics;
– Young “targets” for the application of the methodologies, i.e., all the young people of the regions of partners.

PARTICIPANTS PROFILE
1) Youth workers over the age of 25;
2) Share the problem, needs and objectives;
3) Motivated to contribute at all stages, from planning to completion and sustainability;
4) Motivated to disseminate the results;
5) Proactive in creating impacts in themselves, in the target group and the communities of which they are part of;
6) Interested in continuing to participate and develop projects that focus on the priorities of Erasmus+;
7) Motivated to develop and stimulate the civic, participatory and entrepreneur spirit.

ACTIVITIES
1) Transnational meetings – initial meeting/preparation, to be held in August 2019; intermediate meeting/monitoring, to be held in January 2020; interim meeting/monitoring, to be held in May 2020 and final meeting/evaluation, to be held in September 2020;
2) Preparatory and follow-up meetings (online) – July 2019 to October 2020;
3) Training courses/ Seminars – December 2019 and July 2020;
4) Identify, collect and systematize – September to December 2019;
5) Implementation and planning – January to September 2020;
6) Job shadowing – January to July 2020;
7) Seminar – September 2020.

METHODOLOGY
Non-formal education.

RESULTS AND IMPACTS
As a key result, we highlight the development of methodologies for guiding and obtaining the diagnosis of needs for the elaboration of strategic youth plans.
The expected impacts on this project are:
1) Training of youth and youth workers;
2) Development of competences and learning based on NFE;
3) Improvement of the quality of youth intervention;
4) Openness to multicultural individual and collective learning;
5) Increase of social, civic and democratic participation;
6) Increase in the spirit of initiative and entrepreneurship;
7) Increase in inclusive and participatory behaviors;
8) Increase in territorial synergies;
9) Development of new initiatives for civic participation, entrepreneurship and innovation;
10) Promotion of values such as democracy, innovation, respect, change, tolerance, trust and dignity.

BENEFTIS
1) The adequacy of youth interventions will be reflected at the real needs of young people; to value youth action and the active participation of young people; the development of the sense of identity and belonging, social inclusion, intercultural dialogue and multiculturalism; the consideration of non-formal education methodology as a training methodology for youth action.
2) Systematization of a methodology for guidance based on European practices of youth intervention, uniform, comparable, validated data collection and processing in terms of diagnosis and strategic planning.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 72597 Eur

Project Coordinator

Psientífica – Associação para a promoção e desenvolvimento social & Country: PT

Project Partners

• Fundação Bracara Augusta
• Mladinski kulturni center Maribor
• ASOCIATIA GRUPUL PONT PONT CSOPORTPONT GROUP
• MUNICIPIO DE CASCAIS
• SCHEDIA STIN POLI KALLITEXNIKI PAIDAGOGIKI OMADA
• KOINOFELIS EPICHEIRISI DIMOY THESSALONIKIS