YOUTH WORK IN PROGRESS

This project aims to raise quality and sustainability of youth programs, through competence development of youth workers and leaders to provide innovative, modern and quality youth work service which effectively respond on current socio-economic needs of young people in EU and Western Balkan.

CALL: Erasmus + 2017
MAIN APPLICANT: SEEYN Secretariat
PARTNERS: BEYOND BARRIERS, YOUTH RESOURCE CENTER TUZLA, VOJVODINA ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT, EDUCATION CENTER KRUSEVAC, IDEAS FACTORY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY AGENCY, ASSOCIATION OF ACTIVE YOUTH FLORINA, ASSOCIATION NUR, CREATIVITAS, YOUTH CULTURAL CENTER BITOLA, ASSOCIATION FOR DEMOCRATIC PROSPERITY – ZID, YOUTH CENTER BIT, SAKARYA UNIVERSITY LIFE LONG LEARNING CENTER.
SEEYN MEMBERS INVOLVED: 8 OUT OF 13 PARTNERS
DURATION: 01/11/2017 - 01/08/2019.
DONATOR: European Union


SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
•    Raising quality and innovation in non-formal education through capacity building in online learning management systems, methods, tools and media literacy of youth workers;
•    Raising quality and modernizing youth work methods and approaches through capacity building in developing and running youth work activities using digital media tools;
•    Contributing to raise quality of youth leadership, efficient management and internationalization in youth organizations through capacity building of the youth workers in organizational management and leadership competences;
•    Improve sustainability and quality of long-term work on professional and personal development of young people through capacity building of youth workers in field of youth mentorship;
•    Empower and provide youth workers with space, support and practical skills to apply their competences on relevant issues in youth work field through education, awareness raising, cooperation, active youth participation, community development;
•    Contribute to creation of establishment of the knowledge foundation on topics of mentorship in youth work, online learning, digital tools to support youth work delivering, providing training, of working methods, tools and materials;
•    Raise capacities of youth organizations and develop efficient, sustainable youth work and life-long learning program;
•    Contribute to personal development of youth workers towards professionalization of youth work;
•    Foster mutual understanding of certain topics among youth from different cultures, promoting intercultural learning on European level and enable sharing of different experience, good practice examples, tools and methods;
•    Provide space for networking and developing mutual projects and strategic cooperation between youth organizations from Western Balkans and Programme Countries;
•    Promote Erasmus Plus programme as tool for mobility, education and cooperation.


ACTIVITIES:
-    KICK OF MEETING OF THE PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS;
-    ONLINE PLATFORM FOR ONLINE LEARNING
-    TC ON NON FORMAL LEARNING IN ONLIONE SPACE “LOGGING IN”
-    TC ON SUSTAINABLE YOUTH WORK ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT;
-    TC ON LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF THE YOUTH INITIATIVES;
-    TC IN EMPLOYING DIGITAL TOOLS IN YOUTH WORK
-    FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES FOR EACH TRAINING;
-    2 X EDUCATIONAL HANDBOOKS (ONLINE AND OFFLINE) ON MENTORSHIP AND DIGITAL NON-FORMAL EDUCATION


CONTACT PERSON:
Marinela Sumanjska
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