YOUTH+
YOUTH+ for social inclusion: development of youth workers for long-term engagement of self-governed groups of youth with fewer opportunities to carry out own initiatives.
YOUTH+ project
YOUTH+ is a step toward destroying prejudices, negative believes and establishes successful inclusion of youth with fewer opportunities. It equips youth workers to engage the most vulnerable youth with fewer opportunities to be involved in long-term non-formal learning activities.
Project Results
Guide – 5 languages
Toolkit – 5 languages
Online Course in English
You can access the results in the Knowledge Base.
If you would like to share your opinions, experiences or results with the project team, we are happy to hear from you.
What is YOUTH+?
YOUTH+ is an Erasmus+ KA2 strategic partnership project that aims to equip youth workers to engage the most vulnerable youth with fewer opportunities to be involved in long-term non-formal learning activities. As a result, youngsters at risk form their own self-managed groups – the so called YOUTH+ groups – and initiate local projects and run their own ideas and manifest them into activities.
What are the challenges and goals of YOUTH+?
Related to the targeted youth, the project tackles discrimination, early school drop-off, and unemployment.
It aims to improve the potential of volunteering and competence development: the emergence of positive peer role models who form YOUTH+ groups Europe-wide, implement their own projects, and help their peers discover their own superpower to control their destiny and initiate positive changes.
Related to the targeted youth workers, it addresses the lack of resources to work with the most challenging youth with fewer opportunities and the lack of recognition.
By a blended learning process we enhance support to empower groups of youth with fewer opportunities, increase digital competences of youth workers, and raise the quality and recognition of youth work.
How will we achieve this?
By the end of the YOUTH+ project, teams of young people having fewer opportunities will be set up in 4 countries. These teams are the so called YOUTH+ groups.
We create an online course for professionals working with young people that is free and accessible from anywhere and at any time.
Course participants will learn about the From Us to You method of Élményakadémia and will be able to facilitate a special learning process where a community of disadvantaged young people volunteers to help others while they themselves become contemporary role models and learn a great deal about themselves and the world.
We have a long-term plan. We collect what YOUTH+ groups need to survive and how organizations and individuals can support their existence and operation.
Elements of YOUTH+
- Development of the YOUTH+ online course.
- Elaboration of the YOUTH+ Guide and toolkit on Sustainable Local Youth Engagement.
- Online Course Designing Workshop.
- Training of youth workers leading the FUY processes.
- Testing of the online course: implementation of FUY projects in 4 countries (HU, LV, DE, RO), including teambuilding and planning, volunteering days, evaluation, and FUYI parties.
- Youth leader training for sustainable local actions.
- YOUTH+ “Be the change yourself!” Seminar in Latvia.
- SOURCE of YOUTH+ Conference in Hungary.
November 2021 – February 2024
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