
Motivation of partners in this project is to “equip” young women with set of skills needed to work on personal development in fields of learning, creating self-employment opportunities and sharing valuable skills among peers.In our communities/countries of the partners in this project, the stereotypes remain that the entrepreneurship is perceived as a masculine activity in masculine sectors.Our project tends to go beyond those stereotypes and discriminations in our communities and offer quality support for young women to start their enterprises. It is rather innovative in our communities, although at the level of the EU there are quite a few support mechanisms for female entrepreneurship. In our communities, unfortunately, there are no entrepreneurship empowerment centres for young women.Overall project’s objectives:- Encourage active citizenship and develop sense of entrepreneurship of unemployed young women- Raise capacity of partner organisations and their youth workers for establishment empowerment centres and implementation of quality non-formal education and entrepreneurial learning activities for young women in our communities- Develop young women entrepreneurship empowerment centres and activities in our organisations and communities and thus to organise capacity building of young women in our communities- Evaluate the impact of the education/capacity building of our youth workers and the impact of the empowerment centres for capacity building of young women for entrepreneurshipProject's activities are:- Preparation activities- Training course (Activity 1): „Young Women Entrepreneurship Empowerment Centres“ (9 days long; Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina)- Homework – Establishing young women entrepreneurship empowerment centres & activities- Evaluation meeting (Activity 2): „Impact of entrepreneurial learning of young women in our empowerment centres“ (7 daus long; Zadar, Croatia)- Evaluation and dissemination activitiesProject gathers at least 31 participants, trainers and staff from 9 organisations/countries (BA, HR, RS, Al, MK, IT, SL, SI, ME). There will be at least 16 participants with fewer opportunities.Local communities of the partner organisations in this project will benefit thanks to establishment of the young women entrepreneurship empowerment centres and education workshops and programmes that will be regularly held there. We expect at least 9 empowerment centres of our 9 partners, with at least 10 different workshops / NFE activities (developed by our participants during the project activities) that contribute to raising competences and capacities of young women for entrepreneurship.We expect increase in number of young women that will get closer to getting a job through self-employment and establishing own enterprises thanks to their increased entrepreneurship skills through increased quality of non-formal education activities in communities, as long-term perspective of multiplying and sustainable impact.
"Projects is capacity building activity of consortium from Finland, Spain, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, Lithuania, Kosovo and Serbia with the aim to enhance quality of non-formal education activities in the youth field through supporting critical reflection on dominant paradigms, principles, techniques, processes in NFE and via integration of e-Learning and ICT in youth work in Europe. One of the output of the project is an e-based publication with the title ""NFE reloaded” that articulates those reflections, and that is available in the languages of the partner countries. It is a contribution to the EU linguistic diversity and will further raise the potential for dissemination and exploitation of the project outcomes. The publications on English and all project partners' languages can be found on following link http://iqnf.education/mod/page/view.php?id=5Second aim of the project was to provide new knowledge and skills to “analog” youth workers and trainers community and find creative ways on how to combine ""analog"" tools in youth work with digital tools and e-Learning to attract growing number of young people using Internet and Social Networks. So, other outputs of this project (besedes e-poublicatiin) are 8 online courses that were created during and after the training of youth workers and NFE practitioners to familiarize themselves with elements of online learning, principles, technical conditions, methods of preparing materials to be useful and interactive, technical tools necessary for creating a course... The topics of online courses that were developed during the project are: • online safety for young people, • empowering young people with skills and knowledge about youth activism (course for youth)• empowering young people with skills and knowledge about youth activism (course for youth workers)• career guidance for the high school students • cultural perspective of gender equality • non-formal education and how competencies and skills gained through it can benefit people in all fields of life• participation of youth in the community, democratic processes and society• getting to know some basic concepts related to self-confidence, so to be more proactive in sociaty.Project was deigned from 9 interconnected activities that constitute the main flow of the project:1) 1st Activity – Kick-off meeting2) 2nd Activity – Seminar “NFE in Europe reloaded”3) 3rd Activity – Training course no. I “Development of the eLearning skills/ Introduction to Moodle LMS to youth work practitioners”4) 4th Activity – First group of online eLearning courses5) 5th Activity - Mid-term on-line meeting of Project partners6) 6th Activity – Training course no. II “Development of the eLearning skills/ Introduction to Moodle LMS to youth work practitioners”7) 7th Activity – Second on-line eLearning courses8) 8th Activity - Conference (working title was “Make, Share, Care... , but final was ""ONL youth - are we lost in online space?)9) 9th Activity – Evaluation and follow-up meeting.In project (decently and indirectly) were involved about 2500 people:• 67 seminar and training participants• 200 – 280 participants in online courses (that were created in the frame of the project)• 80 conference participants• more than 2000 people that were informed about project, NFE, online learning - through TV shows, project website, social networks...All activites, video evaluation, and project outputs can be found on the project webiste www.iqnfe.education"
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.
Context:- Human Rights Education- Youth Arts- Inclusion: (Syrian) refugees, all sorts of inclusion (Arts & mental disabilities) Objectives:- SO1- To explore the complementarity of arts and NFE tools/approaches and to develop innovative combined tools to support young migrants/refugees integration in local communities and to promote twofold inclusion processes - SO2- To explore and test the benefits of using art as a tool for social change and for engaging and empowering young migrants/refugees in local communities, schools, youth org./centers, providing them with the tools to advocate for their rights and their role in the community- SO3- To promote a culture of healing and bringing together communities through arts as methodology that is strengthening the feeling of belonging, progressive values and equality in society/local communities - SO4- To promote quality and needs based youth work by boosting and exploring creative artistic tools for social inclusion and positive changes in society/communities - SO5- To extend the “power” of arts and NFE in a number of different contexts (schools, municipalities,cultural centers, youth centers, etc.) Number and profile of participantsThe participants that took part in the transnational mobilities were young migrants, volunteers, youth workers, refugees and artists. Some of the participants that took part in the local activities had then the possibility to participate in the transnational mobilities and present the results of their local action.In general the profile of the participants that took part in the Daquiedacolà and La Fenice’s local activities were young people at risk of social exclusion with different backgrounds (migrants, refugees, people living with mental disabilities, young people with problem in “fitting in” school/local community social dynamics and volunteers/youth workers eager to learn the JAMMIN approaches and methodologies).Training: 24 participants ME Bruxelles: 35 participantsME Tortona: circa 80 participantsLa Fenice’s local activities= +150 participantsDaquiedacola´s local activities= +150 participantsUndertaken activitiesArt Residency- Training Course with Inclusive Tour: presentation of theatre outcomes and 11 sessions of cultural debriefing upon HRE with youth and adults. Multiplier events in Belgium and Italy: performance and video outcomes were presented to a variety of audiences. Contribution to the World Refugee Day in Ghent.Capacity building and creative workshops for youth workers. Online and offline.Workshops in schools. Artistic workshops in youth centre for disadvantaged youth.Permanent cooperation in a school for 7 months. Cooperation of Formal and Non Formal Education for the Social Inclusion of 13 unprivileged kids through Arts.One website, collecting the tools, approaches and stories of Jamm-In: https://www.jamminproject.euSeveral videos telling the experiences of Jamm-In and its participants. One performance, created from the stories and emotions of youth workers, volunteers, refugees and unprivileged youth.Results and impacts attainedSignificant experience for a group of unprivileged youth during the Art Residency and the Inclusive Tour. Several of these youngsters had never jumped into a stage, nor performed Arts nor had felt listened or appreciated before. The several tears were real and by sharing strength and vulnerability at the same time infinite messages were shared with the final beneficiaries audience who also felt emotional and also cried and also shared sweet deep insights.Youth workers and volunteers from partner organisations (above all Daquiedacola and La Fenice) acquired significant competencies in working with a combination of artistic and non-formal education tools.Young refugees, artists, youth with fewer opportunities and from unprivileged backgrounds were engaged and empowered through co-creative artistic processes.We turned back a narrative of impossibility (regarding youth work, regarding arts, regarding inclusion, regarding being socially active and committed in times of pandemic). We hosted a safe international event.We created in a short time out of (apparently) nothing a touching Art outcome worthy to be shared.We learned and taught to acknowledge emotions. We learned by doing and taught by sharing. We proved the benefits and importance of a good debriefing. Next project should focus strictly on learning to debrief and train youth workers to facilitate good debriefing sessions.Longer term benefitsPositive impact at the schools, municipalities and final beneficiaries who took part at the Inclusive Tour and were involved at the different stages of the project.Positive impact and long-term empowerment for the direct beneficiaries of the Art Residency and of the multiplier events.Key competencies gained by youth workers and organisations involved, with long-term benefits for their work in the local communities, in the schools, in youth centres.
"Europe is experiencing one of the most significant influxes of migrants in its history. Pushed by civil war and terror and pulled by the promise of a better life, hundreds of thousands of people have fled the Middle East and Africa, risking their lives along the way. The organisations involved in the project are in frontline in the work with migrants and asylum seekers and feel strongly the need to improve the quality of the services offered and - if necessary - to review their strategy. The main objectives was: to characterize what constitutes a good practices; to identify one good practice in each organisation, focusing on each field of expertise; to provide a virtual and face-to-face space to share and learning from each others; to improve the competences of the educators involved in the areas of house policy, job integration, language teaching, awareness of the local communities; to extend the educators competences of using the ICT for learning; to support the organisation involved in starting a reviewing process of what they offer and how to their target group, by importing elements of good practices acquired during the learning mobilities; to learn how to import some elements of the good practices in each institutions' work; to create a network of organisations that can work together. The organisations involved in the project was totally nine: mainly ""non-governmental organization/association/social enterprise"" but also ""Non-profit making cultural organizations and ""Local Public Body.The main activities was local and trasnational. Each local reality has been involved in carrying out three types of activities. 1) Identification of what a good practice is: a working group in each country defines the characteristics of good practices, using some literatures researches and their own experience. The coordinator of each working group has then shared it and created a common document. This has been the base to identify what practices to share with the others partners during the learning mobilities. 2) Report of the legal procedure that a migrant need to take once arrived in each country the report will focus on steps, timing and consequences. 3) Working on implementing elements of good practices in each reality. After the learning activities, there has been a working group to share what elements of good practices each organizations could import and implement.The staff was involved in three training events in three different locations.The exchange of experiences and practices between organisations was an unforgettable experience that will benefit all for a long time. Meeting and seeing practical examples of life as a refugee left a great impression on the participants. The activities was organised using non-formal education methods, and was focused mostly on sharing and exchanging practices. The participants as well got the chance to better understand the different realities, to visit different stakeholders which influenced their further engagement, but also understandings and vision on how to plan local and national activities concerning the refugees and migrants. The organizations increased their capacity to perform new activities, established networks throughout the city and partnerships with the relevant stakeholders. More specifically, the main impacts of the project towards the organisation were the practices that were shared and explored within the duration of the project. The partners will maintain this results by developing it in their everyday activities. About the longer-term benefits, all the participants will continue to use the practices that were shared throughout the project in our further work after the end of the project. Something which is positive is that the practices are clear, but also they can be transferable and flexible which is very useful for us. An additional thing that will be maintained after the end of the EU funding would be the networking and partnerships, as many of the partners have huge expertise on certain topics, for which we could still consult and share, and also continue to share and comment on different good practices which we see beneficial for the consortium of the project. The successful partnership that we established in this project yielded very fruitful results and hopefully, we will work for similar future activities as well. We think that will be different sources of support: first of all, the partner organisations have everyday activity with the refugee an so they can continue on the implementation of the project results just adding this methodology on their activity without special financial issue (most of the things do not specifically require a huge support, as the contacts and links are already established.), secondly we are talking about the possibility to further apply for funding within the Erasmus+ program, or some other programs and going on the experimentation and the common work."