Locally across boarders

<< Background >>We recognize the critical importance of addressing the social challenges exacerbated by the pandemic, especially concerning young people. Several reports showed alarming trends such as decreased social commitment, emotional distress among youth, and limited opportunities for volunteering and civic engagement. These issues directly impact the wellbeing and development of our communities.The needs address through this project included: Youth Isolation and Emotional Wellbeing- the pandemic has led to increased emotional problems among young people, with limited social contact and excessive screen time affecting their mental health.Decline in Volunteering and Civic Engagement:- the decrease in volunteering opportunities has weakened community ties and civic participation, leaving young people with fewer avenues to contributeLack of International and Interpersonal Connections - young people need opportunities to build global connections, collaborate with peers, and engage in meaningful civic activities to foster personal growth and community development. Skill Development and Confidence Building - engaging in civic projects empowers young people by teaching them valuable skills, boosting confidence, and demonstrating<< Objectives >>The objectives of the project were linked to the civic involvement, participation and common values. It encourages young people from PL, HR, IT together with their teaches/educators to civic engagement on the local and international level and in the same time how to learn through it. It teaches them to see social problems, to look for solutions and to implement them. The project enables young people to participate in democratic, social and civic life in an effective way. Our achevement was to gather and form youth teams, trained them and give them possibilities to grow and act for local community, using innovative and useful methodology of service learning. Paralelly we worked with proffesionals with different backgrounds (cultural NGO, social NGO, schools, public institution) in order to show them new method and prepare them to work within this method.Young people got to know their peers from other countries, learnt about the social issues from their local communities, shared the knowledge and good practices from their societies and they cooperated together to solve several local problems. They also strengthened their social and intercultural competences and critical thinking. << Implementation >>- we established and supported 12 national volunteering projects according to service learning methodology (prepared, organised and realised in cooperation by young volunteers from 3 partner countries under supervision of trained youth workers),- wrote 1 booklet about how to implement youth initiatives with service learning dedicated to youth workers, educators, teachers and volunteer coordinators. It has been transleted into polish, italian, croatian and english.- wrote 1 booklet for young volunteer leaders’ guide which which contain tips for work with Service Learning and how to stay motivated during the whole process of the project's realisation. It has been transleted into polish, italian, croatian and english.- 1 online event (conference) at the end of the project with a presentation of completed youth projects and their output, good practices and experiences from international cooperation,- 3 transnational meetings connected with trainings for young people and youth workers- 3 national trainings for mentors of the youth projects.- more than 20 partner meetings online<< Results >>- 88 young people from Croatia, Italy and Poland worked on their initiatives- 12 youth workers learnt and found out about service-learning methodology and increased their knowledge- 142 numbers of registrated participants on our online conference about service learning methodology- 12 youth workes increased their knowledge about service learning and e-volunteering- 1 booklet about steps in service learning for young people - a comperhensive guidelines for youth in English, Polish, Croatian and Italian- 1 booklet about service learning methodology for trainers/educators/youth workers in English, Polish, Croatian and Italian- thanks to the project, our organisations started to organise international youth projects and cooperate with young volunteers from different countries.- SCW became more recognizable as a service learning experts within polish educators and youth workers- SCW established strong cooperation with 4 new local organizations- VSP.odv established strong cooperation with Liceo Berti and wants to continue promoting service learnig methodology