SIMPSON - the other way of coaching

"SIMPSON is the project with overall aim to develop the model of empowerment of young people (especially NEETs) though coaching. The specific objectives of the project was strictly connected to the implementation of the overall aim and were the following:Specific objective 1: to improve the expertise of the partnership, to enable them to work with unemployed youth and NEETs more efficientlySpecific objective 2: Support unemployed young people and NEETs, and particularly those in long-term unemployment to build competencies that will give them better chances to be included in the labour market;Specific objective 3: To develop the methodological framework and tools for coaching in EVS.Specific objective 4: Enhance active citizenship on local and global level within a group of traditionally passive (long-term) unemployed young people;Specific objective 5: To contribute to improvements of the system or learning recognition within the Learning mobilityWe were achieving those objectives by creating and testing a coaching model for the EVS activities ""SIMPSON"". There will be an international think tank created to develop the system and tools for coaching the EVS volunteers in 3 stages – before the project, during the activity, and after the return to their home countries. Based on their work the publication with the tools, model and project results were developed.Youth workers from participating organizations and EVS volunteers tested the model after the international TC that was aimed at the development of the competences of youth workers that allowed them, later on, to do the coaching session with young volunteers. Then we implemented 25 EVS mobility from 2 to 6 months( 1 less than it was planned from the beginning), during which the model was tried out. As the last stage, the evaluation meeting was conducted to measure the quality of the model and the general impact of the project and to plan the follow-up.Project was designed for 2 years, and the partnership is composed of 7 organizations from Spain, France, Poland, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand and India."