Regionális összefogás az ifjúsági dolgozók szakmai támogatására

"<< Background >>In the spring of 2021, the applicant implemented a joint project with one of the partner organisations involved in the present project with funding from the Erasmus+ Youth Workers' Mobility programme. The project's objective was to provide non-formal training for teachers and youth workers from rural areas of Vojvodina and Hungary. During the project implementation process, it became clear that there was a significant need for further trainings of this type for this specific target group with less access. Through its composition, the partnership has also been able to meet the specified priority of bringing together cross-sectoral competences that complement each other substantially, and to apply the actions set out in the 2017 Tartu Call for Healthy Lifestyle. In the light of the above, and in line with the events that affected the project period (the coronavirus epidemic and its aftermath, the outbreak of the war in Ukraine), the organised activities mainly reflected on the factors affecting physical and mental health, and contributed to the well-being of the participating youth workers by providing them with competences and valuable experiences related to maintaining physical and mental balance.<< Objectives >>The project had the overall strategic objective of providing quality and diverse non-formal training for youth workers with fewer access at a regional level through the applicant and its partners. The application specifically responded to the priority set under the category ""Small-scale partnerships"", which focuses on providing access to quality non-formal training for youth workers who, for geo-economic or other reasons, have less access to this type of professional activities. The partnership also decided to apply for funding under this category because the project plans and purposes they had previously developed together were linked to the additional criteria and general objectives set out in the call for proposals: the project combined a national and transnational dimension, thus achieving a regional impact. It has also furthered the longer-term goal of the involved partner organisations to join European-level cooperations and to involve new applicants to the funding programme. In addition, one of the most important objectives of the partnership is to maintain and develop thier professional cooperation in the long term.<< Implementation >>The project consisted of three stations, which took place at the following locations, on the following dates:- Comuna Valea Crișului, Romania, 13-18 June 2022.- Budapest, Hungary (District VIII, Kesztyűgyár Community House), 5-10 September 2022.- Totovo Selo, Serbia, 7-12 March 2023.All three 6-day activities (with a total of 1.5 days of travel time) were carried out according to the same basic concept developed jointly by the partnership, i.e. combining experience- and play-based theatre education workshops that develop personality and group dynamics with theoretical and practical exercises focusing on health awareness. The plan of activities was developed jointly by a professional team consisting of 4 trainers, taking care to combine exercises requiring reflection and contemplation with more physical, outward-oriented activities, structured according to the correct rhythm. Thus, on each of the 3 occasions, during the 6 days of activities, 18 participants had the opportunity to take part in a lifestyle development trainings combining theatre education and lifestyle exercises.<< Results >>The project's overall objective, and the common result of the 3 separate project stations, was to reflect on the recent social context and to enable participants to explore their intrinsic motivation and the different methods of sustaining and transmitting it. In this context, the training sessions also gave them the opportunity to explore the topics of healthy lifestyle, physica and mental balance, and community through experience-based exercises. Feedback from the participants showed that their self-confidence, critical and self-reflective thinking was strengthened and that some of the cornerstones of their value systems became clearer. Based on the trainers' observations, during the discussions and the informal conversations, the questions raised by the participants clearly showed reflection and progress. The process of conscious learning through reflection and the completion of the Youthpasses, which concluded the experience based trainings, showed that the participants' inner motivation and sense of mission were strengthened, and that their professional toolbox had been enriched with new techniques.A summary interview video of the 3-stage project is being produced which is currently available in a raw version (link below)."