First steps towards a complete education of youth workers

"<< Background >>PARTNERS' NEEDSThe youth workers from the partner institutions understood their need to acquire key skills, tools, strategies and resources to use in the intercultural environment and for the media education of young people, as inclusive education strategies, but also for an entrepreneurial education that it forms key skills for their integration into the European labor market.Youth workers are concerned with combating any form of social exclusion, and with intervention to support young people in a situation of social marginalization.Their goal is to reduce the risks of marginalization, a process that means multiple actions of young people: the formation of social and civic communication skills within multicultural groups that include them, non-discriminatory behaviors, respect for the culture of others, skills of adaptation to groups and integration in the labor market. The needs of youth workers result from the existing contexts in their regions, as a result of globalization and migrations: a mosaic of youth populations of different cultures, nationalities, ethnicities and behaviors, young people with disabilities, from poor families or with low levels of education. << Objectives >>By implementing the project, we wanted to achieve as objectives for 18 youth workers from the 3 European institutions, as the main target group of the project:1. To acquire knowledge, innovative non-formal approaches and skills to create and use media resources as tools of intercultural and inclusive education.2. To acquire strategies for using national cultural elements, as support for intercultural and inclusive education.3. To acquire strategies for training young people in key entrepreneurial skills to facilitate their integration intothe European labor market.4. To create the premises for the development of partner organizations, for an increased involvement in the education of young people. Concretely, by implementing the project, the 3 partner institutions wanted to develop their key competencies, to learn how to support the inclusion of marginalized young people of various profiles, to learn new methods of working with young people in their regions, to teach young people ""how to live together"" - idea issued by UNESCO for education in the 21st century and through the SALTO platform, to develop as youth organizations for a more active involvement.<< Implementation >>IMPLEMENTATION PLAN- Promotion of the project.- Virtual meeting of the managers from the partner organizations to establish the financial details, a work and collaboration plan.- Distribution of funds by the coordinating institution.- Learning mobilities (LTTAs), which led to the fulfillment of the objectives:- 2 LTTA hosted by the Saumurois Institute of Communication, France: April 11 - 15, 2023; June 30 - July 4, 2024.- 2 LTTA hosted by the World of Dreams organization, Italy: February 12 - 16, 2023, March 11 - 15, 2024.- 1 LTTA hosted by the coordinating organization, Edupurtus Association, Romania, Oct. 31- Nov. 2, 2023.- 1 meeting of the managers from the 3 partner institutions (TPM) hosted by the Edupurtus Association, for the purpose of the final evaluation of the project and the outline of the final report: July 15 - 18, 2024.- activities for valorization and dissemination of the results, for groups of young people and youth workers, but also through media: the Facebook page of the project, the web pages of the partner institutions, the personal Facebook pages of the managers.- compiling the final report and posting the results on Erasmus+ Beneficiary.- decisions regarding the initiation of new projects.<< Results >>- THE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS AND PRACTICES, NEW EXPERIENCES AND COMPETENCES.They benefited from the thematic expertise of the group: intercultural, inclusive, digital and entrepreneurial education.- MOBILE APPLICATIONS.They acquired the IKIGAI application, a professional orientation test for young people.- WEB AND MEDIA DOCUMENTS AS TOOLS FOR PROMOTING THE PROJECT AND DISSEMINATING RESULTS: project logo, Facebook page (www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091659378740) project poster, Power Point documents.- NEWSLETTERS, PHOTOS AND VIDEOS: sets of photos from the learning activities, included in 5 newsletters and videos.- PUBLICATIONS: designing and editing the ""Toolkit for youth workers"" guide.- LEARNING OUTCOMES: *new methods and techniques, a collection of working strategies in the fields of: intercultural education, belonging to a multicultural group, entrepreneurial education, stages in defining the professional project, business examples, online entrepreneurship, theater and culture as tools of inclusion social. *working techniques for the integration of marginalized people (young people and adults). *examples of the approach of cultural elements as support for intercultural and inclusive education."