Youth Work in Progress

Main aim of the project is raising quality and sustainability of youth programs, through competence development of youth workers and leaders to provide innovative, modern and quality youth work service which effectively respond on current socio-economic needs of young people in EU and Western Balkan. Through our project, we would like to build capacities of youth workers and youth leaders through transfer of skills, experience, knowledge, attitudes and empowerment based on non-formal education activities, practice community activities and development of new methods and tools for efficient, innovative, relevant and modern approach to youth work. Capacity building of youth workers through non-formal education activities, mobility of youth workers and leaders, effective dissemination of competences, knowledge, skills and outcomes and their wide validation and recognition will directly lead to high quality youth work, efficient youth program management, better partnership and networking with other youth organizations from Europe and world, sustainability of organizational resources and capacities, promotion and implementation of youth mobility, socio-professional development of youth workers and trainers. With this project, we are answering to relevant issues concerning youth work: insufficient youth work human capacities and the lack of their capacities, fluid nature of youth work and constant changes of staff in youth organizations and need for their capacity building, new trends in youth field approaches, low level of motivation of young people to engage, low level of youth activism and the need for synergy between online and offline activism of young people. We plan to achieve this through several activities: 4 Mobility activities - Training Courses on topics of online learning as aspect of non-formal education, long-term sustainable support of young people through mentoring, leadership and managing youth initiatives, digital media tools in youth work , follow up practice multiplying activities, production of 2 editions of handbooks, (one of them will be in online digital flexible format), development of youth online platform activities and Methodology development Hub - final product. Project will gather 14 organizations from 12 different countries of Western Balkan, SEE, EU and Program Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina (SEEYN and ORC Tuzla), Albania (BBA), Serbia (VEM and ECK), Croatia (LDA Sisak), Bulgaria (Ideas Factory, Italy (NUR), Greece(OENIF), Macedonia (YCC Bitola), Lithuania (Creativitas), Slovenia (MC BIT), Turkey (SAUSEM), Montenegro (ADP ZID).