Learning in Youth Work of 21st century

"<< Background >>Upon developing and refining the project proposal, the consortium once again engaged with the 245 youth workers to research about their needs and situations they face. A total of 216 responses were received, revealing a notable shift: a doubling (64%) of respondents had engaged in some form of educational work with youth using online platforms. However, a similar proportion struggled to develop structured online courses and educational activities. This data illustrates the increasing necessity, prompted by the ""new normal"" of the COVID-19 reality, for organisations to transition their youth work to online platforms, despite persisting gaps in skills, competencies, and knowledge. The project aimed to bridge these gaps by merging the fields of digital technology and youth work/non-formal education, two areas that have not traditionally intersected significantly within European youth work contexts.<< Objectives >>Learning in Youth Work of 21st century, as an initiative developed by consortium covering areas of Germany, Balkan region and Scandinavia region, planed to achieve following objectives: - Bring positive and long-lasting effects on participating organisations and sector of youth work by enhancing knowledge management with new innovative resources for development of educational activities within youth work and training models/curricula in order to provide quality youth work educational activities that will address needs of each specific target group. - Support youth workers and educational trainers in acquiring and developing key competences as youth trainers (of other youth workers) in the field of developing and using e-learning materials and online courses in youth work; and marketing strategies and tools for higher involvement and promotion of activities for youth. - Engage into intensive dissemination and exploitation activities of existing and newly produced products and attract more youth organisations and youth workers on using the new innovative tools and approaches, and thus increase quality and quantity of educational youth work activities.<< Implementation >>Main project activities are categorised into following sections: - Transnational meetings (2 meetings; 1 preparatory and 1 evaluation meeting) - Development of educational materials and online learning courses (3 manuals and 3 online learning courses) - Educational trainings for youth workers, based on the developed educational materials (3 trainings throughout the project implementation) - Follow-up activities and piloting of developed materials in 4 countries / local communities where partner organisations are based - 4 national conferences (Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Serbia) in format of 1 day multiplier events; for sharing developed materials and results of activities. Flow of the implementation of project activities, summarised list: -Signing contract of YP DE with German NA -Signing bilateral agreements between applicant and other partners -Preparatory meeting. Tools for administrative and financial, communication and time management monitoring will be agreed. Updating the calendar of the activities. Agreement on the next steps within the project. -Development of R1 -Implementation of LTTA1 -Development of R2 -Follow up activities to be implemented byparticipants of previous LTTA in their local communities, and by youth workers involved in development of R1 -Development of R3 -Implementation of LTTA2 -Development of R4 -Follow up activities to be implemented byparticipants of previous LTTA in their local communities, and by youth workers involved in development of R3 -Development of R5 -Implementation of LTTA3 -Development of R6 -Follow up activities to be implemented byparticipants of previous LTTAs in their local communities, and by youth workers involved in development of R5. -National Multipliers events – 1 per partner organisation/country; 4 in total. -Final evaluation project meeting. -Reporting.<< Results >>During the implementation period of this project, partners produced, as planned in the project application, 3 Manuals and 3 Online courses: R1 Manual “How to design a learning experience”; R2 Online learning course “How to design a learning experience”; R3 Manual “Online and e-learning in youth work”; R4 Online learning course “Online and e-learning in youth work”; R5 Manual “Digital marketing and using digital tools in youth work”; R6 Online learning course “Digital marketing and using digital tools in youth work”. Each of the 3 manuals were also translated to partners’ languages (German, Serbian, Croatian and Swedish) except Manual R5 “Digital marketing and using digital tools in youth work”, which wasn’t translated it to Swedish. Also 3 LTTAs were implemented: LTTA 1 “How to design a learning experience” in Zadar, Croatia, 13.-20.09.2022; LTTA2 “Online and e-learning in youth work” in Berlin, Germany, 09.-17.01.2023, LTTA 3 “Digital marketing and using digital tools in youth work” in Novi Sad, Serbia, 17.-24.07.2023."