KIWIPEDIA - Collaborative process for inclusion

"European mobility projects can be powerful tools for inclusion, empowerment and growth of young people with fewer opportunities. To maximise their potential, youth workers need to rethink how these projects are thought, designed, prepared and implemented.Through “Kiwipedia - Collaborative Process for Inclusion”, 6 European Organisations and their 6 associated local partners plan to work together to have a better common understanding of needs of young people with fewer opportunities, to develop a higher level of cooperation between different fields of youth work (local, international) and to develop mobility programs with young people, instead of for young people. The main aim of the project is to foster inclusion of young people through youth mobility.Our three specific objectives are:strengthening trans-sectoral cooperation in youth work through an international network for sharing good practicesTo empower young people and to raise youth workers competences To design and evaluate quality bottom-up projects for short-term international mobilitiesWhy did we name our project « Kiwipedia » ?Kiwi is a name for both an animal and a fruit, for us it represents the different approaches and fields of youth work, but also our wish to take the environmental dimension into consideration in our mobility projects.Kiwipedia is then of course a wink to the Wikipedia platform, for its collaborative educational process and open purpose, both are principles we wish to apply in this project.The project will involve :- 9 youth workers in charge of European youth mobility projects, - 6 youth workers working with young people on a daily basis, - 6 youth leaders, - 6 local groups of young people with fewer opportunities.The main activities of the project will consist in long-term local cooperation between youth workers in charge of European youth mobility, local educators and youth leaders, through 2 international training courses involving all the participants and 3 transnational meetings between project coordinators. All the activities will be based on principles and methodologies of non formal education.The main results of the project will be - a diagnostic of the main obstacles for young people to access to international mobility projects - a collection of good practices to promote inclusion in mobility projects (tools, strategies, tips)- a video-tutorial to support local educational centres in designing, preparing, implementing and evaluating a European youth mobility - a description of the successful short-term projects implemented within this consortiumA study on the impact of ""Kiwipedia"" on the inclusion through international mobility is included in the project and this process will be supported by an external expert.“Kiwipedia” project will foster, on a long-term perspective, the development of a bottom-up process in European youth mobility projects, it will provide a higher level of inclusion in youth work and raise the level of ownership of those projects for young people with fewer opportunities."