Go visual - designing educational tools for youth empowerment

There is a need in the international youth work community to increase the level of involvement of diverse target groups, mostly with less opportunities and in risk of exclusion from the learning process, to international and local activities in the frame of Erasmus+ and ESC programmes. It’s recognised that many methods in the field of youth work are too abstract to be understood by youngsters with special needs or even those for whom English is not a mother tongue. Go VISUAL project aims to equip trainers, educators and youth workers with tools and skills of using visual methods in their local and international work in the frame of non formal education also to strengthen inclusion of young people with less opportunities. Our goal is to support participants of international projects, in the process of reflection and defining acquired key competences by using visual methods. An equally important goal is to raise competences of youth workers themselves, by adding to existing ETS set of competences visual tools supporting reflexion and understanding of each competence. Objectives:-increasing skills of trainers, educators and youth workers to include young people with less opportunities in international projects through the use of visual methods, - development of innovative quality tools for youth workers, educators and trainers to empower youth readiness to learn -increasing the value of international projects for those involved in them by using the YOuthpass tool more effectively in a self-reflection process- increasing effectiveness of youth workers of getting to the groups with less opportunitiesdevelopment of the learning environment by using visual language and easy text as equal ways of expressionThe project will address directly 150 participants, among them: - youth workers, trainers and educators implementing short-term educational activities for youth on the local level (workshops, trainings), - youth workers, educators and trainers implementing short-term international group educational mobility with young people (youth exchanges), - coordinators and mentors implementing long-term individual and group educational mobility of young people (e.g. international volunteering projects),- professionals working with young people with fewer educational and social opportunities.Activities - international work on intellectual outputs leading to final results :1.NEED ANALYSIS “Go VISUAL - visual preferences introduction”2.Creation of set of 33 visual tools with 8 key Youthpass competences and 5 selected from the ETS3.Implementing international training - test of visual methods prototypes 4.Creation of manual for 33 methods with 10 workshops scripts and 10 film tutorials5.Organising of 2 local multiplayer events in each country plus 1 international webinar Main results of the projects are two complementary intellectual outputs:1. GO VISUAL - set of visual tools - box of 33 visual tools easy transferable for different learning environments, based on DO IT YOURSELF principles. 2.Go VISUAL - manual - this is an introduction to “GO VISUAL - set of visual tools” with clear instructions - how to use them, modify and develop further on. The manual consists of written publication, templates and printable materials. Additionally, there is a set of 10 short video tutorials reachable on YOUTUBE channel.The project is carried out in a Polish-German partnership (FERSO Foundation and Natur Kultur) in period 01.03.2021 -31.07.2022