Youth Projects
Cyberbullying Peer Ambassadors Network
The project aims to contribute to the decrease of cyberbullying phenomenon and social exclusion of vulnerable young people through creation of a peer program for cyber bullying prevention and intervention.
Specific Objectives:
- To develop knowledge & skills of 20 youngsters from the partner countries to act as cyberbullying peer ambassadors with a view to promote social inclusion, preventing and combating cyberbullying phenomenon through development and implementation of an international training program;
- To foster the engagement and cooperation between youth & various educational actors through the development of an online network of Cyberbullying Peer Ambassadors as a mean to facilitate networking, peer learning and perpetuation of anti-cyberbullying discourse by December 2023;
- To develop skills and mechanism to deal with situations of social exclusion and cyber bullying among 400 vulnerable young people through their participation in local activities carried out by the newly created Cyberbullying Peer Ambassadors Network, over a period of 2 months.
CPAN Activities
Transnational Project Meetings
The Consortium convened on three occasions at various partner locations throughout the Project's Lifetime!
Learning Teaching Traning Activity
Cyberbullying Peer Ambassadors Training Program
Seven days training - piloting the "Result One" in order to empower and develop learners‘ knowledge and skills in cyber-bullying prevention and intervention.
Aim of the activity: The activity was developed with the purpose of piloting the Result One in order to empower and develop learners‘ knowledge and skills in cyber-bullying prevention and intervention.
Learning objectives:
- To develop knowledge about cyber-bullying and related topics (risks, forms, effects, impact);
- To provide effective tools for creation and implementation of events and activities for each of the 5 key topics;
- To learn how to raise awareness about positive digital behaviors;
- Cooperation partnerships in youth;
- To develop participants ability to educate others about cyber-bullying prevention and intervention covering the 5 topics;
- To learn how to be Up-standers and how to use peer learning processes to inspire and recruit „Cyber-bullying Peer Ambassadors”;
- To learn how to involve community;
- To develop advocacy, leadership skills and effective public speaking skills.
CPAN Result
Training Program
Project Result One (R1) – CYBERBULLYING PEER AMBASSADORS TRAINING PROGRAM
The Cyber-bullying Peer Ambassadors Training Program aims to empower young people by providing them with a comprehensive understanding of cyber-bullying and its related aspects, such as the risks, forms, consequences and impact.
The training program covers 5 key topics:
– Privacy and security
– Digital identity and footprint
– Online relationships and communications
– Harmful and abusive digital behavior
– Holistic approaches in addressing cyber-bullying
The Program is translated from English into Romanian, Italian, Croatian and Albanian language.
Ambassadors Network
Project Result Two (R2) – CYBER-BULLYING PEER AMBASSADORS PLATFORM
Ambassadors Network Platform
The video represents a digital platform creating a network of young people interconnected to respond to cyber bullying through peer learning, as an educational empowering tool and a digital learning tool about cyber-bullying available in 6 languages: English, Romanian, Italian, Croatian, Macedonian and Albanian language.
COMING SOON
Local Work Phase, Local Activity and Piloting
Piloting
For testing the Training Program and training future Ambassadors that will tackle the topic of Cyber-bullying and Bullying.
COMING SOON
Dissemination Event
Multiplier Event
To expand the reach and impact of the Project by sharing its results and insights with a broader audience
Target Group
Specific Objectives
Target Group
Representatives of education sector, schoolteachers, youth workers, youth operators, trainers, professionals working in public educational institutions, local authorities’ representative, young people and other stakeholders.
In Total there will be 50 local and 10 international participants.
Specific Objectives
The specific objectives of the Multiplier Event are:
- To inform about the project work and about the key messages in cyberbullying prevention and intervention;
- To disseminate the project intellectual outputs;
- To engage on dialogue stakeholders with a view to encourage the use of the project results and extend the newly created network;
- To explore new development opportunities in cyberbullying prevention and intervention.
Project Consortium
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Tools for Inclusive YOU.TH
This project aligns with the Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027), focusing on enhancing non-formal education by integrating theater methodologies to promote inclusivity, innovation, and impactful youth engagement.
The COVID-19 crisis shed light on the importance of digital education for the digital transformation that Europe, European society, and European organisations need. In particular, it emphasised the increased need to harness the potential of digital technologies for education and to develop digital skills for all, youth workers included. In line with this need and the strategic priorities of the Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027), this project aims to support this endeavour to engage the partner organisations and youth workers in the path to digital transformation also of the non-formal education.
The project promotes and supports and answers the needs of the partners and their target groups about:
- the use of non formal and informal learning combined with theatre methodologies and practices for inclusion in their activities with young people;
- cooperation with other European organisations, quality, inclusion, creativity and innovation, through a more agile development of digital techniques and theatre practices to foster the inclusion of all youngsters.
The research made by our project groups has shown that different social theatre techniques are used to address current issues such as the integration of immigrants, violence, bullying, drug addiction, abandonment of suburbs, etc. Theatre and performing arts are used as tool for dialogue, cultural encounters and exchanges, to create links and empathy between people and groups with different feelings and behaviour, for experimenting with shared and participatory proposals that are real answers and solutions to the problems encountered by people, groups and communities.
For example in Spain, in the tradition of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed and Latin American Community Theatre, they use the term Teatro Social as the political theatre par excellence, based on the action of citizens, groups and communities as a creative methodology for the transformation of society, whether at an educational, inclusive, therapeutic, motivational, awareness-raising, recreational, artistic or creative level. Theatre can therefore be put at the service of youth workers, without assuming that they become actors or theatre specialists, but that they can use it as a proper means of working on youth inclusion.
You.TH Activities
Transnational Project Meetings
The Consortium convened on four occasions at various partner locations throughout the Project's Lifetime!
Learning Teaching Traning Activity
Training of Youth Workers
The Training Course took place in Morfasso, Italy from 4-10 May 2023
There will be 28 youth workers coming from the partner organizations (Italy, Spain, Greece and North Macedonia), their close associated partners and main local stakeholders and organisations to ensure diffusion and early transfer of the results prepared.
The learning program will be conceived to be adaptable to the learning needs of the group, with no prejudice to the overall quality.
Self-reflection and interaction with other participants and trainers will be the dimension in which trainers will work to improve, empower and expand knowledge and competences in inclusion, theatre, NFE, regular and digital youth work.
- Efforts to promote awareness and competence in inclusion, theater methodologies, non-formal education, and digital youth work are central to our mission;
- Present the opportunities and tools to implement youth work in a digital environment;
- Assess the R1 and R2 and use them as a base for the training
- Involve them in the assessment, production, finalization and dissemination of results;
- Get ready for the pilot with youngsters and prepare youth workers to use results;
- Develop professional competences and increase their efficiency
- Improve the quality of youth work;
- Introduce the reflection as a tool (based on the key competences in the Youthpass) of learning;
- Connect youth workers and create the community R3.
Different working methods will be applied during the Training, like as interactive workshops, presentations, role plays, world-café, living- library, concentrating on the active involvement of participants.
Methodology and tools are chosen in order to meet the needs and objectives of the project. The methodology is based on non-formal education methods, on developing and challenging individuals and groups through a creative stimulation that connects objectives and contents with personal experiences. The participants are engaged intellectually, emotionally, socially and physically in the training.
Learning process is based on interaction among participants and the trainer.
This Training Course serves to train the Youth Workers, involving them in all the phases of the project (production, implementation, pilot, evaluation, promotion) and supporting them in a path of growth and development of competences and knowledge. Since we aim to create effective and efficient results, in order to foster the achievement of our objective to guide youth workers on a growth and innovation process by providing them with knowledge and competences on inclusion, theatre and digital youth work, leading to a combination of all these spheres of action, we consider the implementation of this training indispensable.
This will also contribute to create an international community of youth workers who will support each other by exchanging experiences, results and good practices ensuring the wide exploitation and sustainability of results after the end of the funded project period.
Training for youth workers aims to provide them with the knowledge and competences about inclusive approaches and principles, theatre methodologies and practices, digital youth work and NFE to implement inclusive activities applying methodologies and practices used mostly in the field of theatre, which can be implemented also in digital youth work.
This Training Course also aims to assess and validate the efficiency, clarity, exhaustiveness and usability of the Result 1 and Result 2, to connect youth workers from different realities and countries setting up the community (Result 3) and get the youth workers ready to deliver the local piloting.
Aiming of increasing awareness on the necessary
knowledge, skills and competences contributing to efficient use of
theater methodologies and practices to foster inclusion of youngsters in
regular or digital youth work.
You.TH Result One (1)
Manual for Youth Workers
The past is rock. Climb to understand the future!
This Manual is designed to support Youth Workers providing a background knowledge of methodologies and practices used mostly in the field of theater, with the aim to produce inclusive Non-Formal Education (NFE) activities. When addressing inclusion, it is important to know what to take into consideration to create effective inclusive activities in face-to-face activities and also in digital youth work. We
strongly believe that theater can be put at the service of youth workers to foster inclusion.
This Manual has been produced within YOU.TH. project. “Tools for inclusive YOU.TH. (YOUth workers and Theater workers in synergy). A Real-digital trajectory” is an Erasmus+ KA220 Cooperation Partnership in the field of youth.
Our Manual has the aim of increasing awareness on the necessary knowledge, skills and competences contributing to efficient use of theater methodologies and practices to foster inclusion of youngsters in regular or digital youth work.
Coming Soon
You.TH Activity
Piloting
YOU.TH project is moving forward with local pilot activities. From now until September all partners will organise YOU.TH activities in their countries, in close cooperation with the youth workers trained during our first mobility in Italy. At least 80 young people will be involved.
We have already started! Are you curious to find out how the project will progress? Stay tuned!
Project Consortium
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Cook It Up
Cook It Up’ is a project that sizzles with creativity and culinary exploration, bringing people together through the joy of cooking and sharing delectable meals.
The aim of this exchange is to help youngsters use cooking as a means to work and communicate better with each other. They have the chance to shop for groceries, cook, clean, and collaborate toward a common goal. Throughout the exchange, participants learn about minimizing food waste and maximizing utility. Various challenges spice up the experience.
This exchange is for those aged 18-30 who are interested in cooking, reducing food waste, exploring recipes from different cultures, and enhancing their collaborative skills. Participants from Italy, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, and North Macedonia are currently taking part, with each country represented by five participants (4+1 leader).
Travel
Reimbursement
Accommodation
Travel
You are responsible for arranging your own travel. However, if you require assistance with your flights, please don’t hesitate to reach out; we’re more than willing to provide support.
The nearest airport to Struga is Ohrid St. Paul The Apostle Airport, although most flights are available at Skopje International Airport. If you choose Skopje, you’ll need to take a bus to and from Struga, which costs approximately €16 per person for a round-trip ticket.
The arrival date is August 25th, and departure is on August 31st. Your presence and active participation throughout the entire exchange is mandatory. If you wish to extend your stay before or after the project, kindly inform us in advance.
Regarding your travel plans, please share the details with us for verification and approval before making any bookings. After returning home, remember to retain your original boarding passes, invoices, and any other relevant travel documents.
Reimbursement
The organizers will reimburse eligible travel expenses up to the specified limit, covering 1000f the costs. Participants will receive reimbursement after submitting their original tickets and completing their personal report as required by the European Commission. Reimbursements will be processed via a bank transfer in Euro, directed to the sending organization’s bank account. Additionally, the organization will provide food and accommodation.
Reimbursement rates are as follows:
- For distances between 100 and 499 km, the reimbursement is €180.
- For distances between 500 and 1999 km, the reimbursement is €275.
Accommodation
The project will take place at Camping Scout Struga, located by the picturesque Ohrid lake.
As depicted in the provided images, you have a variety of accommodation choices, including rooms, tree houses, and tents. To facilitate our planning, please inform us in advance of your preferred lodging option.
This is the Infopack of the Youth Exchange. Download and Read more!
Cook it Up Activity
Preparatory Visit
The Preparatory Visit took place in Skopje between 1-2 July 2023.
Coming Soon
Cook it Up Activity
Youth Exchange
Project Consortium
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Role for a Change
Role for a Change is a 2-year project that utilizes roleplaying and LARP as a framework for delivering educational activities aimed at promoting personal, social, and professional competencies among diverse target groups. The project aims to increase the capacity of organizations and the competencies of their…
