KA210-YOU
Youth Social Changemakers Project
Reshaping youth role in societies and fostering social
The Youth Social Changemakers small scale project is designed to empower youths and promote active citizenship through an innovative socio-educational intervention aimed at teenagers, with a special emphasis on those in vulnerable situations (economic, social, and cultural), promoting inclusion and tackling educational poverty in two target areas (South Italy & Spain).
Responding to the identified weakness of the local public system (such as lack of individualised training paths, few opportunities to develop transversal skills, lack of non-formal learning activities, and lack of cultural and social stimuli promoting the development of youth’s personality), this project is committed to providing the necessary expertise through the combination of non-formal education, peer learning, and learning by doing approaches.
The Project will develop a training course on creativity, project design and management, after which all participants will be able to put into practice the know-how and skills acquired, cementing, and further developing them, to design and develop through design thinking approach potential solutions to problems and challenges identified during the reference context analysis. Such ideas will compete in a dedicated contest where youths will vote solutions developed in the partner country to award 2 ideas per Member State with a prize/grant, then used to implement them.
The concrete objectives of Youth Social Changemakers are as follows:
- To enhance partner organizations’ capacity to promote youth empowerment, active & social generativity;
- To promote youth inclusion, sense of initiative & through creative bottom-up solutions generation processes;
- To enhance youths hard & soft skills through practical experimentation of social innovation, boosting employability & entrepreneurship to promote social cohesion;
- To build capacity of adult educators in the field of non-formal learning.
The small-scale partnership is composed of Spain and Italy
Acronym: Youth Social Changemakers
Start date: 01-03-2022
Finish date: 01-03-2024