ACHIEVEMENT/RESULT

We want to deliver an informal high-quality, digitally advanced, informal and interdisciplinary education “Young Active Citizenship”. This education is aimed at helping > 2000 young Europeans, including young people with fewer opportunities: unemployed youth, 18-25 years, with immigrant backgrounds, become active citizens within 3 years after the Erasmus+ project, i.e. 2026.
Furthermore, new teachers from employment-creating authorities, trade unions and youth NGOs will have be trained as new trainers.
In the Erasmus+ project period 2021-23, the task is to develop the education, and dissemination and recruitment of 2000 learners will be carefully planned and secured in co-operation with the stakeholders / associated partners: job creating authorities, trade unions, enterprises and NGOs.
To secure a reality-check, 20 learners from the target group will be involved in the testing of the education's content and form.
All these 20 young people will go through the entire education that is being developed along the way in the project, and in 2023 they will have become employable or employed, connected, engaged active citizens, as an example to be followed by the mentioned 2000 in the years to come.
At the end of the Erasmus+ project in 2023, the education content and form will be at the free disposal in a digital form on relevant platforms for authorities, organizations and individual young users.
Train-the trainer sessions for youth workers in the employment-creating organizations and trade unions will take place in the last month of the project period, and further sessions can be arranged after the project by appointment.

The education can be taken online, or physically in a class-room setting, both facilitated by trainers, or through self-study.

The education will consist of 5 modules with lectures, exercises, simulations, role plays, virtual reality cases:

1. "Introduction and personal project", 6 hours, which includes a definition of each young person's individual ambition and goal in the form of a personal project, which will be a recurring motif through all 4 modules. 2. "Self-efficacy and Social Skills" (personal and social development), 20 hours spread over 8 weekly workshops of 2,5 hours 3. "Agendas and advocacy" (critical thinking, migration-integration, fighting climate change and environmental problems, finding opportunities for jobs in the green sector, fighting youth crime, etc.), 20 hours etc. 4. "Entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship", (creating own jobs, getting employed in start-ups, ways of making change and help others) 20 hours etc. 5. "Active citizenship" (personal accomplishments and perspectives, drawing on Modules 1-4), 20 hours etc.

Activities

During the project period, we will (1) develop and test content and form of the education “Young Active Citizenship” and (2) plan for the dissemination of this education, including recruitment of young learners and trainers and international co-operation about carrying out the education.

Impact

The long-term result after the project is that 2,000 young people with fewer opportunities will have become active citizens, i.e. be employable or employed, in the process of a formal education, involved in voluntary work, involved in advocacy for a societal goal.

The short term-result is that we will have developed an informal, interdisciplinary education "Young Active Citizenship", and tested it thoroughly by 20 representatives for the young target group, and made it accessible to job creating authorities, trade unions, enterprises and NGOs all over Europe and beyond.