OpenUp: Non-formal Education for Inclusion

The Aim of the project is to: Improve youth workers competence in implementing non-formal education methods that promote inclusion, with various groups of young people.

Project objectives:

1. Learn to choose, adapt and implement a minimum of 5 nonformal education methods that respond to the needs of young people that you work with.

2. Learn to promote inclusion and increase the number of young people coming from disadvantaged backgrounds that you work with.

3. Develop a more empathetic attitude towards disadvantaged young people and find new ways to motivate them.

This project is mainly addressed to:

- Youth workers that are currently working with young people

- Youth workers that are new in the youth field

- Trainers that want to improve their competences

- Teachers

- Volunteers in non-profit organizations that work with youth

* You don't have to be part of the 5 partner organizations in order to apply to this TC. You have to be a resident in one of this 5 countries: Lithuania, Bulgaria, Spain, Romania, Italy. After you complete the application you will be contacted by the organizers. 

Participants in this training course will learn how to:

• Identify the needs of young people
• Implement non-formal education methods
• Apply NFE methods that support inclusion
• Conduct an effective debriefing
• Be more open to discuss with disadvantaged groups and to find solution for their problems
• Propose and implement new activities for the youth they work with
• Become more self-confidence in their ability to make a difference
• Be more committed to work against discrimination, intolerance, xenophobia or racism
• Be more aware of their learning process
• Work in a team
• Use Erasmus+ in their work

This project will bring together 2  trainers. They have a lot of experience in working with youth workers in the Erasmus+ frame and will be prepared to offer participants a valuable experience. They will implement the methods with professionalism, will monitor the participants and will support them in order to develop their competences. They implemented more than 20 TC and they alwasy work with NFE methods.