"Life After Mobility Projects"

Experts in the field of youth mobility see and experience major problems regarding reintegration, empowerment of young people and enhancing young people’s employability after the mobility programmes and non-formal learning experiences. There is a vast demand for tools and mechanisms to support, build upon and multiply the positive impact of young people’s non-formal learning mobility experience. At the same time, the recognition of non-formal learning experience by business companies, public authorities, agencies and companies on local, national and European level is yet another issue to be tackled and addressed.

Therefore, we foresee a need of providing adequate support to youth workers involved in non-formal learning mobility programmes, in particular European Solidarity Corps Volunteering programmes, to ease the transfer of young people’s mobility experience to their daily life making them more self-confident, competitive, employable and equipped with entrepreneurial skills.

Aim: To improve the quality of non-formal learning mobility programmes and strengthen their impact on young people’s employability through equipping youth workers, youth leaders and mentors with tools and competences for designing efficient support systems to guide young people throughout their mobility experience (preparation, implementation and follow-up).

Objectives:

• To share and develop new creative tools for supporting and guiding young people before, during and after their mobility experience.
• To examine the existing mechanisms for assessment, recognition and validation of the mobility experience and acquired competences on local and European levels.
• To explore links between and the potential of non-formal learning mobility programmes and young people’s employment/employability.
• To discuss within the participants’ group and with various local stakeholders the issues connected with the visibility of mobility programmes, cross-sectorial cooperation and the benefits of mobility programmes for the community at large.
• To develop recommendation towards National and European level stakeholders for setting up a coherent support system for organizations, project managers, mentors and young people.
• To share best practices and set up further cooperation projects in the field of non-formal learning mobility, institutional development, coaching and mentoring.

The project will bring together 24 participants. Age limits: 18 +

The participants should meet the following criteria/have the following criteria:

• ESC coordinators, youth workers, mobility project coordinators experienced in youth work,
• Have strong interest and motivation on the topic,
• Ready to be engaged in a non-formal learning process in an intercultural setting and be willing to transfer the gained knowledge and skills to his/her reality by providing support and guidance to the beneficiaries of the mobility projects in his/her organizational context,
• Possess strong interest in working on follow-up projects and designing a support system for participants of the mobility projects.

* European volunteers under the ESC programme are NOT allowed to participate.