Youth TOOLS Residencies: Tools for Generation Alpha

The activity  ‘Youth TOOLS Residencies’ aims to rethink their ways of working with youth representing Generations Alpha and Z, who bring different expectations, needs, and issues. This activity is the second activity of the project and aims to  to reach the following objectives: 

-to raise the competencies of youth workers to design, test and/or adjust existing tools addressing the needs and interests of Generations Z and Alpha, with a special focus on  young people facing  challenges and obstacles and lacking access to quality youth activities;

-to increase the ability of youth workers to adjust their tools, methods, ways of work to the needs of GEN Z and GEN Alpha.

-to equip youth workers with tools enabling them to conduct research activities and gain better understanding of the behavioural patterns of Gen A and Z, their values and attitudes;

-to provide the participants with an opportunity to gain practical experience with several indoor and outdoor tools and methods.

The training course will have 5 working days and bring together 18 youth workers and educators from Bulgaria, Latvia, North Macedonia, France, Hungary, Czechia and Poland. 

Based on the agreement with participating organisations, some of the organisations will select the participants. Nevertheless, organisations representing North Macedonia, Czechia and France decided to also use the opportunity to reach participants through this open call.

The training course will be based on methods and tools of non-formal education. Part of the preparatory process will be online preparatory meetings, and after the activity, the participants are expected to organise a local event.