Welcome to the New Age - Stress, resilience, art of planning

With this project, we would like to contribute to the improvement of quality of youth work in Europe by building resilience in youth organisations and youth workers, youth leaders, youth activists and volunteers. Developing their personal coping mechanisms will contribute to the efficiency of their daily work, which is crucial especially after the pandemic, when youth organisations will revive and start their activities again. Besides the capacity building of the youth organisations this project aims to foster developing and sharing existing best practices, methods and techniques in reaching and motivating marginalised and disadvantaged groups of young people that the partner organisations already have before or developed/gained during the digital operation of the COVID-19 outbreak. Cooperation is paramount so that we will create such synergy that will ensure permanent support and continuous sharing of knowledge among the participants, their organisations and target groups in the long run.

Objectives of the project are:
- Help participants understand and make them aware of coping mechanism in case of unforeseen situations.
- Get participants to learn about resilience and its 7 pillars with special focus on the protective effects of team support.
- Make them focus on those aspects of their lives that they can influence and empower them to represent this approach for young people.
- Provide the participants with tools and techniques (mindfulness, solution oriented approach) with which they will be able to adopt more successfully in their work with young people.
- Promote the power of EU values like cooperation, solidarity, tolerance and diversity and their role in rebuilding our daily life.

In the centre of the project is a training course which will take place in Budapest, Hungary, October 2021. It will bring together 27 youth workers from 8 EU countries: Hungary, Croatia, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Italy and Malta.