Toolbox — For Training and Youth Work
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The You(th) Will Be Free addressed a structural challenge within the Euro-Mediterranean ecosystem: transforming youth work into a functional mechanism of social rehabilitation, inclusion and employability for young people at risk and former detainees
The project was implemented through five work packages covering project management and coordination (WP1), research and preparation of the training CV (WP2), pilot educational pathway (WP3), dissemination and final event (WP4), and monitoring, quality control and impact measurement (WP5). This structure ensured that the action progressed from preparatory research and methodological design to practical training, pilot implementation, dissemination, evaluation and sustainability planning.
The project achieved three specific objectives:
- Enhancing the specific skills of 24 youth workers from 8 partner countries in psychology, deviance pedagogy, and cultural mediation (WP 2).
- Introducing the profession of youth work, its objectives, career prospects, and the necessary skills and competencies to fragile youth, like ex-offenders or those at high risk of offending in the Mediterranean and MENA regions (WP 3 – WP 4).
- Developing a pilot training program in Italy for 9 young ex-offenders to become youth workers and role models, empowering them to train other young individuals in a cascading fashion. On a smaller scale, this pilot program has been replicated in all partner countries. At the end of the project, 30 young people from 8 countries (Italy, Greece, Malta, North Macedonia, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia) have been involved and concluded the pilot training pathway (WP 3).
Youth workers can increase their knowledge and confidence in dealing with vulnerable young people, particularly in relation to psychology, deviance pedagogy, cultural mediation, non-formal education and soft skills development. Young participants gained exposure to the youth worker profession, developed project design competences and moved from being beneficiaries of an educational pathway to becoming active contributors to project ideas and peer learning processes.
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Youth Participation
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The tool was created in the context of
Training for Trainers
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Eloisa Casadei (on 31 May 2026)
and last modified
24 May 2026
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