Migration Shaping Youth Work

Aims & objectives

This seminar aimed to deepen the understanding of societies shaped by migration and the role Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps can play in it. The objectives were to:

- Explore what it means to recognise societies as shaped by migration and the role youth work plays in it.
- Create a space for peer-learning opportunities on how to do youth work within the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes and at the same time including young people with experience with migration.
- Understand the accessibility of Erasmus+ and Erasmus Solidarity Corps for young people facing barriers within a society shaped by migration.
- Co-create a concrete outcome to make the knowledge in the seminar transferable to the field of youth in general.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

- Youth workers: persons working with youngsters on a regularly basis in an organisation or an informal group (paid or volunteer positions).
- Activists, change makers and multipliers that are connected to youth work and especially those working in the field of migration
- especially: youth workers and multipliers who identify themselves as having a migration background. This could mean, but is not limited to, having a lived experience of not being born in the country one now lives in (moving with family, for work, for studies, for love), having experienced forced migration (refugees, asylum seekers,...), or ones parents or grandparents left their country of origin.
- open to all program countries, and countries within the strategic partnership for inclusion

Training methods used & main activities

- peer-to-peer learning
- study visit
- experiential learning
- small group work, plenary discussions, silent table discussions
- co-creation of an output (How does youth work need to adapt in order to be relevant in societies shaped by migration?)
- reflection spaces

Outcomes of the activity

- co-created output in internal and external report
- feedback in written form was good-very good
- feedback towards NAs/organisers was very positive
- publications to follow

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

- planning and implementing the learning process in a team of trainers and in accordance with the needs of rapporteur
- facilitating the training
- communicating with all stakeholders involved

I worked on this training for 4 days as a full time trainer.