Increasing the quality, promoting growth and recognition of youth work is one of the 2019-2027 Youth Goals.
A youth worker is a person who works in contact with young people in settings, projects and activities that support their learning and personal, social and educational development so that they become empowered and responsible citizens through active participation in decision-making processes and inclusion in their communities.
Youth Impact+ wants to enhance recognition of Youth Work through European funded programmes across Europe at national and EU level, improving sectoral cooperation, and including through the EU Youth Coordinator’s mandate, and supporting youth in shaping EU policies.
Increasing and maintaining the quality of Youth work across Europe is key to achieving the Youth Goals, which can be done by ensuring youth organizations and youth workers are able to learn from each other by recognizing and sharing good practices of other European youth projects, increasing the quality of youth work, the skills, competences and understanding of youth workers and in turn, facilitating high quality opportunities and support for the youths engaged with them.
The project aims to increase knowledge about the situation of young people and youth policies, providing an evidence-base of information and data that facilitates the mainstreaming of youth issues amongst all policy areas of the EU that affect young people. The aim is to support the capacity building of youth workers and youth work practices, and to reinforce links between policy, research and practice and then promotion.
Youth Impact+ will reach its goals by developing two interactive digital tools:
- Digital Platform YouthImpact+: an interactive, user-managed tool which allows youth workers and project coordinators to quantify the social and environmental impacts of European funded projects and programmes.
- Online Training Course: a dynamic, interactive course for users to learn how to properly use and integrate the YouthImpact+ digital platform into their planned or existing youth initiatives and projects.
The first part of the project saw the involvement of all partners in research and studies research of good practices and digital tools useful for the design of interactive tools. The partners carried out brain-storming activities and then shared useful work to understand the definition of the interactive platform and e-course.
In this second phase, the development of the tools from a technical point of view will then take place, and in the final phase the promotional activities will be carried out.
If you are interested in exploring new innovative tools and in the project’s updates, please contact Mario Badagliacca: mario.badagliacca@cesie.org.
About the project
YouthImpact+ is cofinanced by Erasmus+ programme, KA2 Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices – Strategic Partnerships for youth.
Partners
- Aspire-IGEN Group Ltd (UK, coordinator)
- CESIE (Italy)
- Istanbul Avrupa Arastirmalari Denergi – IAAD (Turkey)
- Innovation Frontiers IKE (Greece)
- EDUCENTRUM ZU (Czech Republic)
- FONDATSIYA NA BIZNESA ZA OBRAZOVANI (Bulgaria)
- Asociatia Centrul pentru Dezvoltarea Instrumentelor Structurale-CPDIS (Romania)
For further information
Read more about YouthImpact+, visit the website www.youthimpactplusproject.com and follow us on Facebook, Youtube and Twitter.
Contact Mario Badagliacca: mario.badagliacca@cesie.org.
