Project type: EU Erasmus +
Beginning: 01.11.2021
End: 01.02.2024
Funding: European Comission
Collaborating organisations:
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Slovenian Institute for Adult Education (SIAE), Ljubljana, Slovenia
University of Ljubljana (Faculty of social work), Ljubljana, Slovenia
Mestna zveza prijateljev mladine Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
BOB, Institute for education and cultral activities, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Active citizens association, Croatia
University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Aretes Societa Cooperativa, Italy
Association Apafase Gard IFME, France
Coordinator: LERIS, France
Leader: doc. dr. Milko Poštrak
Associates:
Keywords:
youth, exclusion, fieldwork, competences and skills of social workers
Summary:
»The practices known as "outreach work" exist in social work education, but are often difficult to implement in the practice of social workers and volunteers who work with socially excluded people or those who are not part of the support systems for vulnerable young people. There are three dimensions involved: policy planning, institutional practice, and professional/fieldwork. In light of the experiences and practices in each participating country, the project allowed us to identify and assess gaps in existing training for working with socially excluded young people, specific gaps between training and practice, gaps between young people's needs and opportunities to respond to them. We established that there is a gap between the strategic, organizational and professional levels of planning and implementation of the intervention. Thus, the challenge that the project was tackling is to close the gap between training and practice and to improve the existing training content.
The project was based on 4 main activities:
- Capitalizing on training content and practices in partner countries.
- Design and implementation of a training module
- Development and testing of the methodology by professionals and volunteers
- Design of an educational package