THE PROJECT
"OUTSIDE THE BOX" was a project of mobility of youth workers with participation of 20 people from 8 countries. The participants of the project were youth workers who are involved in the work of the partner organizations, participate in their activities and are interested in personal development, gaining new competences and experience at international level. The participants of the project were youth workers who cooperate with people working in the area of formal education, such as teachers, career advisors etc., and who are interested in sharing methods of nonformal education in those institutions. We intended to involve youth workers who participate in leading youth teams, are interested in further work in leading positions in their organizations, in creating and development of cooperation between nonprofit youth organizations and organizations of formal education and in development of international cooperation and further work on international youth projects.
By implementing the "Outside the box" project we tried to achieve an exchange of experience and proven methods of work with young people, we learned from each other nontraditional or rarely used methods of work, we learned about the situation in both nonformal and formal education in our countries, with problems with motivation of young people to learn and we discussed possibilities of using methods of nonformal education in formal education. Our organizations as well as the partner organizations cooperate also with institutions of formal education and organize activities for this youth. In our project we focused on an exchange of examples of good practice, we discussed and searched for possibilities of further using proven methods not only in nonformal education.
The objectives of our project were:
- to increase competences of participants in the area of youth work in nonformal education - to develop creative skills of participants
- to learn about nontraditional or rarely used methods used in participating organizations in nonformal education of young people
- to share experience in using various methods of nonformal education, discuss together and propose how to include proven methods of nonformal education into formal education
- to support cooperation of organizations and youth workers active in nonformal education with institutions and people working in formal education sector
- to support a possibility to initiate changes as for modernization of work in the partner organizations and in organizations of formal education that cooperate with the participating NGOs.
- to give participants opportunity to understand better connections between formal and nonformal education
- to improve the quality of work with youth
- to develop motivation of participants to work with young people
- to give participants an ooportunity for further professional, personal and career growth.
DECLARATION
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