16 – 20 August, 2021
Maribor

The Association EPEKA, Soc. Ent., is hosting an Erasmus+ training for youth workers entitled Empowering Youth Workers in Youth Activation – reACT!

The implementation of the reACT project aims to empower youth workers who are confronted with inactive young people in their youth work activities. Activating inactive young people is a long process that requires a lot of time and effort on the part of youth workers, but it is crucial if we want to enable young people, especially those with fewer opportunities, to have equal opportunities and active participation within society. The training of youth workers will therefore, supported by non-formal education methods, introduce a variety of methods and approaches that have a positive impact on inactive young people.

Together with the participants, the project aims to address topics that may not be addressed often enough in our daily work, to exchange and transfer good practices, to discuss the diversity of national youth work strategies and the activation of inactive young people in different geographical areas, and to reflect on how youth work is conceived and put into practice. We will therefore use non-formal education methods to acquire new knowledge in order to improve the skills of the youth workers involved, which they can then transfer to their own environments. Through implementation, we therefore want to have a wider impact on working with inactive young people in an international setting.

The objectives of the project are to work with participants to develop strategies to reach and address inactive young people more effectively and to motivate them to engage in social activation programmes, where they can increase their social and employment potentials and, as a consequence, better integrate into society. To empower youth workers with skills they either do not have or would like to upgrade. The project is designed in such a way that youth workers will acquire knowledge through discussions, lectures and workshops, but also through contact with inactive young people themselves, who are involved in programmes aimed at their activation. The project thus aims to address the proactivity and further education of youth workers, which will then also influence the proactivity of the young people they work with. Through field visits, we aim to show youth workers different perspectives on the usefulness of youth work in working with young people, to broaden their horizons and, supported by innovative practices, to inspire them to develop and implement ideas to provide even better quality support to young people in their own contexts.

The project is funded by Erasmus+.

The Association EPEKA, Soc. Ent., is supported by: