OPEN YOUTHWORK FOR OPEN SOCIETY
Give a chance to Informal Youth Centres
About the project
OPEN YOUTH WORK FOR OPEN SOCIETY
is an international project that aims to raise awareness about open youth work and stimulates a discussion through different perspectives of young people, youth workers and social scientists. The project involves five partners from different countries (Romania, Serbia, Germany, Slovenia and Italy) that worked together to create this dossier as an argumentation aid to support open youth work.
PROJECT GOALS
The project seeks to promote the concept of open youth work and foster a broader conversation involving different perspectives from young people, youth workers, and social scientists. Through interviews with youth workers, a youth-centered survey, and a youth exchange in Romania, the project generates valuable insights to stimulate dialogue on the definition, methods, tools, and future directions of open youth work. Key outcomes include a collection of successful open youth work activities, various youth center models, young people’s ideas on how open youth work should function, and empirical studies that support the approach. The project demonstrates how open youth work enhances young people’s skills, encouraging them to actively engage in both personal and community development.
Project Results
Database: Youth Centre Models and Activities
A database of examples and evidence supporting open youth work as a method of bettering the lives of young people. It contains best-practice models and activities of open youth work, as well as innovations in the field. Here can also be found a collection of previous projects of research and empirical studies on the topic.
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Dream Youth Centre
In order to create the picture of an ideal youth centre, we needed to hear the voices of young people, the main users of youth centres. A total of 47 young people, aged between 16 and 29, were interviewed. Here you can find the vision of young people, summed up by youth workers who worked on this project to show what an ideal youth centre should look like.
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Recommendation Tools for Policymakers
Recommendations on how youth work can be implemented and, above all, how the positive perception and recognition of open youth work can be improved. It contains: a vision of a youth centre in terms of space, time and conditions; a detailed description of open youth work; recommendations about youth workers’ profile.
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Toolkit and Handout
The downloadable booklet on this page collects and reviews the results of the project “Open Youth Work for Open Society – Give a chance to informal Youth Centres”, the process and the methodologies applied. The results highlight how open youth work improves young people’s competences, supporting them to get active in their interests and in the interest of their environment and society.
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Project Partners
Partners
The partners in this project are: Strauss APS (Mussomeli, Italy), Curba de Cultură (Romania), Narandžasti (Serbia), Ris Dvorec Rakičan (Slovenia), Roter Baum Berlin (Germany).
Donator
The project “Open Youth Work For An Open Society – give a chance to informal youth centres” is co-financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Jugend für Europa – Nationale Agentur. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
Project nr. 2019-2-DE04-KA205-018192.
Contacts
„Roter Baum Berlin“ UG – Stendaler Straße 43, 12627 Berlin.
030 99281840 – info@roter-baum-berlin.de
