The Big Reflection is a youth mobility project organized by PRONI Centre for Social Education with 4 partners from Austria, Malta, Italy and the Netherlands, within the framework of POYWE (Professional Open Youth Work Europe).
During the project young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in several European countries will come together to discuss their experience, needs and expectations with and from professional open youth work. The group will define the key-offers that youth work has to provide to have a real impact on the lives of young people and produce material (form will be decided by the young people) that can be used to spread the message to youth workers and decision makers across Europe.
Main activity – the youth exchange will happen in Pirovac, Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia, in period 17- 23 August 2014, where will gather 5 partners sending 4 young people and an accompanying youth workers, in total 28 people.
Aims:
- to reflect with young people of the main target group of professional open youth work on their needs and expectations from this field of action and examine possible common ground throughout different national realities in the participating countries on those expectations.
- to work on the individual learning goals the participants set before hand together with their guiding youth worker.
- gather input for the development of a European youth work profile from those that are concerned with it and use it in further planned activities of POYWE such as strategic partnerships for the development of training, definition of youth work and code of ethics…
- to create material that reflects the opinion of the young people and also serves to showcase what are the benefits that young people from disadvantaged backgrounds can get from youth work.
- to raise the skills and self esteem of the participating young people
The project The Big Reflection is funded by European Union through Program Erasmus+, which in Republic of Croatia is implemented by The Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes.
