Youth sensitive lens
Project Youth Sensitive Lens is innovative exchange of 2 youth professional workers from Poland and Northern Ireland who want to share their personal and organisational experience in order to gain new skills in specific fields related to youth work. The worker representing FEPS (Wroclaw, Poland) will spend 18 weeks in the community of Claudy (Northern Ireland, UK) where he will be included into daily activities of CASCADE. Meanwhile the worker representing CASCADE will travel to Wroclaw for this same period of time in order to share his own experience.
The expected main results of this mobility are the following:
- Sustainable partnership between CASCADE and Foundation for European Studies which will show that both organisation promotes similar ideas, work on common project and develop network of organisation involved into innovative idea of CASCADE;
- Youth workers with developed skills in: project management in the frame of Youth in Action as well as in local funds, Open Space Technology – both workers will be well-equipped in this innovative tools for facilitating large-scale evens, youth research activities for youngsters; will gain new skills in this field in order to prevent youth unemployment, developed language skills, develop ICT skills;
- Youth workers with get new knowledge in specific fields: LGBTQ rights, youth research, think tank management and conflict management;
- Long term cooperation between local community and organisation which will effect in raising youth workers skills and competences but also actual inclusive growth of youth belonging to them.
The project will be based on achieving the following 4 principles: peer2peer, innovative, interaction and sharing.
Not only youth workers will gain new skills, but with regards to the mentioned principles, the organisations involved will create space for exchanging experience and innovative methodology, what followed with proper evaluation will allow the project to have a long terms impact.