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A.M.O.R.

Advanced Measurements of Responses to the Challenges of Social Skills development in a digital era

Project number: 2022-2-DE04-KA220-YOU-000098221
Implementation period: 01.06.2023 – 25.04.2025
Assistance program: Erasmus+

About the Project

Project results

WP2: A.M.O.R. Good Practice Catalogue

A separate document available to the public and especially recommended for young people and social workers, as well as other education professionals. The document will consist of well-structured tools, activities, and practices from all partner countries and will conclude with a ‘lessons learned’ section analyzing different needs, e.g. skills of the people involved, methodology, and inclusive approaches to people with disabilities.

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WP3: A.M.O.R. Digital Handbook

The innovative digital handbook of the A.M.O.R. project is a separate publication with many chapters for different purposes, which can be easily extended after the project (local versions). It will be freely available to the general public and especially recommended for educational staff and students with and without disabilities.

Project partners

About the Project

In the face of the COVID-19 crisis and the challenges facing educational institutions, the education sector as a whole needs short-term solutions that can be used to respond to this and possible future crises.

The A.M.O.R. (Advanced Measurements of Responses to the Challenges of Social Skills Development in the Digital Era) project responds to this need.

The project’s activities focus on developing solutions targeting the social skills gap and the digital divide, particularly highlighted by the Covid-19 pandemic, for people with disabilities and students with special educational needs who have been widely excluded from digital and non-digital solutions developed in recent months, mainly due to their inaccessibility and lack of inclusion.

Through the implementation of the A.M.O.R. project, teachers, trainers, and social workers will be able to help young people, especially those with disabilities and special educational needs, to overcome the perceived or real lack of control over their situation and to strengthen active social participation and combat current negative trends of exclusion.

The A.M.O.R. partnership wants to provide innovative and practical pedagogical solutions for inclusive youth digitization and social work in informal and formal settings.

Target group

  • Primary Target Group (TG1)

YOUTH and Social Workers as well as other educators in the field of YOUTH work, e.g. teachers, trainers, coaches

  • Secondary Target group (TG2)

YOUNG people with physical and mental disabilities and/or SEN in Europe facing the challenges enforced through the Covid pandemic

The Future Now Association (TFN)

The Future Now Association (TFN) is a Bulgarian youth-focused NGO committed to empowering young individuals through various initiatives. Guided by principles like mutual assistance, gender equality, and inclusion, TFN aims to provide opportunities for the younger generation while advocating for their interests. The organization is especially active in promoting democratic values and supporting vulnerable groups within society.

The organization’s team brings a blend of knowledge, skills, and creativity to the table, united by the shared goal of social impact. They prioritize maintaining high professional standards and providing innovative, sustainable solutions. TFN boasts an experienced administrative and research team, supplemented by a roster of both Bulgarian and international consultants. It has proven expertise in non-formal education, interactive learning methodologies like gamification, and multimedia educational content such as videos and podcasts. This multi-faceted approach enables TFN to make a lasting, meaningful impact on the young people and communities it serves.

https://www.instagram.com/weare.tfn/

https://tfn-bg.com/#/en/

https://www.facebook.com/weare.tfn

MCC-Celjski Mladinski Center,Javni Zavod za Mladinsko Kulturo,Izobrazevanje,Informiranje in Sport–Celje , Slovenia

Celje Youth Center (MCC) is a nonprofit public organisation. Their vision is to successfully respond to the needs of young people and shape the place for socializing, entertainment, creating and gaining new skills and providing international non-formal learning opportunities for young people. Its activities are oriented towards providing information and encouraging participation aiming to gain non-formal competences for youth and foster social engagement and active participation among youth.

VISION: To develop and provide an environment where young people gain skills for social inclusion and independent life trough creativeness and fun.

MISSION: An organisation that will effectively respond to the needs of young people in present and in the future, and co-design a place for socializing, entertainment, creating and gaining new skills.

Website: https://www.mc-celje.si/

Facebook and Instagram: @mccdogaja https://www.facebook.com/MCCdogaja

Internationaler Bund (IB)

Internationaler Bund (IB) Mitte gGmbH is part of the IB Group, an independent non-governmental organization and one of the largest service providers in the fields of youth and social work, education and labor market services in Europe. With over 700 facilities and branches at 300 locations worldwide, the IB supports 350,000 children, young people, adults and senior citizens each year in their career and life planning and offers a wide range of services. Its goals include helping people to develop in freedom, to shape their own lives, to integrate into society, to assume personal responsibility, to play an active role in shaping the development of society and to promote international understanding and cooperation. In addition, IB also advocates, promotes and actively . The IB works on the basis of the European social and educational policy and offers its services worldwide and is focussed on working with different target groups like people with dissablities,people with lower changes and the general society structure.

Its vision is “To strengthen being human”.

Website: https://www.internationaler-bund.de/standort/211185

Calasanz Santurtzi

Calasanz Santurtzi was founded in 1969. We are in Santurtzi, one of the most populated areas of Metropolitan Bilbao in the Basque Country. We have been training students from 0-65 years.  We are a vocational training centre in the integrated network of the Basque Country and we offer specialised vocational training to students, company workers and unemployed people in the professional families of health, community services and business services.

Innovation, entrepreneurship, circular economy and international projects are our hallmarks. We have more than 50 years of experience applying educational innovation, technology and the development of professional and personal skills to the employability of our students, always with a commitment and collaboration with the companies and institutions of our ecosystem.

www.calasanz.eus

https://www.facebook.com/calasanzsanturtzi

https://www.instagram.com/calasanzsanturtzi/

https://twitter.com/calasanzstz

https://www.youtube.com/c/CalasanzSanturtziTV

Danmar Computers - Poland

Danmar Computers LLC is a private company operating in the field of Information Technology and providing vocational training in this field. Danmar has extensive experience in developing modern Web and mobile applications that are used for educational purposes. Danmar also has long-term experience of carrying out European projects within which the company’s R&D staff conducts research and prepares training tailored to the needs of various learners. During 22 years, Danmar has successfully implemented over 100 projects within Grundtvig, Leonardo da Vinci, Progress and Erasmus+. In many of these projects, Danmar was responsible for designing and coordinating dissemination strategies.

Danmar Computers is the developer and provider of AdminProject, the online system for the management of European projects. All activities of the company are based on wide and well-established cooperation network, both on national and international levels. The national networks include training and counselling institutions, universities, schools, non-governmental organizations as well as private sector companies. International networks include partners of various profiles coming from every European Union’s country. Danmar Computer’s mission is the promotion of life-long education and assurance of equal access to education for everyone with the use of modern technology.

Website:

https://danmar-computers.com.pl

Social Media:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Danmar-Computers/144597388897753

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/danmar-computers

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanmarComputers

AEVA – Associação para a Educação e Valorização da Região de Aveiro

AEVA is a non profit organization and was founded in 1998. Its mission is to meet the needs of local businesses in tackling skills mismatch by bringing closer education and the labour market.

AEVA has an integrated Management System implemented according to NP EN ISO 9001:2008 (since 30 March 2009), International Social Responsibility Certification SA: 8000 (since 16 July 2013) and EQAVET Compliance Seal of the Quality Assurance System in Education and Professional Training (since 7th February 2020). In addition, is one of the Eco-School recognised by the European Blue Flag Association (ABAE), has also the Intercultural School Seal distinguished by the Ministry of Education and Science Education and the High Commission for Migration, and received the Good Practices Seal of Health Psychology and Educational Success from the Portuguese Order of Psychologists. AEVA is a VET charter organization and an ESC accredited association (coordination, hosting, sending),  been awarded the Quality Label 2021-27.  AEVA is an association of competences with what we call 13 “satellites”, such as a VET school, an international Department, a regional online TV Channel, an adult education centre, etc.

YES Forum

Founded in 2002, YES Forum is a European network of organisations working with and for young people with fewer opportunities. By promoting their social inclusion and developing their professional skills, we act to improve the life chances of vulnerable young people. YES Forum aims to create positive change to combating poverty and inequalities across Europe.

Throughout the network’s 20 years of existence, we have established ourselves in a unique position; bringing young people and professionals, who work directly on the field, into dialogue with policy makers and EU institutions. We act as a bridge that gives the means to young people to have a voice in decision-making processes that influence their lives. We work towards providing young people with the needed skills that allow long-term development growth. Collectively, the network reaches over 650.000 young people across Europe.

STRUCTURE

Our network is composed of 40 member-organisations that act on national and regional levels and are located in 19 European countries (out of 17 EU MS). The members of the network offer (youth) social services, education, training and qualification, youth work. They work with young people that are most likely to experience social exclusion.

By having this diverse group of members, the YES Forum proves the adequate and experienced expertise to ensure appropriate and tailored strategies to reach a wide range of young people. At the same time, this demonstrates proficiency to take a cohesive approach toward providing more individualised services and support to young people facing multiple barriers.

The YES Forum is driven by its members, who have overall decision-making authority. The network is represented by the appointed Managing Director, who is responsible for running the business and the internal organisation. The management Board, elected by the members, supervises the budget and the activities. through our democratic structure, we count with the full participation of members to plan the network actions. The diversity of members involved in the YES Forum’s work requires multiple ways of engaging with them.

To coordinate the activities and to support effective internal and external communication, the YES Forum is supported by the Secretariat in Stuttgart. In the Secretariat, experienced staff works together in a dynamic environment.

ACTIVITIES

To build a stronger Europe, our societies need to enable citizens, especially young people, to make the most of opportunities.

In order to respond to the challenges and opportunities faced by young people, the YES Forum creates room for peer learning and exchange of inspiring practises, the sustainable development of labour market competences and transversal skills like working together, critical thinking, and creating problem solving, as recommended by the European Skills Agenda for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilience.

By providing formal and non-formal learning, the YES Forum promotes social inclusion and active participation of young people with vulnerable background in society, thus contributing to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan. The YES Forum focuses on education and training, youth employment, youth participation and social inclusion. With the ESF+ operating grant, the YES Forum implements activities in the following three areas:

  1. Policy and Advocacy:

Through our work, we seek to influence policies and perceptions in order to create better life opportunities for young people. We contribute to the development of policies on youth and social affairs by transferring knowledge gained through practical experience and by giving the young people a voice which decision-makers hear and pay attention to. The aim is on giving a voice to professionals working with vulnerable young people and including young people whose voices may be overlooked.

The YES Forum contributes to the debate and to the advancement of policy issues affecting young people and youth service providers at European, national, regional and local levels. We engage in civil dialogue with EU institutions and contribute with research and policy recommendations on key topics.

With this work we:

– transfer concrete expertise and experience of professionals directly to the political sphere,

– support young people to make sure their opinion is considered when taking decisions that affect their lives,

– aim to break the intergenerational cycles of disadvantage by providing opportunities to young people from vulnerable background in order to reduce the existing gap between them and other young people

Moreover, we organise and take part in high-level meetings with executive representatives of EU bodies (especially the European Commission’s DG EMPL and DG EAC, the European Parliament’s DG COMM, and Youth Outreach Unit, EESC) and MEPs. We build alliances with other networks towards a more inclusive Europe.

  1. Capacity building:

Although all the members of the YES Forum are working with and for young people, their form of action, approach and structure vary greatly between each other. That is why the YES Forum organises workshops, trainings and webinars open for member organisations and also for professionals working with marginalised young people, while providing room for peer learning and exchange of inspiring practices. This helps to actively engage our network members in implementing the EPSR locally.

Tailor-made assistance to young people helps in breaking the intergenerational cycles of disadvantage, thus fostering social inclusion and combating poverty. More than events in which members can simply share their successful stories, the capacity building activities aim at helping organisations understand a practice and/ or a method, recognise which parts could be applied in their own context and learn how to adapt it.

Capacity building is an important aspect to the YES Forum membership development. The YES Forum aims to grow as a network in order to be a stronger actor to contribute to a more social Europe, where no one is left behind and which invests in the full potential of young people.

  1. Mobility opportunities:

We organise quality learning mobility opportunities for professionals and for disadvantaged young people. In our activities, we connect young people, especially those who otherwise would not have had the possibility or motivation to meet other cultures.

While taking part in mobility opportunities, young people can develop the right soft skills that would later improve their chances of employability, while flourishing their talents, developing self-esteem and confidence in their abilities, as well as critical thinking and a better understanding of the European Union and the value of active citizenship. Our mobility opportunities also encompass professionals. As part of lifelong learning, we believe that further training of professionals ensures high quality in the various work fields with young people.

With these three types of activities, we extend formal education and training and thus bridge the gap between formal and non-formal learning. The YES Forum takes concrete actions by supporting young vulnerable people and professional working with them and thus contributing to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan.

We adopt a multivariate gender-sensitive approach that considers preferences, motivations, barriers and disadvantages of the young person concerned. We work to ensure long-term improvement of their life chances, by helping to develop skills needed for employment and for autonomous life, such as: raised self-esteem, valorisation of collective decision- making, active citizenship and discovery of their talents.