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Knock...knock...knocking at Heaven's door ! - deba..
Knock...knock...knocking at Heaven's door ! - debating on unemployment
Start date: Dec 15, 2014,
End date: Jan 14, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
“ Knock , knock,knocking at heaven’s door “ is a youth exchange planned to take place for 9 days between 12-20 march 2015 in Busteni ,Romania.The partnership consists of 45 youngsters and group leaders from 8 european countries Bulgaria,Greece,Italy,Latvia,Lithuania,Spain,Poland,Romania and includes 12 youngsters with fewer opportunities : 2 blind youngsters from Romania helped by an interpretor and 10 youngsters from poor isolated villages or unemployment from the other countries.
The activities take place in a time when youth unemployment grows very much , jobs are very hard to find and the school curricula doen not exactly match the labour market request and youngsters can not find a work according to their competences and professional skills.
The main aim of the project is identification of solution to assure youngsters assimilation in labour market by awareness of competences needed for getting a job and main objectives are finding the causes that determinate youth unemployment and factors that influence raise of it,identification of solution to limitate youth unemployment and provide jobs for youngsters according to their skills ,promotion of world school debate as a nonformal education method for develop key competences needed in labour market,inclusion of unemployed youngsters in mobility projects for develop their competences and promotion of good practices for a better integration of youngsters in labour market and expanding of youth cooperation in Europe.
The activities forseen are for preparation,introduction and getting to know eachother,trust and team building,presentation of participants and organizations,introduction of Erasmus + programme and youthpass certificate,cultural visits in Sinaia, Bran and Brasov,intercultural evenings,workshops in plenneary and groups,a debate competition,daily ,midterm and final reflection-evaluations,dissemination and exploitation of results.Besides there will be transversal activities for visibility,management and monitorizing.
The methodology will be based on nonformal education and will consist in games ,presentations,debates,role plays and simulations ,visual campaign.
The final results will be a blog of the project and a guide of comepetences needed to get a good job.
Impact will be felt at the level of participants through development of new competences and assimilation of new tools ,at the level of organization by having more trained youngsters and at the level of local communities through a higher level of civism and awareness of solutions needed for youth unemployment and development of competences.
The final results ( blog,guide ) will be disseminated by all partners and participants and the sustainability will be provided by solidity of partnership ,extension of youth cooperation between youngsters and new initiatives and projects in frame of Erasmus +.