Street Workout - Each One Teach One
Start date: Jan 15, 2016,
End date: Jan 14, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
The theme of this project is “Street Workout”, which is a movement based on exercises by using public facilities, such as equipment in schoolyards or park. The “Street Workout” movement supports healthy living through readily available and financially inexpensive means. Activty.1 – Training Course The aim is to network of organizations willing to promote Street Workout in urban areas and to build capacities for the implementation of Erasmus+ projects for developing competences among young peopleObjectives for the Training Course are: - to establish international partnership among organizations willing to implement future Street Workout projects in the frame of Erasmus+ program;- to gain knowledge for the Erasmus+ program and its opportunities; - to exchange experience in the field of work with young people with fewer opportunities and gain competences for implementing non-formal education activities on local and international level; - to recognize the challenges and benefits for international youth work;- develop capacity for in preparation full scale project proposals.Number of participants: 26Profile of participants: Youth workers, Street Workout organization presidents and leaders, persons representing group of citizen’s involved in Street Workout and staff from NGOs Activity.2 – Advanced Planning Visit (APV)Aims and Objectives - to prepare the youth exchange with the partner organisations, - to have a look at the infrastructure in the host country and find solutions to potential problems.Number of participants: 8Profile of participants: Team leaders that will lead the group in the Youth Exchange. Is planned as team leaders to have participants from Activity.1 in order to gain international experience and gain experience in non-formal education by leading workshops, which will help them in their future international activities. Activity.3 – Youth Exchange The aim of this project is through “Street Workout” to increase active participation of young people and promote healthy life style in urban areas.Objectives of this Youth Exchange are- To promote cultural diversity and mutual respect among young people through “Street Workout”;- To learn for YouthPass Key Competences and experience them during the Youth Exchange- To gain understanding for entrepreneurship, enhance entrepreneurship competences and detect entrepreneurship opportunities in “Street Workout”;- To promote “Street Workout” as healthy lifestyle and engage young people through improved street workout training infrastructure;- To increase mobility among young people from problematic urban areas through Erasmus+ Programme Number of participants: 40Profile of participants: Young people with fewer opportunities from deprived urban areas, involved in Street Workout or willing to learn more through Street Workout. Activity.4 – Evaluation MeetingThe aim of the evaluation meeting is to evaluate implemented activities in the frame of the project.Objectives for the evaluation meeting are: - Recognize the challenges in work with young people with fewer opportunities with the topic Street Workout;- Prepare for dissemination and follow up of the project. Number of participants: 24Profile of participants: Participants form Activity.1 and Activity.3Methodology: In order to reach the aim and objectives we will use non-formal and informal methods. The activities will be based on David Kolb’s learning cycle, designed for the needs of the participants, according their learning style and focused on expected results from the activity. There will be variety of working methods with aim to keep the attention of the participants, involving them in every stage and maximizing their learning outcomes. Participants will have chance to share their knowledge and experience through diverse indoor and outdoor activities, exercises, workshops, sessions with professionals and round tables. Impact: With this project we want to build network of organizations working with young people from disadvantaged urban areas and provide high-quality non-formal educational and mobility opportunities. In planned activities the participants will exchange experiences, share their culture and values, broaden their horizons, build capacity and promote “Street Workout” through Europe as healthy lifestyle. By involving young people in Erasmus+ program, we want to raise the awareness for the opportunities they have as European Citizens. We expect partners to use the program to develop future European projects in their urban environment. Implementing mobility activities and providing high-quality non-formal learning opportunities involved young people will gain deep understanding for active citizenship, unemployment reality, respect for diversity and inclusion and develop their key competences.
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