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When working with youth, especially in the context of participation, it is important to ensure that we move from seeing youth as passive recipients to recognizing them as active agents in the process of social transformation. In the project we want to undertake a study trip to visit Terram Pacis, an organization dedicated to how to use non-formal education to actively engage youth in participation. Study trip will consist of a 3-day workshop on the topic and will provide us with specific methodological approaches in the field of non-formal education and new inspiration for work with youth.
Summary of the results
First, we mapped our needs within the framework of youth work, connected with the decision to gradually devote ourselves to work with older children and young adults, who had not been given space in the community centre until now. In the ongoing City Belongs to All project supported by the ACF programme, we work with children aged 8 to 14. Our partner organization Terram Pacis, on the other hand, focuses on youth 15 and up, which is why we chose them as our trainers. We then planned the content of the training, set the agenda and planned the trip. The training in Oslo went well and was followed by a period of time necessary to study the publicly available resources of the organization on their website - manuals and guides to their already implemented projects with youth. An internal document summarising tips from the training and texts was produced during September. The NS staff became familiar with its contents and incorporated it into their working materials.