The expected impact is: (1) a better acknowledgement and recognition of informal groups and the role of youth workers in managing them, (2) a better interaction with local authorities responsible with youth policies, (3) promoting EU good practices in the youth field towards local relevant actors and facilitate a cross-sector collaboration at a national and international level, (4) to improve the efficacy of youth worker’s support tools, and, finally, (5) to enhance the importance of the learning processes and learning outcomes that occur in informal and non-formal contexts and have an impact upon the professional development of young people and, therefore, an impact upon the insertion of youth on the labor market.
“emPOWERing the informal” is a project that has as main objectives:
- To increase the capacity and professionalism of youth workers in managing informal groups by understanding, adapting and implementing of existing EU tools for assessment and development of youth work competence and management competences.
- Mapping existing legal framework and practices that focus on informal groups through research and analysis of the evolution of informal groups as a social movement, aiming to making suggestions at national and international level on how policies can be improved to favor the growth of informal groups and the impact they have upon youngsters and the community they are based in.
- To promote to the public and private sector the missions of informal groups in the youth field and their skills and knowledge acquired by the young people in informal and nonformal contexts, and to favor their implication in the support of youth towards their first and/or stable employment.
- To create working synergies in the process of promoting a more active participation in society based on collaboration, accepting and encouraging diversity and equal opportunities of young people, promoting active citizenship and a non-discriminatory behavior.
