(re)WRITE THE NARRATIVE - Sharing Decolonial Practice in European Youth EducationRacism and socio-cultural segregation in Europe today cannot be fought without drawing on colonial accounts. This strategic partnership is about the exchange of good practice that highlights the ties between today’s structural and ideological inequalities to European colonial activity. The counter narratives that this project brings together show that Europe is not - and has never been - a self-contained entity but a global endeavour. Opening up to this paradigm shift by listening to and highlighting “other stories” leads to the inclusion of a great number of (young) European citizens who have not had a say in EU-storytelling up to now: Black Europeans and Europeans of Color who (or whose parent/s, grandparent/s, great-grandparent/s...) were born in (ex-)colonies. In accordance with the European Youth Strategy, we focus on social inclusion: it is one of our main objectives to engage and empower European Black youth and youth of Color and to connect them to their peers.The project aims at laying a solid foundation for a network, by primarily working on a shared knowledge base and developing a common language to be used in our activities of youth education on (Post)Colonialism and Decolonization. We also invite youth work practitioners and educators, who are associated to our organisations, to enrich the two planned training activities (including 4 participants per organisation). These activities are linked by an interim period of local activities, in which the topics are tested and debated with young people in the field. The last phase of the project is dedicated to local and online dissemination activities that make the results of the Strategic Partnership available for the greater public and the youth education community in particular.We expect a great methodological and conceptual benefit for all of our organisations, our youth work communities as well as the formal education sector. The main impact on the partner organisation will be the strengthening of our network and a common follow-up project such as a SP INNOVATION.

"European mobility projects can be powerful tools for inclusion, empowerment and growth of young people with fewer opportunities. To maximise their potential, youth workers need to rethink how these projects are thought, designed, prepared and implemented.Through “Kiwipedia - Collaborative Process for Inclusion”, 6 European Organisations and their 6 associated local partners plan to work together to have a better common understanding of needs of young people with fewer opportunities, to develop a higher level of cooperation between different fields of youth work (local, international) and to develop mobility programs with young people, instead of for young people. The main aim of the project is to foster inclusion of young people through youth mobility.Our three specific objectives are:strengthening trans-sectoral cooperation in youth work through an international network for sharing good practicesTo empower young people and to raise youth workers competences To design and evaluate quality bottom-up projects for short-term international mobilitiesWhy did we name our project « Kiwipedia » ?Kiwi is a name for both an animal and a fruit, for us it represents the different approaches and fields of youth work, but also our wish to take the environmental dimension into consideration in our mobility projects.Kiwipedia is then of course a wink to the Wikipedia platform, for its collaborative educational process and open purpose, both are principles we wish to apply in this project.The project will involve :- 9 youth workers in charge of European youth mobility projects, - 6 youth workers working with young people on a daily basis, - 6 youth leaders, - 6 local groups of young people with fewer opportunities.The main activities of the project will consist in long-term local cooperation between youth workers in charge of European youth mobility, local educators and youth leaders, through 2 international training courses involving all the participants and 3 transnational meetings between project coordinators. All the activities will be based on principles and methodologies of non formal education.The main results of the project will be - a diagnostic of the main obstacles for young people to access to international mobility projects - a collection of good practices to promote inclusion in mobility projects (tools, strategies, tips)- a video-tutorial to support local educational centres in designing, preparing, implementing and evaluating a European youth mobility - a description of the successful short-term projects implemented within this consortiumA study on the impact of ""Kiwipedia"" on the inclusion through international mobility is included in the project and this process will be supported by an external expert.“Kiwipedia” project will foster, on a long-term perspective, the development of a bottom-up process in European youth mobility projects, it will provide a higher level of inclusion in youth work and raise the level of ownership of those projects for young people with fewer opportunities."

The digital world is increasingly the natural habitat of children, adolescents and young adults. This challenges professional pedagogical work to address the associated opportunities and risks in a professional manner. The YOWOMO2.0-Train partnership - a European consortium of nine organisations from the fields of youth work, vocational education and training and research and development - has developed training courses for both youth work professionals and their trainers in order to acquire the necessary competences for youth work in the ager of smartphones and social media. These trainings are developed in a version for classroom teaching (e.g. continuing education courses, in-house trainings) and for online learning (Massive Open Online Courses). To develop these training courses, the consortium (1) carried out field analyses in the form of stakeholder interviews and focus groups, (2) analysed and integrated existing competence descriptions (YOWOMO2.0; Developing Digital Youth Work), (3) developed extensive material for the practical implementation of training for both professionals and their trainers (curricula, module descriptions, lesson plans, assignments, assessments), (4) tested the developed material in pilot trainings, and (5) presented the results for discussion in various regional, national, European and international meetings. This showed that the results of the partnership were both practically feasible and linked to the expert discussion on digital youth work.All trainings are based on the following four interlocking didactic approaches: (1) Situated learning, (2) Problem-oriented learning, (3) Self-directed learning, and (4) Discovery Learning. The offline version of the training for professionlas consists of seven modules: (1) Digital relationship, (2) Online attitude, (3) Ethics and practice, (4) Legal framework, (5) Social Media and Public Relations, (6) Professional network, and (7) Qualitymanagement. The training for future trainers consists of two parts: (1) a one-day kick-off training to introduce the trainees to the training of skilled workers and (2) flexible informal support for trainees during the implementation of the first training course for professionals (including final assessment). Both the materials for the training of professionals and the trainer training are freely available in the seven languages of the partnership (English, Dutch, German, Polish, Romanian, Italian, Turkish) on the Internet at the address https://yowomo.euThe English language online courses for both professionals and trainers are implemented on the Online Learning Platform Eliademy (https://eliademy.com). The MOOC for professionals comprises modules which are based on the contents of the offline training, but which focus more clearly on the contents of the modules which have proven to be of particular practical relevance for professionals. Therefore, the MOOC comprises the following three modules: (1) Digital relationship (To whom you are talking to - Identifying your target group; Good rapport - How to build professional relationship online; Media richness -The ladder of opportunities), (2) Online attitude (Online identity; Online influence and manipulation - Dysfunctional behaviours; The new normal; Are you also a professional when you are online?), (3) Ethics and practice (Moral compass - Ethics in your work; New acting - protocol). The MOOC for trainers includes modules based on the content of the offline training. Instead of flexible informal support, however, it offers information on the further development of one's own trainer skills. The MOOC comprises the following modules: (1) Introduction to the YOWOMO project and training, (2) Didactical approaches, (3) Training material, (4) Tips and tricks, and (5) How to become a better YOWOMO trainer. Both MOOCs are freely accessible.