‘Teen Advisory Board - In Character’ is a transnational active learning programme for 16-21 year olds from a wide variety of backgrounds. It looks at language, behaviour, and structures within the arts, using the formats of the Teen Advisory Boards (TABs) and roleplay to strengthen the influence, knowledge, organisational skills and cultural participation of young people. It produces young agency in the artworld - influencing institutions, reaching the public, and widening access to culture for young people.Focusing on inclusion in the arts, the Teen Advisory Board (TAB)'s selection criteria prioritises young people who have had limited contact with the arts. Bringing together young people from across sections of society, its core long term goal is to enable a more inclusive artworld; by encouraging a shift in the demographics of who works in the field, and therefore the perspectives and priorities of those who programme its institutions.The Teen Advisory Board, supported by PRAKSIS (Oslo), Index (Stockholm) and Publics (Helsinki), form the core working group who arrange and evaluate the project. The ‘In Character’ programme is the result of these partners working in digital transnational dialogue over the past year. The project represents an innovative development in their collaboration that will increase their collective exchange and learning, while going through the research, development, production and dissemination of public facing outputs that will have wide transnational resonance.Over 20 months, two TAB groups in Stockholm and Oslo with 10 dedicated members each (up to 40 total participants) receive mentoring and support as they engage with institutions, artists and other arts professionals to develop research and outputs including; a blog, conferences, publications (printed and online), and radio broadcasts (also available as podcasts). These outputs aim to bring innovative, accessible research and tools relating to inclusion in the arts field and working with young people to audiences including other young people, those who work with young people, and a general public interested in art and society.

Youth workers are very diverse public with different needs. Although some youth workers have had a higher education, we notice many of them mostly work intuitively and lack a theoretical framework. Youth work and non-formal education are undervalued and therefore youth workers lack support and resources. A lot of work is done by volunteers without proper education, leading to a higher turnover rate. Besides the creation of the StreetSmart Impact app and the offer of educational activities which is available on the activity platform StreetSmart Play, we want to keep looking for innovative ways to support youth workers. By providing an online offer of training, we want to increase their theoretical and practical knowledge and strengthen their skills. Through research, online content analysis, questionnaires and focus groups, we became aware that there is a need for more and concrete training for youth workers in non-formal education (YouthWork HD, 2018). In our own survey we conducted with 118 persons, we saw a confirmation of this need. 84% told us they feel the need to have additional training. This training is not only necessary to help new employees, but also to support active youth workers on different topics related to youth work. 52% of the respondents want to receive more training on coaching of youth workers (n=61). 47% would like some extra training on methodologies for youth work (n=56), 42% on psychological themes related to youth (n=50), 31% on youth policy (n=36). By providing advanced training opportunities for youth workers, we aim to increase the competence level of youth workers in Europe (and worldwide). Training modules offered to youth workers should be interactive, fun and easy to use, allow collaboration with other participants, and be available both online and mobile, including good practices and references for additional information. Our aim with this project is to provide youth workers with the tools they need, so that they, with a correct background/ knowledge, can set up the right processes with their target group, based on the latter’s needs. Also, since the launch of the StreetSmart Impact app and StreetSmart Play activity platform, we got some relevant feedback which we want to take into account in this new project. First of all, users of the Impact app need additional support to understand the data they are collecting and set it up for their organisation. When scaling up, it will be difficult to help each user personally so we need to create a support system which can guide users. Secondly, we notice that for some youth workers, the content on the activity platform is insufficient as they work less with specific activities and they have a bigger need for training and inspiration. Therefore, we want to reinforce them with training, support videos and inspiration. To answer these needs, we will develop a Learning Hub, StreetSmart Learn, on which we will host training videos and inspiration, which will be the reference for youth workers to go to. Mobile School vzw, Salvati Copiii and PRAKSIS want to create this Learning Hub to fulfil these needs. The development of the Learning Hub will exist in two parts: the set-up of the learning management system (LMS) and the development of training modules. For the set-up of the LMS, all partners will have an important role in checking the user experience of the LMS, the development of learning tracks and modules and will be involved in writing out the format of the good practice section of the training. For the development of the training modules, all partners will determine training topics (necessary in the Learning Hub), create the pilot training and will contribute with good practices and specific tips and tricks, based on their experience and complementary to the theoretical framework which will be developed by Mobile School. This cooperation is valuable because of the different backgrounds all partners have. They were included in previous Erasmus+ projects. PRAKSIS was a partner of Mobile School in the development of StreetSmart Impact. Salvati Copiii partnered with Mobile School vzw for the development of the activity platform, StreetSmart Play. Both partners have a lot of experience in non-formal education and have years of experience in the field with refugees and Roma populations. Therefore, they will have an important role in the research, the development and the good practices of the different training modules. The technical integration and training content will be coordinated and developed by Mobile School NPO, while the partners will be involved in giving feedback on the development. Each partner will also include organisations from their own local network, to bring together in their focus groups or to help disseminate the final product. Besides this, we will partner up with network organisations to spread the integrated Learning Hub to youth workers around the world.

<< Objectives >>This active learning programme seeks to establish future thinking modes of dissemination in the arts that are environmentally conscious, as well as engaging for people new to the arts across a wide variety of backgrounds. Working with 3 new groups of young people within the target audience each year, the project aims to widen access and inclusion in the arts field through the working process, public events and outputs. Its participants develop knowledge and skills beneficial for future careers.<< Implementation >>Workshops, working group meetings, events and outputs delivered in coordination between Norway, Sweden and Finland include:- encountering the arts field, giving feedback through institutional visits and artist workshops.- developing contributions for, and hosting 3 transnational public symposia.- gathering, refining and creating material for a differing format each year.- public launch events.- communications material and stratergy by young participants.- feedback evolves plans each cycle.<< Results >>Research and material developed through 99 workshops and 27 working group meetings taking place over 34 months across Oslo, Helsinki and Stockholm will be processed through:- three ambitious public transnational symposia to gather, further and share learning. - publicly accessible outputs sharing project research including a podcast series, a video series, and a book each distributed in collaboration with publishing platforms.- nine launch events for the outputs.

In recent years all European countries are experimenting a strong increase in the slice of population that does not have access to social health services: migrants, drug addicted people, homeless, victims of trafficking. In particular homelessness condition is growing in every country of UE because of the effect of the economic crisis. This gives as result more poverty of the citizenship and less services given by the institutions (linked to less economic resources of the states). The organizations working to help people in homelessness condition - public or Ngos - are every days in fight against the lack of opportunities, the growing number of people living in poor conditions, the decreasing of services given by institutions. Life in the street is every days harder and more dangerous and the homeless people risk every days their own life.At the moment - in full Covid 19 emergency throughout Europe - this is proving to be dramatic. Homeless people, a group without any health protection, may became a sanitary bomb for the whole population.Social operators of partner organizations feel the need to confront each other for sharing experiences and good practices on tools and methodologies in approaching this difficult target in order to improve the professional services provided on the street, primary health care and access to public or volunteering services by people at high risk of social exclusion, like homeless people.The expected results concern: better knowledge and skills of the participants on health contexts on the street, on the needs of marginal people, on the methods and technical tools for approaching these people; improved consolidation of the European network and enhanced cooperation with partners; better educational skills of educators and social workers in approaching people who are victims of social exclusion and who have difficulty accessing health and social services; improved satisfaction and motivation of participants in daily work; increased know-how of partner organizations and local welfare systems about health contexts on the street, health needs of marginal people, methods and technical tools forsatisfying health needs of this target and of the local community; implementation of new better practices to provide for health needs of homeless people through drafting of GUIDELINES to better work in this field and finally improved access of homeless and in general people at risk of marginality to health services and care.Participants will be 48 social operators, street workers, professionals and public officials involved in public or voluntary services from partner countries who will discuss together tools and methodologies for intervention on the subject The common work experience brought partner organizations to elaborate this project to build knowledge from the different approaches and to share together new strategies to help these persons and the professionals that work with them and to identify transferable good practices.The principal impact on the participants will be to strengthen and update their knowledge and skills to be able to approach homeless people and at risk of marginality and to respond properly to their primary health needs.The impact on the target group will be to see improved their primary health care and the quality of life-saving services, as well as seeing their ability to access to health services as first step toward social inclusion.The impact on other stakeholders (municipalities, health services, local bodies, non governmental organizations) , will be to develop an increased coordination and collaboration so as to better respond to health and inclusion needs of homeless.

We noticed that more and more children are falling out of the formal systems. The streets become the main educational environment where they develop their identity with needed attitudes and skills in order to survive. Youth work is confronted with children in different street situations. Many NGO’s (big and small), citizen initiatives undertake a lot of action to connect with the children in the streets, to build trustworthy relationships. Mobile School VZW has been supporting these initiatives for 15 years with non-formal educational tools and training. In all the projects we've been cooperating, we saw 3 problems: - a lack of a qualitative case-management. Youth workers lack the tools and capacity to give a proper follow-up to the individual children and youth they are working with. - a lack of impact measurement: There is a lack of concrete indicators to follow-up and a poor data registration. - a lack of data to assess the situation: data collection about the situation of children and youth in the streets are extremely difficult. Proper reports and macro data on the situation of vulnerable children and youth are missing and therefore it's difficult to make policy decisions on a project level, on national and on an international level. This project was a transnational collaboration between 4 organisations. Mobile School VZW was the leading organisation and partnered up with 3 organisations, having experience with different target groups: ARSIS and PRAKSIS (Greece) and CME (Poland). In ARSIS and PRAKSIS, they work with Roma children, trafficked children in the city centre, refugee children in refugee camps and unaccompanied minors. CME works with children and youth who are working unregistered on the streets with the responsibility to sustain their families. Our goal was to create a digital tool for personal case management within youth work in non-formal education. We managed to create that tool, named StreetSmart, split out in 3 intellectual outputs.The aim of the research report (IO1) was that it should help youth workers to evaluate and improve their own activities and case management. The report answers the following questions:- How is case management perceived in street- and youth work?- Which (mobile) case management tools already exist worldwide?- Which indicators are useful in assessing impact in non-formal youth work activities?- How can the indicators 'non-formal education' and 'personal development' be included in the measurement?- How can the data of children and youngsters be protected? The case management tool, StreetSmart, exists of 3 parts: - A very user-friendly smartphone application for data caption on the streets (O2) - A database back-end (O2) - A web-based case management environment where info, reports and analyses can be consulted (O3) To carry out the project we went through 3 phases: a research, development and testing phase. - Acquired a list of common indicators useful to assess impact in non-formal educational youth work activities - developed valid and trustworthy methods to measure indicators. - developed a protected database system where data of individual children can be stored safely - developed a user-friendly application where youth workers can input and consult only the data of the children they are working with - developed a data-encryption system so data become anonymously once they leave the project level (privacy protected) - developed user-friendly dashboards and reports to view macro-data on a project level, per indicator, per target group. - and we are still trying to develop a sustainable way to disseminate the tool to youth workers in other European projects and all over the world, organising multipliers and sharing the tool with networks active in youth work. In the end, we foresee an educational, efficiency and managerial win for everyone who will use this case management tool. The project foresaw to impact 3691 persons, but probably we reached around 3551: 291 youth workers with O1, 150 children and 110 youth workers (through multipliers and scaling: + 3000 newsletters). Our ambition is to continue with the dissemination and support of the tool after the completion of this project (1 year). Our aim is within three years after the start of the project, to reach at least 300 organisations and youth initiatives outside our own network, working with approximately 9000 children and support them with the tool and online training on how to use it.