▶Summary
The Youth Voices! project strengthens the quality of youth work with an innovative methodology focused on mental health and active citizenship. It enhances youth workers' competences, fosters digi...
▶Objectives
The Youth Voices! project strengthens the quality of youth work with an innovative methodology focused on mental health and active citizenship. It enhances youth workers' competences, fosters digital innovation, and boosts the visibility and recognition of youth work. Youth work becomes a trend, improving young people's well-being, resilience, and participation in democratic processes, while connecting them with the EU.
▶Activities
Key activities include collecting best practices, analyzing needs, and developing innovative approaches and online training for youth workers in the fields of mental health and active citizenship. The methodology will be complemented by quality standards and the implementation of youth dialogues. The project will be supported by young communicators, and dissemination will follow modern stakeholder engagement approaches. Young people and youth work actors will be actively involved and contribute
▶Impact
The key outcome is an innovative youth work methodology in the fields of mental health and active citizenship, co-created with young people and youth work actors. The following will be published: 2 collections of best practices, 2 needs analyses, 2 digital handbooks for implementing innovative approaches, 2 online training programs for youth workers, and 2 sets of quality standards in youth work. Youth dialogues will shape 5 national and 1 pan-European memorandum on a youth-centered future.