“Next step for youth mobility” Marseille, France 28.09-01.10.2015

The aim of this PBA is to empower youth and social actors to write and coordinate international mobility projects for youngsters with fewer opportunities in the framework of the Key Action 1 of the Erasmus+ Youth program.

The particularity of this PBA will be the involvement oftwo profiles of participants from each organization:one social/youth worker and oneyoungster. It’s fundamental to strongly involved young people in the process of the project creation in order to be as close as possible from their needs and expectations.

The activities proposed will on the one hand, give the youngsters the opportunity to exchange ideas with other peers, to work on the development of mobility projects that interest them; and on the other hand, social/youth workers will benefit from the youngsters inputs to develop mobility projects suitable for disadvantaged young people.

Objectives

- Buildnew qualitative partnerships between social and youth organisations

-Bringing together youth workers and youngsters in order to create new quality projects ideas within the new Erasmus+ program in the youth field

- Share and learn about good inclusive practices between youth workers working with disadvantaged young people

- Foster networking among participants and creating space for youth workers to reflect on their own practices

 -Encouraging youth/social workers to develop quality projects with and towards disadvantaged young people on the basis of long term strategies

PBA activities

- Overview of the different local realitiesof disadvantaged young people in the represented countries

- Field visits in social centres and youth organisation in Marseille

- Cooperative group work to develop youth project ideas

- Exchanging resources (tools, methods, approaches, etc.) relevant for increasing inclusion of disadvantaged young people

- Networking workshops for the emergence of new partnerships