PiFbase International

Start date: 2018-03-01

End date: 2021-02-28

Location: Sweden, Romania, Finland

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Aim

Our overall aim is to improve the quality of youth work when working with disadvantaged groups, by implementing and quality assure an innovative method (PiFbase) in four different countries. The implementation and quality assurance of the method serve as a tool to develop and share effective methods and practices in reaching out to marginalized young people and will be the core of a common knowledge acquisition during the project.

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Objectives

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• Professionalize youth workers by setting quality standards and ethical and professional codes related to the coaching role and develop high-quality skills and competencies, particularly in their work with inclusion and diversity

• Create space for youth workers to share experiences and know-how in reaching out to marginalized young people

• Create a set of intellectual outputs to support youth workers in their personal and professional development

• Improve capacity building, management, and collaboration skills within the four organizations

• Increase organizations’ ability to work with young people with fewer opportunities through promotion of social entrepreneurship

• Improve strategies and methods on how to conduct qualitative youth work including collaboration with local communities and initiate cross-sectorial cooperation

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