“Mediterranean Partnerships Market”

4. “Mediterranean Partnerships Market” objectives

“Mediterranean Partnerships Market” is a mobility project for youth workers, in which referents

from 21 Euromed countries and organizations are invited to participate. The meeting is proposed as

a space for an exchange of knowledge, for sharing experiences and resources aimed at finding new

common platforms for interaction and cooperations within the Erasmus Plus Program.

The project collects the ideas, suggestions, professional and thematic needs of the participating

organizations and territories, identifying its main tools in the different professional backgrounds

represented, the experiences that the participants can bring, the different social and work contexts in

which they operate.

The methodological approach that will be adopted is based on the active participation and

enhancement of the skills and experiences of which each participant is a bearer. In this way will be

developed personal and professional skills, stimulating networking and generating cooperative

learning through non-formal activities.

Mediterranean Partnerships Market aims to:

– Promote an opportunity for international meeting between youth workers and referents active with young people, interested in exchanging on their work, on issues and aspects that define this area today, on the difficulties and resources that can be put together. The common goal is to refine and share new strategies that can promote the acquisition of tools and skills that improve the possibilities and the work in the youth work field even in those marginal and critical situations.

– Activate a reflection and comparison on the certification and validation procedures of the skills acquired aimed at greater recognition even in professional fields other than the usual ones, and the activation of guided self-assessment processes that encourage greater awareness of the skills acquired by international mobility projects.

– Collect ideas, needs and requirements, on typologies and ways in which socio educational actions with young people (local and international) are carried out in different countries (pedagogical approach, content, type of activity, work-structures and organization, profile of the youth workers, work methodologies, etc.).

– to build relationships between youth workers, educators, trainers, organizations and territories,
through the exchange of experiences, information and work practices, aimed at improving the
methods and practices of socio-educational animation.
– develop alliances between social partners of different nature (links between formal and non-
formal, between organizations active in the local and international context) sustainable and able to act as a flywheel to develop new strategic partnerships on the involved territories.
– develop and implement ideas and projects, availing itself of alliances and available resources.
Each participating organization and youth worker is the bearer of unique knowledge and strategies, from whose valorization, sharing, and exchange can start a synergistic process oriented to the development of new melting pot practices, exportable in the next projects and/or work context.
– work together on a comparison between different social, cultural and professional contexts by increasing the own historical-cultural analysis skills, promoting critical reflections and the development of life-skills oriented to active and transformative participation in the society.