DAY 8

DAY 8: Today is departure day. We wish you safe trip home and hope to stay in touch!

Soon will be collaborating abou booklet!

ALL PHOTOS OF THE PROJECT (OVER 2000 PICTURES!!!)

DAY 7

DAY 7: NGO „Pane oma meeled proovile“ (Estonia): developing tolerance of differences. Group discussion of the event, event guests´ feedback analysis. Open discussion for future projects “With all sails set!”- brainstorming ideas in groups. Intercultural presentation.

Day 6:

DAY 6: City-wide workshop event “Breaking barriers”

DAY 5

DAY 5: Vilnius Police Club for Youth and Children session, Educational programs in  the Estonian Police Museum. Vitatiim: Erasmus+ Programme opportunities

Dinner out (Meretare“ Narva-Jõesuu). Sharing our experiences and personal opinion regarding the Main Activity.

Day 4

DAY 4: presentations and workhops: Soundstudio (UK): 1) Music  Technology interactive workshop
 Vilnius Police Club for Youth and Children session: introduction of unique 3 month program for boys and girls, 24 lessons.Ayuntamiento de Pilas (Spain):“Social café” dispute. Saprichastie Foundation  session (Bulgaria): 1) Story telling -  improving self-esteem, importance of communication, careful and active listening  and giving and receiving feedback; 2)Street dance- the ability- based approach and the trust in one’s own abilities. NGO The Children's Centre “Cosy home" (Estonia)

Day 3

DAY 3: East Prefecture session in Pannjärve adventure park. ROOTED (Malta): “Healthy lifestyle: nutrition and alcohol”. Soundstudio (UK): Songwriting for summarising of the day in reflection groups 

DAY 2

DAY 2: Official opening of the project. Learning agreements. Discussions: Youth at risk-Who are they? Working with at-risk groups. Discovering beauty of our town and museums. Making souvenirs.

Day 1: arrival and welcome

DAY 1: Today we are going to break down the first barrier: to meet everyone, to get acquainted with each other and hoting organization.  Most of participants had a very long trip, hope it was interesting and full of new emotions!Congratulations to everybody! Our project has started. And welcome to Estonia :) Hope you will like it here and that project will be useful and interesting.

Informal youth festival "Breaking barriers"

What is our project about and for?

It is co-project of two Estonian organisations - East Prefecture and Sillamäe Youth Centre of Interest "Beehive" and six partner organisations.

 The main activity of the project will be carried out in the form of a seminar, which is a good place for discovering others experiences and demonstrating really good practices, which have been proved to be effective and sustainable over a long period of time.

The main objectives of the project is to provide a space for the participants to share their expertise and experience at European level and present tools and approaches to deal with at-risk youngsters. In addition, the project aims at providing the platform for discussion between the participants, based on theoretical and practical inputs around the theme which is relevant to the work with at-risk groups. As a long term perspective the project is aimed to foster quality improvements in youth work, in particular through self-analysis and proof-based verification of results.

The participants intend not only to share their experience but also collect and analyze the feedback from the implemented activities.  For that purpose, there will be developed special evaluation  sheets, that will be filled after each activity. The good practices and new methods that will prove themselves to be effective will be integrated therefore into participants' daily activities.

With the purpose that this practical luggage of tools and approaches would be noticed and borrowed by others, the participants of the project have also set a goal to make and to disseminate a guidance brochure, comprising description of best practices applied, adaptability and applicability of working methods used, learning outcomes, contact details of partner organisations, project blog links, etc.

 Three categories of people will be involved in the project: experienced youth workers, unexperienced youth workers and at-risk youngsters from Estonia. The youngsters will only be invited to take part in the workshops arranged by the partners and do not belong to partners of the project.

Who are we?

Our project has lots of partcipants from different countries, So let us introduce the organisations, that are taking part in the project.

1.      Estonia, Sillamäe Huvi -ja Noortekeskus „Ulei“

2.      Estonia, NGO „Pane oma meeled proovile“

3.      UK, „Soundstudio“

4.      Spain, „Ayuntamiento de Pilas“, 7 inimest erinevatest organisatsioonidest

5.      Malta, „ROOTED“

6.      Bulgaria, „Saprichastie Foundation“ (puuetega inimesed)

7.      Lithuania, „Vilnius Police Club for Children and Youth“

Estonia is preparing

Project managers and participants of project from Youth Centre of Inetersts "Beehive" are preparing for the project and the event for youngsters of Sillamäe "Breaking Barriers", which will be held on the 13 th of September. Our guest can be sure- everything will be ready, when they come to Estonia. Looking forward to see all of you!

 

Welcome to blog!

Welcome to the blog of the international project "Breaking barriers- effective work with risk groups", which will be held in Sillamäe (Estonia) on 8-15th September 2014.
Here you can read about the project, its participants, watch photos.