Job Shadowing "Are your views forever/or do you like a change of scenery"

Mobility of youth workers - Job Shadowing

"Are your views forever/or do you like a change of scenery" Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Azerbaijan

2019

THE

IDEA...

The participating NGO's wanted to use more creativity in their youth work and created this Job Shadowing project to respond to those needs. Through the activities in this project, the organisations increased their capacities in project

management

and

administrative

matters

by

learning

from

each

others' experience. In the core of this project was the creation of new Loesje groups, which will use the Loesje methodology as a creative non-formal educational tool in their youth work, to empower young people and improve conditions in their society.

Participating organisations in this project:

Loesje e.V. - Germany Info Front Prilep - North Macedonia System and Generation - Turkey Mladi Volonteri - Bosnia and Herzegovina Bridge to the future - Azerbaijan

TURKEY The

first

mobility

started

in

beautiful Ankara.

We

were

hosted

at

the

System & Generation office, where

we

information organisations

exchanged about

our

and

the

activities we implement.

We

also

agenda

went of

through the

the

planned

activities and added several more.

LOESJE CREATIVE TEXT WRITING The youth workers from Germany and North Macedonia trained the youth workers from Turkey in delivering Loesje creative text writing workshops.

During our mobility in Ankara we had the chance to visit the Turkish National Agency and to discuss quality criteria of Erasmus+ projects.

Also in our dissemination plan we have focused on meetings with stakeholders and

decision

makers,

so

of

the

representatives Parliament. importance

We of

we

discussed

young

people

met

Turkish the taking

initiative and their active participation.

We

were

invited

to

visit

the

Haci

Bayram Veli University in Ankara. They were very interested to get to know Loesje, the creative methodology and the

students

foreign

in

the

languages

department found

it

a

of

very

useful non-formal educational tool.

We also had the chance to explore

Ankara,Â

Goreme and Konya. We tried diverse Turkish traditional food, the famous Turkish coffee and

got

more

information

about

the

traditions, especially in Anadolia. We had the chance

to

hear

about

the

famous

Rumi and to visit a Derwish dance.

scholar

Youth workers from Germany, North Macedonia and Turkey

started

the

Bihac.

The

three

other

and

our

second

working first

mobility

groups

Bosnian

organisation Nahla Bihac.

in

got

host:

July to

in

know

the

sunny each

women's

Bosnia and Herzegovina

In the coming days, local youth workers and local youth were trained in the theoretical and practical context of Loesje creative text writing. They learned the meaning of the methodology and how they can implement this method to empower and support young people. Through several interactive workshops a new Loesje poster series was created.

During about

the

first

week

administrative

information matters

and

sustainability of organisations was exchanged.

In the next days, we visited

Ostrozac na Uni, a village close to Cazin, on the main

migrant's route to Croatia, where we were hosted by a local family and tried Bosnian cuisine. We met members of Nahla from Velika Kladusa. We discussed the current situation of

migrants and refugees in that part of the country and realized

that the situation there is not presented at all in the media. We met local youth and together with them we discovered natural beauties like Strbacki Buk, a 25 meters waterfall on the river Una.

In the next week we continued the mobility in Visoko.

We were hosted by our partner "Mladi Volonteri" in their office in the city. We exchanged information and good practices about good project management and sustainable Erasmus+ projects.

In the following days we implemented several Loesje creative text writing workshops and trained their youth workers how to deliver Loesje workshops.

As a part of this Job Shadowing we also met the local community, students in primary school and other organisations. We heard a lot about the activities of the local Roma organisation "Be my friend" and also the Roma Center for support "Romalen". organized

We under

took the

part

frame

in of

a

workshop

the

pre-school

summer initiative for Roma children.

We had a very productive time with the youth workers,

young

community,

people

and

implementing

the

and

local joining

different activities, where we could exchange good

practices

and

learn

from

each

other.

We also had discussions about future projects under the Erasmus+ program. As part of our dissemination plan, we were interviewed by the local radio and TV.

AZERBAIJAN The last mobility of this project was implemented in August in Azerbaijan.

We arrived in Baku, where we met the coordinators

of

our

partner

organisation and we set a final plan for our activities. In the first week we got to know each other, exchanged information and

about

activities

our

and

organisations

implemented

a

"Project Cycle" workshop, where we exchanged

good

implementation projects.

of

practices quality

for

Erasmus+

In the following days we trained youth workers how to implement Loesje creative text writing and we made a practical

workshop

with

local

youth.

We

discussed,

based on the previous mobilities in Turkey and BiH, how they

can

empower

methodology.

young

people

through

this

We continued our project in the city of Ganja. We were hosted in the Youth Center, where we had the chance to meet youth workers and discuss youth work there.

We

heard

activities

how

they

this

youth

implement.

center

We

works

trained

there in Loesje creative text writing.

and

youth

what

workers

During this mobility we had the chance to visit different cultural places, to taste the Azerbaijani cuisine and to admire beautiful historical places.

Our

visit

to

the

Mingachevir

Youth

Center

was fruitful, with many activities where we exchanged topics,

as

creative

good

practices

teaching

on

different

techniques,

methodology,

career

Loesje

guidance

through CV and motivation letter, as well as project management. We met youth workers, young

people,

psychologists.

as

well

as

teachers

and

All posters created during this project can be found in the Loesje poster archive: loesje.org/posterarchive

Pictures

and

information

about

the

project

can

be

found

on

the

Facebook

page

of

Loesje

Berlin:

facebook.com/LoesjeBerlin/ as well as the pages of our partners.

For

the

video

about

this

project,

please

visit

the

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwMtdTG053JsN7oPjDpJ23A

Loesje

Berlin

YouTube

channel:Â