Spain

LOCAL CONTEXT

SPAIN

In Spain, young people study a formal curriculum in which learning new knowledge is very important, but which does not always pay attention to the practical and creative dimension of human abilities.

Young Spaniards regularly attend formal education, but there is not as much supply and demand for nonformal education activities, where they can develop other skills and feel free to explore their creativity without fear of making mistakes or not meeting certain expectations.

On the other hand, the pandemic has locked down young people to their homes and imposed the need for online tools to work with them. Educators and youth workers have been forced to develop these tools at great speed and adapt their methodology from face-to-face to online, which is a great challenge and it is necessary to create and facilitate these tools for professionals.

Since Cazalla Intercultural is running the youth centre and work directly with young people, we always look for the tools that can fit into what the young people needs – meaning fun activities, creative, engaging, where they can express themselves in the creative way and acquire skills which are useful on the labour market. We are excited to learn from our partners methods based on the digital storytelling and digital creative writing as we believe that those tools are exactly what young people need.

As an organisation directly involved in Erasmus+ Programme, we organise many KA105 youth exchanges and mobility of youth workers. For this, we are in constant need of new methodology to implement in the next projects. On the other hand, we facilitate local projects that include local youngsters coming from different categories.

In times of restriction and challenges that come from the Covid-19 pandemics, we can use these new tools and methods and we can always enrich our toolboxes that we have at our disposal with this new methodology.