The Project Results

The project had a variety of tangible and intangible results.

Intangible results refer to the knowledge, skills, experience gained and competences developed by the 24 youth workers involved, the increased capacities of the partner organisations and the empowerment and support towards inclusion of the target group, hard to reach youth (including NEETs, migrants and immigrants)

The tangible results refer to:

- a 7 days training course on enhancing the capacities of youth workers to create transformational and meaningful learning spaces for social inclusion of hard to reach youth (including NEETs, migrants and immigrants) by using mindfulness through naturebased interventions;

- this booklet 'Nature within you: Mindfulness through naturebased education for social inclusion';

- a video of the training course 'Nature within you ' ;

Other tangible results of the project:

- 24 youth workers organised and facilitate 24 workshops in Italy, Sweden, Spain, Romania, Hungary, Greece, Estonia, Poland;

- 8 Knowledge Transfer Meetings facilitated by the participants within each partner organisation reaching a minimum number of 90 youth workers;

The training course had a meaningful impact on the participants by developing their competences to create transformational and meaningful learning spaces for social inclusion of hard to reach youth (including NEETs, migrants and immigrants) by using mindfulness through nature-based interventions.

After the project, youth workers gained a wider understanding on how mindfulness through nature based methodology activities can have a significant impact on youth and increased capacity to apply it in order to trigger positive changes in the lives of the hard to reach youth, their organisations and the society as a whole. The quality of their work became meaningfully better, and they increased ability to address the needs of the disadvantaged and hard to reach youth. They also added greater motivation in their daily work All these result in making the participants better youth workers who support a life-long learning approach and transformation, continuously evolve and better address the needs of the youth. This had a domino effect on their professional and as well as on their personal development as youth workers in their daily work with young people and also in the everyday interactions with their families and social groups.

We believe that these results and impact of the project brought a new page in youth work, introducing mindfulness through nature-based methodology in youth work had a positive impact on the participating organisations, on the hard to reach youth as well as youth work on European level On a long run the project helped the youth from disadvantaged and migrant/refugee backgrounds to develop and to be socially included.