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Blockchained Youth work

Project "Blockchained Youth Work!" started 1st December 2022 and it's foreseen to last 34 months. The purpose of the Blockchained Youth Work project is to support efforts to professionalize youth work through digital and innovative dimension, and to ensure the quality of education practices in youth work. 

ABOUT THE PROJECT

  • Youth work is still invisible and often marginalized.
  • The Blockchained Youth Work will bring immense refreshment to the youth work with its innovative digital solutions that are applicable beyond youth sector and youth work. 
  • This project will provide: common language and value base, legitimize the work done by the youth sector, improve understanding of innovation and quality, enhance quality in educational practices, and support the experience that youth workers bring to the society.
  • The project will strongly contribute to increasing quality, innovation by improving digital readiness, resilience and capacity and the visibility of youth work.
    With the Blockchained Youth Work we wish to tackle the insufficient recognition and validation of youth work, and address them with digital innovation

PARTNERS OF THE PROJECT

Croatian Youth Network (MMH): is the largest/most comprehensive alliance of youth organizations in Croatia, currently numbering more than 75 member organizations; local and national.
 
The University of Ljubljana (UL): is the oldest, largest and international university in Slovenia ranked among the top 500 universities according to the ARWU Shanghai scale. 

Out of the Box International (OTB): is a European Network present in 25 European countries bringing together different organizations advocating for more innovative, citizen-centered and solidarity policies on the European and city level. 

Österreichische Kinder und Jugendertretung verein (aufZAQ): brings expertise, knowledge and skills in mapping educational practices, creating quality standards for education, training, etc., and through the project will also present the state of work with young people in Austria.

National association of youth workers (NAPOR): embraces 44 organizations of youth and for youth which implement youth work throughout Serbia. 

The National Youth Council of Slovenia (MSS): is an umbrella organization linking all national youth organizations irrespective of their various interests, ideological or political orientations. In Slovenia the MSS has been leading the process of strengthening the youth sector nation-wide and has been strongly involved in all stages of youth policy creation since its establishment in 1990. 

WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN?

Blockchain is a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult or impossible to change, hack, or cheat the system. A blockchain is essentially a digital ledger of transactions that is duplicated and distributed across the entire network of computer systems on the blockchain. Blockchain allows personal data to stay personal to the learner. 
Literature: Blockchain in Education - Science for Policy report by the Joint Research Centre; Grech & Camilleri (2017.), European Commission
More about Blockchain How Blockchain Could Impact Education in 2020 and Beyond

MAIN PROJECT RESULTS:

  • Analyze key issues in partner countries related to youth work recognition and validation;
  • Develop quality framework based on qualitative and quantitative analysis of educational practices;
  • Build 1 blockchain platform; 
  • Include at least 25 organizations in the pilot training certification process, and at least 50 certified trainings on the blockchain platform; 
  • Implement a quality advocacy plan on quality of youth work and sustainable innovative solutions;

IMPLEMENTATION

1) Kick off meeting was held from 9th of 11th January 2023. in Novi Sad. Representatives from each partner organization attended the meeting. Meeting was dedicated to fine tune time frame of the project and each of the planned activities and to get common understanding of responsibilities of each organization concerning technical and financial matters and reporting.

2) Analyze key issues in partner countries related to youth work recognition and validation.

3) Development of quality framework - This brochure provides an introduction to the Quality Framework within the Erasmus+ project „Blockchained Youth Work“. The following describes how the Framework was created, how it is structured and how it can be applied in practice within the project’s life cycle and beyond. In addition, a self evaluation tool for course providers in youth work is included.

4) Country Reports - This brochure provides an overview on educational procedures, training opportunities and career paths in the field of youth work in Austria, Belgium, Croatia and Serbia. It is  based on research, analysis, interviews and an online survey conducted in the EU-project „Blockchained Youth Work“. The results were implemented in a Quality Framework for youth work trainings.

5) Youth work trainings and digital certificates - In the course of the EU project "Blockchained Youth Work", a quality framework of the youth work trainings was developed. This development and the further implementation of the project were based on country reports and key findings of an online survey among 236 youth workers in the participating countries. This brochure summarises the most interesting findings.

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7) Second partners meeting was held from 13th of 15th December 2023. in Vienna.