The Foundation for Partnership and Civil Society Development
The Foundation participates in the final conference and meeting of the international project "Unexpressed talent"
The Representative of the Foundation, Senior Associate for European Projects Andrej Pevec, participates these days at the final meeting and final conference of the "Unexpressed talent" project in Brussels and Mons in Belgium.
This is a project in which the Foundation, together with international partners from France, Italy, Slovenia, Portugal, Belgium and Spain, conducts a comparative study on social exclusion of young people and works on the development of instruments that can be used by teachers, students and students of such organizations and institutions. With the idea of detecting and warning of the risks and prevention of social exclusion. At the final meeting, the results of research and recommendations will be presented together with the project results. An upgraded set of ready-to-use and distribute tools will be presented.
Event Report
At the final meeting, final project results were discussed including innovative tools and suggestions for exercises and instruments for working with young people on social exclusion and early school dropout. A the title of the project, these tools also contain examples of exercises that help young people to get to know the talents they have and understand how to evaluate, use them and improve them.
All project materials will be available in 6 European languages - Italian, Slovenian, French, Portugese, Belgian, Croatian and Spanish. These tools will be ready-to-use for teachers, youth workers, students and organizations and institutions who wish to detect and warn at risk of social exclusion adn prevent it.
At the final conference in Brussels and local conference in Mons, the results of research, examples of exercises and tools were presented, together with experiences from each partner country. In addition, one of the project results are the recommendations written with the aim of lobbying on European and national level, for changing the approach to the mentioned problems and for a better involvement of non-profit organizations and informal education due to their impact at the moment. The experience of Portugal, Croatia and Italy was presented as examples of good practice.
The UNEXPRESSED TALENT project aims to reduce the social and educational exclusion of young people in school age (14-24 years) as well as NEETs, ie unemployed, uneducated and unqualified young people (15-25 years) by improving their active participation in Civil society and increasing their personal responsibility. The project is funded from the European Union through ERASMUS +.