RISIV stands for “Youth Impact Volunteering for Social Impact”. The main objective of this initiative is to provide a model for social inclusion through a design and testing process. We will develop didactic and practical materials that will support young people in managing their own social impact volunteering projects. The results of the project will be developed over a period of 24 months, between March 2021 and February 2023.
The young people are able to detect the origin of a social problem, but they lack the necessary tools to devise a possible solution or to bring together different social actors to implement it. We therefore want them to have the opportunity to “take action” and, thinking in their own neighbourhoods, to develop feasible local solutions that they can implement in their own neighbourhoods. RISIV will promote this engagement by offering non-formal methodologies and practical resources to implement a SIP.
The working teams (composed of youth workers, facilitators and “youth leaders”) will have to implement a SIP related to community services, volunteering and non-formal learning. They will define which project they want to implement and will carry it out with the support of all partners in the different countries. The draft SIPs will make use of the tools and training material developed within the project until they reach their final version.
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Dates: 01/03/2021 al 31/08/2023
Partner entities:
- Foster community cohesion and active citizenship, especially among young people.
- To provide an innovative model of social inclusion by involving young people in community services through local and structured SIPs (Social Impact Projects).
- Develop new support and job orientation material for youth workers.
- Promote the participation of young people as active agents in the management and planning of social impact volunteering projects in their own locality.
- To provide useful training for young people in the labour market that promotes social inclusion and citizenship in general.
- Educate and motivate young people to have initiative and tools to address the causes of social problems they visualise in their respective communities.
- Transnational online coordination meetings (March to June 2021).
- Initial research to deepen the knowledge of SIPs (Social Impact Projects).
- Conducting interviews with young people and youth workers (September to November 2021)
- First transnational coordination meeting in Marseille (November 2021).
- Development of the first didactic material – A pedagogical roadmap allowing to deepen the knowledge about SIPs, the competences to be acquired and why they are important (May 2021 to January 2022).
- Development of the Curriculum for Youth Workers (January 2022 to January 2023)
- Second transnational training meeting in Spain (July 2022)
- Creation of a package of theoretical and practical resources for youth workers to guide them in managing social impact projects (February 2022 to March 2023)
- Third transnational coordination meeting in UK (January 2023)
- Development of the last two training materials: digital learning content and guidelines for the development of SIPs for interested entities (March to August 2023)
- Last transnational coordination meeting in Italy (July 2023).
- Final phase of compilation of testing results and improvements of the created materials (May to July 2023).
- Dissemination events of the project in its partner countries (July 2023).
- Project review and finalisation (June to August 2023).
