The first edition of the Enter! long-term training course (LTTC) was an innovative complementary training for youth workers that are active in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The main rationale for the course was to prepare youth workers to work with young people on tackling questions on unequal opportunities, discrimination, exclusion and violence, by promoting more access to social rights.
This long-term training course aimed at developing the competences of youth workers/youth leaders to contribute to combating the social exclusion of young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods through the development of concrete projects.
This long-term training course aimed at developing the competences of youth workers/youth leaders to contribute to combating the social exclusion of young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods through the development of concrete projects.
The first edition of the Enter! training for youth workers developed a lot of new knowledge and generated a lot of evidence for the situation, needs and challenges of young people in relation to social inclusion by bringing together people who maybe otherwise would never put their heads together.
The LTTC has proven once more the value of investing in the education and training of intermediaries that can and do multiply their learning to wider target groups, whether colleagues in their organisations, the communities where they are located or specific young people that benefit from their projects.
It opened a discussion in the youth field about access to social rights and provided innovation by linking youth workers to other services in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. It contributed to supporting young people to access their social rights and created a pool of information and feedback about the situation regarding access to social rights in Europe. The participants - project leaders developed their capacity for working systematically on the question of social rights, building projects with and for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
The LTTC consisted of the following main activities:
Pre-seminar online phase from 15 July- 20 September 2009
First Residential seminar from 20 September to 1st October 2009
First project phase and e-learning from October 2009 to September 2010
Second residential seminar from 26 September 2010 to 6th October 2010
Second project phase and e-learning from October 2010 to Spring 2011
Evaluation seminar in Spring 2011
An external evaluation of the course was carried out providing an overview of final evaluation conclusions and recommendations to be used by the institutional partners in the further development of this kind of work on access to social rights of young people. The evaluation fed the preparation and implementation process with observations from the ongoing evaluation process that helped to improve the training offer and the effectiveness of the LTTC for the participants. The formative dimension of the evaluation provided the organisers of other activities within the overall Enter! Project with information they could use in the preparation of effective activities.
Read more about the first Enter! Long-term training course in the course documentation:
In the first years of the Enter! project, several thematic seminars were held at the European Youth Centres to develop a comprehensive understanding of the realities of young people in disadventaged neighbourhoods. An overview of the reports from these activities can be found here:
Seminar “Gender equality in youth projects” (2010)
European Youth Centre Strasbourg, 23 – 27 June 2010
The seminar on gender equality in youth projects, held in Strasbourg in June 2010, deepened the work done by youth sector of the council of Europe gender “matters” and gender based violence, with a special focus on gender equality in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The seminar made several proposals for inclusion of a gender equality dimension in the Enter! and in the projects set up by the LTTC participants.
Consultative Meeting on Youth Information and Counselling (2010)
European Youth Centre Budapest, 14-18 June 2010
The consultative meeting on youth information and counselling held in Budapest in June 2010, discussed ways to improve access to information for young people and youth workers in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, including the role of young people in producing and providing information. Links were made with the LTTC through some projects of participants; very interesting examples of successful synergies between youth work and youth information were provided, among others, by ERYICA (the European Youth Information and Counselling Agency) and by JES, a project on recognition of young people’s competences in Antwerp, Brussels and Gent (Belgium).
Expert Seminar on "New Ways of Participation in Multicultural Youth Work" (2010)
European Youth Centre Budapest, 14 -18 June 2010
New ways of participation in multicultural youth work were shared and discussed at the seminar in Budapest in June 2010. The programme and recommendations focused on the participation of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the ways to support un-recognised forms of participation while working towards equality in the access to existing structures and processes of youth participation.
Expert Seminar: Youth Policy Approaches for Access to Social Rights of Young People from Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods (2010)
European Youth Centre Strasbourg, 1 - 3 December 2010
The seminar aimed at identifying, reviewing and prioritising main issues and proposals to be taken up for a policy recommendation by the Committee of Ministers to the Member States and other areas of youth policy on social inclusion and access to social Rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This expert seminar followed five meetings within the Enter! project addressing issues related to access to social rights of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This expert seminar took the recommendations of the Enter! seminars as a starting point to explore how to integrate them into a policy document to the Committee of Ministers on the access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
Read more about the impact of the Enter! project in the study on impact and lessons learned from the Enter! project and the course documentation
Seminar “Gender equality in youth projects” (2010)
