In 2023, DP was very active in its Erasmus+ funded partnership work. We welcomed 20 participants from Ireland, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Romania and Poland to Bru Moytura, Co. Sligo for our ‘Games 4 The Goals’ Training Course. This 7-day training course for youth workers, teachers and other educators focussed on developing skills and competences in the areas of gamification, Global Citizenship Education and the Sustainable Development Goals. As a result of the project, an ebook of activities used throughout the project including a series of games developed by the participants was published. This ebook can be found on our website.
In 2023, we received Erasmus+ Accreditation in the Field of Adult Education. This has enabled us to receive funding support to enhance the continuous professional development of staff members through EU exchanges. We have already hosted our first activities in this area and there are plans to organise more opportunities including training courses and job shadowing opportunities for staff.
DP continued to work on some longer term partnerships and began work on new partnership projects in 2023.
Our new project, Integrate, is a 2-year strategic partnership led by our friends in Meath Partnership and involving partners from 4 other countries: Austria (Auxillium), Cyprus (OTI Cyprus), Italy (Quality Culture) and Spain (European Learning Centre). The aim of the Integrate project is to support migrants from across the world to integrate into European communities, using Global Citizenship Education (GCE) approach to provide humanitarian support to community members to support them to thrive in their new countries. So far, the project is in the research phase and no participants have been recruited as yet. However, we will begin to offer opportunities through workshops in the coming months.
We are also continuing our work on United for Social Transformation (UxST). The aim of UxST is to promote the active participation of young people in democratic life, through the development of skills and competences and the creation of participatory proposals for a more inclusive, active and sustainable Europe. UxST is a two-year project due to be completed in May 2025. It involves partners from Spain, Lithuania, Italy and Portugal. Similarly, Youth in Europe (YinEU) is a two-year project set to be completed at the end of 2024. It involves partner organisations from Spain, Italy, Lithuania and Croatia. Its overall aim is raise awareness among youth leaders and young people on the importance of education on European citizenship, with special emphasis on the principles, values and functioning of the European Union, as a basis for democratic construction and active civic
participation. In 2023, we engaged approximately 80 participants over the course of the various events and opportunities related to both UxST and YinEU.
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