The Project
In various strategic documents the EU provided clear direction to encourage social inclusion, value diversity and promote equality of opportunities for young people (e.g. in the EU Youth Strategy and the Erasmus+ Inclusion and Diversity Strategy).
In addition, in many European countries these principles are at the basis of youth work.
However, there is always the need to reflect, re-evaluate and consequently improve our youth practices and policies that we as the youth work organisations have in our everyday practice. Youth work organisations’ leaders, educators, trainers and practitioners need to develop and continuously improve knowledge, skills and experience in order to meet the challenges that practice of inclusion, diversity and equality requires.
The main objective of the project EDI Go is to support youth organizations working with young people through the strengthening and improvement of internal good practices promoting equality, diversity and inclusivity (EDI practices).
This project anticipates developing the whole-organisational approach to reviewing one’s own EDI practices within different aspects of the organisation thus initiating organisational systematic change. The resources would thus support organisations working with young people to review the inclusive practices within their own organisations so diverse experiences and voices of all people are included in all aspects of their organisation. The project’s main beneficiaries are youth organizations and youth workers willing to include in their procedures and skills also those related to the EDI practices.
In order to achieve the project objetives, activities and resources are planned:
Focus groups and interviews
with young people and youth workers for the report “Key issues in applying EDI practices in youth organizations – experience from 5 EU countries”, a comparative research report in the form of publication that will present perspectives of young people and youth workers on what their equality, diversity and inclusion experiences are and on what are the main obstacles to their correct implementation.
Tool Box
“Resources for improvement of EDI practices using the whole-organizational approach” that will include Online assessment tool, EDI Charter Mark with recommendations, Good practice examples and Inclusive Language Guidelines.
Training curriculum
“EDI in my organization” on improving the EDI practices using the whole-organizational approach.
Training for trainers
package for improving EDI practices using the whole-organizational approach.
Training for youth workers and young people
on improving the EDI practices in 5 countries
International conference
and national promotion events
EDI online platform
with all the resources produced.
Online publication
“GOOD PRACTICES OF EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN ORGANIZATIONS” that will be a collection of 10 good practices examples on improving EDI in 5 countries.
