Project name: Mobilising Youth and Youth Service Talent through Immersive Co-design
Project acronym: MYSTIC
Objectives
Train youth workers and volunteers as ‘Community Mediators’
Train young people with fewer opportunities to become ‘Community Leaders’
Set up ‘Co-Design Labs’ for them to work together to address problems of trans-national yet local interest
Consolidate project results and learning in an ‘Open Toolkit
Activities
Develop a blended training programme
Pilot and evaluate the programme
Run Community Co-Labs and action research projects in them
Deliver outreach, dissemination and sustainability activities
Project Beneficiaries
Professional youth workers/volunteers
Young people aged 18 to 30 with fewer opportunities
Youth organisations, policy-makers, research communities
Outputs
MYSTIC developmental and training programme combining on-line Foundation course and interactive game, with an immersive residential mobility programme incorporating interactive workops, case based practical exercises and an ‘outward bound’ element to challenge participants and get them to think out of the box
4 Co-Labs set up in different EU locations
‘Open Toolkit’ – including Catalogue of good practice cases on what works, policy recommendations, design templates and tools and detailed evaluation results
Project partners
AGID ASSOCIACAO GODINHELA -INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO– Portugal