The project was created by three small non-governmental organizations as a continuation to a

strategic project "TYPS - Training Youth to Plan Success" which was carried out in 2019. 

Given the success of TYPS project we saw the need to continue with new activities orientated

to fulfill the needs of young people as our target group. Main goal of "Out of the Box" project

is to provide young people and youth workers with the tools that would allow them to discover

their competences and make the best of them. Therefore, we offer leisure alternatives to the

dependency on devices, social networks and the internet. Instead, we offer an environment

where the participants are gradually involved and which facilitates mastering all the skills that

each individual possesses - mainly imagination and creativity.

The personal development program will be presented through a toolkit consisting of a series

of videos, good practices and  tool package useful for small organizations in similar conditions

to ours.  "Out of the Box" project partners are Ecocompartimos (Spain), GreenTin (Romania)

and ESTEKA (Poland)

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Program of the project

Project is international and it consists of three transnational meetings which are planned for a good implementation of the project.
1. Kick-off meeting in Toledo, Spain
2. Intermediate evaluation in Baia Mare, Romania
3. Final evaluation in Tarnobrzeg, Poland

The project is also composed of:
1. Three international trainings for 12 youth workers, 4 per country, one in Poland, one in Romania and another in Spain
2. A youth exchange "Blended mobility" in Romania for 30 participants, 8 youngsters per country and 2 supervisors per country
3. Three national trainings per country for 25 young people each, between 13 and 16 years old, in total 225 young people

4. Presentation of the project. An event to present the program created for other organizations and general public where the media will attend

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Target groups of the project

1. Youth workers from rural areas who are sometimes young people struggling with NEETs conditions and who decided to collaborate with the organization or because they came from another entity.
2. Young people between 13 and 16 years old who face demotivation and lack of interest in studies or professional development and risk ending up in NEETs group.

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Objective of the project
- Obtain better equipment and training for three small local NGOs
- Improve the work network and collaboration between the three organizations
- Improve the language skills as the project is also going to be written in Spanish

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