On Friday, 11 December 2021, the Brežice Youth Centre hosted an international conference on the quality and professionalisation of youth work. The conference was the final event of the Erasmus+ strategic partnership project "Supporting Evidence-based Education of Youth Workers" to raise the quality of youth work. It was addressed to youth workers from Croatia and Slovenia. Representatives of the project partners, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Rijeka (UNIRI), the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (IDIZ) and the University of Ljubljana (UL), informed the youth workers present about the results of the project, which analysed the curricula of Slovenian and Croatian higher education institutions and asked them to identify which curricula include topics directly related to youth work and the competences of youth workers. The findings of the researchers point to a critical lack of educational content on youth work in both countries.

The second international project meeting took place on 13 July 2021, unfortunately not in person, but via the Zoom videoconferencing tool. The meeting was organised by Vytautas Magnus University of Kaunas. During a few intense hours of socialising, we were first welcomed by the project leader, Prof. Dr. Tomaž Deželan. Zemartas Budrys from MB Homo Eminens presented the results related to [...]

The purpose of the training in the second week of December 2022 was to train participants from the University of Ljubljana, Creative Hub Croatia and Out of the Box International to properly engage in the process of repurposing spaces and to use the features of the developed model for repurposing educational buildings and its implementation with the manual (IO3). Unfortunately, we have had [...]

The purpose of the multiplier event in Škofja Loka on 15 December 2022 was to present and disseminate the results of the project, in particular the model and the manual for the repurposing of educational buildings and premises in higher education institutions, to local, regional and national key stakeholders, such as decision-makers at government level, heads of faculties, other heads of higher education institutions and other interested participants. The [...]