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Youth work study trips, all costs paid
As City of Tomorrow (STIR Foundation), we are building up a network of contacts who (want to) work with young people and wish to nurture or develop themselves with knowledge, insights and methods at an international level. Partly thanks to our European partner network and the projects we submit through the Erasmus+ subsidy channel, we can regularly organize trips that you can join. These have a duration of 4 to 12 days and take place somewhere in Europe. The trips are fun, constructive, informative and connecting.
During the trips, insights arise that we share or develop together and take back home. There we try to apply them in our daily activities towards young people. Often there are trips that young people can participate in themselves. In this way they develop spatial and cultural insights that are important for their personal development.
If you are interested in this approach and occasionally want to join as a leader, participant or coordinator or a local group, please let us know, including background and motivation via email to jp@stadvanmorgen.com . We will then regularly inform you about travel options, programs in the Netherlands or otherwise. This is particularly of interest to expat partners that develop themselves as newcomers in the country and help foreign youth integrate themselves in new social, cultural environments.
Social media impact on our youth
The Techrouter project involves 30 youth workers from 9 different countries. They came together in the Netherlands to discuss the impact of social media on our younger generations and how to create a learning mechanism to safeguard them from all the negative aspects (core value: safety and respect). Especially the early teens are vulnerable since they are still in a competitive growing up phase in which they are highly innocent, influenceable and unaware of the impact of their actions on others. In times when they should be building a positive self image the tendency is to be guided by the abundant fakeness of social media. No parental or adult embedding is there to help them because their actions are mostly invisible, they have no reference models and parents are often inexperienced in this world of virtual interactions.
A whole week of creative interaction is making the difference. Here are some photos of the process. The gathering is financed via Erasmus+. The objective is to create something that can be used in the different countries and cultures during several months, gathering feedback and linking with new programs.
Social media, the risks and benefits for young people
Our STIR consortium gained support from the Erasmus+ European subsidy platform to develop a guideline for proper use of social media by young people. It is being co-created by the young people themselves, youth workers and other professionals from various countries. The project relates to the core human values of Sustainocracy from a health and safety point of view, and also developing awareness and our shared responsibility to care for each other, especially our youngest and up-growing generations for the risks and opportunities of such media.
Soon we will issue a survey among our young generations to respond about their use of and experiences with social media. We engage with youth workers, schools and communities that wish to participate in the project, which runs for the major part of 2023 for its development and . Just contact us if interested through jp@stadvanmorgen.com.
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 