Youth worker’s mobility – BE smART!

Project BE smART! is a training for youth workers, which is dedicated to the development and strengthening of visual – spatial or. imaginative-creative intelligence with the help of 5 techniques and methods from art (drawing, painting, collage, architecture and sculpture) for young people that we work with or we get in touch. The human mind is made up of different intelligences. According to H. Gardner, these are linguistic, mathematical-logical, visual-spatial, musical, interpersonal, internal personal, as a sense of nature and existential center (https://isio.acs.si/doc/N-485-1.pdf). K. Geržan defines them as rational, social, emotional, spiritual, intuitive, imaginative-creative, physical-motor, aesthetic and intuition of irony (95 tez za izhod iz slepe ulice vzgoje in izobraževanja, 2019). With the project, we want to raise awareness of multi-intelligence and put the young person at the forefront, adapt methods and ways of working to their needs, strengthen their weaker intelligences and support the development of their strong intelligences. 

The purpose of the project is to train youth workers to use these methods in working with young people and thus influence their development and consequently the development of the society. 

Objectives: 

1. Develop a holistic approach to young people to strengthen the visual – spatial or. imaginative-creative intelligence through various types of artistic methods and techniques (drawing, painting, collage, architecture and sculpture). We will achieve this goal by conducting a training for youth workers (27 participants), who will learn about and master 5 methods and techniques of using art to strengthen this intelligence. 
2. Transfer methods and techniques of art through non-formal to formal education (for teachers and professors). We will achieve this goal by carrying out joint activitiy within the training for the transfer of knowledge about methods and techniques of art, which are also useful for formal education for teachers and professors from the regional environment. 

The mobility project for youth workers-training responds very well to the needs of all partners involved in the project and the mobility guidelines for youth workers, as it enables youth workers to develop and strengthen competencies to perform their role in youth work.

Project “BE smART!” will carry out a training activity in the scope of 4 content days, 2 days for travelling. The training is intended for youth workers and youth leaders, for learning and developing competencies in the framework of visual space or. imaginatively creative intelligences. The main work activities will be learning artistic methods and techniques (drawing, painting, collage, architecture and sculpture) for use in youth work, as well as methods for monitoring learning effects and performing self-reflections. 

The training will include 13 partners from 12 countries (Spain, Romania, Greece, Italy, Northern Macedonia, Turkey, Portugal, Latvia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia, two organizations from Lithuania and Slovenia). Two organizations come from Lithuania, but carry out the majority of their activities in different environments (Vilnius, Kaunas) and with different target groups. Each partner will contribute two participants, 24 participants from abroad and 3 from the Slovenian team, a total of 27 participants and a trainer.