DATE, is an Erasmus Key Action 2 project that will work towards the development of enhanced conception and knowledge in order to shape attitudes and promote empathy to drug abuse. The implementing partners of the project will share and discuss best practices in regards to drug awareness and prevention, utilizing their expertise and shared knowledge in the field to develop and make available a cohort of innovative tools that will contribute to holistic approaches to thwart drug abuse.
To that end, the Consortium will produce a series of interactive tools to generate a better understanding and concrete responses on the issue.
The DATE Project aims to provide a holistic approach to drug awareness and prevention by enhancing the power of education as the main focus to alert and prevent substance abuse.
Objectives
The DATE project seeks to:
Bring drugs awareness education to young digital citizens in their online environments
Provide the necessary training to front-line youth workers so they can harness these ubiquitous channels in their daily activities.
Assist in developing a holistic approach to drug awareness and prevention.
Compendium of interactive infographic resources:
A complete suite of 12 interactive infographic resources that address 3 core areas to raising drug awareness: Problem definition, Appropriate Response Actions and Prevalent Problems
In-Service Training Programme:
Provide the necessary training to front-line youth workers so they can harness these ubiquitous channels in their daily activities.
Peer training programme for young people:
A peer leadership programme to empower young people to become local advocates and contribute to the promotion of drug awareness as well as support their peers to understand the risks of drug use
Asociacion Cultural Ingalicia
Ingalicia was founded in 2007 to promote a spirit and community integration and to foster European culture awareness among the youth. Ingalicia is presented at local level as a tool to assist and support the implementation of non-formal education courses and improving knowledge of European labour system practices. We organise courses, visits and meetings, European events for public agencies on policies concerning youth, mobility, sports, local economic development, culture and cooperation with developing countries. We believe that transnational experience could offer young people the opportunity to grow within a European dimension through their personal and professional skills, so that they could become main actors of the European future.
Ballybeen Womens Centre (BWC)
For the past 35 years Ballybeen Womens Centre (BWC) has been developing and delivering quality services in an area of low and weak community infrastructure and objectively defined as disadvantaged. BWC promotes social inclusion by involving the most marginalised and disadvantaged groups in the community in the development and management of programmes to address their needs. BWC established the Peer Education Project (PEP) in 1992 and it is now the longest established Peer Education Project in NI. The PEP aims to support, educate and empower young people to make positive health and lifestyle choices through the development and delivery of a range of peer led programmes, one-to-one mentoring and a drop-in support service.
Future in Perspsective
Future In Perspective (FIP) works in the fields of youth development, adult education, vocational training, e-learning, digital media and social inclusion. The company specializes in the development of innovative educational materials and course-ware specifically targeted at non-mainstream educational providers. The company generally works to address the needs of those on the margins of society for whom traditional education and second chance education has failed. FIP places a particular emphasis on developing self-directed learning pathways to encourage the educational development of “Free Agent Learners”. FIP harnesses the latest technologies in its service offering building the skills of front-line youth professionals and volunteers enabling youth target group members to develop their key competences in unique action learning and blended learning environments.
CARDET
CARDET is one of the leading research and training centers in the eastern Mediterranean region with global expertise in project design and implementation, project management, training and e-learning. CARDET has completed numerous projects relating to the development of adult and vocational training initiatives in the areas of social work, innovation and entrepreneurship. Members of its team and board represent European and International Higher education institutions, training centers and international organizations, and have in-depth knowledge of the adult training sector and financial literacy area while CARDET focuses in the promotion of social justice and social progress. CARDET brings together an international team of experts with decades of global expertise in adult training, capacity building, curriculum development, social entrepreneurship, vocational training, design thinking, innovation, education research, evaluation, and human resource development.
Skills Elevation FHB
Skills Elevation FHB was founded in 2016 with a mission to provide an alternative educational methodology to support the social, emotional and cognitive development of marginalised groups and front-line educators to integrate new pedagogic approaches into their everyday practice. The company is committed to providing a creative space and a ‘living lab’ for educational innovation, experimentation and development with a view to offering new methodologies and resources to address persistent social, economic and integration issues that pertain in all EU Member States. FHB focuses on applying the expertise available to design and produce state-of-the-art learning and teaching materials using open-source technologies for both non-formal and informal settings.
PROPORTIONAL MESSAGE - ASSOCIACAO
Proportional Message is an association that supports people with disadvantaged backgrounds through the development of humanistic education values. We encourage people to engage in activities for social support, learning and inclusion, which comprise all monitoring, support, and research activities. We aim to meet the needs of adults and young people at risk, and we embrace activities of open education and social actions. Additionally, we provide training and support for youth workers and volunteers in several areas. Proportional Message fosters holistic development and carries out with a view to acquire and deepen knowledge and competences.
Project Overview
DATE, is an Erasmus Key Action 2 project that will work towards the development of enhanced conception and knowledge in order to shape attitudes and promote empathy to drug abuse. The implementing partners of the project will share and discuss best practices in regards to drug awareness and prevention, utilizing their expertise and shared knowledge in the field to develop and make available a cohort of innovative tools that will contribute to holistic approaches to thwart drug abuse.
To that end, the Consortium will produce a series of interactive tools to generate a better understanding and concrete responses on the issue.
Aim & Objectives
Aim The DATE Project aims to provide a holistic approach to drug awareness and prevention by enhancing the power of education as the main focus to alert and prevent substance abuse.
Objectives
The DATE project seeks to:
Bring drugs awareness education to young digital citizens in their online environments
Provide the necessary training to front-line youth workers so they can harness these ubiquitous channels in their daily activities.
Assist in developing a holistic approach to drug awareness and prevention.
Outputs
Compendium of interactive infographic resources:
A complete suite of 12 interactive infographic resources that address 3 core areas to raising drug awareness: Problem definition, Appropriate Response Actions and Prevalent Problems
In-Service Training Programme:
Provide the necessary training to front-line youth workers so they can harness these ubiquitous channels in their daily activities.
Peer training programme for young people:
A peer leadership programme to empower young people to become local advocates and contribute to the promotion of drug awareness as well as support their peers to understand the risks of drug use
Methodology
The project will pursue the development of youth-oriented innovative and interactive resources that respond to present-day realities and challenges and will enable young people to apply critical thought and reason on the issues at hand. Conceiving the prevalence digital tools and platforms in young people’s lives, the project will develop tools that will be visually appealing, engaging and informative for young people who will be able to access and benefit from them both online and offline.
Partners
