CREW – Creating Safe Workplaces for Youth through Youth Work
The project CREW – Creating Safe Workplaces for Youth through Youth Work aims to create safe workplaces for youth through youth work; it seeks to build and improve their resilience in their workplace. CREW uses innovative training methods and digital tools and focuses on youth workers as the driving force between youth and their effort to build up employment readiness, resilience and soft skills, such as adeptness, responsiveness and self-awareness.
The world of work is changing, and youth are particularly affected; their successful integration into the labour force and society is essential for the economy’s growth and social cohesion, including their individual economic forecasts and well-being. Investing in youth should be a top concern of our societies; they represent both present and potential employers and employees, allowing further development of a healthy work market. Apart from all the other reasons why it is vital for a society to give youth employment the utmost attention, it is also essential for social stability, inclusion and prosperity. Mobbing, bullying, discrimination and harassment experienced by youth in the workplace are undermined and diminished and not given appropriate attention. Youth is a huge resource in any country, and their problems must be solved first; CREW is a response to the need for youth to be trained to identify and fight these unhealthy behaviours.
Workplace harassment is a particularly serious and growing phenomenon. Still, in most EU countries, there is little awareness and even less legal protection against it. It covers all kinds of abuse, including mobbing, bullying, discrimination, and so on; behaviour that humiliates, degrades or damages a person’s well-being, value or dignity. Young workers are at particular risk because they lack experience, are generally unfamiliar with workplace procedures, and are unsure of their rights. Exposure to harassment results in different kinds of symptoms: irritability, chronic fatigue syndrome, anxiety, sleeping problems, cardiovascular problems, immune-deficiency diseases, and depression, eventually leading to social withdrawal, isolation, marginalisation, and of course, unemployment. All of the above adversely affect the victim’s performance at work and reduce their desire and ability to interact with others (WHO, Mental Health at Work, 2022).
CREW seeks to look deeper into the causes of unhealthy behaviours towards youth in the workplace, raising awareness, equipping youth workers with skills and competences in training youth on identifying, fighting and tackling such behaviours, and strengthening youth to be resilient and able to come out of such situations with the minimum costs. Through the effective cooperation in the CREW project among the countries of the EU, we want to hear, listen, and understand others, accept diversity, eradicate any form of bias through dialogue, teamwork, tolerance and compromise, and gain values that lead us to respect each other.
OBJECTIVES
The specific objectives of CREW are:
(SO1) To determine the elements of a safe workplace for youth and to examine different forms of unhealthy behaviours that affect youth in the workplace, such as Mobbing and Bullying (WP2),
(SO2) To develop tools that Youth Workers can use to boost young people’s emotional intelligence and resilience to prevent and combat unhealthy behaviours in the workplace (WP2),
(S03) To provide Youth Workers with an opportunity for continuing professional development through e-learning and training (WP3) on the topic of the creation of Safe Workplaces for Youth,
(SO4) To disseminate and further exploit the project results and highlight the contribution of the Erasmus+ Programme in Youth Work (WP4),
(SO5) To apply state-of-the-art management methodologies and exploit the partnership’s transnational dimension and the partners’ diverse backgrounds to implement the activities and enrich the Youth sector (WP1).
PROJECT RESULTS
WP2 – Youth Work Approaches to Create Safe Workplaces for Youth through Youth Work investigates the elements of a safe workplace for youth and examines different forms of unhealthy behaviours that affect them, following the development of tools that Youth Workers can use to boost the emotional intelligence and resilience of young people to prevent and combat unhealthy behaviours. It includes the CREW Intensive Course Plan on Youth Work Approaches to Create Safe Workplaces for Youth, along with its content and pilot testing, and the ToT on the CREW Intensive Course Plan.
Access the CREW Research Study on the elements of a safe workplace for youth here.
Access the CREW Intensive Course Plan here.
WP3 – E-Learning Suite puts the generated knowledge, the innovative methodology and the produced materials into practice to achieve true impacts during the project’s duration and pave the way for easy continuation beyond its lifespan. The CREW E-Learning Suite will be designed and developed, on which the digitalisation of the content of WP2 will be incorporated. Youth workers will apply the CREW Intensive Course Plan with youth in an interesting Blended Learning Activity.
WP4 – Dissemination and Exploitation is important as it enhances its visibility and paves the way to creating synergies with related initiatives on local/regional, national and especially EU levels. Results in this WP include the logo, branding, the project website and social media channels, a Dissemination and Exploitation Plan partner’s dissemination activities, and a Final Conference in Cyprus.
CREW Newsletter #1
CREW Newsletter #1_GR
Partnership
SEAL CYPRUS – Cyprus (Coordinator)
ARISTA DEKA – Cyprus
ASOCIACION DE INNOVACION EMPRENDIMIENTO Y TECNOLOGIAS DE LA INFORMACION Y LA COMUNICACION (INNETICA), Spain
IASIS, Greece
REZOS BRANDS, Greece
SGS TECNOS SA, Spain
Visit the CREW Website for more information: https://projectcrew.eu/