Airbag of Erasmus+
A mobile application helping and informing youth workers and volunteers how to react in emergency situations during Erasmus+ projects
erasmus+ program
The Project “Airbag of Erasmus+” is supported by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Commission. Erasmus+ is the EU’s programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe. http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/about_en
AIRBAG+ is a KA2 Strategic Partnership for Innovation in the field of Youth.
The Actions supported under the KA2 are expected to bring positive and long-lasting effects on the participating organisations, on the policy systems in which such Actions are framed as well as on the organisations and persons directly or indirectly involved in the organised activities.
This Key Action is expected to result in the development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices at organisational, local, regional, national or European levels.
In the specific case of AIRBAG+, through a KA2 Partnership, it will be improved the quality of the Erasmus+ KA1, especially youth exchanges and training courses. As for volunteering projects, the reference is the European Solidarity Corps programme. https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en
Airbag of Erasmus+
preventing risks
Improving Erasmus + projects from the point of view of quality, solution of accidents and risk prevention
providing skills
Providing youth workers with the necessary skills to deal with emergency / accident / risky situations in a successful manner, minimizing the consequences
safety and reliability
Giving to young people who participate in mobility projects greater guarantees of safety and reliability
This project is part of Key Action 2 Strategic Partnership for Innovation, with a duration of 20 months and a consortium made up of five organizations from Spain, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria. The purpose of this project is to improve the quality of Erasmus + projects, improving the skills of youth workers, providing them with practical and useful advice and tools based on past incidents lived and solved by youth workers and young participants of the Erasmus+ KA1 and the European Solidarity Corps.
The solutions provided covers a series of unpleasant situations that could be lived during a Youth mobility (whether long or short term) project, such as serious injuries, floods, fires, violence, allergic attacks, travel delays and all those accidents that are not contemplated in the official documents and guides. For the following objectives, AIRBAG+ collects the experience of youth workers for youth workers incurring in issues during in their daily work:
- Improving Erasmus + projects from the point of view of quality, solution of accidents and risk prevention.
- Providing youth workers with the necessary skills to deal with emergency / accident / risky situations in a successful manner, minimizing the consequences.
- Giving to young people who participate in mobility projects greater guarantees of safety and reliability.
partners
deses 3
Coordinator of the project, Asociación Deses-3 acts in the Youth field to guarantee the integral development of young people, especially if in a difficult condition. To achieve local Youth empowerment, the association organizes and promotes, as both hosting and sending entity, Erasmus+ KA1 and KA2 activities, mainly youth exchanges, training courses, volunteering projects and all those non-formal educational events animated by its youth workers.
dafo
is a consulting and training company based in Spain, whose mission is to improve the competitiveness of the European society and the development of the organizations with lower resources, through management and implementation of international projects, training and creation of transnational partnerships. The company was born in 2014 with a focus on designing training events and managing facilities, to promote sustainability and acquisition of personal and transversal skills.
adel
Slovakian organization, which creates opportunities for young people who would like to be active, try and learn something new and gain experience and knowledge for personal as well as professional development and growth. ADEL’s primary target group are young people between 13 – 30 years old interested in youth participation, intercultural dialogue, active citizenship, entrepreneurship, sport, healthy lifestyle, peace-building, but also art and culture. All of its projects and activities are based on non-formal education, experiential and intercultural learning, social inclusion and active participation.
s4yd
is an Association entirely dedicated to the development of youth. Its mission is to stimulate and sustain young people’s active, civic and responsible participation to the educational, social, cultural and economic environment of the communities they live in. For its well-functioning, this association relies on the principles of responsible volunteering, self-motivation and self-determination, active civic participation, taking initiative, involvement and cooperation. The set of activities developed by S4YD points to concrete objectives such as the development and support for teenagers and youngsters.
narodno chitalishte "sv. sv. kiril i metodij - 1882"
is a unique institution with a special place in the history of the Bulgarian society. As one of the first, the Chitalishte presents at least three specific institutional features – sustainability, legitimacy and flexibility that – combined with its historical experience – provide it with the required prerequisites for responding to the current needs of the Bulgarian society. Thanks to their unrivalled social prestige and geographic proliferation, the Chitalishta have a tremendous potential to contribute to the satisfaction of certain cultural and educational needs, and to promote community participation.
the mobile app available for android and ios
Incidents such as serious accidents, suicide attempting, deaths, psychotic outbreaks, loss of documentation, violence, gender violence unfortunately occur in the projects where young people are participating. Those problematic situations can reverse into worse ones if the youth worker or youth leader or even the staff members responsible for the event are not ready to react in front of such unpleasant situations. And from the expressed concern, and also life-lived experiences of youth workers and youth organizations representatives trying to deal with incidents, it has borne the idea of The Airbag of Erasmus+.
The main outcome of the project will be AIRBAG+, a mobile application, for both IOS and Android, and a web platform that will centralize all the information that Youth entities working in the frame of Erasmus+ programme need to have in their pocket when it comes to know about action protocols in emergency situations, incidents or potential conflicts prevention during a youth mobility, such as a training course, a youth exchange or a volunteer program.
AIRBAG+ is the innovative solution designed from the years of experience not only of the project partners, but all those active organizations in the field of Youth that sometimes, unfortunately, incurred in risky situations for them and also their participants. With this means, project organizers can improve the quality of the Youth mobility event, guaranteeing safety and risk prevention to their young participants.
AIRBAG+ APP - Pilot test
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help us designing the app
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It’s extremely important more cases to be described in order to help more youth workers to know how to react and solve emergency cases.
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project's roadmap
Medina del Campo, Spain
Start of the project
01 March 2020
Medina del Campo, Spain
Online
Online kick-off meeting of partners
16 April 2020
Online
All partner countries
Gathering of information
Collection of content on problems and solutions related to mobilities of young individuals
March 2020 - September 2020
All partner countries
Online
Second online transnational meeting of partners
28 September 2020
Online
All partner countries
Analysis of collected information
October 2020 - December 2020
All partner countries
All partner countries
Digital development of the App and the Web Platform
October 2020 - January 2021
All partner countries
All partner countries
Execution of the App beta version's pilot test
February 2021 - July 2021
All partner countries
Bucarest, Romania
Third transnational meeting of partners
June 2021
Bucarest, Romania
All partner countries
Multiplier events
May 2021 - August 2021
All partner countries
All partner countries
Pilot test report and App improvement
August 2021 - October 2021
All partner countries
Medina del Campo, Spain
End of the project
31 October 2021
Medina del Campo, Spain
Frequently asked questions
AIRBAG+ will be free from both Android and IOS. You’ll just need to download it!
Of course! Even if the APP has been thought for Youth workers, organizers of Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps mobilities and their participants, anyone who is interested in knowing more about the solutions to problems that may happen during a Youth Exchange, Taring Course or a Volunteering experience will be able to easily read and interpret the information collected from the project partners.
Airbag+ consortium of partners counts with 4 NGOs that deal with Youth from their very foundation. Being also sending and hosting organizations of Youth Exchanges, Training Courses and Volunteering projects, made them truly experienced about the Erasmus+ programme, its actions and target groups. As partners in some of those above mentioned short and long term mobilities, they decided to fight their shared Youth workers’ frustration in front of certain problems involving their young participants and got the idea of jointly creating an APP that could collect the most diverse issues and solutions to those.
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