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The Youth Access to Grow (YAG) proposal aimed to improve the chances of young people with fewer opportunities in their participation in Erasmus + program actions, in particular, within the volunteer projects. The project stems from the reflection from the social entities about the real difficulties that these young people have in accessing the volunteer projects and about the little adaptation that these projects may have to accommodate a volunteer with some kind of difficulty. The project was structured based on the elements that can facilitate this access, pivoting on three points: the host projects, the people who are in charge of the tutoring and the preparation of the young people themselves. Thus, the project has created a network of entities that have reviewed existing tools and resources, have worked to adapt their host projects for young people with fewer opportunities and have promoted access to the network of new organizations interested organizations. It should be noted that the main purpose of the network is to create or adapt host projects that can explicitly accommodate young people with some kind of difficulty: social, training, economic, different capacities or geographical among others. The project has also had an important point in the training of the people in charge of the volunteers since it has been detected that an appropriate accompaniment to them according to their needs is essential. In this way, the entities have created training content and have trained the people in charge of tutoring for a better accompaniment, previous work on the situation of the young person and a more fluid and effective communication with the sending entity . The third actor from which the project pivots are the young people themselves, through the development of content for their preparation before departure and applying this preparation to a group of 10 young people per entity. The contents will be based on motivation, fears, expectations ... The project has also contemplated parallel actions, but with relevance for the effectiveness of the initiative: dissemination and promotion of the network to other entities, contact with the different National Agencies as well as the creation of a virtual space of content and tools related to inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities. The presentation of the first reception projects has also been contemplated.With all of this, we intend to ensure that there are defined projects that explicitly welcome young people with mere opportunities, that the people who will carry out the tutoring tasks are prepared and have direct contact with the referents in the sending country, that these people are prepared to make a proper accompaniment, that young people have an appropriate preparation phase to avoid project failure and make the most of this opportunity, that they know first hand the project where they will perform the service and that it is appropriate for them and, finally , disseminate and promote the initiative so that the number of entities that promote these adapted and quality projects increase more and more. The project has been carried out with a consortium formed by entities from different fields and different experience but with an explicit motivation to welcome / send young people with fewer opportunities. Organizations have shared functions and tasks equally based on their capabilities. From Coordination it has been guaranteed, through complete cooperation agreements and periodic communication, that the whole process has high quality standards.
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