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The research project „Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe (GOETE)“ has asked the young people involved in the study to express their own views on their transitions in the education system. Together with the researchers the young people have produced a variety of film formats on what education means to them. The outcome are a wealtch of different approaches from video interviews to documentaries on a typical school day to a 30 minute fiction movie.
The results of the evaluation have been published in a report. IRIS e.V., in cooperation with the Institute of Education at the University of Tübingen, was entrusted with the evaluation of the mentoring project „Friends create success“ (Caritas Stuttgart). Within the project, mentorship was conceptually designed as a „support of equals“. Based on a similar status by small age difference between the peer and the mentee, an innovative monitoring structure for young secondary school students was implemented. Die Evaluation wurde im …
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IRIS e.V. is the scientific monitoring of the ESF – project “Praxiswerkstatt – Praxisorientierte Berufliche Kompetenzfeststellung“ at Offenburg. The project is a cooperation between the CCI BildungsZentrum and the Gewerbe Akademie Offenburg. It is financed by the ESF, the Federal Employment Agency and the Office of School and Education – Ortenau. The goal of the project is to provide an active support for pupils during the progress of occupational orientation. This is why the project enables a realistic contact with …
Since January 2008, IRIS in cooperation with the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Tübingen, is in charge of the evaluation of the pilot project „Friends create success.“
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IRIS Newsletter 1/2007 published Youth and Participation is the topic of the latest IRIS Newsletter. Participation of chidren and young people has become the number one topic in youth policies. But, what does it mean? Who is participating in what? Does participation make a difference with regard to social integration or is it just a cover-up of the exclusion of young people from decisions that concern them? The new IRIS newsletter is dealing with these questions before the background of …
At the outset of this project potential partner cities were invited to join a network in which young people would be empowered to make a contribution to civic life in their cities; to make recommendations to statutory bodies; and help to develop forms of governance that encourage the active participation of young people. The idea behind this was simple: young people are the future and, as such, they should be the source of solutions to local issues. The „Young Citizens‘ Project“ ended up …
Youth and Participation: URBACT Young Citizens‘ Project Weiterlesen »
Monitoring and evaluation of youth social work at a vocational school From 2001 to 2004, IRIS has been in charge of the evaluation of an innovative approach to support young people during their compulsory vocational year („BVJ – Berufsvorbereitungsjahr“ in German). The evaluation was based on two main pillars: the formative evaluation of the process of implementation of this new type of social service a longitudinal study on the processes of social integration of the students of the vocational preparation …
Details of Youth Social Work in the Vocational Preparation Year Weiterlesen »
Contrary to many training schemes, performing arts offer young women and men the opportunity to present themselves from a less „problem-oriented“ side: in fact not as an „early school-leaver“ or „under-achiever“, but as a musician, an actor/actress and so on. Before this background, this research project aimed at learning more about the special learning processes happening in performing arts projects for „disadvantaged“ young people which for working purposes we had „Secondary learning effects…“ Research questions and design: Which active role …