Projekt 21st CENTURY
- 19. 9. 2025
- Minut čtení: 6
Aktualizováno: 24. 2.
Project 21st CENTURY - Coaching Europe’s Navigation Towards Understanding Reactivating Youth is project under KA2 Cooperation partnership in Youth supported by Dům zahraniční spolupráce in framework of Erasmus+ program. The project runs from September 15, 2023 until November 14, 2025 and involves six partners – Zeměkoule, z.s. (as the applicant), EduEra (Slovakia), Coobra (Austria), PRAXIS (Greece), Strauss APS (Italy), and Rescogita (Estonia). Objectives are to positively contribute to the accomplishment of the 2027 youth goal - mental health and wellbeing, to introduce social coaching into daily youth work local practices by enhancing the services youth NGOs can give to young people, to train 20 young people into social coaching, coaching supervision and training coaches and deploy the practice locally and to document the process in order to multiply the practice at European level.
The results of the project are to trained 20 youth workers as social coaches, supervisors and trainers of coaches, positively impacted minimum 260 young people at local level through local practice, locally train at least 100 young people in using and adopting coaching tools, digital learning process on organisational management processes to establish local partnerships between the youth and public sector and 1 animated documentary to document the process, along with 3 handbooks for replication of the activities.
Publication: 21st Century Competences and Coaching
📢 A new publication is out!
21st Century Competences and Coaching We are excited to share the result of our international collaboration – a handbook that connects the themes of coaching, mental health, and the development of young people's competences for the 21st century.
✅ Why coaching makes sense in youth work
✅ How to build the key competences of the future
✅ Practical tools, self-reflection, and real-life inspiration
📘 The publication is intended for youth workers, coaches, and anyone who wants to support young people in their growth, resilience, and personal strength. Organizations from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Austria, Slovakia, and Greece contributed to the publication as part of a project supported by the Erasmus+ program.
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Czech version
Publication: 21st Century Social Coaching Supervisors’ Companion
We are excited to share the result of our international collaboration – a handbook that connects the themes of coaching, mental health, and the development of young people's competences for the 21st century.
✅ Why coaching makes sense in youth work
✅ How to build the key competences of the future
✅ Practical tools, self-reflection, and real-life inspiration
📘 The publication is intended for youth workers, coaches, and anyone who wants to support young people in their growth, resilience, and personal strength. Organizations from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Austria, Slovakia, and Greece contributed to the publication as part of a project supported by the Erasmus+ program.
Download the English version
Czech version
Publication: 21st Century The European Qualification Framework (EQF): Youth Coaching Competence Framework Development
This publication presents a clear and practical competence framework for youth coaching and social coaching in Europe.
It was developed within the project 21st Century – Coaching Europe’s Navigation Towards Understanding and Reactivating Youth and connects coaching practice with the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) to strengthen the quality, professionalism, and recognition of youth work across Europe.
📘 What you will find in the publication:
• 6 key competence areas of youth coaching• Practical indicators of knowledge, skills, and professional attitudes• Description of two levels of practice (EQF levels 5–7)• Reflective questions, tools, and practice-based examples• Recommendations for professional development, evaluation, and supervision• Alignment of youth work standards with the European system of qualifications
The authors of the publication are Marcus Vrecer & Petra Papierniková, who provide through this material a solid foundation for the professionalization of youth coaching and for enhancing the quality of services for young people.
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Czech version
The animated Documentary
Videodocumentary: A series of 10 short videos introducing the topic of Youth Coaching in the 21st Century with the goal to To document the whole process in an audiovisual format and To disseminate widely the concept, process and outputs of the project. One of the main goals is also To introduce social coaching into daily youth work local practices by enhancing the services youth NGOs can give to young people: To showcase real case studies and local stories from the local actions on how social coaching was implemented and demonstrate the enhancement of services delivered to youth, including measurable indicators of accomplished wellbeing and goal setting.
Webinars
Webinar 1
Agile team and task management.
We already implemented Webinar 1 Agile team and task management. The dates of webinar were 9May, 13May, 10June and 17September, timing from 17 - 19:30 CET, with homeworks and tasks offline. The overall purpose of the 1st webinar on Agile was to modernize youth organizations' management practices while building stronger local partnerships between youth and public sectors, ultimately supporting more effective youth coaching implementation.
We are convinced that Agile principles particularly suit youth work because they emphasize adaptability, continuous improvement, and responsive service delivery - all crucial elements in working with young people. This 12 hours webinar( including homework) was designed to support the overall project goal of modernizing youth work practices and improving service delivery through contemporary management approaches.
Webinar 2
Participants learnt about SCRUM educational management, which is a method of project management specifically designed for educational contexts. They learnt about the different
elements of SCRUM, including sprints, backlogs, and daily stand-ups, and how this approach can be used to manage educational projects more effectively.
Overall, attending these webinars can provide youth workers with a broad understanding of different methods of
organisational governance and management, and how they can be applied in different contexts.
Webinar 3 Holacracy
Participants learnt about holacracy, another method of organisational governance that
focuses on self-organisation and distributed authority. They learnt about the role of circles, roles, and tensions in
holacracy, and how this approach can help organisations to be more agile and adaptive. Overall, attending these webinars can provide youth workers with a broad understanding of different methods of
organisational governance and management, and how they can be applied in different contexts.
Webinar 4: Sociocracy
Participants learnt about the principles and practices of sociocracy, a method of
governance that emphasises equal participation and decision-making within organisations. They learnt about the
different elements of sociocracy, including circles, consent-based decision-making, and double-linking, and how these can
be applied in their work as youth workers. Overall, attending these webinars can provide youth workers with a broad understanding of different methods of
organisational governance and management, and how they can be applied in different contexts.
Training courses
We succesfully implemented three international training courses. 1st TC Training for Growth and Development Youth Coaches was held from 30January - 5February 2024 in Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic.This TC on growth and development for youth coaches was focused on developing social coaching skills that are essential to work with young people. TheTC will also cover various coaching techniques,such as goal setting, problem-solving, and motivation.
The second training course Training for Trainers of Coaches was held from 21- 30 October 2024 in Nicolosi, Sicily. ToT of youth coaches covered the principles of effective coaching and training. Participants learnt how to design and deliver coaching and training programs that are tailored to the needs of young people, and to encourage them to adopt coaching tools.
The last training course was held from 5 - 14 June 2025 in Strengberg, Austria. The 3d TC for supervisors of youth coaches covered the skills and knowledge needed to
support and manage a team of coaches. Participants learnt how to monitor and
evaluate the performance ofcoaches, how to provide feedback and support, and how to
resolve conflicts and challenges that may arise.
Transnational project meeting
Kick of meeting took place in 5-8 February 2024 in Velke Meziříčí, in Czech Republic. The first coordination meeting had the aim, of establishing project management procedures, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and aligning implementation strategies among the partner organizations from Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovakia, Greece, Austria, and Italy. Together we were xx participants, mainly legal representatives, projec tmanagers, financial manager and persons responsible for some key activities.
The purpose was to involved people included in the project on different levels, that more questions can be discussed. On the beginning of the meeting the agenda of whole project was presented, we discussed each activities one by one with division of the tasks and sharing responsibilities. All this was lately on written in the contract. The participants learnt about the schedule of the project, which we have changed according the partners need. Some of the dates and venues where rescheduled, but only in the framework of the budget. We planned in very details the process of implementation of the project activities. Part of the program was focused on discussion of the target group, local networks, capacities of the partners, expectations and challenges we might face during the implementations. We choose the social media channels we will use, strategy of the visibility and dissemination, visual design and we shared the responsibilities.We finished the meeting with all question answered, prepared contract for signature and schedule of other meetings.
The Mid-term meeting took place from 11 - 14 December, in Tartu, Estonia. The aim was to check on the project, to evaluate what happened and to plan next steps for successful implementation.
