Project is coming to an end

For the past 2½ years a group of engaged, hardworking practitioners and academics have worked together to discover how it is possible to be truly co-creative and produce teaching material in cooperation between marginalised youth, students, practitioners and academics. The project has had it’s ups and downs and now we are getting to the end of it.

Concrete products of the project are an anthology (with contributions from practitioners and academics from Rumania, Ireland, Spain, the Nederlands and Denmark), a module concept and a teacher’s guide. But perhaps the most important outputs are the lasting impressions the project has had on all participants. And by this I’m not only thinking about the project partners but also all the students, youth and colleagues who have participated and somehow contributed to the project. The co-creative and innovative workshops have been educational and the engagement of everyone has been amazing.

Thank you to everyone who has participated and I hope the lessons of the project, and the knowledge that it is possible to be co-creative and involve the actual stakeholders – in this case marginalized youth – in numerous ways when performing social work.

Reflexion on partner meeting in Ireland

Last week we spent five interesting days in Ireland. Thank you to all of you who organised the meeting and those of you who joined us at meeting and shared experiences of working with marginalised youth in Ireland.

The meeting made me think of all the different outputs we get from this project. One thing is the formal outputs in terms of a teaching module, an anthology and other visible products. Another thing is the impact the meetings has made on each of us. I have been very impressed by the interest and eager to exchange knowledge between students, youth, practitioners and academics in Denmark, Romania, Spain, Holland and Ireland. Everywhere we have been met by interesting people who have embrassed our idea of co-creation and WHO have taught us lesson on how to do exactly that – co-create.