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YoungLEAD Project Successfully Concludes with Publication on EPALE

YoungLEAD Project Successfully Concludes with Publication on EPALE

As the YoungLEAD project reaches its conclusion in October 2025, we are pleased to look back on two years of inspiring cooperation aimed at supporting pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds in developing leadership, communication, and social-emotional skills. Throughout the project, our partners from the Czech Republic, Ireland, and Spain worked together to create practical tools for teachers and youth educators. These resources include the Methodic Guideline, a handbook with inclusive teaching strategies, a collection of Leadership Games, designed to help pupils build confidence and essential social competencies and a digital Learning Nuggets - short, engaging bits of content designed for you to use together in the classroom. One of the activities in the final stage of the project was sharing our results with European education professionals through the EPALE platform: General description of YoungLEAD project: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/content/younglead-fostering-leadership-and-european-values-among-disadvantaged-youth YoungLEAD Learning Platform: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/content/digital-space-leadership-education-younglead-learning-platform YoungLEAD learning units: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/content/learning-nuggets-micro-learning-leadership-development The final months also included dissemination events in partner countries, pilot activities in schools, and webinars to share experiences and explore future collaboration opportunities. These events confirmed the value of YoungLEAD materials and demonstrated how easily they can be adapted to different school environments. We are grateful to all teachers, pupils, and partners who contributed to the success of YoungLEAD. While the project formally ends, its resources remain publicly available, ensuring continued support for inclusive leadership education across Europe. Explore

Anna Škábová2025-11-05T15:38:28+01:00

Final Transnational Meeting of the YoungLEAD Project in Prague

On 23–24 September, the final transnational meeting of the YoungLEAD project took place in Prague. Our partners from Spain (Colegio Carlos V, GrowthCoop), Ireland (Instruction and Formation, De La Salle Churchtown), and the Czech Republic (IEPS, ZŠ Strossmayerovo náměstí) came together to reflect on what we have achieved and to plan the final steps of the project. A key topic of the discussions was our online learning platform 💻📚 https://www.youngleadproject.eu/learning-platform — a space full of practical materials that help teachers develop leadership and social skills among pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. The partners also discussed its further use and promotion within schools. Pilot testing and webinars have shown how valuable the platform already is and brought new ideas on how to make it even more engaging and useful in the classroom. The programme also included planning of the multiplier events, during which the project results will be shared with other schools and the public across Europe. 🌍 One of the most inspiring moments of the meeting was the UNESCO Circle workshop 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🔄 – a practical tool that promotes intercultural communication and can be further applied in schools and local communities. Our partners also visited ZŠ Strossmayerovo náměstí, where they joined lessons and saw firsthand how inclusive education and language learning are naturally supported in everyday school life. 🏫👩‍🏫

Anna Škábová2025-11-04T16:21:28+01:00

Continuation of the YoungLEAD project in Granada, Spain

At the beginning of November we we had another YoungLEAD project meeting in Granada, this time in Granada, Spain. The meeting was attended by teachers Jan Juříček and Pavel Namyslo, who represent our school in this project, and the partners from schools and educational organisations from Spain and Ireland. On the first day we focused on a summary of the project's outputs so far, which are soft skills games for pupils and a methodological guide for teachers. Here we also discussed their inclusion in the project's learning platform, which should be available at the beginning of next year. We have also started work on another project deliverable, which includes small learning units, called learning nuggets and through topics such as communication, problem solving or decision making, they will be used to help pupils practise their soft skills and further self-development. We have followed this up by planning further activities which will be webinars for teachers and the completion of the learning platform. During the day we also tried out some self-development games that can be used with students in the classroom and for Stross we presented on the topic of engaging foreign language learners in schools and the situation in the Czech Republic and we followed this with a short discussion. On the second day we visited the school COLEGIOS SALESIANOS GRANADA ((https://granada.salesianos.edu/)

Anna Škábová2024-12-17T14:28:58+01:00