BOOST Your Potential - experience and lessons learned so far
15.10.2025
Erasmus+ offers organisations opportunities to strenghten their capacities and foster sustainable partnerships through partnership projects. Today, as part of the #ErasmusDays, we are presenting BOOST Your Potential, a small-scale Erasmus+ partnership project that we are coordinating.
BOOST Your Potential aims to equip us as organisations in providing high-quality support the non-formal learning of young people with fewer opportunities in mobility projects.
We and our partners ACT from Romania and ELIX from Greece, believe that developing and strengthening skills and competences — such as teamwork, adaptability, problem-solving, empathy and sustainability — during international mobilities can have a long-lasting impact on the employability and sense of self-efficacy of young people. We have noticed, however, that many young people with fewer opportunities have difficulty setting and reflecting on learning goals or recognising the skills they’ve developed during their projects. We want to do our best to help them!
So, what have we done so far?
First, we wanted to hear what kind of support young people themselves would have needed during their mobilities. We organised focus groups for Peer Youth in Finland, Greece and Romania. Then, we met together in Helsinki for a kick-off meeting to put our organisational and young people's needs together. With the support of the Finnish Peer Youth, we organised and categorised all the different needs, and decided which we would focus on in the next project activities.
Second, we dug deep into all the existing tools that we and our partners use to support the learning of young people in mobility projects. From these we picked a selection of tools that we found that fit the needs of the young people. We presented them to our Peer Youth groups in workshops during the summer. We received some very valuable feedback, which we used to select which tools we would test as part of the project during the next 12 months.
Now we are testing these tools with young people during their mobility projects to gather first-hand experience of what works and what does not. At the end of this project, we will put all of the tools together in a toolkit that we can share with our partners as well!
One of the highlights of this project has been the collaboration with our Peer Youth groups. Being able to work together with such a motivated and smart group of young people willing to share their experience, and seeing how they have gained courage and practical skills during the project so far has been rewarding.
Moreover, working with our partners ACT and Elix has offered us a great opportunity for bench-marking and learning from each other. We all work with young people with fewer opportunities but the realities in each country are different. It has been very interesting to learn and share about our different ways of working to reach similar goals. Working with international partners might feel distant at times, but being able to gather face-to-face makes a difference and really fosters sustainable cooperation in the long-term.
BOOST Your Potential will run until the end of 2026. We cannot wait to share more of what's to come!
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