The COURAGE project Dr. Stephen Molloy (B.Sc.(Soc); Ph.D), Visiting Research Fellow, University of Leeds UK
The partnership is co-ordinated in Denmark and includes partners from Portugal. Ireland, Lithuania, and Norway. 2 partners are associated with autonomous municipalities in the Greater Copenhagen area. Albertslund Youth Centre offers full-time and part-time educational, professional and personal development for young people who have completed non-compulsory education but may not have realized their full potential or become clear about their future education and employment. Albertslund and Glostrup Production School provides informal education and practical workshop-based training for young people disengaged from more conventional schooling. Alytus is a town of 60,000 people in South East Lithuania, not far from the borders with Poland, Belarus, and Kalingrad. Alytus Youth Centre supports the professional and personal development of over 1000 children, young people, and adults through a wide range of non-formal educational and recreational activities. These include ICT training, foreign language learning, music, dance, theatre and film production, handicrafts and sports. In County Clare, Ireland, Clare Youth Service aims to assist the holistic development of young people and those who work with them. CYS trains and supports professional and voluntary youth workers and leaders to provide an integrated, individually-focussed service for young people, especially those in need of particular care and attention. Specific initiatives include: alcohol and drugs counselling; information provision; education, training and personal development; youth justice work; youth leadership and mentoring programmes; work-based training for the long-term unemployed; combatting social exclusion and rural isolation.
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Carlos Gargaté School Cluster is a complex of two schools located in Almada, a suburban municipality within Greater Lisbon, 20 kilometers south of the city itself. Escola Básica Carlos Gargaté is a Basic School for students aged between 6 to 15. It also has a vocational course related to civil protection. It has 80 teachers and about 700 students in 27 classes. Escola Básica Louro Artur (EBLA) has a kindergarten and primary school with about 370 students in 15 classes. Carlos Cargate has been working closely for several years with business and community initiatives, such as those associated with the Benfica Foundation, directed towards the educational and social re-engagement of disaffected young people through a range of leisure, recreational, and cultural activities. Haugaland Upper Secondary School is located in the shipping and industrial port of Haugesund on the South West coast of Norway. It has approximately 800 students and 170 staff focusing on practical, vocational education. It offers a wide and successful range of innovative and “alternative” provision, including off-campus, work-based learning centres, for students disengaged from more conventional schooling. The School has 100 apprenticeship students, and is also responsible for prison education in Haugesund.
