📋 Tender Overview
Objectives
This project will develop a Virtual Reality space for youth work, designed specifically, though not exclusively, to engage young people who find it difficult to access face to face support because of Neurodivergences, Disabilities or Geographic Isolation. Through this project youth workers will be trained to use and develop the space which will operate in parallel with conventional youth work practice. The space will be inclusive, creative, developmental and available for use across the EU
Activities
In addition to the management of the project there are four work packages. The first major activity will to research and design the things youth workers and young want to be able to do in the virtual reality space. A team will then design and build that space in VR. As part of the project we will also design and deliver a masters programme to 15 youth workers. There will be a series of activities raising awareness about the use of VR in youth work and developing a long term plan for the space.
Impact
We expect that there will exist a safe, inclusive accessible, developmental space in VR, in which young people can engage with youth work. We expect particular engagement by young people who are isolated by disability, geography and/or neurodiversity. We expect that the space will be managed as an youth work organization with a clear plan for staffing and funding. We expect that 15 youth workers will have been trained to Masters level and will be expert in developing youth work practice in VR.
