Leisure opens opportunities for building inclusive youth communities. How can this be achieved? Experience and knowledge from Bulgaria, Austria, Belgium and Serbia was shared at the final meeting of partners in the period from 2-3. July 2019, while inclusive messages and examples of good practice of actively involving young people with disabilities in leisure activities were shared with over 160 participants and media during a one-day conference in Plovdiv held on 5 July 2019.
Within the project "PossitiveLeisure4Youth - free time for youth as part of positive pedagogy", the fifth, and also the final partner meeting in Plovdiv was held. During the meeting, the achievements on the project and further steps in order to contribute to the sustainability of the project were summarized. This was at the same time an opportunity to integrate the final versions of the Guide to Youth Workers and Teachers on the topic "How to build an inclusive youth community through leisure activities?", The Manual for Youth Workers and Teachers on Inclusive Leisure Activities, and Mobile phone applications for inclusive recreational activities and leisure activities. Teachers from 8 secondary schools, representatives of 15 organizations working with youth and youth, experts in the field of social inclusion of young people from vulnerable groups, contributed to the finalization of these materials for the Serbian version, which is another significant aspect of the sustainability of the project's products.
In addition to representatives of the Belgrade Open School, at the final conference bearing the symbolic title "Building a youth community through leisure activities", teacher Sanja Novaković from the School of Economics and Commerce from Pozarevac spoke, pointing out that the materials created were extremely useful for working with students with disabilities for designing extracurricular recreational activities, while Suzana Ilić, IT teacher at the Technical School in Bor, stressed that creating online tools, such as android applications, is needed more, because it contributes to greater accessibility and to the exchange of useful knowledge and information to more young people.
The project is realized by the University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria) in cooperation with the National Association of Experts working with Disabled Persons and the Volunteering Unit 112 (Bulgaria), the Association of Volunteers in Education (Austria), PhoenixKM BVBA (Belgium) and the Belgrade Open School.