If it is strategic or conceptional work, preparing specific actions or project content, public affairs or logistics: no matter what the challenge and task is, E.A.S.Y. was and will be designed in direct cooperation with the recipients: the disadvantaged young people. Their input and their ideas drive the project, while the involved organizations act as comitted enabler and supporter.
Classic project conditions are literally turned upside down when young people advise and train their coaches in implementing their proper action steps instead of being advised and trained through pedagogic professionals. In fact, it is a project of its own to favour authencity in such a way that in the end processes and methods are aligned to fully meet the expectations placed on E.A.S.Y..
The E.A.S.Y.-concept of authentic culture is realised at all levels and in all areas, making sure that the target group exactly gets what is needed. This approach consequently goes beyond the dutch “V.I.P.” approach where more mature youngsters with “street-credibility” used their experience to gain access to so-called “closed circles” within the youth scenery and to take responsibility on their own.
