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ABC of sex education

Type of project: Learning Mobility of Individuals

Countries covered: 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇬🇷 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇹🇷

Location: Berlin, Germany


Objectives

Very often people tend to regard sexual education as something trivial nd shameful. Depending on the society it’s taught and discussed very briefly, too late or not at all. Within ‘ABC of sex education’ youth exchange we intend to create a safe, comfortable and fun environment for learning about this delicate yet important topic.

The project aims to provide participants with accurate information on sexual and reproductive health, dispel myths related to sexuality, develop life skills such as critical thinking, communication and self-development, ability to ask questions, open-mindedness and respect for self and others, positive attitude toward their sexual and reproductive health. Participants will have a chance to acquire networking skills and immediately put them in use, as well as practice and enhance their creative & teamwork skills during the project. We aim to create a safe environment in which participants will be encouraged to formulate and speak out their opinions, engage in open discussion and exchange experiences. This will allow them to see the greater context and potential to apply new ideas in their work and improve and enrich their non-formal education initiatives. A priority will be given to network and explore possible ways of cooperation, creating working groups and joint initiatives in future projects. This will enable enhancing the international dimension of partner organizations and promotion of cooperation and mobility between participating countries.

The project continues by comparing how these topics are addressed in participants societies; discovering religion, culture and gender differences; consequences of discrimination based on stereotyping; how national dances portrait sexuality; finding out how sex is seen in media and how it manipulates our perspectives of beauty; self-reflecting on sexual identity and values etc. This will be done by discussions, interactive games, study visits, role-plays, observing the local society, workshops, video materials, dancing, visualization and presentations.

Specific objectives of the project are:
– Develop and promote solidarity and tolerance in accordance to European citizenship priorities;
– Foster mutual understanding between youth in different countries;
– Improve the ways participants can tackle sexuality-related problems;
– Form healthy and positive attitudes (self-respect, tolerance, responsibility);
– Gain critical awareness about media and understand how the perspectives are formed;
– Widen the horizon about sexuality;
– Encourage youth to issue the topic of sex in the society and be a healthy role model;
– Promote cooperation in the youth field;
– Anti-discrimination work with the focus on homophobia;
– Inclusion and empowerment of young people.
The participants will acquire a more in-depth perspective thanks to peer-to-peer learning and a variety of cultures – a priceless value that is hard to receive in school.

Activities

The main activity of the project is the realization of a youth exchange of 38 youngsters from Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, Turkey, Greece. In these frames, the participants are included in the following activities:
1. Perception of diversity: Participants will make a small presentation of their countries just in the beginning and exchange on working and other themes. This gives them the opportunity to get to know and understand new things and to explore their own boundaries. By changing perspectives, they begin to reflect on their behavioural patterns. By being in this new environment, prejudices should be dismantled, positive visions developed and tolerance should be exercised.
2. Sexual education: Participants will share their experience in their countries on this issue and will look closely at how these rights are being handled and how much they are respected in their own community. The participants will discuss human rights and democracy, how are they protected through the policies in their countries, and what could be done in order to improve the situation.
3. South-North: Participants will receive information about global South and North countries. Different workshops will give them the opportunity to learn about the working topic in the world. Further, they will learn about conditions of sexual education in many countries and through different games, they can test the possibilities of improving things from different views (NGO, state, civil society). One of the main reasons why we decided to gather such different for first sight countries in one project. Daily for the participants through workshops, practical part, and targeted development-related content should be conveyed and implemented in a future-oriented manner. It would like to encourage European citizenship, to exercise solidarity with the global South as well as to bring young people into the development related commitment.
4. Self-awareness: big attention will be paid to the self-awareness activities such as meditation, yoga, being aware of our body. We plan to organise a world café: What I desire and why? Is sexuality innate or acquired? Is sex essential in love relationships? Is sex without love possible? Can a straight man and a straight woman be just friends?
5. Breaking the stereotypes: one of the main objectives of this YE is to work on prejudices through an educational path.
6. In the evening, the participants will work on the blog of the youth exchange, document the activities in real-time and own experiences use with other people the opportunity to share.

‘ABC of sex education’ will host 38 participants from 6 different countries: Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, Turkey, Greece. We created a diverse consortium of different European countries in order to approach the working topic from various social, cultural and methodological perspectives.
The age of participants will be from 18 to 30 years. We will give equal opportunities for female, male and non-binary participants, and the selection will be based on their motivation and experience, without any gender-related factors. The group leaders’ age is not limited, but we expect to have them not older than 35 y.o. as the connection between them and their groups should be based on peer-to-peer education.
The project will involve people who are strongly interested to get new skills and knowledge and who are ready to share their own experience with other participants. Knowledge of the main topic of the youth exchange is welcoming, but not obligatory. It’s much more important to have strong interest and motivation in meeting peers from other countries and putting to use their creativity in different crafts. Participants must be able to communicate in English and be available for the whole duration of the youth exchange. The project is addressed to people from different EU and EECA countries, who are participated in local activities with youth with fewer opportunities and focus on raising awareness on social issues concerning their local communities and are willing to engage more young people in their activities. Participants need to have the interest to reflect upon values around the main topic within societies and to develop and exchange about their point of view.
The project opens its doors for representatives with disadvantaged backgrounds such as social, economical, cultural, with migrant background as well as refugees, minority groups (ethnic, LGBTQ, etc.)

Impact

Through the planned programmes activities and non-formal learning methods applied, through the visitations and self experimentation planned for first-hand insights and experiences, the following impact is expected: participants will work on their own personal lives and potentially grow to become more socially responsible, proactive and critical citizens. They will work in their personal development and community-awareness and discussed alternatives ways to further youth involvement by peer to peer sharing experiences and knowledge.
Further on, the youth exchange contributed to the learning performance of the participants while using the methods of non-formal education. Participants’ self empowerment, self-esteem, leadership, sense of responsibility, improvement of language and intercultural competences were increased. It provides participants with the necessary knowledge for professional and social development.

More specifically, we expect to have the following project’s results:
– raise awareness about the topic of sex in the society and thus stimulate engagement in society and active participation;
– foster intercultural dialogue on the topic, that is not widely discussed yet;
– encourage youth to issue the topic of sex in the society and be a healthy role model;
– break prejudices and stereotypes about gender roles and sexual life.
Participants are dependent upon becoming healthy role models after the project and giving good value information to their peers, friends, siblings, family, spouse, children etc. The project will also encourage participants to take part in and conduct similar projects in the future.

We strongly expect to have an impact:
– On the partner organizations of the training: through the transmission of newly-acquired knowledge and tools from the project participants to other young peace builders and members of the organizations;
– On young people and local communities in EU and EECA countries: through the implementation of projects and initiatives addressing democracy and peaceful co-existence;
– On other organizations, communities, and youth workers that will receive the project report: acquire tools and strategies on active citizenship and peaceful co-existence.
As former participants of such projects, authors of this YE remember how past experience changed their lives. They gained new knowledge, became open-minded, got rid of stereotypes, expanded our horizons, and began to act in the home communities. They met new friends in different European and partner countries, and this friendship has been lasting for years. International ties, that are born during the Erasmus+ projects, are extremely strong. Therefore, we believe to influence this way on the future participants of ‘ABC of SE’ project.

United for NEET

Type of project: Mobility of youth workers

Countries covered: 🇦🇱 🇦🇲 🇦🇹 🇦🇿 🇧🇦 🇫🇮 🇫🇷 🇬🇪 🇭🇺 🇷🇴 🇵🇹 🇷🇸 🇪🇸 🇹🇷 🇺🇦

Location: Bursa, Türkiye


Objectives

For different reasons, not all young people can be fully involved in the labour market. There is a category of youth that is neither in employment nor in education and training (“NEETs”). Young people who are neither in employment nor in education or training are at risk of becoming socially excluded – individuals with income below the poverty-line and lacking the skills to improve their
economic situation. Unlike for unemployment or employment, there is no international standard for the definition of NEETs. Eurostat, the International Labour Organization and certain other organizations have adopted the following definition of the NEET: the population of a given age group and sex who is not employed and not involved in further education or training.
At the European level, the label NEET has an immediate value as an additional indicator of unemployment and youth marginalization and disengagement. Because they are neither improving their future employability through investment in skills nor gaining experience through employment, NEETs are particularly at risk of both labour market and social exclusion.
In 2018, according to Eurostat, 16,5 % of the 20-34 olds in the EU were neither in employment nor in education and training (‘NEETs’). The proportion of young people neither in employment nor in education and training in the first quarter of 2022 ranged from 7.3 in France to 16.5 percent in portugal.
If we talk about the countries participating in this contact making seminar, then the situation is as follows. In 2017, among young people aged 20-34, the highest level was in Turkey (33,2%!), Hungary (17,0%) Finland (13,1%). With this contact making seminar (CMS) we want to establish national and regional cooperation of organizations directly working with youth in order to reduce the number of NEET young people and to open for them the world of youth opportunities, including Erasmus + Program.
We want to focus on two important aspects of cooperation:
1) National cooperation. Very often, youth organizations working in one country compete among themselves for access to the main target group – young people, forgetting that we all have one main mission – to support young people and this is not a business where we have to be the competitors. We want to create an atmosphere of mutual assistance and understanding in the context of involving young people in a social society.
2) Regional / International cooperation. Each country is unique in different contexts, including in the field of youth work. At the same time, as practice shows, countries that are geographically close have similar problems, so together we can think over qualitatively new solutions to existing issues and get an additional synergy effect. Therefore, we proposed to be participants for organization from neighbouring countries, like Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia; Ukraine, Hungary and Serbia and other countries from all over the Europe.
The main aim of the contact making seminar “Regional Cooperation” is to develop national, international and regional cooperation among the youth workers in order to share experiences and knowledge on working with NEET youth and their engagement in a dialogue to foster the EU social cohesion.
The objectives are:
• to create space for sharing different realities, exchanging experiences and good practices about the work with NEET youth and youth at risk of social exclusion;
• to develop necessary practical materials (brochure with recommendations how to involve NEET youth to the full social life) for further dissemination among the youth workers and other interested stakeholders;
• to promote youth social integration and involvement to foster the EU social cohesion.
• to foster networking among participants and create space for project building, especially in
Erasmus+ context;
• to increase participants’ competences to disseminate learning achievements and to explore the
possibilities for developing national and regional cooperation in the field of youth work;
• to strengthen participants and organisations competences and capability in youth work and
international dimension and cooperation.
At EU level, NEETs are considered to be one of the most problematic groups in the context of youth unemployment. The main topics of the project are based on the principles of the Europe 2020 Strategy, Education and Training 2020 (ET 2020) and article 2 of the “Treaty on the EU”. The aims and objectives of the project come in the high resonance of Erasmus+ objectives in youth
field generally and Key Action 1 particularly, since the project will foster quality improvements in youth work and youth unemployment, as well as enhance the capacity of youth workers by providing pathways back into education and training for NEETs as well as enabling their contact with the labour market.

Activities

CMS will take place in Bursa, on 5-11 May 2023 and will gather together 33 youth workers,
youth leaders and educators from 15 different Program countries: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Turkey, Hungary, France, Austria, Finland, Albania, Spain, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, Romania In order to establish cooperation both at the regional and national level, we will have 2 participants from each organization and from Hungary, Turkey, Armenia by 3 (totally 33 people, including 2 Trainers and 1 logistics/coordinator.
The programme of the CMS will be in the framework of non-formal education, using an interactive
and participative approach. The seminar will provide the space to exchange knowledge and
experience about working with NEET youth and will engage the organizations to constructively
contribute in this topic.
The methodology in the project is the result of a common discussion among the project partners on
the base of the objectives, the values and ideas that the project is intended to promote.
During the project participants will acquire communicative skills, self-presentation skills, cultural
awareness, mutual understanding, solving problems, trust and respect towards different cultures.
They will become more aware of the essence of youth work from the psychological and sociological
aspect; will learn how to manage their own abilities and how to help others in this sphere.
We will try to create a space to learn and share about analysing our previous project experiences and then create a learning environment in which we can practice and test the best way to include learning in every part of the project cycle.
The project has its logical structure. First of all, we want to come to a common understanding at the
same level about the relevance of the problem of youth social exclusion and the need to work with
NEET young people. Further, we want to go deeper to the topic of using youth work as an effective
tool for prevention of social exclusion among the youth on local, national, regional and international
levels. And for this we will take into account next key pillars:
– Who? We will begin with the main question, who is a youth worker, what competencies he/she
should have. What are our goals and motivations as individuals and professionals. We will also talk
about who are the NEET young people and why they are in risk of social exclusion.
– Where? We have different realities about youth in the risk of social exclusion and NEET youth in
different countries, as well as our own ways, how we work with them within our organization. We will
share our observations, relying on our own experience.
– How? We will prepare brochure with recommendations how to involve NEET youth to the full social
life and better integrate them, opening up a world of youth opportunities, including Erasmus +
Program.
– What’s next? Since we want our work to be sustainable, we will develop a strategy for sharing
knowledge at the local and national level (future workshops as a dissemination activities) and at the
regional and international level (ideas for future joint projects).
After each activity there will be time for reflection sessions which will help participants in analyzing
their involvement and gained knowledge. Being such a diverse intercultural group, we will create a
space to exchange the practices of their own countries, share realities about the NEET youth and
social exclusion, to explore other cultures and different styles of work.
Non-formal education will empower youth workers to set up their own projects, step by step, where
they are at the centre of the learning activity, feel concerned, get self-confidence and as result,
develop capacities and skills.
Finally, all objectives based on developing attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding of these
skills in order to better assist youth workers in their personal and professional development and go
more global on the level of organizations and the whole region as well.

Impact

Working with young people at risk of social exclusion, marginalized and NEET youth and is a very
important topic, common to all NGOs, regardless of how long they work in the field of youth work.
We’re welcome the participation of youth workers with fewer opportunities, especially economic and
geographical ones. The youth worker may not be officially employed in an organization, but it is a
person who wants to work and develop in this field. We are also happy to welcome participants from
peripheral regions, small towns or villages, urban problem areas. No one will be the subject of
discrimination.
In addition to the opportunity to develop the competence of youth workers, as outcome will create the
brochure with practical recommendations on how to involve NEET youth to the full social life and
better integrate them, opening up a world of youth opportunities, including Erasmus + Program,
which will be published in all web-pages of partners as well as on SALTO portal for common use of
youth workers from different countries and disseminated for other interested stakeholders.
At the very end of the seminar, a Press conference will be organized inviting the main stakeholders
responsible for youth and civil society cooperation in Hungary and the regions. Participants will have
a chance to share their outcomes from the seminar and promote the benefits of the European
cooperation in youth field.
One of the main Erasmus+ objectives is a clear recognition and validation of the personal skills and
qualifications on the international scale, as much as within the educational sphere. In the end of the
project each participant will receive a Youthpass certificate that confirms their participation in the
CMS.
After returning home, participants will be invited to conduct two workshops: one for their colleagues –
youth workers. The second is for the youth with whom they work, to disseminate the knowledge they
have gained about the NEET youth, using methods of achieving social inclusion through the
multicultural aspect of perception.
In the future, we plan to continue to stay in touch with partners and the quantity (and quality) of
further joint projects (especially under Erasmus+ Program) at the national and international level will
become for us an indicator of how successful the seminar was in the long term perspective.
Each participant will bring a multiplying effect of their local societies– sending organization, youth
with whom they are working, family, friends, neighbors, acquaintances and local media. In this way,
the project objectives will be disseminated to the personal connections. The main value lies in the
fact that participants in the CMS will receive effective mechanisms and tools that can be used in
various spheres of life, so they can help not only their colleagues who specialize in youth work, but
also broader target groups.
An important result will be that youth workers will be able to include in their work more young people
with the risk of social exclusion and NEET youth. Specifically for this category of young people it will
be given a workshop after returning, and in the future it is planned their active inclusion in the social
life of the organization. We plan to involve at least 80 youngsters with fewer opportunities to the local
workshops after this CMS.
In addition, organizations will be able to share the acquired knowledge with other organizations
working with young people (social centers, minority’s communities etc).
The project is expected to provide reliable network of organizations for further cooperation and development. Knowing partners who share their values, it will be easier for organizations to cooperate and implement projects of a qualitatively new level in future. We believe that we need to move systematically, so we decided to start to establish cooperation with the countries of our region, and then move on.
At the same time, through social media and distribution of project’ materials (brochure with recommendations how to involve NEET youth to the full social life, photos, short video, articles of participants etc) the public of the project will not be limited only by the participants’ countries. The impact of the project will be felt at the European level by promoting European values, youth
activities through the Erasmus+ Program and recognition of youth work among different
stakeholders. The CMS objectives have specific outcomes as giving participants new skills and competences in working with NEET youth; communicating and cooperating with participants on national and regional/international level.

Raise Local Leaders

Type of project: Mobility of youth workers

Countries covered: 🇦🇲 🇧🇦 🇨🇿 🇪🇪 🇬🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇹🇳 🇺🇦

Location: Czechia


Objectives

One of the biggest problems in Europe and the world today is the low participation of young people in community work and local initiatives. One of the reasons for that is the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the research on the COVID-19 impact on young people and the youth sector by the Council of Europe, “… young people face challenges to participating in political processes, institutions, and policy-making at the best of times, owing to factors such as their presumed lack of experience, limited opportunities, and legal barriers …” [Covid-19 impact on young people and the youth sector. Council of Europe. Access: https://pjp-eu.coe.int/en/web/youth-partnership/covid-19].
Indeed, our experience in the field of local youth work shows that most young people do not know how to enter the process of change-making and commit crucial mistakes on their way which lowers their motivation to continue the work or put more effort into their projects.
The formal education system does not provide such a kind of attitude and necessary skills for youngsters to be confident leaders for local actions today. Thus, youth non-governmental organizations and local youth centers have to take this responsibility to help youngsters to become true leaders in their communities by providing leadership and team-building training using non-formal education methods, advocating transcultural activities for youth networking, and promoting values of democratic development through local actions. The task of youth workers is to recognize leadership capability in youngsters and navigate them to their potentially significant role in community life.
The aim of the mobility project is to improve the quality of youth workers’ competencies and attitudes in the aspects of intercultural learning, non-formal education methods, and understanding the main concepts of youth leadership while working with youngsters and their ideas targeting local development and community volunteering. Working with young people who express leadership potential is rocket science. We need to keep updating the professional competencies of youth workers in order not to lose future leaders, their positive attitude to community work and related responsibility as well as their potential to bring changes and a new global outlook to their local communities. Also, youth workers will be offered to rethink different forms and models of youth participation in democracy in the current political and social conditions as well as to stimulate public dialogue on youth involvement in the European agenda during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
The objectives of the training course are:
– to train soft skills of youth workers for work with youth leaders such as interpersonal and intercultural communication skills, emotional intelligence, character traits recognition, teamwork, etc;
– to develop hard skills and related competencies of youth workers on project-building and project-mentoring skills in order to guide youngsters in their initiatives as well as grow their own projects in the field of youth projects;
– to improve understanding of youth workers in the modern technological, cultural and social trends and prospect changes, and aspects of working with the Generation Z young people on developing their attitudes and ideas, increasing motivation, beating concerns at public work;
– to promote non-formal education tools and intercultural learning for youngsters nurtured in the youth work field as well as Erasmus+ volunteering and mobility opportunities for developing youth local initiatives and projects.
We believe that this training course will increase the professional competencies of youth workers at the partner organizations, and will help to develop and implement more youth projects and initiatives dedicated to resolving problems of civil society disintegration, European unity, and democratic deconsolidation. Our youth workers have to grow as true mentors for raising youth leaders in their communities.

Activities

We will implement the youth workers’ mobility activity in Sobotin, the Czech Republic. We have 33 youth workers (three participants and eleven project partner organizations) to be a part of the project’s mission and objectives.
The profile of the participants for the mobility project includes the next criteria:
1. Their age is between 21 and 50 years old;
2. Highly interested in the topic of the project and want to address the issue;
3. The participants are citizens and permanent residents of their countries;
4. Almost all of them can easily communicate in English and a few other languages;
5. Our participants have professional experience in different fields such as formal and non-formal education, social work, administrative work, academic research, and political consulting.
6. All the participants are open-minded, tolerant, and creative people who are ready to open new cultures and open the world of non-formal education methods.

Impact

During the project implementation stage, there will be filmed and shared short educational videos as an example of how youth workers can reach youngsters on the themes of active citizenship, the European and democratic values, and local actions motivation. These outputs will be shared locally, nationally, and internationally through the networks of the partner organizations and youth workers themselves.
Besides, during the major activity, there will be tested a workshop which aims to try out new ways to youth team mentoring in local youth projects and initiatives, and then its implementation in the partner organization. If the experiment has positive effects within the organization and its youth projects, the results would be shared and the methods offered to the other actors which work in the field of youth work and youth action projects.
The impact of the project at the local level:
– to enhance soft and hard skills of youth workers in the field of community work;
– to allow youth projects, groups, and initiatives to look for new ways of development;
– to advocate principles of active citizenship through local actions;
– to boost the capacity of youth organizations to address broad European and global issues locally.
The impact of the project at the national level:
– to appeal to the potential of intercultural and non-formal learning in formal education;
– to improve the stance of youth organizations as agents of positive changes;
– to promote possibilities of youth worker mobility for personal and professional growth;
– to develop leadership education in the field of youth work nationally.
The impact of the project at the European level:
– to strengthen the positions of youth organizations to accomplish changes through local youth actions, inclusive education, and intercultural learning;
– to consolidate the principles and abilities of international cooperation for youth organizations and initiatives in the European Union;
– to address the issues of European unity disintegration and disbelief of youngsters in democratic development in EU with the outlook of active citizenship;
– to provide European youth organizations with new approaches to youth team mentoring and non-formal education methods in their learning activities.
To ensure that these levels of impact were reached, the partner organizations plan to share the outputs of the project through their networks, create a system of monitoring on youth platforms and social media formal and non-formal groups of youth workers and youth projects. The partner organizations consider this project as a first step in the long and broad work on addressing the themes of active citizenship, democratic development, and advocating European values through local actions. Thus, the network will be growing on all levels of impact – locally, nationally, and in the European grade.

STAND UP! FOR REFUGEES. Project for the better integration of refugees in Europe

Type of project: Mobility of youth workers

Countries covered: 🇧🇬 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇹 🇳🇱 🇵🇱 🇸🇰 🇪🇸

Location: Madrid, Spain


STAND UP! FOR REFUGEES is a mobility project designed for young workers and volunteers to raise their voices in favour of refugee integration and social inclusion. The project is aligned with the Erasmus+ Strategy 2021-2027 in the line of improving inclusion and diversity. The project will provide mechanisms and resources so that young people empathize with refugees, can better understand this phenomenon of forced exodus, and have arguments to favour their integration into their communities. They will also increase their level of skills and key competences and will promote participation in democratic life in Europe, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion, and solidarity.

The project will indirectly benefit refugees, especially those who have just arrived, with cultural differences, learning difficulties, etc.

STAND UP! FOR REFUGEES will promote greater cooperation between youth organizations and other stakeholders. Immigration is often seen more as a problem than a possible enrichment of the country. The need to implement this project is justified as it is fundamental to change certain attitudes in young people and transform them into positive behaviours towards the population of immigrant origin, since diversification implies a development of our societies.

The objectives of the project are the following:
-Promote in the participants an approach based on the positive integration of refugees, as a social opportunity instead of a social problem.
-That the participants can positively influence the vision of citizens, so that they see humanitarian emergencies as an opportunity to enrich European society, valuing its constituent principles and values, instead of a negative way such as the To think that it causes an increase in crime, there is no work for everyone, we have to pay more taxes to cover their needs, etc…
-Analyse and understand the human rights of people, as well as understand the concepts of discrimination, hate speech and tolerance, and know how to react when faced with situations of this type.
-Promote in young people the acquisition of critical analysis skills, so that they can analyze and understand the dichotomy between the constitutive principles of the European Union, such as solidarity and respect for human rights, with the economic and political uncertainty of the European context modern. Participants will be invited to develop innovative proposals regarding the integration policies of the foreign population of the EU.
-Develop ideas and proposals for a positive integration of refugees in the EU.
-Create a space for the exchange of experiences between participants from different countries, carrying out a comparative analysis of the different realities and social responses to the issue of refugees in each of the countries of the consortium.
-Encourage the participation of young people in the democratic life of Europe, by supporting activities that contribute to citizenship education and participation projects for young people to get involved and learn to participate in civil society, raising awareness of in this way on common European values, including fundamental rights, as well as European history and culture.

Activities

We divide the activities that we are going to implement during the TC STAND UP! FOR REFUGEES into three large groups: During the first part there will be the presentation of the host organization and associates, the objectives of the project, the program of the course, the participants, the training team and the introduction to the Erasmus + program.

During the second part we will address key issues of the project exploring simulations that can be used with groups of refugees and social minorities in situations of exclusion, with a focus on creativity; discussions and debates; role playing games. All of this by introducing theoretical concepts on refuge, migration, and asylum, which we are going to acquire throughout the Training Course.

Finally, during the third part we will share experiences and good practices, develop ideas for future projects and plan their implementation once the TC is over, to ensure the sustainability and local impact of its objectives.

The profile of the participants of STAND UP! FOR REFUGEES They will be young workers and volunteers from the associations that make up the consortium. We will seek parity in terms of gender. All of them will be over 18 years old, and with an average age between 25-30 years, so that they can bring some experience to the project. Although age will not be an excluding factor according to the program guide. At a general level we will try to align as much as possible to the following requirements:
-Be a young worker or volunteer.
-Be motivated to learn about the process that refugees and applicants for international protection go through, as well as actively contribute with their knowledge to enrich the contents of the Training Course.
– Carry out their activities in the partner association of the project or in a non-governmental entity (for example, a youth organization, an organization that works on specific social rights or with specific groups, etc.) or in an organization of the administration local (for example, youth centres, information office of a municipality, schools, etc.).
-Have experience in projects to combat exclusion, discrimination, marginalization, with the reception of refugees and migrants, especially among young people.
-Have the motivation and ability to develop projects for and with young people with fewer opportunities.
-Be interested in collaborating with local authorities in the execution of projects to fight for the reception of refugees and beneficiaries of international protection.
-Be available and committed to fully participate in all phases of the project and be willing to replicate and disseminate the results at a local, national and international level.

Impact

The participants will acquire theoretical and practical knowledge related to the topic of refugees to Europe and their integration, they will also acquire more skills and knowledge about the project development process focusing on the use of the Erasmus + program. At the same time, they will also obtain new competences, related to mutual understanding, autonomy, communication skills.

The impact on the part of the participating organizations will be the reflection on possible measures to ensure a follow-up of the actions related to the objectives on refugees and asylum seekers presented in this project. A follow-up will be carried out that will guarantee the capacity of the partners to establish contacts and continuous relationships to develop more joint projects framed within the Erasmus+ program or other programs, since we think they are important tools, according to the objectives pursued. by the Erasmus + programme, to promote equality, the fight against social exclusion and active participation, as preconditions for a sustainable Europe.

Finally, another level of impact is in the target audience, the impact of this project will not be limited only to the participants in the activity, they are committed to the organizations to which they belong, and will continue developing related activities, with the objective to involve local, migrant and refugee youth from their communities, who face obstacles of learning difficulties, language, cultural and social adaptation, economic difficulties… Participants will receive the right tools to communicate their own point of view to this target audience in their respective countries, more space for the active participation of young people and for the fight against social exclusion caused by any reason.

Another of the expectations of the organizations involved is to strengthen links between associations for the realization and collaboration in future projects, especially under the framework of the Erasmus + program, for this we will continue with:

-The exchange of ideas and experiences between young people and associations through other projects and activities in different European countries.

-Dissemination of the results of the project, materials developed during the sessions of the TC and other multimedia support materials, in our social and cultural environment.

-Inviting youth workers and youth leaders to get in touch once in their respective countries with youth councils and local organizations to promote the project STAND UP! FOR REFUGEES and share the results obtained.

-Dissemination and execution of a project module on the web pages of each of the partners.

-Organization of a local event (such as press conferences, presentations and debates, parties…) open to citizens, local associations, and young people with the aim of disseminating the results of the project.

Activities

We divide the activities that we are going to implement during the TC STAND UP! FOR REFUGEES into three large groups: During the first part there will be the presentation of the host organization and associates, the objectives of the project, the program of the course, the participants, the training team and the introduction to the Erasmus + program.
During the second part we will address key issues of the project exploring simulations that can be used with groups of refugees and social minorities in situations of exclusion, with a focus on creativity; discussions and debates; role playing games. All of this by introducing theoretical concepts on refuge, migration, and asylum, which we are going to acquire throughout the Training Course.
Finally, during the third part we will share experiences and good practices, develop ideas for future projects and plan their implementation once the TC is over, to ensure the sustainability and local impact of its objectives.
The profile of the participants of STAND UP! FOR REFUGEES They will be young workers and volunteers from the associations that make up the consortium. We will seek parity in terms of gender. All of them will be over 18 years old, and with an average age between 25-30 years, so that they can bring some experience to the project. Although age will not be an excluding factor according to the program guide. At a general level we will try to align as much as possible to the following requirements:
-Be a young worker or volunteer.
-Be motivated to learn about the process that refugees and applicants for international protection go through, as well as actively contribute with their knowledge to enrich the contents of the Training Course.
– Carry out their activities in the partner association of the project or in a non-governmental entity (for example, a youth organization, an organization that works on specific social rights or with specific groups, etc.) or in an organization of the administration local (for example, youth centres, information office of a municipality, schools, etc.).
-Have experience in projects to combat exclusion, discrimination, marginalization, with the reception of refugees and migrants, especially among young people.
-Have the motivation and ability to develop projects for and with young people with fewer opportunities.
-Be interested in collaborating with local authorities in the execution of projects to fight for the reception of refugees and beneficiaries of international protection.
-Be available and committed to fully participate in all phases of the project and be willing to replicate and disseminate the results at a local, national and international level.

Impact

The participants will acquire theoretical and practical knowledge related to the topic of refugees to Europe and their integration, they will also acquire more skills and knowledge about the project development process focusing on the use of the Erasmus + program. At the same time, they will also obtain new competences, related to mutual understanding, autonomy, communication skills.

The impact on the part of the participating organizations will be the reflection on possible measures to ensure a follow-up of the actions related to the objectives on refugees and asylum seekers presented in this project. A follow-up will be carried out that will guarantee the capacity of the partners to establish contacts and continuous relationships to develop more joint projects framed within the Erasmus+ program or other programs, since we think they are important tools, according to the objectives pursued. by the Erasmus + programme, to promote equality, the fight against social exclusion and active participation, as preconditions for a sustainable Europe.

Finally, another level of impact is in the target audience, the impact of this project will not be limited only to the participants in the activity, they are committed to the organizations to which they belong, and will continue developing related activities, with the objective to involve local, migrant and refugee youth from their communities, who face obstacles of learning difficulties, language, cultural and social adaptation, economic difficulties… Participants will receive the right tools to communicate their own point of view to this target audience in their respective countries, more space for the active participation of young people and for the fight against social exclusion caused by any reason.

Another of the expectations of the organizations involved is to strengthen links between associations for the realization and collaboration in future projects, especially under the framework of the Erasmus+ program, for this we will continue with:
-The exchange of ideas and experiences between young people and associations through other projects and activities in different European countries.
-Dissemination of the results of the project, materials developed during the sessions of the TC and other multimedia support materials, in our social and cultural environment.
-Inviting youth workers and youth leaders to get in touch once in their respective countries with youth councils and local organizations to promote the project STAND UP! FOR REFUGEES and share the results obtained.
-Dissemination and execution of a project module on the web pages of each of the partners.
-Organization of a local event (such as press conferences, presentations and debates, parties…) open to citizens, local associations, and young people with the aim of disseminating the results of the project.