Details
Project Reference: 2020-1-RO01-KA205-079395
Programme: Erasmus+
Start date: 01-08-2020
End date: 31-07-2022
Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action Type: Strategic Partnerships for youth
Countries covered: 6
Topics: Inclusion-Equity – Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) – Civic engagement / responsible citizenship
Materials: Manual for Facilitators – Social Inclusion, Exclusion and Connecting Topics
Summary
Background
One of the main identified needs was to develop strategies to strengthen critical thinking and support all young people when it comes to actively taking part in society, no matter what particular groups they might belong to. Through equipping youth workers to engage young people in non-formal educational activities organised at local level, the project tackled discrimination, racism and segregation, whilst by equipping youth workers with skills to develop and coordinate awareness raising and advocacy actions, the project contributed directly to growing social inclusion at local level, whilst creating sustainable links between youth organisations, public authorities and society at large.
As discrimination and inequalities on different grounds remain realities in everyday life in the EU, the project also addressed the need to empower young people with the necessary skills to develop educational activities to decrease discrimination and exclusion, as well as skills to advocate for policies for social inclusion at local level, in order to transform their communities into inclusive spaces that challenge discrimination of any form.
Objectives
The primary goal of the project was to empower youth workers and young people to develop competencies to increase social inclusion. Specifically, the main objectives of the project were to:
1. Strengthen the capacity of 6 youth organisations to address efficiently and qualitatively social exclusion in their communities.
2. Create a network of 30 youth workers competent in addressing social exclusion through non-formal education and advocacy.
3. Develop competencies of 900 young people (30 young people to each youth worker) to understand and deal with social exclusion in their life and in society.
Implementation
Over a two-year period, the project consisted of:
– 1 Kick-off Meeting (online)
– 1 training on non-formal educational methods for social inclusion
– 1 practice phase consisting of non-formal educational activities in schools in each local context
– 1 Evaluation Meeting
– 1 training on development and coordination of advocacy campaigns
– 1 practice phase consisting of advocacy campaigns on improvement of social inclusion policies at local level, in each local context
– 1 Final Meeting
Results
Concrete results of the project:
– 30 youth workers trained with greater understanding of social inclusion at societal level and competencies in using non-formal educational methods to foster social inclusion
– 30 youth workers with competencies in advocacy, as well as analysing and monitoring policy, specifically social inclusion policies at local level
– 6 advocacy campaigns on issues related to the social inclusion of discriminated groups at local level
– 1 training module for youth workers on social inclusion at individual level and non-formal educational methods
– 1 training module for youth workers on policies for social inclusion and advocacy
– Non-formal educational activities with 916 young people
– 14 partnerships with schools
– 6 youth organizations with increased expertise in addressing social inclusion in an integrated way
– 20 new local partners (other civil society organizations, students’ organizations, public authorities, schools, youth centres, youth clubs, etc.) attracted in the implementation of the local events /activities
– An integrated toolkit with the methodology and good practices used in the project.
Coordinator:
ASOCIATIA A.R.T. FUSION – Romania
Partners:
BALKANIDEA NOVI SAD UDRUZENJE – Serbia
HANG-KEP KULTURALIS EGYESULET – Hungary
Sdrujenie “Nadejda-CRD” – Bulgaria
TEATRO METAPHORA – ASSOCIACAO DE AMIGOS DAS ARTES – Portugal
Udruga za poticanje razvoja ljudskih potencijala i kreativnosti – Prizma – Croatia
