People living in peripheral areas along the Western Balkan generally are exposed to poverty, pollution, and social inequality. Other relevant issues include unplanned settlement, squatter settlement or popular settlement which explains the occupation by low-income households. The challenges that are present in the peripheral areas relate to social elements such as discrimination of women and young people, prejudice and inequalities, environmental and urban elements as lack of access to clean water, proper waste collection, housing, access to education and economic elements such lack of employment opportunities. To address the needs the project aims to gather for a period of 24 months 6 partners from EU and Western Balkan countries to exchange practices and address the appropriate tools. The overall goal of the project is engaging -empowering and enabling - youth to lead sustainable actions for transforming peripheral areas into livable areas through sharing good practices, innovative tools, and methods. The main objectives of the project are: Empowering young professionals from participating organizations with appropriate tools and methods to influence the transformation of peripheral areas into livable areas, ii) Engaging and enabling rural youth to effectively contribute to scaling up peripheral areas upgrading. iii) Disseminating the results and the methodology of the project with the purpose of making a wider impact to the society through online events and virtual communication. The main results of the project are: The capacities of 24 young professionals will be raised through the mobility activities, more than 20 rural youth from each organization are engaged in local activities and their capacities will be increased, 1 toolkit and gamification game on urban design is developed and delivered to young professionals, more than 10000 people are reached through dissemination activities, and digital events and communication.
People living in peripheral areas along the Western Balkan generally are exposed to poverty, pollution, and social inequality. Other relevant issues include unplanned settlement, squatter settlement or popular settlement which explains the occupation by low-income households. The challenges that are present in the peripheral areas relate to social elements such as discrimination of women and young people, prejudice and inequalities, environmental and urban elements as lack of access to clean water, proper waste collection, housing, access to education and economic elements such lack of employment opportunities. To address the needs the project aims to gather for a period of 24 months 6 partners from EU and Western Balkan countries to exchange practices and address the appropriate tools. The overall goal of the project is engaging -empowering and enabling - youth to lead sustainable actions for transforming peripheral areas into livable areas through sharing good practices, innovative tools, and methods. The main objectives of the project are: Empowering young professionals from participating organizations with appropriate tools and methods to influence the transformation of peripheral areas into livable areas, ii) Engaging and enabling rural youth to effectively contribute to scaling up peripheral areas upgrading. iii) Disseminating the results and the methodology of the project with the purpose of making a wider impact to the society through online events and virtual communication. The main results of the project are: The capacities of 24 young professionals will be raised through the mobility activities, more than 20 rural youth from each organization are engaged in local activities and their capacities will be increased, 1 toolkit and gamification game on urban design is developed and delivered to young professionals, more than 10000 people are reached through dissemination activities, and digital events and communication.