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EU4You

2019-1-DK01-KA105-0600092019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: DK|MK|BG|HR|CZ|IT|HU|PL|RO|TR|CY|RS · Grant: €31,236
EU Citizenship, EU awareness and DemocracyYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

In the recent years, as the nationalist and populist ideas are gaining momentum, hard Euroscepticism has been increasing at significant levels both within and outside EU, amongst countries such as France, Poland Hungary, Norway, Turkey, Serbia and undoubtedly, the UK. Especially with Brexit, the problem has turned into a critical one threatening the integrity of Europe. There is the fear that hard Eurosceptic movements will get stronger in the next years, eventually leading to the collapse of the European integration process. This current picture leads European integration to being taken for granted in today’s world. In addition to being the biggest peace project for the continent after the World War II, the EU has made wide variety of policy changes possible which have significant impact in our daily lives, ranging from the freedom of movement within the EU to the right to public healthcare in any other EU member state, or the right to stand up and vote in the local elections. To prevent any Brexit domino effect and tackle the root causes of populism and hard Eurosceptism, the partners in this project found it crucial to increase among young Europeans the knowledge, awareness and understanding on the importance of the EU. Given that very often youth workers and young organizations themselves do not have sufficient knowledge, tools, methods and practices on the subject, the partners agreed on the following objectives: 1) To enhance the knowledge of youth workers participating in the project upon EU’s impact in our daily lives. 2) To enhance critical thinking and media literacy skills of youth workers; 3) To provide youth workers with tools and methods to raise awareness amongst the young people upon the importance of the EU and give them skills to decipher populist message 4) To foster cooperation between European organisations active the youth field in the promotion of the EU awareness and combating Euroscepticism.

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