The project aims to create innovative educational approach and tools to concretely apply intersectionality in youth work. For “intersectionality” we intend an analytical tool for studying, understanding and responding to the ways in which identity components intersect with other personal characteristics/identities, and how these intersections contribute to unique experiences of oppression and discrimination. The project wants to create the space to transfer intersectional approach to the youth field and youth work, to try and face the modern challenges according to which an holistic analysis of systemic discrimination is necessary to understand and tackle social inequality. In this sense, the presence in the partnership (Giosef Torino-Italy, Euroaccion-Spain, YES-The Netherlands and New Generation-Palestine) of a Palestinian partner is essential, because it brings a unique experience of oppression that enacts a mechanism according to which the national identity becomes completely prevalent and overruns all the other intersections, starting from one’s own self-perception. The specific objectives are: -to foster an innovative and inclusive educational approach based on the concept of intersectionality; -to reinforce the response of education and training systems and youth policies to the main challenges of today's world, such as civic and intercultural competences, intercultural dialogue, democratic values and fundamental rights, social inclusion, non-discrimination; -to develop innovative outputs to be disseminated throughout the Euromed area, in order to guarantee an improved capacity and know-how of the organisations active in youth work; -to promote an intersectional approach in the youth field that contribute in promoting social inclusion of young people, particularly those with fewer opportunities and part of marginalised groups at risk of exclusion; -to foster a participatory approach in Euromed cooperation, enhancing an equal exchange of contributions and competences, in order to avoid the risk of a neo-colonial approach and work on the capacity building in regards to the outreach and inclusion of second generation immigrant young people in Europe. The main result expected is the creation of an innovative educational approach that allows us to work concretely on intersectionality in youth work. For that purpose, the project will create three concrete intellectual outputs: O1-Make it Relevant: Intersectionality in Youth work: a standalone publication gathering theoretical essays and advocacy material related to the topic of intersectionality applied to the youth field, building the theoretical framework in which to move; O2-Tools for Intersectionality: an educational Toolkit with activities and tools to work concretely on intersectionality in youth work; O3-Make it Real: Intersectionality in Youth policy: a list of recommendations to be addressed to policy makers regarding the implementation of intersectional measures and approach in the youth policy field. MARTI foresees a series of activities to facilitate the achievement of the set objectives: - 3 TPM to facilitate cooperation among the partners and monitoring: *Kick-off Meeting in Italy *Monitoring Partners Meeting in Spain *Evaluation Partners Meeting in The Netherlands - 2 Training Courses to train youth workers about the tools created, the intersectional approach and prepare the piloting phase involving young people, through NFE: *B.I.Y.-Bring Intersectionality in Youth work *SIMPLE-Stake Intersectional Methodology: Plan it, Learn it, Enhance it! - 2 rounds of Multiplier Events to disseminate the project results: *E1-E4: Make it Relevant - Intersectionality in youth work *E5-E8: Make it Real - Inclusive youth work in an intersectional world. The consortium has foreseen the involvement of participants with fewer opportunities alongside the project, both in the mobilities and the local phases, thus putting in place specific measures to facilitate their inclusion. The project will support the improvement of youth workers capacity, fostering an inclusive approach in their practice with young people at all levels, in terms of prevention of multiple discrimination, for facilitating identity building and awareness processes. Therefore, young people with fewer opportunities will greatly benefit from this increased level of inclusion. The outputs and the learning outcomes will facilitate the organisations competences to integrate the local and Euromed youth work practice. Moreover the impact on the policy making level will foster inclusive youth policy integrated with youth work impact and recognition. To facilitate the whole process, from preparation to dissemination, the consortium has included four associated partners to support the activities from several perspectives: *ENAR-European Network Against Racism *HREYN-Human Rights Education Youth Network *Municipality of Torino *Region de Murcia - Consejeria de Educacion, Juventud y Deportes.
The aim of the project was to create the space to transfer an intersectional approach to the youth field and youth work in particular, to respond to the modern challenges according to which an holistic analysis of systemic discrimination is necessary to understand and tackle social inequality. The specific objectives foreseen for the project were: -to foster an innovative and inclusive educational approach based on the concept of intersectionality; -to reinforce the response of education and training systems and youth policies to the main challenges of today's world, such as civic and intercultural competences, intercultural dialogue, democratic values and fundamental rights, social inclusion, non-discrimination; -to develop innovative outputs to be disseminated throughout the Euromediterranean area, in order to guarantee an improved capacity and know-how of the organisations active in youth work; -to promote an intersectional approach in the youth field that contribute in promoting social inclusion of young people, particularly those with fewer opportunities and part of marginalised groups at risk of exclusion; -to foster a participatory approach in Euromediterranean cooperation, enhancing an equal exchange of contributions and competences, in order to avoid the risk of a neo-colonial approach and work on the capacity building in regards to the outreach and inclusion of second generation immigrant young people in Europe.
With this project, we wanted to create an innovative educational approach and tools to concretely apply intersectionality in youth work. For “intersectionality” we intend an analytical tool for studying, understanding and responding to the ways in which identity components intersect with other personal characteristics/identities, and how these intersections contribute to unique experiences of oppression and discrimination. It starts from the premise that people have multiple, layered identities derived from social relations, history and operating structures of power. Intersectional analysis aims to reveal multiple identities, exposing the different types of intersectional and multiple discrimination and disadvantage that occur as a consequence of the combination of identities with other grounds. Since when it’s been coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, intersectionality has been spreading in anti-discrimination activism, but when the project was written it was still quite an uncharted territory in the youth field, where anti-discrimination has been hitherto treated as a compartmentalised matter. In fact, working with young people with fewer opportunities and at risk of marginalisation and social exclusion usually means focusing on one specific aspect (or identity component) and leaving all the others behind. A clear example showed in the Applicant local context is the experience of lgbt+ organisations which have suddenly found themselves dealing with lgbt+ migrants, asylum seekers and refugees and realised how few competences they had regarding that specific dimension, unprepared to deal with the effects that the intersections between sexual, ethnic and religious identities, as well as political status, have on people’s self-perception. With this project we wanted to respond to the need for an holistic analysis of systemic discrimination, which is necessary to understand and tackle social inequality. We intended to provide the opportunity for youth workers in the Euromediterranean context to start focusing and committing to dismantle those internalised systems in themselves, so that afterwards they could apply what they have gained with the youth groups they’re working. In this sense, the presence of a Palestinian partner was essential, because it brought a unique experience of oppression that enacts a mechanism according to which the national identity becomes completely prevalent and overruns all the other possible intersections, starting from one’s own self-perception. The challenge for Palestinian youth workers and policy makers is hence particularly demanding in terms of acquiring an intersectional approach.