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Common values - our future

2019-2-PL01-KA105-0661902019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: PL|LT|CZ|HU|MT · Grant: €22,128
Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Civic engagement / responsible citizenshipEU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Objectives

With the idea of the project came up young people from five countries (Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta and Poland). Interestingly, each of these five countries joined the European Union at the same time (in 2004), thanks to which this year they celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of inclusion. The participants decided to take advantage of this convenient situation and combine it with the will to continuously development and learning. They realized how important today are EU values ​​such as freedom and equality. Young people realize that at every step the European Union is dealing with all the threats that, as a consequence, divide society and are the cause of many conflicts. The result of that may be the situation that we are currently observing in Great Britain. The latest survey by YouGov in the United Kingdom shows that 46 percent of the respondents would vote now for staying in the European Union and 36 percent of respondents wants to leave the community. Other people did not answer or had no opinion on this matter. When the survey only took into account the votes of those who were determined, 54 percent was in favor of staying in the EU and 46 percent against (source: https://www.rp.pl/Brexit/190109645-Sondaz-Brytyjczycy-przeciw-brexitowi-Chca-drugiego-referendum.html). Therefore, the youth asked themselves - how did Brexit come about and whether it was possible to avoid it? As part of the debate on the future of Europe, 47% of Europeans think their voice counts in the EU (source: http://ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice/publicopinion/index.cfm). In addition, project participants believe that active and creative Europeans should be aware participants. The future of the European Union, its development and integration depends on them. As citizens, they have or will have a real impact on its activities. However, this will not be possible without European awareness and basic information about the functioning of the European Union. This knowledge can be gained and deepened thanks to this project and its assumed results. Needs: through the implementation of the project, young people want to broaden their knowledge about the European Union and its values, as well as learn about the possibilities of dealing with such movements as Brexit in Great Britain. The main goal of this project is to increase competences and knowledge about EU values, the opportunities that the EU gives us and the threats to the EU and ways to deal with them. Detailed objectives of the project: - increase of knowledge about the history of the European Union, its founders and important dates, - getting to know European values ​​and having to live in harmony with them, - expanding knowledge about the opportunities and benefits that the EU gives us, - increase of knowledge about EU member states and their changes in the country after joining the EU, - developing skills related to formulating threats to the EU and ways to deal with them, - increase of knowledge about the UK's exit from the EU, knowledge of the causes and effects and possibilities how to prevent similar movements in the future, - increase of initiative and extension of interpersonal competences by doing interviews with the local community and conducting workshops for school, establishing cooperation, - broadening the competence for debating, - establishing intercultural dialogue and dialogue between organizations, building a network of contacts and overcoming barriers in intercultural communication, - exchange of views, problem solving, development of creative thinking, - promoting the concepts of freedom, tolerance, equality and respect for human rights among young people. A project in line with the goals of the youth mobility project: it will support young people in acquiring key competences on the subject of initiative, communication in foreign languages, social competences; it will increase the level of knowledge of the culture of participating countries, and hence - will increase the participants' capacity to create an international network of contacts; it will increase the capacity, attractiveness and international dimension of partners so that they are able to offer universal activities and programs that better meet the needs of young people. Most importantly, thanks to the classes, project participants will be more aware citizens of Europe.

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