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Social and Economical Responsibility through Youth Work

2019-2-PT02-KA105-0062142019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: PT|EL|FI · Grant: €23,010
Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship educationInclusion - equityCivic engagement / responsible citizenship

Objectives

This youth workers mobility project will have 2 stages (one week of mobility of youth workers activity in Almada and one week in Athens) and will be divided into 3 fundamental axes: 1- Importance of social and economical competencies of youth immigrants workers to increase the social-economical responsibility in their residence countries. 2- Competencies of youth immigrant workers on civic engagement, learning mobility, solidarity and intercultural understanding in the immigrants communities and social neighborhoods. 3- Participation and knowledge on social-economical development of immigrants community by providing social assistances. The aims: - To improve the socio-economic inclusion of young immigrants with disadvantages as way to make them more active citizens and more confidence in their society. This will bring together immigrant youth workers from Portugal, finland and Greece to work on youth talent, social inclusion and better involvement of young people and at same time give more expertise to work and design on their own lives, creativity and talents, as well as respond to their needs and inclusion, contributing to positive change in society. The main objectives: • To develop essential social and economical responsibility through Youth Work for with immigrant groups and way to provide a better responses to the community in disadvantage situation. • To contribute for the eradication of poverty and all forms of racism and discrimination that affect negatively immigrant groups and promote their social and economical inclusion. • To increase knowledge about the intercultural context of the social-economical responsibility and immigrants youth inclusion in European Youth Cooperation context, adding the availability among youth workers to work within immigrant communities. • To make 30 youth workers well prepared and gain confidence about inclusion and provide bases to approach and initiate a dialogue about poverty and social-economical exclusion problems among immigrants and refugees, by motivation and awareness about values underpinning youth work and social-economical responsibility. • To promote best practices of youth workers and activities and policies that are inclusive for young immigrants and youth refugees, specially young people with few opportunities.

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