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LEARN about GREEN and URBAN: engagement in community projects

2019-2-SK02-KA105-0022162019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: SK|RU|PT|MD · Grant: €12,980.96
Civic engagement / responsible citizenshipEnvironment and climate change

Objectives

In our days more than ever, the urban space is inhabited and lived by more and more people. Sustainable cities and communities are one of the top priorities in the world’s social policy agenda in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goal number 11. Our project is an international meeting which is going to gather urbanists, city-designers, street artists, eco-activists, educators and cultural organizers, municipality workers, journalists and bloggers involved with the topic of city or community development in order to equip them with good practices a of community and city activities/projects The main question of the meeting is how we can bring young people to share common values and live in a comfortable friendly city, where everyone can be heard and motivated to work for the community’s goals, how to involve young people in to community building and how to strength their competences in public participation in local level. There are FOUR organizations involved will present their cases and projects on the way to better cities and stronger communities. Three of mentioned countries have Post Soviet past - Stavropol and the whole region of the North Caucasus were parts of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Moldova was a part of the Soviet Union and Slovakia was in the Eastern Bloc within Czechoslovakia. Portugal has a different heritage there was a dictatorship till 1974 that provided Portugal with similar legacy as Post-Soviet countries have. All involved organizations have former experience in building communities, implement project with impact on to local environment anyway we have slightly different expertise, cultural background and experience what worth to share. Objective of the project is gt develop knowledge and skills of community engagement projects of apr. 18 NGO youth workers from Moldova, Russia, Slovakia, Portugal in order to improve the quality of youth work and their activities for positive social changes in communities following Sustainable Development. There is going to be a practical task for participants on raising awareness activities for the local community: participants will be divided into teams that will work on their project ideas for local action\activity such as helping local library organizing an event for promoting its coworking zone, organizing planting workshops and so on.

Project partners (4)