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Disclusion- Discrimination and Social Exclusion in Youth Work

2019-3-ES02-KA105-0140742019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: ES|PL|HU|BG|EL|IT|RS|RO|HR|AM · Grant: €17,865
Inclusion - equityInternational cooperation, international relations, development cooperationYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

It is widely recognised that social exclusion produces deep and long-term damage to the living conditions, socio-economic participation, emotional life, and wealth being of young people. Different factors play important roles in producing social exclusion. Poor levels of education, experiencing discrimination, monetary poverty, unemployment, living in remote geographical areas, and experiences of juvenile delinquency, are often indicated as the main factors of youth social exclusion. Youth work plays an essential role in reaching and bringing together young people who face exclusion on a daily basis. The projects aims to increase the knowledge and skills of youth workers on topics of discrimination and social exclusion in the context of youth work in a non-formal framework. The aim is supported by the following objectives: -to facilitate involvement of 23 youth workers from Program and Partner European countries in the whole cycle of the project and ensure insure the feeling of ownership towards the project for 6 months -to raise knowledge of 23 youth workers in the topics social exclusion and discrimination and de-velop skills to address those issues through youth work - to provide participants with practical tools and methods to ensure inclusiveness of youth work and avoiding unwillingly discrimination -to raise awareness on participants about their selves and their roles as youth workers linked with discrimination in the social exclusion context -to empower participants to take action to reduce discrimination in their own lives and in society by sharing methods, tools and instruments to be incorporated in a methodology for approaching youth in fighting against social exclusion -to ensure participants pass through all stages of experiential learning and reflect of the learning outcomes through 8 Key Competencies model -to provide space for participants to share their experience and to develop long lasting partner-ships

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