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Reach Out

2020-1-DK01-KA105-0749842020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: DK|HU|MT|HR|TR|IT|DE|ES|PL|MK|EL|LT|BG|RO|SK · Grant: €0
Access for disadvantagedYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Inclusion - equity

Objectives

Democracy is a fundamental value of the EU and assumes the involvement of all citizens in the decision-making process. However, Flash Eurobarometer 455 from 2017 showed that almost half of the young Europeans lacked structures to enable their participation in society. Consequently, in its 2019-2027 Youth Strategy, the EU places focus on reaching and involving all young people, including 'hard to reach' groups that are characterised as not being involved in youth organisation structures. These groups are the be reached via three key actions: - ENGAGE: Fostering youth participation in democratic life. - CONNECT: Bringing young people together across the EU and beyond to foster voluntary engagement, learning mobility, solidarity and intercultural understanding. - EMPOWER - Supporting youth empowerment through quality, innovation and recognition of youth work. Taking a point of departure in this problematisation and the EU's 2019-2027 Youth Strategy, the Project Partners partook in the 'Reach Out' project whose aim was to strengthen youth organizations' capacity across Europe to operationalize the three EU key actions, in order to address hard to reach groups. The partners of the project believed that there was a clear need for youth organisations to better address hard to reach groups, in order to promote EU opportunities. Youth organizations across Europe needed to come together and find common and practical solutions in this regard. Thus, the project was guided by the following objectives: 1. To support youth workers to address young people from hard to reach groups. 2. To deepen youth workers' understanding on the current challenges young people from hard to reach groups are facing. 3. To share best practices regarding youth work with young people from hard to reach groups. 4. To identify and explore new ways of addressing young people form hard to reach groups. 5. To strengthen the networks focused on addressing young people form hard to reach groups, in order to better promote the three EU key actions. 6. To develop a Common Strategy Guideline on how to better achieve young people from hard to reach groups, with regards to the three EU key actions.

Project partners (15)