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From Youth as Problems To Youth as Resources

2020-1-EE01-KA105-0776712020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: EE|SI|AM|GE|EL|RS|IT|PL|ES · Grant: €19,306
Civic engagement / responsible citizenshipEU Citizenship, EU awareness and DemocracyYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

We wanted to: - raise awareness on the essence of youth participation giving young people proper mechanisms for realizing their ideas, -actively develop alternative forms of young people’s participation in social life, -raise awareness on citizenship education covering innovative tools, techniques and experience useful for youth participation and leadership. -increase competencies, self-esteem, skills and knowledge to enhance individual development to generate real community change; the opportunity of which is now given to youth in many of the partner countries/organizations. - answer questions on how marginalized young people do in terms of social inclusion, how they can actively participate in education, employment and society at large and how they can manage their transition to adulthood and to an autonomous life. Our team of partners aimed to build the capacities of youth workers/leaders on youth participation and active citizenship, putting forward the following objectives: 1. Analyze concepts like identity and culture and young people’s role in society and community to outline directions to make their locality a better place to live. 2. Recognize negotiation, advocacy and media literacy to public engagement while fixing problems and offering solutions. 3. Identify research tools and methods to facilitate youth participation when using online applications and making questions for survey of social and community importance. 4. Apply participatory methodologies, like prioritizing ideas and suggestions to self-facilitate and discuss issues of their choice. 5. Perform Participation Café physically when applying social inclusion and accessible participation among young people.

Project partners (9)