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2020-2-DE04-KA105-0198522020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: DE|RS|RO|MK|HU|IT|BG · Grant: €20,795
Inclusion - equityRomas and/or other minoritiesIntercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Objectives

The 8 day seminar organized by Amara Fora e.V. will bring together 30 Roma and non-Roma multipliers and youth activists from 7 European countries (Germany, North-Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Serbia and Italy) aims to develop a comprehensive approach on the issue of Genocide remembrance and education of marginalized youth, their effective involvement and participation in local, national and international programmes, to strengthen cooperation and relations between Roma and non-Roma youth and youth organizations in order to strengthen the conceptual understanding for inter-cultural dialogue, youth inclusion, empowerment and mobilization, as weil active citizenship and to establish a support system for enhancing Roma youth capacities and developing new projects within the new Erasmus plus Programme. The project beside raising awareness about the Roma genocide during WWII through creative methods, aims to strengthen the intercultural dialogue between Roma and non-Roma youth, as well as to support the long-term cooperation and exchange between Roma and non-Roma Youth organizations. Our project wants to raise the self-awareness and self-esteem of the young people, give them the capacity to express themselves and empower them to get engaged in society and make their voices heard. This project promotes a positive image of Roma as active citizens and is dedicated to strengthen trust, mutual respect and joint engagement of young Roma and non-Roma. This project will not only increase the knowledge and sensitivity of the young Europeans on the topics of Human Rights, Roma Genocide and Antigypsyism, but the increased awareness of the young Roma and non-Roma can strengthen the consciousness of the participants about their role and responsibility within their communities, the society and in Europe at large. This project intents to investigate the horrible story of the Genocide during WWII in Europe and the Balkans, but also the aftermath and the path for recognition of the Roma genocide by the European parliament on April 15, 2015 with a resolution (2015/2615(RSP)). A special attention will be given to the conditions before and during the time of National-socialism in Germany, the extermination camps such as Auschwitz, Buchenwald, but also the genocide of the Romanian Roma in Transnistria, the massacre of Roma in Serbia, which was praised by the Nazis as most efficient, killing 90% of the Roma population at that time and the suffering of Roma and Jews in Lithuania and Bulgaria as well as the aftermath of what happened after the end of WWII, after the fall of the Iron curtain and the establishment of modern Europe and its institutions dedicated to ensure the rule of law, democracy and human rights. Last year marks the 75 year anniversary of the Roma Genocide, thus the importance of building up the knowledge of young people, creating a common narrative of remembrance and holocaust education and commemoration. We want to empower young people to take a voice to defend their Human Rights and to develop strategies to overcome exclusion and discrimination. This project aims to strengthen the identity and self-esteem, the intercultural dialogue, the active European Citizenship and joint engagement of young Roma and non-Roma to challenge stereotypes and racism through an international youth exchange involving creative and artistic tools of non-formal education.

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