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Youth work versus Euroscepticism

2020-2-RO01-KA105-0808472020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: RO|EL|RS|CZ|TR|BG|IT|MK|HR|ES|SI · Grant: €24,140
Inclusion - equityEU Citizenship, EU awareness and DemocracyYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

The project Youth work versus Euroscepticism, through its contact making seminar structure responds to the objectives and strategies of the organizations involved in increasing capacity, attractiveness and international dimension and motivation to innovate and improve quality in youth activity, increase capacity to address the needs of young people exposed to propaganda of misinformation. The project aims to meet the needs of youth workers in partner organizations to improve their skills in youth work, the portfolio of projects and tools dedicated to the involvement and development of young people, especially vulnerable young people, increasing the quality of youth activities and public promotion initiated as well as the development of the European partnership. The aim of the project was born from communications with partners on current risks in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic affecting young people, and especially vulnerable young people identifying the need to strengthen the European partnership between organizations active in the youth sector by developing expertise in projects and public communication tools. Taking advantage of the unprecedented context encountered at European level, Eurosceptic currents have developed even more this year, on a ground of uncertainty and frustration using misinformation and fake news and young people are a category with a high level of vulnerability of fake news. Investing in education and training and youth activities are some of the solutions with long-term impact to prevent the vulnerability of young people to the avalanche of information of today that seeks the propaganda of currents of opinion against European values and principles. Purpose: Strengthening collaboration at European level between organizations active in the development of youth activities to combat Euroscepticism. Objectives: Development of the European partnership between 11 youth organizations from 11 countries based on increasing the quality in future youth projects to support European solidarity; Increasing the capacity of 33 youth workers to bring added value in raising awareness on European identity valuing media tools specific for written media, radio and TV; Supporting the initiation of four youth projects developed in European partnership as concrete way of action in favor of diminishing the risk of Euroscepticism among youth. The main activity of the project is the European seminar that will include activities to strengthen the European partnership, develop new Erasmus + youth projects to support European solidarity and combat Euroscepticism and create media tools to promote European solidarity. The partner organizations will develop their capacity both through the specifics of the contact-making seminar and through the topic of interest approached. Our open democratic societies in Europe depend on young people's ability to access a variety of verifiable information so that they can form an opinion on various issues and policies. In this way, young people can participate informed in public debates and express their will through free and fair decision-making processes. Therefore, within the project, the youth workers involved will develop projects and tools to reach young people and vulnerable groups at risk of misinformation.

Project partners (11)