Given the current COVID-19 crisis and its social impact, we intend to launch this project that will give youth a voice and encourage active participation, especially of youth with fewer opportunities, with the aim of contributing to the construction of citizenship active and committed to the European project. This project aims to alleviate the difficulties for face-to-face and community participation that the current health crisis is causing through the creation of a EUROPEAN YOUTH COMMUNITY RADIO that offers opportunities for youth participation and empowerment. Community radio will be an educational tool that will help young people improve their skills and debate and address some key issues in the ongoing construction of the European project. This Strategic Partnership in the field of youth project entitled - EUROPEAN COMMUNITY YOUTH RADIO - aims to create a European network of organizations from different European countries, from which to promote the development of a more structured cooperation, online and offline , between different youth organizations in order to strengthen associations focusing on solidarity and inclusive democratic participation of all, with the aim of giving a voice to youth, promoting the active participation of youth and their empowerment using community radio as a tool . We will use community radio as a tool for participation and learning. We believe that community radio provides spaces to empower, develop and mainly, empower youth, so that they speak out in community life. In addition, the network and community radio will have the support of the different mobilities that arise in the development of this project. The young people who participate in the project will be involved in all its phases. Once the project begins, a youth base group will be created in each of the organizations made up of young people from the local community, guaranteeing the participation of socially disadvantaged young people who, accompanied by youth workers, will design the lines of the local base of every community radio. This group will try to involve the greatest number of young people in the development of radio, trying to involve young people who are socially disadvantaged due to geographical (rural), cultural (migrant origin, minorities) and / or economic reasons. By participating in this project, youth will have the opportunity to exercise their right to participate as a full actor in social development. Society has the duty to allow access to this full citizenship and the responsibility to count on the youth as an agent of present and future development. We will address the main areas of the youth sector: Involve. Connect. Train. We will involve youth in EU youth decision-making and seek to make their voice heard. At the same time we will connect young people and youth workers through the European community radio and the mobilities that we will carry out. And finally, we will try to empower the youth by encouraging them to take charge of their lives, giving them a voice and fostering youth cooperation. Also, the project plans to: • Hold two transnational meetings • Launch 2 training / learning activities addressing key elements of the project. • Create educational and creative resources (Podcasts) on the topics that the project will address. • Promote service-learning activities as an innovative learning tool linked to the EUROPEAN COMMUNITY YOUTH RADIO. • Promote the exchange of good practices. • Dissemination activities for the Erasmus + Program and the CES. In the implementation of the project we will use an active and participatory methodology linked to non-formal education. We will also use an innovative methodology called "Service-Learning". Service-learning is a methodology oriented to education for citizenship, inspired by active pedagogies and compatible with other educational strategies. In this project it is also conceived as a method to unite learning and social commitment: learning to be competent by being useful to others. It is expected that a total of 36 people will participate in the European training actions that appear in this project and that directly or indirectly in the project about 600 people will participate in childhood, adolescence, youth, in addition to volunteers, experts, technicians and managers of the partner entities that will be involved in the different phases of the project. The project will involve 6 entities with extensive experience at the local and European level from France, Portugal, Italy, the Republic of North Macedonia, Germany and Spain and will have a total duration of 26 months, starting on May 31, 2021.
The objectives we wanted to achieve with the implementation of the project have been: - To boost the inclusive participation of European youth. - To foster the development of a more structured cooperation, online and offline, between different European youth organisations by creating a network that would give birth to the EUROPEAN YOUTH COMMUNITY RADIO. - Involve young people in EU youth decision-making and make their voice heard. - Generate debate and reflection on the goals of European youth, around the "No Hate Speech", around the Sustainable Development Goals and around the future and impact of the COVID-19 health crisis, trying to bet on a more inclusive, cohesive and sustainable model of life and society. - Promote creativity, innovation and initiative. - Promote the active participation of young people and the dissemination of the Erasmus + Programme and the ESC. - Encourage the exchange of good practices in the field of youth.
We applied for this Strategic Partnerships project in the field of youth - EUROPEAN COMMUNITY YOUTH RADIO - because we wanted to set up a project that would give a voice to young people and encourage active participation, especially for young people with fewer opportunities, with the aim of contributing to the construction of an active citizenship committed to the European project. This project aimed to alleviate the difficulties for face-to-face and community participation that the Covid19 health crisis was causing, through the creation of a EUROPEAN YOUTH COMMUNITY RADIO that would offer opportunities for youth participation and empowerment. Community radio was an educational tool that enabled young people to improve their competences and to discuss and address some key issues in the ongoing construction of the European project. We have used community radio as a tool for participation and learning. We believe that community radio provides spaces to empower, develop and mainly empower young people to have a say in community life. In addition, the network and community radio provided training opportunities for youth workers.