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YE - Be Active

2020-3-NO02-KA105-0017682020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: NO|RO|PL|LT|TR|SK · Grant: €16,675
Civic engagement / responsible citizenshipEU Citizenship, EU awareness and DemocracyYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

The overall aim of the BE ACTIVE project was to empower young participants for becoming active citizens in their communities also including special added value of the project was the peace, tolerance and respect to other cultures starting with project partner countries and than whole Europe and the World. We have repeatedly discussed and highlighted that active participation promotes the rights, independence and choice of the individual. Moreover, in BE ACTIVE project programme implementation we emphasized our participants that active participation helps people young realize that their actions which has a great impact in how we are building our nations in Europe. The BE ACTIVE project brought 29 participants from 6 different programme countries: Norway(5), Romania/Ukraine(5), Lithuania(4), Turkey(5), Slovakia/Ukraine(5) and Poland(5) to make them aware that active participation of youth in society is the key to building a healthy and happy nation. The project goal has been achieved due to the following objectives: 1. Raising awareness about the importance and benefits of active youth participation, on individual and societal level; 2. Encouraging exchange of methods and tools for active participation of young people in the decision-making processes; 3. Creating a strong and competent network of youth leaders and to provide a guide, that can be shared and used to improve involvement of young people in decision-making processes; 4. Encouraging acquiring and improving soft skills, such as teamwork, leadership, communication, etc. 5. Enabling mobility and intercultural dialogue between young people from different countries, cultures and backgrounds; 6. Supporting active citizenship, social responsibility and active youth participation; 7. Promoting non-formal education, the Erasmus+ programme, European Solidarity Corps initiative and Youthpass. Project results (social media and videos, Instagram page, local actions and meetings as follow-up) and project relevant information were disseminated through various information sources among Norway youth NGOs, partner organization members and local young people as our participants very motivated and pass the experience and motivation to other young people in our project partner countries. We have included participants form Ukraine reach out, provide opportunity to vulnerable groups in Europe. Thanks to this group we have reached out wider networks for the ongoing crisis in Europe and promoted active citizenship, democracy, and EU awareness among these groups which our project had great contribution in this regard. The results, discussion, and visibility of the project have doubled thanks to this extra afford of our partnership.

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