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Inclusion for Youth - Youth for Inclusion

2022-3-DE04-KA153-YOU-0000930312022Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: DE|TR|UA|PL|NO|LV · Grant: €46,702
Democracy and inclusive democratic participationEuropean identity, citizenship and valuesHuman rights and rule of law

Objectives

A democracy cannot move forward without youth. Otherwise, it will lose its credibility, guaranty, and legitimacy. But this is not an unchangeable faith. We wanted to show that this could be changed by promoting the active participation of young people in societies, growing social cohesion, fostering the EU’s values, spreading the democratic principles among young people. Greater changes begin with small steps. If we’re talking for the changes in societies then we should definitely keep in mind that social bases have to be regarded for such actions. For this reason, we aimed to focus on young people from different countries and “teach and remind” them the importance of democracy, democratic values, the need to democracy in today’s world (where radicalization and xenophobia are on the rise), the importance of youth energy to promote democracy and new perspectives to democracy. In addition to this, reaching a civic-democratic society can happen through youth workers and the people who work in organizations. They have valuable responsibility to spread the idea of living together everywhere. With this aim, we hosted 50 youth workers or member of our partner organizations and gave them opportunity to: - define the current socio-economic problems, challenges, and necessities for young people and find solutions for them; - understand the youth engagement in society and active participation; - be aware of the importance of democratic principles and social inclusion; - ensure better political decisions and actions by means of youth perspective; - know how to be more active and what kind of changes can happen in societies with their active participation; - strengthen understanding and awareness of main principles of democracy and EU such as human rights, young engagement, active participation, inclusive society, diversity, respectfulness, tolerance, empathy, youth empowerment, dignity, equity; - promote the well-being of young people and develop their professional skills and experiences; - see how to be part of promoting peace, conflict management, transition to democracy; - consider creating more peaceful and inclusive societies; - discuss about different types of democracies and compare each other; - learn about youth rights, means, space and opportunities in social-educational context; - find different possibilities to enhance youth participation at local and regional levels; - support young people to increase their knowledge about Erasmus+ to offer the opportunity to meet partner groups and develop concrete ideas for future projects focusing on cultural diversity and active participation; - promote and develop nonformal educational methods by finding new tools.

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