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Queer Up!

2022-3-ES02-KA153-YOU-0000975662022Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: ES|IT|CZ|EL|NL|SI|MK|LT|SK · Grant: €19,108
Promoting LGBT+ equalityHuman rights and rule of lawEuropean identity, citizenship and values

Objectives

The European Union is based on a strong commitment to promoting and protecting human rights, democracy and the rule of law worldwide. Human rights are at the heart of EU relations with other countries and regions. Among others, it stands for defending civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of minorities. Meanwhile, the situation of LGBTQ+ people (among other minorities) differs depending on the country. While there are countries where the access to legal and social norms as marriage or parenting between people of same gender are legal and socially accepted, the procedure of gender correction is based on most recent scientific investigations and drove by the aim of the ones well-being, in other places in European Union the members of LGBTQ+ community have their laws limited because of their non-heteronormativity and feel socially excluded or threatened. We believe that the fight for enhancing LGBTQ+ people's well being needs to be seen from the holistic and international perspective, and that activists and youth workers who on a regular basis work in different contexts, can bring powerful inspirations from one to another. The process of working on implementing European values, besides local actions, need also a holistic approach, and to achieve such an approach, the communication and partnership between youthworkers, activists and change makers is crucial. By implementing the project we want the youthworkers to first, strengthen an informal international network of NGOs, activists and change-makers dedicated to LGBTQ+ rights and well-being. Considering unequal standard that LGBTQ+ people are meeting depending on a country, we believe that international communication of entities dedicated to this topic is crucial in the procedure of making whole UE a safe space for LGBTQ people. By strengthening the relations, all the parties can engage in more efficient actions dedicated both for local as for the international LGBTQ+ community needs oriented actions. Second, exchange experiences, good practices on how to support the LGBTQ+ collective. The organizations involved in the programme have different experiences of different practices and projects implemented in their countries and on international level. We want to provide the space and platform to share and exchange these experiences in between the youthworkers, to provide them insight on other possibilities and know-hows. and third, to gain inspiration and innovative ideas for future activities. We believe the potencial of group work of international team of change-makers can be impressingly inspirational and lead to create innovative ideas thanks to the collaboration of active and ambitious people of various experiences, perspectives and ideas who share the same values and goals. Besides the general goals of the seminar, our specific objectives in this activities are: To learn about the LGBTQ+ collective situation in different countries of EU; To develop new projects and actions for the LGBTQ+ collective in a safe space; To create innovative tools to work with local LGBTQ+ youth; To develop competences about peaceful communication, advocacy, projects management and to promote active citizenship and non-formal education

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