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"Youth for Democracy – Democracy for Youth"

2022-3-NO02-KA152-YOU-0000926242022Mobility of young peoplefinalizedGood practice
Countries: NO|AM|LV|UA|SK|TR|BG · Grant: €51,549
Cultural heritageDemocracy and inclusive democratic participationHuman 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. We believe that young people can cope with those challenges and overcome by knowing their rights and the possibilities for them which are created in the social and political context in EU. In this manner, we wanted to gather young people from different countries and let them 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 of youth, - 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, respectfulness, tolerance, empathy, youth empowerment, diversity, dignity, equity etc. - promote the well-being of young people and develop their skills and experiences, - see how to be part of promoting peace, conflict management, transition to democracy, - consider creating more peaceful and more inclusive societies, - discuss about different types of democracies and compare them to each other, - learn about their rights, means, space and opportunities in social-politic-educational-economic context, - find different possibilities to enhance youth participation at local and regional levels, - support young people to increase their knowledge about Erasmus+ program 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 non-formal educational methods.

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