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Migrant Origin Stories through Art, Identity and Creativity

2026-1-DE04-KA153-YOU-0003978562026Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: DE|ES|EE|LV|LT|PL|BG|IT|RO|TR|HR · Grant: €41,545
Digital content, technologies and practicesDigital skills and competencesDigital youth work

Objectives

By implementing MOSAIC, we want to strengthen youth work practice so that young people with a migrant background, refugees, and young people from minority communities are genuinely supported in speaking for themselves through safe, meaningful, and high quality digital storytelling. The project starts from a very practical need: migration is deeply personal, yet public narratives are too often shaped by media and political interests, which fuels stereotypes, misinformation, and distance between communities. MOSAIC responds to this gap by equipping youth workers and educators with the competences and methods to guide young people in transforming lived experience into content that can inform, connect, and educate, without exploiting stories or putting participants at risk. At the same time, it supports youth workers in creating contexts where young people feel seen, listened to, and respected, and where storytelling becomes a pathway to participation rather than a one time activity. From a youth work perspective, our objectives are grounded in non formal education and focus on what youth workers need to do in real settings, especially when inclusion is not a slogan but a daily responsibility. We aim to develop concrete digital skills such as storytelling, videomaking, campaigning, and narrative design that can be applied immediately in programme design and delivery, combined with participatory methodologies that keep the process inclusive, youth centred, and accessible. MOSAIC is designed so that participants do not only learn tools, but also learn how to facilitate a full learning process from idea to production and dissemination, including group work dynamics, peer feedback, and reflection. In this way, the training strengthens both technical capacity and facilitation competence, which is essential for quality youth work. A key objective is also to strengthen ethical and safer practice in youth work when personal stories are involved. Participants will learn how to facilitate storytelling responsibly, with strong attention to safeguarding, consent, privacy, and the dignity of storytellers, because many young people may have experienced vulnerability and the way stories are collected, edited, and shared matters as much as the story itself. This means learning how to avoid sensationalism, how to protect identities when needed, how to set boundaries, and how to ensure that young people remain in control of what they choose to share. It also means adopting an approach that is trauma aware and respectful, while still empowering young people to express themselves creatively and confidently. In terms of change we want to generate in our communities, MOSAIC aims to increase awareness and contribute to more empathetic and inclusive local environments by challenging stereotypes and supporting intercultural dialogue between host societies and migrant communities. This is particularly relevant in the German context regarding the limited space for nuanced representation of Kurdish diaspora communities, but the project is designed to be transferable and valuable across Europe, where partners face similar challenges linked to polarisation, minority representation, and lack of safe spaces for young voices. By supporting youth workers to facilitate youth led narratives, the project helps create content that can open conversations, reduce prejudice, and promote a more human and complex understanding of migration. Finally, we want the project to create lasting change in everyday youth work, not a one off training experience. That is why MOSAIC is designed to produce replicable methodologies and ready to use resources that partners can embed into their regular programmes, such as modular formats for local storytelling labs, mentoring steps to support young storytellers, and simple dissemination guidance. After the mobility, youth workers will transfer the methods into follow up activities like local workshops, mentoring processes, awareness initiatives, and intercultural dialogue moments, while the partnership will continue as a community of practice that supports long term cooperation and future project development. In this way, MOSAIC contributes to strengthening both individual professional growth and organisational capacity, making youth work interventions more relevant, appealing, and impactful for the young people we aim to reach.

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