ANIMATE THE GLOBAL CHANGE aims to raise the capacity of youth organizations from Europe and Africa to contribute to a cohesive sustainable society through alternative innovative methodology (street campaigning methods: participative or performing arts, living library and other techniques that could reach more young people);More specific objectives that are to be achieved :• To provide a space for sharing best practices among youth organization in Africa-Europe youth cooperation field;• To set-up the bases for a street campaigning network active on both continents;• To increase the level of innovation and creativity in youth work field;• To increase the level of professionalism and quality of youth work;• To stimulate long term involvement of beneficiaries youth organizations in international (and intercontinental) projects;• To stimulate mobility of youth workers North-South and South-North relation between continents and East-West/West- East within the continents.)• To develop at high level practical competencies in street campaigning for the youth workers involved• To develop strong pro-active attitudes towards social exclusion and global issues among the beneficiaries youth workers;• To increase the knowledge level of young people and youth workers in topics like: global interdependencies, climate change, sustainable life style, consumerism, social and global justice, social exclusion, etc.• To motivate all the beneficiaries (direct and indirect) to act as responsible active global citizens in their day to day life;The structure of the project is to combine international mobility and local activities. Each international meeting will be followed by local activities as follows:- Kick-off meeting in Tanzania(for country coordinators)- Local research and selection of multipliers- First training on street campaigning in Togo (28 participants)- Street campaigning for at least 2400 young people (on a topic relevant for each community)- at least 300 in each country- Second training for assessment of first street campaign and advance competencies in Romania (28 participants)- Second edition of the street campaign (for a higher target of people – at least 3200 young people having at least 400 in each country)- Final evaluation meeting in Madeira (for coordinators and some of the multipliers)- Local dissemination and follow-up activitiesEach of these activities (local/international) represents also the main milestones of the project – each being related to the previous one and depending on it. The process of the project is driven by the experiential learning principles, having a very strong practical components and adequate time and methods for reflection, feedback, self-assessment and extraction of the learning points that will be transferred in the future. The values of non-formal education (which is the main methodology in the trainings) are intended to be part of the process of the management as well.
In youth work field there are not enough educational opportunities for youth workers, which can enable them to bring the global dimension to their beneficiaries and reach more young people in their communities by using alternative innovative methodology. The aim of this project was to raise the capacity of 8 youth organisations from Europe and Africa to contribute to a cohesive sustainable society through alternative innovative methodology, such as street campaigning.The project achieved the following objectives:•To provide a space for sharing best practices among youth organisation in Africa-Europe youth cooperation field;•To set up the bases for a street campaigning network active in global citizenship area on both continents;•To increase the level of innovation and creativity in youth work field;•To stimulate mobility of youth workers between continents and within their own continents;•To develop strong proactive attitudes towards global citizenship among the direct beneficiaries;•To increase the knowledge level of young people and youth workers in topics like: global interdependencies, pollution, sustainable lifestyle, consumerism, social and global justice, etc.•To motivate all the beneficiaries (direct and indirect) to act as responsible active global citizens in their day-to-day life;The project’s main beneficiaries (43 youth workers) took part in a long-term training course focused on developing practical working competencies in global citizenship field and street campaigning.The training approach was designed as the following:1)An initial training course for developing basic competencies in global citizenship and street campaigning for the future multipliers (it took place in Lome, Togo, in April 2017);2)A practice phase in each of the partner countries (Ghana, Hungary, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Tanzania and Togo), where the multipliers, as trained street campaigners in global issues, prepared and implemented campaigns for more than 2400 young people in their communities between May and December 2017. The topics tackled in their campaigns were: pollution, waste, responsible consumption, sustainable life style, etc.3)The practice phase was followed by a second training course (which took place in Busteni, Romania, in November – December 2017), for assessing the first practice phase results and for developing advanced competencies in the street campaigning and global citizenship. The main aim of the training was to complete the set of competencies of the youth workers to become independent street campaigners. 4)A second practice phase took place in the partner countries, where the multipliers transferred their competencies in a new round of street campaigns for more than 3200 young people in their communities.5)A final evaluation meeting was organized in Portugal, Madeira, in May 2018, in order to evaluate and assess the impact of the whole project and plan how the network will continue to work in a coordinated manner from now on.6)Each partner disseminated the project results in their communities, to interested people and other organisations, in order to increase the interest of the civil society towards global citizenship and its crucial role in the context of the global agenda and towards street campaigning in general.The main project results were:-A network of strong and competent organisations active in the global citizenship field, which are using street campaigning in different African and European countries;-43 experienced, competent and independent street campaigners in global issues;-331 additional young volunteers, who developed their competencies in various performing and public methods, which were used in different campaigns for global issues;-20 street campaigns implemented in 8 countries on the topics of sustainable lifestyle, responsible consumption, food waste, pollution, etc.-13878 direct beneficiaries-One manual-One Movie