New Vision - Albania will implement the project “SafeNet” in cooperation with Club for Youth Empowerment 018 – Serbia, Udruga “Impress” – Croatia, Beyond Borders – Italy, Red Cross Novo Sarajevo – Bosnia and Herzegovina and SPPMD – Macedonia. Through the set of diverse proposed activities, the project will tackle the problem of security and safety of young people. On one hand, the activities will have an educational feature aimed at raising the awareness about safety issues in Europe empowering youth workers from the participating countries with new competences that can be included in their work that includes introduction to “The contribution of youth work to preventing marginalization and violent radicalization - A practical toolbox for youth workers & Recommendations for policy makers”. Another element of the youth workers’ empowerment will be the transfer of the methodology to use art as the channel for education as it easily reaches young people and motivates them to take the active role. On the other, young people will be given an opportunity to directly respond to safety issues and provide opinion on different safety segments – some of the most common: peer violence, cyber bullying, radicalization and extremism as well as abuse of psychoactive substances and alcohol. Young people from 6 countries will provide input for a set of recommendations (document to be produced within this project) to the relevant entities (different Working groups, youth offices, local – self governments and similar) at the local level; the document will also be published and distributed at the European level. Overall participation of youth in the development and implementation of local youth security policy will be strengthenedGeneral objective:To contribute to the development of a security culture of young people and strengthening the cooperation between institutions and civil society in addressing youth security and safety issues in 6 participating countriesSpecific objectives: • To equip 24 youth workers with set of new educational tools in the field of youth safety – theoretical knowledge, example of good practices and creative methods in the work with youth • To activate young people to take active role in the promotion of safe behavior and safety culture • To provide set of recommendations on security and safety issues, created by young people for young people• To raise the awareness about security and safety issues in local communities in participating countries Activities:CBY 1. Partner meeting Mobility Activity 1: Training safety culture of youth and tools that can be used in youth work for this purpose CBY 2.Local workshops CBY 3. Focus groups CBY 4. Presentations of the recommendations and project results CBY 5. Wrap up conference Implementation period: 01.10.2019 - 30.09.2020. Countries involved: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Macedonia and Serbia.
The overall objective of the project was focused on empowering young individuals to work in the field of youth safety and share their experience with their local peers. On the other hand, the project aimed to create safe networks of youngsters in a local level in order to work in their communities towards the creation of sustainable communities for their future generations.
During 2 years, Safenet was implemented by a consortium of 6 partners. The overall idea of the project is to empower young people in the field of youth safety, focusing on specific security segments: peer violence, cyberbullying, radicalization and extremism as well as psychoactive substance abuse and alcohol abuse. The whole project had its own challenges and readjustments due to the CoVid19 impact.
<< Background >> During 2 years, Safenet was implemented by a consortium of 6 partners. The overall idea of the project is to empower young people in the field of youth safety, focusing on specific security segments: peer violence, cyberbullying, radicalization and extremism as well as psychoactive substance abuse and alcohol abuse. The whole project had its own challenges and readjustments due to the CoVid19 impact. << Objectives >> The overall objective of the project was focused on empowering young individuals to work in the field of youth safety and share their experience with their local peers. On the other hand, the project aimed to create safe networks of youngsters in a local level in order to work in their communities towards the creation of sustainable communities for their future generations. << Implementation >> The implementation of this initiative started with a partner meeting and an intensive training and capacity building activity, who were followed by many changes caused by the pandemic. It required an adjustment by all the partners of the consortium, followed by local training workshops and focus groups. In the end, a final conference took place to implement the dissemination process. << Results >> More than 300 young individuals were engaged in all countries involved on local workshops that brought to the conclusion of 5 music and 5 video workshops. On the other hand, 5 focus groups at the local level were implemented in cooperation with local high schools, universities and other NGOs in order involve different groups of young people in all the countries involved. Joint document with the recommendations of all participating countries was developed and distributed to relevant institutions.