Raising the capacities of youth NGOs for rural youth participation in democratic life – VOTE! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Raising the capacities of youth NGOs for rural youth participation in democratic life – VOTE!

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building for youth in neighbouring and enlargement countries

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

“Raising the capacities of youth NGOs for rural youth participation in democratic life – VOTE!” project aimed to raise the capacities of youth NGOs working with rural youth to encourage youth active participation in European democratic life and elections. We believe that active youth participation and in particular rural youth political participation can be an added value for the development of our countries and communities. For this reason, the consortium from 14 organizations representing different European countries decided to develop a long-term cooperation project on capacity building of rural youth political participation. The project aimed to contribute to the capacity building of youth workers from civil society organizations, particularly the ones working with rural youth and public authorities at the local and regional levels to be able to increase the level of youth democratic participation. At the same time that focus also on the capacity building of youth leaders from local rural communities. In order to reach our project aims we had defined the following specific objectives: a) To increase the capacity of NGOs working with rural youth to influence policy at local, regional, national and European levels;b) To empower local organizations staff to better involve young people in the decision-making process of their projects and activities;c) To increase the political influence of young people in their communities by active participation in the processes of political elections;d) To improve local and national youth policies and the competencies of local stakeholders to work together (cross-sectorial initiatives) and with rural youth in developing new projects;e) To develop instruments that can support youth NGOs that need to start working with rural youth;f) To raise the level of awareness within the communities in Europe about the impact of the young generation, particularly addressing rural youth;On the local level, the project had a significant impact with the implementation of training courses, local youth initiatives and development of the action plans for raising the capacities of rural youth.The priorities this project addressed:- Promoting the take-up of practical experiences in education, training and youth work in rural areas;- Supporting the production and adoption of Open Educational Resources in diverse European languages on youth political participation (elections on local, national, European levels);- Stimulating active participation of young people in democratic life in their communities, supporting their local initiatives and active participation in elections.

Project Website

https://www.europeanprojects.am/vote

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149637 Eur

Project Coordinator

FEDERATION OF YOUTH CLUBS OF ARMENIA YOUTH NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION & Country: AM

Project Partners

• MOUVEMENT INTERNATIONAL DE LA JEUNESSE AGRICOLE ET CATHOLIQUE – EUROPE
• C.I.P. CITIZENS IN POWER
• PROACTIVE GROUP GEORGIA
• FUNDACJA EUROPEJSKI INSTYTUT OUTSOURCINGU
• ARMENIAN PR ASSOCIATION SCIENTIFIC-INFORMATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION
• GROMADSKA ORGANISATSIYA VILNIJ FORUM
• SDRUZHENIE MLADEZHKO DVIZHENIE ZA RSR V BALGARIYA