Empowering Rural Youth Organizations Erasmus Project

Project Title

Empowering Rural Youth Organizations

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Main goal of the project ‘Empowering Rural Youth Organizations’ is to increase capacities of rural youth organizations to deliver quality activities to young people from rural areas. The project will take place in several Western Balkans and Programme countries including Albania, Montengero, Romania, Poland, Greece, Serbia, Kosovo, Republic of North Macedonia, Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria and Czech Republic. Main project target groups are organizations working with rural youth, youth workers in need of development of their competences to prepare and to facilitate youth activities, representatives of youth organizations, local institutions working in rural areas and interested to bring new opportunities to young people in their communities. The project will include mobility and capacity building activities reflecting following objectives: -To raise capacities of youth organizations to deliver quality activities in their communities;-To increase capacities of organizations to design and implement innovative programmes that effectively address specific issues in their communities;-To develop capacities of organizations, especially in the areas of project management, fundraising and advocacy making;-To enhance competences of youth workers to analyse the situations in their communities and to use various tools for empowerment, especially tools based on creative writing, storytelling and digital storytelling;-To increase social skills of youth workers to start processes supporting active participation of youth in life of their communities;-To raise knowledge of participants on Erasmus + Programme and support creating partnerships and ideas for future projects in framework of empowerment of rural youth. Key project results will be raised capacities of rural youth organizations in the field of project management, funding and fundraising and advocacy making. Moreover, youth workers involve in the project activities will increase their competences to deliver quality activities aiming to increase competences of rural youth.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149266 Eur

Project Coordinator

QENDRAT YOUTH FOR SOCIAL CHANGES & Country: AL

Project Partners

• FUNDACJA IMIENIA BRACI SOLUNSKICH -CYRYLA I METODEGO
• KOINONIKI SYNETAIRISTIKI EPICHIRISI SYLLOGIKIS KAI KOINONIKIS OFELEIAS EYFORIA
• CESTA ROZVOJE, ZS
• RAISE YOUR HAND FOR HELP
• ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BRIGHT
• ALAPITVANY AZ ELMARADOTT TERSEGEK FELZARKOZTATASAERT
• ASSOCIAZIONE LOGOSABILE