Living Solidarity Alliance Erasmus Project

Project Title

Living Solidarity Alliance

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 : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social dialogue; Inclusion – equity; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The KA2-strategic partnership project “Living Solidarity Alliance” is creating through the long-term cooperation of 5 the involved partners, the learning mobilites for the staff and the intellectual outcomes (research, guidebook) a solid ground to implement the Solidarity focus in the local Youth work with young people with fewer opportunities. Referring to the recent developments on the youth policy level in Europe and the challenging situation of young people in Europe we want to contribute as NGOs to the development of a strategic and systematic support structure to empower young people to participate in activities with a solidarity focus. We wish to support the professional development of our youth workers, so they will empower and guide young people to get involve in solidarity activities: to reflect the world they live in, to express their needs and wishes, to develop their inner potential and enter a creative process with other young people to make a change towards more solidarity in our society. They will become active creators of a life journey where the values of togetherness, respect and solidarity are experienced as a creative dialogue. With the project we will develop a network structure and methodological strategy to implement within our NGOs a new solidarity dimension in the local youth work, which will enhance the engagement of young people with fewer opportunities in accessible and high quality solidarity activities as a means to contribute to strengthening cohesion, participation, democracy and citizenship on local level and in Europe. The 15 participating youth workers and youth leaders will be trained in three mobility activities on different thematic aspects of the solidarity dimension in youth work context (participation, inclusion, community building) in order to implement the learning in the local context, sharing and reflecting on their experiences in a community of practise with other youth workers from our network. With the intellectual outcome of the project: the research report and the guidebook with toolbox we will create a solid ground for the professional competence development of youth workers. With the dissemination of the project results in our local, national and international networks and also though the final conference we will stimulate a much wider impact on the european youth work field, to include the solidarity dimension in the youth work with a special focus on empowering young people with fewer opportunities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 74789 Eur

Project Coordinator

GrenzKultur gGmbH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Fundacja Arte Ego
• ASSOCIAZIONE DI PROMOZIONE SOCIALE JOINT
• TANDEM ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETERIA
• CIVIC ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER PANGEYA ULTIMA