FEY – Fostering Equality in Youth Erasmus Project

Project Title

FEY – Fostering Equality in Youth

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Inclusion – equity; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

In this project, coordinated by German Esperanto Youth, five organisations from Germany, Slovakia, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK will actively cooperate on the topic of gender equality and inclusion.

The activities will be focused on the exchange of better practices, training of young volunteers and implementation of innovative training tools and materials related to social inclusion and fight against discrimination, mainly aimed at raising awareness about these key topics in the youth work, with a particular focus on gender equality.

One of the main concerns of the consortium is the skill empowerment of their active volunteers, filling the gap of the skill-mismatch which often affects the volunteers involved in youth NGOs, and a smooth transfer of knowledge between trainers and trainees. For this reason – besides many courses and activities implemented by some of the partners involved in this project –, some projects about skill empowerment of volunteers have been designed so far, both in the framework of Grundtvig and of Erasmus+.
Based on a needs-analysis carried out by our partnership, this project aims to empower the skills of volunteers, to share best experience in a European dimension and to develop and disseminate tools and reusable resources to raise the quality of NGOs activities about raising awareness about any form of discrimination, in the participating countries and beyond.

The main project activities will therefore be four transnational project meetings (the Netherlands, November 2017; Italy, March 2018; Slovakia, October 2018; Germany, December 2018), aimed at coordinating the project activities and at exchanging better practices and at collecting and creating proper training and informative materials about the main topic of the project. Furthermore, the project envisages a five-day training activity in Spain (July 2018), focused on the fight against discrimination, with a particular focus on promoting linguistic rights and gender equality. The participants in this project are volunteers within the NGO worldwide network the partner organisations are part of. This will ensure a wide dissemination scope and a high impact of the project results, giving an added value to this partnership.

After each project meeting, the partners will run activities at national and local level. Innovative training tools and best practices will be presented, discussed and adapted to the activities of each partner and disseminated within local and national networks, and the created and collected training materials and tools will be available online even beyond the end of the project’s lifespan.

The expected results of the project are identifiable in terms of increased awareness about the topics faced by the project in the participants, of empowerment not only of their skills and knowledge but also of their self-confidence in advocacy regarding those topics.

The envisaged impact of the partnership project is quantifiable in terms of a higher number as well as improved effectiveness of non-formal learning activities of NGOs beyond the borders of the partnership in the participating countries as well as in other countries, thanks to the multiplier effect of the project.

In the long-term this will contribute to raise the quality of the activities carried out in the framework of youth NGOs – through effective communication -, expected to be able to mobilise young people and to raise awareness about issues specifically related to fostering gender equality and fighting discrimination and to engage young people in an active European citizenship dimension.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 49960,07 Eur

Project Coordinator

Deutsche Esperanto-Jugend & Country: DE

Project Partners

• B.E.A. BUNTA ESPERANTO ASOCIO
• Hispana Esperantista Junulara Societo
• Kosmo Strategio ltd.
• SKEJ -SLOVENSKA ESPERANTSKA MLADEZ
• WERELD ESPERANTO-JONGEREN ORGANISATIE VERENIGING MET BEPERKTE RECHTSBEVOEGDHEID