Counteracting Power Abuse Erasmus Project

Project Title

Counteracting Power Abuse

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Our strategic partnership formed by Permacultura Cantabria, Asociacia de Tineri din Ardeal (ATA), Associazione Agrado, Active Women Association and Anthropolis carried out a joint analysis in which each organisation was able to investigate on the situation in their countries around power abuse. As a conclusion of this analysis, the situation in each country is alarming and it is clearly necessary that there should be more activities to counteract this serious situation. For this reason, we have decided to address this project that makes an innovative contribution towards the fight against power abuse. The main objectives are:

1. Transfer the best practices to counteract power abuse in young people.
2. Acquire new tools and methodologies to counteract power abuse.
3. Increase the level of awareness of real situation that young victims experience in terms of power abuse.
4. Strengthen partnerships at the regional, national and European levels with entities that fight for the same cause.

For this, our strategic alliance will carry out the following activities:

1st Participatory Visit in Italy: Associazione Agrado will transfer their Best Practices and “Diagnosis and Analysis of power abuse” Tool. Additionally, we will visit relevant local entities in the field of preventive diagnosis and power abuse in young people.

2nd Participatory Visit in Poland: AWA will transfer their Best Practices and work done to counteract the abuse of power in young women. We will visit relevant local entities on gender issues.

3rd participatory visit in Hungary: Anthropolis will present us their work done in the dissemination and awareness, as well as the best practices to counteract the abuse of power. Additionally, they will share their Digital Storytelling tool.

8-day course in Spain: Permacultura Cantabria will conduct a course to counteract the abuse of power in Spain, where they will share their best practices and emotional management tools so that young people are able to face and overcome situations of power abuse. Additionally, we will visit local entities that work with disadvantaged groups where they will show us how they work with the topics previously discussed in the participatory visits (Analysis and prevention, sexism, dissemination of activities and work tools). During this course, ATA will have space to transfer their good practices, initiatives and activities to fight against power abuse in young people from rural areas and ethnic minorities.

Participating visits will be attended by 2 participants from each organisation (project coordinator, dissemination coordinator) and in the course in Spain, 4 participants (project coordinator, dissemination coordinator, 1 youth worker and 1 young participant).

Two transnational meetings will be held in Spain and Romania in which project and dissemination coordinators will participate to start the project officially, as well as make the final evaluation of it. At the end of the course in Spain, an extra meeting will be done for the intermediate evaluation of the project and its dissemination campaign.

We want to highlight that all activities carried out, best practices, tools and knowledge acquired, as well as the results of the project, will be accompanied by a strong dissemination campaign and internal workshops in order to raise the level of awareness among our young people about the current situation around power abuse, as well as tools to counteract it.

Expected impact Summary:

It is expected our youth workers reinforce their professional skills to counteract power abuse. Therefore, they will improve the quality of their teaching.

Young participants who attend the Course in Spain, acquire and use tools, knowledge and best practices that enable them to overcome and deal with situations of power abuse.

At the same time, it is expected that the entities from our strategic partnership is strengthened alliances and networks that allow the impact of the project not only be the sum of knowledge and tools of all partners, but also be enriched with best practices and synergies from other entities (for example, those that supported us in the dissemination and participated in the round tables).

It is expected that other organisations, young people and communities (especially young people) increase the level of awareness of the situation faced by some young victims of power abuse, as well as the importance of counteracting this problem.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 64862 Eur

Project Coordinator

Asociación cultural y medioambiental Permacultura Cantabria & Country: ES

Project Partners

• STOWARZYSZENIE AKTYWNE KOBIETY
• ANTHROPOLIS ANTROPOLOGIAI KOZHASZNUEGYESULET
• ASOCIATIA DE TINERI DIN ARDEAL
• ASSOCIAZIONE AGRADO