Building Bridges – Reinforcing cooperation between EU and Indian Ocean youth organizations Erasmus Project

Project Title

Building Bridges – Reinforcing cooperation between EU and Indian Ocean 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 ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The project Building Bridges – Reinforcing cooperation between EU and Indian Ocean youth organizations is based on the cooperation between 7 organizations from Europe (France, Germany, Romania) and Indian Ocean (Madagascar, Seychelles and Mauritius Island). The applicant organization is CEMEA from Reunion Island, involved in International federation of CEMEA. (Centers of training for active education methods)The aim of the project is to create and develop collaboration between active organizations in the field of youth from EU and Indian Ocean region and to foster educational mobility among youth workers and young people. Our project will be focused on actual issues such as youth unemployment, tools to improve non-formal learning, empowering youth initiatives in the project’s countries. Our active methods will be useful to involve the participants: youth workers and young people in educational activities that would increase their personal and professional growth. The active participation of the participants will be the most important criteria of quality.During the project, we have proposed several mobility activities in order to exchange good practices and to strength the capacity of the partner organization in the international context.The project aims to invest in youth workers in order to increase their capacity to generate local activities for young people, producing a high impact.The partner organizations will increase their capacity to work towards a more inclusive society and to address youth’s problems in the society. The partners will have the possibility to transfer their know-how in order to produce high quality tools and instruments useful in their work. All the partner organizations will have the opportunity to increase their work capacity. The resources produced within the project will be translated in French, English, German, Romanian, Malagasy, and available on-line, on a web platform in order to be exploited by a wide range of youth organizations in Europe. The project involves:- 7 youth organizations- 40 youth workers involved in a training mobility- 4 youth workers from Indian Ocean in a job shadowing activity in Europe. – 18 youngsters from Indian Ocean involved in a youth exchange learning mobility- Over 500 youth workers as indirect beneficiaries of the project’s products- Over 1000 indirect beneficiaries

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 117297,4 Eur

Project Coordinator

CENTRES D’ENTRAINEMENT AUX METHODESD’EDUCATION ACTIVE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• CENTRES D’ENTRAINEMENT AUX METHODES D’EDUCATION ACTIVE DE MADAGASCAR
• CENTRE D’EDUCATION ET DE DEVELOPPEMENT POUR LES ENFANTS MAURICIENS ASSOCIATION
• DOCK EUROPE EV
• ASSOCIATION TERRITORIALE DES CEMEADE MAYOTTE
• ASSOCIATIA EIVA – ARAD
• ASSOCIATION SEYCHELLOISE POUR LA JEUNESSE ET L ANIMATION