Balkans getting ready for SDGs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Balkans getting ready for SDGs

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The project “Balkans getting ready for SDGs” was implemented by Centre for Human Rights and Development Studies (CHRDS) in cooperation with 15 partners from the Balkans and EU. The overall aim of the project was to strengthen the capacities of CSOs in the Western Balkans and European Union to support the SDGs’ related reforms and advocate for active youth involvement in the SDGs’ implementation process.
Specific objectives of the project were:
(1) to build capacities of the CSOs to engage in advocacy for SDGs’ related reforms and/or to use the Agenda 2030 as a base for their advocacy work;
(2) to provide innovative approaches and partnerships among CSOs towards young people and institutions with the focus on accelerating sustainable development reforms and youth engagement within those reforms;
(3) to strengthen the cooperation of Balkan civil society with the other European Union organizations as a step towards motivating more intensive international cooperation and partnerships related to the SDGs.
The project steered and stimulated innovations. In addition, the project used innovative approaches to methodology. Within the project, one seminar for youth organizations’ management and youth leaders and one training for trainers and youth workers was organized. This way we made interventions into 2 directions: first one was to support youth leaders and youth organizations’ management to actively engage in SDGs and related reforms advocacy, and the second one is to introduce and integrate the SDGs in the youth work and youth field. The Seminar for youth leaders and youth organizations’ management “Youth Work and the Sustainable Development Goals” was held in February of 2016 in Belgrade, Serbia. The seminar aimed at building and developing competences and capacities of youth leaders to understand and support the Sustainable Development Goals implementation process especially at the national and local level. One of the Seminar’s focuses was to provide contextualization, inputs and good practices so that the youth leaders are able to understand the SDGs and their relevance, as well as how to advocate and engage in SDGs implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Specific objectives of the Seminar were:
– To introduce the SDGs and their impact on European societies;
– To link existing youth and youth related policies and strategies with the SDGs;
– To develop advocacy approaches for the youth organizations to be able to engage in SDGs and SDGs’ related advocacy;
– To support cooperation and partnerships for the SDGs implementation at the international, regional, national and local level.
The training for trainers and youth workers on youth work methodologies for SDGs “Youth Work methodologies for Sustainable Development Goals” was held in June of 2016 in Sremski Karlovci, Serbia. During the training course some of the outcomes from the Seminar were explored and used in the youth work.
The training course for youth workers and trainers aimed at building and developing competences and capacities to run educational activities on the topic of the Sustainable Development Goals especially at the national and local level. One of the training course focuses was to provide space for practice based on inputs so that the youth workers are able to understand the SDGs and their relevance, as well as how to design educational activities on the topic of SDGs.
Specific objectives of the training course were:
-To understand and be able to run non-formal learning processes with young people on the topic of SDGs
-To raise motivation to explore the SDGs and develop tools to use in youth work
– To motivate networking and further youth work cooperation to promote the SDGs.
More information about the project could be found at http://balkansgettingreadyforsdgs.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 36612 Eur

Project Coordinator

CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES & Country: RS

Project Partners