YOUTH ACTIVATION Erasmus Project

Project Title

YOUTH ACTIVATION

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project was a multi-stage fellowship programme for people from youth organisations in Eastern Partnership countries. It was aimed at enhancing their skills and competences in the field of local youth policy development with a special focus on online participation.Project objectives:- to organise the transfer of the experience and knowledge in the sphere of youth policy development from Programme countries to Eastern partnership countries;- to make researches on the needs of young people from EP organisations communities;- to provide representatives of youth organisations with the competencies related to youth participation, online participation, and media literacy;- to develop local projects aimed to organise dialogue and exchange among stakeholders on the local youth policy development;- to involve local young people to the local policy development process;- to set up cooperation and long term partnership relations with stakeholders involved in the youth policy development on the local level;- to promote online participation as a tool for local policy development;- to promote media literacy among youth organisations and young people;- to summarise project results and organise their dissemination on the international level.The group of youth workers from 4 Eastern Partnership countries (Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, and Moldova):1) Took part in the parallel study visits to Spain and Portugal where they learned about specific experiences of receiving organisations in participation in policy development processes on the local level;2) Conducted research on the needs of young people on the local level;3) Took part in the training course about active participation, online participation, and media literacy. As a result, they developed their local initiatives;4) Conducted local initiatives aimed at facilitation of the local political dialogue between youth and stakeholders;5) Took part in the final conference with the aim to evaluate the project results, share the experience of the local initiatives, share the new experiences in the youth participation and plan the follow-up activities;6) Designed and disseminated a manual with the project results.The duration of the project was 19 months.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 89662 Eur

Project Coordinator

CENTER FOR EUROINITIATIVES & Country: UA

Project Partners

• INSTITUTUL DE INSTRUIRE IN DEZVOLTARE MILLENIUM
• NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS OF GEORGIA NON-ENTREPRENEURIAL (NON-COMMERCIAL)
• TEATRO METAPHORA – ASSOCIACAO DE AMIGOS DAS ARTES
• ASOCIACION ARRABAL AID
• YOUTH COOPERATION CENTRE OF DILIJAN NGO