Us and Them Erasmus Project

Project Title

Us and Them

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Us and them is a capacity building project involving 4 different organisations from 4 different countries: Maghweb (Italy) Corporacion Amiga Joven (Colombia), Revista Crisis (Argentina) and Movimiento por la Paz, el disarme y la libertad (Spain).The project aims at developing political skills of young people working in the field of youth in Colombia, Argentina, Italy and Spain. In particular the project aims at building specific capacities in the field of bottom-up decisional processes, distributed leadership, cybersecurity, communication and political participation, development of awareness campaigns and peace-building activities in political processes. Indeed the acquirement of these capacities shall enhance youth political participation and it shall give better the quality of youth work in the countries involved. Moreover the project aims at developing networks of youth workers, translating online already existing national youth platforms and connecting these platforms. This objective will be achieved thanks to the development of an online platform. The project envisages to reach the aforementioned objectives thanks to activities based on non-formal methodologies (learn-by-doing, peer learning, world café, mind maps etc.), mobilities of youth workers (training and job shadowing). In particular youth workers are expected to spend two months in doing participatory observation of organisations engaged in activities of communication and of political participation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 134442 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASSOCIAZIONE DI PROMOZIONE SOCIALE MAGHWEB & Country: IT

Project Partners

• MOVIMIENTO POR LA PAZ, EL DESARME YLA LIBERTAD
• CORPORACION AMIGA JOVEN
• REVISTA CRISIS ASOCIACION CIVIL