Be the Change – Empowered Citizens, Empowered Communities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Be the Change – Empowered Citizens, Empowered Communities

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The project ‘Be the Change – Empowered Citizens, Empowered Communities’ aims to increase capacity building of 10 partner organisations, and involve 60 youth workers and 50 activists in citizenship education in order to contribute to a working civil society across the national borders in Europe. It will place the vision of a common European Citizenship into the context of European challenges. The project will cement bridges of collaboration among European partners and elaborate on the potentials of the concept of European Citizenship to tackle existing issues of youth participation, active citizenship, migration and inclusion, discrimination and intolerance; issues that are currently dominating European debates. The general theme of the project is focused on Citizenship in general, European citizenship in particular and other concepts which associated it. Four dimension of citizenship will be in focus of working agenda, concepts such as intercultural dialogue, migration, rights and responsibilities, cultural identity and how each of the above concepts is translated in concrete activities with young people.•To promote and use different programmes and structures in support of youth work on citizenship education, including Erasmus + Youth in Action programme;Objectives• To explore four dimension of citizenship (political, economical, cultural and social) for encouraging youth worker to take concrete action in society;• To explore the meaning, relevance and implications of European citizenship in youth work in all its dimensions and in three main components (status, rights and responsibilities);• To provide information to participants with the current talks on European Citizenship (its concepts, formal meanings and expressions);• To bring concrete examples and the connection between European Citizenship, Human Rights, Democracy and Inter-cultural Learning.•To improve participants skills in citizenship education for young people with fewer opportunities and guide them to be agent of positive change in communities they live.•To introduce Citizen Lab model as a great tool to foster citizen engagement in decision making and community life. •To exchange examples of active citizenship and participation in practice, analyses achievements and challenges related to it using non formal education as integral part of youth work;•To establish new partnerships and cooperation between organizations of WB and EU for the improvement and quality in international youth work using as tool Erasmus + YiA program. The project is comprise by three activity: Study visit, training course and one youth exchange .Study visit will bring together 20 youth workers, for 7 days. The training course will provide a platform for youth workers from EU and non-EU countries to learn how the youth can take an active role on local, regional, and international level. YE will bring together 50 youngsters from our organizations to discuss about the concept of European citizenship

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 55476 Eur

Project Coordinator

PRO YOUTH & Country: AL

Project Partners

• ASOCIATIA TINERII 3 D
• UDRUZENJE CENTAR ZA EDUKACIJU I MOBILNOST MLADIH ELEMENT
• CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE ASSOCIATION
• E GENCLIK DERNEGI
• ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE COMMUNIA
• DEBATNI CLUB GRADA NISHA
• MLADEZHKO EVROPEISKO OBSHTESTVO