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Project Title

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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 : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The project is a transnational youth initiative that lasts a total of 21 months and involves 3 partner organizations from Romania, Portugal and Italy. The motivation for this project comes first from the desire to provide our young people/volunteers with the necessary motivation to actively participate in civic / social life and develop personally and professionally and second from the desire to increase educational, cultural and artistic initiatives for disadvantaged persons from local communities in the partner countries.
The project aims to promote social, educational, cultural and artistic programs for disadvantaged persons from our local communities and to increase active participation of 24 young people from the partner countries through development of a transnational youth initiative project on a period of 21 months. Its specific objectives are:
-Development of social participation and commitment among 24 disadvantaged young people from the partner countries through jointly creation and implementation of social-educational, cultural and artistic initiatives for disadvantaged children, youth and elderly in 3 local communities from Europe;
-Development of knowledge and competencies among 24 disadvantaged young people from the partner countries specially in the field of social participation, inclusion, community development through exposing the participants to vulnerable social groups;
-Development of support for disadvantaged children, youth and elderly in 3 local communities from Europe through 3 local activities jointly carried out by 24 young people from the partner countries
To achieve the above mentioned objectives, the project will adopt a bottom-up approach, that will see the role of young people as key players supporting local communities. Target groups will be devised in:
-Direct – 24 young people from the partner countries facing fewer opportunities which will be involved along the project in the creation and implementation of different support initiatives for local communities of children, youth and elderly.
-Indirect – local communities of children, youth and elderly facing social inclusion, marginalization which will benefit from the 3 programs created and implemented by the international/national groups of youngsters.
For each of the above groups, the initiative groups of youngsters will work on creating a program of social –educational and cultural-artistic activities. Thus we will have 3 such programs implemented during the international mobilities which will benefit the target groups. The proposed activities combine 3 elements: social, educational, cultural and artistic, aiming to educate and provide a recreation space for participants of all ages. The Educational Impact of the activities developed in the local communities for each group refers to: personal development, increasing personal confidence, improving life skills, promoting the well-being of the individual, education. The social impact is about increasing social cohesion, establishing a common ground between young people from different countries, increasing awareness and active participation, strengthening young people’s capacity to act for social change on one side and on the other side diversification and development of such activities at our communities’ level. Cultural and artistic impact refers to increasing awareness on European space, awareness of European culture as a means of human development, providing a constructive leisure alternative for disadvantaged children, youth and elderly of the local communities.

Added value relies on social-personal development (exploration of volunteer skills, problem solving and group creativity, team building, conflict management, ability to communicate, relationship, respect for others’ opinions, public speaking skills) and developing skills for planning / implementing and evaluating volunteer activities, budget planning and resource allocation according to needs, development of ICT skills, organizational skills, coordination, analysis, self-evaluation, evaluation of learning outcomes, how to self-evaluate, how to evaluate the results of a learning in multicultural context.
The participants will be confronted with different cultures and they will be exercising international team work, they will have to adapt to different cultural or learning styles which will facilitate respect for others, also the LTT will facilitate the acknowledge of similarities and differences between young people from Europe, they will get to see different life styles, exchange ideas about the involvement and will show a high interest to transfer positive practices on themselves and in their own local community. Not only that they will get in contact with other youngsters from the group, but also with foreign local communities through the activities which are strongly connected with local communities, this will increase the European citizenship apartenence and sense of belonging.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 60003,6 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centrul International pentru Educatie & Country: RO

Project Partners

• ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE JUMPIN
• FAPFEIRA – Federação das Associações de Pais e Encarregados de Educação do Concelho de Santa Maria da Feira