Glocal Move: local action, global impact Erasmus Project

Project Title

Glocal Move: local action, global impact

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

The Glocal Move: Local Action, Global Impact project creates a 5 civil society organizations partnership whose purpose is to develop, for 26 months, two main products. The first one is a “gamified” digital platform for the civic participation of young people, with two main objectives: 1) to create challenges that can be implemented at local, national and European level and that contribute to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and 2) increase youth involvement and civic participation, whether at local, national or European level. The second product is a guide to support the use of the platform that allows youth workers to develop techniques to dynamize the platform.

The idea for this project arises from the verification of two facts: 1) only two European countries – Ireland and Germany – are among those where civic participation is highest worldwide, and 2) the level of civic participation among the youngest – young people aged 15 to 29 – has not increased significantly at a global scale in the past 7 years (data from the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) World Giving Index, A global view of giving trends October 2018 report (www.cafonline. org)).

This new platform is intended to be a space in which young people and organizations whose work is directed to them organize themselves collaboratively, in a “gamified” format, to enable active involvement in activities that can range from small solidarity gestures, carried out individually and punctually, to organized actions, such as participation in public or political matters, including defense / support to specific causes, obtaining information from public authorities, associative participation or volunteering.

The project will have 8 components: 1) management; 2) platform (Intellectual Output 1); 3) guide for youth workers (Intellectual Output 2); 4) transnational project meetings; 5) inter-partner training; 6) multiplier events; 7) communication; 8) dissemination and sustainability. These 8 components will be coordinated by the project’s promoter, Pista Mágica – Escola de Voluntariado and each partner will be responsible for one or more components of the project, so that the results are the two products identified above. It is intended to have an impact on the youth layer of society, increasing the number of young people and organizations involved in local projects, with a global impact.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 123817 Eur

Project Coordinator

Pista Mágica – Associação & Country: PT

Project Partners

• Associação Juvenil Transformers
• CENTRE FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY LTD-CARDET
• Neo Sapiens S.L.U.
• SUDWIND VEREIN FUR ENTWICKLUNGSPOLITIK UND GLOBALE GERECHTIGKEIT