MARTI – MAke it Relevant: Tools for Intersectionality Erasmus Project

Project Title

MARTI – MAke it Relevant: Tools for Intersectionality

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: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The project aims to create innovative educational approach and tools to concretely apply intersectionality in youth work. For “intersectionality” we intend an analytical tool for studying, understanding and responding to the ways in which identity components intersect with other personal characteristics/identities, and how these intersections contribute to unique experiences of oppression and discrimination. The project wants to create the space to transfer intersectional approach to the youth field and youth work, to try and face the modern challenges according to which an holistic analysis of systemic discrimination is necessary to understand and tackle social inequality. In this sense, the presence in the partnership (Giosef Torino-Italy, Euroaccion-Spain, YES-The Netherlands and New Generation-Palestine) of a Palestinian partner is essential, because it brings a unique experience of oppression that enacts a mechanism according to which the national identity becomes completely prevalent and overruns all the other intersections, starting from one’s own self-perception.
The specific objectives are:
-to foster an innovative and inclusive educational approach based on the concept of intersectionality;
-to reinforce the response of education and training systems and youth policies to the main challenges of today’s world, such as civic and intercultural competences, intercultural dialogue, democratic values and fundamental rights, social inclusion, non-discrimination;
-to develop innovative outputs to be disseminated throughout the Euromed area, in order to guarantee an improved capacity and know-how of the organisations active in youth work;
-to promote an intersectional approach in the youth field that contribute in promoting social inclusion of young people, particularly those with fewer opportunities and part of marginalised groups at risk of exclusion;
-to foster a participatory approach in Euromed cooperation, enhancing an equal exchange of contributions and competences, in order to avoid the risk of a neo-colonial approach and work on the capacity building in regards to the outreach and inclusion of second generation immigrant young people in Europe.

The main result expected is the creation of an innovative educational approach that allows us to work concretely on intersectionality in youth work. For that purpose, the project will create three concrete intellectual outputs:
O1-Make it Relevant: Intersectionality in Youth work: a standalone publication gathering theoretical essays and advocacy material related to the topic of intersectionality applied to the youth field, building the theoretical framework in which to move;
O2-Tools for Intersectionality: an educational Toolkit with activities and tools to work concretely on intersectionality in youth work;
O3-Make it Real: Intersectionality in Youth policy: a list of recommendations to be addressed to policy makers regarding the implementation of intersectional measures and approach in the youth policy field.

MARTI foresees a series of activities to facilitate the achievement of the set objectives:
– 3 TPM to facilitate cooperation among the partners and monitoring:
*Kick-off Meeting in Italy
*Monitoring Partners Meeting in Spain
*Evaluation Partners Meeting in The Netherlands
– 2 Training Courses to train youth workers about the tools created, the intersectional approach and prepare the piloting phase involving young people, through NFE:
*B.I.Y.-Bring Intersectionality in Youth work
*SIMPLE-Stake Intersectional Methodology: Plan it, Learn it, Enhance it!
– 2 rounds of Multiplier Events to disseminate the project results:
*E1-E4: Make it Relevant – Intersectionality in youth work
*E5-E8: Make it Real – Inclusive youth work in an intersectional world.
The consortium has foreseen the involvement of participants with fewer opportunities alongside the project, both in the mobilities and the local phases, thus putting in place specific measures to facilitate their inclusion.

The project will support the improvement of youth workers capacity, fostering an inclusive approach in their practice with young people at all levels, in terms of prevention of multiple discrimination, for facilitating identity building and awareness processes. Therefore, young people with fewer opportunities will greatly benefit from this increased level of inclusion. The outputs and the learning outcomes will facilitate the organisations competences to integrate the local and Euromed youth work practice. Moreover the impact on the policy making level will foster inclusive youth policy integrated with youth work impact and recognition.
To facilitate the whole process, from preparation to dissemination, the consortium has included four associated partners to support the activities from several perspectives:
*ENAR-European Network Against Racism
*HREYN-Human Rights Education Youth Network
*Municipality of Torino
*Region de Murcia – Consejeria de Educacion, Juventud y Deportes.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 139957 Eur

Project Coordinator

Giosef Torino – Marti Gianello Guida A.P.S. & Country: IT

Project Partners

• ASOCIACION CULTURAL EUROACCION MURCIA
• New Generation Charity
• Youth Exchange Service