Minorities in Focus-Living together in Intercultural Society Erasmus Project

Project Title

Minorities in Focus-Living together in Intercultural Society

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project aims to raise the capacities of 5 youth associations from EU and Western Balkan which work in minority inclusion field through the empowerment and support of youth workers/leaders with various effective tools adding quality to youth work in local and European level. The project also seeks at fostering the participants’ awareness on how certain minorities, groups of individuals are socially excluded on the basis of their culture, status, belonging to minority groups or religion, and encourage those target groups to take a stand against racism and social exclusion using practical tools elaborated in this project. Objectives set from the consortium are:• To raise understanding of important concepts on minority, migration, social exclusion, promote inclusion among youth workers/activists and propose effective solutions• To analyse and address challenges faced in youth work in local and European level while implementing in practice projects with youngsters with minority background • To raise awareness about the different implications of the phenomenon of minorities and migration with a view to improving participants’ level of competences and fostering their active participation in society. • To empower youth workers to gain competences how to include young people from minorities in community life using non-formal learning mobility and various educational tools • To contribute to professional and personal development of youth workers and improve quality of youth work, initiatives by developing specific resources, tools and support materials for youth organizations and youth workers; • To promote the Erasmus + YiA Programme as a tool for minority inclusion work establishing conditions to create a common strategy for future cooperation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131321,92 Eur

Project Coordinator

SHOQATA YOUTH 4 SOCIETY & Country: AL

Project Partners

• TDM 2000
• UDRUZENJE SVETLOST
• STEPEUROPE RY
• SHELTER INTERNATIONAL EV