Not Alone in Europe – Innovative Youth Work and Intersectional Practices for Young Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Not Alone in Europe – Innovative Youth Work and Intersectional Practices for Young Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers.

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: Inclusion – equity; Migrants’ issues; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

From June 2019 to June 2021 The “Not Alone in Europe” project pursues the double aim of educating and training youth workers who are meeting young LGBTQ+ migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Initially, “Not Alone in Europe” will offer a train-the-trainer course for youth workers meeting young LGBTQ+ migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in order to make them more confident with intersectional approaches in their work and how to include LGBTQ+ perspectives in their work. The aim of the train-the-trainer course is to enable the participants to implement the “Not alone in Europe” workshops in their own cities. This will ultimately result in the creation of a network for support and visibility for young LGBTQ+migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. In order to further disseminate the educational tools, a supporting online platform will be established.

Objectives
1. To empower, engage, inspire and support young LGBTQI+ migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in European countries.
2. To develop training competencies and support youth workers, educators, community mediators and social workers who are meeting young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers on how to better include intersectionality and LGBTQI+ perspectives in their activities.
3. To generate synergies for networking and cooperation strategies among youth organisations working with young refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Europe.
4. To create innovative youth work and intersectional methodological tools that can be disseminated to associated partners and other organisations in order to share the outputs and experiences of the project.

Target groups
1. Youth workers, educators, community mediators, ​and social workers in Europe who are working with young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers and want to become “Not alone in Europe” workshop leaders.
2. Young LGBTQI+ migrants, refugees and asylum seekers (YLMRA) in Europe.

Expected results
1. Thirty-four practitioners and YLMRA have developed training competencies in the Capacity Building (train-the-trainer course) as a certified multiplier of the “Not Alone in Europe” workshop.
2. Fourteen Multiplier events taking place in each partner country and 140 YLMRA reached by “Not Alone in Europe Workshop”.
3. Intellectual Output on Intersectionality in youth work produced and​ ready to disseminate to the rest of the multiplier network and others.
4. Synergies for networking and cooperation strategy among the youth organisations working with young refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Europe.

Activities
Preparation
1) “Not Alone in Europe” workshop for LGBTQI+ youth, train-the-trainer course for multipliers and create online tools for sharing documents and ongoing communication and follow-up webinars.

Training activity
2 ) Arrange disseminate ​train-the-trainer course. The venue​for the training course will be provided by RFSL Ungdom as co-founders​ of the project.

Multiplier events
3 ) The trainers from the partner organisations are carrying out the “Not alone in Europe” workshops in their cities, two workshops per organisation/country. The first workshop will be arranged by the whole coordinator group in one of the countries.

Training activity
4 ) Innovation development training activity with exchange and evaluation of practices, and develop the Intellectual output with partners.

Methodology and Methods:
The course will take a Non-Formal education methodology, working methods will be varied and interactive in order to ensure a balance between theory and practice. The participants will be introduced to ​discourse and terms (LGBTQI+) that will be used in order to meet participants learning preferences and the training learning objectives.

Opportunities:
– Increase in Social Inclusion
– Increase in Public Awareness
– An increase of Youth Independence
– An increase of LGBTQ+ Knowledge
– An increase of Education for Youth Workers
– Rich resources of information, Methods

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 118215 Eur

Project Coordinator

RFSL Ungdom & Country: SE

Project Partners

• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Humanitarna organizacija Jesuit Refugee Service
• Association of Human Rights Educators – AHEAD
• ALLILEGGIE SOLIDARITYNOW
• Noorteorganisatsioon Trajectorya
• COMITATO PROVINCIALE ARCIGAY DI BOLOGNA IL CASSERO ASSOCIAZIONE