Re-Generation Erasmus Project

Project Title

Re-Generation

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Creativity and culture; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The basic idea of the project was to promote the opportunities offered by the Erasmus + programme with the dual objectives of increasing the volume of youth motilities and introducing elements of internationalization within the youth realities active in the territories involved in the project, with particular attention to the issue of the re-use of abandoned spaces reconverted into cultural and social activities. The goal of creating networks of organizations with little or no international experience has been achieved thanks to the mobility of youth workers and the exchange of experiences and best practices. These mobilities enabled participants to acquire skills and contacts that were then transferred to groups of young people within organizations at local level. A virtuous mechanism was thus activated and ended with the creation of the blended mobilities with a final meeting during which various project proposals for the future were synthesized and elaborated. The other activities carried out, as envisaged by the programme, were a kick-off meeting held in Italy among the coordinators of the 4 countries, a first training meeting with representatives of satellite organizations in order to clarify the objectives of the project and to implement the mobility of youth workers, as well as dissemination and multiplication activities with young people further. All activities were carried out coherently with the initial project and the interest aroused by the topic exceeded the initial expectations. The results achieved concern the products produced during the project (a report and a map) as well as a series of initiatives generated by the process activated with the project. Many of the young people involved in the project participated for the first time, in the summer of 2018, in youth exchanges, some started for short or long-term European voluntary service projects, many gained significant experience to the point of leading them to become group leader. The most important result is represented by a network of personal and professional relationships that has generated – and we are sure that it will continue to do so in the coming months. Many professional collaborations were born and, as an example, a Spanish participant made an Erasmus Young Entrepreneurs project in Italy, or a former Link volunteer got a job offer after the end of his volunteer project. We could do many other examples, but in general we can say with certainty that the project has achieved the expected results. The impact at the local level is equally significant: many of the structures started on work on projects for young people, others have strengthened collaboration with the coordination organizations (here too, as an example, Entrez-là periodically organizes activities aimed at young people in collaboration with Intercultura). The project made it possible to relaunch active participation in many contexts and stimulated interest in the European dimension, allowing young people to broaden their horizons and approach for the first time on the themes of diversity and intercultural learning, with an impact that it is already visible in the short term but that, it is easy to foresee, will have a long and lasting wave over time.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 104885 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE LINK & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Fundacja Navis
• ASSOCIATION INTERCULTURA
• COLLECTIU LA VIBRIA DINICIATIVES CULTURALS PER LA TOLERANCIA I LA INTEGRACIO