(re)WRITE THE NARRATIVE – Sharing Decolonial Practice in European Youth Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

(re)WRITE THE NARRATIVE – Sharing Decolonial Practice in European Youth Education

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: Access for disadvantaged; Migrants’ issues; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

(re)WRITE THE NARRATIVE – Sharing Decolonial Practice in European Youth Education
Racism and socio-cultural segregation in Europe today cannot be fought without drawing on colonial accounts. This strategic partnership is about the exchange of good practice that highlights the ties between today’s structural and ideological inequalities to European colonial activity. The counter narratives that this project brings together show that Europe is not – and has never been – a self-contained entity but a global endeavour. Opening up to this paradigm shift by listening to and highlighting “other stories” leads to the inclusion of a great number of (young) European citizens who have not had a say in EU-storytelling up to now: Black Europeans and Europeans of Color who (or whose parent/s, grandparent/s, great-grandparent/s…) were born in (ex-)colonies. In accordance with the European Youth Strategy, we focus on social inclusion: it is one of our main objectives to engage and empower European Black youth and youth of Color and to connect them to their peers.
The project aims at laying a solid foundation for a network, by primarily working on a shared knowledge base and developing a common language to be used in our activities of youth education on (Post)Colonialism and Decolonization. We also invite youth work practitioners and educators, who are associated to our organisations, to enrich the two planned training activities (including 4 participants per organisation). These activities are linked by an interim period of local activities, in which the topics are tested and debated with young people in the field. The last phase of the project is dedicated to local and online dissemination activities that make the results of the Strategic Partnership available for the greater public and the youth education community in particular.
We expect a great methodological and conceptual benefit for all of our organisations, our youth work communities as well as the formal education sector. The main impact on the partner organisation will be the strengthening of our network and a common follow-up project such as a SP INNOVATION.

Project Website

https://www.instagram.com/rewrite_thenarrative/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 67905 Eur

Project Coordinator

ServiceBureau Jugendinformation & Country: DE

Project Partners

• déCONSTRUIRE
• Kosmopolis Utrecht
• Asociación Mojo de Caña
• Dínamo – Associação de Dinamização Sócio-Cultural
• Creative Opportunities C.I.C.