Richness in Diversity Erasmus Project

Project Title

Richness in Diversity

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: Social dialogue; Inclusion – equity; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

Migration to and inside EU is salient now, which means integration in today’s Europe is of high importance. The public sphere in Europe is facing alarming signals of intolerance growing. The three partner organisations in Richness in Diversity already have ongoing work to empower young immigrants with diverse backgrounds, and this project aims at developing their skills in diversity management by sharing best practices as well as including the experiences and work of 12 young participants with immigrant background. Their participation will add an extra dimension to the capacity building of the partner organisations as well as creating an arena for the participants to express their view of today’s Europe and to get tools and experience to take ownership over and addressing the obstacles they face in European society.

The project Richness in Diversity will include three transnational meetings and an ongoing online dialogue between the partner organisations to share their best practices on diversity management, and to develop a small E-Booklet to disseminate to other organisations in the field. The project also includes three mobility programs including teaching/learning/training activities for 12 young participants with diverse backgrounds. The participants will benefit from exchanging ideas with young people in similar situations. Comparing the Danish, Swedish and Portuguese contexts will make space for more creative and critical thinking in regards to the designs of the campaign projects that all youth participants will carry out, so that those youth can become drivers of change for better and creative integration. The activities will include interactive participatory approach using non-formal education tools.

The project is based on a critical reflection of the topics Diversity and Integration. The methodology which will be applied is participatory based on the idea that all groups need a platform to air their views and the issues they are facing as a group to be able to feel as a part of society and of democracy. In order to foster democracy, all groups in society need to both feel involved and that they have a level of ownership over their society.

The impact on the partner organizations will be a deeper understanding of their target group(s), higher capacity in reaching and communicating with their target groups(s), and access to more knowledge and experiences through the E-booklet. The participants will get tools manage a project, will be able to critically analyse their situation as well as managing solutions and spreading their image of being a young immigrant in Europe. To connect youth across national boundaries through seminars and project work also creates a sense of ownership and recognition of similar backgrounds and the issues they are facing, as well as the opportunity to discuss solutions with others in a similar situation. Above this, the participants also get to spread their stories and solutions to other youths with immigrant background, whom can recognize themselves in the stories that are told.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 41330,18 Eur

Project Coordinator

SWIDEAS AB & Country: SE

Project Partners

• YOUTH UNION OF PEOPLE WITH INITIATIVE ASSOCIACAO PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO SOCIAL E COMUNITARIO
• Crossing Borders