TRIANGLE of Participation: Young Leaders -Youth NGO – Local Municipalities Erasmus Project

Project Title

TRIANGLE of Participation: Young Leaders -Youth NGO – Local Municipalities

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

This project aims to increase the efficiency of the youth policies through promoting and raising capacities for cross-sectorial cooperation and youth participation in youth policy-making and its implementation on different governmental and non-governmental levels and sectors. The project consists of 5 mobility activities, 2 capacity building activities and local activities between the phases which are not showed in the budget, but it’s a part of the project.First the project invests in professional growth of the youth workers and youth leaders, through training course and fellowship. Fellows from partner organisations and municipalities will shadow job in Sweden and Finland to observe and examine successful youth work and youth policy practices. The project gives space for developing competencies and transferring to the partner organisations through working locally to put knowledge into action and affect the youth policy. We have planned local activities when the municipalities prioritize issues to address, develop strategies, policies, programmes and budget. We believe it’s a good chance to have impact on the decision-making and policy-making. The non-governmental organisations (from EaP) and primarily the fellows involved in this project will take part in government meetings and foster youth participation. The participating organisations will make an analytical research of the political documents produced in the municipalities and make the first intermediate report. These youth workers and youth leaders (fellows) will together organise a youth exchange in cooperation with Gori municipality as a chance to implement good example of youth participation on a local level and developing and supporting youth initiatives. Therefore, a youth exchange builds further on the fellows’ competencies and gives them an opportunity to network with municipalities and directly work with young people who will benefit from this exchange by developing competencies for democratic cultures.The local activities planned in between the capacity building and mobility activities are designed so that there is an exploitation of competences and outreach to young people. The mobility activity – seminar will give chance to the fellows and other representatives from the partner organisations to share the practices from the local actions and evaluate the changes and furthermore shape the plans for the conference and follow-up of the project results The capacity building activities – information and awareness-raising campaigns, conference and handbook for EaP stakeholders in the youth field are planned to enhance the outreach of the fellows and the partner organisations and strengthen the impact on the civil society on local, national, regional and international levels.Since the project has a great focus on public bodies and the fellows will also be the representatives from the public bodies the project resembles a good practice of cross-sectorial cooperation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 126599 Eur

Project Coordinator

YOUTH ASSOCIATION DRONI & Country: GE

Project Partners

• KALAK GORIS MUNICIPALITETIS MERIA
• SELF-GOVERNING CITY ZUGDIDI CITY MUNICIPALITY
• YOUTH CLUB FOR INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE DEMOCRACY AND PEACE NGO
• CITY OF TURKU
• KEKS STODFORENING
• ASOCIATIE OBSTEASCA “CONSILIUL NATIONAL AL TINERETULUI DIN MOLDOVA”