Updating communities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Updating communities

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: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

The partners work in communities that have not host adequately yet the immigrant population, with separate and in some cases exclusive socialization environments. We work with young people of migrant origin who find it very difficult to be part of their communities on equal terms with other young people. Young people who do not access, for various reasons, the services of their area, the youth activities that are offered.

With this reality, we set a project with two complementary objectives:
– Promote social inclusion, citizen coexistence and the participation of young immigrants in the social, political, economic and cultural life of our regions.
– Prevent discriminatory, racist and xenophobic behavior in the local population, especially the youth, through the normalization of the presence of migrant identities in community life.

To meet our objectives we are going to implement an analysis of the personal interests and needs in relation to their community integration of the young people of migrant origin with whom we work, developing a training plan for these young people in social and communication competences, cultural context and initiative. On this basis, we will work to increase the participation of young people of migrant origin in community activities under equal conditions, as well as to produce an improvement in the social perception of young people of migrant origin and to bring them closer to their realities. Finally, we will prepare materials with recommendations and ideas to facilitate and promote the inclusion of young people of migrant origin in their host communities and we will share the results of everything we have learned.

In this process we are going to involve more than 500 young people (13 to 30 years old) of very diverse profiles from all our communities, but especially around 40 young people of migrant origin who will be the center of the project.

The entire process and the actions that are developed will be based on non-formal education, an active and participatory methodology that adapts to the specific and real needs of people, attractive and effective to achieve our objectives.

In the end we hope to improve the inclusion in community life of young people of migrant origin.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 21063 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASOCIACION LAS NINAS DEL TUL & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ORIEL ETS