What about values? Youth and social work for young migrants/refugees Erasmus Project

Project Title

What about values? Youth and social work for young migrants/refugees

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Migrants’ issues; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

What about values? WAVE YEU – Youth and social work for young migrants/refugees
The European wide discourse and the value framework within youth social work for young migrants has to find has changed in the last few years. Distinct nationalism, increasing xenophobia and anti-democratic sentiment in the host population and among political opinion leaders are establishing themselves in almost all member states. European values such as cross-border solidarity and tolerance are negated and nationalist attitudes become mainstream. But also not a few of the migrants coming to Europe have little relation to the classical European values. Youth social work has to take these changed conditions into account. The aims of social inclusion must be more closely linked to the consideration and communication of “European values” and democracy building. Therefore a more holistic view and efforts related to the practice of youth social work within a changing migration influenced society is necessary.
In addition to the exchange of good practice on the integration of young migrants at European level this strategic project pursues an expanded objective: the discussion, analysis and evaluation of offers, methods and strategies of European youth social work for young migrants regarding the impact of “European” values and also the communication of those values. The wider focus is on the possibilities and chances of nonformal education and political education.
A network of seven Organisations from five different European countries which are all well experienced in youth social work and/or in organising European funded projects for young people with fewer opportunities will cooperate for two years to gain results of good practice in youth social work regarding to the transfer of European values by working on social inclusion of young migrants. The main target groups are for the first the practitioners and organisations on youth social work, than young migrants and also the hosting society. The main objective of the transnational project is to analyse methods and approaches of youth social work with young migrants in connection with the communication of European values, to surge for relevant and adequate concepts of nonformal education in the practice of youth social work and to determine recommendations as a quality feature of youth social work.
Six transnational meetings will be organised. Participants are mainly practitioners on youth social work from the sending organisations, representatives of organisations and forther institutions from the local, regional and national level, young migrants from the local level (and if possible as internationals) and representatives from the hosting community like volunteers and other engaged people. Four of these transnational meetings will work on specific topics like: “European values basics”; “Democracy building and the practice of youth social work “; “Youth social work and the hosting society” and “Nonformal political education in the frame of youth social work – methods and practice” . The last meeting will be organised as a final meeting with a broader audience to summarise the gained results and to formulate recommendations which can be used to improve the quality of European value based youth social work.
For further information please contact: hauser@caritas-dicv-fr.de

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 90265 Eur

Project Coordinator

Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Kath. Jugendsozialarbeit (BAG KJS) e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• IB West gGmbH für Bildung und soziale Dienste
• INICIJATIVA ZA RAZVOJ I SARADNJU
• Katholische Jugendagentur Köln gGmbH
• Centro San Viator
• COOPERATIVA SOCIALE COOSS MARCHE ONLUS SOCIETA COOPERATIVA PER AZIONI
• ETAIREIA KOINONIKIS KAI POLITISTIKIS STIRIKSIS PALINNOSTOYNTON OMOGENON – NOSTOS