Youth Advisory Boards for Peace – Increasing competences for youth policy development and advocacy for peace Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth Advisory Boards for Peace – Increasing competences for youth policy development and advocacy for peace

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project aims at promoting the involvement of young people as key actors in peacebuilding and change processes alongside the guidelines of the UNSCR 2250 by increasing capacities of youth-led civil society organizations and youth groups in developing and applying sustainable initiatives ensuring youth participation at local level through policy development and peace advocacy.Accordingly, the project foresees the following objectives:1. To increase the competences of youth leaders in training on peace education, advocacy and youth policy development for peace2. To raise awareness and enhance constituencies of active youth engaged with advocacy and supporting policy development initiatives for peace3. To foster the establishment of sustainable initiatives for youth peace advocacy and youth policy development4. To enhance an exchange of practices for youth policy development and cooperation between EU and EaP countriesThe project is the result of the cooperation between 6 partners from Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, The Netherlands, Hungary and Italy and a follows-up building on the outcomes of the previous action led by the partnership “Youth as Peacebuilders”.The activities planned provide a relevant competence development opportunity for the fellows, ensure the local impact of the action and establish sustainable initiatives for cooperation with authorities for youth policy development. The mobilities included in the activities strengthen the feasibility of the project, ensure European perspective and expertise for the competence development of the youth and EaP partner organizations and provides with reciprocally beneficial exchanges of practices and expertise among the partner organizations.One of the main outputs is the establishment of the Youth Advisory Boards for Peace in three communities in the EaP region to foster youth participation and youth policy development among the targeted local communities, alongside with the competence development of the fellows, the impact on youth of the local actions and the opportunity for developing the expertise and competences of the participating organizations on the topic of youth policy development.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 119707,49 Eur

Project Coordinator

ACADEMY FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT & Country: GE

Project Partners

• VICOLOCORTO ASSOCIAZIONE
• STICHTING THE TREE PARTY
• KULTURALIS KAPCSOLATOKERT ALAPITVANY
• UNIT
• HELSINKI CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY – VANADZOR