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Innovation and creativity in community actions

Start date: Oct 5, 2016, End date: Apr 4, 2017,

The youth exchange will concentrate on the topic of innovation by extending the knowledge on how to create ideas and how to implement these new ideas among young people in the local communities. Thus, the exchange will aim to inspire partcipants’ thinking innovatively, rather than be dependent on the status quo. This innovative aspect of thinking will open up new opportunities, give way to an arra...
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Youth in outdoor action for European citizenship

Start date: Sep 20, 2016, End date: Mar 19, 2017,

The idea of undertaking this youth exchange where young people representing youth organisations of EU and EECA region will come together in Moldova came about during the previous European Citizenship training courses where the representatives of some of the partner organisations met to discuss the topic. During the workshops on what European citizenship means for representatives of different corne...
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Peer led action for social inclusion of unemployed migrant youth in multicultural communities of Europe

Start date: Sep 12, 2016, End date: Mar 11, 2017,

This youth exchange will bring together 10 participants and 2 group leaders from the UK, Estonia, Portugal, Romania, Italy, and Lithuania to Timisoara, Romania in order for them to become motivated and active with youth participation and peer education issues. This project is a result of the previous youth encounters between the peer leaders and educators on intercultural learning with the Europea...
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Inter Cultural Learning as a means for developing employability skills of national, ethnic and linguistic minority youth

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

According to the recent figures released by the International Labour Organisation, the number of 16-24 year olds representing different linguistic minority groups in the EU countries and being in NEET situation (not in education , employment or training) for more than a year has risen by 30% over the last 5 years.The number of young people from a linguistic minority background who have been out o...
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Sports volunteering for social inclusion and active community participation

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

This 10 day multilateral Youth Exchange is the initiative of partner organizations from the UK, Lithuania, Portugal, Italy, and Bulgaria. The activity is planned to take place in Rudiskes, Lithuania, with the aim to create transferable models and practices which publicise the idea and values of sports volunteering using creative artistic means. The project will advance the level of young people's ...
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A friend in NEET is a friend indeed: peer-led education approach for the empowerment of linguistic minority youth in a NEET situation.

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

According to the recent figures released by the International Labour Organisation, the number of 16-24 year olds representing different linguistic minority groups in the EU countries and being in NEET situation (not in education , employment or training) for more than a year has risen by 30% over the last 5 years.The number of young people from a linguistic minority background who have been out o...
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Promoting healthy behavior through sports volunteering

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

A healthy and vital Europe depends on a healthy and vital constituency. Adopting healthy behaviours early in life leads to benefits not just to the individual (physical, mental, social, emotional) but also benefits society (lower burden of illness, more productive and engaged citizens). Our proposed project is aiming to educate and highlight the advantages of a healthy lifestyle. We plan to conduc...
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Unification in diversity: practicing European Citizenship from the ground up.

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

There is no doubt that the EU prides itself on this "unification in diversity", peacefully coexisting despite the different political and social situations of each country. With the increasing internationalisation of the world and politics, being aware of what is "to be European" is undeniably on the rise. For many, learning another culture is not necessary, it is an interesting, enriching and exc...
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Open air Europe: Promoting active European Citizenship among migrant youth using out-of-doors experiential learning methodology

Start date: Jun 20, 2016, End date: Dec 19, 2016,

Europe has long been an attractive place for migration, and a large proportion of migrants are young people. They strive for European citizenship, but being a European citizen means much more than just owning a passport of a country situated in Europe. All the organisations that make up our partnership have agreed that European citizenship means active participation in the community life, characte...
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Empowering young people to develop actions regarding safer environmental issues and practices

Start date: May 18, 2016, End date: Nov 17, 2016,

The United Nations Climate Change Conference that was held in late 2015 in Paris vividly demonstrates that countries of the world have recognised that climate change presents an ever growing threat to development, poverty eradication efforts, and the welfare of their citizens. Environmental issues present some of planet’s most complex challenges requiring quick attention. It is young people who ca...
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Empowering youth to develop ecological volunteering initiatives

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The concept of this youth exchange in Turkey was discussed by the young people from the UK, Portugal, Italy and Turkey who participated in the previous youth projects aimed at studying ecological problems in European countries and volunteering possibilities for young people. As a result of these activities, they understood that they can change their ecological environment and spread the message ab...
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NEETing the change: Empowering young people to overcome a NEET situation

Start date: Feb 8, 2016, End date: Sep 7, 2016,

Youth unemployment remains one of Europe's most pressing challenges today. Social exclusion of young people who are not in an employment, education or training situation (or simply ‘in a NEET situation’) can have negative consequences for the economy and significant costs for Europe. With the youth exchange “NEETing the change” our partnership consisting of partner organisations from the UK, Lithu...
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Promoting social entrepreneurship for sustainable community growth

Start date: Jan 11, 2016, End date: Jul 10, 2016,

With this project youth organisations from the UK, Portugal, Lithuania and Italy created a sustainable network of partner youth organisations who collaborated in order to spread, support, reinforce and advocate for the concept of youth social entrepreneurship as a means of sustainable development on local and European level. These organisations and their representatives worked as the initiators an...
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Get in the game: Using non-competitive games and sports to support social inclusion and active citizenship of young refugees

Start date: Jan 11, 2016, End date: Jul 10, 2016,

This youth exchange brought together young people from the UK, Lithuania, Latvia and Turkey to Rudiskes, Lithuania for 12 days from the 14th till the 25th of March, 2016. The theme of this youth exchange was using non-competitive games and sports to support social inclusion and active citizenship of young refugees and migrants. The concrete objectives of the exchange were: - to promote social inc...
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Young women’s empowerment for active citizenship

Start date: Nov 2, 2015, End date: Jun 1, 2016,

Our partnership’s research demonstrated that struggle for one’s rights should begin at an early age. The position and status of women all over the world has risen incredibly in the 20th century mainly through the efforts of women when they were young. That is why with this project we promoted the empowerment of young women using non-formal ways of learning. It included an active youth participatio...
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Use your iNEETiative - practicing grass-root activities as a way to support social inclusion and active citizenship of young people in NEET situation.

Start date: Sep 14, 2015, End date: Apr 13, 2016,

Young people who are not in an employment, education or training situation (young people in a NEET situation) face negative social conditions, such as isolation, lack of autonomy, involvement in risky behaviour which expose them to higher risks of unemployment and social exclusion later in life. Social exclusion of young people, in particular young people in a NEET situation, can have negative con...
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Motivated, Inspired, Confident: Facilitating the sense of youth initiative, entrepreneurship and employability among young people with poor school performance and early school-leavers

Start date: Sep 21, 2015, End date: Mar 20, 2016,

Poor school performance and early school leaving are obstacles to economic growth and employment. They hamper productivity and competitiveness, and fuel poverty and social exclusion. Nowadays, Europe is facing a high number of unemployed young people. The consequences of high unemployment are not merely economic, but Europe also risks a “lost generation” of young people that, as they cannot partic...
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Empowering young people from deprived urban areas to take the lead in environmental solutions

Start date: Sep 7, 2015, End date: Mar 6, 2016,

Young people have both special concerns and special responsibilities in relation to the ecological environment. At the same time young people are especially well-placed to promote environmental awareness simply because they have better access to information dissemination tools and social media than their elders. This project was based on European activities “Volunteering without Borders” and “Yout...
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EUROpreneur: growing to be an active European citizen with increased sense of youth initiative and entrepreneurship

Start date: May 11, 2015, End date: Jan 10, 2016,

The exchange was an international youth forum promoting Active European Citizenship and the concomitant rights by means of boosting youth-driven initiatives and entrepreneurship. The event gathered together young people from the EU and Eastern Partnership Window countries and stimulated their proactive participation in decision making processes through the use of experiential learning methodology....
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Local changemakers: Social entrepreneurship for young people living in peripheral regions

Start date: May 18, 2015, End date: Dec 17, 2015,

This youth exchange was a partnership cooperation between the peer leaders and educators on intercultural learning with neighbouring countries of the Eastern Partnership youth window. The partners were working on raising awareness of intercultural challenges in Europe and shared innovative visions and practiced possible ways of promoting the idea of social entrepreneurship among young people livin...
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Physically Fit: Promoting healthy behaviours through sports volunteering

Start date: May 4, 2015, End date: Dec 3, 2015,

This youth project is an initiative of partners that previously worked on the projects related to promotion of healthy behaviours. The activity will bring together 64 young people from the UK, Latvia, Belarus and Azerbaijan to Baku, Azerbaijan for 10 days. With this youth exchange it is planned to spread the message on the advantages of the healthy behaviours by publicising the idea of healthy lif...
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Youth projects for healthy behaviours.

Start date: Apr 7, 2015, End date: Nov 6, 2015,

This project aims to increase awareness on the topic of healthy lifestyle and publicizing the values of sports volunteering using artistic means as an advanced level of self organisation, socialization and youth participation in volunteering for inclusion of disadvantaged youth through outdoor activities and grassroot sports. The main idea is to enhance youth participation and collaboration in the...
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Promoting European citizenship through socially responsible youth entrepreneurship initiatives.

Start date: Mar 20, 2015, End date: Oct 19, 2015,

The idea to make this youth exchange came during the previous European Citizenship TCs where the representatives of some of the partner organisations met to discuss the topic. During the workshops on what European citizenship (EC) means for representatives of different corners of Europe it was highlighted that EC is perceived as a feeling of historical, social and cultural bonds to the continent s...
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Inclusion for equality

Start date: Mar 10, 2015, End date: Sep 9, 2015,

The idea of this youth exchange was developed in the course of youth encounters in 2013-2014 where the young people met to work on community oriented initiatives and on possible ways of making the idea of community participation and social inclusion of disadvantaged youth understandable for their peer groups. This time the partners from UK, Latvia, Portugal and Turkey decided to work with a partic...
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Inclusion competences for youth

Start date: Jan 14, 2015, End date: Aug 13, 2015,

This youth exchange initiative is a partnership cooperation result between the peer leaders and educators on social inclusion and intercultural learning (ICL) with neighboring countries of the Eastern partnership youth window. Partners have been working on raising awareness of intercultural challenges in modern Europe and now are willing to share innovative visions and practice possible ways of so...
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Social inclusion of unemployed youth through non-formal educational activities and grassroots sports.

Start date: Oct 6, 2014, End date: Apr 5, 2015,

The international partnership of youth organizations from the UK, Portugal, Belarus and Moldova represented by 56 young people having employment problems and 8 youth leaders will come to Gomel region, Moldova for 11 days from the 15th till the 25th of November 2014 to take part in this youth exchange. The aim of this youth exchange is to advance the level of participation of unemployed young peopl...
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Exploring European citizenship through experiential learning and outdoor activities.

Start date: Sep 25, 2014, End date: Mar 24, 2015,

The idea to make this youth exchange came during the previous European Citizenship TCs where the representatives of some of the partner organisations met to discuss the topic. During the workshops on what European citizenship (EC) means for representatives of different corners of Europe it was highlighted that EC is perceived as a feeling of historical, social and cultural bonds to the continent s...
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Empowering Volunteer activism in support for Healthy lifestyles and Grassroots Sports.

Start date: Jul 28, 2014, End date: Jan 27, 2015,

The youth exchange will bring together 56 young people and 8 youth leaders equally representing the UK, Lithuania, Russian Federation and Belarus to the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia for 11 days from the 18th till the 28th of August 2014. The theme of this youth exchange is the empowerment of the young motivated volunteers to create replicable models and transferable practices of publicizing t...
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Environment in young citizens' hands

Start date: Nov 3, 2014, End date: Jan 21, 2015,

This youth exchange is an advanced initiative of partners that previously worked on ecological projects targeting outcomes of the climate change and now feel motivated to spread the message on its dangers by publicizing the idea of environmental/ ecological volunteering in the partner European communities we come from. This project will explore what means to be active European citizen with all its...
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Mission possible : peer instruments for migrant youth employability and social inclusion.

Start date: Jul 14, 2014, End date: Jan 12, 2015,

This project is a result of the previous youth encounters between the peer leaders and educators on intercultural learning with Partner countries of the Eastern partnership youth window. After these encounters the youngsters raised awareness of the problems that migrant youth face in modern Europe and now are willing to share innovative visions and practice possible ways of social and community in...
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