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Connection apPEERs: promoting social and economic rights of youth with ethnic minority background

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

The question of ethnic minority youth's social and economic interaction with the host communities has received considerable attention over the last years. Young people with different national and ethnic minority background face the unique issues that demand an additional efforts to help them feel safe, welcomed, and use the full extent of their labour market opportunities. The overall aim of our p ...
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Streets of Europe: Promoting non-violent behaviour through community volunteering.

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Sammanfattning av “Streets of Europe: Promoting non-violent behaviour through community volunteering. ”. med diarienummer 0859/16 YEpro, Den svenska ungdomsföreningen International World Youth Organization har tillsammans med sina partnerorganisationer från Portugal, Lettland, Turkiet och Italien skapat detta projekt som ett led i sitt arbete med att få ner ungdomsvåldet och samtidigt öka engagema ...
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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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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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Create and innovate with youth employment practices.

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The transition from education to independence and a place in the world of work becoming longer and more precarious. One in five young people in Europe cannot find a job despite the fact that employment is officially guaranteed for every citizen in many European states. However, the most challenging situation researched and analyzed by our partnership is that in many European countries young peopl ...
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Raising participation and employability of migrant youth

Start date: Apr 4, 2016, End date: Oct 3, 2016,

Nowadays migrant young people face many obstacles in overcoming the barriers that prevent them from becoming fully engaged participants in European society. Discrimination, language barriers, poverty, social exclusion, lower rates of education and skill levels, cultural stumbling blocks, higher risks of exploitation, and increased risk of becoming victims of crime are problems they face. Our proje ...
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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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Empowering discriminated youth for democratic participation and social inclusion.

Start date: Nov 23, 2015, End date: Sep 22, 2016,

If people are treated differently, unequally or unfairly, because of their religion, their gender, sexuality, color of their skin, or their age, it’s discrimination. When discrimination becomes internalized, it can shape the identity of those at whom it is directed. European countries and institutions stand to fight discrimination of any kind with the help of relevant legislation and initiatives. ...
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Connection established: Developing new ways of youth empowerment and active participation in representative democracy

Start date: Feb 22, 2016, End date: Sep 21, 2016,

The opportunity to experience political participation and be decision makers in their own environment from an early age is crucial for young people to become active citizens. Young people express a strong interest in policy making and such issues as employment and education, which directly concern them. However there are barriers to youth political participation in most of European countries. Stro ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Maximising youth employability.

Start date: Feb 22, 2015, End date: Sep 21, 2015,

The youth exchange addressed the issue of tackling youth unemployment with a focus on entrepreneurship and innovation. By the combined interaction of the participating partners from Sweden, Latvia, Turkey and Bulgaria and the young participants, we were able to increase the capacity of young people to contribute to the well-being of their community and, in turn, their own lives. Our partnership ad ...
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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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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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