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Access granted: digital media skills as innovative means to increase e-participation of youth living in less serviced areas

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

It is undeniable that digital social media and blogs are increasingly used by the youth to engage in political discussion or simply share their views. This is reshaping traditional means of communication and social participation. Information and Communication Technologies (or simply ICT) facilitate interactive, peer-based and networked activities and lower traditional barriers to the production an ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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