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Promoting community inclusion and employability of Roma youth

Start date: Aug 22, 2016, End date: Jun 21, 2017,

Research shows that many of the estimated 10-12 million Roma in Europe face prejudice, intolerance, discrimination. The Roma population in Europe is young. The average age is 25 among Roma, compared with 40 across the EU. It is therefore of crucial importance to invest in the education of Roma youth to allow them to successfully enter the labour market. Integrating the Roma people will not only br ...
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Volunteer work goes Digital

Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Jun 2, 2017,

We are living in a modern "digital" age with unprecedented possibilities for communication, learning and skill acquisition. Immigrants and refugees are some of the most vulnerable members of society and many lack the digital skills and host- country language skills that are needed to fully participate in our modern society. This creates a gap that needs to be bridged in order for immigrants and ...
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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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Participation goes rural

Start date: Sep 15, 2016, End date: May 14, 2017,

In recent years youth have become increasingly disengaged from the traditional forms of civic participation, a phenomenon that might make us think that young people are simply not interested in democratic life. Thus it becomes more and more necessary in Europe, at all levels, to develop strategies and policies to match the needs of young people and support a natural progression towards their democ ...
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Accessing youth to decision and policy making for better employability: developing and transferring innovative practice.

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

This project aims at partner youth organizations’ activization in promoting direct youth democratic participation in policy making for better employability. Understanding all vital aspects of democratic youth representation and participation will enable youth organizations to become the forefront of influence and decision making, maintain the legitimacy of the processes and act as trained multipl ...
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RE-united: young REfugee inclusion

Start date: Mar 14, 2016, End date: Jan 13, 2017,

Europe is facing a large influx of refugees. In order to integrate successfully, these newcomers must have the opportunity to become full and equal members of society. This is a two way process that involves learning and acceptance on the part of both the host country citizens as well as the new arrivals. In order to facilitate this process, we need trained youth leaders to work in our communities ...
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Ethnic minority youth ENTREPRENEURization and inclusion through grass-root initiatives

Start date: Mar 14, 2016, End date: Jan 13, 2017,

Young people carry a disproportionate burden when it comes to unemployment. Youth from ethnic minority backgrounds are especially hard hit. Not only do they have higher rates of unemployment but they also often lack the skills they need to procure the jobs that are available and the resources to obtain those skills. As a result we have an increasing number of young people with a sense of exclusion ...
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Rural Youth for community volunteering as an alternative to unemployment and social exclusion.

Start date: Nov 9, 2015, End date: Sep 8, 2016,

Young people carry a disproportionate burden when it comes to unemployment. Youth from predominantly rural areas are especially hard hit. Not only do they have higher rates of unemployment but they also often lack the skills they need to procure the jobs that are available and the resources to obtain those skills. As a result we have an increasing number of young people with a sense of exclusion, ...
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Empowering youth from deprived urban areas for political / democratic participation in drafting career guidance policies.

Start date: Aug 3, 2015, End date: Mar 2, 2016,

When formulating policies affecting the lives of young people, many political actors, including institutions, decision and policy makers, do not consider young people nor youth organisations as relevant contributors, thus denying their ability to have an impact. Traditional means of political participation often lack transparency and the accountability of decision makers to young people. Such mean ...
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Activating rural youth: Promoting youth participation and active citizenship among young people living in deprived rural areas

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

This multilateral Youth Exchange was an opportunity for disadvantaged young people living in deprived rural areas to gain knowledge and skills and explore the idea of active youth participation in democratic life in Europe and active citizenship. It was held in Azerbaijan bringing together 50 young people and 10 group leaders from the UK, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, and Azerbaijan for 10 days. T ...
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Volunteering your way out of marginalization and poverty.

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

This multilateral youth exchange will bring together migrant youth and youth leaders from the UK, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Portugal for a 12 day activity in Lithuania with the intent of exploring the role of volunteerism as a tool for preventing marginalisation, social exclusion and poverty among migrant youth. The exchange will be held from 01.06.2015 till 12.06.2015 in Trakai region. The APV be h ...
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Urban youth for community volunteering as alternative to unemployment and social exclusion.

Start date: Oct 6, 2014, End date: Aug 10, 2015,

Recent years of recession have greatly influenced the presence of young people coming from deprived urban areas in the labour market across Europe causing higher unemployment rates and bringing troubles to local communities associated with social exclusion of youth from deprived urban areas . That’s what we as partner youth organisations have common concern with and would like to influence with th ...
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Youth inclusive: For mutual learning and knowledge building while drafting career guidance policies.

Start date: Oct 20, 2014, End date: Apr 20, 2015,

This six month project aims at empowering youth organisations to represent interests of disadvantaged young people in the work of the European guidance system and activization of all career guidance stakeholders working in this field for wider youth inclusion involvement and consultations. Social inclusion , Employment and poverty issues among youth, its economic independence and transition from e ...
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Volunteer your way to employment

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

This multilateral youth exchange aims to improve employability of young people. The recent crisis has greatly increased the rate of unemployment throughout Europe and the surrounding areas. Addressing this issue with effective innovative solutions has become even more critical than before. Several factors affect unemployment among young people. Some of these include lack of education and skill ...
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Young and active : social entrepreneurship in action.

Start date: Sep 29, 2014, End date: Mar 28, 2015,

The programme for this youth exchange is an initiative arising out of the international team of young people – leaders of youth organizations and young successful entrepreneurs that have been involved in community projects and previously met on the encounters organized by IVOLO. These young people have felt encouraged and motivated to organize a challenging innovative European cooperation project ...
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