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netWorked Youth Research for Empowerment in the Digital society (WYRED)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

...mplicated by the fact that the group is a swiftly moving target, it is as heterogeneous as the wider society, and young people can be unwilling to be subjects of research.The WYRED project (netWorked Youth Research for Empowerment in the Digital society) aims to provide a framework for research in which children and young people can express and explore their perspectives and interests in relation ...
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The role of a men in gender equal Europe

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Oct 30, 2017,

...will last for 15 months involving 8 countries: Serbia, FYRO Macedonia, Kosovo (under resolution 1244), Albania, Portugal, Austria, Germany and Belgium. Aim of the project is to raise the awareness of youth, professional and general public in 8 involved and other European countries about the importance of the role of boys and young men in gender equality and gender based violence prevention in Euro ...
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European Badge Alliance

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...are not sufficiently oriented toward the needs of young people; key competences acquired through non-formal or informal learning, namely through mobility, by young people need to be more valorized, Youth workers lack of competences regarding innovative approaches on recognition; cooperation among institutions at regional national and European level needs to be reinforced and there is a scarce inte ...
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Colorful Fighters For European Empowerment

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

COFFEE (Colorful Fighters for European Empowerment) is a training course about youth workers, youth leaders, members and volunteers of youth organisations who work or willing to work with LGBTI young people. It will bring to Thessaloniki 30 participants from Sweden, Greece, FYR Macedonia, Italy, Turkey, Cyprus, Slovakia, Romania, Lithuania, Spain, Bulgaria and Belgium who want to increase their sk ...
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From new challenges to innovative contributions: using online tools to promote exchange and understanding

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

...erent people, who just move around in their own ‘circles’. With this training course we want to promote an exchange of personal stories, to overcome prejudices. During the training, the attending youth workers will first learn what the root causes of prejudices are in our societies and analyze the situation in different countries. The next phase is about exploring and mastering online tools to pro ...
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The Journey - Stories of Migration, Tales of Inclusion

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

...starting point of any sustainable integration policy should be the respect for migrants and refugees as individuals, with their own stories, dreams and competences. We feel that youth organizations and European youth can have a great role in addressing this gap. By meeting the refugees/migrants and collecting their stories (needs, dreams, fears, personal stories, journeys, expectations, goals, hop ...
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Colour Our World

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

... their stereotypes and prejudices and will engage in activities supporting intercultural understanding rather than discrimination acts and intolerance. Intercultural education of the youth today can serve as the cornerstone for more peaceful societies of tomorrow.
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ReaDy! SeT! aCTioN! – PROCEED and SUCCEED (YOU are THE MESSAGE)!

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

Training course “ReaDy! SeT! aCTioN! – PROCEED and SUCCEED (YOU are THE MESSAGE)!" is going to gather 30 youth workers, trainers and volunteers from 11 different partner organizations from European Union and Partner countries. Training course is dedicated to enrich (or build foundation) knowledge about audiovisual (photography and video) measures as tools to increase society awareness about NGOs o ...
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Europe from Scratch

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

"Europe from Scratch" is a multimeasure project inspired by the EC project "A new narrative for Europe" that includes 2 YEs for young people aged 18-30 and a job shadowing period for youth workers. The project involves more than 100 youngsters from Belgium, Austria, Italy, Turkey, FYRoM, Portugal, Greece, Poland, UK, Lithuania and Cyprus. Activities will take place between May and December 2016. ...
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Europe in crisis: a call for dialogue. What can youth workers contribute?

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

...ons from all sides to develop better informed opinions. We also believe that knowledge is the key to understanding and compassion. This training course is organized for representatives of youth organizations from different European countries, to create a common strategy. As the crisis is a cross-border problem, it only makes sense to coordinate our actions in a European framework. After the traini ...
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Guidelines for Recognition - European Advanced Tool

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

"GR-EAT: Guidelines for Recognition: European Advanced Tool" is a youth project aiming at enhancing the recognition of Non Formal and Informal Learning and at providing youth-led organisations with support and guidance to implement internal systems of recognition of the competences of their volunteers. Indeed, in the current youth unemployment crisis in Europe, there is a clear need to help young ...
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Routes&Roots

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

...tendency had been to say, 'let's adopt the multicultural concept and live happily side by side, and be happy to be living with each other'. But this concept has failed, and failed utterly” (2010).Youth For Understand believes that multiculturalism is not enough. There is a need for the development of intercultural competences (from a young age) and for an increase in genuine intercultural dialogu ...
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Don’t judge a book by its cover: Empowering youngsters to organize a Human Library

Start date: Aug 30, 2015, End date: May 29, 2016,

...ote dialogue, challenge prejudices and encourage understanding. The main characteristics of the project are to be found in its simplicity and positive approach. It is created by members of the Danish youth organization Stop the violence in 2000 and it is now operational in more than 60 countries. The Human Library is a public event, where interested people can come to challenge their prejudices. T ...
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Integrating social marketing in everyday youth work

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

In the face of high youth unemployment, young people look for opportunities to distinguish themselves on the labour market, including through learning mobility. And while youth organisations, like YFU, fully understand the benefits of secondary school long-term mobility programmes, youth organisations need a new approach to effectively reach young people through their digital and social media cha ...
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Change management in youth NGOs

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Low youth participation has recently become more and more evident. Usually, as an indicator of the low youth participation, the young voters’ turnout is used (which indeed becomes worse every year). However, low youth participation does not appear only when voting. Low youth participation becomes part of all aspects of the democratic life and especially in the everyday life of the youth organizati ...
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Empowering Through Storytelling

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Jan 1, 2016,

...s and in lobbying campaigns. It enables the organizations to show to the audience the organization’s ideas or products and/or to lobby for them. We believe that storytelling can be a vital tool for youth workers too. In the frame of youth work, storytelling can be the process that enables youth workers to achieve the personal, socio-educational and professional development of the young people they ...
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Enter the net!

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

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Empowering youngsters with skills, knowledge and attitudes to improve their influence on decision making processes

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

In the Netherlands, youth political parties are very active. In most cities there are youth branches of political parties. They serve multiple purposes: to provide leisure activities, to get organizational experience, to gain experience in a political context and to have influence on decision making processes. Next to these structures, many countries have national youth councils, with representati ...
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Conflict Management tools for youth workers

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

On an everyday basis, youth workers are dealing with conflicts. They are in touch with youngsters, sponsors and authorities. They ‘move’ in different local cultures, effectively as a mediator between different interests. It makes their work most valuable, as they are usually also working with vulnerable groups. On a daily basis they deal with many visions, which do not always go hand in hand with ...
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GREEN conNEXTion

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

The youth exchange "Green ConNEXTion" took place in Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium, from September 5th to September 15th. The project aimed at addressing the concept of Sustainable Deevlopment, with a specific focus on environmental sustainability. The concept of Sustainable Development, in fact, has been recognized as a crosscut principle in previous decades. Significant efforts are being put by ...
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World Citizens

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

...who reside in the country without being citizens in the formal sense, but it involves also participating in the community life and carrying weight in matters concerning our daily life. This Youth Exchange aims to raise awareness about the topic of social citizenship, immigration policies and access to social rights of non-citizens in order to increase young people's social inclusion and well-bei ...
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JOB HUNTERS

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Economic crisis has seriously hit youth. Youth unemployment in Europe is twice as high as unemployment rates for all ages. According to Eurostat’s data, EU-28 unemployment rates for people under 25 years has reached 23.5% in 2013. Greece and Spain’s percentages for the same year peaked at 58.3% and 55.5% respectively, followed by Croatia, Italy, Cyprus and Portugal, while similar situation is refl ...
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First Work Experience for Lifelong Success

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

...n. The work experiences on the other hand need to be transversely recognized and to improve the competitiveness of young people on the labor market. Macedonia has a very high percentage of unemployed youth among the total unemployment and several researches show that this is due to the lack of practical work experiences and attitudes to initiate one’s own employment. The mobility work can motivate ...
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iVolunteer for Europe

Start date: Jul 3, 2014, End date: May 2, 2015,

In Europe, over 2,500 teenagers participate annually in youth exchanges organised by YFU. Their experience abroad, integrating into a new family and school, making new friends and learning a new language, is a profound one, where they are challenged to experience cultural diversity. Dedicated volunteers and youth workers shape this first-hand intercultural experience and make it possible. Voluntee ...
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Structured Dialogue on the Move

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The study visit will focus on the analysis of the Structured Dialogue process to date and good practices implemented in each EU Member State. Decisions arising from the process of Structured Dialogue directly affect young people and the study visit aims to exchange knowledge, experience and further cooperation between persons directly involved to the process. As part of the study visit a meeting w ...
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Stop Gender Based Violence Now!

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

...world in which men, women and LGBTQI people face no discrimination, are socially included; enjoy their rights together with the right to work. This project aims at developing the competences of the youth workers to work with the topic of GBV and stimulate the active participation of young people to respect, prevent and stop GBV. The objectives of the project are - To share different experiences an ...
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Gender: Rethink, Retweet

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

...ow to deal with online discrimination, especially the one focused on gender differences and differences based on sexual orientation. Therefore, the targets group of this TC are active volunteers and youth workers who are interested to understand better what gender is, what is its difference with sex and sexual orientation, how are they connected and what is their relation to human rights and huma ...
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Creative Wave

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Feb 27, 2015,

...uidity and constant change. We can identify this phenomena especially in the employment section where new demands arise and acquiring more skills is a given expectation. This has a strong impact upon youth's quality of life. Committed volunteers are constantly working in bridging the gap between market's requirements and youth's development, therefore the need of empowering creative, alternative w ...
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Innovative YE(U)!

Start date: Jun 17, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Innovation is a key factor in the work of youth organizations. Youth are constantly in change and young people are looking for new ways to learn and develop themselves, especially under the spectrum of the financial crisis in Europe. New approaches are needed to address these changes and YEU envisions being at the front of these innovations. YEU intends to inspire, dream, take chances and support ...
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Creative mathematics in Multicultural / Young Peaple- (borders+barriers)=Peace + Understanding

Start date: Aug 1, 2010,

"Creative Mathematics in Multicultural Europe" - International Youth Convention, is an annual event of YEU International since 1983 that uses non-formal education that will require young people to be active and creative in soMngrthe 'mathematical equation' Young People - (borders + barriers) = Peace + Understanding. 75 participants from 25 different European and Mediterranean countries will focus ...
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VOLUNTEERING²+EMPLOYABILITY²=UNDERSTANDING²

Start date: Mar 1, 2012,

Youth unemployment rate is reaching 40% in many countries and according to Eurobarometer studies on European youth it claims that slightly less than five young Europeans take part in voluntary activities. A very competitive market and high unemployment rate are influencing youth's lack of interest towards the society and other challenges EU faces today. We believe that the current situation create ...
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Volunteering in rural areas

Start date: Jan 1, 2012,

The project aims to provide youth leaders/workers with useful tools for strengthening of social competences and active participation of youths in the rural community and promote volunteering for social change.The training course will take place in Kumanovo, Macedonia and will gather 20 participants from 10 European countries (Albania, Serbia, Kosovo, Austria, Italy, Malta, Slovakia, UK, and Macedo ...
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Creativity in Activity

Start date: Dec 1, 2011,

... people (excluding trainers) aged 18-25 with a goal to insure the development of partner organizations' leaders and activists, and their capacity for networking and developing strong platforms of youth participation in their communities as well as to develop future youth exchanges and other youth actions together. TC will be held in Serbia (December 14th-21st 2011) on Vlasina Lake. Objectives are: ...
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Multimedia to Promote Mobility of Unemployed Youth

Start date: Aug 1, 2011,

Training Course entitled "Multimedia to Promote Mobility of Unemployed Youth" will be organised in Sabac, Republic of Serbia. The project’s duration:10 working days. Objectives:-To train group leaders and youth workers from EU and SEE countries and give them the capacity to use multimedia as a tool in promotion of mobility of unemployed youth and youth with fewer opportunities, as well as developi ...
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Volversity! - Voluntary work as a way to increase employment opportunities and combat poverty.

Start date: Dec 1, 2010,

... take place in Faro and will involve 2 volunteers and will last for 12 months. These volunteers will continue the work started by our two EVS volunteers in 2009 promoting the opportunities offered by youth in action using NFE methods amongst young people in the Algarve region.The 2 volunteers be based in Portugal will contribute to the development of YEU Youth Volunteering and Resource Centre prov ...
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Mainstreaming Gender issues in organising youth exchanges and training courses on international Level -Road to gender equality

Start date: Aug 30, 2010,

The main aim of this training course is to train participants about how to ensure thatgender issues are mainstreamed and taken into account in planning and implementing International Youth Exchanges and Training Courses. YEU and our member organisations consistently hiaintain high quality standard ¡ organizing, implementing, evaluating and securing an effective follow up of the activities but we ...
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Training Course Opportunities for Equality, Promotion of Equality

Start date: Aug 1, 2010,

The aim of this Training Course is to empower youth workers, leaders and activists with skills and knowledge necessary for the work with representatives of different minorities. The Training Course will seek to develop their positive attitudes towards work with minorities, especially within the context of Post-Communist countries from among Programme and South East Europe and Eastern Europe and Ca ...
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Exchangology! Sustainable youth exchanges - reducing the environmental impact of international youth exchanges

Start date: Aug 1, 2010,

...ay in ensuring ustainability of our planet is more important than ever.As organisations that actively promote the international mobility of young people, especially with the opportunities offered by Youth in Action and invariably by plane, the partners in this project recognise 4he need to standardise the introduction, in all stages of our activities (planning, implementation and follow up), mech ...
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InterActive Train - get in gain

Start date: Nov 1, 2009,

...c, etc) the local activities prepared and coordinated by each local partner. The InterActiveTrain will be carrying the exhibition promoting the values YEU stands for. The good practices of the local youth actions made and collected during the entire period of the InterActiveTrain together with the tips for the future organizers of such activities will be collected in the final publication made by ...
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Certification of Executives and Volunteers of NGO

The proposal aims towards the development of a certification system for executives and volunteers working for NGOs and in particular to evaluate and accredit non-formal and informal education and training (knowledge, skills and competencies they have acquired through their experience).NGOs have, over the years, played a significant role in social problem-solving & public affairs. This has led to a ...
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