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CRISIS AND ME
Start date: Sep 3, 2014, End date: Apr 3, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The crisis in Europe has affected our youth in many different ways. Many young people are experiencing extreme difficulty finding employment and as the crisis is growing we see many young people affected in many different ways. Many young people are now leaving their home countries to go work in other EU countries, but we are now seeing that some of these larger countries are starting to close their doors. Our young people are gaining education but are lacking in a very much desired area, namely, experience and it is becoming more and more difficult to find opportunities to gain experience. We know that jobs are available as we search different databases but the problem is that most young people do not know about these, Is this a result of them not looking hard enough or because it is not easy to find them? The Erasmus+ program has given a lot of emphasis on youth unemployment, but is this enough? How can we as youth help ourselves to deal with the crisis and survive these difficult times? We hope to give our youth the needed tools to be able to deal with these problems and the ability to help them find jobs. Workshops will be designed to maintain a European dimension as all groups will be made up of at least one person from each country allowing for cultural learning during the workshops. Workshops are designed around the various subjects allowing the participants to discuss the issues and work together to solve problems and share experiences. Role playing will also be used to allow the participants to get another perspective of different problems. This has proven to be very successful as it allows for the participants to see common problems from the viewer’s point of view rather than the actor. This also allows for innovative ways showing problems. Simulations are also done during the project, allowing people to take on roles which are opposite to their real roles. During the simulations the participants will take on roles to re-enact a real situation based on events and problems in the real world. The participants will work together in their different roles to solve problems and to find solutions to these problems. Important here is that the participants take on random roles which add additional learning tools as they need to think and act as the person they are simulating. Using all the above tools and methodologies the participants learn through informal and non-formal methodologies which are real and based on past experiences. As a result we hope to give our participants and our youth the tools to increase their chances of employment and also prepare them for the education and as a result for the future. We will help them to take advantage of various EU tools to be able to maximise their learning outcomes and ultimately help youth workers to help youth find employment. In addition to learning about the problems the youth will also exchange cultures and traditions and learn about the different cultures from the different countries allowing for better understanding of each other and therefore creating a more unified EU, fighting xenophobia and also discrimination. The partner countries for this project are Cyprus, Italy, Spain and Sweden
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