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Gifts of YOUrope
Start date: May 18, 2016, End date: Nov 17, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Gifts of YOUrope stems from the desire of the partners to enable young people to discover, evaluate and develop their talents through a short term international non-formal learning experience. The project also aims at disseminating these talents among European community in the geographical sense. Gifts of YOUrope is a youth exchange and involves 3 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy and Spain with the participation of 18 young people aged between 18 and 24 years and 3 group leaders.The association InCo, project coordinator, has already hosted a youth exchange on the same issue in 2015. Due to its success InCo wants to propose an exchange on the same issue by improving the content and methodologies based on feedback from the participants of the last year.The 3 partners involved are dealing with job orientation and / or guidance to activities of international mobility of young people and operate in areas where youth unemployment is above 40%. In particular:> The youth center ABERTAL (SPAIN) has many years of experience in the involvement of young people with fewer opportunities in activities that support the development of a socially proactive behavior, involving them in voluntary work, workshops and offering a consulting service for career guidance.> SOS Hermann Gmeiner social center is based in Sarajevo and involves young people with fewer opportunities in its work of education for non-violence and career guidance;> InCo deals with orientation to international mobility and wants to involve the whole network with which it cooperates in the framework of EVS and that deals with young people from fewer opportunities as those from the SOS Children's Village Saronno and InCo headquarters in Molfetta (where Youth unemployment is even higher than in Trentino).The 3 partners have seen that youth unemployment is not only related to the labor shortage but to a disorientation of young people who are not aware of what they want to and can do. Those who are most in need are young people with fewer opportunities: young people with educational difficulties or precarious situations; facing geographical, economic, cultural, and social obstacles. That is why the identification of the participants will give priority to these young people who are often also excluded from non-formal learning opportunities.The exchange will be divided into 4 phases:The first will be dedicated to a reflection on participants themselves, on their core competences, workplace dreamed. Youthpass will be used as a tool for reflection. Later we will analyze the tools for the job search: the drafting of the C V and motivation letter, personal branding on social media. Then, we will organize visits to institutions in Trentino that deal with research support work (EURES office, temporary work agency) but also handicraft and new technologies enterprises to understand the skills required by companies and those required to be an entrepreneur. The last phase of the program will be devoted to a reflection of what has been acquired during the exchange.An active and participatory methodology will be used. So the main activities are:>Individual and group reflection to focus on individual goals and the objectives of the group;>Interactive games, watching movies with debate> Role playing to allow participants to identify with different situations in the logic of making learning;>Workshop;> Visiting the area to improve the interaction with the territory and see the concrete reality as EURES office, companies, etc;> Organization of events: intercultural evening and Talent Show. The talent show is designed as a "replica" of the famous TV program 'Italia's Got Talent, "in which participants and youth of the local community will be able to show their talents: dance, theater, music, painting, etc.Gifts of YOUrope wants to have a positive impact on all of the actors involved:> the young participants will develop skills being useful for their personal growth and their professional future,>partner organizations share best practices and enhance their network at European level,> the local community will be involved, in particular for the event "Talent Show" with the opportunity to meet young people from different countries, to know their talents and make their talents known.Finally, the project attaches great importance to both the internal visibility (group leaders will share the results with their own team) and the external visibility using websites, social media and platform VALOR of the European Commission. In particular, young people will be involved in the "YOUrope gifts news " to give a daily news trend of the exchange sites of the various partners.
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