Host Spot
Start date: Jun 1, 2016,
End date: Nov 30, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
The project Host Spot will be implemented by 10 different NGOs and/or organizations from 9 countries, member states of EU(DE, IT, IR, SP, HU) and partner countries of the Erasmus + Program( Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Palestine). Freedom of expression, the free flow of information, and freedom and pluralism of the media have internationally been acknowledged as human rights. However, after the Arab Spring, in the MENA region, this fundamental human right has been frequently restricted. In addition, EU leaders are facing a European refugee crisis, where, first of all the citizens of the European Union must have a deep awareness of the real struggling refugees face, both prior and after the ‘landing’ to the EU soil and both in their countries and during their displacement. This background has inspired the consortium to design a project that might include the promotion of human rights through the production of social oriented documentaries, aiming at telling the stories of the migrants lives.Therefore the main goals of the project are:- to contribute to develop useful skills for youth workers, networking among young people who come from different backgrounds but who are daily engaged in the human rights promotion and social inclusion of migrants, and who can improve their competences taking the best from one another. - to empower youth, providing the younger generations with competitiveness and know-how in social-oriented documentary production field, fostering youth entrepreneurship attitudes in the digital world. - to document and record migrants personal stories and daily refugees camps life. The purpose of this latter is to widen the options public opinion envisions for dealing with immigrants and refugees by making a broader interpretation of why these people in motion exist in the first place.The project is addressing young people with different backgrounds, willing to gain the skills and knowledge to take action to defend the right to freedom of expression, association and assembly as well as eager to be involved in the production of social oriented documentaries, with a particular focus on refugees and migrants lives. Each activity requires different backgrounds for the participants, however, assuming no prior professional knowledge. The involvement of participants with fewer opportunities will be ensured , particularly regarding gender balance and geographical constraints issue.The main activities will be the Youth Exchange in Jordan (50 participants), in which youth will experience in an extraordinary way the preciosity of reciprocity aiming at offering a set of ideas, of cultural contributions, but also existential and constructive experiences, thanks to the visit to the Jordanian refugees camps. The second activity, the mobility of youth workers, will take place in Turkey (20 participants), aiming at improving the story telling and journalistic skills of participant, under the light of human rights promotion, in particular of the freedom of expression. The last activity will take place in Germany (20 participants), with the goal of empowering the participants not only as professionals but as world citizens as well, providing them with crucial skills in the field of project management and ideas development, keeping encountering refugees lives in the German refugees camps.The international level of this training experience will offer the participants innovative elements, improving also the language skills, since the learning experience will be in English and inviting them to serve as multipliers. The participants will receive a well-rounded training on their freedom of expression, publication and communication, basis of the European Union democratic society, bringing issues such as the filmmaker’s confidence, personal agency, and stance toward the world. For this reason, once the project comes to an end, the participants, as experts, will independently and both individually and as a group keep working in the social oriented movies production. Therefore, the first desired impact is the promotion and the understanding of those principles, particularly in the field of freedom of expression, encouraging the development of youth exchanges and the participation of young people in democratic life in Europe, through the production of social oriented movies. In addition, an expected impact is the spread of an awareness on migrants lives and refugees struggles, both in their countries and during their displacement.The longer term benefits will be of two kinds: first of all the project will experience the multiplier effect in which, once participants return to their home countries, will keep posting and recording videoclips, eventually replicating what they learned in their local or national contexts; secondly, the participating organizations will have the possibility to further reinforce their partnership and their relationships, easing the design and future plan of new projects.