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Let's build a N.E.S.T. (Network to Enhance Solidarity and Tolerance)
Start date: May 1, 2016,
End date: Sep 30, 2016
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FINISHED
The project "Let's Built a N.E.S.T. (Network to Enhance Solidarity and Tolerance), addresses the issue of the Refugee Crisis. The refugee crisis is one of the top issues concerning Europe and the world right now. The ongoing discussion on the Refugee Crisis by the mass media, social media, stakeholders and the society in general, creates the need to set this issue as a priority of discussion among young people. This project is based on common concerns of the participating organizations on the Refugee Crisis, set in the framework of a common action plan between our organizations in order to enhance solidarity towards the refugees, as well as to promote tolerance in our societies. The main activity of this project will be a Youth Exchange which will take place in Larnaka, Cyprus. The exchange will be held in the context of a 5 month project, which will include procedures of preparation, implementation of the activity and dissemination of results. The participating organizations will be from Cyprus, Lebanon, Palestine, Russia, Belgium and Finland, with 60 young people as participants in total. The organizations participating in this project will focus on how to the build a network to enhance solidarity and tolerance, addressing and raising awareness on the issue of the Refugee Crisis, beginning from the cooperation between them and forwarding the knowledge gained in their own context, using their own network of national and international contacts.The young people that will participate in this project will gain knowledge and in a way they will receive training through several educational and interactive activities based on non-formal education methods, such as, workshops and creative activities, presentations using audio-visual material and discussions, interactive and educational games, simulation activities and role play, cultural activities etc. The activities are inspired by existing educational tolls, as well as good practices of the participating organizations. During the 5 month project the participants will disseminate and implement these activities in their own context. Additionally, this project will provide our organizations the basis for future similar activities in the context of other partner countries. The learning outcomes and competences gained from this exchange will have a great impact on the young participants. Specifically, the participants will learn to work as active members of their local and global society; that solidarity is a value that holds the people of this world together and creates strong bonds between youth and youth organizations in and outside Europe, by developing mutual support and understating; that tolerance is developed when leaving with young people from other countries even for a few days; that the potentials and knowledge offered by non-formal learning methods can begin from a small island and spread to the rest of the world by each and every individual; that young people have the power to implement initiatives on social matters; that people can achieve more when working as groups and not only as individuals.