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Project Against Segregative Situations
Project Against Segregative Situations
Start date: May 2, 2016,
End date: Oct 1, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Segregation is a relative expression; it may appear on different levels and social groups. Anyone can be segregated in a small company for any reasons. Ethnical origin or social obstacles may cause segregation. People from different countries can feel segregation if they didn’t learn general attitudes of being Europeans.Segregation is a phenomenon, which we know we have to PASS for everyone’s purpose.The first target group of the project is youngsters with fewer opportunities. According to indicators, they don’t aquire the needed knowledge and skills for their healthy physical and personal development. They have very weak assertive competences and active citizen attitudes. The second target group is youngsters coming from standard living conditions – they also have they own „segregative” problems such as lack of self-consciousness, self-expression, the needs of entrepreneur skills, and lack of perspectives for future visions or jobs. Moreover, all these competence deficits are connected with the needs of looking around in a wider European context; to learn basic standards and attitudes of active European citizenship, to see futher than national borders and learn practices of European cooperation for better integration and higher living standards. The project intends to work with missing competences which may cause segregative situations in all three levels, in a complex context. We target and examine different levels of segregative situations, and promote equity and inclusive attitude not just theoretically, but also in practice.According to these needs, the partnership targets the followings:1.) Facing the problem of segregation, udentifying features, finding pathways, emphasizing youngsters for integrative issues in the 3 main levels mentioned above2.) Involving youngsters from various social, cultural and ethno-racial background and provide them with social tools and skills by that helping them to raise the awareness for their diverse surroundings, to find out and understand the differences, and to be proud of their cultural and personal identity that will lead to achieving personal, social and professional development3.) Increasing empathy, sensibility and cooperation of target groups coming from different ethnical, financial and national backgrounds. Developing solidarity and tolerance, decreases prejudices and stigma4.) Fostering youngsters’ integration process on local, national and European levels5.) Raising awareness of public opinion on the importance of inclusionThe consortium of the project consists of 3 NGO-s dealing with disadvantaged youngsters. Other 3 associated partner provide the youth target group with standard living conditions.The whole project initiative consists of 10 steps:1. Initial project management2. Selection procedure of applicants, assuring open access and equal rights3. Preparation phase with 3 occassions and an online Skype APV conference4. Youth exchange involving 60 youngsters from 3 countries. According to the 3 levels of segregation described above, the exchange has the following objectives:• 1st level: segregation based on social-economical background. Understanding the process on both sides, being able to identify segregative situations, realizing disadvantages of segregation. Sensitization, increasing empathy, tolerance, acceptance and understanding. • 2nd level: segregation based on generational problems. Realizing the similar feature in another level, for all participants. Understanding the generality of segregation and the importance to fight against it. Defyning the top 3 problem fields which may cause segregation for youth target groups. Identifying connection between personalities, educational results and the feature of labor market. Learning to write a resumeé, based on own personalities. Basic attitudes on a job interview. Start-up ideas and entrepreneurship. Personal future development plans• 3rd level: segregation based on national borders. Understanding the advantages of cooperation. Building future with crossing borders – realizing the the difference on a more global thinking. Erasmus+ possibilities for youth. Youthpass as a tool for better cooperation.5. Evaluation and follow-up6. DisseminationThe non-formal working methods will be adapted to the needs of participants, involving energizers and team building games, drama pedagogy, cooperative techniques, topic-based workshops, discussions and debates. Peer work as a mentoring programme to support participants with fewer opportunities will be applied for the exchange. Due to the conscious structure of the project, a wider dissemination provides long-termed benefits for the parnership: - Correction of individual and general prejudices- Raises awareness on social problems existing in the youth field. - Causes deeper awareness of European dimension of youth work.- Provides ideas for informal and nonformal education process- Promotes long-termed cooperation of participants.