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Welcome to Europe
Start date: Jan 9, 2017, End date: Jan 8, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

‘Welcome to Europe’ aims raise awareness and encourage volunteerism among young people with refugees in Europe. In the last months, because of the attacks produced in Paris and Belgium, it has been detected a rejection of receiving refugees. According to the latest Eurobarometer up to 67% of Hungarians and 61% of Bulgarians refuse refugees entering their countries. Change this mindset, especially young people, future opinion leaders, is basic to achieve a complete acceptance of refugees. Therefore, through this project we will aim:- Raise awareness of young Europeans and non-discrimination of refugees, through volunteering, the use of social networking and creativity. - Improve training of youth workers in order to provide them of skills and capacities to address the needs of a multicultural society: equality, diversity inclusion…The project includes training to improve competences of youth workers and guidelines to design a raise awareness campaign. Specific aims are:- Promote the use of social networks as a tool for raising awareness and youth to avoid racism and xenophobia in European countries hosting refugees.- Develop the skills of youth workers to encourage volunteering with refugees in host countries.- Promoting the participation of youth volunteerism by encouraging the inclusion of refugees already established in different European countries.Partners are Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus and Spain. All the partners work with young people and have experience with refugees. During the project implementation will be carried out -a transnational meetings in the preparation phase and another in the evaluation phase- , a training and best practices -in which will train youth workers about how to do a campaign awareness and volunteerism- that workers will replicate in their country and combined mobility activity for young people who have designed the best campaign of awareness and voluntary (with the aim to exchanging experiences and develop an awareness campaign at European level).This project is addressed to:- 10 youth workers. They will receive a training to develop in their countries a raise awareness campaign and volunteerism, in addition to improving their attitudes to address the issue of refugees. - 30 young or youth workers in each country: 150 total (50 refugees). They will receive the training of the youth workers.
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