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Youth Empowerment Socialisation -through- Culture
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Our social context needs to strengthen solidarity values to promote inclusion for disadvantaged people; one the most important way to let these values grow are those of culture and education. The context available by the coordinator, the archaeological area, has been thought to represent a good vehicle to transmit these values through the activities defined. These activities are divided between outdoor and indoor, both carried out through non-formal and informal education methods. The coordinator background is of an experienced cultural organization involving young. The other partners have the right competences in training and educative activities for young, facing now the specific need to also promote social inclusion. The project is trying to respond to young participants (YP) needs and participating organizations ones.The project aims to: 1)create sharing moments to let YP learn by other's experiences;2)improve participants self-esteem allowing young to measure their integration and interaction skills;3)encourage YP to develop critical thinking about media literacy and communication power;4)increase the sense of belonging to Europe;5)create lasting connections between young Europeans;6)facilitate the multilevel effects of this experience even through the YP participation to follow-up activities. Participants are young of age between 18 and 30 from different backgrounds: disadvantaged, youngsters without an healthy and sustainable life styles, passive citizens doesn't contributing to the society, some are still in education, some are employed or self-employed. Specific attention is addressed to young with fewer opportunities like NEET category (not in education, employment or training), young with linguistic and cultural difficulties, young immigrants, young that have not travelled abroad yet or young experiencing economic hardships.The YP are going to be 48: each partner will select 12 of them (6 female and 6 male); among them 8 will be group leaders and 16 young with fewer opportunities. The activities are going to be:-cooking party: traditional national food show;-workshop: YP will be lead to reflect among the potential to belong to Europe; the possible social change in a democratic and ethical perspective;-play game: activity developed with play cards prepared by the YP with the purpose to make them aware of the communication as better way to overcome cultural obstacles; -visit to local association addressed to immigrants with the aim to allow YP to understand immigrant needs;-peer discussion about the role of education in the construction of an intercultural and integrated Europe; the change of the cultural values among generations; the use of ICT tools to spread culture also to old generation; the culture and creativity innovation role;- pictures during side walking: taking pictures, collecting them and then discuss their meaning. A final competition will vote for the best picture associated with the deepest meaning. To generate an important impact, we need to go beyond classical training courses. The participants are eagerly encouraged to build their own learning process and this is the best condition to understand the non-formal education power (NFE).The connecting line upon which runs the NFE is based on:experiencing different educational settings and non formal education methods;reflecting on methods and their impact, on NFE power and limits and on the construction of pedagogical process;transferring in the one’s own reality what is been learned; sharing different perceptions, present and experiences;developing the creativity of YP involving them in the project learning process decision.The activities have been chosen to make YP work in cooperation, showing and defending their opinions while listening and respecting other’s. Moreover, the activities are going to enhance participants transversal competences: the capacity to work in team, the ability to constructively interact and to respect the tasks assigned to them. Alongside with these competences, YP will improve organizational, linguistic, and communication skills. The project will have positive effects also on target groups and participant organizations. The impact will be not only at local level through a direct interaction of the young with the local population, but also wider, laying the foundations for a solid and constructive cooperation between different organizations addressed to youth.The project is going to generate multiplier effects starting from the participants experience told to other young and then fostering them towards other Erasmus+ mobility experiences. At a second level by increasing integration and knowledge of other cultures. On the other side the participant organizations will test and improve NFE methods and then expand the network of youth organizations by contributing to create a new generation of young that strengthen European attitude.

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