Youth Empowerment
Start date: Jul 17, 2014,
End date: Dec 31, 2014
PROJECT
FINISHED
The existence of "anti-democratic" groups is a very painful problem for Europe, which has recently and unfortunately penetrated in different countries..
The Exchange Program refers for young people’s social inclusion and their participation in Youth Policies. This project has an objective to gather the youth of Europe over one serious issue – to ponder over the present democracy in European countries, view its positive sides and reveal its negative impact on young people’s lives and on this basis discuss and make further projects for:
• Keeping the young people away from various illegal and anti-democratic groups and clubs,
• Helping the young people, who have already been involved in such groups, to leave them.
The participants from 4 countries will have 10 days to discuss the above mentioned issues, to realize their influence on youngsters’ life, to get the right understanding of “Democracy” and think over opening new doors for the youth be involved in youth works, useful for making a civil society and healthy thinking Europe.
This meeting will be a good opportunity for the youth of Europe to gather in one place to discuss why, for what reason the young people act in that way, what or who makes them be involved in such groups and what prompts them to make a suicide. As well as in the frame of the meeting the youth will get introduced to the main tools of democracy, fundamental freedoms and the restrictions stipulated by laws. The project encourages the youngsters to have an active participation in the social fields of their countries.
The youth will exchange the information about their social life and share their opinions and ideas on different issues they are facing and the problems they have, to discover the reasons the youth are isolated from the society and steps to make them integrated and involved in cultural, social or health educational activities and support inter -generation dialogue.
The project will support cultural diversity and tolerance. The participants will get skills which help them to experience how to active in inter-cultural environment, come in consensus, listen and hear the opinions and ideas from other youth coming with different background and the most important it to learn how to live under common roof.
During the meeting we ll use non formal education techniques. The program will be based on interactive workshops, games, debates and presentations. The project will support their active participation in Erasmus+ and development of the networking between the partners, realize join project and use different possibilities which makes them also included in society.