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Actors of change: practicing non-formal learner-centred approaches for social inclusion of youth from deprived urban areas
Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Young people coming from deprived urban areas are involved in a broad network of correlated factors that contribute to social exclusion and disenfranchisement; these factors include mental oppression, poverty, poor education, as well as low social and economic status. By the reason of deprived urban background youth may have limited access to the social world. This lack of freedoms may include reduced opportunity, social participation, or even dignity.The main aim of this Youth Exchange is supporting inclusion of youth from deprived urban areas through non-formal education activities and sharing approaches on how to realize these new ideas among young people from deprived urban areas for better employability skills and aspiration to be agents of change. The exchange will involve 56 young people and 8 youth leaders from the UK, Russia, Portugal, and Belarus and will be held in Brest, Belarus. The target group will be youth coming from deprived urban areas and facing social exclusion and employment problems.During this Mobility Project we will operate with the following methodologies:- workshops on communication, social inclusion and entrepreneurship skills and competences for better employability, - plenary meetings with best practice sharing,- international team projects development, - role plays, - simulation exercises, - consensus and confrontational group work, - participants' presentations, - community projects,- interactive discussion groups,- activities on development of digital media skills of participants, etc.Furthermore, as a result of this project the participants will be able to promote a better understanding of the concept of social inclusion of youth from deprived urban areas and establish an intercultural approach between the participating countries. Young people will also be able to promote their achievements and show that they do have a positive impact on society as well as obtain a relevant knowledge and skills to become active and better informed citizens.This Mobility Project will serve as an inspiration for developing follow-up start up projects by the participants who will establish new contacts for future cooperation. The approaches of using non-formal educational techniques for inclusion of youth from deprived urban areas developed by the participants will be spread further.
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