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Animate the Global Change
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Apr 1, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

ANIMATE THE GLOBAL CHANGE aims to raise the capacity of youth organizations from Europe and Africa to contribute to a cohesive sustainable society through alternative innovative methodology (street campaigning methods: participative or performing arts, living library and other techniques that could reach more young people);More specific objectives that are to be achieved :• To provide a space for sharing best practices among youth organization in Africa-Europe youth cooperation field;• To set-up the bases for a street campaigning network active on both continents;• To increase the level of innovation and creativity in youth work field;• To increase the level of professionalism and quality of youth work;• To stimulate long term involvement of beneficiaries youth organizations in international (and intercontinental) projects;• To stimulate mobility of youth workers North-South and South-North relation between continents and East-West/West- East within the continents.)• To develop at high level practical competencies in street campaigning for the youth workers involved• To develop strong pro-active attitudes towards social exclusion and global issues among the beneficiaries youth workers;• To increase the knowledge level of young people and youth workers in topics like: global interdependencies, climate change, sustainable life style, consumerism, social and global justice, social exclusion, etc.• To motivate all the beneficiaries (direct and indirect) to act as responsible active global citizens in their day to day life;The structure of the project is to combine international mobility and local activities. Each international meeting will be followed by local activities as follows:- Kick-off meeting in Tanzania(for country coordinators)- Local research and selection of multipliers- First training on street campaigning in Togo (28 participants)- Street campaigning for at least 2400 young people (on a topic relevant for each community)- at least 300 in each country- Second training for assessment of first street campaign and advance competencies in Romania (28 participants)- Second edition of the street campaign (for a higher target of people – at least 3200 young people having at least 400 in each country)- Final evaluation meeting in Madeira (for coordinators and some of the multipliers)- Local dissemination and follow-up activitiesEach of these activities (local/international) represents also the main milestones of the project – each being related to the previous one and depending on it. The process of the project is driven by the experiential learning principles, having a very strong practical components and adequate time and methods for reflection, feedback, self-assessment and extraction of the learning points that will be transferred in the future. The values of non-formal education (which is the main methodology in the trainings) are intended to be part of the process of the management as well.
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