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Connection apPEERs: promoting social and economic rights of youth with ethnic minority background
Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The question of ethnic minority youth's social and economic interaction with the host communities has received considerable attention over the last years. Young people with different national and ethnic minority background face the unique issues that demand an additional efforts to help them feel safe, welcomed, and use the full extent of their labour market opportunities. The overall aim of our partnership at this Multi-leg Mobility Project is to empower young people and youth groups facing discrimination and representing national and ethnic minority groups to advocate their social and economic rights, establish the network of trained multipliers that will form the basis of youth rights advocacy groups. The groups will be established within the structures of our organisations and will continue working after the end of the project. These youth rights advocacy groups will use the obtained skills and competences to access discriminated young people to social/economic rights through community projects they will generate. Reaching the above aim will stimulate access of youth representing national and ethnic minority groups to knowledge and skills helping them to become more responsible and active citizens.The young participants from Sweden, Lithuania, Turkey, Italy, and Latvia will be actively involved in the project with the Lithuanian, Italian, and Latvian partner organisations hosting its different legs: Activity 1. Contact Making Event in Lithuania with 25 representatives of the participating organisations where they will meet to share views on advocating social and economic rights of young people facing discrimination and representing national and ethnic minority groups and present profiles and experience of the participating organisations in this field.Methodology to be used in carrying out the Contact Making Event: - presentations of the participants and organisations, - Peer Café on visions of youth discrimination and youth rights, - mixed nationality workshops and simulation exercises, - presentation of the Erasmus+ programme and the EU youth opportunities,- the “Open Space” methodology,- intercultural energizers and cultural evenings.Activity 2. Youth Exchange in Italy with 60 participants (50 young people involved in the work of the represented partner organisations and 10 group leaders) will explore different ways of lobbying access to social/economic rights of excluded youth representing national and ethnic minority groups.Working methods to be used during the Youth Exchange: - thematic workshops, - role play (Theatre of the Oppressed) and simulation exercises,- Introduction of the Compass human rights manual,- workshop on web-resources and opportunities for future projects,- introduction and workshop on Youthpass, - “Project Arrow” workshop on project management, - projects for local community.Activity 3. Training Course in Lithuania for 30 young people motivated to act as multipliers where they will concentrate on the development of transferring skills and competences of peer educators, and will work out a pilot model for advocating social/economic rights of young people representing national and ethnic minority groups and the ways of disseminating the projects' achievements.Methodology to be used in carrying out the Training Course: - sharing of good practice,- workshops on transferring knowledge and skills and planning follow-up between the participating partner organisations,- “Deep in Community” field exercise.As a result of the project we will have a European pool of young motivated and trained peer leaders that will form the basis of youth rights advocacy groups. The groups will be established within the structures of our organisations and will continue working after the project ends. These youth rights advocacy groups will use the obtained skills and competences to access young people representing national and ethnic minority groups to social/economic rights through community projects they will generate.We are confident that we will be able to spread our findings and knowledge further to other youth organisations active with the issues of lobbying social/economic youth rights as a way to approach discrimination of young people representing national and ethnic minority groups.
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