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No h8 just sk8 on the road
Start date: May 18, 2016, End date: Apr 17, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Youth disadvantage in these last years, is showing in different shapes like bulling, aggressiveness, apathy, and is a really big phenomenon that is growing in Europe. The existential discomfort and deviance behaviors born with youngsters integration and relation difficulty, or when they feel judged and cannot express their own personality. Social complexity that characterize their daily life, make a personal and professional development intervention as necessary, and it acquire utmost important for young people with fewer opportunities. For this reason the partnership associations, realize local activities with young people at risk of social exclusion, to foster their active citizenship. It involves mainly young immigrants and second generations that have big difficulties in society integration. It is clear that immigration phenomenon in Europe reached a considerable dimension and partners’ countries (Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria) are involved in first line in immigration’s European emergency.Considering the entity of this problem and European Commission’s attention on this matter, partners shared the necessity of young people involvement on a bigger path in order to foster their social and cultural integration and bring a positive impact in welcoming European communities.This project is born following this idea, a youth exchange where sport is a social inclusion tool. Analyzing young people priorities and needs, the connection between sport activities, in particular street sports, is evident and is the more efficient channel to foster their active citizenship.“No h8 just sk8 on the road” wants to intervene by these priorities:1. transmit sport positive values, like team spirit, cooperation, healthy competition, active involvement, self-expression, between young people at risk of social exclusion, to encourage their active and democratic competition inside the society;2. Avoid isolation for youngsters with fewer opportunities, through non formal activities realization, based on their interests;3. Foster European citizenship, spreading European Union basic values, like intercultural dialogue;4. Incentivize sport activities and outdoor activities, for participant’s holistic wellness. Partnership identifyed a group of young people inside local level processed paths, and referring to this we create the activities agenda, considering their competencies and interests. Some participants have experience in youth exchanges conduction, others in street sports, others on social inclusion. By exercises, simulations, role fames, sportive activities, they will share competencies and knowledges, learning from each other, have fun. In particular, were involved 25 young people between 18 and 25 years old, coming from Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Italy and Spain ( 5 young people per nation and for half with fewer opportunities: young migrants and second generations ), and 6 group leaders as facilitators.Project duration is along 10 months and main activity is on July in Italy, near to Bologna: is about a residential experience of 11 days in which each group will meet and will realize by shifting, thematic laboratories arranged during preparation phase (APV is included in this phase). Non-formal methods will be used for these activities and will permit participants to develop new competencies and knowledges in a creative way, different from conventional methods, often boring and inefficient, in particular with youngsters with fewer opportunities. About impact, the exchange will improve their sportive capacities, linguistic and relational competencies, public speaking capacity, team building, self-expression, self-confidence, mutual solidarity and intercultural dialogue attitude. When they will back home, participants will implement similar activities in their origin countries, creating a group of young skaters, with partner organizations support. Social integration will have positive consequences also for hosting societies in which participants live, because those will be more active and aware of the importance of their contributions in the society. Thanks to this project, local communities and partners will benefit of good practices, competencies and capacities sharing, about fighting social exclusion, reinforcing international impact about this topic.

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