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Peer led action for social inclusion of unemployed migrant youth in multicultural communities of Europe
Start date: Sep 12, 2016, End date: Mar 11, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

This youth exchange will bring together 10 participants and 2 group leaders from the UK, Estonia, Portugal, Romania, Italy, and Lithuania to Timisoara, Romania in order for them to become motivated and active with youth participation and peer education issues. This project is a result of the previous youth encounters between the peer leaders and educators on intercultural learning with the European partner organisations. After these encounters (seminars, training courses) they raised awareness of intercultural problems in modern Europe and now are willing to share innovative visions and practice possible ways of social and community inclusion of unemployed migrant youth by facilitating Intercultural learning process in their local and regional peer led projects. The innovative feature of this project is that we aim at developing the Inter Cultural Learning process by empowering peers to address this issue in their immediate daily peer group environment of multicultural communities suffering from unemployment. Participants involved in this youth exchange will be youth peer leaders with minority background, coming from deprived urban areas and having experience of being unemployed. The careful selection of the participants is one of the main aspects of this youth exchange to be taken care of by all the partner organisations. Our participants will meet the following general criteria: have a clear interest in developing youth projects with new areas; take responsibility and be willing to share knowledge, experience and good practices with the other participants; have some knowledge of the Erasmus+ Programme; be able to communicate in English; have ideas for future projects; interested in intercultural dialogue; attend the full duration of the activity; represent organization and belong to the network for wider valorization, multiplying and follow up.During this youth exchange we will use non-formal innovative means of education that will be based on the following things: motivation; achieving goals of the group; learning and sharing personal experiences; responsibility of the individuals collectively approved by their environment; enabling participants to reflect on what they do; taking into account the needs and motivations of participants; being open to regular feedback and evaluations; being documented to contribute to the dissemination of information. This exchange will create interlinked educational environment as the participants will share their personal impressions about peer leadership and non-formal educational means, and we intend to evolve their knowledge and skills integrating them into the society, which will bring advantages both to the society itself and to the young people coming from deprived urban areas participating in the project. Methodologically, the project is built upon “learning while doing” and “mixed nationality” principles. Participants will be encouraged to generate new methods of inclusion into the society for peer leaders. On the main workshop, the participants will be given chance to share their knowledge and achievements and to find out how they can act together, as a whole group, to bring advantages to their local youth groups. Our partners will also help to create educational environment where the participants are encouraged to work on their own projects and find out how peer leaders can participate in multi-national projects.The European dimension of the project will be developed by all the partners together, as they intend to extend such projects among young people of multinational communities, basing on interlinked educational activities. Non-formal educational means taken from online SALTO Toolbox and Booklets and adapted for goals of the exchange. This is done to raise unemployed young people’s awareness of European problems and to show how young people coming from deprived urban areas may participate in creating new, united Europe.It is expected that the young people and youth leaders will return to their youth groups and organisations with increased confidence to volunteer for community benefit. After the youth exchange is over we also expect that new projects and teams will be initiated and formed. The participants will be given records of what was done within the exchange to spread this information in their local groups and communities by making presentations and organizing workshops.

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