During the project 2 Blending Mobilities will take place. Beyond the activities as presented briefly and each one states the leading organization and the participating organizations. Each participating organization will be in charge of selecting the suitable participants to take place in the learning experiences proposed in the Blending Mobilities. Each partner will receive further more detailed information about the agenda of the Blending Mobilities, the aim and methodology used so that each partner can select the proper participants.
Blending Mobility 1 – C1
- Type: Blended mobility of young people
- Title: “emPOWERing the informal groups”
- Leading organization: Timis County Youth Foundation
- Participating organizations: Green European Foundation (6 participants), Cascais Capital Europeia da Juventude 2018 (6 participants), Experimentaculo Associacao Cultural (6 participants), Szubjektív Értékek Alapítvány (6 participants), FITT (6 participants) — Days: 7
- Country of Venue: Romania
“emPOWERing the informal groups” is a BM that aims cultural interaction as well as the enhancement of cultural identities of each participant, using nonformal education as a tool for interaction between cultures and group cohesion. The main theme of the BM is non-formal education as a center point in youth related international work. The TC aims building and/or developing skills of solidarity, volunteering, active citizenship, youth participation and community building. The BM will take place in Puerto del Rosario – Isla de Fuertaventura (Spain).
The BM comes in support of the belief that youth is the period when we acquire the values and capacities for civic engagement. In this context, the complexity relies today on defining one’s community. Therefore, it is mandatory to inform and educate young people about the notion of belonging not only to their in-group, community or country, but also to broader global entities, contributing to defining them not only as citizens but as global citizens, ready to participate in society.
Phenomena such as globalization, membership in the European Union and emigration generate a detachment and lack of knowledge regarding local culture and identity. That’s why this BM is to give young people the opportunity to make an insight into their own culture and learn about others; to arouse interest in participating to preserve their local culture and raise awareness of global issues affecting the perception of diversity and equal opportunities, while mutual understanding among young people around the world are encouraged through intercultural dialogue; to strengthen tolerance and empathy by understanding other realities.
Moreover, a very important objective is to create a context specially for informal groups of young people in order for them to exchange experiences, stories and build relationships that hopefully will transform into collaborations. Last but not least the BM comes in support of developing the IO3 by creating a context where young people test non-formal education methods and activities, create new ones according to their interests and needs, offer feedback and input on what they would make them feel engaged and empowered to take a stand and make a contribution.
For all these objectives will use non-formal education and community development methods as they are an element that combines verbal and nonverbal communication towards interaction, and are able to bring together different forms in cooperation, which is foreseen throughout the BM.
In addition to this learning activity based on non-formal education BM has provided the following specific objectives:
- Develop learning outcomes such as solidarity, volunteering, active citizenship, youth participation and community building through informal and non-formal learning
- create contexts of experiencing and understanding identity (as a group, as individuals, as part of a global culture, as human beings)
- creating contexts towards strengthening empathy, social inclusion, tolerance and acceptance of diversity and the importance of these values and attitudes.
- creating contexts to experience community development methods that afterwards they can apply in their own informal group back home (such as Appreciative Inquiry)
- create context to experience cultural diversity
- offer resources upon opportunities informal groups can access
- promote and test the IO2 online platform and also activities included in IO4.
- create a EU network of informal groups and plan steps they can do to become a bigger community.
The profile of the participants of this project is mainly based on being part of an informal group and the entire group to attend the BM. Special attention will be given to the relationship with their community and active motivation in the changes that occur in it. Participants will be people with open and willingness to learn, be part of the development of their community, being involved in influencing public policies, being willing to act in favor of understanding diversity and equal rights. Finally, all participants will become multipliers of the results of the project so their motivation shall be in this direction as well.
In addition, participants must commit to attend all sessions planned during the motilities, the multiplier events and the activities of dissemination. They should be able to speak English at an average level but those who don’t will not be taken aside since the idea of the project is also to focus on social inclusion, building skills and encourage diversity and equal opportunities. The selection of participants will take place without discrimination of race, religion, sexual orientation or gender.
Blending Mobility 2 – C2
- Type: Short-term joint staff training events
- Title: emPOWERing youth work
- Leading Organization: FITT
- Participating organizations: Green European Foundation (4 participants), Cascais Municipality (4 participants), Experimentaculo Associacao Cultural (4 participants), Szubjektív Értékek Alapítvány (4 participants), Asociación para la Participación, Oportunidad y Desarrollo (4 participants)
- Days: 7
- Country of Venue: Romania
The aim of the event is to enhance individual skills and competencies of 20 youth workers from 4 different EU countries within a 7 days training course in relation to youth work in social inclusion and diversity field.The TC will be held in Rasnov, Romania.
The objectives are:
- o to develop competences and abilities of 20 youth workers on how to develop sustainable intervention programs based on non formal education and social inclusion methods in 4 EU countries, empowering at least 20 participants to engage at least 5 young people/country in implementing at least 1 activity of youth participation and/or civic intervention in their community;
- o experimenting methods and actions that foster youth participation and gaining an active citizenship behavior and increase social inclusion of young people: methods and activities included in the final version of the IO4 and also instruments from IO3. They will also experience: debate, 6 thinking hats, storytelling, human library, photo voice and image theater; to prepare 20 youth workers to engage informal groups and young people in the life of their community as active citizens;
- o to offer support inapplying the IO4 output developed and to test instruments found in IO3
