Date/time
Date(s) - 19/03/2017 - 28/03/2017
All day
Locality
Thessaloniki,Greece
Project type
Selected participants
- Guest User
- Guest User
- Guest User
- Guest User
- Guest User
Summary what was youth exchange about:
The youth exchange explored the concepts of citizenship in general and European citizenship in particular and active participation of young people in social, economic and political life. The project tackled the issues of declined trends of social, economic and political engagement of citizens on national and European level, low trust in democratic institutions and representatives, little or no interest and knowledge of citizen’s rights and obligations, partial understanding of work and role of EU institutions and decisionmaking process in the Union.
The youth exchange addressed and raised awareness about all of these issues and educates, motivates and equip young people with competences to take active part in democratic life and decisionmaking processes on local, national and European level. The YE provided and introduced tools on how to be more active citizen, encouraged and equips participants with knowledge and skills to run their own activities on these topics, clarifies the work and role of EU institutions, promotes international cooperation in the youth field, fosters mutual understanding and strong intercultural
learning for participants.
Objectives of youth exchange were:
To raise awareness about citizenship in general and European citizenship in particular by exploring the concepts, their dimensions, their contemporary meanings, understandings and ways they are used;
To encourage active participation of young people in sociopolitical democratic life on local, national and European level;
To introduce the work and role of EU institutions and decisionmaking processes within the Union (theoretically and practically);
To empower participants to create and run campaigns on different topics and in different contexts;
To foster mutual understanding, solidarity, intercultural learning and intercultural dialogue;
To foster international cooperation, capacity and partnership building in the youth field working with citizenship education and active participation of young people;
To promote Erasmus+ Programme as tool to work with young people as well as for reaching and enabling active participation of youth with fewer opportunities.
The group of the youth exchange consisted of 56 young people (18-30 y.o.) and youth leaders residents in the countries of Italy, Romania, Turkey, Macedonia, Greece, Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia and Estonia. Each partner organisation sent group of 6 people consisting of 5 young persons and 1 group leader.
Participation in the project
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Prihlasovanie na tento projekt bolo uzatvorené. Momentálne prebieha výber účastníkov.
