Active Citizens for Minority Youth

This Training Course aims to gather youth works and develop their competences and skills on inclusion of different minorities in their communities, as well understanding their realities through promotion of active citizenship. It aims to build multipliers for working with minority youth and engaging them in European citizenship processes. The project is 9 day training course on the topics of European Citizenship and Migration and will gather 34 participants from 17 different countries (Macedonia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Romania, Russia, Albania,Bulgaria,Croatia,Estonia,Greece,Italy,Moldova,Netherlands, Serbia,Turkey, UK and Ukraine) The concrete project objectives are: • To explore the meaning, relevance and implications of European Citizenship in youth work in all its dimensions; • To discuss the reality and problems youngsters form migrant and minority background face in today’s Europe • To discover the potential of European citizenship for building inclusive society particularly towards ethnical minorities and young migrants; • To experiment and explore the potential of European Citizenship for active democratic change in society • To promote and facilitate the active use of Youth in Action programme and structures in support of youth work on European Citizenship; The project will produce a blog and publication as an outcome and tool to further promote European Citizenship.