PBA "Building New Energy: Job and Active Citizenship"

Building new energy: Job and Active Citizenship" PBA, focuses on needs of the partners involved to have a strong qualitative partnership and contents background to develop common projects in the frame of YIA Program. We have a shared vision, that is that Europe and its citizens, particularly the younger ones, are living in times of crisis, more than economical, of values. It is urgent work to promote an active citizenship of young people by promoting European cooperation between young people and organizations working in youth field. Strictly related to this topic, is the need to improve access to information for young people and partner organizations to provide more capacity to function as spaces of contact and support for young people, especially those with fewer opportunities seeking access to European labor market, and possibilities of participation in mobility projects within programs such as Youth in Action. We want to develop a kind of thread that joins all the partner organizations in shared vision projects; become important, therefore, create relations based on transparency and trust between organizations wishing to take an active role in seeking and creating long-term cooperation and qualitative projects in order to favor the employment and mobility opportunities for young people. The PBA will take places in Lecce, in Italy, for 5 days in which the participants, some of which already has a knowledge among them, will be surrounded by a stimulating environment of learning; PBA activity will be developed through methods of non formal education, as well as there will be the possibility to know local NGOs active in the fields object of the PBA and stimulate the growth of the local network and activities.