Youth gEUrilla

Project type
Erasmus+ KA2 Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project name

Youth gEUrilla

Goal

The goal of “Youth gEUrilla” is to empower young people (the unemployed, college students and socially marginalized young people) to take action and to be more active in their local communities, by providing them with the necessary knowledge needed for seeking employment through alternative ways like self-employment, volunteer work and the organisation of various youth events.

The main idea of the project

With this project, we aim to activate and empower passive young people (the unemployed, recent college graduates) from marginalized neighbourhoods, to participate and create projects and activities in their own local communities.
Through their work, they will acquire various skills and competencies that will prepare them for the job market or self-employment (self-organization, self-dependency, the importance of teamwork and activism).
The aim of the "Youth gEUrilla" project is also, to create a positive change and sway people away from unhealthy lifestyles and deviant behaviour.

Planned schedule for the project duration:

Preparation phase - getting to know project proposition, hosting focus groups and round table conversations. Researching and analyzing the needs and preferences of the local community, identifying the real situation about unemployment among youth in their local communities.

Kick-off meeting (partner country) - Presenting participants and their respective organisations, as well as their findings, gathered during the duration of preparation phase. Partners will have the opportunity to get to know each other better and gain insight into the specific problems that each of them have to deal with.

Local activity - Formulating plans and solutions for the existing issues and preferences of the local community. Gathering passive youths around those ideas and strengthening capacities for creating and managing their upcoming youth projects.

Training course (Serbia) - During the training course, participants will be trained through workshops and simulations, how to overcome various obstacles that come with the organization of different events. Participants will be visiting places of significance and learning about the positive examples of projects done in local communities. They will learn about new ways of resource management and stakeholder utilization. It will be build a strategy for dealing with target groups in their communities, a rough event plan will be done as well as methods for gathering specified target group will be strengthened.

Project implementation - Implementing of the projects on a local level.

Evaluation and presentation (local level) - Presentation of the ideas and completed activities, on a local level gathering people from local community and involving them deeper into the issues that project cope with.

Evaluation meeting, closing the project (Partner country) - Final meeting where the project participants will evaluate all the activity documentation and products created during previous activities. Presentation and evaluation of the completed project.

Final conference - On this conference, a presentation will be held, presenting all the final results that were created during the activities (1-7) (photographs, brochures, movies, booklets, stickers, etc.)

Objectives:

- Raising awareness of the overall problems of unemployment in less developed countries
- Exchange of experiences between partner organization countries on unemployment solution policies
- Raising awareness about the importance of working with local communities, the importance of teamwork, but also self-sufficiency
- The exploration of new possibilities and "out of the box" thinking
- Exploring solutions for the activation of passive youths in their local community, turning them away from deviant behaviour
- The inclusion and integration of young people with economic, social and geographical obstacles

Target group

Youth workers, youth leaders, NGO activists, school teachers and college professors , educators, social workers, volunteers actively involved in work with passive unemployed youth.

Expected results

During this long term Erasmus+ project by name “Youth gUErilla” project, around 30 participants will have the opportunity to increase their competences (knowledge, skills and attitudes) in:

The importance of teamwork and self-organizing
Discovering the potential of working with their local community.
Exploring different possibilities and thinking outside the box
Better understand what goes into the organization of community events and festivals
Better understand stakeholders and how to utilize them.
About resource management and project funding (how to do it with little to no funds)
How to best utilize cross sectoral collaboration

The knowledge transfer will results in several events in partner countries where planned activities reach will be more than 1500 people of target group we want to reach. This project will highlight the problem that we’re planing to govern and will open the discussion within the community people.

Products

Various youth events will be hosted in every of the partner countries
Brochures about the methods implemented during the projects, as well as the results of studies
A video will be made from videos collected during the duration of the project
T-shirts, bags, stickers and keychains with the project logo will be made

Profile of the partners organisation

We’re inviting youth organisations who are working with passive unemployed youth. Also, more than welcome are youth organizations whose activities are related to youth work and the topic culture and arts, unemployment, self organisation, activism, youth workers…

Organizations must be established in Erasmus+ Program countries and Other Partner Countries from Regions 5 to 14 (check in Erasmus+ Programme guide pages 22, 23 and 24).

If you are interested to become partner organization in our project please send to us:
Filled partnership identification form – like word document (.doc) on e-mail:

office@novokulturnonaselje.rs

Deadline for receiving partnership identification form is: 16 January 2019
Only selected partner organization will be contacted and asked for additional information!

Who we are

“Novo kulturno naselje” (NKN) is an association founded in 2014 in Novi Sad, Serbia. The main mission of NKN is the establishment of a Culture Center in Novo Naselje, a part of town with a population of over 40,000 residents.
NKN has been working for years on developing and implementing cultural content in Novi Sad. The goal of the organization is raising awareness of the need to promote and affirm artists, highlighting the need for a Culture Center at Novo Naselje, as well as generally spreading cultural awareness in Novo Naselje and the entire city of Novi Sad. In that way, cultural activities would be decentralized, while the number of art and culture consumers would increase. In the past 4 years NKN has done large number of different events, programs and projects, such as: Theatre festival “Aplauz fest”, movie festival “21114”, art festival “Dobro došli na Naselje”, various art & educational workshops, publication of handbook “Road to Culture center”, and many, many others. By creating programs, events, workshops, etc, in "familiar" venues such as parks, open spaces, and public streetscapes, inclusion of community is a great way of making things happen - making new history together!

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