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"IT'S YOU is a 24-month strategic partnership project for innovation in the youth sector (January 2021-December 2022).The partners involved are Aretes (IT), Dedalus (IT), MARAK DIGITAL MARKETING (ES), Fundación Docete Omnes (ES), CYCLISIS (EL), EDIT VALUE (PT), DRPDNM (SI).The project is developed in 5 European countries (IT-EL-ES-PT-SI) where the population of young people is highly composite and enriched by a significant presence of young people with migratory backgrounds.On the one hand, the context analysis carried out in the 5 countries shows the need for young people to reflect on a new concept of citizenship, as the result of a synthesis between formal rights/duties and the exercise of intercultural citizenship skills; on the other hand, the need of the Youth Workers (YW), committed to the issue of intercultural citizenship, to improve and professionalize their socio-educational tools and strengthen the network of contacts with other European YWs. The objectives of the project are: to encourage young people to develop / improve the skills of intercultural citizenship; to improve the professional capacity of the YW; to increase the opportunities for an exchange of experiences and skills with other operators at transnational level; to strengthen European networks of YW and young people on the issues of intercultural citizenship.The project is aimed at YW and young EU and non-EU citizens:-at least 25 YW engaged in various types of services on the issues of intercultural citizenship, which work to promote social change starting from the life of the young people by adopting non-formal education methodologies and digital tools.-at least 75 young people, EU and non-EU, between 16 and 30 years of age, including young natives, young people with a migrant background, young people belonging to the ""decimal generations"", unaccompanied minors or unaccompanied new adults.Furthermore, it is expected to involve:-at least 150 young people involved in the IOs experimentation and dissemination phases;-at least 75 youth workers involved in the IOs experimentation and dissemination phases;-stakeholders and policy makers who can help to deepen the thematic contents of the project, strengthen the network work that IT’S YOU intends to generate, transform some key points collected in the project (see Vademecum) into operational proposals to be implemented primarily on European territories involved.In order to achieve the stated objectives, the IT'S YOU project foresees the creation of continuous exchange and comparison activities between stakeholders, YW, young people and civil society subjects on the project themes, as well as the realization of 2 IOs:1) IT'S YOU Net (IO1), a European social network that promotes the exchange of experiences, ideas, reflections on the issues of intercultural citizenship.2) IT'S YOU Challenge (IO2), a platform that contains non-formal tools for assessing and enhancing the skills of intercultural citizenship of young people.The IT'S YOU project uses diversified approaches and methodologies which, by combining, favor the achievement of general and specific objectives: Social Networking, Peer Learning, non-formal education, Sociological and Sociotherapeutic approach, Barcamp and Focus Group Online.The results that IT'S YOU strategy allows to achieve are for the YW:-increase of professional skills in the field of education for intercultural citizenship (as declined in IOs);-increase in contacts (virtual and tangible) and network links between European YWs;-increase of methods and tools to promote the multicultural protagonism of young people.The expected impact for young people, EU and non-EU, between 16 and 30 years old, in particular for young people with a migrant background, will be articulated as follows:-increased self-awareness of the intercultural citizenship skills possessed;-improvement / enhancement of intercultural citizenship skills (multilingual, digital, citizenship, cultural awareness and expression);-increase of cooperative and collaborative attitudes to practice citizenship and conscious adherence to shared values;-increase network links between young Europeans who practice intercultural citizenship.The events that enhance the process and the contents of the project (BARCamp and Focus Group Online) and the Multiplier Events act as a sounding board for the dissemination of the themes and products of the project: this increases the overall effectiveness of the impact of IT'S YOU and makes the project sustainable over time as it becomes the heritage of an extensive community of actors (Youth, YW, stakeholders and policy makers to whom the 'Vademecum' is symbolically delivered)."

You (th) Stand Up! Is a project for innovation cooperation focused on the creation of innovative methods for training and evaluation of non-formal skills. The partnership sees in synergy organizations operating in four European countries: Patatrac, ERRESSE, Amesci International Movement (IT), CYCLISIS (GR) e SYNTHESIS (CY). In 26 months the project will lead to the creation of 2 output, a training model You (th) Stand UP! Educational Training Model and You (th) Stand UP! Assessment, which in line with European priorities will aim to improve the quality of youth workers' work and to increase active social inclusion for young people. You (th) Stand Up! It aims to increase Key Competences, Life Skills, Soft Skills, Digital and Language; Development of self-business ideas. Of Youth Workers in order to bring more young people to a greater level of social participation as an opportunity box (network, relationships, work). There will be 15 Youth Workers (5 per country) between 25-35 years (direct recipients), and 30 young people belonging to disadvantaged groups aged 18-30 (10 per country) (indirect recipients). Youth Workers will meet in a joint training event (at Aversa) where they will receive information about You (th) Stand UP! Educational Training Model and Experiment You (th) Stand UP! Assessment. They will be issued as a certified Europass Mobility. The O1 You (th) Stand UP! Educational Training Model will be implemented through local testing where indirect recipients will be involved in a 224 hour educational pathway, certified with Youthpass, based on: -balancing skills -life skills and soft skills - development of self-entrepreneurship-CANVAS: Business and Personal Model - Digital skills -Report Letter of Motivation, CV Europass, Europass Skills Competence, Video Application and Pitch. The structure of the O2 You (th) Stand UP! Assessment, instead, will be a role-playing game that simulates a Business Model within 5 hours, within which each participant will have a role, a task to accomplish, and the skills to be used predominantly. At the end of the tests, the multiplier event will be organized: You(th) Stand UP! Educational Training Model will be presented in Italy; You (th) Stand Up! Assessment will take place in Brussels. The expected impact at the design level will be measured against: organizational capacity; Accumulation and evaluation of Key Competences; Impact of intellectual products in the medium and long term; Effectiveness of communication. At the local and European level, the benefits of the project will be: Raising awareness and promoting actions to develop the active social inclusion of young people. -more sharing of knowledge and skills to improve work with and for young people in Europe. - the community can benefit from the participation of its young people and the economic and social effects of the start-up of new activities they will implement, given the desired reduction in social and work inactivity. - the second multiplier event will be attended by representatives of the Education and Training DG, Euro-parliamentarians delegating to education, education, youth, European youth workers who work with young people, to ensure that the results can extend to Europe, Even to be sown and give adequate and effective ideas for national and European youth policies. In terms of sustainability, multilevel actions and relationships are envisaged, bringing together synergies, information and education systems, different realities and institutions present on partner territories and throughout their European network. Quality and innovation Of the methodologies used will sediment the skills of the Youth Workers by strengthening them and constituting a heritage for the young people who will be promoters of future actions. The 2 Output have been designed to be transferable to other contexts, adapted or adapted by third parties to the needs of their target territories and target groups, without any aggravating costs or sums to invest.

<< Background >>In the last two years, the main priority of governments around the world has been to deal with the health and economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the outbreak also had a deep impact on social and community life by isolating people from each other for a long time. This unprecedented situation has even more hit those who were already more vulnerable, especially youth. This is why the ReCAP project aims to support the active involvement and civic participation of youth, through non-formal learning activities, with a special emphasis on young people with fewer opportunities, such as girls, NEETs, people with a migrant background, minorities, youths from the LGBTIAQ+ community. With the pandemic, these people have been further marginalized from the socialization places. It is, therefore, necessary to recreate the social fabric by allowing these young people to express their feelings and challenges in the public space. In the framework of the project, partners will conduct an in-depth analysis of the needs of disadvantaged youth to participate end be involved in their community life following the pandemic, which will give them a better understanding of the current social context of vulnerable young people. With this project, partners and stakeholders will also be able to be supported in their work to mentor, encourage and assist young people. Partners will have new practical tools and resources to provide to youth workers and young people and they will get access to a wider network of stakeholders working with vulnerable youth and using art-based teaching approaches.<< Objectives >>The final scope of the project is to PROMOTE THE SOCIAL INCLUSION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT OF YOUTH (14 - 29) THROUGH THE USE OF SPECIFIC ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL TOOLS. It aims in particular to support the social inclusion of youths with different types of disadvantages, such as cultural, social, economic disadvantages, migrants, NEETS, with specific attention to girls, across all these categories. The pandemic hit hard on a global scale, provoking social isolation in particular for young people, whose personal growth builds on social relations. When it comes to disadvantaged groups of youths, these troubles have been exacerbated by the pandemic. To pursue this final outcome, the project intends to achieve multiple results:IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF YOUTH WORK. All the partners have a consolidated experience in youth work. Some of them relate specifically to vulnerable categories of youths. This project intends to give them specific tools belonging to the universe of art and culture, to improve the efficacy of their work. Art and culture are powerful ways to make feelings emerge and to unleash positive creativity. This is very well known. However, art and cultural tools can be accurately designed to respond to specific social needs. In this specific case, we want to customize the creative tools to respond to the specific troubles and challenges that the pandemic created or worsened and get the youth workers ready to cope with this new post -COVID situation, that redesigned our social relations, changed the way we stay together and created a burden of loneliness, namely for the most vulnerable categories, which require careful work to be overcome. ENGAGE, CONNECT AND EMPOWER YOUNG PEOPLE. The youth workers, duly trained, are expected to design a specific local path with and for the selected youths, based on the specific needs that emerged in the preliminary needs analysis, that will be done at the inception of the project. To do so, the youth workers are expected to select the most appropriate artistic and cultural tools explored in the training, adjust them to the specific context, and guide their youths along a path of self-awareness that should end up with the creation of artistic works. Youths will be accompanied to express through art their social and individual traumas linked to the pandemic, their needs for inclusion and sharing. This work will combine individual sessions and collective moments of sharing. By using their creativity, youths will be enabled to make emerging feelings that sometimes are difficult to express. They will speak out through their creativity and this will allow them to improve awareness about themselves and about the other youths involved in the path, creating powerful connections and empathy. This exercise will also be cathartic, as it will allow to unlock emotions and empower the youths about their capacity to handle difficult experiences and let them out, therefore teaching them how to master hard situations and have control over their life.<< Implementation >>The project will foresee a set of interlinked activities to pursue its objectives and results. The activity of PROJECT COORDINATION AND MANAGEMENT will run for the 24 months of the project and will ensure the smooth implementation of the action, the effective coordination within the partnership and the impactful communication and dissemination of the project’s objectives and results at local, national and european level. This action will be coordinated by ALDA, as lead applicant. LOCAL CONTEXT AND NEEDS ANALYSIS (M 2 - 6) This analysis will investigate the social problems that the pandemic caused or worsened, among the youths and will help tailoring the following phases of the project (the local paths) to the specific local contexts. Under the coordination of SSF, the partners co-design the questionnaire. It shall be sufficiently standardized to be easily employed by whatever organization in other Countries or territories. It will be validated in the frame of TPM n. 2, online and coordinated by SSF.Once collected the questionnaire, each partner will be responsible for elaborating an aggregated analysis. All the analysis will be collected and an aggregated report, resuming the key common points of the different situations, will be ultimately developed by SSF and shared at the occasion of the TPM n. 3, that will be hosted by SSF.ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL TOOLBOX FOR YOUTH WORKERS AND TRAINING OF TRAINERS (M6 - 11)Based on the results of the inception analysis all the partners will be responsible for the co - design of the toolbox for youth workers. Each partner will contribute by bringing in its specific expertise in the field. The consortium will validate the toolbox at the occasion of the TPM4 (online), organized by La Piccionaia. The contents of the toolbox (videos, exercises with instructions, etc.) will be drafted by the partners having contributed to their production.La Piccionaia will be responsible for hosting and organizing the ToT in Vicenza. The ToT will employ a peer learning methodology. The partners having the expertise in specific art and culture techniques (i.e. ALDA, CESIE, La Piccionaia itself) will lead different sessions for the benefit of all the youth workers. LOCAL PATH FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH CREATIVITY (M13 - 20)Each partner will be in charge of the organization of these paths, through their previously selected and trained youth workers. This includes also the preparation of the youths (cft. section “Participants”) and the follow up of the action (local multiplier events). Each partner will present a plan for the implementation of the local path, including the identified art and cultural techniques to be employed. All the partners will organize a local multiplier event in their city or town.Each of them will have to draft the “roadmap for youth social inclusion through art and culture in a post pandemic context”. CESIE will be responsible for collecting the different documents and develop an aggregated e - publication with key common recommendations for dealing with social inclusion for vulnerable youths through art and culture in a post - pandemic context.<< Results >>We are aware of the big problem that covid has caused in our lives and in particular to those vulnerable young people, who are at a disadvantage in society, whether economically, socially or culturally and in particular girls. In order to alleviate these disadvantages, the project aims to put in place a number of tools to achieve a variety of results. Firstly, we believe that it is important to improve the quality of work with young people and for this, we intend to give greater effectiveness to the work of these young people through art and culture, as there are no better means than these to give free rein to their creativity. These specific tools will enable these young people to meet the challenges they face in the aftermath of the pandemic. Secondly, we want to engage, connect and empower young people, and for this we count on youth workers to develop together with them the most useful and appropriate tools to design a local path for these young people and guide them on their new path. And we want to continue to count on art and culture, so that these youth workers can explore and bring out the creativity and the deepest needs of each young person to allow them to express their feelings and empower them to demonstrate their ability to handle all kinds of situations and to have control over their lives. As for the concrete results, we intend to carry out a questionnaire analyzing the local context and the specific needs of young people at the local level. We also want to design an arts and culture toolkit that will help youth workers to overcome situations like the one experienced during and after the pandemic. And finally, we want to design several local roadmaps to achieve social inclusion of young people through arts and culture in a post-pandemic context.The project will consist of three tangible project results:LOCAL CONTEXT AND NEEDS ANALYSIS QUESTIONNAIRE. It will be aimed at collecting the specific needs of youths of each local context. It will be co - designed by the partners in a way to be sufficiently standardized to be employed by other youth organizations in other contexts or Countries. ART AND CULTURE TOOLBOX FOR YOUTH WORKERS. The partners will co-design the toolbox, using internal or external expertise, and adjust these tools to a post-traumatic (i.e. the pandemic) situation. The toolbox will be then tested during the training of youth workers and finally employed in the local paths. LOCAL ROADMAPS FOR YOUTH SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH ART AND CULTURE IN A POST-PANDEMIC CONTEXT. Following the conclusion of the local paths, each partner, together with their youths, will assess their efficacy and draft some recommendations on how these tools can be employed in a post-pandemic situation elsewhere (multiplier effect).

Transnational challenges are pressing issues in any region. They transcend national borders and defy unilateral remedies. Multilateral efforts and capacity building remain fragmented. Regional efforts rarely bear fruit. As a result, despite two-decades of effort, transnational challenges cannot be understood and responded effectively. There has already been a growing call to rethink the existing approaches arguing for the need to understand the nature and scope of transnational challenges better, why the existing approaches and frameworks for cooperation, collaboration, and coordination do not work, and how they can be responded. Transnational challenges hit the Mediterranean particularly hard. Unilateral, multilateral, and regional responses to them in the region remain fragmented and ineffective. TRACHMED is a research and staff exchange programme intended to contribute to the global, regional, and national efforts of understanding and responding transnational challenges by conducting research in Mediterranean on three such issues: climate change, migration and forced displacement, and energy insecurity. It brings together an international, intersectoral, and interdisciplinary research team to 1) collect, interpret and process original empirical data on selected transnational challenges with a transnational perspective, 2) engage with the existing conceptual and theoretical debates and contribute to the conceptual and methodological approaches for studying, comprehending, and responding to transnational challenges, 3) develop and sustain a transnational network of researchers, practitioners, and institutions in the Mediterranean, thus increase the research capacity and shared knowledge and cooperation, 4) update scientific knowledge on these issues for relevant EU policies, political and economic actors interested or already working in the region, and to inform international organizations and decision-makers in the region.