"""The project intends to affirm the role of young people in enhancing the European memory, to rediscover the values of democracy, coexistence, social justice, as founding values of the European Union.""THE REMOVAL OF MEMORY: A GREAT RISK FOR EUROPEIn the last two centuries, Europe has experienced epochal historical events: two world wars; the extermination of Jews and other ethnic and cultural minorities; the affirmation of Europe itself as the world's only political entity; the iron curtain; the end of communism; the political revolutions of the 70s; the feminist movement; the struggles for work and welfare; the struggles for democracy; internal migrations and mass migrations to other non-European countries; etc…All this, although it is part of the recent history of Europe, is often relegated outside the public discourse, and also outside our conscience as inhabitants of Europe.The oblivion of the memory of European history and the removal of the memories of the individual stories that constitute it, unfortunately also leads to a forgetting in the founding values of Europe.This weakening of European values, together with the economic, environmental and employment crisis, has contributed greatly to the distrust of young people in politics and in active participation in European society. THE YoMEM PROJECTThe project “Young Messengers of European Memory – YoMEM”, wants to affirm a vision of memory not as a mere nostalgic memory of a past, but as a tool aimed to enhance awareness of who we are, as individuals and as a community, in order to recover the sense of a better and possible future; YoMEM project wants, as well, support the important role that young people can play in this profound cultural action.To this end, the project will create tools and methodologies aimed at developing a greater awareness of young Europeans of different ages and social backgrounds, about European Identity and values. The aim of these tools and educational activities is to make young people become ""messengers"" of the positive values on which Europe was founded: democracy, intercultural dialogue, social justice.OUR TARGETThe YoMEM project is aimed at a target consisting of:-Youth workers, with particular attention to operators working with young people in informal contexts; at the same time the methodologies and tools are also useful for school teachers, as well as in general for organizations that deal with educational activities for young people.-Young people, both as an indirect and direct target, thanks to the piloting activities that will be carried out by the project.- Youth education organizations, and decision makers.OUTPUTS AND ACTIVITIESThe project will create the following outputs: IO1 – YoMEM Workshops - Focused on the narration and sharing of personal experiences related to the theme of Europe. IO2 – YoMEM - Cooperative Storytelling Activities by DistanceAs anticipated, these activities will allow young people from different European countries to cooperate together by distance, creating narratives that relate to the different themes of the project.IO3 - YoMEM Tutorials, which will see the creation of tutorials about the narration methodologies, in video format intended for direct use by young people .IO4 - YoMEM App, an app to facilitate the narration of young people in Europe, with a particular focus on the theme of European identity. The APP will be based on the methods and the educational activities defined in IO1 and IO2.IO5 – YoMEM Blended Training Module. Purpose of the course is to train youth workers, as ""multipliers"" on autobiographical and storytelling methodologies.IO6 – YoMEM Massive Open Online Course – This output will provide the contentsof O4 and the methods of IO5 as Massive Open Online Course.The activities foreseen by the project are:-4 transnational coordination meetings;-local and transnational activities for the realization of intellectual outputs;-creation of a joint staff training event, for the staff of partner organizations, dedicated to the development of intellectual outputs;-realization of a blended mobility of young people;-implementation of local piloting activities, aimed at testing the methodologies created by the project;-realization of multiplier events.IMPACT The project will give an important contribution at national and European level regarding:-to affirm the role of young people in enhancing the European memory, to rediscover the values of democracy, coexistence, social justice, as founding values of the European Union.-To promote a culture of memory as a key to understand our present and plan our future.-To promote the active engagement of young people for the social fabric by memory, thanks to the project tools, and to the network “Young Messengers of European Memory”.The project will achieve this impact at the level of youth workers, of young people, as well as at the level of youth education organizations and decison makers."