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It is a common understanding that there is a great interest on the side of both EU and Neighbouring Partner Countries youth organizations for common projects but there is a lack of knowledge and possibilities where and how to meet and plan projects. Therefore our partnership of youth organizations from EU and Neighbouring Partner Countries has build capacity and motivation to organize a Partnership Building Activity aiming to increase the number of youth projects and spread out our good practice in YOUTH IN ACTION program wider between the new interested partners. This initiative will allow experienced with Youth in Action program partners from EU and Neighbouring Partner Countries to get to know youth workers from new to the YOUTH IN ACTION partner organizations.
This Partnership Building Activity is planned to be focused especially on aspects of the non-formal education development and wants to encourage potential partners to set up projects and future cooperation in forms of youth exchanges, EVS, job shadowing, training courses, etc. The project will aim to enhance the cooperation between organizations from represented regions and wants to stimulate the creation of project ideas within Actions open for cooperation with Neighboring Partner countries.
This project will bring together youth activists and youth workers from different parts of the world and with different backgrounds to create an environment of diverse cultures, understanding of democracy and universal values like freedom of expression, tolerance to cultural and racial differences, peace among different ideas and perspectives, European awareness, and intercultural learning through interaction and dialogue. Through organizations’ fair, project matching, partner finding, cultural activities and traditional presentations and discussions, young people and youth leaders will realize a project in which they will also experience respect to national diversities, and will form a common idea about how to practice tolerance.
Additional aim of this activity will be to find potential YOUTH IN ACTION Program multipliers, who are ready to promote and to inform about the YOUTH IN ACTION Program as well as to co-operate on this issue with organizers of the project.
The main aim of the project is to increase the cooperation within the Youth in Action Programme between Programme and Neighboring Partner Countries
Project objectives are:
Objective 1: “To motivate participants to establish partnerships through exploring and learning about the Youth in Action Programme (especially Actions 2 - EVS and 3.1 - Youth in the World) and Neighbouring Partner Countries.”
Objective 2: “To explore quality aspects of the Youth in Action Programme: Youth in Action Programme priorities, in relation with actions and youth work reality; regional procedures; good project practices; expected results;
Objective 3: “To support participants to identify and develop concrete bi- and/or cross-regional projects in the frame of the cooperation with neighboring countries.”
Right now we are looking for youth organizations based in Programme Countries and Neighboring partner countries as well that share an interest about this issue and are strongly motivated to cooperate with us in the framework of this project.
September 1th 2011, submission of the application form
Dates of project implementation: December 1th 2011-July 30th 2012
Dates of the Partnership Building Activity itself: March 4th 2012 (arrivals)- March 11th 2012 (departures)
Venue: Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania