European global citizens
Gençlik hareketliliği · Mundus Intercultural ONGD - Associação para o Desenvolvimento e Cooperação (Portekiz) koordinatörlüğünde; GEZİDER ortak kurum olarak yer aldı.
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European Global Citizens aims to promote the values of sustainable development, peace and security, solidarity and mutual respect among young people, values highlighted in the Treaty of Lisbon.
Furthermore, this project seeks to develop participants’ attitudes, skills and knowledge on cooperation and participation, as well as their competences on international development.
The idea of a project that could rise awareness on, 2016 – the European Year of Development, appeared after the results showed by Eurobarometer: 54% of young people were feeling that they are not knowing nothing at all about where EU development aid goes, respectively 42% were considering that were knowing a little, showing that European young people do not have a formed perception and are not aware of EU development policies.
The training will gather 30 youths and youth workers (at least 7 with fewer opportunities) from 5 countries in Évora at the bggining of October 2017 and will create a framework for answering to the questions related to development, especially sustainable development and European citizenship. These countries are: Spain, Portugal, Lithuanian, Italy and Turkey.
Having the following objectives,
"1. To bring together 30 youths and youth workers from 5 countries that will cooperate and foster their understanding and knowledge on the issue of global sustainable development and European role in the global framework during the main activity.
2. To create a youth sustainable development toolkit (a blog with five articles on the daily topics, facebook and twitter channels, two video messages on how European youth can get involved as global citizens) that will be available on the project's website and disseminated in the first month after the activity.
3. To promote youth informal and non-formal engagement on the European values and youth involvement in the field of global sustainable development.
4. To raise common intergenerational and international solutions provided by youths to the challenges of development, fostering cooperation between different cultures for the participants.
The participants will develop their competences on international cooperation, will acquire understanding on the concept of sustainable development and youth role and will improve their soft skills and key competences.
The training course will take place in Évora, from 03 to 07 of October 2017 . Our organization will provide the conference rooms and workshop places for daily activities.
Informal an non-formal working methods during the training, that we want to highlight, are: info sessions, presentations, reflection groups, learning agenda, workshop and group working, documentary, documentation, exhibition, intercultural exchanges, simulation games and exercises (EU Council, talk show, etc.), debate (cafe debate), observation, interview, fact-finding game, living library, practical approach on social media and video production, theoretical approach.
The expected results of EGC are better training of the participants on the topic and intercultural learning with benefits for local community, participating organizations and participants. There will also be a development toolkit with our blog posts, a website with information, a guide, video messages that could be further used for awareness-raising projects both for public or private organizations and individuals.
