Category: Projects

Promoting Democratic Participation Through Debate
Proposal: Engaging Youth in EU Politics in the Aftermath of Elections

Implementation: 2024 to 2026

Call: CERV-2023-CITIZENS-CIV – Citizens’ engagement and participation – 2023

Type of Action: CERV-LS – CERV Lump Sum Grants

Proposed Budget: 657 525,00€

Keywords: Promoting democratic participation through debating the future of Europe, Youth Participation, European Civic Education, Future of Europe

Objective: The project aims to enable true citizens’ contribution to the democratic and civic life of the European Union by learning [about] Europe and by shaping Europe, which are its two main pillars. While the first pillar of the project will focus on European Civic Education and raising awareness on EU values and opportunities for European youth from all backgrounds, the second pillar will enable youth to put into practice what they have learned through the knowledge-building pillar, and debate relevant topics surrounding their hopes and dreams for the future of Europe.

The overall objectives of this project are to encourage youth to remain involved in European Democracy in the aftermath of EP election 2024, and to inform young people about the EU through non-formal education methodologies and to empower them to use their voice to actively engage with decision-makers.

Furthermore, it will equip teachers and educators with the skills to become multipliers of spreading EU values among their pupils. The project will additionally strengthen meaningful participation among European youth organisations, given their prominent role as connectors between European youth and stakeholders/institutions. Finally, it will inspire European youth to become catalysts for change in developing a future European Union that is inclusive and representative of young voices.

Partners:
- Jeunes Européens Fédéralistes
- European Institute for Human Rights (Young Educators)
- European Youth Forum
- Les Jeunes Européens-France Association
- Rural Youth Europe EV
- Organizing Bureau Of European School Student
- Assemblee Des Regions D’europe Association
- Federación De Asociaciones Jóvenes Europeístas
- Evropeisko Mladezhko Dvizhenie
- Jaunieji Europos Federalistai
- Young European Federalists (JEF Malta)
2023-10-18
Outre-Mer
Proposal: Les Ambassadeurs de la citoyenneté et de la mobilité européennes dans les Régions ultrapériphériques de l’Union européenne

Implementation: 2020 to 2023

Call: Erasmus+ Youth Key Action 2 – KA205 – Strategic partnership for youth

Type of Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Proposed Budget: 210 754,00€

Keywords: outermost regions

Objective: At the last European elections in May 2019, turnout was particularly low in the outermost regions of the European Union. The European Union seems very distant for citizens living in the outermost regions of the European Union. To combat this feeling of remoteness and to encourage the outermost regions to make their European citizenship their own, the project is going to create a network of ambassadors for European citizenship and mobility in the outermost regions of the European Union.

The project wants to develop educational activities in the outermost regions of the European Union for those who are furthest removed from European citizenship. The project wishes to develop educational interventions for a larger scale young public in the outermost regions of the European Union. To do this, we want to train youth workers and youth organisations to create a genuine network of ambassadors of European citizenship and mobility capable of carrying out educational activities in the outermost regions of the European Union.

The pedagogical interventions will be aimed primarily at a young public from 6 to 25 years old, using playful and participatory non-formal education methods. The aim of these interventions will be to familiarise young people with the workings of the EU, to make them aware of their European citizenship, the rights linked to it and the opportunities for international mobility it offers them.

In parallel to these pedagogical interventions directly aimed at a young audience, we will also carry out training of trainers for youth workers and workers in the fields of education, training and youth. These training of trainers will allow the increase in skills of the animators and teachers by appropriating new methods and pedagogical tools so that they will be able to raise awareness of the target public.

Partners:
- JEF France
- European Institute for Human Rights (Young Educators)
- CRAJEP La Réunion
- Forum Français de la Jeunesse
- Fédération des Maisons des Lycéens
- JEF Spain
2019-11-13
Raise Awareness of European Citizenship
Proposal: raise awareness of European citizenship and to encourage active European citizenship among young people

Implementation: 2017 to 2019

Call: Erasmus+ Youth Key Action 2 – KA205 – Strategic partnership for youth

Type of Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Budget: 89 975,00€

Keywords: raise awareness, active citizenship, young people

Objective: The project activities refer to all interventions in the formal school system and in non-formal learning contexts carried out by youth organisations, based on non-formal education and learning methods in order to raise awareness of European citizenship and to encourage active European citizenship among young people. It aims to provide voluntary young youth workers with the right set of skills and material to design and perform themselves activities directed at young people from primary, secondary and vocational education and training schools.

Partners:
- JEF Europe
- European Institute for Human Rights (Young Educators)
- JEF France
- JEF Malta
- JEF Germany
2016-11-04