ORGANIZATION Team YouNet (Italy)
YouNet is a non-profit non-governmental
organisation founded by a group of youths keen to exploit their competences and
to play an active role in the non-profit sector. YouNet operates as a network
in the Italian territory coordinating and netowrking no profit organisations,
local councils and intitutions and individuals.
The main aims of YouNet are:
- to promote youth learning, participation and mobility with particular regards to youngsters with fewer opportunities;
- to contribute and to boost the development of the non profit sector;
- to promote and to support volunteering;
- to foster active citizenship, social and democratic engagement;
- to support the human rights protection;
- to promote and facilitate the access at an European and intercultural dimension;
- to raise awareness and to promote mobilisation around global challenges.
To achieve these aims, YouNet promotes and carries out: volunteering activities at a local, regional, national and international level and activities of boosting, supporting and coordinating of volunteering itself; informative, scholastic and professional orienting, cultural, social, sport, recreational and editorial activities; seminar and formative training aimed to organisations, social workers and youths; formative, promotional and informative initiative related to specific themes linked with the third sector, the global challenges, etc.
To achieve all these aims YouNet cooperates with organisation, local bodies and institutions that foster similar objectives, especially with the Town Council of Bologna and the Underage Justice Centre of Bologna.
YouNet staff is formed of about half dozen youngsters and about 50 youngsters, aged between 18-30, cooperate, predominantly a as volunteers, with YouNet. There are several working groups that woks on specific themes (social inclusion, migrants and minorities, …).
YouNet main target is composed by youngsters, particularly the ones with fewer opportunities. YouNet cooperates with several local bodies involved in social inclusion activities of youngster from difficult backgrounds.
The following areas of interventions are considered strategic and priorities:
- Young ex-offender
- Marginalised youngsters from communities
- First and second generation young migrants
- Abused women
- Drug-addicted in rehabilitation
YouNet organised together with the local organisations and institutions specific projects to foster the integration of youngsters with fewer opportunities.
The main aims of YouNet are:
- to promote youth learning, participation and mobility with particular regards to youngsters with fewer opportunities;
- to contribute and to boost the development of the non profit sector;
- to promote and to support volunteering;
- to foster active citizenship, social and democratic engagement;
- to support the human rights protection;
- to promote and facilitate the access at an European and intercultural dimension;
- to raise awareness and to promote mobilisation around global challenges.
To achieve these aims, YouNet promotes and carries out: volunteering activities at a local, regional, national and international level and activities of boosting, supporting and coordinating of volunteering itself; informative, scholastic and professional orienting, cultural, social, sport, recreational and editorial activities; seminar and formative training aimed to organisations, social workers and youths; formative, promotional and informative initiative related to specific themes linked with the third sector, the global challenges, etc.
To achieve all these aims YouNet cooperates with organisation, local bodies and institutions that foster similar objectives, especially with the Town Council of Bologna and the Underage Justice Centre of Bologna.
YouNet staff is formed of about half dozen youngsters and about 50 youngsters, aged between 18-30, cooperate, predominantly a as volunteers, with YouNet. There are several working groups that woks on specific themes (social inclusion, migrants and minorities, …).
YouNet main target is composed by youngsters, particularly the ones with fewer opportunities. YouNet cooperates with several local bodies involved in social inclusion activities of youngster from difficult backgrounds.
The following areas of interventions are considered strategic and priorities:
- Young ex-offender
- Marginalised youngsters from communities
- First and second generation young migrants
- Abused women
- Drug-addicted in rehabilitation
YouNet organised together with the local organisations and institutions specific projects to foster the integration of youngsters with fewer opportunities.
TRAINING COURSE PARTICIPANTS:
Barbara Usberti
Age: 37
Country: Italy
Experience in raising the awareness of
the EU mobility policy, youth workers and etc.
When I was a university student I
attended two semesters in Germany with Erasmus project.
It has been an extraordinary experience
and let me understand the importance of European exchanges bewteen young
people.
Now I am a civil servant and I work for
the the Muncipality of Fidenza (a small town in the north of Italy)
in the“Culture, youth policy and European projects” unit.
In the past years I had different
experiences in organizing different kinds of youth exchanges.
2006: I took part in the planning and
managment of a session of Centre of European Culture
“Sigeric.
A European Culture Centre is an
informal educational facility for high schools, whose aim is the promotion of
European cultural identity.
A European Cultural Centre is based
upon multi national sessions, which last fifteen days. During these sessions
secondary-school students coming from three different European countries meet
and carry out practical (workshops, excursions…) and theoretical (conferences,
debates…) activities based upon a European theme.
This experience represents a great
opportunity for young people to live a concrete European experiences with
students coming from other European countries, to overcome cultural bias, to
increase reciprocal knowledge.
Since 2004 I've been organizing annual
exchanges between twinned cities. These meeting are good opportunities to
increase exchanges between European peers.
In 2012 the Municipality of Fidenza
realized the youth exchange “Youth on the stage” in the framework of “Youth in
action” programme Measure 1.1.
The project took place in
Fidenza and lasted 6 days.
The theme of the project was the
intercultural dialogue and the European cultural identity.
The project was based on the
realization of artistic laboratories, which have been realized by European
young people and constituted an original way of non – formal
learning, in order to know their cultural identity, to participate to local
life, to establish a dialogue with other European realities, to acquire new
skills, to express their creativity.
These activitie favoured the active
citizenship at local and European level and the consciousness of European
cultural diversity.
We took part as partner in the
project “Flow4yu” Network on dialogue between young people and public
institutions, in the framework of Europe for citizens programme.
Why have You decided to participate in
this project?
Because I think the only way to become a real European
citizen is to leave experiences in other European countries and to know
citizens from different European realities.
“United in diversity” should be a concrete experience and
not only a beautiful motto.
What are Your expectations for the
training course?
I'd like to acquire new competences in non-formal and
informal learning.
I'd like to learn ice-breaking activities, presentation
activities
and braimstorming activities
I'd like to know people from other countries and to have
the oppotunities to plan future European project with them
I hope to acquire best practices in the youth activities
at local level.
What does EU mean to you?
I think that EU is not only an istitution but it
represents an extraordinary opportunity of peace and prosperity.
European countries are very different and they should
not forget their different cultures, traditions and languages,
because they constitute our richness.
We are different but we recognizes ourselves in common
values and rights.
Life motto:
"Twenty years from now you
will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than
by the ones you did do".
Maximiliana Stantcheva
Age: 24
Country: Italy
Experience in raising the awareness of
the EU mobility policy, youth workers and etc.
I have partecipated in the Learning
Mobility Project: “Improve yourself – improve the world”. It was a mobility of
youth workers.
Why have You decided to participate in
this project?
I decided to partecipate because I would like to become
more proactive in the civic society.
What are Your expectations for the
training course?
My expectations are to gain new communication skills,
improve the teamworking and know new people from other countries.
What does EU mean to you?
An opportunity to create a multicultural environment
among the member states.
Life motto:
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't.
You're right.”
by Henry Ford
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maxiStantcheva
ORGANIZATION Volere
Volar (Italy)
TRAINING COURSE PARTICIPANTS:
Daniela Tomasino
Country: Italy
Experience in raising the awareness of
the EU mobility policy, youth workers and etc.
attended some mobility projects
in the European Union, as a worker and as an activist. For several years I have
worked with an association specialized in youth participation, prevention of
children's and youth through. Now I am an activist for LGBT rights and a himan
rights defender.
Why have You decided to participate in
this project?
I think that in this period is very important
to convey to young people the European values, the knowledge, the desire to
participate. It 's the best way to combat racism, xenophobia, fascism are
rising across the continent.
I believe I could acquire some
new tools to do it,
or to do it better.
What are Your expectations for the
training course?
Learn, learn and learn
What does EU mean to you?
Eu for me is still the hope of a better future, with
fewer no borders and
more rights.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danielatomasino/
Mattia Matrone
Age: 26
Country: Italy
Experience in raising the awareness of
the EU mobility policy, youth workers and etc.
I already took
part in several seminars and training courses financed by Erasmus + programme
about youth participation, self-promotion and entrepreneurship as freelance
professional and young active citizen.
Among the most
recent ones:
10/08/2016 -
17/08/2016
E+ TC promoted
by Nectarus in Daugirdiskes (Vilnius), Lithuania “OFF_ROADS: Alternative
Learning Pathways with Digital Technologies” How to implement the use of web
tools and connected learning experiences in educational activities.
01/06/2016 -
06/06/2016
E+ Seminar
hosted by SONDIP in Turku, Finland
“MULTIPLYING
THE IMPACT THROUGH CROSS-SECTORIAL COOPERATION” about the best practices of
youth participation across EU, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
01/08/2015 -
08/08/2015
E+ TC at ACDR
(African Centre for Development and Research) Brighton, UK
“MEDIA PRISM”
intense media analysis workshop focused on biases recognition and different
political influence detection in media about issues as immigration and
integration.
05/06/2015 -
10/06/2015
“The rise of
entrepreneurship among young people. Promote
enterprise development and employment”, Erasmus+ Programme Training Course
organised by Action pour le Développement Intégré et la Formation (ADIF)
Interculturalité, French NGO; Training Course held at the Maison du Citoyen et
de la Solidarité Internationale of Cognac (France).
Topics: Youth
unemployment and entrepreneurship in different European countries (tendencies
and influencing factors, specifications of the target group, focuses, etc.) to
encourage the development of different education programmes for empowerment of
unemployed youth in local communities, with special accent being put on
developing their self-directed learning skills, entrepreneurship skills and
business plan development.
Why have You decided to participate in
this project?
Because I strongly agree with the aim of this course,
I have recently seen many people even my closer friends or my parents loosing
day by day trust in the idea of EU, so I want to demonstrate that EU means
something different from what some media and politicians present. I believe
that the union is made by people, not by bureaucracy.
What are Your expectations for the
training course?
I hope to get a deeper knowledge about EU youth
policies and advantages for youngsters that our cooperation produces and to get
a better speech craft in presenting them within my own community.
I hope to find people that share my ideas abut the
historical and social value of the Union and to build further cooperative
project together mixing different backgrounds and resources.
What does EU mean to you?
Eu is my homeland and the place where can I feel at home
from Lapland to Sicily.
Life motto:
#Strongertogether
Salvatore Cianciolo
Age: 24
Country: Italy
Why have You decided to participate in
this project?
I decided to participate in this project because I
believe in European integration, I consider very
important awareness on issues such as equality and cooperation
among people and because it is always nice to enjoy a positive experience.
What are Your expectations for the
training course?
I will have the chance to confront different cultures
about common topics for each one. Expand my knowledge on the functioning of the
European community and also learn to work with new partners.
What does EU mean to you?
EU means to deal with new needs that arise from being a
united group of people ready to assist the parties who need it most. It
makes use of unifying mechanisms between states and seeks methods and solutions
in order to reach the European development.
Life motto:
“Luck is blind”
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