Project No 2024-3-PL01-KA210-YOU-000286603
“Community of Practice for Refugee Youth Support”
MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT
The main objective of the project is to increase the potential and educational support system for young refugees from Ukraine in terms of awareness and understanding of refugee issues, development and adaptation of competence resources and educational methodology, and building a common framework for European network cooperation to be used when working with young refugees from Ukraine.
The project fills the competence gaps of Partners who are looking for opportunities to increase the scale of their activities and achieve critical mass, which will allow for a more complete implementation of the organization’s mission and goals in the youth sector by designing, testing, and implementing inclusive intercultural education methods into youth work practices involving Ukrainian refugees and more broadly understood culturally diverse communities.
The project fills this gap through integrated support for intercultural competence categories, which are understood as “the appropriate and effective management of interactions between people who represent different or divergent affective, cognitive, and behavioral orientations towards the world.”
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
- Developing intercultural education tools to support educators in their work with and for young refugees from Ukraine.
- Critical insight, analysis, and dissemination of knowledge and best practices related to the education and integration of refugees through publications and information channels.
- Increasing the knowledge, awareness, and skills of educators in practices, initiatives, and tools related to the education, orientation, and mobilization of refugees for their better social and civic integration.
- Increasing the methodological competence of youth educators in the use of intercultural education methodology in working with young people from multicultural backgrounds.
- Raising awareness of refugee issues and activating local educational and support communities around the problems of supporting, integrating, and educating refugees.
- Increasing the substantive potential of partners through joint project planning and implementation, transfer of good practices, and exchange of knowledge on working with refugees.
The project contributes to improving the quality of work and practices of the partners involved, as well as opening up to new entities (refugees and residents of Ukraine) and values (intercultural education, integration of refugees). Its implementation will allow the partners to expand their training offer to include training in multicultural education, integration and animation activities for refugee youth and people working with young people fleeing the war in Ukraine, and to offer them as an international mobility subject to all interested participants of the Erasmus+ Program.
PROJECT PARTNERS
The Centenary of Women Association was founded to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Polish women gaining civil rights. The association was founded in Białystok. The association’s activities focus primarily on local projects that take place in Białystok. However, the association also participates in international projects and cooperates with both local and global partners.
The association aims to promote positive communication between like-minded people who are committed to working together to strengthen the local community of women. The association organizes educational events, debates, and workshops. The association’s flagship event is an informal meeting of women who focus on social and economic innovation in the Podlaskie region.
The European Foundation for Territorial Renewal and Development was established in June 2006. The main objective of the Foundation is to support socio-economic development processes at the local, regional, and national levels. It has many years of experience in creating, implementing, and evaluating EU projects, as well as in facilitating cross-sector partnerships and managing relations with local stakeholders.
In recent years, the main focus of our activities has shifted towards facilitating and supporting international cooperation projects in the areas of education and competence development.
MORE MOSAIC is a non-governmental organization based in Stockholm, Sweden. Its goal is to promote academic, cultural, and political exchange, participate in discussions on European citizenship, and serve as a platform for meaningful cooperation between Sweden, the EU, and other entities beyond former geopolitical borders.
More Mosaic’s mission is to exchange best practices with civil society representatives from other countries, promote democratic principles, and engage youth workers in activities that reinforce the values of the European Union.
The Novapolis Association – Center for Analysis and Initiatives for Development is a Romanian non-governmental organization whose goal is to contribute to the creation of a democratic, inclusive, and diverse society that is economically and socially sustainable and capable of responding to the needs of all.
Its main areas of activity include grassroots actions, analysis and evaluation of public policies and their impact at the local, national, and international levels, social projects in the field of migration, integration of refugees and foreigners in Romania, labor mobility to the European Union, youth integration and participation, social justice, community development and equal opportunities, and integration of migrants into the labor market, etc.
The results of the project in the form of 3 project meetings, two international mobilities, two thematic publications, six local dissemination meetings, and six coaching sessions will strengthen the potential of the youth sector and provide methodological tools that will be used to include and support refugees from Ukraine in educational and development projects implemented locally by the project partners.
