Table of Contents Page
Introduction and background of the project 3
Aims and objectives 5
Enter! project at a glance 6
Activities implemented 7
Enter! project in numbers 9
Results achieved 10
Publications and materials 12
Partners, monitoring and support 14
Secretariat 14
Recommendations for follow-up 15
Financial report 16
Appendices (supplementary information on activities)
Preparatory seminar 19
Enter Long-term training course (presentation) 23
List of participants and projects in the Enter LTTC 27
Some data about the projects 39
List of projects co-financed by the European Youth Foundation 40
Consultative Meeting on Information and Counselling 45
Expert meeting on new ways of participation 48
Seminar on Gender Equality in Youth Projects 52
Seminar on access of young people to social rights: youth policy approaches and responses 55
Enter! Youth Meeting 61
Message to the Council of Europe from the Enter! Youth Meeting 71
Draft recommendation and guidelines on access to social rights for young people 73
Introduction and background of the project
Social inclusion is one of the four projects of the Directorate of Youth and Sport, along side with Human Rights and Democracy, Living Together in Different Societies (intercultural dialogue) and Youth Policy Development.
At times of economic and social crisis, the feelings of powerlessness and anxiety about the future risk deepening local tensions and underlying conflicts. Young people are often the at the centre of these tensions, because they are more vulnerable, more insecure and because they are more directly affected by the uncertainties regarding their real possibility to participate in society, contribute to its development and develop their autonomy.
In the 47 member states of the Council of Europe realities are very different from country to country and from city to city; diverse are also the responses of local and national authorities. Rarely, however, are the root causes adequately addressed; at best, policy responses seem to address epiphenomena (e.g. youth violence or delinquency) at times of critical events or media focus.
The problems faced by many young people in these situations are often complex, multi-dimensional, sometimes resulting in a spiral, or a vicious circle, of discrimination, violence and exclusion. Responses, therefore, need to be inter-sectorial and consider the whole social context – the neighbourhood. This complexity, however, can not justify lack of action or response. On the contrary, it should stimulate cooperation, creativity and determination in order to prevent escalation of conflicts and, essentially, to make sure that the social (human) rights of the young people concerned are not denied or violated.
Youth workers and youth organisations are often at the forefront of projects designed to ease tensions, provide alternative non-formal education or leisure time activities, counter discrimination and exclusion and, generally promote participation and citizenship. Rarely, however, are the responses sufficient and sustainable. At European level, few possibilities exist to share experiences and learn from each other.
The youth policy of the Council of Europe aims at “…providing young people, ie. girls and boys, young women and men, with equal opportunities and experience which enable them to develop knowledge, skills and competencies to play a full part in all aspects of society”[1].
- The Enter! project was set up as response to the growing concern and attention of the European Steering Group on Youth (CDEJ) and the Advisory Council on Youth (CCJ), the governmental and non-governmental partners of the youth sector of the Council of Europe, to matters of social cohesion and inclusion of young people.
The Enter! project aims at “developing youth policy responses to exclusion, discrimination and violence affecting young people in multicultural disadvantaged neighbourhoods”.
In this understanding, youth policies must also consider and approach young people and their issues only as “problems to be solved – the so-called ‘fire brigade approach’ - but holistically across policy domains and through clear objectives that can be assessed.” [2] Youth policy ought also to respect the role and “agency of young people while recognising the specific challenges and obstacles they face in according to their position and possibilities.”[3]
These approaches are well reflected in the institutionalised forms of participation in the Directorate of Youth and Sport, including the original form of co-management applying to the youth sector, which apply also to the educational and training activities as ways of practicing citizenship and learning democracy through youth projects.
The recognition of non-formal education as a tool for social integration and autonomy of young people – alongside and complementary to non-formal education systems – supports these values in as far as it recognises the need to adapt to the specific situations of concrete young people and in recognising, for example, social competences acquired through youth and social work and voluntary projects.
Human rightsare the inalienable rights which guarantee the respect of fundamental dignity of the individual. Within the Council Europe, the European Convention on Human Rights guarantees civil and political human rights; social rights are guaranteed by the European Social Charter and the Revised European Social Charter. Thus, social rights are integral part of the human rights, and include the right to employment, housing, health, education, social protection and to non-discrimination. The level of social and economical development, have a direct impact on the access to these social rights. Social rights are also interdependent, not being able to access one social right has a direct effect on accessing other social rights. Realities of exclusion, precariousness, violence and discrimination to which young people in disadvantaged neighborhoods are exposed are a threat to their dignity and a violation of human rights.
By focusing on social human rights – and access of young people to them, Enter! adopts a human rights-based approach to social exclusion, discrimination and violence. This includes the awareness of social rights – as defined notably in the European Social Charter of the Council of Europe – as part of practice of human rights education in youth work. Awareness of the equality in dignity, however, is not enough. Young people should also feel enabled and motivated to take action for their own human rights and also for the rights of others.
Human-rights education is also the basis for the conflict transformation approach that youth projects in Enter! seek to adopt. The ability to understand and deal with conflict in a constructive manner and the understanding of root causes of social conflict go together with the understanding that violence of any form is an abuse of human rights and results in the violation of the rights of others.
Intercultural learning, as the educational approach supporting the objectives of intercultural dialogue – living together with diversity in dignity, is the third educational basis informing Enter! and its activities.
Aims and objectives
Enter! aimed at “developing youth policy responses to exclusion, discrimination and violence affecting young people in multicultural disadvantaged neighbourhoods”.
The objectives of the project have been defined as:
§ To address situations of conflict and exclusion of young people living in multicultural environments through non-formal education and youth work projects;
§ To develop conceptual and practical means of translating intercultural dialogue into the realities of youth work;
§ To explore and identify means for innovative youth work projects with young people at risk of exclusion and violence;
§ To initiate, support and evaluate up to thirty innovative pilot projects with a high multiplier effect across Europe;
§ To address situations of exclusion, conflict and violence affecting young people through partnerships between youth work, youth policy and local authorities;
§ To consolidate results of the “all different – all equal” European youth campaign in relation to diversity, participation and human rights.
Enter! combined different types of activities and youth interventions which, while rooted on the realities of young people and based on youth work practice, sought to influence youth policies in Europe from the local to the national level.
The project was also planned and managed in ways that allowed building on connecting with different experiences, partners and knowledge. Developed through open consultations with partners, using of responsive evaluation and of the potential provided by the Internet, Enter! was participatory and open.
The most visible part of the project – the Enter! long-term training course for youth workers (LTTC) – was complemented by and linked to seminars and activities in which social and youth policy approaches are shared and discussed. In its final stage, the project focused on developing and promoting youth policy guidelines and recommendations. Young people, coming mainly from the projects implemented by the partcicpants of the Enter! long-term training course for youth workers, were directly involved in the development of the recommendations and guidelines.
Enter! project at a glance
Preparatory Seminar
First meeting – Reference and Support Group
Enter! LTTC for youth workers – Launching
Enter LTTC for youth workers – Introductory seminar
Enter! LTTC for youth workers – E-learning and project preparation
Second meeting – Reference and Support Group
Enter! LTTC for youth workers – Consolidation seminar
Seminars:
Þ Gender Equality in Youth Projects
Þ Youth Information and Counselling
Þ New ways of participation in multicultural youth work
Conference: Social mobility of young people
Enter! LTTC for youth workers – project implementation and e-learning
Seminar: Access to Social Righs of Young People – Youth Policy Approaches and Responses
Enter! LTTC for youth workers – Evaluation seminar
Experts group: Youth Polict recommendations (2 meetings)
Evaluation meeting of the Enter! LTTC for youth workers
Enter! Youth Meeting
Enter Dignity Land – game on social rights
Final Evaluation of the Enter! Project and follow up seminar
Activities implemented
A preparatory seminar was held beginning of March 2009 in Budapest to set a clearer framework to the project, review the current needs and issues related to the project aims, take stock of already existing initiatives, define the overall approach and develop an operational model for the planning and implementation. Quality criteria for the project were identified and an informal network of potential partners for the project was established.
The central component of the project is the long term training course that prepares and support youth workers and youth leaders working in disadvantaged neighbourhoods with young people who face difficulties in exercising their social human rights. Through the course, the participants develop their skills and competencies in setting up projects for integration and in sharing them with colleagues across Europe.
The participants in the course, however, are not passive learners. During the course they also develop concrete projects with young people, based on active participation, intercultural learning and human rights education and address specific challenges in their access to social rights. These projects provide the practical basis for learning about how to promote social rights of young people and how to best use youth research for youth policy action. They should be implemented in cooperation with local or regional authorities.
The LTTC is spread over the three years of the project and is structured around three residential training seminars at the European Youth Centre. In between the seminars, the participants work on the development and implementation of their project while being mentored by trainers. An e-learning platform provides deeper insights into specific issues and allows participants to cooperate and share experiences.
The experience gained from participants’ projects of the LTTC will serve as a basis for the development of policy recommendations on the access of young people to social rights.
The LTTC is being evaluated by an external evaluator who also provides input to the team in charge of its implementation,
A seminar on gender equality in youth projects, held in Strasbourg in June 2010 deepened the work done by the Directorate of Youth and Sports on gender “matters” and gender based violence, with a special focus on gender equality in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The seminar made several proposals for inclusion of a gender equality dimension in the Enter! and in the projects set up by the LTTC participants.
A consultative meeting on youth information and counselling held in Budapest in June 2010, discussed ways to improve access information for young people and youth workers in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, including the role of young people in producing and providing information. Links were made with the LTTC through some projects of participants; very interesting examples of successful synergies between youth work and youth information were provided, among others, by ERYICA (the European Youth Information and Counselling Agency) and by JES, a project on recognition of young people’s competences in Antwerp, Brussels and Gent (Belgium).
New ways of participation in multicultural youth work were shared and discussed at a seminar in Budapest in June 2010. The programme and recommendation focus on the participation of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the ways to support un-recognised forms of participation while working towards equality in the access to existing structures and processes of youth participation.
A joint conference was held together with the Directorate General of Social Cohesion of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, July 2010 within its project on Social Mobility. The conference focused on the social mobility of young people and the factors that support and hinder it, including the role of youth work and non-formal education. The conference highlighted the relation between social inclusion and social mobility and called for more research about the role of youth work in supporting social mobility of young people, social mobility being a clear indicator of access to and exercise of one’s social rights.
A seminar on access of young people to social rights: youth policy approaches and responses was held in the European Yourh centre Strasbourg from 30 November to 4 December 2010 aiming at at identifying, reviewing and prioritising main issues and proposals to be taken up for a policy recommendation by the Committee of Ministers to the Member States and other areas of youth policy on social inclusion and access to social Rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The seminar produced concrete recommendations on the access to social rights in order to contribute to the work on drafting guidelines and policy recommendations resulting from the ENTER! project.
The evaluation meeting of the Enter! long-term-training course took place in Strasbourg from 29 to 30 August with a view to reflect on what has been learnt from the implementation of the course and and to draw recommendations for the future.
Two experts meetings on Policy Recommendation on the Access to Social Rights for Young People from Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods were organised. The first one, thatn took place before the Enter! Youth Meeting, aimed at preparing a draft recommendation to be discussed during the Enter! Youth Meeting. The second seminar was an opportunity to review proposals and comments coming from the participants of the Enter! Youth Meeting. The draft recommendation and guidelines were finalised during the meeting. The document will still be consulted with different stakeholders and it will be presented to the Joint Council on Youth at its next meeting.
The Enter! Youth Meeting gathered 180 young people, youth workers, youth researchers, policy makers and representatives of the project partners with the aim to provide them with the opportunity and the space to voice their opinions, and share their experiences about access to social rights in Europe as a contribution to the development of youth policies in the Council of Europe. The meeting had the following objectives:
§ to share realities and collect experiences of young people affected by the issues of violence, exclusion and discrimination in disadvantaged neighbourhoods
§ to engage young people into dialogue with the Council of Europe and discuss together the issue of access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods
§ to create opportunities for the participants to learn about social rights in Europe by associating the event with the 50th anniversary of the European Social Charter
§ to take stock of the experience of young people involved in the projects run within Enter! long-term training course as a contribution to the planning of the second phase of the Enter! project
§ to discuss priority areas of intervention of youth policy on access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods
§ to provide input to draft policy recommendations for the Committee of Ministers on access to social rights of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
During the meeting participants shared their realities on access to social rights and presented ideas on how to address the challenges they face in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. It was a unique opportunity for young people, coming from local projects implemented in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, to meet and contribute to the development of youth policies. They drafted the message to the Council of Europe and worked on recommendation on access to social rights for all young people. Both documents can be found in the annexes. The movie produced during the meeting is available online and gives an overview of what happened during the meeting, together with messages young people wanted to pass to the Council of Europe. The meeting was organised within the 50th anniversary of the European Social Charter.
The “Enter Dignity Land” game on social rights with young people was developed. This card game aims ar raising awareness on social rights and reflect on the challenges young people face in access to social rights. It can be used as an educational tool in youth work or other educational projects. It is expected to be printed till the end of 2011.
The project was supported by an Internet site – www.coe.int/enterand by an e-learning platform within http://act-hre.coe.int.
The project will be concluded by an evaluation and follow-up seminar in 2012, where the evaluators of the project, partners and stakeholders will draw lessons learned and make proposals for furthering the work on social inclusion of young people.
List of major activities implemented:
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No |
TITLE |
DATES AND VENUE |
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1 |
LTTC preparatory seminar |
5 – 7 March 2009 Budapest |
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2 |
LTTC Introduction seminar |
20 – 30 September 2009 Strasbourg |
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3 |
Consultative meeting on youth information and counselling |
15 – 20 June 2010 Budapest |
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4 |
Expeert meeting - New ways of participation in multicultural youth work |
15 – 20 June 2010 Budapest |
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5 |
Seminar on gender equality in youth projects |
23 – 28 June 2010 Strasbourg |
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7 |
LTTC Consolidation seminar |
26 September – 6 October 2010 Budapest |
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8 |
Seminar on access of young people to social rights: youth policy approaches and responses |
30 November – 4 December 2010 Strasbourg |
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9 |
LTTC Evaluation seminar |
30 April – 8 May 2011 Strasbourg |
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10 |
Policy Recommendation on the Access to Social Rights for Young People from Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods – first meeting of an expert group |
3 – 4 May 2011 Strasbourg |
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11 |
Enter! Youth Meeting – Access to social rights for all young people |
14 – 18 September 2011 Strasbourg |
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12 |
Policy Recommendation on the Access to Social Rights for Young People from Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods – second meeting of an expert group |
19 – 20 September 2011 Strasbourg |
Enter! project in numbers
530 – approximate total number of people who participated in the activities implemented within the Enter! project
95 – number of applications received for the Enter! long-term training course for youth workers
33 – number of projects initiated by the participants of the Enter! long-term training course for youth workers
16000 – number of young people reached by the projects run by the participants of the Enter! long-term training course for youth workers
Results achieved
The project turned out to be a great success for all participants and stakeholders involved.
Part of the success is rooted in the conviction of many partners that something must be done about access to social rights and about countering, exclusion, violence and discrimination affecting young people.
The evaluation report, which combines the results from evaluations done by the participants, trainers and representatives of the stakeholders clearly shows that both the aim and the objectives of the LTTC have been met.
While it seems obvious that greatest merit of Enter! is that it existed, the findings of the external evaluator of the LTTC and the evaluation of the various activities coincide in indicating other results being achieved at various levels:
Inter-sectoral cooperation
Cooperation with other sectors in the Council of Europe – Congress, DG III, Human Rights – was fruitful and positive. The initial difficulties were being overcome and there starts to be almost a shared ownership for the project. This is very promising for further co-opertation in the work on access to social rights for young people. The same can be said about the various units and divisons in the Youth Department (European Youth Foundation, Intergovernmental cooperation., etc.).
Adoption of a human-rights based approach to social inclusion
Youth workers and youth leaders took seriously the project and its approaches in a way that quality criteria were being applied in their projects, including cooperation with local authorities and a leading role for young people. The projects were real and were run to have an impact on young people’s lives. Furthermore, there is a serious commitment to look at social exclusion from a rights-based approach; this is new for many partners and participants in the project. 33 projects have been initiated in the context of the LTTC. 26 projects have been completed or are ongoing. The approximate reach of these is more than 16,000 people.
Cooperation with local authorities
Although the reality is very different form project to project in the long-term training course, there is a growing awareness of the importance of developing useful alliances and partnerships with local authorities. This is very different from one place to the other, but the cases where it worked are definitely being an inspiration for some of the youth workers, their organisations and for local authorities.
Interest in non-formal education and youth work
The project has generated curiosity and in some cases real interest in investing in improving the recognition of non-formal education and youth work, particularly from the research and academic spheres.
Networking and partnerships
One of the most obvious and successful dimensions of the project is its capacity to attract interest and cooperation from other partners active in social rights, conflict transformation, peace-building or youth work. This was clearly visible in the list of applicants and attendees in the seminars and in the relation established with other partners, notably those involved in the Youth in Action programme, such as Salto Participation and Salto Inclusion and some national agencies.
Potential for youth policy mainstreaming
Youth policy being by nature cross-sectorial, the four seminars held in June and July about specific areas of youth policy – from gender equality to social mobility – suggest strong results in brining into the realm of youth policy experiences from other sectors of work (e.g. youth information and counselling) and, at the same time, a serious interest from other partners in taking up social exclusion, discrimination and violence affecting young people within their projects.
Quality development in youth work
The project as such – and the projects of the LTTC participants – was run according to a set of quality criteria set up by the Reference and Support Group in coordination with the external evaluator. The application of these criteria has raised the profile of the work being carried out youth worker in the framework of the course and, in this respect should lead to their application in other future projects dealing with young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
Innovative monitoring and support system
The setting of the Reference and Support Group constitutes an innovation for the youth sector of the Council of Europe and a serious attempt to involve, in the definition and monitoring of the project the three mains professional sectors concerned by youth matters: youth workers, youth researchers and public youth officials. The functioning of the Reference and played an important role in the shared ownership of the project and keeping its coherence and allowing the different activities to influence each other.
Generating resources for youth projects combating exclusion and violence
The interest in the project and in the projects of the LTTC has also resulted in financial resources being committed to youth work against exclusion, violence and discrimination. This is due to the quality aspects brought by the Council of Europe and the framework of Enter which serve as a quality assurance. 17 projects have received financial support from the European Youth Foundation. All the
projects, through the inputs of the LTTC, can be said to include some
dimension of innovation for the context where they were or are being run.
Publications and materials
Enter! project web site available at www.coe.int/enter. Includes the project description and its different activities, together with the presentations of the LTTC participants’ projects. It provides visitors with information and news from the project and includes all publications developed during the project ready for download. It is available in English and French.
Project brochures
Enter! Access to Social Rights for Young People from Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods
(in English and French)
Videos from the Enter! Youth Meeting available at: http://vimeo.com/album/1741722
Partners, monitoring and support
Most of the partners in the project were active within the Reference and Support Group of the project. This group supported the development, monitoring and evaluation of the project and its links with other projects and programmes. The group met twice and its members also provided input to specific activities.
Secretariat
Enter is managed by the Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe - Division of Education and Training. It involves the various services of the Youth Department: the European Youth Centre in Budapest and in Strasbourg, the European youth Foundation and the programme of Intergovernmental Cooperation.
The secretariat of the project is based at the European Youth Centre Budapest and secured by a project assistant
Recommendations for follow-up
1. To complete the evelauation of the Enter! project on access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods
2. To map the results of the project
3. To involve other bodies (inside and outside the Council of Europe) in the process of consultation on the draft recommendation and guidelines on access to social rights for young people
4. To present the recommendation and guidelines on access to social rights for young people to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
5. To follow-up on the recommendation and promote it in the Member States
6. To organise a consultative meeting on Phase II of the Enter! project
7. To plan another Enter! LTTC for youth workers taking into account the recommendations from the evaluation, for example:
- to run more in depth social analysis of the target group
- to retain the aim and revise objectives
- to revise the duration of the course making e-learning phases between the residential seminars shorter
- to plan regional mentoring meetings
- to look closer at the profile of participants and take it onto account in the recruitment
- to reflect on and propose soultion to how to assess and certify the LTTC
- to plan enough time for developing participants’ projhect management skills
8. To link closer the future Enter! LTTC for youth workers and the particpants’ projects with the European Youth Foundation
9. To associate local and regional authorities closer with the overal project and with the projects’ of participants.
10. To promote the recognition of youth work and social rights on local level through youth policy development in the pilot countries.
11. To disseminate and promote the ‘Enter Dignity land’ game on Socila Rights for Young People
12. To disseminate the results of the Enter! project in the Member States through Ministerial Conference in 2012
13. To advocate for social rights within youth policy of the Council of Europe
Financial Report
Appendices: Supplementary information on the activities carried out in the framework of Enter!
Preparatory seminar of the project on Access to Social Rights of Young People from Disadvantaged Neighborhoods.
European Youth Centre, Budapest, 5-7 March 2009
The Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe has decided to initiate a two-year project to share experiences and develop innovative and effective youth work and youth policy responses to exclusion, discrimination and violence affecting young people in multicultural disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
The project will be based on training youth workers/leaders working in disadvantaged neighbourhoods with young people who face difficulties in exercising their social human rights. The course will develop their skills and competences in setting up projects for integration and in sharing them with colleagues across Europe.
The preparatory seminar was organised in order to set up a concrete framework (educational, social and political) in which the project should be further prepared and developed.
Objectives:
Output/Results The participants of the preparatory seminar confirmed the relevance of the scope and approach of the project and discussed in detail guidelines for its implementation and for the long-term training course in particular.
They identified a number of dilemmas to be taken into account during project development and implementation. The overall project will, in order to be successful:
Parallel efforts by the Council of Europe at research, advocacy, monitoring, communication and documentation will be highly desirable.
Specific guidelines for the LTTC, as discussed at the preparatory seminar, related to the aim, profile of participants and realities represented during the course; the competences to be developed and the continued learning process among participants; visibility and feasibility of individual participant projects; the involvement of participants’ organisations, young people as beneficiaries, and other stakeholders; and the specific criteria to be applied to projects wishing to participate in the course.
All the outcomes are detailed in a report which will serve as reference for the continuation of the project.
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Name Organisation, Country
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Alliatte CHIAHOU |
ATMF, France |
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Bilal CHUITAR |
Le Foyer des Jeunes des Marolles Belgique |
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Anastasia DENISOVA |
International Youth Human Rights Movement Russia Youth Group for Tolerance "ETHnICS" Russia |
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Ana Isabel FERNANDES |
Associação Juvenil Laços de Rua Portugal |
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Hasan HABIB |
The Department of Youth Affairs Finland |
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Amra HECO |
Miljonkulturell ungdom (MIKU) |
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Sébastien HOUSSIN |
City of Mullhouse - Ville de Mulhouse France |
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Fatima LAANAN |
SALTO-YOUTH Participation Resource Centre, Belgium |
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Danijela LOVRIC |
Youth Centre for non-formal education CnC, Croatia |
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László MILUTINOVITS |
Youth in Action National Agency, Mobilitás National Youth Service, Hungary |
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Mirella ORLANDI |
Regione Emilia Romagna - Servizio Politiche Europee e Relazioni Internazionali, Italia |
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Anca Ruxandra PANDEA |
Advisory Council on Youth |
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Marco PEROLINI |
European Youth Forum Belgium |
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Khalil RAIHANI |
Centre de la Diversité de l'Inclusion et de la Participation des jeunes CDIPAJ |
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Ingrid RAMBERG |
The Multicultural Centre, Sweden |
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Alexandra RAYKOVA |
FERYP, France |
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Momodou SALLAH |
Youth and Community Division De Montfort University, UK |
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Paul SMYTH |
Public Achievement, UK |
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Tímea SÓFALVI |
Csoport-téka Association, Hungary |
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Fatiha TARIB |
Agence Accoord, France |
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Mihaela VETAN |
Institul Intercultural Timisoara Romania |
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Péter WOOTSCH |
Municipality of Budapest |
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Brahim YERROU |
PJJ, France |
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RAPPORTEUR
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Yael OHANA, Slovakia |
DIRECTORATE OF YOUTH & SPORT
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Antje ROTHEMUND Executive Director European Youth Centre Budapest |
Directorate of Youth and Sport Council of Europe |
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Rui GOMES Head of Education and Training Unit |
Directorate of Youth and Sport Council of Europe European Youth Centre Budapest |
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Annette SCHNEIDER Educational Adviser |
Directorate of Youth and Sport Council of Europe European Youth Centre Budapest |
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Zsuzsanna MOLNAR Programme Assistant |
Directorate of Youth and Sport Council of Europe |
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Petra ERKKILÄ Trainee |
Directorate of Youth and Sport Council of Europe European Youth Centre Budapest |
INTERPRETERS/INTERPRETES
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Teresa POTOCZNA |
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Gabor KARAKAI |
APOLOGISED
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Alexander BARTLING Secretary of the Committee on Culture and Education |
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities |
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Claude BODEVING |
Service National de la Jeunesse Luxembourg |
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Regis BRILLAT |
Committee of Social Rights, DG I Council of Europe |
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Gilda FARRELL |
Social Cohesion Development and Research Division, DG III Council of Europe |
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Susie GREEN |
SALTO Cultural Diversity, UK |
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Amir HASHEMI-NIK |
Municipality of Huddinge, Sweden |
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Ann HENDRIKS |
SALTO Inclusion Resource Centre, Belgium |
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Jean-Claude LAZARO |
European Youth Foundation |
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Philipp MÜHLBERG |
Referatsleiter Soziale Stadt, Germany |
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John MUIR |
Wolverhampton City Council, UK |
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Michael PRIVOT |
European Network Against Racism, ENAR, Belgium |
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Alexis RIDDE |
The European Steering Committee for Youth, CDEJ |
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Jan VANHEE Chairman of the European Steering Committee on Youth, CDEJ |
The European Steering Committee for Youth, CDEJ Flemish Community Agency for socio-cultural work for youth and adults, Belgium |
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Gavan TITLEY |
Centre for Media Studies |
Enter! long term training course for youth workers
Introduction
The main pillar of the ENTER project is the Long Term training Course (LTTC) on the Access to Social Rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The course aims to make a significant contribution to combating social exclusion of young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods through the empowerment of youth workers and leaders to develop and carry out social and human rights oriented projects that create synergies with authorities responsible for making and implementing policies addressed at concerned communities.
The course takes place over a duration of two years, during which a group of youth workers actively involved in disadvantaged neighbourhoods is trained on social rights and develops competences on how to address these issues with young people in the neighbourhoods. The course contains residential seminars, e-learning and mentoring elements between the seminars as well as project development dimensions.
Profile of participants
It addresses by priority two categories of participants:
- local youth leaders, youth workers and youth animators active at grassroots level in disadvantaged neighbourhoods with young people with fewer opportunities;
- representatives of local authorities responsible for specific disadvantaged neighbourhoods and / or disadvantaged young people.
For this course, 31 participants from 24 countries were selected. 30 participants come from Council of Europe member states and 1 comes from a non-member state. All participants were selected because:
- they have some or significant experience of working with young people with fewer opportunities and from disadvantaged neighbourhoods;
- they demonstrate active ownership of the project they are developing in the context of the LTTC;
- they are actively involved in organisational or institutional networks that will ensure multiplication;
- they have strong personal motivation to be a participant of this course;
- they have clearly formulated training needs relevant to the training offered by the LTTC.
Languages
The working languages of the LTTC are English and French. A bi-lingual e-learning platform complements residential seminars that use simultaneous interpretation to ensure maximum participation of all participants. The LTTC is animated by a team with relevant language competencies.
Content
The first residential seminar of the Long Term Training Course on the Access to Social Rights for Young People from Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods took place in Strasbourg in September. It brought together 31 youth workers working in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in 20 countries. The participants were trained by a multicultural team of trainers on key concepts such as Human Rights, Social Rights, disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Participants also benefited from concrete skills development workshops in order to develop their own competences in working with youth in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The second part of the seminar was devoted mainly to project development. All participants developed a concrete project involving youth in their neighbourhood. These projects will be developed and implemented in the next year within the frame of the LTTC. The team of trainers started a process of mentoring of participants which will continue throughout the course to support participants. An e-learning platform was set up to help participants to develop their competences further between the residential seminars. Online units are posted twice a month with concrete tasks to be fulfilled by participants. The participants’ projects will be given priority for financial support by the European Youth Foundation in 2010. The next residential seminar is planned in Budapest in September 2010.
Calendar
A first residential seminar took place in September 2009, during which each participant developed a project idea into a concrete project. The second residential seminar will take place in September/October 2010. A final evaluation seminar will take place in Spring 2011.
Participants started developing projects after the first residential seminar in 2009. These projects are still taking place and will be continued in 2010. An e-learning platform was launched before the start of the course and follows participants as an additional support measure throughout the course.
E-learning
E-learning constitutes an important dimension of the course. Since the beginning, a monthly unit is posted on the platform with exercises and activities as well as readings, information and important documents. The topics tackled through the e-learning platform so far are:
- Pre-course self-assessment
- Getting to know each other
- defining your neighbourhood
- Personal learning plans
- Human Rights and Human Rights Education
- Social Rights in theory and practice
- International youth policy
The e-learning platform constitutes an important tool for continued learning over distance and for sharing resources, news and relevant materials on the daily work of participants in the course. Guests can visit the e-learning platform at http://act-hre.coe.int
Project development
As a part of the course, each participant needs to develop one concrete project on access to social rights with a group of young people from a disadvantaged neighbourhood. The projects need to follow concrete quality criteria defined by the team of trainers before the course.
The European Youth Foundation has defined the ENTER projects as a priority for funding in 2010. Since the beginning of the year, 12 participants applied for funding and got granted for running their projects. 2 participants have applied recently and are awaiting responses. 10 more applications can be expected before the end of the year.
A detailed description of the projects can be found on the Enter website: http://www.coe.int
Youth policy
The DYS and the other project partners are committed to keeping access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods high on the youth policy agenda in Europe. In addition, it is concerned to understand the effectiveness of European level youth work interventions for the improvement of the access of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights and for influencing the policy level. To do so, requires solid evidence of the utility and effectiveness of the Long Term Training Course.
In this respect, the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe is supporting participants in their contact making with local authorities if needed. In 4 cases at this stage, the Congress contacted local authorities directly and facilitated the process of introducing the participant and the project in order to ensure the municipalities’ support and involvement in the process.
Evaluation
In order to constantly ensure the highest possible quality of the course, an external evaluator was hired to follow the process and prepare a summative evaluation. Through regular feedback from participants and from the educational team, as well as through interviews with the main stakeholders involved, the course can regularly be adjusted to various needs and in order to respond better to the defined quality criteria.
Challenges and opportunities of the LTTC
This course, in its pilot format, does bring along many opportunities in relation to access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The participants of the course mention the strong empowerment they have gotten since the beginning in terms of competence development in project planning, intercultural learning, understanding of social and human rights and the European context. For many participants, it is the first time that they work at European level and get to know the opportunities and instruments which can be used to their benefits. Some participants have been promoted in their work, which they strongly attribute to the course and the development of their expertise and recognition. For all, the course has brought a better understanding of the community needs and of the importance to link youth work with youth policy.
The unique support system put on place in this course should not be undermined. The fact of having a one to one mentoring opportunity as well as ongoing learning through the a platform constitutes an important dimension for participants. They know who to address if needed. Finally, the financial support given by the European Youth Foundation for the projects facilitates participants’ work strongly.
Of course, running such a course does also bring along some challenges which the institution is discovering. First of all, participants are mostly practitioners working in the field with the young people, but facing difficulties in formulating their ideas clearly when it comes to interacting with authorities or institutions.
The young people in the neighbourhoods are often demotivated and difficult to convince, especially when it comes to engaging in a long term process. The youth workers have the challenging task to explain how their training at European level can impact the young people in the disadvantaged neighbourhood.
All participants selected are representing an NGO or association or official structure. Nevertheless, these structures are not, in all cases, understanding the importance of the project and ready to encourage the participants.
Last but not least, the e-learning dimension of the course remains difficult and challenging for some participants. Being involved in daily work, sometimes in difficult situations with many emergencies, some participants have difficulties focusing and finding discipline to sit and follow the online units. Whereas others face technical problems in computer literacy, all have made important steps in this direction and are showing willingness to learn and use all support measures made available.
Conclusion
All in all, after almost a year, it can be said that the course is doing well. One participant dropped out, but all others have been following regularly, working on their projects and engaging in social rights in their neighbourhood. The second seminar will focus further on capacity building and on linking the local level to the policy dimension in view of preparing a policy recommendation. The course is a unique experience and brings together a group of highly competent and motivated youth workers who, for many, never had the opportunity of benefitting from such course in the past.
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS in the ENTER course AND THEIR PROJECTS
1. “FROM SOCIAL EXCLUSION TO OPPORTUNITIES”
Participant: Rifat Demalija
Organisation: 'Youth in Free Initiative', Albania
Project idea in brief: The project was based in Kukes region, north and north east of Albania and included three districts; Kukes, Has and Tropoja with a population of 116000 inhabitants. The training course organized within a project addresses social exclusion and cohesion development in the region and targets specifically young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, their access to social rights and promotes formal and non formal education.
The main aim of the project was to provide knowledge and skills to address social inclusion of young people from disadvantaged neighborhoods through non-formal education.
Target group: some 88 young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, teachers, students form the University, journalists, youth employed and social workers from the Municipality
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2. "Youth for Active Participation"-training course on the development and implementation of participation projects at local and regional level”
Participant: Karen Mkhitaryan
Organisation: Caucasian Institute for Peace Problems Research - CIPPR, Armenia
Project idea in brief: Within the project a training workshop on participation was organized in Gyumri for 25 young people. The project supported foster greater participation of young people in the democratic structures and processes at local and regional level based in the principles promoted by the revised European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life.
Target group: The target group was young people 18 and 30 years old involved in youth initiatives, local youth organizations, groups, networks and young staff of governmental or local authority services responsible for youth participation at local and / or regional level. The participants were selected according to the following priority: the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities to be active in civil society or youth activities at local and regional level ( minority youth, socially disadvantaged young people from the peripheral regions which are lagging behind economically)
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3. "Let`s Create Social Inclusion Opportunities for Young Orphans"
Participant: Agshin Asgarov
Organisation: Human Rights in the XXI Century, Azerbaijan
Project idea in brief: Within the project, trainings covering social rights as part of human rights were delivered and trainings were addressed mainly to the themes like, Housing, Health, Education, Employment, Legal and social protection, Movement of persons, Non-discrimination. At the same time, psychological trainings to support psychologically the target group for social integration were conducted and the topic of the trainings encompassed different themes serving to build up the sense of self-esteem and confidence in the young orphans` abilities.
Target group: The participants were 14-18 years old young people abandoned by their parents when they had been small kids and they live in an orphanage school. They face big obstacles in the process of integration to the society after leaving the institution. Most of these young people after leaving orphanages become unemployed and do not live healthy lives in the end.
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4. “Capacity Building for local authorities (LA) and non-state actors (NSA) cooperation on social inclusion and empowerment of disadvantaged young people in Belarus communities”
Participant: Ihar Zahumionau
Organisation: SCAF Youth Center, Belarus
Project idea in brief: The overall objective of the project is to build capacity for LA and NSA cooperation in meeting the needs of vulnerable groups of young people and their social inclusion in 2 rural and 9 urban Belarus communities. The project is aimed at facilitation of equal participation of non-state actors and local authorities in policy dialogue and partnership in policy formulation processes; capacity-building of non-state actors to represent their target groups; capacity-building of local authorities for cross-sectoral cooperation and social inclusion of disadvantaged groups of young people; changing attitudes of citizens towards vulnerable youth groups.
Target group: 55 disadvantaged young people and 110 representatives of NGOs and local governments
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5. « ACT’HEURE (ACT’HOUR) »
Participant: Schmitz Lysiane
Organisation: Ville de Namur, Belgium
Idée de projet en bref : En octobre 2009, le G8 a débuté une sensibilisation aux droits sociaux. Le but premier était le suivant : créer un voire plusieurs supports (spectacle, blog, folder, exposition itinérante) afin d’informer et de donner accès aux droits sociaux à la population des quartiers, dans lesquels les citoyens pourront trouver tous les services et infrastructures qui leur donneront accès à ceux-ci.
Malheureusement, le projet a perdu son outil par le vol des ordinateurs portables qui devaient être le principal.
Néanmoins, le groupe contribue à un projet global initié par la cellule Prévention et sécurité, Equipe violences intrafamiliales et interpersonnelles.
Le groupe a décidé de créer des supports audio- visuels reprenant la thématique. Ils vont recevoir une formation concernant les outils audio-visuels afin d’être les plus performants possibles dans l’expression de leur avis en regard du thème abordé.
Public cible : Age: 15 – 20 ans
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6. “ACCESS OF DISADVANTAGED YOUNG PEOPLE TO SOCIAL RIGHTS – MISSION POSSIBLE!”
Participant: Tania Tisheva
Organisation: Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation, Bulgaria
Project idea in brief: The aim of the project is to promote access to social rights and the right to education of disadvantaged youth in Sofia, Dimitrovgrad and Bourgas through HRE (in particular on prevention of discrimination, gender equality and social rights).
Target group: Young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods aged 13-25 (30) years
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7. “CHANGE!”
Participant: Danijela Lovric
Organisation: Youth Centre for non-formal education-Creators, Croatia
Project idea in brief: CHANGE is a training course which aims to empower young people in using theatre as a tool to promote social inclusion. During 9 working days 31 participants coming from 13 different countries, will share information, explore and discover new ways of implementing activities in the field of social inclusion through theatre based methods (theatre of oppressed - Augusto Boal).
Target group: Youthleaders coming from partner countries involved. Age range 18-30 years old. The goal is to create multipliers, who when returning to their countries will used the methods that they have learned.
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8. “Sailors on the CitizenShip – Harbor of CitizenShip”
Participant: Marco Santos
Organisation: Eesti Erinoorsootöö Ühing noOR (Estonian Special Youth Work Organisation), Estonia
Project idea in brief: Sailors on CitizenShip - Harbour of CitizenShip is a national and local level of a training course, which was developed as a module for youth workers/trainers to help them to answer their questions concerning the active citizenship issues.
We approach the idea of citizenship on different levels: locally, nationally, on international and global level. While implementing the project with Estonians partners we would like to focus more on idea of global active citizenship in local level, and together with youth workers from Europe and work on its implementation into our daily work, taking in count that participation is an important Social Right.
Target group: The main target of the project is divided in 2 categories:
§ Young people aged 15 to 20 years old from 3 main backgrounds: a) students from Tallinn outskirts, b) young people from specific rural areas where we have partners and c) people with disabilities for “our” respective centre
§ Multipliers: Youth workers/leaders from around Estonia. Mostly working in the youth centres, schools or centres for people witH disabilities where we have partnerships and who might want to join.
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9. “INTERCULTURAL LEARNING, YOUTH PARTICIPATION AND YOUTH ACCESS TO SOCIAL RIGHTS”
Participant: Samiuela Elone
Organisation: City of Helsinki, Finland
Project idea in brief: A Multilateral Youth Exchange in Finland between the Vuosaari Youth Work Unit (Vuny) and three visiting groups from Spain, Estonia and from France. We hosted the visitors in July from Sunday the 25th to Sunday the 1st of August in Vuosaari at the Eastern part of Helsinki. There were 51 participants in whom 42 were young people from age 14 to 17, and 7 youth workers. The young people were from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, from ethnic minorities and with fewer opportunities.
The title was Intercultural Learning, Youth Active Participation and Youth Access to Social Rights. The content of the project was based on the needs of the young people. Non formal learning methods such as workshops, role plays, outdoor activities, and excursions were used to promote active participation, to promote learning and understanding of each others’ cultures, to promote social inclusion, to raise awareness on access to Social Rights, and to facilitate the young people’s personal and social development. The project was also aimed to build young people’s competences on tolerance, respect human rights and the rules of law, democratic principles are important values for themselves as individuals as well as European citizens.
Target group: Young people with fewer opportunities, from immigrant backgrounds and from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. They should be 14 to 16 years old.
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10. « COLONIE INTERNATIONALE DES JEUNES »
Participant: Abdenour Ladji
Organisation: Accoord, France
L'idée de projet en bref : Un photo du quartier des dervallières
§ La participation.
§ L’échange
§ La solidarité et le développement
Les droits sociaux adressées: Le droit de se mélanger avec les autres, d’échanger sur ses compétences et sa culture. Information sur la situation des droits de l’homme dans le monde. Prise de conscience sur les actions qu’on peut faire pour changer les choses autour de nous.
§ Le besoin de s’exprimé.
§ Le besoin de changer d’environnement, le dépaysement.
§ Le voyage de découverte. L’éducation et la pédagogie au vivre ensemble.
§ Vivre collectivement dans la diversité et le partage des modes de vie.
§ Savoir accepter les différences.
Public cible: 12-15 ans, si le projet se fait en partenariat avec le centre socioculturel du quartier
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11. « EURODEPAYSE TOI! »
Participant: Alexandra Boudia
Organisation: Association des Travailleurs Maghrébins de France, France
Project idea in brief: My project idea is to raise employability and European awareness of young people. This will be done through English language classes, visit of the institutional European places European exchange. In this project, I also want to emphasize on increasing open-mindedness of young people through intercultural and gender equality activities.
Social rights addressed: discrimination and xenophobia, human rights education/democracy, gender equality, citizenship.
Target group: 10-15 young people aged 14-20
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12. « RAID SPORTIF AUTOUR DES PREVENTIONS « PARTICIPE AU PROJET PAPIN SANS PEPIN »
Participant: Fadela Aouir
Organisation: Centre Social et Culturel Papin, France
L'idée de projet en bref : A partir d’un questionnaire élaboré par le Centre Socioculturel Papin et la Coordination Territoriale de Prévention et Sécurité de la Ville de Mulhouse, à destination d’un public d’adolescents âgés de 13 à 16 ans habitant le secteur Franklin-Fridolin, il s’agit de proposer une action englobant quelques thèmes récurrents de la période de l’adolescence (addictions, prévention de la délinquance…). D’autre part, il s’agit de mettre en évidence la propension qu’ont les adolescents à se mettre en danger en cherchant les limites à travers un comportement difficilement acceptable en société. Dans ce secteur particulier de la Ville de Mulhouse situé à proximité du centre ville et qui ne bénéficie pas de grands espaces de jeu, la configuration du quartier fait en sorte que les comportements de conduite de 2 roues de manière dangereuse sont très vite visibles de tous et entraînent quelques problèmes de circulation.
Les droits sociaux adressées: Droit à l’information autour de la santé.
Public cible: Ce projet vise un groupe d’adolescents mixte âgés de 13 à 16 ans habitant sur le secteur Franklin-Fridolin.
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13. « ÊTRE SCOLARISE NE VEUT PAS FORCEMENT DIRE ETRE INTEGRE! »
Participant: Julie Mercier
Organisation: ARPOMT, France
L'idée de projet en bref : Aires d'accueil des Gens du Voyage (rue de Dunkerque, Strasbourg). Les enfants si peu soient ils qui vont à l’école ne sont pas pris toujours en compte comme les autres élèves. Soit par les instituteurs, soit par les camarades. Les clichés et les stéréotypes en sont une principale cause, mais le fait de ne pas pouvoir s’adapter aux public est également important, les instituteurs ne savent pas forcément comment « s’y prendre » avec les voyageurs. L’idée serait de venir dans les écoles, de présenter la culture du voyage aux instit’ et aux éléves en organisant des expo, des temps de formation, des échanges, créer des outils ensemble…
Les droits sociaux adressées: accès à la scolarisation, la non discrimination.
Public cible: Les enfants du voyage scolarisés ou non de la commnunauté urbaine de strasbourg, et les écoles.
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Participant: Badia Loukili-Raihani
Organisation: Au-delà des Ponts, France
L'idée de projet en bref : Le quartier du Port du Rhin ou porte de France se situe à Strasbourg prés de la frontière allemande. C’est un quartier défavorisé, c’est aussi le plus pauvre de Strasbourg. Le taux de chômage est le plus élevé. L’absence des institutions, de commerces, des services, l’accès a la culture, aux loisirs,..
Public cible: Pour l’ensemble des habitants Deux après midi pour les jeunes filles (12 à 18 ans et 18 à 30 ans)
Le but de projet: Le but de ce projet est de faciliter l’intégration des jeunes filles de quartier multiculturel, renforcer les capacités de communications entre les habitants, l’accès aux informations, faciliter intégration et la non discrimination.
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15. “Act Your Rights- Human and Social Rights on Stage”
Participant: Sandra Rabbow
Organisation: Initiative Grenzen-Los! e.V Verein für emanzipative Bildung und kulturelle Aktion, Germany
Project idea in brief: The proposed project dealt explicit with human and social rights issues and so called global Brennpunkten or ‘hot spots’.
The Human Rights Conventions (specifically the Convention of the Right of the Child as well as the European Social Charter) and its meaning for the everyday life of young people and young adults participating was a focal point. Furthermore there has been a wide frame for the youngsters to decide on the key aspects to work on. Focus topics have been discrimination, poverty, migration, freedom, access to the health care system, labour market and housing as well as the situation in Gaza. Also the debate about Thilo Sarrazins book ‘Deutschland schafft sich ab’ has been very important for the youngsters. As they are a target group of the addressed prejudices in the authors book they decided to work on this topics and they developed a theatre street performance which has been shown during a two day city tour in autumn 2010.
During the project many of our youngsters furthermore experienced external working experiences in projects of our cooperation partners. Special for this sub-project was, that it did not ended with a final event as the other projects did before. This time the JTB run a small local festival in the beginning of December 2010, the “Moabiter Brennpunkttage” It was very successful and a kind of training for the bigger festival in autumn 2011.
Target Group: The target group of the project are young people (male and female) between 14 -22 years old.The project is addressed to youngsters in Berlin, especially from Berlin Moabit, one of the 17 Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods of the city; most of them with migration background and often belonging to Muslim communities
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16. “EMIS FOR SOCIAL COHESION PROJECT”
Participant: Mary Drosopoulos
Organisation: Institute for European and Mediterranean Studies, Greece
Project idea in brief: The aim of the project wasto improve the living conditions in our neighborhood by providing better opportunities with a long term effect for its young people; locals and legal immigrants and by eliminating discrimination and social stereotypes.
Target group:
1. Young registered immigrants, aged 16-30, living in the wider Botsari area of Thessaloniki, facing challenges such as:
-unemployment
-discrimination (due to ethnic background, religion, language or gender)
-poverty
2. Local young people aged 14-30, exhibiting xenophobia against migrants, triggered by ignorance and social stereotypes.
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17. “ACCESS FOR YOUth”
Participant: Fiona Joyce
Organisation: Canal Communities Regional Youth Service, Ireland
Project idea in brief: The idea for this project was to work with a group of young people who have expressed an interest in volunteering abroad. We looked at the situation for young people in our community in terms of accessing their human and social rights, and then looked at the situation for young people in a developing country to see how this differs, which rights are an issue here in Dublin & which rights are more prominent in a developing country. After this research phase the youth workers & young people visited a developing country and spent some time volunteering in a youth project there. All of the young people in the group are or have been volunteers in local youth projects, clubs or sports groups. They experienced the differences and similarities of youth work & volunteering in a different environment. The aim of the project was to raise awareness among the young people about their ability to access their human and social rights in comparison to that of other young people throughout the world & to share their learning & experience of youth work from their own local perspectives.
Target Group: The project is for young people aged 16-19 years old. The young people involved have already taken on leadership roles in youth projects, clubs or groups in their community. They have expressed an interest in suggested actions of the intercultural strategy, which we have developed over the last two years. These young people have also expressed an interest in developing their level of volunteering within the community.
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18. “ACTION TO PROMOTE AND IMPROVE THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF YOUNG ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES LIVING IN DISADVANTAGED NEIGHBOURHOODS OF FERRARA”
Participant: Federico Tsucalas
Organisation: Cooperativa Sociale Camelot, Italy
Project idea in brief: The idea is to promote concrete actions to improve social integration of young refugees, concerning housing and job opportunities.
Social rights addressed: House and work.
Target group: 20 young asylum seekers and refugees
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19. « NOSTRA STRADA - SOUS LE DEVIS “TOUS POUR UNE SOCIETE D'EGALITE” »
Participant: Mohammed Marfoq
Organisation: Liberitutti, Italy
Idée de projet en bref : le projet NOSTRA STRADA est un festival des arts pratiques dans les rue (cirque,danse,hip hop,peinture,theatre de la rue...), c'est un espace de lutte contre le rassizme, qui donne aux jeunes beneficiaires ainsi a la communaute europpenne l'opportunite d'acculturation et de partage emotionnel; comme il sera un lieu de diffusion de la culture de tolerence , d'integration , et d'echange d'experiemces artistique. Le festival deroulera durant 03 journee dans 03 differente place populaire de Turin,avec la participation de 80 groupe ;une compagne de publicite sera realiser selon les modalites connues pour la realisation d'un festival et d'autr part une autre compagne de sensibilisation sur les dangers du rassizme et la discrimination .
Les droits sociaux adressées: l'egalite des chances
Public cible: les jeunes 15 - 25 ans , issues des quartiers defavorises et connaissent l'exclusion social.
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20. “WHEN YOU DON’T GO TO EUROPE, EUROPE COMES TO YOU”
Participant: Sintija Lase
Organisation: RED - Creative Effects' Workshop, Latvia
Project idea in brief : Creativity, art, communication and visibility are important key-words not only for businesses, but for the social life of every individual – you and me! Do I know my social rights? How can I tell others about them? How can I use different media and art forms to spread this knowledge at limited cost? The youth exchange “Creative Effects’ Workshop”, will be organized with 8 partner organizations from the EU, the dates from the 28th of August to the 4th of September 2010. Three topics will be addressed: creative non-standard media, social rights and intercultural dialogue.
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21. “YOUTH MEDIA TO PROMOTE THE ACCESS OF YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN DISADVANTAGED NEIGHBORHOODS TO SOCIAL RIGHTS”
Participant: Dynka Amorim
Organisation: Citizens of the World/Bué Fixe, Portugal
Project idea in brief: The main goal of the project is to use the available media and communication skills and tools, to promote Peer Education and Communication around this issue. It intends to use the existing human and material resources on communication, to establish awareness and bridges so that this specific group may exercise, in a sustainable manner, their social rights. Young Portuguese-speaking African Migrants living in Portugal will work to integrate in the existing Youth Magazine, radio program and blog issues regarding Social Rights. Youth meetings will also engage this particular group in discussions around various topics of interest, in order to mobilize concrete actions to promote social inclusion, intercultural dialogue and full exercise of our citizenship.
Target group:The target group of this project is around 500 disadvantaged Young Portuguese-speaking African Migrants living in Lisbon Area from 18 to 27.
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22. “PROMOTING SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS OF YOUTH LIVING IN RURAL AREAS OF THE RUSSIA’S NORTH-WEST REGION”
Participant : Fransua Tulikunkiko
Organisation: Organisation humanitaire de la Region de Pskov "Heureuse Enfance", Russian Federation
Project idea in brief: This project has been elaborated to promote socio-economic rights of youth living in rural areas of the Russia’s North-West Region through human rights education, development of intercultural exchanges and good practices with a European dimension. It is called to indicate the slopes and help them in solving social problems: insufficient food, lack of access to medical care, equal education, housing, unemployment exacerbated by the economic crisis, almost nonexistent civic participation and social inactivation in the field of protection of his rights, freedoms and legal interests.
Target group: Children, teenagers and other youth aged 10 to 30 years.
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23. “LET’S PLAY FOR HUMANITY”
Participant: Suzana Kaplanovic
Organisation: Red Cross Belgrade, Serbia
Project idea in brief: Project ''Lets play for Humanity" was focused on improving the social rights guaranteed under the European Charter of Human Rights by establishing a good, humane, democratic relations between students of different nationalities and skin colours. The project was implemented in school ''Jovan Cvijić'' in Belgrade. This school is a multi-cultural environment and educational centre for children of different nationalities and religions, different social and financial status.
Target group: The project was implemented in Belgrade, Serbia, in Elementary school “Jovan Cvijic”, near biggest unhygienic Roma Settlement in Belgrade, during the 2010 school year. Target group are all 400 pupils, between 7 and 16 years, 10 teachers and 10 volunteers.
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24. “THE MEGAPHONE”
Participant: Rami Al-khamisi
Organisation: Megafonen, Sweden
Project idea in brief: The aim of the project was to create a platform, a newsmagazine were young people from the age 16 to 25 in the suburbs of Stockholm can be aware of and discuss issues such as racism, violence and discrimination. They were able to create their own agenda and use their on terms on issues that concerns them. The purpose of this project is to raise awareness among young people of their social rights, so that they are more likely and able to access them.
Target Group: My target group for this project was young people in the age 16 to 25. They came from the multicultural neighbourhoods in Stockholm.
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25. “HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE IN BITOLA - GET MORE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS”
Participant: Biljana Vasilevska
Organisation: Centre for Human Rights “AMOS” Bitola, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Project idea in brief: This project HIV/AIDS prevention among young people in Bitola “Get more knowledge and skills” was directly connected with young people’s sexual and reproductive rights as a part of human and social rights. Providing preventive educational activities related to HIV directly helps young people to acknowledge, access and practice their sexual and reproductive rights and the right for protection of health.
The aim was to prevent HIV infection among young people in Bitola, by increasing the knowledge and skills about HIV of 300 young people from 15 – 25 years of age that live in Bitola about HIV risks, ways of transmission and ways of protection by:
- Establishing a network of young peer educators that will provide information and education related to HIV infection;
- Educating 300 young people on HIV/AIDS;
- Raising public awareness of specific ways for protection of young people concerning HIV infection.
Target group: 300 young people young people from 15 to 25 years of age that live in Bitola
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26. “INCLUSION OF YOUNG ROMA PEOPLE”
Participant: Elez Bislim
Organisation: Association of Citizens Sumnal, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Project idea in brief: The main aim of the project was to raise the awareness among of young Rroma from 3 Rroma neighborhoods in Skopje about their social rights and to improve their access to employment and health services trough human rights education, mediaton with social services.The project covered the following main themes: Human Rights, Social Rights, Unemployment, Health and Education.
Target group: Young Rroma people aged 13 to 18 years from 3 Rroma neighborhoods - municipalities Chair (Topaana), Suto Orizari and Gazi Baba (Singelic) in Skopje.
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27. “BETTER ACCESS TO SOCIAL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL SERVICES FOR THE YOUNG ROMA PEOPLE”
Participant: Eleonora Poposka
Organisation: Journalists for children and women rights and environmental protection, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Project idea in brief: The aim of the project was to raise awareness for the social rights and improve the access to social services for the Roma young people living in disadvantaged neighborhood in Saraj municipality through non-formal education in order to improve their living conditions. The project was based on non-formal education methods, conducted through workshops for increasing of the understanding of the human rights, social rights and the access to social services, information providing sessions, group discussions, visit of the relevant institutions and services and leisure time activities.
The project took place in a neighborhood where no other NGO has worked before and these people were reached for the first time by any NGO. It should be emphasized that the institutional visits proved to be a very good tool for better understanding of the social rights and their fulfillment by these young people.
The young people were involved directly in the creation of the programme and its modification in accordance with their needs. They were consulted in regards to the leisure activities as well, and at the final workshop the results were presented by the young people themselves.
Target group: The target group was Roma young people at the age of 13-20 living in the disadvantaged neighborhood of Saraj and originating from poor families, who later act as multipliers for the whole neighborhood and wider.
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28. “MY FUTURE, SOCIAL ENTERPRISE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN YOUTH WORK”
Participant: Alex Collop
Organisation: Muirhouse Youth Development Group, Scotland, United Kingdom
Project idea in brief: The aim of the project is to promote the awareness and access to social rights for young people in Muirhouse and surrounding areas. The project works alongside young people involved in the MY Future (training and development) and MY Adventure (social enterprise) projects in various activities and actions designed to develop a better understanding and access to social rights especially relating to education, employment and access to sport, outdoor and leisure activities. The STABLE (Support and Training through Activities Building Long Term self-Esteem) element of the project, a pilot project funded by EYF, aimed to increase access to social rights for young offenders.
Target group: 17 young people who dropped out from school were directly involved in the project activities; 35 young people dropped out from school, young offenders, migrants.
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29. Accès aux droitx sociaux à travers le sport
Participant : Ozlem Yavuzkan
Organisation : Accord, France
Project idea in brief : Le projet se déroulera au Maroc probablement pendant les vacances d’octobre prochain. Le but de ce projet est que les participants accèdent à leurs droits sociaux. Et ce à travers le sport et avec des jeunes venu d’ailleurs (Royaume Uni, Roumanie,…)
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30. Develop a social rights "action project" with young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods on an intercultural basis which engages with local, regional and European structures of power
Participant: Sean Pettis
Organisation: Public Achievement
Project idea in brief: The aim of the project is to support 18 young people from 3 disadvantaged communities in Belfast to identify important social rights issues and undertake four action projects that seeks to address their issue as means to increase young people’s active participation, awareness of human rights and understanding of political processes and structures.
Target group: The target group is 18 young people from 3 different community backgrounds: Protestant/Unionist; Catholic / Nationalist; and Ethnic Minority aged 14-16 years old all of whom live in disadvantaged communities in Belfast.
Some data about the projetcs:
Organisation: Centre for Human Rights AMOS
Participant: Biljana Vasilevska
Country: "The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
Name of the project: HIV/AIDS Prevention among young people in Bitola
Grant received: 6000 EUR
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Organisation: The Youth Programme of Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation (BGRF)
Participant: Tania Tisheva
Country: Bulgaria
Name of the project: Promotion of the access to social rights and the right to education of disadvantaged youth in Sofia, Dimitrovgrad and Bourgas through HRE preliminary study and meetings, workshops
Grant received: 5000 EUR
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Organisation: Associations of Citizens Sumnal (SUMNAL)
Participant: Elez Bislim
Country: "The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
Name of the project:"Inclusion of Roma young people" (Roma Youth Infomation Club)
Grant received: 6000 EUR
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Organisation: Caucasian Institute for Peace Problems Research (CIPPR)
Participant: Karen Mkhitaryan
Country: Armenia
Name of the project:"Youth for active participation" - training course on the development and implementation of participation projects at local and regional levels
Grant received: 6000 EUR
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Organisation: Public Achievement
Participant: Sean Pettis
Country: United Kingdom
Name of the project: Develop a social rights "action project" with young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods on an intercultural basis which engages with local, regional and European structures of power
Grant received: 7000 EUR
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Organisation: Youth in Free Initiative (YFI)
Participant: Rifat Demalija
Country: Albania
Name of the project: Training course: "From social exclusion to opportunities"
Grant received: 6000 EUR
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Organisation: Human Rights in the XXI Century- Azerbaijan (HR)
Participant: Akshin Asgarov
Country: Azerbaijan
Name of the project: " Let's Create Social Inclusion Opportunities for Young Orphans"
Grant received: 5000 EUR
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Organisation: Eesti Erinoorsootöö ühing noOR
Participant: Marco Santos
Country: Estonia
Name of the project:"Sailors on Citizenship: Sailor's Harbors"
Grant received: 6000 EUR
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Organisation: Citizens of the World (CM)
Participant: Dynka Amorim
Country: Portugal
Name of the project: Youth media to promote the access of young people living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights
Grant received: 6000 EUR
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Organisation: Centre Social et Culturel Papin
Participant:Fadela Aouir
Country:France
Name of the project: Carton rouge à la discrimination!!! Jouons ensemble et mettons là HORS JEU!!!
Grant received: 4000 EUR
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Organisation: Red Cross of Belgrade
Participant: Suzana Kaplanovic
Country: Serbia
Name of the project:Participative drama, Theatre of the oppressed (TO), method for social development, community based education which uses theatre as a tool for social transformation, approved by UNESCO
Grant received: 6000 EUR
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Organisation: Journalists for Women and Children Rights and Environmental Protection (JCWE)
Participant: Eleonora Poposka
Country: "The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
Name of the project: " Better Access to Social Rights and Social Services For Young Roma People"
Grant received: 5800 EUR
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Organisation: INITIATIVE: GRENZEN-LOS! E.V.- Verein fuer emanzipierte Bildung und kulturelle Aktion
Participant: Sandra Rabbow
Country: Germany
Name of the project: Youth Theatre Project "Act your Rights-Human Rights on Stage" - as part of the "Youth Theatre Office Berlin" project
Grant received: 5000 EUR
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Organisation: Organisation humanitaire de la Région de Pskov - Heureuse Enfance
Participant: Fransua Ksaviee Tulikunkiko
Country: Russia
Name of the project: Formation "Promotion des Droits socio-économiques de la jeunesse rurale de la région du nord-ouest de la Russie"
Grant received: 7500 EUR
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Organisation: Youth Centre for Non-Formal Education - Creators not Consumers (CnC)
Participant: Danijela Lovric
Country: Croatia
Name of the project: CHANGE!
Grant received: 15000 EUR
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Organisation: Canal Communities Regional Youth Service (CCRYS)
Participant: Fiona Joyce
Country: Ireland
Name of the project: Social rights - an issue for YOUth: A group of young people will embark on a journey to learn about social rights in their community
Grant received: 7500 EUR
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Organisation: Muirhouse Youth Development Group
Participant: Alex Collop
Country: United Kingdom
Name of the project: ENTER! pilot project: 'STABLE' (Support & Training through Activities Building Long term self-Esteem) - project aiming to increase access to social rights for young offenders.
Grant received: 5500 EUR
Second Reference and Support Group Meeting
European Youth Centre, Strasbourg
14 -15 January 2010
FINAL LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
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Personal details |
Organisation information |
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Alliatte CHIAHOU
Amra HECO Claire MORVAN Jean-Claude LAZARO Laurent BONNELI Marco PEROLINI
Paul SMYTH Ramiza SAKIP Lindsay YOUNGS ENTER COURSE TEAM OF TRAINERS AND EVALUATOR Pieter Jan Uyttersprot Consultant trainer, France Alexandra Raykova Consultant trainer, Bulgaria
Yael Ohana Evaluator of the ENTER course Germany
DIRECTORATE OF YOUTH & SPORT Rui GOMES Nicoleta DUMITRU APOLOGISED Alexander BARTLING Anastasia DENISOVA André - Jacques DODIN
Fatima LAANAN Filipa Menezes Jan van HEE
Momodou SALLAH Nadine Lyamouri-BAJJA |
ATMF Miljonkulturell ungdom (MIKU) Milllon Cultural Youth SALTO-YOUTH Participation RC Hosted by the Bureau International Jeunesse, Belgium European Youth Foundation Directorate of Youth and Sport Council of Europe Université de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre Human Rights and Mobility Policy Officer European Youth Forum, Belgium Public Achievement, UK Advisory Council on Youth Council of Europe Social Cohesion Policy and Standards Division Directorate General of Social Cohesion Council of Europe Athanasios (Sakis) Krezios Consultant trainer, Greece Matteo Fornaca Consultant trainer, Italy Head of Education and Training Division Directorate of Youth and Sport Council of Europe European Youth Centre Budapest Project Assistant Directorate of Youth and Sport Council of Europe European Youth Centre Budapest Secretary of the Committee on Culture and Education Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe – CLRAE International Youth Human Rights Movement, Russian Federation Youth Group for Tolerance "ETHnICS" Russian Federation Directorate of Youth and Sport Council of Europe Coordinator, SALTO-YOUTH Participation RC, European Network of Youth Researchers The European Steering Committee for Youth, CDEJ, Council of Europe Youth and Community Division De Montfort University, UK Educational Advisor Directorate of Youth and Sports Council of Europe European Youth Centre Strasbourg |
Consultative meeting on youth information and counselling
EYC Budapest, 15-19 June 2010
Objective(s):
Within the framework of the Enter! project, the aim of this consultative meeting was to bring together (youth) policy experts, youth researchers, youth organisations representatives and young people together to explore the ways in which information and counselling should be reflected in youth policy and how they should be organised to best contribute to improving the access of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights.
The specific objectives were:
- To explore the current challenges in accessibility of information and counselling services to young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods;
- To discuss the role, ownership and motivation of young people in regards to using and creating information;
- To discuss efficient ways of information management and the role of youth projects in order to increase the quality and outreach to all groups concerned;
- To explore ways of ensuring quality of youth information and counselling services;
- To explore challenges and discuss efficient mechanisms of ICT use in the field of youth information and counselling
- To explore links between human rights, social rights, participation and information;
- To develop recommendations for improving youth information and counselling services both at European and national levels,
- To contribute to the definition of thematic focuses of the youth policy approaches and responses in the frame of the ENTER! project
Output/Results
The participants discussed challenges preventing the youth information and counselling services to be accessible for all young people, especially the ones coming from disadvantaged neighbourhoods and background and proposed recommendations on how this can be improved.
The recommendations addressing the challenges tackle the need of developed inclusive policies towards youth information and counselling, the need of establishing and maintaining string networking between youth and counselling services, competence development of youth information and counselling workers, the need of peer to peer empowerment, need of using information and counselling to enhance participation of young people in their neighbourhoods.
Conclusions/Follow Up
The recommendations will be finalised and presented for further work on elaboration of draft Recommendation to the Committee of Ministers on Access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
Practical recommendation will be taken in the education and training field, notably in and by the participants of the Enter! course for youth workers.
Other recommendations will be reflected in the development of the education and training work of the Directorate of Youth and Sport, notably in relation to e-learning, mentoring and on-line counselling.
A specific mentoring session with participants of the Enter! course was held in view of implementing some of the proposals in their own projects and to organise the support to their projects. Participants The meeting brought together youth workers, representing statutory bodies of the Directorate of Youth and Sport, Reference and Support Group of the ENTER project, youth and information workers and representatives of local authorities.
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Albania |
Jurgena Hajdaraj |
World Vision |
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Gerta Guce |
Roma Active Albania |
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Armenia |
Gor Margaryan |
Shirak Marzpetaran |
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Austria |
Martin Fischer |
JEF Europe |
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Azerbaijan |
Rahman Ahmadov |
Galacak Namine Humanitarian Organization |
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Belarus |
Ihar Zahumionau |
SCAF Youth Center |
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Croatia |
Ivana Begić |
Association for education, psychosocial support and youth empowerment – Psihoteka |
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France |
Chiahou Alliatte |
ATMF |
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Georgia |
Valerian Gvalia |
Charity Humanitarian Centre “Abkhazeti” |
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Greece |
Elisavet Efthymiou |
General Secretariat For Youth |
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Anastasia Kyriakidou |
Youth Information Centre Of Stavroupol |
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Hungary |
Anca Sandescu |
European Roma Rights Centre |
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Andrea Kiss |
Mobilitás Information and Training Office |
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Imre Simon |
Mobilitás Information and Training Office |
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Kosovo[4] |
Luaras Oseku |
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe - OSCE Mission in Kosovo and as a volunteer of local NGO – AKTI |
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Lithuania |
Andrius Becys |
Culture center "In Actio" |
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Natalija Bitiukova |
Human Rights Monitoring Institute |
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Luxembourg |
Davide Capecci |
ERYICA asbl |
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Poland |
Sebastian Majcher |
Fundacja Pomocy Dzieciom GAJA - Foundation of Aid for Children GAJA |
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Portugal |
Gomes Ludgero |
National Portuguese Youth Council (CNJ) |
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Romania |
Carmen Ciocoiu |
Gessia of the Third Millennium |
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Andreea Bitiusca |
ELSA (European Law Students' Association |
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Russian Federation |
Olga Kuznetsova |
NGO "The centre for development of International Сooperation in the sphere of Education and Culture" |
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Serbia |
Suzana Kaplanovic |
Agenda, Center for family support |
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The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
Ramiza Sakip |
Advisory Council on Youth Council of Europe |
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Ukraine |
Oleksiy Murashkevych |
Lugansk regional charitable foundation "Teenager" |
FacilitatorAthanasios (Sakis) Krezios Greece |
DocumentalistJoão Salviano Graça da Silva Fonó Carmo |
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Lecturer Patrick Manghelinckx JES (Belgium) – director, Belgium |
Directorate of Youth and Sport,Council of Europe |
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Rui Gomes Head of Education and Training Division Zara Lavchyan Educational Advisor Nicoleta Dumitru Project Assistant |
Expert meeting on new ways of participation in multicultural youth work
Budapest, 14-18 June 2010
Aim and objectives
The meeting aimed at bringing policy makers, youth researchers, youth organisations and young people together to explore how new ways of participation can contribute to improving the access to social rights of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
The objectives defined were:
- To explore the concepts of youth participation and e-participation;
- To explore current trends of e-participation in multicultural youth work;
- To explore the challenges of inclusive multicultural youth work and how e-participation can be a tool to overcome these;
- To analyse the motivation of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods for e-participation, as well as the effects of e-participation on their social inclusion and democratic participation;
- To exchange experiences and good practices of e-participation in disadvantaged neighbourhoods;
- To explore ways of overcoming digital divide and ensuring that e-participation is democratic, inclusive, meaningful and empowering for young people;
- To make recommendations on promoting e-participation as a mean to support the access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
Output/Result
The meeting lead to the formulation of concrete recommendations addressed to youth organisations, policy makers, European institutions and youth researchers on 4 main topics: Promoting access to e-participation, E-participation as a response to violence, exclusion and discrimination, E-participation as a tool for education and e-participation as a mean to impact on youth policies. These recommendations will be disseminated and used as a basis for formulating a policy document to the Committee of Ministers on the access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
Follow up
The expert meeting was evaluated very positively. Concrete measures for follow up were taken both by participants and by the Directorate of Youth and Sport. The recommendations will be disseminated to relevant stakeholders. Some participants planned concrete follow up projects together. The recommendations produced will serve as a basis for the policy document to be drafted later this year.
DJS/EYCB/ENTER/2010/044 Budapest, 11 June 2010
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Albania |
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Doriana Gjuta |
Youth in Free Initiative |
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Armenia |
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Nelli Gishyan |
Shirak Marzpetaran - Federation of Youth Clubs in Armenia |
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Belarus |
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Mikalai Kalinin |
Union of Belarussian Schools |
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Ruslan Akulenka |
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Belgium |
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Claire Morvan |
SALTO-YOUTH Participation RC |
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Croatia |
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Danijela Lovric |
Youth Centre for non-formal education-Creators, not consumers |
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France |
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Julie Mercier |
ARPOMT |
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Alexandra Boudia |
Association ATMF (Association des Travailleurs Maghrébins de France) |
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Georgia |
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Ana Pilauri |
Youth Association Droni |
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Hungary |
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Angel Ivanov |
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Iceland |
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Karl Njalsson |
The Icelandic Boy and Girl Scout Association |
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Elmar Orri Gunnarsson |
The Icelandic Boy and Girl Scout Association |
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Italy |
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Marianna Kosic |
School for Peace – EIP Slovenia Center for Citizenship Education |
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Federico Gaviano |
TDM 2000 International |
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Romania |
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Radu Oprea |
Smart Development Center |
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Serbia |
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Zorka Milosevic |
Kancelarija za mlade Grada Sombora (Youth Office of Sombor) |
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Spain |
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Demetrio Gomez |
Federation of European Roma Young People |
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UK |
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Bilal Hassam |
Toni Blair Faith Foundation Forum of European MuslimYouth and Student Organisations |
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Nyakueth Wako |
The Voices of Young Refugees in Europe |
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Ukraine |
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Petro Burlachenko |
NGO « Allience of Roma of Cherkaschyny » |
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Facilitator |
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Alexandra Raykova, Bulgaria |
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Lecturer |
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Momodou Sallah, United Kingdom |
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Documentalist |
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Daniela Juric, Croatia |
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Council of Europe |
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Joanne Hunting, Co-Secretary to the Culture and Education Committee Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
Rui Gomes, Directorate of Youth and Sport, Head of Education and Training Division Nadine Lyamouri –Bajja, Directorate of Youth and Sport Educational Advisor Nicoleta Dumitru, Directorate of Youth and Sport Project Assistant |
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Seminar Gender Equality in Youth Projects
Strasbourg, 23-27 May
The main aim of this seminar was to share ideas and experiences on how gender equality can be promoted and mainstreamed in youth projects and develop recommendations on how to ensure gender equality in youth work with young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
The objectives of the seminar:
- To identify challenges young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods face in
relation to gender equality;
- To explore current trends of gender mainstreaming in youth work;
- To exchange experiences and good practices of gender mainstreaming in
youth projects and youth work in general;
- To explore ways of ensuring gender equality in youth projects with and by
young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods;
- To analyse and make proposals on how the principles of gender equality in
youth work with young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods can be
implemented in European youth policy.
Output/Results
The participants of the seminar went through the process of identifying challenges to gender equality young people face in disadvantaged neighbourhoods nowadays. After this, they shared different practices on how these challenges can be addressed through youth work or community programmes. The sharing session and the input from invited guests on practices and gender mainstreaming led to the development of concrete recommendations on how gender equality can be promoted and mainstreamed in working with young people coming from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Participants were also introduced to the work of the Council of Europe in the area of gender equality, which allowed them to develop recommendations and put them in the context of the organisation.
Follow-up
The participants evaluated the seminar very positively. The recommendations developed by the participants will be taken by the team responsible for the implementation of the ENTER Project and will feed the overall recommendations from the project. The recommendations will be send to different stakeholders, such as Committee of Ministers, the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Europe and different Directorates of the Council of Europe.
List of participants |
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Albania |
Ramizi Mirjeta |
Equity in Governance Project |
Armenia |
Grigoryan Kristina |
“Skills” NGO of Women with Special Needs |
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AZERBAIJAN |
Asgarov Agshin |
Human Rights in the XXI Century |
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BELGIUM |
Depierreux Florence |
Les Scouts |
Bulgaria |
Raykova Alexandra |
FERYP |
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Croatia |
Lovric Danijela |
Youth Centre for non-formal Education – Creators not consumers |
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cyprus |
Christou Georgina |
Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies |
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France |
Raihani Badia |
Au-dèla des Ponts |
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Aouir Fadela |
Centre Sociale et Culturel Papin |
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Georgia |
Katsitadze Tamar |
IDP Women Association “Consent” |
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Greece |
Drosopoulou Mary |
United Societies of Balkans |
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Hungary |
Gonzalez Szandra |
Human Rights Initiative |
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Ireland |
Dooley Dympna |
Fishbowl Youth |
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Italy |
Marfoq Mohamed |
Liberi Tutti |
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Gianello Guida Marta |
Persefone |
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Lithuania |
Celiesius Kazimieras |
Lithuanian Liberal Youth |
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Moldova |
BURUIANA MARIANA |
Ministry for Youth and Sport |
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Portugal |
Araujo Miguel |
Portuguese National Youth Council |
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Amorim Dos Santos Dynka |
Cidadaos Do Mundo/Bue Fixe |
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Russian Federation |
Enginoeva Tamila |
Branch Office of “International Rescue Committee inc” |
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Serbia |
Puric Selena |
Centre for Empowermen, Education and Connecting of Youth |
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Spain |
Obreja Simona |
SOS Racismo Madrid and SRSP Society |
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The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
Elez Bislim |
Association of Citizens Sumnal |
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Sakip Ramiza |
Forum of European Roma Young People |
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Turkey |
Bayhan Esra |
TOG Community Volunteers |
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UK |
Croot Zoe |
Derby Equality and Human Rights Youth Network |
TEAM OF TRAINERSGrzywnowicz Monika, Sweden |
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LECTURER Prof. Annie Cornet, Belgium Banafshe Hejazi, Sweden |
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DOCUMENTALIST Evrard Gisele , Spain |
Directorate of Youth and Sport,Council of Europe |
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Rui Gomes Head of Education and Training Division Nadine Lyamouri - Bajja Educational Advisor European Youth Centre Strasbourg GRZEMNY DARIUSZ Educational Advisor European Youth Centre Strasbourg |
Seminar on access of young people to social rights: youth policy approaches and responses
Strasbourg, 30 November – 4 December 2010
The seminar aimed at identifying, reviewing and prioritising main issues and proposals to be taken up for a policy recommendation by the Committee of Ministers to the Member States and other areas of youth policy on social inclusion and access to social Rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
The objectives of the seminar were:
- To review the results of the ENTER! seminars and the Long Term training Course (LTTC) and extract the main outcomes to be integrated into a policy document;
- To take stock of the work of the Directorate of Social Cohesion and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in relation to access to social rights of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods;
- To discuss amongst practitioners, researchers and policy makers the priority issues and areas of intervention of youth policy on access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods;
- To identify ways of linking the experience of the Council of Europe in the field of Human Rights and Social Rights to a policy document and an explanatory memorandum on the access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods;
- To provide some input to the conceptual and practical development of the ENTER! project on access to social rights of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods;
- To propose ways through which youth policy and youth work can further contribute to access to social rights of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods ;
- To further develop cross-sectorial cooperation between the Congress, DGIII and the DYS.
Outputs/Results
The seminar produced concrete recommendations on the access to social rights in order to contribute to the work on drafting guidelines and policy recommendations resulting from the ENTER! project.
The seminar was also an excellent opportunity to brieng together a variety of partners and stakeholders of the Enter! project, including local authorities, experts in social cohesion, youth researchers and youth workers.
The seminar confirmed the value and opportunity of the Enter! project and its human rights-based approach to exclusion, discrimination and violence.
Various examples of local projects and policies confirmed the importance of this approach and of basing future interventions on uncompromising rights of children and young people, cross-sectoral and pluridisciplinary partnerships and on youth participation.
The seminar participants elaborated also a series of proposals to be part of the future recommendation, including:
- The relation between social rights (as in the European Social Charter) and young people in disadvantaged neigbourhoods;
- The role fo local authorities, including a necessary articulation with the resolution of the Congress on the Integration of Young People from Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods (October 2010)
- A comprehensive view on the challenges to access to social rights in Europe today;
- The relation between youth policy, youth work and youth research and the principles and objectives for youth work intervention in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
Several proposals were also made about the possible forllow-up of the recommendation and of the Enter! project beyond 2011.
The seminar was also very useful in directly associating representatives of local authorities and of other European and national partners for the project, including the Salto Resource Centres and the Open Soceity Institute.
Follow-up
The seminar achieved all of its aims and objectives.
At the end of the second year of the Enter! project, the policy framework of the project is clear and so are the approaches for youth work and youth policy interventions (which were ''validated'' by the seminar participants).
This ground is thus set for the final stages of the project in 2011:
- The setting up of inter-sectoral working group to draft the recommendation;
- The integration of the seminar results in the work of the youth workers taking part in the long-term training course for youth workers;
- The preparation of the ''Enter! Youth Congress'' bringing together some 150 young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods so that they give their input on the draft recommendation and other policy measures proposed;
- The evaluation and follow-up of the project.
A particular attention will be paid to the cooperation with the Congress, possibly in the form of a joint meeting with youth workers and the participation of the Current Affairs Committee in the Enter! Youth Congress.
The involvement of the secretariat of the European Social Charter in some activities will also be considered, namely in view of the 50th anniversary of the European Social Charter.
DJS/LTTC ENTER Sem/2010/NLB/3 Strasbourg, 1 December 2010
An inter-sectoral project of the Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe for the development of youth work and youth policy responses to exclusion, discrimination and violence affecting young people in multicultural disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
List of Participants
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Surname |
First Name |
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Sending Organisation |
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DUFOUR |
Thierry |
BELGIUM |
Excused |
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GEUDENS |
Tony |
BELGIUM |
SALTO Inclusion |
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MORVAN |
Claire |
BELGIUM |
SALTO Youth Participation |
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RAYKOVA |
Alexandra |
BULGARIA |
LTTC ENTER! TEAM |
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TISHEVA |
Tania |
BULGARIA |
LTTC Participant Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation |
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VIDEVA |
Diyana |
BULGARIA |
Regional Directorate for Social Assistance |
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AOUIR |
Fadela |
France |
LTTC Participant Centre Sociale et Culturel Papin |
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BENHAKI |
Abdel |
FRANCE |
City of Mulhouse |
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HBILA |
Chafik |
FRANCE |
RésO Villes |
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MATEI |
Romina |
FRANCE |
Youth Express Network |
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MOREAU |
Pierre-Luc |
FRANCE |
Conseiller d’éducation populaire jeunesse |
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RIDDE |
Alexis |
FRANCE |
CDEJ (Excused) |
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UYTTERSPROT |
Pieter-Jan |
FRANCE |
LTTC ENTER! TEAM |
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OHANA FORBRIG |
Yael |
GERmANY |
LTTC ENTER! TEAM |
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TILLMANN |
Frank |
GERMANY |
German Youth Institute Research Group on Youth in Transition |
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KREZIOS |
Athanasios |
GREECE |
LTTC ENTER! TEAM |
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JOYCE |
Fiona |
IRELAND |
LTTC Participant Canal Communities Regional Youth Service |
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FORNACA |
Matteo |
ITALY |
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VITAGLIANO OSHIRO PONCE |
Lorena |
ITALY |
Associazione Equal |
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ZUNNUI |
Maria Grazia |
ITALY |
Comune di Torino, Settore Rigenerazione Urbana e Integrazione |
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SINGH |
Currun |
The NETHERLANDS |
Institute of Social Studies |
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SONNEVELDT |
Ton |
The NETHERLANDS |
Open Society Foundations |
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RAZUMOV |
Alexander |
RUSSIA |
Researcher |
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ALEKSOSKI |
Aleksandar |
SERBIA |
Liberal Democratic Party Human Rights Department |
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MILOSEVIC |
Zorka |
SERBIA |
Municipality of Sombor Youth Office |
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RAMBERG |
Ingrid |
SWEDEN |
Mangkulturellt Centrum |
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ARSENOVA |
Daniela |
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
Local Councillor |
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SAKIP |
Ramiza |
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
Advisory Council Representative |
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VASILEVSKA |
Biljana |
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
LTTC Participant Centre for Human Rights “AMOS” Bitola |
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AYNSLEY |
David |
UNITED KINGDOM |
Children’s Trust Cornwall |
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SALLAH |
Momodou |
UNITED KINGDOM |
De Montfort University, Youth and Community Development Division |
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RAPPORTEUR |
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CHUPINA |
Karina |
GERmANY |
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LECTURERS |
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SCHMITT |
Marie-José |
FRANCE |
NGO Conference of the Council of Europe |
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O’KELLY |
Kevin |
IRELAND |
European Trade Union Institute |
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VAN HEE |
Jan |
Belgium |
Flemish Community Agency for socio-cultural work for youth and adults |
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COOK |
Alison |
UNITED KINGDOM |
Member of the Current Affairs Committee of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe |
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COUNCIL OF EUROPE |
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BOPP |
Karl-Friedrich |
Directorate of Social COHESION |
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YOUNGS |
Lindsay |
Directorate of Social COHESION |
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MARCHENKOV |
Dimitri |
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities |
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HUNTING |
Joanne |
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities |
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EVRARD |
Gisele |
YOUTH PARTNERSHIP |
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BRIGA |
Elisa |
YOUTH PARTNERSHIP |
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BUNJES |
Ulrich |
Directorate of YOUTH & sport |
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GOMES |
Rui |
Directorate of YOUTH & sport |
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LYAMOURI-BAJJA |
Nadine |
Directorate of YOUTH & sport |
Enter! Youth Meeting
Strasbourg, 14-18 September 2011
The Enter! Youth Meeting gathered young people, youth workers, youth researchers, policy makers and representatives of the project partners with the aim to provide them with the opportunity and the space to voice their opinions, and share their experiences about access to social rights in Europe as a contribution to the development of youth policies in the Council of Europe.
The objectives of the Meeting:
- to share realities and collect experiences of young people affected by the issues of violence, exclusion and discrimination in disadvantaged neighbourhoods
- to engage young people into dialogue with the Council of Europe and discuss together the issue of access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods
- to create opportunities for the participants to learn about social rights in Europe by associating the event with the 50th anniversary of the European Social Charter
- to take stock of the experience of young people involved in the projects run within Enter! long-term training course as a contribution to the planning of the second phase of the Enter! project
- to discuss priority areas of intervention of youth policy on access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods
- to provide input to draft policy recommendations for the Committee of Ministers on access to social rights of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
The Enter! Youth Meeting was a culmination of a three-year Enter! Project on access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods developed by the Directorate of Youth and Sport.
Outputs/Results
During the meeting participants shared their realities on access to social rights and presented ideas on how to address the challenges they face in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. They drafted the message to the Council of Europe and worked on recommendation on access to social rights for all young people.
The Enter! Youth Meeting was a culmination of a three-year Enter! Project on access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods developed by the Directorate of Youth and Sport. It gathered young people who come from disadvantaged neighbourhoods and for whom it was the first time to participate in an evant organised in the Council of Europe. The meeting provided for genuine youth participation in policy making.
Follow-up
The message to the Council of Europe drafted during the meeting will be forwarded to the Joint Council on Youth that meets in October 2011 and later to the Committee of Ministers. The recommendation on access to social rights for young people - a result of a three-year project - will be discussed during the meeting of the expert group that will finalise it. The recommendation will be sent to the Committee of Ministers for adpotion.
Participants |
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Albania |
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Rifat Demalija Doriana Gjuta Vladimir Gashi Biba Besmir Aida Selmanaj |
Organisation’s name:"Youth in Free Initiative" organisation |
Armenia |
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Karen Mkhitaryan Hasmik Karapetyan Ani Dokhoyan Narek Pahlevanyan Gayane Grigoryan |
Organisation’s name:Caucasian Institute for Peace Problems Research -CIPPR |
Azerbaijan |
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Agshin Asgarov Rufat Shamsiyev Ruslan Bakhisov Oktay Amanullayev |
Organisation’s name:Human Rights in the XXI Century-Azerbaijan
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Belarus |
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Igor Zagumionnov Aksana Lediadz Raman Maroz Yuliya Zykava Maxim Weise |
Organisation’s name:SCAF Youth Center |
Belgium |
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Lysiane Schmitz Doneta Krasniqui Adelina Sadiku Demiri Fatlume Omar Beysoultanov |
Organisation’s name: Ville de Namur |
Bulgaria |
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Tania Tisheva Georgi Dimitrov Daniela Kanalieva Diana Borisova Yanko Georgiev Antonia Fileva Radeva |
Organisation’s name: Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation |
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Estonia |
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Merli Antsmaa Annika Urbel Janely Rohumagi Glen Liventaai Madis Karlson |
Organisation’s name: Eesti Erinoorsootöö Ühing noOR |
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Finland |
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Samiuela Elone Mia Mendolin Fiona Elone Christian Angelov Yasmine Medarhri |
Organisation’s name: City of Helsinki Youth Department |
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France |
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Fadela Aouir Chafik Sellimi Sarah Belmedi Myriam Belmedi Farid Djellouli Hanza Haridi Inan Renkilay Anas Fathi |
Organisation’s name: Centre Sociale et Culturel Papin |
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Alexandra Boudia |
Organisation’s name : Association ATMF (Association des Travailleurs Maghrébins de France) |
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Remadi Feriel Faiza Smahi Audrey Meraud Hind Loussahi |
Organisation’s name : ACCOORD |
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Badia Loukili-Raihani Aicha Meneceur Halimi Meneceur Nacira Djeddid Stephanie Pierrot |
Organisation’s name : Au-delà des Ponts |
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Julie Mercier |
Organisation’s name : AROMPT |
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Moustapha Bouzait Amid Khelifa Morgan Muller Ceyvat El Bayrak Alvine Aline Marky Raharison Geng Geng Aedl Valakadfi Samir Ajouaoui Kader Keberi |
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Rémy Bougmiha Othman Mejri |
Organisation’s name : Assemblée des Jeunes |
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Greece |
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Mary Drosopoulos Elisavet Papadopoulou Konstantina Loutridou |
Organisation’s name: United Societies of Balkans
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Georgia |
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Maka Bibileishvili Chargeishvili Sulkhan Nodar Tsereteli |
Organisation’s name: Human Development Center |
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Ireland |
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Fiona Joyce Claire McAlinden Emer Corcoran Rachel Reid Michelle Fay |
Organisation’s name: Canal Communities Regional Youth Service |
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Italy |
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Christian Meloncelli Alexander Benitez Daniel Duce |
Organisation’s name: Consorzio Sociale Agorà |
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Lithuania |
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Gintare Gedrimaite Paulius Kazakevicius Raminta Kezelyte |
Organisation’s name: National Institute for Social Integration |
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Montenegro |
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Iva Celanovic Jelena Strugar Miranda Marinkovic |
Organisation’s name: Forum MNE (Forum of youth and non formal education) |
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Portugal |
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Dynka Amorim Dos Santos Nasya Amorim dos Santos Rosa Nelson Celinha Monteiro Ana Filgueiras |
Organisation’s name: Cidadaos Do Mundo/Bué Fixe |
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Romania |
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Cristian Bobocea Loredana Monenciu Daniel |
Organisation’s name: The Cross Border Development Association |
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Russian Federation |
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Fransua Tulikunkiko Kristina Botkina Tatiana Pasman Valeriya Krivosheya Anastasia Khabarova |
Organisation’s name : Organisation humanitaire de la Region de Pskov "Heureuse Enfance" |
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Serbia |
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Suzana Kaplanovic Nikola Pavlovic Marko Milovac Vesna Zagorac |
Organisation’s name: Red Cross Belgrade |
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Spain |
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Elisa Michelon Nikola Pavlovic Marko Milovac Vesna Zagorac |
Organisation’s name: Casal dels Infants per l’accio Social als Barris |
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Sweden |
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Rami Al-Khamisi Greta Thurfjell Vanja Bolme Nina Ismail Sewit Senai |
Organisation’s name: Megafonen |
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The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
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Elez Bislim Elena Nesovska Sibel Bajram Shiva Sali Afrodita Rakipovska |
Organisation’s name: Association of Citizens Sumnal
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Sasho Kochankovski Teodora Mishevska Viki Peeva Angela Pupkovska Biljana Bejkovska |
Organisation’s name: Centre for Human Rights “AMOS” Bitola |
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Eleonora Poposka Bekir Muamedi Kenan Osman Aska Sinani Sarita Redzepova |
Organisation’s name: |
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United Kingdom |
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David Aynsley Shanna Dawes Jade Carter |
Organisation’s name: Childrens Trust Cornwall |
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Ukraine |
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Tetiana Bosyk Kateryna Havryliuk |
Organisation’s name: Volodymyrets District Public Youth Organisation “Special Youth” |
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Preparatory Group / Le groupe préparatoire |
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Pieter Jan Uyttersprot Consultant trainer France Athanasios (Sakis) Krezios Consultant trainer Greece Ilaria Esposito Advisory Council on Youth UK Thierry Dufour European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ) Belgium Sara Ulfhielm European Youth Forum Belgium Brigitte Ludman Consultant trainer France |
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Experts / Les experts |
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Nadine Lyamouri-Bajja Consultant Trainer France Alexandra Raykova Consultant trainer Bulgaria
Matteo Fornaca Consultant trainer Italy Gisele Evrard Documentalist Belgium Filippa Menezes General rapporteur Portugal |
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City of Strasbourg / La Ville de Strasbourg |
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Sihabi Soumiya Municipal Councillor |
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Council of Europe / Le Conseil de l’Europe |
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Committee of Ministers / Comité des Ministres |
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Kostyantyn |
Gryshchenko |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine / Ministre des Affaires Etrangères d’Ukraine |
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Parliamentary Assembly / l'Assemblée parlamentaire |
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André |
Schneider |
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The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe / Le Congrès des pouvoirs locaux et régionaux du Conseil de l’Europe |
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Eunice |
Campbell Clark |
Rapporteur on the integration of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods / rapporteur sur l'intégration des jeunes des quartiers défavorisés |
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Joint Council on Youth / Le Conseil mixte pour la jeunesse |
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Antonia |
Wulff |
Chairperson of the Joint Council on Youth / présidente du Conseil mixte pour la jeunesse |
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Secretariat of the European Social Charter / Secretariat général de la Charte sociale européenne |
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Régis |
Brillat |
Executive Secretary to the European Committee of Social Rights / Secrétaire exécutif du Comité européen des droits sociaux |
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Directorate General of Education, Culture and Heritage, Youth and Sport / La Direction générale de l’éducation, de la culture et du patrimoine, de la jeunesse et du sport |
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Gabriella |
Battaini |
Director General / Directrice générale |
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Directorate of Education and Languages in the Council of Europe / La Direction de l'Education et des Langues, Conseil de l'Europe |
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Ólöf |
Ólafsdóttir |
Director / Directrice |
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Directorate of Youth and Sport / La Direction de la jeunesse et du sport |
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Ralf-René |
Weingartner |
Director / Directeur |
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Ulrich |
Bunjes |
Head of Youth Department/ chef du service de la jeuesse |
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Rui |
Gomes |
Head of Education and Training Division / Chef de Division de l’Education et de la Formation |
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Mara |
Georgescu |
Educational Advisor / Conseiller pédagogique |
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Menno |
Ettema |
Educational Advisor / Conseiller pédagogique |
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Ruxa |
Pandea |
Educational Advisor / Conseiller pédagogique |
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Dariusz |
Grzemny |
Project Co-ordinator of the Enter! Youth Meeting/ Coordonnateur du Projet du Enter! Rencontre de Jeunes |
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Joanne |
Hunting |
Co- Secretary to the Current Affairs Committee Congress of Local and Regional Authorities/ Co-Secrétaire de la Commission des questions d'actualités Congrès des pouvoirs locaux et régionaux du Conseil de 'Europe |
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Jackie |
Lubelli |
Assistant/Assistante |
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Nisi-Masa (European Network of Young Cinéma) / Nisi-Masa (Réseau Européen de jeune cinéma) |
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Message to the Council of Europe from Enter ! Youth Meeting
We, the participants of the Enter! Youth Meeting, want to share our experiences and views about the access to social rights for all young people. Sharing similar experiences of growing up in Europe, many of us in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, we want to highlight the difficulties young people have in accessing their social rights.
All young people in Europe today should grow up and live under the protection of the Council of Europe’s human rights system. The 50th anniversary of the European Social Charter is an opportunity to make it more effective for the future generations. As active and committed young people, we are concerned about the living conditions and prospects for many young people across Europe today, especially those whose human rights are most threatened or denied, such as young people living in segregated and disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
United by similar needs and expectations caused by the stage of life we are in, young people form a group in society that needs specific political attention. This is not always recognised and we are seldom seen as political partners in decision-making that concerns our situation. Instead, we are often portrayed in negative terms, seen as the problem rather than part of the solution. This is wrong!
We are united also by the experiences of failed policies and more importantly by our daily local actions; we need your help in support through the implementation of tangible and long-term measures for and by young people. Allow us and the future generations to fully enjoy our social rights!
Recognise us, for we're the solution
We are committed to making a positive change in our communities; we expect the Council of Europe and its member states to be equally committed to improving the access to social rights for all young people through:
1. Implementing sustainable youth policies at local and national level that are based on social rights
2. Raising the attention of member states to the challenges faced by young people in accessing their social rights and to call upon them to seriously address them
3. Regular and consistent monitoring of the obstacles young people face in accessing their human rights at local, national and European level, notably through national youth policy reviews, and involving non-governmental youth organisations
4. Realising and valuing the potential and creativity of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, including in the artistic, social, and cultural fields
5. Setting up and supporting local youth councils and youth advisory mechanisms as examples of good practice and to ensure democratic participation as well as the involvement of local authorities
6. Facilitating closer communication and cooperation between decision-makers and young people
7. Providing human rights education through formal and non-formal education, including accessible and decentralised information about the rights in the European Social Charter
8. Securing the right to free education, through the provision of quality education and vocational training for all - regardless of legal status - advise and counselling for young people and the democratic governance of schools
9. Ensuring that all schools are a supportive environment for learning and free from violence
10. Providing quality and affordable public services, especially in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, including free health care, affordable housing, access to water and sanitation
11. Paying special attention to gender-based discrimination, particularly the obstacles to the equal participation of young women
12. Effectively addressing discrimination, stigma and prejudices that young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods face, including the combined effects of multiple discriminations
13. Adopting specific measures to secure the rights of young people with disabilities and particularly vulnerable groups such as Roma, the homeless, offenders and those in care institutions
14. Paying particular attention to ensuring social rights of young undocumented migrants, asylum-seekers, internal displaced people and refugees
15. Launching a Europe-wide youth campaign against all forms of discrimination and racism
16. Promoting and creating opportunities for intercultural and interreligious dialogue and exchange in public spaces such as schools, community, culture, leisure and sport centres
17. Addressing the causes of exclusion and violence through prevention, not punishment and repression
18. Recognising the role of youth work and of young people in promoting social rights and providing accessible funding and support for their projects through simplified procedures
19. Developing specific programmes for employment and entrepreneurship of young people
20. Promoting and supporting youth mobility programmes addressed to young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
Youth meetings like the one we have attended at the European Youth Centre are exceptional learning opportunities. The outcomes of the Enter! project need to be consolidated and followed up. More young people in Europe should benefit from projects and meetings like this.
Exclusion, violence and discrimination are not inevitable.
Draft recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods
(Revised 16 November 2011)
The Committee of Ministers, in accordance with Article 15.b of the Statute of the Council of Europe,
Considering the aim of the Council of Europe to achieve greater unity between the member states, in particular by promoting a common youth policy.
Having regard to:
§ The Revised European Social Charter, in particular its Article 1 ( The Right to Work), Article 7 (The Right of children and young people to protection), Article 9 (The right to vocational guidance), Article 10 ( The right to vocational training), Article 11 (The right to protection of health), Article 15 (The rights of person's with disabilities to independence, social integration and participation in life of the community), Article 17 (The right of children and young people to social, legal and economic protection), Article 21 (The right to information and consultation), Article 30 (The right to social protection against poverty and social exclusion) and Article 31 (The right to housing) (ETS No. 35).
§ The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom (ETS No. 5), in particular its Article 14 that prohibts discrimination on any ground
Recalling Resolution (2008)23 of the Committee of Ministers on the youth policy of the Council of Europe
Recalling the General Policy Recommendation No.13 CRI(2011)37 of the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance on Combating Anti-Gypsyism and Discrimination Against Roma
Recalling the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education
Recalling the following recommendations of the Committee of Ministers to the member states:
§ Recommendation (2003)8 on the promotion and recognition of non-formal education/learning of young people
§ Recommendation (2004)13 on the participation of young people in local and regional life
§ Recommendation (2006) 14 on citizenship and participation of young people in public life
§ Recommendation CM/Rec(2011)9 on fostering social mobility as a contribution to social cohesion
Recalling the following recommendations of the Parliamentary Assembly:
§ Recommendation 1437(2000) on non-formal education
§ Recommendation 1864(2009) on Promoting the participation of young people in decisions affecting them
§ Recommendation 1978 (2011) Towards a European Framework Convention on Youth Rights
Having regard to the following texts adopted by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities:
§ [The final Declaration of the Conference on young people, actors in their towns and regions (Krakow, 7-8 March 2002)]
§ The Revised European Charter on the Participation of young people in Local and Regional life
§ Resolution 319(2010) on the integration of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods
Having regard to the Declaration and Action Plan adopted by the 3rd Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe in Warsaw in 2005 which stated that the Council of Europe will further develop its unique position in the youth field.
Having regard to The Strasbourg Declaration on Roma adopted by the Committee of Ministers CM (2010) 133 on 20 October 2010 in which the member states of the Council of Europe agreed to adopt and effectively implement anti-discrimination legislation, including in the field of employment, access to justice, the provision of goods and services, including access to housing and key public services, such as health care and education
Having regard to the Final Declaration adopted by the 5th Conference of European ministers responsible for youth in Bucharest (27-29 April1998), in particular to the references pertaining to youth participation and active citizenship, non-formal education and integration into society and social cohesion.
Having regard to the Final Declaration adopted by the 6th Conference of European Ministers responsible for youth in Thessaloniki ( 7-9 November 2002), in particular to the references pertaining to the access of young people, notably those from disadvantaged groups, to information which concerns them and to encourage the development of national youth policies based on general common principles and involving young people and their organisations as much as possible in the elaboration of these policies.
Having regard to the Final Declaration “The future of the Council of Europe youth policy: AGENDA 2020” adopted by the 8th Conference of European Ministers responsible for youth in Kyiv ( 10-11 October 2008), where the ministers express their determination to pursue the objective of ensuring young people’s access to quality education and training, to decent work and living conditions, as well as developing the conditions to enable them to contribute to the development of society.
Bearing in mind the work carried out by the Council of Europe youth sector to promote human rights, social inclusion and active participation of young people, and in this context particularly the achievements of the Enter! project on the access of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights, which has been implemented by the youth sector of the Council of Europe from 2009 through 2011 and outcomes of which are the basis of this recommendation.
Underlining that the exercise by young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods of their fundamental human rights and their access to quality education, employment, decent living conditions, transport, health care, culture, technological innovations are a prerequisite for their inclusion and participation in society;
Recognising the role of young people and youth organisation in promoting social rights and contributing to social cohesion;
Being aware of the increased risk of vulnerability of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, especially young Roma people, young migrants, young people of minority background and those dealing with the consequences of poverty.
Being aware of the social determinants of health, in particular the relationship between poverty and the mental and physical health and development of young people;
Bearing in mind the work of young people who participated in the Enter! project on the access of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights and their direct contribution to its outcomes
Preoccupied by the increased degradation of the social situation of young people, particularly in the context of the ongoing demographic changes throughout Europe and the financial and economic crises affecting European countries;
1. Recommends that the governments of member states develop and implement sustainable, evidence-based public policies which take into consideration the specific situation and needs of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. These policies should aim to prevent and eradicate poverty and social exclusion, and to combat the discrimination in access to their social rights through:
a) Improving the living conditions of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, by securing accessible, affordable and youth-friendly public services and other measures in the fields of:
(i). Education and training
(ii). Employment
(iii). Health
(iv). Housing
(v). Information and counselling
(vi). Sports, leisure and culture
b) Breaking down segregation affecting disadvantaged neighbourhoods and isolated rural communities, while promoting social inclusion;
c) Promoting meaningful opportunities and programmes for consultation and participation of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in all matters related to urban planning and management of their living environment;
d) Ensuring that all young people are considered a full part of society and of the communities in which they live, and are able to exercise their role as active citizens, regardless of ability, age, cultural background, gender and sexual identity, lifestyle, religious and political affiliations, postal code/living area and ethnicity or any other status, particularly for Roma young people and their families;
f) Recognising and supporting the role of youth work, youth workers and youth organisations in preventing discrimination, social exclusion and marginalisation of young people and promoting their citizenship notably through non-formal education;
g) Developing gender-sensitive approaches in the development and implementation of youth policies in disadvantaged neighbourhoods and supporting in particular the capacity-building and participation of young women;
h) Preventing all forms of violence in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, notably gender-based violence;
2. Recommends that the governments of the member states take into consideration and encourage local and regional authorities to take into consideration the guidelines included in the Appendix when formulating and implementing their policies;
3. Recommends that the governments of the member states report regularly on the implementation at national, regional or local level of the recommendation, including its appendix, in their reports.
4. Recommends that the member states ensure that this recommendation, including its appendix, is translated and disseminated as widely as possible, including young people using youth friendly ways of communication.
5. Asks the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to bring this recommendation to the attention of the governments of State Parties to the European Cultural Convention that are not members of the Council of Europe.
Appendix I
Guidelines for the Implementation of Recommendations
These guidelines are meant to offer approaches to developing better outcomes for young people with difficult access to social rights, especially those from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The recommendations seek to offer governments and local authorities a framework to challenge barriers faced by young people in all aspects of social and economic life through continual work on social inclusion and encouragement of member states to adopt consistent measures to ensure social rights for young people, especially those from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
National youth institutions and youth ministries need to take a leading role and ensure that youth policy development is declaration of their commitment to it young people, particularly those who are socially disadvantaged and at risk of exclusion, marginalisation and stigmatisation. National youth agencies and youth ministries should incorporate within their youth policy framework the recommendations. They should consult with local and regional authorities and young people in implementing the recommendations through cross-sectoral and inter-agency partnerships. The promotion of these recommendations must happen centrally and primarily from national youth institutions and youth ministries with the partnership of local and regional authorities and the involvement of youth organisations.
Youth policy initiatives need to be monitored and progress recorded. Central, local and regional authorities need to ensure that implemented youth policy retains the focus and intention of the recommendations. National, local and regional authorities should be encouraged to seek and use evidence based policy in the youth field and to also work in partnership with other member states in developing pilot projects and youth policy initiatives. Examples of good practice should be gathered and further disseminated. Youth organisations and youth workers should develop partnerships on the local and regional level as to ensure the social rights of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Partnerships with educational institutes, chambers of commerce, trade unions, health organisations and local authority departments which aim to strengthen the holistic response to the problems faced by young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Most importantly they must continue to advocate on behalf of young people and to work continuously to ensure that the voice of the must disenfranchised and marginalised young people are heard, reached and are given the opportunity to speak and explain their experiences and realities.
The recommendations offer public authorities clear approaches to alleviate pressure experienced by young people due to their economic and social situations, furthermore, they are a means of informing authorities how best to invest in the future of young people as to ensure the construction of a society that is creative, dynamic and sustainable. The recommendations and guidelines are based on the experiences of youth work – notably in cooperation with local authorities – of the Enter! project on access to social rights for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods; they aim to assert that the greatest asset any state has are its young people.
a) Improving the living conditions of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, by securing accessible and affordable public services and other measures in the fields of:
(i). Education and training
(ii). Employment
1. Ensure that apprenticeship programmes, training and vocational programmes are linked to employment opportunities and have clear progression routes.
1. Ensure that internships and apprenticeships are adequately renumerated in order that they are accessible to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
2. Provide up to date information for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods on career progression and pathways, training and apprenticeships, both formal and informal, to assist the transition from school or unemployment to employment.
3. Provide work-based learning opportunities in the public sector for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to help further the development of their new skills and to give valuable experience, while increasing their confidence and employability.
5. Local authorities should work in partnership with local businesses, enterprises and trade unions, to develop work experience programmes for young people, which recognise the merit and value of non-formal education. This will increase confidence and improve employability for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
7. Create youth competency centres, clubs or groups to assist young people with CV creation, job interview preparation and assistance in attending interviews. Community centres, schools and youth centres are all venues which can be used to facilitate groups.
8. Local authorities should consider micro financing and counselling on how to use it to create social enterprises or other entrepreneurship schemes for young people (for example, cooperative), as a means of combating poverty and boosting local youth employment.
9. Local authorities, trade unions and chamber of commerce should encourage private enterprises to offer quality employment initiatives for young people. Local authorities could offer tax or financial incentives.
10.Local, regional and national authorities should commit to designing youth guarantee policy measures to ensure that no young person is out of education, training or employment longer than four months.
(iii). Health
(iv). Housing
1. Ensure that young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods have access to social housing based on their needs.
2. Young people at risk of homelessness should have their housing needs assessed with the view to create and sustain safe living arrangements. There should be “joined up thinking” between housing and social departments as to make the process simpler and youth friendly.
3. Local authority inspections on private and social housing should be carried out at the request of a young person prior to occupancy. These inspections should ensure that the accommodation is suitable and its supply of electricity/gas/water is safe to use.
4. Young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods are at greater risk of living in sub-standard and precarious privately rented accommodation, of intimidation from landlords and at risk of homelessness. Local authorities should create public information centres on housing as a means of helping young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to access and to exercise housing rights.
5. “Mixed housing schemes” should be introduced by local authorities as to create diverse communities and equal access to services, while avoiding discrimination, segregation and ghettoisation.
6. Local authorities should ensure that the lifestyle of travellers’ groups is respected, through the provision of “halting sites”. These sites should have clean water, electricity and proper sanitary services.
(v). Information and counselling
2. Counselling services should be available to young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods through health centres, youth centres, schools and other youth organisations. Information on how to access these services should be widely distributed through all means of communication, including social networks, and in a manner which is youth friendly, confidential and anonymous.
3. Ensure that all counselling services are culturally competent. Counselling staff should receive training on intercultural competence as to meet the needs of minority young people.
(vi ). Sports, leisure and culture
b) Breaking down segregation affecting disadvantaged neighbourhoods and isolated rural communities, while promoting social inclusion;
(i) “Mobile youth work” should be used to reach the must isolated and disenfranchised young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods and rural communities. This would allow youth workers to educate young people on their social rights, encourage their participation, assess their needs and advocate on their behalf.
(ii) Create non-formal education projects, for example through sport programmes, to promote dialogue, participation and understanding between different communities, neighbourhoods and rural areas. These programmes should involve the participation of young people, youth workers and youth organisations
(iii) Promote a “cross-sectoral approach” on the local and regional level to address issues that impact on young people from segregated communities, disadvantaged urban and rural neighbourhoods.
(iv) Young people living in rural communities should have the same access to public and community amenities as those found in urban areas, such as post offices, community centres and access to information and communication technologies. Where these can not be provided, access to urban amenities should be supported through the provision of a well developed rural transport service.
(v) Local authorities should look to provide rural employment and training initiatives for young people as to boost their skills base and increase the creation of local businesses and jobs.
c) Promoting meaningful opportunities for consultation and participation of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in all matters related to urban planning and management of their living environment;
(I) Ensure that the planning process is open, inclusive and transparent, inspired by the co-management system in the Youth Department of the Council of Europe, and that it considers the needs of the local neighbourhood, in particular young people. All planning should include the accessibility of public services such as schools, public transport, health centres, food outlets and leisure, sport and cultural areas. Local authorities should acknowledge the views of young people and treat them as equal partners in the planning process.
(ii) Public and youth forums, youth and sport organisation meetings and social media sites should be used as forums for young people to be consulted and informed on the urban planning process in their area. Youth workers and democratic, independent and participatory youth organisations should play a key role in creating awareness and facilitating open debate amongst young people on changes to their neighbourhood.
(iii) Local authorities should consider a general urban planning project, which would incorporate mixed social housing schemes. This urban planning project should aim to maximise the provision of public services and amenities to all young people.
(iv) Ensure the provision of facilities, such as youth or community centres, recreational and sports areas. Young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods should be consulted on how these spaces are used and organised.
(v) Fostering the involvement of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in participatory youth organisations, by providing youth organisaitons with adequate and sustainable funding and structural support.
d) Ensuring that all young people are considered a full part of society and of the communities in which they live, and are able to exercise their role as active citizens, regardless of ability, age, class, cultural background, gender and sexual identity, lifestyle, religious and political affiliations, postal code/living area and ethnicity, particularly Roma young people and their families;
(i). Promote heritage and culture as a means of facilitating wider social understanding of minority communities, to combat discrimination and to appreciate minority communities as valued members of society.
(ii). Develop youth projects aimed at the promotion of human and social rights for minority young people. All information should available in minority languages, braille, audio format and in large print; the use of information and communication technologies can be particularly helpful in this respect.
(iii) Mobile youth work, social worker services and participatory youth organisations should aim to create social cohesion and intercultural dialogue programmes between minority young people and their wider peer group with the goal of reducing stigma, discrimination and prejudice. These programmes, projects and organisations will also allow young people to describe their social realities while increasing their confidence.
(iv) Ensure accessibility to all public buildings for young people with physical disabilities, particularly health centres and schools.
(v) Ensure that Roma young people have free and open access to health services, education and housing and are supported in securing access to their social rights.
f) Recognising and supporting the role of youth work, youth workers and youth organisations in preventing discrimination, social exclusion and marginalisation of young people and promoting their citizenship notably through non-formal education;
(i) Youth workers and youth organisations should receive support from local authorities on the development, implementation and management of youth projects. Local authorities should ensure that funding procedures are simplified and easily accessible for youth workers and youth organisations.
(ii) Local authorities should appreciate and recognise youth workers experience, by consulting them on local and regional policy initiatives aimed at young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
(iii) Local authorities should support the creation of youth forums with the aim of promoting best work practices and evidence based policy approaches amongst youth worker and youth organisations.
(iv) Ensure that there is adequate funding for youth work organisations to continue to meet the needs of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
(v) Ensure funding for youth workers to continually train in an effort to best meet the needs of young people.
(g) Developing gender-sensitive approaches in the development and implementation of youth policies in disadvantaged neighbourhoods and supporting in particular the capacity-building and participation of young women;
- (I) Engage in dialogue with young men and women from disadvantaged neighbourhoods and ensure their participation in the development and implementation of policies. This will ensure that policy is responsive to their needs.
- (ii) Challenge gender stereotypes and roles through the promotion of greater gender equality and equal opportunity between men and women.
- (iii) Ensure that young mothers from disadvantaged neighbourhoods have the possibility of continuing education, training or to pursue employment through the provision of services, such as, crèche, day care facilities and bursary's for educational materials.
- (vi) Ensure that young men and women from disadvantaged neighbourhoods have a platform within youth organisations to voice issues specific to them.
§ (v) Support and fund groups for young men and women from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, which are youth – run and have a beneficial neighbourhood effect, as a means of empowering and promoting young people and youth leadership and to also build their confidence.
(h) Preventing all forms of violence in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, notably gender-based violence;
(I) Create formal and non-formal educational programmes that deal specifically with bullying, violence and gender-based violence in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. These programmes should ensure the active involvement and participation of young people.
(ii) Local authorities, police service, youth justice services and probation services should engage in dialogue with young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in identifying the reasons and solutions to violence and anti-social behaviour in their neighbourhood. This will ensure that programmes and interventions are responsive to their needs and direct in tackling violence.
(iii) Engage in dialogue with young men and women from disadvantaged neighbourhoods and ensure their participation in the development and implementation of policies in their neighbourhoods to tackle gender-based violence. This will ensure that policy is responsive to their needs.
(iv) Explore the possibility of creating a mentoring service aimed at assisting young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in gaining important life management skills.
(v) Create opportunities for girls and young women to get training in self-defence methods.
(vi) Take measures, create and support programmes and initiatives aiming at re-integration of young offenders, prevention of hate speech and hate crimes.
Glossary of Terms
Defining the Concept of Youth Policy
Youth Policy is a declaration of the commitment a country gives to its young people, especially those who are socially disadvantaged and at risk of exclusion and marginalisation. It should be based upon dialogue and mutual respectful partnerships between young people, authorities and youth actors. A youth policy shall in concrete terms, define objectives, strategies, deployment methods, target groups, timeframes, monitoring and evaluation.
Defining the Concept of Disadvantaged
As in the Enter! project, disadvantage can be defined as denied or lack of access to the tools needed for self-sufficiency and sustainability. It can be viewed as a process whereby mainstream society acts in a way that disadvantages a particular group or groups. People may find themselves disadvantaged to the extent whereby they are denied or deprived of access to and use of tools available to the majority of society. These include independence, incentive, responsibility, self-respect and respect from others, community support, health, education, information, employment, adequate financial support, capital, responsive support systems and participation.
Defining the Concept of Disadvantaged Young People
Defining disadvantaged young people as young people who are disadvantaged economically does not entirely answer the question of what it is to be a disadvantaged young person. Disadvantaged young people young people who are not participating in education, training nor employment. Disadvantaged young people are those who are ageing in foster care without adequate future plans. Disadvantaged young people can be described as those who come from an immigrant background and have limited proficiency in the host nations language, they can be does young people who are at risk of leaving secondary education without a diploma, they can be at risk of homelessness, sexual exploitation and early drug abuse. Disadvantaged young people are those who are former juvenile offender at risk of re-offending or delinquency. They are young people who are disabled and unable to access services because of special requirements and needs. Disadvantaged young people are those who are one of the must marginalised in society. Disadvantaged young people are those who are either deprived or denied the tools and supports available to mainstream society.
Defining the Concept of a Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods
Disadvantage Neighbourhoods can be an area based on identity, in so far as young people experiencing deprivation, exclusion and marginalisation in an area and who are trapped by poverty, lack of opportunities and risk of exclusion.
Moreover Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods can lack important infrastructural spaces and services for young people therefore impinging on their life chances and future development. These infrastructural spaces and services include among youth centres, schools, sports, cultural and public spaces, health centres, employment centres and training agencies as well as local enterprises and community initiatives. These neighbourhoods are often denied or overlooked in terms of community and development funding from national, regional and local authorities as well as the private sector.
Defining the concept of Citizenship
Citizenship for young people can be broadly defined as the capability for thoughtful and responsible participation in political, economic, social and cultural life. Young people learn about citizenship in a number of interconnected ways: firstly by introduction to the concepts and values underpinning citizenship in a democracy; secondly by being active citizens; and lastly by being active and responsible members of their community.
Relaying the message of citizenship to young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods requires a greater emphasis on inclusion and the overall feeling of value and self-worth a nation should afford its young citizens. Through the expansion of greater social rights and broadening the means for youth participation on cultural, economic and social levels, young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods will have the ability to develop a new capacity to reflect on their social realities and act in a manner that benefits their communities and neighbourhoods in seeking change through active citizenship and greater participation.
Defining the concept of Mobile Youth Work
Mobile youth work offers an opportunity to reach young people directly that should be applied more often in different contexts, in its forms such as street work, individual aid, group work and community work. The balance of youth work should undergo a shift approach towards “go to them” instead of “come to us” visiting “them” at home, at play, at recreation, instead of coming to “us” (youth centre, community centre or the office). The example of good practice should be found in Germany where youth workers are deployed with this principle in mind.
[1] Committee of Ministers Resolution CM/Res(2008)23 on the youth policy of the Council of Europe
[2] DJS/YR/YPI (2003) 1, March 2003, Guidelines for the implementation of the international reviews of national youth policies
[4] All reference to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.