Diapositiva 1

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What , how and when
CONNECTING THE YOUNGER AND OLDER GENERATION TO
COOPERATE FOR MAKING THE CHANGE WITHIN THE
FRAMEWORK OF NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
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Youth in Action Programme Action 4
Youth Support Systems Sub-Action 4.4
Innovation and quality Back to the
Future
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• General Aims of Youth in Action Programme
  2007-2013
• Promote young peoples active citizenship in
  general and their European citizenship in
  particular
• Develop solidarity and promote tolerance among
  young people, in particular in order to foster
  social cohesion in the European Union
• Foster mutual understanding between young people
  in different countries
• Contribute to developing the quality of support
  systems for youth activities and the capabilities
  of civil society organisations in the youth field
• Promote European cooperation in the youth field.
  

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Youth in Action Programme 2007-2013

• The Youth in Action Programme was set up on the
  basis of the Inclusion Strategy to ensure that
  young people with fewer opportunities and those
  from less-privileged backgrounds find a role in
  the Programme.
• The Strategy defines the Youth in Action
  programme as a tool to enhance the social
  inclusion, active citizenship and employability
  of young people with fewer opportunities and to
  contribute to social cohesion.
• Young people with fewer opportunities (social,
  geographical, cultural, health related, economic)
• Non formal and informal education

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• Action 4
• is targeted at building the capacity of youth
  workers and organisations to develop quality
  activities
• by providing Civil society, youth workers and
  other actors involved in youth work with
  opportunities
• to develop the quality of support structures
• to develop co-operation and partnerships
• to promote civil participation of young people
  at European level
• to exchange youth work good practice
• to receive training
• This will strengthen the impact of European
  co-operation in the field of youth policy and
  will also support project development under the
  Youth in Action Programme

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• Sub Action 4.4
• supports projects aimed at introducing,
  implementing and promoting innovative approaches
  in the youth field.
• Namely to encourage the introduction,
  implementation and promotion of innovative and
  qualitative features in non-formal education and
  youth work. Innovative aspects may relate to
• the content
• the objectives
• the methodology applied

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What were going to realize?
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• Back to the Future
• make a sustainable change within the local
  contexts for the integration of youth with fewer
  opportunities
• promote mutual learning between young and old
  people
• empower primarily young people with fewer
  opportunities but as a result also local
  individuals and communities promoting active
  citizenship and participation.

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• makes a sustainable change within the local
  contexts for the integration of young people
• A likely situation
• Specific features of local contexts in Italy,
  Hungary, Bulgaria and Greece
• Lack of resources for youth (educational, work
  related, cultural, recreational)
• Scarce activation of local community
• Low participation of young people to the
  decision making processes
• Scarce motivation of young people in making a
  change
• Low skills of young people to plan, promote and
  run actions/solutions
• Scarce interest of the local politicians and
  decision makers in youth policies

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The vicious circle waiting for the future
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Toward a change the younger and the older
generations

• promote mutual learning between young and old
  people

• Bridging the intergeneration gap represents an
  important resource for the project. Why?
• To mobilize a part of the society which nowadays
  is losing its traditional role of guidance for
  the next generations
• To re-enable the link between old and new
  generations within a formal and structured frame
  will indirectly enhance the whole communities to
  learn from their past and open new and more
  effective channels for the local development
• Mirroring effect, Identity building and personal
  development of young people

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Toward a change the younger and the older
generation

• promote mutual learning between young and old
  people

• Elderly people are holders of personal life
  experience. What can we learn from this
  experience?
• To avoid the risk to repeat similar mistakes
• To acquire valuable information (historical,
  political, anthropological) about the origins and
  the development of our community
• To recognize in a time perspective the old and
  new obstacles for the social integration
• To better identify the resources of the
  community which must be activated

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Toward a change empower young people

• empower primarily young people but as a result
  also local individuals and communities promoting
  active citizenship and participation.

empower primarily young people Providing young
people with skills concerning   - Realizing
their own role and responsibility within the
communities - Achieving and determining a wider
perspective about their opportunities within the
local contexts (intergenerational forum) -
Learning how to set up a strategy to create new
opportunities with the support of the old
generations and the local social actors -
Setting a sustainable implementation plan of
activities and making decisions (local committee)
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Toward a change empower young people
as a result also local individuals and
communities promoting active citizenship and
participation.

• The role of local Multipliers they have the role
  to multiply the effect of the project primarily
  at local level but also at regional and national
  level.
• Initiator
• Multipliers have to take the initiative to
  organise meetings, to bring people together
• Networker
• Vital aspect of the work of a multiplier is to be
  involved in different networks, formal and
  informal as well on local, regional and national
• Motivator
• Multipliers should be aware that their role is to
  motivate people to participate and become active.
  For multipliers is essential to listening to
  other young people, analysing their needs and be
  familiar with what is important in order to
  motivate them.
• Information provider
• Multipliers should be able to give the right
  information at the right time

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• The role of the coordinators
• provide logistical and psychological support to
  their groups help them to go toward the envisaged
  goals
• keep the contacts and closely collaborate with
  the other coordinators, the project manager and
  the evaluation coordinator providing and
  receiving information and feedbacks
• facilitate and mediate the communication within
  the intergenerational forums.
• attend to provide all the information and
  documents, reports to be published in the website
  of the project

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What could happen in a community if all the
social actors Young people, Elderly people,
local government, Youth organisations Start to
cooperate and work together?
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The virtuous circle building the future
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How we do that?

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Actions

• International meetings
• Intergenerational forum
• Local committees
• Local conferences

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International meetings
Budapest Opening session methods exchange and
partnership building training sessions
evaluation meeting start up the European network
of youth initiators for social changes.
Palermo Closing session sharing the working
methods and learning about the eventual obstacles
and problems met planning next actions to carry
out concerning the network building and
development planning dissemination and
mainstreaming of the results/outcomes of the
project
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Intergenerational forum

• composed of
• young local people with fewer opportunities (20)
  identified with the help of the multipliers and
  the support of the partner organizations
• elderly people of the local community (10) who
  are interested in giving their support and
  contribution for the youth integration (all
  together 30 persons).

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Intergenerational forum
The forum gathers opinions, suggestions and
proposals of young and old generations
together. They discuss about their life stories
and conditions, considering in a time perspective
how the opportunities for the integration of
youth have changed and how could change in a next
future.
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Intergenerational forum

• Productions
• A publication of the life stories of the
  participants (old and young) focused on the
  obstacles to their integration
• A description of the causes and the determinants
  of such difficulties for the youth integration
  within the local communities through a time
  perspective.
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• A local strategy for the integration of the youth
  and for new employment opportunities
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• A list of project proposals, including main aims,
  expected outcomes, main activities, list of
  local public and private actors to be involved in
  order to ensure effectiveness and sustainability.
• All the productions will be also published on the
  website.

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Local committees

• cooperation with the local authorities and the
  social private sector (public healthcare,
  education, and employment departments, youth
  organisations which are operating within the
  communities) identified with the help partner
  organisations.
• - set up at the same time of the
  intergenerational forum
• composed of 10 persons young people (3
  persons), elderly people (3 persons),
  representatives of local authorities and the
  social private sector (4 persons)
• TASKS
• determinate the criteria for the evaluation of
  project proposals (forum productions)
• selects the proposal/s, evaluate the feasibility
  and sustainability
• elaborate and finalise the implementation
  plan/s.

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Local Conferences
4 conferences in Italy, Bulgaria, Greece and
Hungary organized by the partners addressed to
local and national experts, politicians, students
and teachers, youth organisations
leaders AIMS - spreading the outcomes achieved
in each community - channelling the innovative
contents and methodology implemented to other
youth organizations (at least 5 other youth
organizations for each country should attend the
conferences)    - promote the enlargement of the
European network of youth initiators of social
changes.
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And..... when?
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Intergenerational forums Start-up April 2008 /
end September 2008, assembled twice a month (12
sessions). Local committee Start-up April 2008
/ Finalizing proposals selections and
implementation plans by September 2008 Closing
meeting Palermo from 7th to 9th of October
2008 Local conferences Finalizing publication
of local conferences by November 2008
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Activities   Months Months Months Months Months Months Months Months Months Months Months Months
Activities   December January February March April May June July Agoust September October November
Partners involvement                        
online platform (website)                        
Networking                        
monthly breakdown reports
Evaluation process                        
Opening meeting in Budapest                        
intergenerational local forums
Setting up local committees
Forums productions and proposals
Finalizing proposals selections and implementation plans
Publishing reports and achievements in the website
Closing meeting in Palermo
Local conferences