EUROPEACE

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EUROPEACE

• European Project for Ethnic and Cultural Equality
• Project Presentation

SMS NSD
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CONTEXT/ NEED

• Rise of racism, discrimination, conflict
  violence across Europe
• Due to
• Inter-cultural conflict globally
• Migration of people in large numbers
• Economic conditions
• Criminality of drugs people trafficking
• Polarisation of cultural religious thought

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INITIAL RESPONSE

• Our experience to date makes us aware of the
  diverse range of circumstances facing young
  people and the increasingly cultural complexity
  of society.
• Cultural, moral and ethical issues arise which,
  if not confronted, contribute to the downward
  spiral of exclusion and alienation which can
  lead to violent behaviour and to further
  exclusion.
• This is particularly the case for young men.

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INITIAL RESPONSE contd

• An effective response requires resources,
  innovative thinking, and specific qualities and
  skills within the support staff.
• However, acting outside the organisational
  mainstream may provide freedoms, but also
  contributes to the potential exclusion or
  marginalisation of the agency itself.
• The service may be discounted or stereotyped in
  much the same ways as the clients it serves.

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INITIAL RESPONSE contd

• It is from this background and experience of
  working with the most disaffected young people
• refugees
• travellers
• those from minority ethnic groups
• those living in the most deprived communities
• those experiencing exclusion and low educational
  attainment
• that we feel we can contribute to the
  development of European Youth Policy and
  practice, while also learning from the experience
  of our European partners.

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HISTORY

• Feasibility Visit involving Norway, Slovakia,
  Serbia Montenegro, Hungary, The Netherlands
  Denmark took place in London in 2002
• Discussion as to nature of proposal for the EU
  Youth programme
• Draft proposal agreed
• Consultant engaged to support drafting of bid
• Bid submitted
• Rejection lack of funds
• Resubmitted bid 03
• Bid approved in November 04

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PROPOSAL

• The EUROPEACE network recognises that society is
  the weaker and more prone to conflict, social
  tensions and violent exclusion if discrimination
  goes unchallenged and participation is not
  facilitated.
• The EUROPEACE network will plan and deliver a
  programme of workshops and seminars each of which
  will focus on a particular theme or issue.

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Objectives

• To develop a multi agency partnership framework
  to develop and implement innovative methods of
  youth work and of the international co-operation,
  training and information related to it.
• To exchange information, through workshops, to
  produce best practice, guidance notes and to
  develop an accredited training programme for
  adults working with young people.
• Discussion and information generated by the
  network members will be publicly available
  through a web site , by canvassing support from
  other related networks, and by attracting extra
  funds to support additional development projects.
• Delivery is through a series of workshops to
  develop Practice Training Manual, Policy,
  Website, CD ROM and Final Project Report

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PARTNERS

• Bulgaria represented by Emil Buzov Step by
  Step Program Sofia
• Step by Step Program Foundation develops
  specific projects in the field of education in
  order to create democratic educational models
  which provide equal opportunities for quality
  education for everybody.
• Netherlands represented by Ismail Awil and Zeki
  Shehu of Stichting Mondiale Samenleving
  Soesterberg
• SMS is an organisation of and for refugees in
  the Netherlands. SMS was formed on the initiative
  of three refugee organisations - CRAN
  (Coordinating Council for Albanians in the
  Netherlands), Stichting DIR (an Ethiopian refugee
  organisation) and FAVON (Federation of Afghan
  Refugee Organisations in the Netherlands) and
  Kontakt der Kontinenten. SMS was founded in
  January 2002 and now has a network of about 150
  refugee organisations.

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PARTNERS

• Norway represented by Arne Tveit Bjørn
  Arnesen of Midt-Norsk Kompetansesenter for
  Atferd Trondheim
• MKA is a small organisation in central Norway,
  providing staff development to practitioners and
  institutions working in the field of children
  with social and emotional difficulties.
• Serbia
• Montenegro represented by Zorica Zivojinovic of
  Grupa 484 Belgrade
• Grupa 484 promotes values of equity and
  tolerance, supporting life in mixed communities.
• Members of ECRE SEERAN

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PARTNERS

• Slovakia represented by Eva Koncokova of
  Nadacia Skola Dokoran Bratislava
• NSD focuses on the prevention of any form of
  discrimination against the most disadvantaged
  groups of children, including children belonging
  to minorities, especially Roma, or indigenous
  communities, disabled, displaced or migrant
  children living or working on the street.
• UK represented by Brian De Lord of Pupil
  Parent Partnership Ltd London
• The Pupil Parent Partnership Ltd is a social
  inclusion project which has been developed over
  10 years and provides a multi-disciplinary,
  education and therapeutic support programme for
  the most marginalised and disaffected young
  people across West London. The company works
  towards combating exclusion in all its forms.

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CURRENT STATUS

• Project secretariat established
• 1st planning visit took place 21-23 Feb 05
• Web site has been started
• New partner, the Netherlands, has joined
• Newsletter 1st edition published
• Logo designed
• Accounting systems in place
• 1st workshop is in place 1721 June 05

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• Summary of Workplan

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Europeace Contacts

• Step by Step, Bulgaria Emil Buzov
• Emil.step_at_bitex.com
• SMS, the Netherlands Ismail Awil
• i.awil_at_sms-vluchtelingen.nl
• MKA, Norway Arne Tveit Bjorn Arnesen
• arne_at_mka.no bjorn_at_mka.no
• Grupa 484, Serbia Montenegro Zorica
  Zivojinovic
• grupa484_at_org.yu
• NSD, Slovakia Eva Koncokova
• nsd_at_nsd.sk
• PPP Ltd., UK Brian De Lord (Europeace Project
  Manager)
• bdelord_at_theppp.org.uk
• UK are the Lead Body and Secretariat for the
  project
• Contacts are Daniel Jansen djansen_at_theppp.org.uk
  
• Annette DAlton adalton_at_theppp.org.uk