Think Global, Act Local

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Think Global, Act Local

• International youth project in Europe and Latin
  America

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Participating countries

• Luxembourg United Kingdom Poland
• Guatemala Dominican Republic Chile

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Coordinating organisationTogether

• Pan-European network of youth organisations
• Promoting youth participation, European
  citizenship, volunteering, international mobility
  and intercultural learning
• Main activities
• International youth exchanges
• European voluntary service
• Training courses and seminars for youth NGOs and
  young leaders
• Youth democracy projects
• Meetings between young people and decision-makers

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Our partner organisations

• Guatemala - Asociación Pro Paz Guatemala
• Chile - Fundación Estudio para un Hermano Educere
• Dominican Republic - Esquadron de Rescate de la
  Parroquia
• Poland - Europejskie Forum Mlodziezy
• United Kingdom - Together United Kingdom

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Objectives of the project

• To promote awareness among young people and
  general public about global challenges and the
  Millennium Development Goals
• To empower young people, particularly young
  people with fewer opportunities, and give them
  tools and opportunities for active
  participation in facing global challenges
• To promote active citizenship of young people and
  specifically their global responsibility

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Objectives of the project II

• To promote mobility of young people from
  different countries and to foster mutual
  understanding between young people in different
  countries
• To foster capacity-buildings of youth NGOs active
  in the field of global challenges and facilitate
  exchange of experience and good practices between
  them
• To create a network of organisations with a
  common philosophy and aims and sustainable
  partnership leading to further follow-up projects

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Objectives of the project III

• To contribute to development of youth policies
  and youth work in relation to young people and
  global challenges
• To involve in the project young people with fewer
  opportunities and emphasize their role in helping
  to overcome global problems
• To increase employability and promote
  entrepreneurship of young people through
  concrete projects and activities in this field

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Activities

• Kick-off Meeting in Guatemala
• Regular meeting of National Project Teams
• Seminar and Study Visit in Dominican Republic
• Local pilot projects
• Online workshops through video conferences
• Job shadowing
• Evaluation meeting in Luxembourg
• Evaluation conference in Oxford
• Interactive international exhibition
• Promotion and visibility campaign

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Kick-Off Meeting in Guatemala

• December 2010
• official opening of the project
• a chance for representatives of the groups and
  NGOs to meet and discuss about all the activities
  of the project
• Building a sustainable network of youth
  organisations
• Press conference, meetings with political
  representatives, NGOs, institutions, local
  authorities, etc.

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National Project Teams

• Groups of 10-20 young global ambassadors
• Mostly young people with fewer opportunities,
  coming from vulnerable backgrounds
• Meeting regularly every month
• Discussing about global challenges and ways how
  young people can face them
• Preparing local pilot projects under the
  supervision of an experienced coach

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Seminar and Study Visit in Chile

• April 2010
• Young global ambassadors will discuss and
  reflect about their perception of global
  challenges, exchange their experience with this
  field and receive input from experts in different
  fields
• Concrete examples of projects, organisations
  and good practices in Chile
• Meetings with local NGOs, political
  representatives

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Local Pilot Projects

• Projects initiated and implemented by young
  people themselves in every country
• Centered around five action days
• May 21 - World Day for Cultural Diversity for
  Dialogue and Development
• June 5 - World Environment Day
• August 12 - International Youth Day
• September 21 - International Day of Peace
• October 17 - International Day for the
  Eradication of Poverty

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Online video conferences

• Regular online workshops about sustainable
  development, environmental problems,
  intercultural dialogue, poverty and social
  exclusion, gender equality, etc.
• An opportunity for young people from the six
  countries to meet regularly, exchange their
  experience and evaluate the activities of the
  project

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Job Shadowing

• Possibility for the young global ambassadors to
  spend three weeks working in a partner NGO in
  another country of Europe or Latin America
• Opportunity for exchange of experience and good
  practices as well as intercultural learning

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Evaluation Meeting in Luxembourg

• Eight-days-long seminar in Luxembourg that will
  bring together young representatives from all the
  national project teams to present the results of
  the project, evaluate them and reflect about the
  learning process and further follow-up

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Evaluation Conference in Oxford

• Following right after the Evaluation Meeting in
  Luxembourg
• During three days in Oxford, participants will
  have a chance to present the results of their
  pilot activities to the worlds prominent
  academics, political representatives and other
  guests
• Interesting synergy between formal and non-formal
  education

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Promotion Campaign and Visibility

• The project will be very visible both in Europe
  and Latin America
• We will create a database of 3000 stakeholders in
  the field of youth policy
• We will organise a number of press conference,
  public presentations, meetings with political
  representatives
• Internet portal about youth participation in
  facing global challenges
• Interactive international exhibition at the end
  of the project
• Publication about young people and global
  challenges, in co-operation with Oxford experts

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More information

• Luc Wendling
• l.wendling_at_wanadoo.fr
• 33 (668) 15 28 27
• Jiri Peterka
• jiri.peterka_at_together.cz
• 420 776 583450
• WWW.NETWORK-TOGETHER.EU