THE RIGHT OF BEING HUMAN

KA1 _ ERASMUS+ (Youth Mobility)

The project is focused on individuals, on their rights and their inclusion in a local and international community. The idea is developed and takes place in a context where it is not simple to find a legal job, where civil, social and economic rights are often sacrificed in the name of Economy, in an area of the South of Europe full of resources but often destroyed by individualistic behaviours which originate from an economic disadvantage.

As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms in Art.1 “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”. Everyone should have the opportunities to enjoy completely his own rights as a citizen and as a human being.

Main object of the project: promoting the mobility of youth in order to create an open dialogue about human rights and the meaning of respect of each person and each culture, with a specific attention to minorities and people with fewer opportunities such as migrants, refugees and Roma Communities.

An Italian team, expert in cooperative forms of work, with the collaboration of a Moldavian team, expert in communication, will promote a deep reflection among youth workers coming from several contexts. Participants from both the Western and the Eastern side of the European Continent will be supported to have a concrete debate on cultural and political conceptions which brought to the formulation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that joins any perspective (principles recovered by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union).

The reflection will be based on non-formal and informal educative methods, combining non-formal and informal activities.

Non-formal activities: a seminar on migrations in Apulia and Salento, workshops, experts’ direct evidences on migration, a visit to the refugees camp near Copertino.

Informal activities: besides games to get to know each other, role games and group building activities, during the training, the participants will be trained by experts on photo and video making techniques and “challenged” to create their artworks dealing with human rights. Through the project, the expectation is to sensitize and to train 36 participants from 10 different countries (youth workers/operators and people who work in the youth field), of which 18 coming from the Occidental side of Europe and 18 coming from the Oriental Europe. The 18 participants coming from the Occidental side of Europe will be 6 from Italy (which is the Country where the activities will happen), 3 from France, 3 from the United Kingdom, 3 from Portugal and 3 from Austria, while the 18 participants coming from the Oriental Europe will be 6 from Moldavia, 3 from Georgia, 3 from Armenia, 3 from Belarus and 3 from Ukraine.

Results of the project: a photo gallery and 6 short films dealing with a specific human right which will be chosen by each team the group will be divided in. The results will be exposed during the Refugee Day in 2015, on June 20^th, promoted by Cooperativa Rinascita with the collaboration of the Municipality of Copertino and other no-profit organisations of the territory. The initiative will also be carried out by the other Partner Organisations of the project, in their own Countries.

Expected impact: the training will increase the awareness of the 36 participants on human rights, on sending and receiving organizations (their workers, their contexts, their beneficiaries), on the Municipality of Copertino and its citizens. The impact is also foreseen on the territories of the sending organizations, through the dissemination of the results of the project. In a long term perspective, the awareness of youth workers and people who work with youngsters on human rights and on the inclusion of disadvantaged categories could have a stronger effect on local and global policies.

Date: 2015-02-28; view: 854