Participants' projects - ENTER LTTC 2017-19
DERMANI Suhida
Albania
PAPIKYAN Hripsime
Armenia
The project addresses gender based discrimination and domestic violence by providing young people coming from disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Lori with the certain knowledge and skills to counter violence. They will have an opportunity to discuss their problems with specialists and to learn mechanisms and techniques of conflict management, overcoming discrimination and domestic violence.
GRIGORYAN Ashkhen
Armenia
The project emphasizes and motivates young people to participate actively in society and involves the Public Diplomacy Charitable NGO with local authority professionals. As part of the project, there will be series of activities in the field of Youth work, where young people from Syunik region will be the target group. The activities include workshops based on simulation games, role plays and other activities which will be organized for better understanding of both human rights and social rights and sharing tools for creative and effective cooperation with the local authorities.
ALIZADA Mirhabib
Azerbaijan
The project will be implemented mainly in small cities and rural areas of Azerbaijan. The main target group of the project will be young people who will take active part in non-formal education activities focused on self-development and involvement in social activities. By the end of the project, it is expected that the young participants would have developed personal soft skills, which will help to decrease the rate of youth unemployment.
MUSMIKIWABO Marie-Pierre
Belgium
The project Peace of heART, we will work with youngsters from disadvantaged areas in Brussels and the local authorities to create a place for cultural expression. During a 5 days residential seminar, they will learn about social rights, the tools and skills to be agent of change and at the end of the seminar they will have an exhibition with their art (in which they express their feelings about their everyday life, needs and how they see the future). After that we will continue to support them to be the agents of change. Youth from disadvantaged areas in Brussels are discriminated, excluded and stigmatised because of the image the society have of them. An example is Molenbeek, a disadvantaged neighbourhood which people are afraid of visiting because of the increase of radicalism.
GEORGIEV Georgi
Bulgaria
The project aims to promote educational integration of Roma young people aged 10-21 years and supporting their access to educational through trainings and seminars. The project will allow young people to help other youngsters from the Roma community by setting up a civic initiative group that is competent to protect the interests of the community. Within the project 6 young people aged 18-21 who are university students will get a training on volunteering, how to help young people to complete their education and career guidance. After completing the training course, each of them will mentor 5 local young people aged 10-14, in order to support them in their school work and their access to secondary education.
TANOVAN Kenny
France
The central idea of this project is to promote the activities carried out by the CSC Neuhof to the young people of the community and at the same time raise awareness of their social rights. The entire event will be designed and implemented by 10 young people from the neighborhood.
DURTESTE Eddy
France
The project is based on the civic service system in order to change the situation of young people residing in the district of Aubiers and encountering difficulties such as unemployment, delinquency, addiction, family problems, etc. The young people will be identified by the team specialized in preventative youth work as well as partners and other youth actors. In this way, we intend to participate actively in promoting social cohesion and engage with local and national institutions through the civic service system.
FEIST Julia
France
The project ENTER! DOM, aims to enable vulnerable young people (living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods or rural areas, school drop-outs, NEETs) to have access to trainings (NFE and mobility) and foster their active participation through volunteering activities, in order to support their autonomy and employment. In Martinique, 26.9% of young people aged 15-24 are not in education, employment or training (NEET) and the percentage of those between 25-29 is even higher - 42.6%. The lack of prospects and opportunities for this young people leads to situations of exclusion and tension or even violence.
ANTIA Nato
Georgia
The idea of the project is to raise awareness and advocate for the implementation of the Enter! Recommendation on national level in cooperation with the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs ( and Council of Europe Tbilisi office), through translation, publication and dissemination of the recommendation and through supporting a pilot implementation one of the measures of the recommendation in cooperation with Gori City Municipality. The pilot implementation will ensure social inclusion of vulnerable young people (young people with disabilities, young people in/from state care, young people with poor living conditions, age 16-29) facing problems in transition from school to work.
SYTNYK Olena
Germany
The project aims to support young refugees in Germany through language courses which include cultural specifics, academic writing and presentation skills. Most of the refugees have difficulties to integrate into the German society since the integration courses give only basic language skills which are not sufficient for getting a job or applying for a degree program.
SONYAK-NIKOVICS Andrea
Hungary
The main idea is to support young people between 16-18 years old, who dropped out of school, or are in risk of dropout. The project will engage various experts and a network of organizations to support these young people to create a vision for their future and to help them to achieve it. The youngsters, who drop out at the age 16, have no qualifications, and therefore they have no vision for the future. Also, it is very complicated to find a job at the year 16, because employers usually do not hire underage employees.
DELAP John
Ireland
In this project, Future Voices is aiming to partner with Irish Universities and Institutes of Technology in a way which enhances cross-sectoral engagement for ensuring socio-economically disadvantaged young people have access to education and training. Future Voices will reach out to 4 Irish Universities and 3 Institutes of Technology to form a strategic partnership.
COPPOLA Alessandra
Italy
APICE association, in cooperation with the Municipality of Reggio Calabria, implements the project titled “Non Formal EducENTER!” which includes a programme of activities about human rights, activism, youth participation, employability, youth mobility and Youth work, using non formal education to foster the access of young people to social rights, according to ENTER! Recommendation. The activities are realized in the Civic Center of Pellaro, in the framework of CulturACT, and in APICE place from June 2017 to May 2018.
SHARKU Bejtullah
Kosovo*
The project focuses on eradication of social exclusion with a focus on a mutual cooperation between minorities (Roma and Serb Community) with the majority of Albanians. It is managed by NGO’’Iniciativa Pozitive’’ in collaboration with the municipality of Rahovec precisely the Directorate of Social Welfare. The project will gather exclusively young pupils from seven to fourteen years of age.
DJORDJEVIC Petar
Kosovo*
The project "Enter Youth for Change (EYFC)" aims to inspire and motivate young people and youth organizations in Kosovo to cooperate in multi-ethnic groups, with main focus on the topic of preventing the gender-based violence. The project aims at contributing towards multi-ethnic understanding: to create atmosphere that people in local level are aware about the problem and in same time can understand and cooperate with other ethnicities in order to create better environment.
MRIBAH Mehdi
Luxembourg
Shared Integration is a project aimed to motivate young people to fight against discrimination by making them ambassadors of diversity in Luxembourg. The project began in August 2016 and will end in August 2018. It involves recruiting young people from the classrooms, then training them and finally accompanying them in their activity as peer educators.
VELLA Valerie
Malta
The aim of the project is to offer accommodation services to young homeless people by providing supported independent living. The project shall commence in May 2017 by refurbishing the house and then in due time it will be open for operation. Homeless young people will stay in this home for a temporary period with the aim to help them become totally independent. The National Federation of Past pupils and Friends in Malta will also develop a mentoring program which will help these young people to live independently in the community.
IVANCIOGLO Victoria
Moldova
The project proposes an educational and coaching program for youth from rural areas which aims to strengthen their dialogue with local authorities and inform them about social rights. This initiative of grassroots civic and democratic participation would create a sustainable change at the local level as the direct beneficiaries of this project will be the future full rights citizens of the country and the activity of other key local players (local authorities, schools, economic agents, parents) will also be stimulated.
JANSEN Lenno
The Netherlands
The project aims to empower youngsters to participate politically in their local authority through the use of creative approaches. The youngsters will be addressed through the local youth centre Haaze. The project will build capacity to the youth workers in social rights and how to support youngsters on a daily bases. At the same time it will make the youngsters aware of their rights to participate politically by a creative approach (depends on ideas of the youngsters) about what their needs are in the local contacts in the matter of political inclusion/participation.
TOTH Elisabeth Victoria
Norway
The project “Ipad” encourages connections betweens seniors at Marie Haven nursing home and multicultural youth from Marie Plahte activity center to create better integration, inclusion and educate to give better cultural understanding. The project will bring two disadvantaged groups together who are not communicating often between each other. By using the Ipad as a tool the teenagers and seniors will learn to know each other, accept multicultural backgrounds, foster intergenerational dialogue and see the similarities in each other’s lives.
SALAS Corrigan Monica
Portugal
The project aims at reducing and preventing xenophobia and hate speech as well as discriminatory actions and stereotypes among immigrants and the local population in the city of Amadora. It is implemented in a multicultural context where racism and intolerance are still present so through the project we will promote and empower immigrants and local residents through non formal education methods.
OANCEA Raluca
Romania
The main idea of the project is to support a constructive permanent dialogue with the local administration of Constanta city in order to increase the level of accessibility of the infrastructure and public transportation for people with disabilities. At the same time the project will encourage representatives of local community, young people in particular, to participate for ensuring accessibility.
SIRIUKOVA Iana
Russian Federation
The project is focused on inclusion in the decision-making process, the promotion of youth rights by young people themselves, through an interaction with local authorities (Commissioner for the Rights of the Child). The project aims to promote the principles of co-management and peer-to-peer approach. Young people will improve their communication skills, peer-education and human rights education, while at the same time the involvement and interaction between authorities and NGO (youth) will also improve.
SHEBANOVA Olga
Slovakia
The project “social integration through football activities” aims to reduce the gap between the young Roma and Slovaks and create better inter-personal links which will help to decrease discrimination. The project is targeting football teams of young boys located at the East of Slovakia, mainly around Presov and Levoca districts. It will create 5 football teams which will be led by two professional coaches. Teams will consist partially from children from excluded communities (50%) and children from majority community (50%).
FUENTE RODRIGUEZ Raul
Spain
The project will be implemented by Auryn Association in the city of Leon (Spain) with an aim to support the development of a group of young people from the neighbourhood. With this group, we would carry out a series of workshops using non-formal education tools and approaches. The topics of these workshops would be intercultural learning, learning in human and social rights connected to the needs and lives of young people. During the 8 months of the project, we also want to try that the young people promote the Enter Recommendation to the local authorities through different meetings with them.
MARTINEZ Ramon
Spain
During school year 2017-2018 the project Hacking Democracy – Press Enter! will be implemented by the Learning Designers in collaboration with the local authorities and schools of Almuñécar, Spain, and with the support of DARE Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe Network. It will create training manual for empowerment through participation based on the learning process of a community of youth activists from local schools. It will also support the empowerment process of youth through understanding structured dialogue, policy language and their power and role in the processes and in such a way ignite structured dialogue between local authorities and youth in Almuñécar through the creation of a self-organized sustainable community of youth activists
CEBAN Elena
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
The project will address the access of young girls from the rural areas to the opportunities and services that the youth from the urban community enjoys. It envisions the creation of a girls club focused on encouraging the participation of girls and their civic engagement, with the support of the local municipality, with the aim to involve these girls into a consultation process on social rights.
POLAT Basak
Turkey
The core idea of the project is to empower disadvantaged youth and increase their visibility in society by ensuring their access to social rights and providing them with equal opportunities. This will be done through a basic computer programming and code writing project which includes training workshops in a disadvantaged area of Istanbul. The project offers a solution to the problems of unemployment and lack of information on social rights by promoting a youth policy based on young people’s needs.
MUKOSEIEVA Lesia
Ukraine
The project aims to establish a youth centre for young people in the Ukrainian village of Nemishayevo. The idea to establish such centre comes from our research made in April 2017 which is showing that young people don’t have a place for common free time activity, and they would want to have it. The focus is access of young people to information and provision of help so they can realize their ideas in practice.