Albania

Rifat Demalija - From social exclusion to opportunities
Organisation: 'Youth in Free Initiative'

The project was based in Kukes region, north and north east of Albania and included three districts; Kukes, Has and Tropoja with a population of 116000 inhabitants. Kukes Region is the poorest in Albania and interventions are needed not only to improve the economy of the region but also to educate people and specifically in this case youth on human and social rights. The training course organized within a project addresses social exclusion and cohesion development in the region and targets specifically young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, their access to social rights and promotes formal and non formal education.
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Armenia

Karen Mkhitaryan - Training Course " Development and Implementation of Participation Projects at Local and Regional Level"
Organisation: Caucasian Institute for Peace Problems Research - CIPPR,

Within the project a training workshop on participation was organized in Gyumri for 25 young people. The project supported foster greater participation of young people in the democratic structures and processes at local and regional level based in the principles promoted by the revised European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life.
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Azerbaijan

Agshin Asgarov - Let’s Create Social Inclusion Opportunities for Young Orphans
Organisation: Human Rights in the XXI Century

"Human Rights XXI - Century Azerbaijan" organisation implemented the project "Let’s Create Social Inclusion Opportunities for Young Orphans" in two directions in order to achieve the main aim of the project which was to provide the young people from orphanages with necessary tools to integrate into society and to help them to be responsible citizens and free individuals. Within the project, trainings covering social rights as part of human rights were delivered and trainings were addressed mainly to the themes like housing, health, education, employment, legal and social protection, movement of persons, non-discrimination.
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Belarus

Ihar Zahumionau - Capacity Building for local authorities (LA) and non-state actors (NSA) cooperation on social inclusion and empowerment of disadvantaged young people in Belarus communities
Organisation: SCAF Youth Center

The overall objective of the project is to build the capacity for local authorities and NSA cooperation in meeting the needs of vulnerable groups of young people and their social inclusion in 2 rural and 9 urban Belarus communities. The project is aimed at facilitation of equal participation of non-state actors and local authorities in policy dialogue and partnership in policy formulation processes; capacity-building of non-state actors to represent their target groups; capacity-building of local authorities for cross-sectorial cooperation and social inclusion of disadvantaged groups of young people; changing attitudes of citizens towards vulnerable youth groups.
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Belgium

Schmitz Lysiane - Act’heure (Act’hour)
Organisation: Ville de Namur

En octobre 2009, le G8 a débuté une sensibilisation aux droits sociaux. Le but premier était le suivant: créer un, voire plusieurs supports (spectacle, blog, folder, exposition itinérante) afin d’informer et de donner accès aux droits sociaux à la population des quartiers, dans lesquels les citoyens pourront trouver tous les services et infrastructures qui leur donneront accès à ceux-ci.
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Bulgaria

Tania Tisheva - Promotion of the access to social rights and the right to education of disadvantaged youth in Sofia, Dimitrovgrad and Bourgas through HRE – mission possible
Organisation: Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation

The aim of the project is to promote access to social rights and the right to education of disadvantaged youth in Dimitrovgrad and Bourgas through human rights education
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Croatia

Danijela Lovric - Change factory
Organisation: Youth Centre for non-formal education-Creators

The project included a training course for youth leaders from 10 countries in Osijek Croatia. Participants learned how to empower themselves by using theatre as a tool to promote social inclusion. The goal of the projects was to create multipliers, who when returning to their countries will used the methods that they have learned. The training course was positively evaluated both by the organisers and the participants.
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Estonia

Marco Santos - Sailors on the CitizenShip – Harbors of CitizenShip
Organisation: Eesti Erinoorsootöö Ühing noOR (Estonian Special Youth Work Organisation)

Sailors on CitizenShip - Harbour of CitizenShip is a national and local level training course, which was developed as a module for youth workers/trainers to help them answer their questions concerning active citizenship issues.

We approach the idea of citizenship on different levels: locally, nationally, on international and global levels. While implementing the project with Estonians partners we would like to focus more on idea of global active citizenship at local level, together with youth workers from Europe and work on its implementation into our daily work, taking into account that participation is an important Social Right.
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 Finland

Samiuela Elone -  Intercultural Learning, Youth Participation and Youth Access to Social Rights
Organisation: City of Helsinki Youth Department, Vuosaari Youth Work Unit (Vuny)

A Multilateral Youth Exchange in Finland between the Vuosaari Youth Work Unit (Vuny) and three visiting groups from Spain, Estonia and from France. We hosted the visitors in July from Sunday the 25th to Sunday the 1st of August in Vuosaari at the Eastern part of Helsinki. There were 51 participants in whom 42 were young people from age 14 to 17, and 7 youth workers. The young people were from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, from ethnic minorities and with fewer opportunities.
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France

Abdenour Ladji - Colonie internationale des jeunes
Organisation: Accoord

L'idée de projet en bre

• La participation.
• L’échange
• La solidarité et le développement

Les droits sociaux adressées: Le droit de se mélanger avec les autres, d’échanger sur ses compétences et sa culture. Information sur la situation des droits de l’homme dans le monde. Prise de conscience sur les actions qu’on peut faire pour changer les choses autour de nous.
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France

Alexandra Boudia - EUROdépayse toi!
Organisation: Association des Travailleurs Maghrébins de France

Améliorer la connaissance de l’Europe des jeunes à travers l’éducation (amélioration des compétences linguistiques à travers l’éducation non formelle, informations sur les débouchés professionnels qu‘elle peut offrir), la mobilité (réalisation d’un échange avec un pays européen) et le développement personnel (construction de la confiance en soi, considération et estime de soi).
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Fadela Aouir - Raid sportif autour des préventions « Participe au projet Papin sans Pépin »
Organisation: Centre Social et Culturel Papin

A partir d’un questionnaire élaboré par le Centre Socioculturel Papin et la Coordination Territoriale de Prévention et Sécurité de la Ville de Mulhouse, à destination d’un public d’adolescents âgés de 13 à 16 ans habitant le secteur Franklin-Fridolin, il s’agit de proposer une action englobant quelques thèmes récurrents de la période de l’adolescence (addictions, prévention de la délinquance…).
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Julie Mercier - Être scolarisé ne veut pas forcément dire être intégré!
Organisation: ARPOMT

Les enfants si peu soient ils qui vont à l’école ne sont pas pris toujours en compte comme les autres élèves. Soit par les instituteurs, soit par les camarades. Les clichés et les stéréotypes en sont une principale cause, mais le fait de ne pas pouvoir s’adapter aux public est également important, les instituteurs ne savent pas forcément comment « s’y prendre » avec les voyageurs. L’idée serait de venir dans les écoles, de présenter la culture du voyage aux instit’ et aux éléves en organisant des expo, des temps de formation, des échanges, créer des outils ensemble
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Badia Loukili-Raihani - La gazette: les dires et les écrits jeunes
Organisation: Au-delà des Ponts

Un objectif qui nous tient particulièrement à cœur est d’avoir un lieu ou les jeunes filles et les jeunes femmes puissent se rencontrer, échanger, s’informer, autour d’un livre, d’un sujet d’actualité, un témoignage, d’un fil. Deux après midi par semaines leurs sont réservés, afin de répondre aux mieux au besoin de chacun, il y aura deux groupes : un de 12à 18 ans et l’autre de 18 à 30 ans, le but étant de faciliter leurs intégration dans la société, renforcer leurs capacités de communication.Proposer un accès aux informations, au droit, à la culture.
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Germany

Sandra Rabbow - JugendtheaterBüro Berlin - Das Unternehmen "Freedom Festival" (Youth Theatre Office Berlin)
Organisation: Initiative Grenzen-Los! e.V Verein für emanzipative Bildung und kulturelle Aktion, Germany

In July 2009 the NGO Initiative Grenzen-Los!e.V. started a new project: The Youth Theatre Office Berlin. The project pursues the aim to plan, organise, run and implement an (inter-)national, non-formal theatre festival: The Freedom Festival in autumn 2011. The festival will be realized by youngsters from disadvantaged neighbourhoods of the age between 14 to 22 years, mostly with migrant and muslim backgrounds.
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Greece

Mary Drosopoulos - EMIS for social cohesion
Organisation: Institute for European and Mediterranean Studies, Greece

Setting: Upper Botsari, area, central Thessaloniki.
What made it disadvantaged was the rise of criminality due to poverty and unemployment partly as an outcome of the country’s dire economic straits and the coming of migrants, esp. from Albania and the Russian Federation. Criminality shows itself in the form of thefts, prostitution in the streets and drug dealing.
The locals started blaming immigrants for the situation, exhibiting suspicion and discrimination against them.
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Hungary

Balázs Lettner - Tátorján project: increasing the dialogue between minority and majority through social voluntary work
Organisation: Pro-Cserehát Association

The aim of my project is to increase the dialogue between minority and majority through participant based social voluntary work. During the project 2 groups of youngsters will take part non-formal education activities on Human and Social rights. They will articulate their local needs and problems and they will develop and implement voluntarily some local mini projects to raise awareness about the problems. Hopefully their activities will get attention from the local communities and generate a discuss about the problems.
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Ireland

Fiona Joyce - Social Rights – An Issue for YOUth
Organisation: Canal Communities Regional Youth Service

The aim of the project is to work with young people on a weekly basis through a social rights programme to raise their awareness and ability to access their human & social rights in comparison to that of other young people throughout the world. This project will focus on a participative volunteering/learning trip to Mwika, Tanzania & it’s follow on effects. When the young people return they will share their learning through a structured peer education programme, we will also create a publication of their learning for distribution locally & nationally.
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Italy

Federico Tsucalas - Action to promote and improve the social integration of young asylum seekers and refugees living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Ferrara
Organisation: Cooperativa Sociale Camelot

Project idea in brief: The idea is to promote concrete actions to improve social integration of young refugees, concerning housing and job opportunities.

Social rights addressed: House and work.

Target group: 20 young asylum seekers and refugees
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Latvia

Sintija Lase - When you don’t go to Europe, Europe comes to you
Organisation: RED - Creative Effects' Workshop

Creativity, art, communication and visibility are important key-words not only for businesses, but for the social life of every individual – you and me! Do I know my social rights? How can I tell others about them? How can I use different media and art forms to spread this knowledge at limited cost? The youth exchange “Creative Effects’ Workshop”, will be organized with 8 partner organizations from the EU, the dates from the 28^th of August to the 4^th of September 2010. Three topics will be addressed: creative non-standard media, social rights and intercultural dialogue.
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The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Biljana Vasilevska - HIV/AIDS prevention among young people in Bitola - Get more knowledge and skills
Organisation: Centre for Human Rights “AMOS” Bitola

The idea was to prevent HIV infection among young people in Bitola, by increasing the knowledge and skills of 300 young people from 15 – 25 years of age that live in Bitola about HIV risks, ways of transmission and ways of protection by:

1. Establishing a network of young peer educators that will provide information and education related to HIV infection;
2. Educating 300 young people in secondary schools in Bitola and in other NGOs, on HIV/AIDS through peer educational sessions;
3. Raising public awareness on specific ways for protection of young people concerning HIV infection and promoting the development of a sense of an individual responsibility (inspiring behavioral changes)
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Elez Bislim - Inclusion of Young Roma People (Rroma Youth Infomation Club)
Organisation: Association of Citizens Sumnal

The main aim of the project was to raise the awareness among of young Rroma from 3 Rroma neighborhoods in Skopje about their social rights and to improve their access to employment and health services trough human rights education, mediaton with social services.The project covered the following main themes: Human Rights, Social Rights, Unemployment, Health and Education.
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Eleonora Poposka - Better access to social rights and social services for the young Roma people
Organisation: Journalists for children and women rights and environmental protection

The project will take place in a DN Saraj, a peripheral area of Skopje, where Roma young people live in very poor conditions and face numerous problems. The authorities are not intervening enough to improve the situation, while as far as the NGOs are concerned, it is necessary to emphasise that no other NGO is working in this neighbourhood and with this population in spite of all the problems that these young people are facing.
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Mohammed Marfoq - Sourire
Idée de projet en bref : Rendre la parole aux jeunes, a ce qui concerne leurs projets de vie en relation avec leurs droits sociaux , dans le contexte du passage de l’approche des droits humains à l’approche des droits sociaux, en leur offrants des services d’animation sociale et de formation informelle concernant leurs droits sociaux.
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 Portugal

Dynka Amorim - Youth Media to promote the Access of Young People Living in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods to Social Rights
Organisation: Citizens of the World/Bué Fixe

The main goal of this project is to actively engage particularly vulnerable Young People coming from Portuguese speaking countries in Africa and living in Vulnerable Communities in Portugal, to their Social Rights, Media tools such as the ongoing radio programme, magazine Bué Fixe as well as the related Blog, will be used to disseminate adequate information produced by the Young People themselves with the supervision of specialist to the different contents. Non formal education will be used such as Peer Education and role playing in order to help these young people to experiment situations that they may face in their daily life regarding their constitutional rights as much as European ones.
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Russian Federation

Fransua Tulikunkiko - Promoting socio-economic rights of youth living in rural areas of the Russia’s North-West Region
Organisation: Organisation humanitaire de la Region de Pskov "Heureuse Enfance"

This project has been elaborated to promote socio-economic rights of youth living in rural areas of the Russia’s North-West Region through human rights education, development of intercultural exchanges and good practices with a European dimension. It is called to indicate the slopes and help them in solving social problems: insufficient food, lack of access to medical care, equal education, housing, unemployment exacerbated by the economic crisis, almost nonexistent civic participation and social inactivation in the field of protection of his rights, freedoms and legal interests.
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Serbia

Suzana Kaplanovic - Let’s play for humanity
Organisation: Red Cross Belgrade

Aim of project is creating a positive and friendly environment in school contributing to inclusion of Roma pupils.The problem of discrimination and exclusion is often problem of Roma minority in Belgrade. Red Cross Belgrade attends to use participative drama especially Theatre of the oppressed technique as a tool to provide better inclusion of Roma children in school and promote peace, tolerance, solidarity and non discrimination.
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Scotland

Alex Collop - My future, social enterprise for young people in youth work
Organisation: Muirhouse Youth Development Group

The aim of the project is to promote the awareness and access to social rights for young people in Muirhouse and surrounding areas. The project works alongside young people involved in the MY Future (training and development) and MY Adventure (social enterprise) projects in various activities and actions designed to develop a better understanding and access to social rights especially relating to education, employment and access to sport, outdoor and leisure activities.
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Northern-Ireland

Sean Pettis - Social Rights for All
Organisation: Public Achievement

The aim of may project is to support 18 young people from 3 disadvantaged communities in Belfast to identify important social rights issues and undertake four action projects that seeks to address their issue as means to increase young people’s active participation, awareness of human rights and understanding of political processes and structures.
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Sweden

Rami Al-khamisi - The Megaphone
Organisation: Megafonen

The aim of the project was to create a platform, a newsmagazine were young people from the age 16 to 25 in the suburbs of Stockholm can become aware of and discuss issues such as racism, violence and discrimination. Young people involved in the project were able to create their own agenda and tackle the issues that concern them. The overall purpose of this project was to raise awareness among young people of their social rights, so that they are more able to access them. Rinkeby- Kista, the district of Stockholm, where the project was implemented has the population of 60 000. The project was mainly addressing the young people in the Kista community where around 25 000 people live.
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Yavuzkan Ozlem - Insertion des jeunes dans la société par le sport
Organisation: ACCOORD

Objectifs 1 : faire découvrir l’inter culturalité

Moyens

Jeux pour favoriser l’échange entre les participants,

Travail en sous groupe,

Utilisation du Tkit Interculturel

Jeux linguistiques

Objectif 2 : leur permettre de prendre connaissance de leurs droits sociaux et économiques
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