The 2023 International Labour Organization (ILO) youth survey revealed that in Tunisia and Egypt, 80% of youth aged 15-29 worked informally while youth inactivity reaches 17% in Spain and 25% in Türkiye (Education at a Glance 2023 report). The same report claims that for multiple reasons young Mediterranean women are much more vulnerable and affected by dropping out of school and precarious employment. International reports indicate that inadequate learning and skills are key factors contributing to high NEET (youth Not in Employment, Education or Training) rates. Most education systems in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region do not focus on developing critical thinking and other skills necessary for the labour market and active civic life.
V Team
Project Budget
EU Contribution
Countries
Partners
- To co-design and develop a transnational training program for Mediterranean youth CSOs, blending digital and face-to- face methods, focusing on engagement as a key skill for employment and addressing regional challenges through social and artistic innovation.
- To support and engage young Mediterranean people to advocate for positive changes in Mediterranean societies through the implementation of concrete local and transnational creative actions and promoting original projects.
- Trained 200 young people from Türkiye, France, Spain, Tunisia and Egypt, co-developing and applying innovative learning methods that fostered engagement and enhanced employment skills – digital, creative, and analytical – while addressing Mediterranean challenges.
- Strengthened young people’s civic actions.
- Fostered a transnational participatory dynamic.
- Co-design of a pedagogical framework for the MedYCI training program developed by young Mediterranean participants and experts across five regions.
- Creation of a multidisciplinary team of 30 trainers.
- 5 MedYCI training sessions implemented across 5 countries, directly engaging over 200 youngsters.
- Establishment of five MedYCI studios which will be fully operational to enhance creative young participants skills in each region.
- Strategic recommendations for the Mediterranean Youth Council ensuring they are informed by diverse youth perspectives across the Mediterranean.
- 5 showcases of 50 innovative ideas for a better future of the Mediterranean.
- 25 simultaneous local creative engaged actions executed by youth, across the Mediterranean.
- •10 transnational webtv show (Medtalk) created by MedYCI trained Mediterranean youth.
EVENTS
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Objectives
Volunteer projects are a great opportunity for personal development for volunteers, as well as actions for change and improvement in the communities that host them. But there are many young people, especially those with fewer opportunities, who do not feel ready to face a long-term project on their own.
To help them embark on long-term projects we have a tool that unfortunately is used less than we need: volunteering team projects.
These projects require specific capacities in the entities that manage them and good partners that help their proper development. And for this we proposed this activity. “V Team” is a Partnership Building Activity that aims to increase knowledge about volunteering team projects and to create a solid and trustable network of partners interesting in organizing them, both, from program countries and partner countries.
Through the principles and practices of non-formal education and in an atmosphere where participants can learn from each other, “V Team” included teamwork and network activities, capacitation activities and exchange of ideas and practices to inspiring projects.
Also, this PBA was to support organizations in their work with young people with fewer opportunities and help them understand how volunteering team opportunities can be used to challenge perspectives on inclusion, personal development, resilience and confidence building.
Thus we set the following objectives:
– To foster partnership building of potential hosting/supporting organizations equipped to support volunteering team projects.
– To support the development of partnership and sustainable networking between program countries and partner countries in the European Solidarity Corps (ESC).
– To help participants gain knowledge on the key activities involved in ESC and provide a space to nurture the development of volunteering team project ideas.
– To provide a space and the opportunity for ESC coordinators to exchange their experiences, share good practices and support each other in the management of ESC volunteering team projects.
– To motivate organizations to host and send volunteers with fewer opportunities.
The project was a learning-by-doing experience, built on experiences and real cases which were interspersed with workshops, info sessions, ongoing evaluation…
22 youth volunteer workers and/or professionals who work directly with volunteer projects, and who planed to organize a volunteer project as a team of the European Solidarity Corps, participated. They were the future coordinators of these projects. We had 17 partners from 14 countries: Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Spain, Georgia, Italy, Jordan, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Implementation
The impact and results are the elaborations and future development of a bigger number of volunteering team projects within the Eu
Results
Partners
AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITESI 🇹🇷 Türkiye
ANS CAMPUS REKTORLUK
03200 AFYONKARAHISAR
Afyonkarahisar
🇹🇷 Türkiye
Partner Type: Higher education institution (tertiary level)
Phone: 902722281303
ARCI COMITATO TERRITORIALE CATANIA APS 🇮🇹 Italy
CORSO SICILIA 97
95129 CATANIA
Sicilia
🇮🇹 Italy
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +390958207675
ASOCIACION CULTURAL Y DEPORTIVA LAHOYA 🇪🇸 Spain
CALLE TRANSFORMADOR 5
03294 LA HOYA, ELCHE
Comunidad Valenciana
🇪🇸 Spain
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +34649686721
Asociatia Explorator 🇷🇴 Romania
Sfintii Apostoli, no 60A
200122 Craiova
Sud-Vest Oltenia
🇷🇴 Romania
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +40786035503
ASSOCIATION VOIX D'ENFANT RURAL 🇹🇳 Tunisia
IMMEUBLE IBN ARAFA ROUTE TATAOUINE
4100 MEDENINE
Tunisia
🇹🇳 Tunisia
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +21675647594
Project card
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project includes:
Project Status
Completed
Countries covered
19
Start date
01-12-2020
End date
30-11-2022
Programme
Erasmus+
Key Action
Learning Mobility of Individuals
Action Type
Youth mobility