Τhe project’s aim was to encourage democratic and civic participation of Greek, Bulgarian, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, Hungarian, Belgian and Dutch young citizens and give them an opportunity to express their concerns and vision towards common challenges related to the European identity, diversity and the future of Europe. More specifically the project aimed to a) give an opportunity to young citizens around Europe to express their views and concerns about diversity, European identity and the future of EU; b) promote active citizenship and reflect to the future of EU; c) promote solidarity, mutual respect and tolerance towards the diverse; d) deepen participants’ knowledge on EU and its benefits; e) invite citizens to act together by providing them an opportunity to concretely participate in the shaping of the Union’s political agenda; f) support intercultural dialogue between different European countries; g) highlight the importance of volunteering and h) establish a common approach concerning the future of Europe.
During the first 3 months of the project and in order to analyze the current situation each partner produced a video with the title “What does Europe Mean for me” where young people from each partner country shared their views and concerns about diversity issues, European identity and the future of Europe.
One informative day has been organized in Athens, where CSOs form all the participating countries have been brought together in order to highlight and inform citizens about the importance of volunteering, and how it can enhance mutual respect and tolerance. Throughout the project duration, 7 U4EU Community Dialogue Events, One Info Day and One Youth Workshop were organised in all nine partner European countries from September 2021 until June 2022. During these events, 396 young people (in total) from different EU countries were participating with the purpose to generate a debate about the future of Europe, to provide alternatives to existing problematic situations and to get informed about the project and the importance of volunteering and youth participation. All videos and activities of the project have been spread in social media. At the end of the project, a summary of the community dialogues’ results was presented into an e-publication in order to be widely disseminated throughout Europe.
ANCE leads the partnership which was consisted of ASSOCIAZIONE GIOVANILE DI PROMOZIONE SOCIALE NOUS (Italy), CLUBE INTERCULTURAL EUROPEU (Portugal), STICHTING CROSS CULTURAL BRIDGES (Netherlands), KOLLEG FUR MANAGEMENT UND GESTALTUNG NACHHALTIGER ENTWICKLUNG (Germany), MULTI KULTI COLLECTIVE (Bulgaria), EGYÜTT AZ INTERKULTURÁLIS AKCIÓÉRT ALAPÍTVÁNY (Hungary), YOUNG EUROPEAN LEADERSHIP (Belgium) and TELEDUCA EDUCACIÓ I COMUNICACIÓ SCP (Spain).
Duration: September 2020 - September 2022
The project was funded by the EUROPE FOR CITIZENS Programme.
