"Listening, Sharing, Broaden your Horizons" is a project which lasts 19 months and contains two mobilities/Activities (a Seminar in Romania and a training course in Cyprus. Project managers from partner organizations (from Cyprus, Romania, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Malta) recognized the importance of the international cooperation through E+ mobilities for reducing negative stereotypes between people and developing their youth workers (hereafter: y.w) competences. In other words the project was designed based on:

(a) All partners indicate the lack of mobility and educational opportunities for many y.w due to fewer opportunities they face (ex. geographical, economic, social reasons). Due to this fact many youth workers face limited chances of being developed and improved.

(b) Ongoing socio-political conflicts based on history, between countries sustain the status of a non very productive and fruitful collaboration between several partner organizations, y.w, stakeholders and young people. This consists a fact that in addition to the above one, brings out further problems in the development of y.w (in professional and personal level).

Therefore it is observed that negative stereotypes between organizations and their members who come from partner countries, many times are mentioned to sustain and foster the rejection of cooperation.

Our project managers and trainers recognize the need to work on these two themes and attempt to suggest solution by organizing the certain project.

Thus,during and by the end of the project (Seminar and TC) we focus at the following which link to the objectives of E+:

1. We want to provide opportunities to all 18 youth workers (pax of both gender, including trainers) of our organizations who face fewer opportunities (economic, social, geographical etc) to improve their level of key competences.

2. We also want to provide ideas and motivate them as well as to become more active citizens. To succeed on this we planned as followed: (a)We will indicate, increase awareness and empower the importance of intercultural dialogue and of social inclusion and (b)we will encourage and motivate them to be more active in their lifelong learning development through mobility opportunities as they are offered by E+.

3. We want to assist our y.w to recognize that NFL is a powerful method of empowering and developing themselves, bridging social inclusion barriers and enhancing solidarity between nations.

 

For succeeding to our aims we planned: 

A seminar in Romania with the objectives:

1. To present (by sharing experiences) the power of E+ KA1 programmes on developing youthworkers' competences

2. To reinforce synergies and transitions between formal, non-formal education and youthworkers’ development;

3. To raise participants' awareness and understanding of other cultures and countries;

4. To increase awareness (through NFL) on social inclusion, solidarity and international cooperation.

5. To suggest, share and create new tools and methods for fostering youthworkers' work.

6. To prepare the organizations for the next level of the project which is the TC.

 

And a TC in Cyprus with the objectives:

7. To increase awareness through NFL on social inclusion,

8. To support y.w with fewer opportunities in the acquisition of competences (digital, languages, social, L2L-SDL) with a view to improving their personal development

9. To support the professional development of our y.w with a view to innovating and improving the quality of youth work across in project countries; 

10. To raise youthworkers' awareness and understanding of other cultures and countries, offering them the opportunity to build networks of international contacts;

11. To recognize and appreciate the improvement in competences through international mobilities and cooperation.

 

Objectives applied in both mobilities:

12. To help y.w to be more aware of and discuss the value of E+: YiA

13. To help y.w acquire high-quality Youthpass Certificates

 

We will work using non formal learning (learning by sharing and by doing, outdoor assignments, roleplays, jigsaw methods etc). We also foresee a great impact on removing negative stereotypes towards other countries, improve cooperation between youth workers and their NGOs in international level, develop y.w with fewer opportunities in professional and personal level, create sustainable results and examples of international cooperation and provide examples of successful inclusive practices.