Youth Empowerment through co-creative Activity development
Building social bridges and sense of community of all youth through the co-creation of leisure activities.
The YEA project involves community representatives and staff from support and youth organisations, that, if guided, can cooperate with and empower youth to create community.
Our goal
Empower youth to participate more and to become the agents to build a sense of community through leisure activities.
To create deeper and more trustworthy connections
between local organizations, community representatives and individuals involved with local youth.
Leisure activities or sports
have been proved to be engaging and effective tools to promote healthy living as well as diversity and inclusion.
Our objectives:
To collect and share
To collect and share the stories of teenagers and young adults living in vulnerable situations relating to their inclusion process within the local communities, and identify shared experiences;
To emphasize
To emphasize the strengths and resources relating to diversity and inclusion of community services, organisations, and support centres, and guide them to provide a sense of community among youth;
To build
To build social bridges between youth between youth who are in socially vulnerable situations and those who are not through common interests and shared goals;
To empower
To empower youth to make valuable connections with people having potential to change communities;
To facilitate
To facilitate a co-creative process to identify meaningful and inclusive leisure activities that are appropriate to the needs and requirements of the youth and that are also sustainable for the communities.
Activities
Research and participatory research action on key themes in building social relationships among young people:
- Identification and collection of key themes in building social bridges among youth people in all partner countries in a comprehensive report;
- Involvement of local youth for the collection of contextualised narratives related to the themes on networking and collaboration through digital storytelling and/or Photovoice;
- Creation of a report with needs and opportunities analysis provided by local organization and support centres and community representatives regarding their experiences on community participation.
- Creation of an evaluation analysis regarding the sense of community.
Workshops to build bridges and connections between local support/organization centres and/or community representatives with local youth:
- Workshops “Defining your group” that will connect the people within each target group;
- Workshops “One Voice”, that will bring all target groups of the YEA project together to share stories and develop connections among them;
- Co-creative workshops to identify, plan and implement activities.
The Learning, Teaching, Training Activity:
- This event will be organized for the members of the Youth Advisory Board (YAB) to enhance their networking and collaborating skills so as to engage and empower their peers in their home communities.
- Development of an action plan by the YAB tracing the steps that should be taken for youth to participate more in the local communities.
Co-creative process, brainstorming and execution:
- Reports with a collection of good practices related to the phases of Brainstorming, organisation of ideas, identifying resources, task distribution and execution of activities.