{"id":8792,"date":"2023-05-04T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartbalkansproject.org\/?p=8792"},"modified":"2023-05-04T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:00:02","slug":"giving-and-receiving-young-active-citizens-for-peace-and-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartbalkansproject.org\/grants\/giving-and-receiving-young-active-citizens-for-peace-and-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving and receiving \u2013 young active citizens for peace and prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"
Implementing organizations:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Summary of the project<\/strong><\/p>\n The main project goal is to expand the platform for active engagement of young people in key societal developments that affect them, by building stronger links between the youth and public authorities who should support them. The project will leverage the experience and best practices regionally from partner CSOs in the project, to improve the grassroots civil society participation in decision making at local, national and\/or regional forums. The stakeholders involved will include government authorities, but also other authorities that play a crucial role in community mobilization – such as schools, youth centers, universities. It will focus on two thematic topics of digital literacy and fight against fake news, which affect young people greatly due to their high exposure to social media, as well as facilitate peace-building regionally through exchanges at multiple levels of stakeholders. Last but not least, the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Network will specifically focus on advocating the use of the Service-Learning approach for mobilizing vulnerable youth, since its combination of learning and doing has proved by be very effective with such stakeholders.<\/p>\n Project goals:<\/strong><\/p>\n Overall goal (impact):\u00a0Boost the local and regional partnerships between CSO and local governments (administrations) for good governance with youth participating in decision making processes and strengthening participatory democracies in the Western Balkans.<\/p>\n Specific objective 1: Support CSO network growth to one Western Balkans country \u2013 by sharing the Service-Learning methodology and involving them in the CSEESLN.\u00a0 The project envisages interventions at all relevant societal levels to affect change \u2013 youth, youth leaders, local and government.<\/p>\n Specific objective 2: Build the capacity of youth leaders and young people to advocate more effectively in specific governance topics that are relevant to them (the focus of this project will be on digital literacy, civil society participation, fight against fake news) \u2013 locally and regionally. Use these topics as a platform for peace-building dialogue between youth from WB6 countries.<\/p>\n Specific objective 2:Strengthen the cooperation with public authorities in the field of youth activism, and secure an increase in their concrete support for community service initiatives that are identified, designed and implemented by youth – thus boosting sustainability.<\/p>\n Beneficiaries<\/strong><\/p>\n Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n Partner Inception Workshop; Youth Leader Workshop on advocacy & partnership building; Youth summer training camp on digital literacy\/fake news and project management; Regional Service-Learning Award; Regional Activism Conference; Impact measurement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Implementing organizations:\u00a0 Me\u0111unarodno udru\u017eenje \u201cInteraktivne otvorene \u0161kole\u201d, Lead applicant, Bosnia and Herzegovina Organizata Kosovare p\u00ebr Talent dhe Arsim – TOKA, Partner, Kosovo* Forum mladi i neformalna edukacija \u2013 Forum MNE, Partner, Montenegro Summary of the project The main project goal is to expand the platform for active engagement of young people in key societal developments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,361],"tags":[360,113],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartbalkansproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartbalkansproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartbalkansproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartbalkansproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartbalkansproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smartbalkansproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8799,"href":"https:\/\/smartbalkansproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions\/8799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartbalkansproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartbalkansproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartbalkansproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartbalkansproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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