Sustainable Development Goals 4 Youth
About the project
The SDG4YOUTH project is a project under Key Action 2 - Cooperation Partnership in Youth with the consortium:
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Pikapere Selts MTÜ (Estonia)
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SCHEDIA STIN POLI KALLITEXNIKI PAIDAGOGIKI OMADA (Greece)
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INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE ROUEN (France)
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Udruga Žmergo (Croatia)
Needs
For young people to play an active role in responding to the needs of society, it is necessary:
N1: Understand, in a comprehensive way, what the main challenges of society are, so that they identify with them and are willing to intervene in them;
N2: Recognize their role in society and the impact they can have in transforming social reality (young people must be brought to the center of the discussion of problems and solutions, stimulating the guiding principle that everyone can and should do their part and we all make a difference);
N3:Acquire and/or improve their key competences in order to be able to intervene, namely through access to non-formal opportunities that invest in their development.
Goals
Main goal:
To encourage youth participation, especially on issues that directly affect young people and society in general.
Specific goals:
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Bring together European youth practitioners to identify, discuss, co-create and test participatory and socially innovative solutions in the field of youth participation (and which can be replicated, contributing to innovate the sector);
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Develop young people's key competences (emphasis on fewer opportunities), with a focus on entrepreneurship, ensuring that young people are able to develop and implement their own projects and actions that respond to youth and societal problems;
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Disseminate and explore the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda among young people, so that young people can act to build a more cohesive, just and sustainable society;
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Contribute to the valorization of the territory, identifying problems, debating answers and presenting solutions that favor the construction of each community and society in general;
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Promote European values.
Project activities
1st Transnational Meeting
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Dates: April 3 to 6, 2023
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Location: Águeda, Portugal
Project kick-off meeting with 2 representatives from each organization in order to explore the project, establish the tasks to be developed, present the communication plan and discuss the structure of the first Transnational Workshop to be held in September 2023. There was an opportunity to learn about the work developed by the municipality of Águeda, in the area of education, and to visit the Águeda Smart City Lab.
1st Working session
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Dates: 18 to 22 September 23
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Location: Águeda, Portugal
The main aim of the working session was to develop and prepare the 10 workshops that will form the basis of the project's implementation, to analyse the literature review carried out by each partner for the project's final outcome, a manual, and to define the project's next steps.
Funding and support
National Erasmus+ Youth/Sport Agency and CES
SDG4Youth is a project funded by the National Agency Erasmus+ Youth/Sport and ETUC.
The Erasmus+ Youth/Sport and ETUC National Agency is the mission structure that aims to ensure the management, in Portugal, of the Erasmus+ Program in the fields of youth and sport, as well as to ensure the management and implementation of activities within the European Solidarity Corps program. It also coordinates the Eurodesk information network in Portugal. The Erasmus+ Youth Sport and ETUC NA supports Youth Exchanges, European Volunteering, International Training, Strategic Partnerships and Structured Dialogue events. It provides support and information in the Sports dimension and to the Erasmus+ European Solidarity Corps.
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