UNA CHANCE PER TUTTI

European Volunteer Service Project

Erasmus+ KA1 – Youth in Action

Summary of

the project

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TABLE OF CONTENT

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Summary of the project ................................................................ 2

Erasmus Plus Program .................................................................. 4

Partnership ................................................................................... 5

Definition of target group ............................................................. 6

Inclusion projects? – Our goal ...................................................... 7

The realization of Una Chance per Tutti ....................................... 9

A life changing journey from Italy to ... .................................... 10

A life changing journey from Europe to Italy ............................. 13

Training and Networking of Youth Workers ............................. 18

Contacts ..................................................................................... 21

Project ID

Name: Una Chance per Tutti

Contract number: 2014-1-IT03-KA105-000200

Applicant and Coordinator: Associazione Culturale Link

National Agency: Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani - Italy

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SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT

The project "Una Chance per Tutti" (A Chance for All) had as its central

theme the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities, the

promotion of active participation and the education for the respect of

diversity through the implementation of mobilities within the European

Voluntary Service.

The partnership was lead by Associazione Culturale Link – Italy and

completed by NEXES - Spain RATO-ADCC – Portugal, Everything Possible

- United Kingdom, KERIC - Slovakia and EFM - Poland.

The project gave, during the year 2015, the chance to 22 young people

with fewer opportunities to participate in mobility projects lasting from

one up to two months.

Italy welcomed in total 16 young people sent by the partner countries

for one month each during three different periods (April, June,

September 2015). Instead from Italy departured 6 youth: two young

Italians spent two months in Spain, one volunteer spent two months in

Slovakia and three spent one month in Portugal.

The activities realized were different but had the common goal of

helping and working with local projects. The variety of activities went

from creative workshops, environmental activities, informatic trainings,

animation activities for youth and children, promotion of volunteering,

summer camp with horses, helping during local festival.

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To each of the mobilities realized the volunteers brought European

added values in peripheral regions, approaching these to Europe, not

only geographically talking, but also cultural, intercultural and social

wise. Through the project "Una Chance per Tutti" the partner

organisations promoted the implementation of inclusion projects,

strengthened the already existing partnership, share knowledge and

best practice within and with other stakeholders about the quality work

with disadvantaged young people.

In September 2015, at the conclusion of the EVS mobilities, a “Training

and Networking of Youth Workers” seminar was organized in Italy by the

applicant Link, involving 13 youth workers from the partnership with and

without experiences. The training was a space to share the experiences

of the sending and hosting of the “Una Chance per Tutti” volunteers,

sharing best practises gained during the project and put into reality by

each partner organisation.

The visibility of the project was ensured through the update of all steps

of the project on the project Blog and on the partners’ websites, so as

the dissemination of the results.

Blog: http://unachancepertutti.wordpress.com

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Erasmus plus Program

The Erasmus+ programme combines all the EU's schemes for education,

training, youth and sport, including the Lifelong Learning Programme

(Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Comenius, Grundtvig), Youth in Action and

five international co-operation programmes (Erasmus Mundus, Tempus,

Alfa, Edulink and the programme for co-operation with industrialised

countries). The Erasmus+ regulation was signed on 11 December 2013.

The project “Una Chance per Tutti” has been co-financed by the

European Program Erasmus+, more specificly within the Key Action 1 –

Youth in Action, European Volunteer Service.

More information online:

https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/node_en

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Partnership

Associazione Culturale Link is of the opinion that the partnership within

a European project is fundamental for the success of the project, all the

more so if the project regards youth with less opportunities and

disadvantages.

The partnership of “Una Chance per Tutti” is led by Link and the partners

NEXES Interculturals de Joves per Europa Spain

KERIC Slovakia

Europejskie Forum Mlodziezy Poland

Rato - Associação para a Divulgação Cultural e Científica Portugal

Everything Possible CIC UK

This partnerships has a long-term history, with collaborations since

several years and within different types of projects (EVS long term and

short-term, Youth Exchange, Training, Networking activities, Leonardo

da Vinci, etc).

Find the contacts of the partners at the end of the booklet.

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Definition of target group

“Young people with fewer opportunities” is a term used to describe

young people who are at a disadvantage compared to their peers

because they face one or more of the exclusion factors below. These

often prevent young people from taking part in formal and non-formal

education, trans-national mobility, employment, democracy and society

at large.

The most common disadvantaged faced by youth who joind the EVS

project “Una Chance per Tutti” were the following:

Economic obstacles: people with a low standard of living, low

income, dependence on social welfare system, people in long-term

unemployment or poverty, people in debt or financial problems,

etc.

Geographical obstacles: people from remote or rural areas, people

living in peripheral regions, people from urban problem zones,

people from less serviced areas (limited public transport, poor

facilities, abandoned villages…), etc.

Social obstacles: people facing discrimination because of gender,

age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, etc., people with limited

social skills or anti-social or risky sexual behaviour, people in a

precarious situation, (ex-)offenders, (ex-)drug or alcohol abusers,

young and/or single parents, orphans, young people from broken

families, etc.

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Educational difficulties: people with learning difficulties, early

school-leavers and school dropouts, lower qualified persons, people

with poor school performance, etc.

Health problems: people with illnesses or psychiatric conditions,

young people with mental health problems, etc.

Cultural differences: immigrants or refugees or descendants from

immigrant or refugee families, people with linguistic adaptation and

cultural inclusion problems, etc.

SOCIAL INCLUSION? – OUR GOAL

If social exclusion is how individuals get left out or left behind... then

social inclusion is how they get brought back (or are kept) in.

Social inclusion is an on-going process which ensures that those at risk of

poverty and social exclusion gain the opportunities and resources

necessary to participate fully in economic, social and cultural life and to

enjoy a standard of living and well-being that is considered normal in the

society in which they live. Professionals who work with fewer

opportunity youngsters know that inclusion is a long-term process which

can be made up of much smaller steps in much simpler forms.

Resource: SALTO-Youth Resource Center Booklet “Inclusion from A to Z”

Find the whole booklet here: https://www.salto-youth.net/downloads/4-17-

3141/InclusionAtoZ.pdf

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The members of this partnership do all believe that the European

Volunteer Service can have a strong impact on social exclusion, if

supported and lead in the right way. The EVS project can help young

people to improve their skills, motivation, behavior, attitudes and view

of the world around them.

Goals of our INCLUSION short-term EVS project

Give young people, who do live disadvantaged situations, the chance to

experience themselves differently, step out of daily life troubles, get to

know new people and new types of friendship, through living for a short

time in another country.

Through specific support and mentoring the young volunteers have the

chance to become more independent and responsible for their actions,

improve their personal well-being and learn better to deal with

problems.

Teach the volunteers to understand and feel the beauty of volunteering,

sharing time and energy with others, improving their knowledge and

awareness about European topics and European citizenship.

Enrich the Curriculum Vitae of the young volunteer with language,

intercultural, professional and personal skills certified by the Youthpass

Certificate, which helps in future job finding.

Internationalize local projects and enrich the local community work with

the presence of European volunteers, sharing the concept of Inclusion

projects and improving solidarity between locals.

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22 youth painting

FEEL GOOD 6 different cultures

manual work feeling useful

13 boys and 9 girls find friends work with children

6 NGOs biking

17 - 26 years old

independence getting lost

The realization of

“Una Chance per Tutti”

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A life changing journey from Italy to ...

Donato in Portugal

... Quasi inizio a capire quello che dicono, a

volte non me ne accorgo ma pur non sapendo il

significato di ogni parola, inizio a comprenderne

il senso; riesco a seguire le conversazioni dei

miei colleghi, concetti, i loro modi di fare, il loro

modo di approcciarsi al lavoro - alla Vita. ...

“Nearly I start to understand what they are saying,

sometimes I notices that also without knowing all

the words I understand the meaning; I can

understand the conversations of my colleagues, the concepts, their way of

doing, their way of approaching work and also life.”

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Francesco and Michele in Portugal

“Chi l’avrebbe mai detto! Io ad

insegnare ad altri su come

utilizzare il computer. Wow.”

Who ever imagined! Me teaching

to others about how to use a

computer. Wow.

“This experience showed me that also with very different people we can

become friends when we live such an adventure together.”

Michele and Anna in Spain

“... A funny fact is that here most

of the local people (children

included!) use to speak Català:

this bilingualism used to be very

weird at the beginning but we try

really hard and study with a

teacher, so now we are able to

(kind of) understand it… more or

less!... “

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Isabella in Slovakia

“Durante questi due mesi ho

fatto cose che a casa non avrei

fatto. Persino ho cavalcato un

vero cavallo!”

During this two months I did things

at home I would never have

dreamed of. I even ride a real

horse!

“Ho realizzato che le persone sono tutte uguali, cè chi ti piace e chi no,

non dipende da dove uno proviene. Oggi ho amici in tutto il mondo.”

I realized that people are all the same, people you might like or not like, it does

not depend on where they come from. Today I have friends all over the world.

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A life changing journey

from Europe to Italy

Tiago and Pedro from Portugal, Joanna and Marcin from Poland and

Victor from Spain joined the project from April to May 2015.

Through the activities of painting, fixing, repairing, decorating of a local

bike workshop for young people, the volunteers improved their manual

skills, had the chance to use their creativity and learn team work skills.

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Victor from Spain offered his skills to create a promotional video for a

local activity regarding the European Day, 9 May 2015 where the

volunteers helped to implement intercultural activities:

https://youtu.be/2k7BP_XYRL8

Free time, discover local surroundings and friendships with local youth:

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Rita and Tiago from Portugal, Carlos, Francisco and David from Spain,

Jade and Callum from the UK joined the project in June 2015.

Rita wrote a text for the Blog after the project, which describes it all.

Read it here: In Link association during the month of June, we (all the

volunteers of “UNA CHANCE PER TUTTI” project):

presented food, music and videos from our different countries and did

gardening activities;

handed flyers about Erasmus + and EVS; gave our testimony and ideas;

learnt Italian language and other languages too;

participated at the Festival dei Claustri with our creations of a puzzle of

Europe, a memory game with the EU flags and silhouettes of our

national costumes, so we offered kids to have a nice time;

contributed to clean the walls of the historic city center;

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visited beautiful places, like Altamura, Matera and Irsina eating

authentic Italian food and drink;

created a family of friends with other volunteers;

developed our team spirit and orientation ability by playing games;

grew and opened our minds and won self-confidence

proved to ourselves that we could be autonomous and responsible;

but mostly, we lived this experience which would not be possible

without EU, Link Association staff and Our Association staff in our

countries. So “Grazie per Tutto!”

Picture collage realized by Rita and Tiago.

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Zuzana and Maria from Slovakia, Anna and Agata from Poland joined the

project in September 2015.

This group of girls had the chance to participated to various activities

(harvesting, bike fixing, cleaning session of urban sights, etc.) which

taught them a lot about local culture, trained their team work and

throughout the month the took over responsibilities and improved their

self convidence.

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Training and Networking of Youth Workers

18 – 23 September 2015; Altamura – Italy

As the conclusione of the whole project of “Una Chance per Tutti” Link

invited all coordinators of the parnter organisations to join a Seminar to

discuss about EVS projects for youth with disadvantages, share all

aspects of the project done (hosting and sending) and prepare future

proposals.

During the seminar Link presented its presentation of the year, with a

special focus on “Una chance per Tutti” project:

https://prezi.com/9jfhyugwj2k_/link-in-numbers/

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At the end of the Seminar the partners, with the help of the Italian

volunteers who participated in “Una Chance per Tutti” project, realized a

public event and presentation of the project to local youth and NGOs,

youth within the target group of Inclusion projects. The event became a

big success and several youth applied for a short-term project

afterwards.

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Contacts

Associazione Culturale Link

Via Silvio Pellicio 10 – 70022 Altamura – Italy

www.linkyouth.org – link@linkyouth.org

Europejskie Forum Mlodziezy

Plac Wolnosci 5/5 – 57-500 Bystrzyca Klodzka- Poland

www.efm.org.pl - +48724930033

Everything Possible CIC

Unit 15, 30-38 Dock Street - LS101JF Leeds – UK

www.everythingispossible.eu - +441132896888

KERIC

Nábrežná 1351 – 02201 Cadca – Slovakia

www.keric.sk – keric@keric.sk

NEXES Interculturals de Joves per Europa

C/ Josep Anselm Clavé 6, 1º 1ª – 08002 Barcelona – Spain

www.nexescat.org - +34934427167

Rato - Associação para a Divulgação Cultural e Científica

Rua da Cordoaria, 53, 1 DTO, Cruz de Pau – 2845 054 Amora – Portugal

http://rato-adcc.pt - +351212275684

Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani

Via Sabotino 4 – 00195 Rome – Italy

www.agenziagiovani.it

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A CHANCE FOR EVERYONE

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UNA CHANCE PER TUTTI