ENGAGE project

Empowering Next Generation Advocates for Global Education

About

The ENGAGE project addressing youth leaders (YL) fills an existing gap by providing them with an online course and training internationally and nationally on EU values, cultural diversity, inclusion, social justice, and civic engagement;

It equips them with the necessary knowledge and skills that empower them to effectively guide and mentor young people in various aspects of personal development and active citizenship.

The project is driven by a desire to educate knowledgeable, skilled, and socially responsible citizens through a holistic youth development approach.

Funding programe

Programe: Erasmus+ Action Type: KA220-YOU – Cooperation partnerships in youth (KA220-YOU)  
Field: Youth

Project Title

Empowering Next Generation Advocates for Global Education 
Project Acronym: ENGAGE 
Ref. no.: 2024-1-RO01-KA220- YOU-000250540

Project period

Project Start Date: 01 October 2024 
Project End date: 30 September 2026

The project aim

The main aim of ENGAGE project is to develop resources and actions, providing youth leaders (YL) with the necessary knowledge, skills, methodologies, and tools to educate youth on democratic processes and European values, raise awareness of the diversity and role of inclusion in Europe, and ensure that all young people, including those with disabilities and those who are at risk, have equal access to opportunities.

Target Groups

Partners staff members

Representatives with expertise in project implementation from the education, research and training field of actions, with impact on the youth sector.

Youth leaders

Youth leaders, youth workers, and educators who are involved in actions to educate young people on democratic processes.

Young people

Young people with the age between 13-30, who have shown their interest in making their voices and experiences heard in the civic society

Fewer opportunities

Young people with the age between 13-30, with fewer opportunities, facing the risk of poverty or social exclusion, from rural area, cultural differences, mental health and invisible disabilities or with eco-anxiety and war anxiety, and who intend to take a more active part in society

Youth and educational organisations

Youth and educational organisations working with youth groups, educators, trainers, parents, youth associations, who will agree to become associated to the project network of stakeholders.

Extended target group

Educators, camp leaders, youth project leaders, volunteers, youth exchange participants, facilitators in youth projects, trainers, educational and youths organisations, public authorities, civic societies, public at large.

Objectives of the project

Identify YLs’ needs

Identify YLs’ needs, preferences and challenges related the topic to ensure that the project results will be impactful and practical and enable YL to inclusively and effectively stimulate young people’s participation and civic engagement, through the implementation of the WP2 research actions, in the first year of the project.

Provide YL with skills

Provide YL with the necessary knowledge, skills, methodologies and resources to raise awareness of the diversity and role of inclusion in Europe and motivate and stimulate young people’s active engagement in democratic life and promote European Union values related to human rights, social justice, and cultural diversity and inclusion, through the WP3 online course provided in the second year of the project.

Encourage the exchanges

Encourage the exchange of ideas, best practices, and experiences among YL internationally and nationally while also equipping them with a variety of methods that can be effectively used or adapted to their contexts to increase inclusion, encourage dialogue, and engage young people in meeting community needs and creating positive social change, through the WP4 into action sessions, implemented in the second year of the project.

Raise awareness

Create a strategic framework for a promotional and raise awareness campaign on increasing awareness of inclusion, diversity, social justice, and human rights, tackling gender, social, economic, and health challenges, fostering inclusivity and well-being for everyone, through the actions of WP5, along the entire implementation of the project.

Activities & Results

Project Management

Activities for administration of the project actions.

Research and data collection

Strategy Document on inclusive approach in the work of educators/YL, based on research on at least 650 YL/educators/youths.

Training course

Online course, including 10 modules and 20 practical methods/activities in active engagement in inclusive & democratic life, including 100 YL following the course.

Into action piloting sessions

11 into action sessions, at international and national level, involving over 100 youths in demonstrative activities of the ENGAGE project methods. Podcasts, motivational videos, infographics, educational bags, video case studies and video interviews/testimonials (over 50 resources).

Dissemination & exploitation

Multiplier events (160 participants), network of key stakeholders (50 organisations), newsletters, media campaign, bilateral talks, motivational cards, articles, over 5000 general public impacted

Partners

Fundatia EuroEd,
Romania

FUNDATIA NOI ORIZONTURI LUPENI, Romania

AWO International e.V: Germany

INEX-SDRUZENI DOBROVOLNYCH AKTIVIT Z S, Czechia

RELAIS OUVERTURE ECHANGES LINGUISTIQUES, France