This year the MCN annual meeting went digital, due to the COVID-19 pandemic we had to turn digital, so during the mornings of 12th and 13th of November.
With our partners from different organizations, we shared our opinion and experiences about different topics and with a special reflection on the challenges the year brought with the quarantine imposed by the pandemic. In addition, we presented best practices to each other through guests and we talked about the new quality label for the European Solidarity Corps and the accreditation for Erasmus+.
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Erasmus is more than a project: it is an opportunity to change our lives and connect with people and humanity. For #ErasmusDays2020, MCN challenged people from all over the network to try and make sense of the impact that Erasmus+ programme had in our lives.
For each person, Erasmus is a different reality, different challenges and different rewards. Watch the video bellow, celebrate Erasmus with our network and let’s make it OUR project!
We celebrate #ErasmusDays by reviewing 10 years of #ErasmusPlus projects ... in less than 1 minute! We look back to gain momentum
#TACCmola #10creant #ErasmusDays2020
The flagship collective activity of More Citizenship Network in 2020 was the creation of a good practices booklet that could showcase the diversity, creativity and relevance of the activities organized amongst all the partner associations.
Finally, it is time to present it to our network and to all related youth agents. The booklet is comprised of 12 initiatives, spanning from all over Europe, from Portugal to Turkey, from Sweden to Malta. They relate to several topics like environment, participation, wellbeing, inclusion, or volunteering. With this booklet, you can learn and get inspired to make the difference in your community. You will find out some of the challenges our organisations identified, the solutions they came up with, and the results achieved. You will see pictures with the people involved and resources that you can use or adapt. So, what are you waiting for? Click the link bellow to find the booklet and get ready to change the world around you! Access to the MCN Good Practices Booklet 2020 Video about Katzen Kabaret was created by Youth Center Kotlovnica's ESC volunteers Amaia from Spain, who has been recording what young people are doing in Kamnik, their initiatives, ideas, the events they participate in … Katzen Kabaret group was preparing a new show in December 2019 titled Double D, which means »diskriminacija« and »dobrodelnost« in Slovenian language or »discrimination« and »charity« in English, both words always fashionable, especially in the festive season. After talking with her mentor, Jan, they developed the idea for the structure of the video and decided what kind of questions they were going to ask during the interviews. Jan got in touch with the Katzen Kabaret group and they agreed they would interview a few of them. Amaia recorded the event with some pieces of advice from her mentor: instead of only recording static shots, make some close shots and add some movement ... She basically recorded everything in order to have enough well-recorded material, just in case. It was her first time recording an event. The next step was the editing and she really enjoyed this part of the process; she was choosing the richest parts of each interview, thinking on how to connect the clips she had recorded with what the interviewees were saying. It felt like a puzzle and it was very satisfying to see the pieces fitting among them. As part of the celebrations of the International Youth day Associação Mais Cidadania created a video with some Portuguese Young People that can inspire us. This was the compilation of several social media post on our project #Cidadania as an inspiration for other young people of what we can do for our communities if we set our minds to it. We leave the final video here to inspire you all. It was published the toolkit of a KA2 project that K.A.NE is partner in. The name of the project is ‘’Youth together for refugees’’ and the aim was to collect best practices from all of the partners’ countries & to reach as more youth workers as possible and provide them with the right tools to address their daily work-life with young refugees, to acquire new skills fostering their success and future achievements; promoting multidisciplinary approaches and empowerment for a positive social change, in line with the European values of democracy and active citizenship. Website: http://youth4refugees.eu/ Toolkit: http://youth4refugees.eu/category/toolkit/ Employability Guide for Youth - Swedish and Georgian Perspectives project arises from the specific needs of youth entering the labor market and thus specific needs of NGOs, public bodies and their youth workers, which are active in this field and working with this sector of youth. It is their task to encourage young people in being self-initiative and taking risks at the beginning of their working life. Project is coordinated and facilitated by Ung Fritid cooperation with Center for Development and Democracy. Young people encounter difficulties in the transition from education to labor market. While theoretical knowledge about the labor market can be gained at schools and formal institutions, the youth workers are there to develop their sense of active approach of new generations of youth towards entrepreneurship and to help them to face challenges and surmount the difficulties. “Y and Z” generations of youth have lots of ideas on how to set up a business, create community projects or voluntary actions. They are enthusiastic to make a change in their lives and communities but lack the skill of how to initiate, develop an idea until a long-term result, react immediately to unexpected changes, perceive reality objectively, recognize their real needs and opportunities, work independently or in a team in a long-term. Public institutions, Youth workers and NGOs face similar challenges; entrepreneurship is a common learning need for both groups. Our aim is to address this need. The project aims to show different opportunities and how they help in shaping their professional future. Being involved in volunteering projects, working in NGOs can make a great impact on the youngsters. Taller d’Art, Cultura i Creació has commemorated, as every 20th of June, the World Refugee Day, in order to try to raise awareness about the global refugee crisis and to claim the importance of a response at the local and international level. On the one hand, and within the framework of the Twinning between Sabadell City Council and the Sahrawi people, the Sabadell artist Belén Perea has made a video to make the invisible visible through various materials and using techniques such as storytelling and collage. Thus, the work focuses on the magnitude of forced displacement around the world and the work being done by the city of Sabadell to mitigate its consequences. In addition, the illustrator knows first-hand one of these projects, as she participated in the Solidarity Camps with Sahrawi refugees in Tindouf last year. On the other hand, TACC has collaborated with the City Council of Rubí in the development of the campaign 'Youth of Rubí with the Sahara', spread through the Instagram of Rubí Jove, so that the young people of the municipality know the reality of the refugees from Western Sahara.
Through a video made with the collaboration of students from La Serreta Institute and edRa School, and a live broadcast with Mahmuda Mohamed, a young Sahrawi resident in Barcelona, the young people were able to get out blindfold themselves and make themselves aware of the situation that this town has been living in for 44 years. Finally, as coordinating organisation for the Erasmus+ Key Action 2 project “Strategic Human Rights Meeting Point”, TACC launched a challenge on social media under the hashtag #RaiseYourVoiceforRefugees, with the collaboration of the other participating organisations. Through black-and-white photographs with their mouths covered and holding posters, we have sought to make the situation of refugees visible to raise awareness among young people about the human rights violations that forgotten conflicts cause. K.A.NE developed a new project during quarantine named Digital K.A.NE. It is a platform which aims to support young people in developing themselves in social and educational level. In this project the ESC volunteers will be involved by developing content so young people can use it and benefit from it. It is a platform of exchanging knowledge as the main idea is the volunteers to create podcasts, campaigns, radio shows, tutorials, online lessons etc for the young people so they can increase their skills anytime & online. Website of the platform https://kanedigital.ngokane.org/ |
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