ACT-YOU

Organisations working with youth with fewer opportunities recognize the persistent barriers they face in education, employment, and social participation. Despite the clear need for accessible environments and tailored support, a gap remains in the availability of well-trained youth workers equipped to create truly inclusive spaces. Funded by the European Union, ACT-YOU responds to this gap by empowering youth workers with the knowledge, strategies, and resources needed to foster accessibility, diversity, and meaningful engagement.
Specifically, the project foresees:

    • Building a community of youth workers for activities with and for young people with fewer opportunities in local, national and EU programmes and beyond;

    • Developing local youth work practices with a positive impact on youth workers’ regular work with young people;

    • Equipping youth workers with useful skills and competencies to advocate and promote human rights, democracy and the rule of law as well as to participate effectively in a culture of democracy, and to live peacefully together with others;

    • Fostering non-formal, peer-to-peer, participatory, experiential and informal learning opportunities for youth workers to provide high quality professional development activities with direct impact on the participants as well as on young people who are at risk of marginalisation and exclusion;

    • Providing youth workers with a better understanding of how to implement accessible and inclusive initiatives for people with fewer opportunities.

Four people in a room, one person of which is on a wheelchair, discuss and share ideas

Outputs of the project

    • A Study Visit that will provide participants with valuable insights into best practices for inclusion, diversity, and accessibility;

    • A Training Course designed to further enhance youth workers and youth leaders’ skills in designing and implementing inclusive projects that encourage active youth participation;

    • A multilingual list of recommendations, stemming from the outcomes of the activities and exchange promoted by ACT-YOU, to be shared public and private authorities, stakeholders, decision-makers and experts in the field. The list of recommendations will further contribute to encouraging inclusive practices, ensuring that accessibility and diversity remain central to future initiatives targeting these vulnerable groups.

The project partners

Asociatia Babilon Travel (Romania)
Asociatia Pentru Tineret Sakura (Romania)
Polski Zwiazek Nievidomykh (Poland)
Foundation for Development of the Cultural Bpocs (Bulgaria)
Loryhan ASBL (Belgium)
Slovenian Association of Disabled Students (Slovenia)
Peace Volunteering Network Norway
Peace Volunteering Network (Albania)
VIEWS International (Belgium)

News from the project

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