Acting And Creating Together For a Fair And Dignified Life, Brussels

Deadline: 4 November 2011
Open to: Youth workers, Young people, Youth leaders, Project managers
Costs: The costs of the activity (programme, accommodation, food) are taken in charge by the BIJ. The costs of transport are taken in charge by the respective National Agencies.

Description

AJC aims at gathering around forty young people concerned with the question of access to social rights. The idea is to valorise or to let reflexion, creativity as well as imagination occur in order to to act and create for a dignified and fair life! This AJC organized by the BIJ (Bureau International Jeunesse) in the framework of the program Citizens of the World aims at gathering around forty young people concerned with the question of the access to social rights. Citizen spaces of action and expression will give the opportunity to explore different subjects which are linked to social rights as integral part of Human rights. Through exchanges of analysis, personal experience and solutions as well as via creative forms of intervention, just come and express yourselves!
The AJC suggests a guideline: access to social rights for a fair and dignified life without any discrimination, without violence and without exclusion, divided into three themes (three workshops):
1. Utopias to come
Imagination of young people for future rights.
2. Rights and transient communities: an impossible meeting?
Youth with a transient life, Roma, travellers …
3. From indignation to action!
Interventions of young people into a democratic space.

Methodology:
The tools and methods used are based on the principles of the non formal education: exercises, games and group dynamics, in committee or in subgroups, and the participants are invited to produce the content of the training rather than passively consume the information.
The languages which will be used are English and French (sometimes separated, sometimes together). Cooperation and linguistic solidarity between French and English will be a major challenge during the activity.

Objectives:

• Giving oneself a common and motivating representation of a fair and dignified life.
• Establishing a diagnosis about the actuality and the correspondence of social rights vis-à-vis this common representation.
• Identifying, sharing and exploring different significant experiences and/or alternatives about the theme of a fair and dignified life.
• Exploring three different pathways for a better access to social rights for young people.
• Creative implementation of pass ways, recommendations and demands coming from the three workshops.
• Launching of ideas for future international cooperation and networking.

Eligibility

• Youth workers, Young people, Youth leaders, Project managers
• Good English and French skills. The languages which will be used are English and French (sometimes separated, sometimes together). Cooperation and linguistic solidarity between French and English will be a major challenge during the activity.

Costs

As far as the Programme countries of Youth in Action are concerned, the costs of the activity (programme, accommodation, food) are taken in charge by the BIJ. The costs of transport are taken in charge by the respective National Agencies.
For the SEE and EECA countries, the costs of the activity (programme, accommodation, food) are taken in charge by the BIJ as well as the international transport.

Application

Application form is on official website.

Contact for questions:
Thierry Dufour
E-Mail: thierry.dufour@cfwb.be
Phone: 003225483881

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