147 Results Are Tagged With "Europe and Eurasia"

Transatlantic Language Teachers

Cyprus
Access to Education
Although an EU country with a long British colonial history, Cyprus still faces challenges as a small island nation opening itself up to the wider world. Younger generations do not speak English as fluently as their grandparents. Our project addresses these problems by creating a transatlantic tutoring system to promote improved language skills for the next generation of English language teachers in Cyprus, while allowing American students to use their foreign language skills abroad. The majority of students of English at the European University Cyprus (EUC) in Nicosia and of American foreign language students at Stockton University in New Jersey will be future global language teachers. The goal then is to reach language teachers-in-training and ultimately future generations of their students across the globe. EUC will gain a Writing Center for students in the English BA program, while Stockton will organize translation workshops with a Cypriot student Teaching Assistant. 

TURNING POINT CHALLENGE

Spain
Entrepreneurship and Youth Employment
Unemployment for youth under 25 years old has risen to 53.2% in Spain, the highest unemployment rate for this age bracket in Europe. Moreover, the lack of inspirational and practical activities available to youth dramatically affects their motivation to remain engaged in the community and better their situation. Therefore, in order to combat this negative cycle, we need to train young adults to create their own jobs via entrepreneurship.

Mapping Human Rights for Dialogue in Calais

France
Human Rights and Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Populations
Calais, North of France is one of the hot spots for migrants and refugees in Europe. Thousands of children, women, and men are stuck at the border in their attempt to seek asylum in the UK. They now live in critical humanitarian conditions in the “Jungle”, a slum isolated outside of Calais and surrounded by the police. There are rising tensions from the local population of Calais towards the presence of migrants as well as rising violence from the police, migrants, and fascist groups. Through this project, we are addressing the critical need for dialogue at a grassroots level. In dealing with extremely vulnerable and marginalized populations, dialogue has to be combined with fostering empathy, thus raising an awareness of the situation of the human rights of migrants in the “Jungle” of Calais among the local population.

ENTERprise your region

Slovakia
Entrepreneurship and Youth Employment
The biggest challenge of this project is to make the training as attractive and authentic as possible in order to show the young people from the region and from marginalized Roma communities that it is possible to start to work and to be successful in the region.  The biggest need is to stop the “brain drain” and to train and support the target group to stay and work within the community in their region. National research (January 2016) shows, that Gemer region belongs to the least developed rural regions in Slovakia with big Roma minority and approx. 30% of inhabitance is without work - from what are 10% young people in age from 20 to 29.The activities of this project will target and conquer the reasons, which lead to this unflattering situation – we try to develop what is currently existing only in big cities - a strong local network of successful entrepreneurs, adequate entrepreneurship education and work experience, good practice examples and local support.

Common space, common issue

Poland
Human Rights and Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Populations
In 2012 Poland ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which primarily defines the principles of universal design, what has a huge impact on access to services, products and the environment.However, as indicated by the both reports on the implementation of the Convention - the governmental report and, above all the Civic Alternative report, drawn up by a consortium of 130 NGOs, in Poland there is still a big problem of lack of knowledge about the principles of universal design, therefore new facilities or services in the public space are inaccessible to people with various disabilities. The problem relates primarily to rural areas and small and medium-sized cities, where the accessibility plays a marginal role, and public awareness is at a lower level than in larger agglomerations. The project aim is to raise knowledge and awarness of universal design and needs of persons with various disabilities in local communities, especially among young people.

Empowering Cypriot Small-Scale Food Producers

Cyprus
Entrepreneurship and Youth Employment
Since at least 2011 the Republic of Cyprus has entered a period of recession (Fig. 1), which affects the job market and per capita GNI (Figs. 2-3). Statistics indicate that a group most affected by this crisis is the secondary sector food and drink producers. Specifically, a decrease of 12% in products gross value, 15% in workforce, 3% in monthly income, 12% in large-medium businesses, and an increase of 6.5% in small, mostly family-owned, businesses are noted (Figs. 4-7). These suggest the sector is shrinking in value and workforce, whilst adapting to the crisis by creating smaller-scale businesses that create jobs and enhance the economy (OECD, EU). However, our local partners report that small-scale producers lack managerial, marketing and financial support, especially from the government, which hinder the revitalization of the sector and increase of its competitiveness. Our project aspires to improve this situation by holding entrepreneurship promoting training workshops.

Involving Youth in Municipal Planning

Ukraine
Civic Participation
In 2015 a sociological survey revealed disbelief of young Ukrainians (aged 14-35) in the ability to influence public decisions in any way: only 4% participated in governance system improvements and reform promotions, 43 % were not even interested in bills, budgets discussions etc. (www.gfk.com). This situation poses a challenge that will require considerable efforts to engage youth in policymaking. It seems the involvement should be started with municipal level due to the fact that 70% of young citizens live in cities where they directly face various difficulties which mostly can be overcame by participating in working out and implementing proposals for plans of sustainable city development. For this reason, our aim is to conduct a campaign designed to make young people more aware of their possibilities and thereby encourage them to participate in municipal planning and debating on local public service reforms through networking and solidarity groups at regional and national level.
Monday, May 16, 2016 - Tuesday, November 15, 2016
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raising awareness of Pankisi youth

The project proposes to target the young adults from Pankisi valley and introduce the integration and empowerment-bound initiatives. The project intends to respond to the declared needs and readiness of ethnic Chechen citizens to integrate in Georgia society. The project will also provide specific sets of knowledge, skills and enthusiasm to encourage local activism among beneficiaries in the aftermath of the project.
Sunday, March 6, 2016
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Internet Safety for Women and Girls

Grooming, exploitation, trolling, radicalisation and bullying are serious problems and risks that impact on girls suffering the brunt of the dangers associated with the social media and mobile technology. We will develop interactive online resources in various format and languages supporting mothers from hard to reach, isolated and BME communities, to safeguard their daughters against these risks.

GIVE ME A HAND FOR REFUGEES

Turkey
Human Rights and Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Populations
Although Turkey is a country of migration, there have never been that much refugees in the country before Syrian civil war. Since the war began there has been a mass influx and 2.072.290 refugees came to Turkey. (Source: UNHCR numbers of October, 2015) According to official sources there are 92.290 refugees living in Bursa but de facto numbers are more than 100.000. Many of them try to maintain their life with the financial support they had from governmental foundations and NGOs, and numerous of refugees are living in streets, begging for money. Most of them could not be integrated; they have no job, can't speak the language, can't read and write in Turkish. Turkish Government prepared a regulation to provide work permit for them but since they can't speak the language and don't know how it works in Turkey they are not effective on finding a job. And considering unemployment is also a problem for a Turkish citizen their situation is harder.

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