The project developed research on the issues of youth and their social rights from Portugal,Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey and plans to develop new policies and promote them through social media and face-to-face lobbying activities with the politicians.
THE VOICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND YOUTH TRAJECTORIES IN SOUTHERN EUROPE AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
The Voices of Young People and Youth Trajectories in Southern Europe were developed with the involvement of over 1000 young people in participating countries to understand the impact of social welfare systems on the young people and their autonomy. We have implemented multilanguage questionnaire study ( www.verdesur.org/survey ) and focus group meetings with over 50 young people to answer the following questions :
- How the welfare systems in Southern Europe affects in the lives of young people?
- What are the root causes of prolonged youth, NEETs and denied youth citizenship?
- How do young people identify with themselves, their fellow citizens and their engagement with those that influence and make decisions that affect their daily lives?
- What are young people’s hopes and aspirations and the challenges and obstacles in achieving them?
The report can be accessed from here in full report.
HUMAN RIGHTS FOR YOUTH AND TACKLING WITH DENIED YOUTH CITIZENSHIP :METHODS FOR YOUTH WORKERS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE
Human Rights for Youth and Tackling with Denied Youth Citizenship: Methods for Youth Workers in Southern Europe developed right after the implementation of the research study. The social welfare assistance and social welfare structure issue are not well-known by the youth work practitioners, but it is the mainstream topic in the area of youth studies in an academic environment. Thus, to reinforce the links between the academic environment as well as youth policymakers and youth practitioners, mainstreaming the knowledge through a training activity was the main tool to increase the knowledge of the youth workers on the very issue of the social welfare assistance.
The training development was another tool to increase the knowledge of the youth workers and qualify them as multipliers, as well as lobbyers in the field of youth, was be the aim of the output. On the other hand in the handbook, we developed the best practice study among the projects implemented in EU to inspire the youth workers to benefit from the output.
The handbook can be reached from here.
The toolbox can be accessed from https://niniyoyo-toolbox.verdesur.org/.
