The priorities to the youth in action project are out and
include climate change and exclusion. I will be starting a project next year
with colleges from youthformedia and nowy sanc foundation to run a week making
a documentary in southern Italy or Turkey. This will draw upon the ESRP and
emerging R and D projects. An untapped area as far as I know in terms of these
projects.
Anyone who would like to get involved please get in touch.
We will be bringing together expertise from the violence and climate change
field.
Annual priorities of the Youth in Action Programme are aimed
at better defining the context of implementation of the Programme by
clarifying the scope of the permanent priorities (promoting young people's
European citizenship, active participation in democratic life, cultural
diversity and the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities) and by
better anchoring the Programme to topical issues at European level.
In keeping with the past, the underlying idea is to ensure continuity in
certain priorities in order to achieve more sustainable results, while
adapting to the main priorities of the year and those retained at political
level in the youth field. In line with this approach, in 2010 priority will be
given to project proposals taking into account one or more of the following
priorities:
- European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
This
priority is intended to encourage projects aimed at raising young people's
awareness of everyone’s responsibility in tackling poverty and marginalisation
as well as at promoting the inclusion of groups with fewer opportunities. This
concerns in particular, projects aimed at stimulating young people's
reflection on the prevention, ways out and consequences of poverty; projects
tackling the issue of marginalisation and various forms of discrimination,
such as those based on gender, disability or ethnic, religious, linguistic or
migrant grounds. In this context, particular attention will be paid in
particular to projects promoting the active involvement of: a) disabled young
people, encouraging exchange between young people with and without
disabilities, as well as projects focusing on the issue of disability in our
society; b) young people from migrant backgrounds or ethnic, religious or
linguistic minorities. In this context, projects involving Roma young people
shall be encouraged wherever relevant.
- Youth unemployment and promotion of young unemployed people's active
participation in society
This priority is intended to encourage
projects tackling the issue of youth unemployment and aimed at stimulating
young unemployed people's active participation in society.
- Awareness-raising and mobilization of young people around global
challenges (such as sustainable development, climate change, migrations, the
Millennium Development Goals).
This priority is intended to
encourage projects aimed at raising young people's consciousness of their role
as active citizens in a globalized world as well as at fostering their sense
of global solidarity and commitment vis-à-vis current
issues.