Migration - A Global Challenge, 12-21 June 2022, Denmark

7/2/2022

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By this project, we wanted to help address 2 main current issues: youth unemployment and the refugee/migration crisis. We considered these issues to be among the greatest challenges facing society at the time and in the future. According to the IOM, there were then some 65 million refugees fleeing from war and poverty. Over a million of those immigrants and refugees entered Europe since 2015. This was a global problem which called for joint efforts to achieve sustainable solutions. Hence, the project sought to enable youth workers to contribute to turning the challenges into opportunities for all stakeholders. We planned to do this by offering spaces for dialogue, non-formal education, and capacity building of youth workers to play a positive role in helping tackle the migration challenges. The related youth unemployment forced young people to seek a better life in other countries. In the new countries, those immigrant youth often faced social exclusion, discrimination, and marginalization. As immigrants, many of them lacked support from youth organizations that were not prepared to include immigrant youth in the youth associations in the host societies. The recent surge of refugees into Europe had triggered a rise in xenophobia and political rhetoric against immigrants and refugees.

The objectives were reached:

to build youth workers' capacity in youth/community work, possibilities of community engagement, and migrant integration in society
to cooperate with diverse organizations and target groups in the field of youth work
to share good practices and experiences among partner organizations in relation to community engagement and migrant integration
to foster intercultural interaction and collaboration through non-formal methods of community engagement and workshops in schools
to facilitate reflection on different dimensions of migration and mobility trends in Europe and the wider world
to build new partnerships among participating organizations and youth workers.

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