In the framework of the international Campaign that is coordinated by CCIVS with the title “Raising Voice – Raising Peace”, ELIX is organizing a Peace Action Week on the rights of Migrants & Refugees and the right to citizenship.
This Peace Action Week represents for us an extraordinary opportunity and a little, but important step to concretely start the change we want to see in nowadays’ society.
We believe that migration is a challenge which could be transformed into an opportunity for our societies to grow and become more inclusive, multicultural, and peaceful.
Our project aims not only at building peace and fostering migrants’ integration by increasing intercultural sensitivity, but also at improving active participation and commitment among youth.
The project will be held in Athens, 23-30 of March 2017 with the participation of 28 youngsters from 7 different countries and 8 different partners of ELIX from all over Europe.
Objectives:
More specifically,
- To promote a constructive debate where participants will have the opportunity to share their views freely thanks to a peer to peer approach;
- To bring the participants to an active reflection on the topic through non formal education activities and experiential learning;
- To promote mutual understanding among the participants by encouraging them to approach intercultural dialogue with tolerance and open-minded attitude;
- To expand participants’ knowledge about human rights;
- To put the participants in contact not only with actors who are working with refugees and migrants, but also with refugees and migrants themselves;
- To empower the participants - and through them other actors in their communities of origin - by strengthening their skills, in particular the ones needed to organize effective raising awareness actions, projects and events at local, national and international level;
- To encourage participants to take action in their own countries.
Main steps we will follow for the Peace Action Week: Preparation, Training, Awareness raising actions, Communication/Visibility.
Target group: youth workers and leaders involved in IVS organizations, activists committed to human rights and peace. Ideally, we would like to include some young people with a migration background.
Partners:
The project is implemented by ELIX - Conservation Volunteers Greece in partnership with the orhanisations:
- THE COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE, France
- INTERNATIONALE BEGEGNUNG IN GEMEINSCHAFTSDIENSTEN, Germany
- YAP (Youth Action for Peace), Italy
- SOLIDARITES JEUNESSES MCP, France
- Egyesek Youth Association, Hungary
- INEX SLOVAKIA, Slovakia
- Volunteer Action for Peace, UK
This project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Commission.
