Life is bringing more and more challenges for young people, such as unemployment, terrorist attacks, refugee crisis, violation of human rights, intercultural misunderstanding in a very diverse world, and these are only the major challenges that young people have. This project aims at bringing solutions to this need for self-empowerment, self-expression and youth and women inclusion and participation, while valorising and establishing intercultural exchanges, arts and sports activities between the Portuguese volunteers and the youngsters from Rabat-Salé.The objectives of this project are:1. To promote non-formal learning and cooperation in the field of youth with the Partner Countries, in specific with Morocco, while promoting equity, social cohesion, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, and preventing violent radicalization;2. To support the volunteers in the acquisition of learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competences) with a view to improving their personal development (such as self-empowerment and self-esteem), enhancing their employability in the European labour market and beyond;3. To promote opportunities for young people with fewer opportunities of intercultural awareness, experience and learning European values, such as respect for human dignity; equality, human rights, tolerance, non-discrimination, justice, solidarity and equality between men and women. Volunteers will have a privileged contact with indoor and outdoor contexts which could allow volunteers interesting learning in terms of knowing how to deal and be in a world increasingly plural and diverse;4. To enhance the participants' foreign languages competence, especially of English and Arabic;5. Raise the volunteers’ awareness and understanding of Moroccan reality and culture, through music, arts and environmental activities, being at the same time ambassadors of Portuguese culture, in the basis of an intercultural and peer learning;6. Raise awareness about the Erasmus+ Programme, in general, and European Voluntary Service, in particular, at local and national levels for Moroccan youngsters, especially the ones with fewer opportunities, NGOs and government bodies.The most relevant topics addressed by your project are:1. Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning2. Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)3. Inclusion - equityThis long-term EVS of 9 months will take place in Rabat, Morocco, from September 15th, 2016 to June 15th, 2017, and it will especially target 2 youngsters aged 18-30 years with fewer opportunities (Refugees, educational difficulties; social, geographical and economic obstacles, and cultural differences) sent by its partner organisation from Portugal, MEDesTU, whose mission is aligned with this project.The activities proposed are: 1. Activities at local schools, for pre-school to basic school aged children, in terms of visual and performing arts, intercultural exchanges, sport and outdoor activities;2. Volunteerism workshops for youth from secondary schools, universities and in general;3. Management of National projects;4. Activities for promotion of Erasmus+ Programme in general and EVS in particular; and5. Personal project.The methodology will consist on informal and non-formal education and learning. Participative methods will be used, attending to the volunteers’ needs, contributions and expectations and feedback, relying on a co-design and co-management basis between the partner organisations and the volunteers. Volunteers will be invited to self-reflect upon their learning, using a logbook.The final results reached within one month are:1. Tangible: the developed activities (workshops), testimonies (news in 4 different languages, promotional materials such as the flyers, 2 Youthpass certificates, a gallery of photos), clipping of press releases and magazine Associar+ articles, a website resulting from the project;2. Intangible: all the learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and attitudes) of immeasurable value that were brought to light by this intercultural experience.It’s expected that this long-term experience promotes the self-empowerment of these youngsters with fewer opportunities, enhancing their employability and motivating them to engage in other Erasmus+ projects. The impact on the target groups (youth, in specific), the other stakeholders and the community in general, they will benefit from the fostering of intercultural mind-sets and competences through the initiatives implemented, by encouraging active citizenship and youth participation, from the promotion of a true Euro-Mediterranean dialogue, from the deconstruction of prejudices and the raising awareness of the European values. It's expected that it impacts on more than 10,000 people, directly or indirectly, i.e. word of mouth or Internet.

Life is bringing more and more challenges for young people, such as unemployment, terrorist attacks, refugee crisis, violation of human rights, intercultural misunderstanding in a very diverse world, and these are only the major challenges that young people have. Therefore, there’s a need for self-empowerment, self-expression and youth and women participation. In this sense, this project aims at the valorisation and establishment of intercultural exchanges, arts and environment between the Portuguese volunteers and the youngsters from Imilchil valley in the Moroccan High Atlas mountains, especially the ones from Agoudal vulnerable and poor village, through their overall involvement in the implementation of small projects of social development. The objectives of this project are:1. To promote non-formal learning and cooperation in the field of youth with the Partner Countries, in specific with Morocco, while promoting equity, social cohesion, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, and preventing violent radicalization;2. To support the volunteers in the acquisition of learning outcomes (knowledge, skills andcompetences) with a view to improving their personal development (such as self-empowerment and self-esteem), enhancing their employability in the European labour market and beyond;3. To promote opportunities for young people with fewer opportunities of intercultural awareness, experience and learning European values, such as respect for human dignity; equality, human rights, tolerance, non-discrimination, justice, solidarity and equality between men and women. Volunteers will have a privileged contact with indoor and outdoor contexts which could allow volunteers interesting learning in terms of knowing how to deal and be in a world increasingly plural and diverse;4. To enhance the participants' foreign languages competence, especially of English and Arabic;5. Raise the volunteers’ awareness and understanding of Moroccan reality and culture, through music, arts and environmental activities, being at the same time ambassadors of Portuguese culture, in the basis of an intercultural and peer learning;6. To promote the experience a real sense of community, because the “tribe” is united around a collective function, mission, culture and history; placed in the top of everything and everyone: the project;7. Raise awareness about environment and climate change issues, through working in the nature related to preservation and ecology, and improve technical competences in what fighting against erosion is concerned.This short-term EVS project will take place from August 1-31st, 2016 in Imilchil, Morocco,and it will especially target 16 youngsters aged 17-30 years with fewer opportunities (Refugees, educational difficulties; social, geographical and economic obstacles, and cultural differences) sent by its partner organisation from Portugal, MEDesTU, whose mission is aligned with this project.The activities proposed are: Traditional construction and replantation; Improvement of school infrastructures and conditions; Workshops of environmental awareness for children; Intercultural, artistic and sports activities; and Touristic project activities.There will be an Arabic Course, monitoring and evaluation moments, and informal gatherings with AKHIAM members as well.The methodology will consist on informal and non-formal learning. Participative methods will be used, attending to the volunteers’ needs, contributions and expectations and feedback, relying on a co-design and co-management basis between the partner organisations and the volunteers. Volunteers will be invited to self-reflect upon their learning, using a logbook. The final results reached within one month are:1. Tangible: the developed activities (workshops), testimonies (news in 4 different languages, promotional materials such as the flyers, 16 Youthpass certificates, a gallery of photos), clipping of press releases and magazine Associar+ articles, a website resulting from the project;2. Intangible: all the learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and attitudes) of immeasurable value that were brought to light by this intercultural experience.Despite the fact that there’s a short-term EVS, it’s expected that this experience promote the self-empowerment of these youngsters with fewer opportunities, enhancing their employability and motivating them to engage in a long-term EVS and other Erasmus+ projects.The impact on the target groups (youth, in specific), the other stakeholders and the community in general, they will benefit from the fostering of intercultural mind-sets and competences through the initiatives implemented, by encouraging active citizenship and youth participation, from the promotion of a true Euro-Mediterranean dialogue, from the deconstruction of prejudices and the raising awareness of the European values. It's expected that it impacts on more than 10,000 people, directly or indirectly, i.e. word of mouth or Internet.

This EVS project responds to that need of creating and multiplying bridges of mutual discovery, communication and intercultural exchanges between Portuguese and Moroccan youngsters who will work together on useful and voluntary actions. This short-term EVS project will take place from August 1-31st, 2016 and it will especially target 10 youngsters aged 17-30 years with fewer opportunities (educational difficulties; social, geographical and economic obstacles, and cultural differences) sent by its partner organisation from Portugal, MEDesTU, whose mission is aligned with this project. The objectives of this project are:1. To promote non-formal learning and cooperation in the field of youth with the Partner Countries, in specific with Morocco;2. To support the volunteers in the acquisition of learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competences) with a view to improving their personal development, their involvement as considerate and active citizens in society and their employability in the European labour market and beyond;3. Enhance lifelong learning and mobility of young people with fewer opportunities;4. Improve the effectiveness and quality of education, in particular, non-formal education;5. Promoting equity, social cohesion, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue and more active participation in society in order to foster inclusion, respect and a better acceptance of diversity, without discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc., and to prevent violent radicalization;6. To foster active citizenship and solidarity of all young people and intercultural and peer learning;7. Promote opportunities for intercultural awareness, experience and learning European values, such as respect for human dignity; equality, human rights, tolerance, non-discrimination, justice, solidarity and equality between men and women. Volunteers will have a privileged contact with indoor and outdoor contexts which could allow volunteers interesting learning in terms of knowing how to deal and be in a world increasingly plural and diverse;8. Promote the volunteers self-empowerment and self-esteem by involving them in the implementation of joint tasks in an independent and challenging way;9. To enhance the participants' foreign languages competence, especially of English and Arabic;10. Raise the volunteers’ awareness to the understanding of Moroccan culture and reality. During the summer, the HO organizes activities with their members who do not have the opportunity to travel for vacation. This project will allow them to live new and useful experiences through meeting the Portuguese volunteers, and to share activities and cultural workshops;11. Encourage the Portuguese volunteers to share their culture and country, as ambassador;12 - Raise awareness to environment and climate change issues, by actively work in the nature. There will be 3 types of activities:1. Taking part of volunteer and useful actions for local community.2. Workshops of intercultural and non-formal education.3. Activities or workshops proposed by the Portuguese volunteers and the Moroccan youngsters. The methodology will consist on informal and non-formal learning. Participative methods will be used, attending to the volunteers’ needs, contributions and expectations and feedback, relying on a co-design and co-management basis between the partner organisations and the volunteers. Volunteers will be invited to self-reflect upon their learning, using a logbook. The final results reached within one month are both tangible and intangible results.1. Tangible: the developed activities (workshops), testimonies (news in 4 different languages, promotional materials such as the flyers, 10 Youthpass certificates, a gallery of photos), clipping of press releases and magazine Associar+ articles, a website resulting from the project;2. Intangible: all the learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and attitudes) of immeasurable value that were brought to light by this intercultural experience. Despite the fact that there’s a short-term EVS, it’s expected that this experience promotes the self-empowerment of these youngsters with fewer opportunities, enhancing their employability and motivating them to engage in a long-term EVS and other Erasmus+ projects. The impact on the target groups (youth, in specific), the other stakeholders and the community in general, they will benefit from the fostering of intercultural mind-sets and competences through the initiatives implemented, by encouraging active citizenship and youth participation, from the promotion of a true Euro-Mediterranean dialogue, from the deconstruction of prejudices and the raising awareness of the European values.

Life is bringing more and more challenges for young people, such as unemployment, terrorist attacks, refugee crisis, violation of human rights, intercultural misunderstanding in a very diverse world, and these are only the major challenges that young people have. Therefore, there’s a need for self-empowerment, self-expression and youth and women participation. In this sense, this project aims at the valorisation and establishment of intercultural and intergenerational exchanges based on the youth (work and participation), between the Portuguese volunteers and the Palestinian community, especially from Salfit vulnerable village, through their overall involvement in the implementation of small projects of social and health development. The objectives of this project are: 1. To promote non-formal learning and cooperation in the field of youth with the Partner Countries, in specific with Palestine, while promoting equity, social cohesion, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, and preventing violent radicalization; 2. To support the volunteers in the acquisition of learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competences) with a view to improving their personal development (such as self-empowerment and self-esteem), enhancing their employability in the European labour market and beyond; 3. To promote opportunities for young people with fewer opportunities of intercultural awareness, experience and learning European values, such as respect for human dignity; equality, human rights, tolerance, non-discrimination, justice, solidarity and equality between men and women. Volunteers will have a privileged contact with indoor and outdoor contexts, and diverse publics, which could allow volunteers an interesting learning in terms of knowing how to deal and be in a world increasingly plural and diverse; 4. To enhance the participants' foreign languages competence, especially of English and Arabic; 5. Raise the volunteers’ awareness and understanding of Palestinian reality and culture, being at the same time ambassadors of Portuguese culture, in the basis of an intercultural and peer learning; and 6. To promote the experience a real sense of community, because the “tribe” is united around a collective function, mission, culture and history; placed on the top of everything and everyone: the project. This short-term EVS project was supposed to take place from 1-31st August 2017 in Salfit, Palestine, but Israel didn’t let us pass the border. From Jordan and until the August 9th, we tried to get the necessary visas. The official end of the project was on the August 12th, with the return to Portugal.It meant to target 10 youngsters aged 17-30 years with fewer opportunities (Refugees, educational difficulties; social, geographical and economic obstacles, and cultural differences) sent by MEDesTU. During this time, informal and non-formal learning was applied into practice. The volunteers had the chance to get to know Jordanian people, most of them originally from Palestine, food and traditions as during the breakfast offered by the landlord; to get to know Jordanian places, such as touristic ones such as World Heritage Site Petra, Wadi Rum, the Dead Sea, and walk around the wide city of Amman; to learn informally Arabic in their daily life encounters and local contacts, as well as to practice English, as during the meetings at the EU Delegation with East and West Center for Sustainable Development, for instance, where the volunteers’ needs, contributions and expectations and feedback, relying on a co-design and co-management basis was given particular focus; they were encouraged to take pictures and videos of their experiences, as well as to share them in the google drive, so everybody could access to it after the end of the project; the volunteers were given the space to meet among themselves and with the accompany persons; there was an evaluation meeting using non formal methods and decisions were taken as a group (included for the touristic trips), as well as distribution of tasks, such as cleaning the apartments and cooking meals, so the group would work as a team. Despite the fact that this short-term EVS didn’t take place as such, the youngsters experienced a crucial opportunity of self-empowerment by dealing with adversity and uncertainty, fostering the intercultural mind-sets and transversal competences, encouraging active citizenship and youth participation by realizing that the way for a true Euro-Mediterranean dialogue has to be built - and by them as active players - not being given it for free.

"Life is bringing more and more challenges for young people, such as unemployment, terrorist attacks, refugee crisis, violation of human rights, intercultural misunderstanding in a very diverse world, and these are only the major challenges that young people have. Therefore, there’s a need for self-empowerment and, self-expression of youth and women, through social inclusion, creativity and culture. In this sense, the project aims to valorise culture, especially the Arab and Islamic heritage, to deconstruct intercultural stereotypes and prejudices. The objectives of this project are: 1. To promote non-formal learning and cooperation in the field of youth with the Programme and Partner Countries in specific with Egypt, while promoting equity, social cohesion, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, and preventing violent radicalization; 2. To support the volunteers in the acquisition of learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and attitude), with the focus on the interculturality, in order to improve their personal development (such as self-empowerment and self-esteem), enhancing their employability in the European labour market and beyond; 3. To promote opportunities for young people with fewer opportunities of intercultural awareness, experience and learning European values, such as respect for human dignity; equality, human rights, tolerance, non-discrimination, justice, solidarity and equality between men and women. Volunteers will have a privileged contact with indoor and outdoor contexts, and diverse publics, which could allow volunteers an interesting learning in terms of knowing how to deal and be in a world increasingly plural and diverse; 4. To enhance the volunteers foreign languages competence especially of Portuguese, English, Arab and intercultural awareness; 5. To raise the volunteers awareness and understanding of Egypt reality and culture, being at the same time ambassadors of their own culture, in the basis of peer and intercultural learning and dialogue activities, where EVS volunteers can share their cultural identity but also better understand the cultural identity of youth in Cairo and its individuals. The project’s topics are: 1. Inclusion - Equity 2. Creativity and Culture This short-term EVS project will take place from August 1-31, 2018 in Cairo, Egypt, and it will especially target 10 youngsters aged 18-30 years with fewer opportunities (refugees, disability, educational difficulties; social, geographical and economic obstacles, and cultural differences) sent by its partner organisation from Portugal, MEDesTU, whose mission is aligned with this project. The activities proposed are: Personal building training; Holding sessions, trainings, workshops and camps for volunteers and Egyptian youth and their families; Exchange of youth and volunteers, visits among the fellow nations through the intercultural exchange programs; Workshop for the volunteers and Egyptian youth with the intercultural skills in order to be more tolerant; Organization of Cultural development trips inside and outside Cairo; Holding programs for cultural development inside and outside Cairo; Developing the sense of belonging among the Egyptian youth by maintaining awareness programs to spread the culture of peace; Project proposal development regarding youth (personal project). There will be an Arabic Course, monitoring and evaluation moments, and informal gatherings with IYDA members as well. The methodology will consist on informal and non-formal learning. Participative methods will be used, attending to the volunteers’ needs, contributions and expectations and feedback, relying on a co-design and co-management basis between the partner organisations and the volunteers. Volunteers will be invited to self-reflect upon their learning, using a logbook. The final results reached within one month are: 1. Tangible: the developed activities (workshops), 10 Youthpass certificates, 10 volunteering certificates from local association to volunteers, a booklet & photo collection, 3 videos with testimonies, In addition, a volunteer’s post, written and published on her Facebook account by her own initiative, a website on the international conference to which the EVS project contributed, publications at medestu.org, ""Euromed without borders"" facebook page managed by volunteers. We are still working on the testimonies (news in 3 different languages: Portuguese, English and Arabic) and the magazine Associar+ article about the EVS experience.As we were given 5 minutes and half of airtime in the public TV this year, we will mention this EVS project and all that we previously did and therefore spread the word and to spread the value and importance of the Erasmus+ Programme in youngsters lives. 2. Intangible: all the learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and attitudes) of immeasurable value that were brought to light by this intercultural experience and exchange."