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Change Through Exchange: Training Young Change Makers Through European-African Exchange

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 589626-EPP-1-2017-1-DE-EPPKA2-CBY-ACPALA
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia Funder Contribution: 58,511.4 EUR

Change Through Exchange: Training Young Change Makers Through European-African Exchange

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A consortium of five organisations – Farafina Institute (Germany), Youth Network for Human Rights and Democracy (Ghana), the University of Swaziland (Swaziland), African & Caribbean Diversity (United Kingdom) and Partnership for Development Initiative Trust (PDIT) developed and piloted a ‘Training Module for Agents for Social Change through Exchange’ for young people of African origin from Europe and young people from Africa. The module will trains young people between 18 and 28 years to jointly become active for Social Development Goal 10 - the reduction of inequalities. In order to facilitate their exchange and joint action as a group and with other young people from Europe and Africa, the consortium also developed an ‘Online Platform for the Exchange of Change Makers’ that was given the name 'Action for Change' by the youth participants.Both outputs were piloted and tested with a group of young people of African origin from Germany and the UK and young people from Swaziland, Ghana and Zimbabwe. The group came together in the frame of a Mobility Activity in Germany in June 2018.This is before the background that young people often have the desire to become active for the elimination of inequalities in society on different levels (e.g. social status, gender, ethnicity, migration status etc.) but to be able to do so, they need:- knowledge (e.g. understanding of the wider context of and reasons for inequalities), - tools (e.g. methods of social action, funding opportunities), - strategies (e.g. turning ideas into action, project management), - connections with similarly motivated young people.They received training for these competences, conducted short internships and formed groups for the implementation of follow-up projects with the guidance of the participating organisations after the end of the project. The intern hosting organisations were all targeting the elimination of different inequalities related to gender, migration or refugee background, disability, environment and other areas. While participants were doing their internships, they were hosted by local families in Berlin, Munich, Bamberg and Hamburg.The youth participants also decided to write a book together on the experiences and reflections they made in the course of the project. A structure, authorships for chapters and a review process was developed during the exchange visit. Almost all chapters have been drafted by youth participants with the guidance of the coordinators. An external reviewer agreed to do a final review.The project applied a highly participatory approach. Participants and participating institutions (PIs) were included in and contributed to each stage of the project. Strategic meetings were conducted with PIs and local organisations working with youth for the exchange of experience and knowledge during the exchange visit. A Round Table with Embassy representatives of different African countries was also conducted as part of the exchange visit.The project contributes to the Framework for European Cooperation in the Youth Field, to the ‘Equity and Inclusion’ goal of Erasmus+ and to the Key Competences for Lifelong Learning 6 and 7.The idea and concept for the project was developed by the participants of project ‘Participate - Empowering Young People of African Origin for Political Participation in Europe’, that was funded as an Erasmus+, Key Action 3. The project was co-funded by the German organisation Engagement Global’s (EG) newly launched ‘German-African Youth Initiative’.The PIs decided in their final project meeting in Swaziland to continue the approach of EChange and implement the developed outputs with the inclusion of some new partners.

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