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INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PEACE ANDINTEGRATION NON-ENTREPRENEURIAL

Country: Georgia

INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PEACE ANDINTEGRATION NON-ENTREPRENEURIAL

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 602516-EPP-1-2018-1-UA-EPPKA2-CBY-EP-CSF
    Funder Contribution: 59,470 EUR

    The project’s primary goal was building partner organizations’ capacities for working with youth struggling from forced migration and involving them into local communities. Although we came up with the project’s idea almost 4 years ago, throughout the project’s lifetime, its topic has been still sharp and crucial. In feeling the project’s topicality for future years, despite COVID restrictions and fatal obstacles the project team faced, we worked hard in order to satisfy a youth need of better social adaptation while being migrants. We did it by introducing a new methodology allowing mixed non-formal and formal education into our partner organizations’ every day work. The tools for migrant youth involvement we were equipped with as we started the project were lacking a cross-sector methodology for NGOs-universities networks. Partner NGOs and academic bodies were not guided on ways of putting mutual efforts into adaptation of young migrants from the perspective of social communication and career pathway. Thus, in following our planned activities and taking decisions about their changes under the pressure of the pandemic, we managed to shape a strong network of youth organizations (NGOs + university) for involving migrant youth across Europe and countries of Eastern partnership. We strongly believe that after the project, the established network of organizations and activists provide necessary assistance and keep young migrants safe from the risk of radicalization and wrong life choices. This belief rests on the project’s direct fit with the objectives of participating organizations. In embracing now about 3,000 young migrants, the university partner seeked to mix formal education methods with non-formal tools provided by NGOs. The project gathered experienced representatives with various professional backgrounds working for NGOs and the university who launched intercultural dialogue, created migrant-focused sustainable youth networks and developed relevant methodology underpinned by a mix of non-formal and formal education tools. All this enhanced their personal and organizational capacities for better involvement of migrant youth into local communities. It is worth mentioning here that the project participants have made a true difference for themselves due to intercultural communication between young migrants and social activists.The most important outcome of the project maybe identified as shaping new friendly and tolerant environment for young migrants to be involved into local communities by helping some of them to avoid fears and believe in positive future in new society, training local youth activists to continue changing environment for better migrants’ adaptation and shaping a network ready to operate effectively. This main outcome could be produced by all the project participants due to the fact that we obeyed principles of innovative project methodology introduced as a pillar of all activities. Giving hope and support to hundreds of young migrants as a result of successful stories about new life shared by youngsters via the inspirational portal is also one of the main project outcomes. Unusual youth contributions across countries in “YOUth-to-YOUth” communication manner evoked faith and optimism about young migrants’ social activity, finding friends and following good career paths in other countries.Finally the project taught us to act under complete uncertainty and irresistible force. 3 years of projects instead of planned 2 because of the COVID pressure brought positive results. We learnt how to make fast changes with minimum losses and be resilient to challenges.

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