CUstomized SuPport to Youth Development of Active Leadersip

CUSPYDAL – CUstomized SuPport to Youth Development of Active Leadership is a project based on cooperation between Europe (Slovakia, Italy, North Macedonia) and Latin America (Brazil, Costa Rica, Uruguay).Project aim: CUSPYDAL aims to enhance social inclusion of disadvantaged young people (affected by unemployment, from rural or less developed areas); to contribute to their personal and professional development, enhance their soft and life skills, employability and entrepreneurship and to support their active participation in the local communities.Activities:- kick-off meeting in Slovakia,- research on NGO best practices in Europe and Central America related to the development of leadership for active engagement and social inclusion of disadvantaged youths,- training in Sardegna, Italy about fostering youth operators’ competences in the upskilling and development of the leadership potential of disadvantaged youngsters,- youth exchange in Costa Rica involving disadvantaged youths to transmit soft and transversal skills for personal fulfilment (flexibility, cooperation, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, goal-oriented thinking) and foster leadership potential for an increased involvement in their own communities. Participants will produce an activity plan for a socially-oriented initiative focused on tackling issue rooted in their own communities. The best ideas will be supported through counselling, promotion and activation of crowd-funding mechanisms,- job-shadowings (Slovakia – Uruguay and back),- local events focused on introducing stakeholders the project results as well as to the activity plans developed by YE participants,- mid-term meeting in Uruguay,- development of web platform focused on leadership development,- final evaluation meeting in Brazil.