Empowering Minorities: a project to improved practices for work with minorities

The project ‘Empowering Minorities: a project to improved practices for work with minorities’ is a long term project which brought together 9 partner organizations coming from Albania, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Romania, Kosovo and Montenegro. The main aim of the project is to improve practices of the partner organizations to work with minorities. Moreover the project aimed to strengthen the capacities of youth organizations to work with ethnic and religious minority young people. to develop capacities of the participants of mobility activities to support personal and professional development of ethnic and religious minority young people through non-formal base activities; to increase capacities of the participants of mobility activities to apply at their work door to door approach and family involvement approach and to increase capacities of the participants of mobility activities to involve local authorities in the process of empowerment of ethnic and religious minority young people. The project was combined with mobility and capacity building activities. As mobility activities we implemented two training courses and one study visit. Training courses took place in Durres, Albania and Prishtina, Kosovo, study visit took place in different cities of North Macedonia starting from Skopje. As capacity building activities each partner organization implemented several workshops. These workshops were implemented by the participants who attended the mobility activities. This gave to them the opportunity to test the tools created by them during the training courses, and as well to give to them possibility to run workshops on their own to improve public speaking and boost their knowledge on minorities. Moreover these activities raised their competencies to work with minority youth. During this project participants created a Toolbox with 11 tools which were selected and published in one handbook shared online and spread also through dissemination and follow up activities to organizations, institutions, youth workers, leaders motivated to raise their competencies to work with minority youth. Duration of the project was 12 months from 15 November 2018 until 14 November 2019.