Jóvenes por la Participación y los Valores Demócráticos -Young People for Participation and Democratic Values

Youth-ACT is a blended learning programme. It aims at raising awareness and the ability of young leaders to contribute to a broadening and deepening in the practice of democracy and democratic values through a quality non-formal, totally accessible training in civic participation. The programme offers them the capacity to become bridge builders and enablers of participation particularly in the case of marginal minorities in order to make these groups grow in a sense of belonging while they contribute to our societies with their ideas and perspectives making them richer, more diverse and more peaceful. The objectives are as follows:.To foster the development of a non-formal, learning programme, accessible to youth at transnational level and jointly developed by them in a topic of great relevance at present and also recognised as critical by the recently approved EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027..To foster blended learning mobility to facilitate cooperation and exchanges of youth perspectives from youth groups of 14 different cultures. This will contribute to the development of a multicultural, multilingual learning community, with the crystallisation of a transnational youth network and a think-tank on the issue of participation..To improve the quality of work of young workers offering them a system of interaction, a systematic non-formal approach to the topic with access at a repository of good practices both developed by the consortium or available in other sites such a SALTO..Advance in a system of recognition of youth work, based on previous experiences and particularly through the recognition of competences (Key in the programme design) systems developed by both Tuning and CALOHEE (Comparing Achievements of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education in Europe) projects where both the Coordinator and the University of Deusto are front runners in these systems also being adapted to non-formal learning..To offer 14 youth workers, a period of two weeks immersion in projects in other countries, in order to contrast and compare different styles of work and systems of management..To incorporate young people in democratic processes, to link them with policy makers and to seek their deeper understanding and foster their contribution and perspectives..To broaden the concept of participation to reach marginal and emerging social groups, very much active in the programme and making it accessible to all once the programme has incorporated all the contributions..To incorporate the development of new tools and techniques on video-making and online content promotion in order to motivate youth workers to develop activities involving media technologies, develop ideas and strategies to combating the digital divide and to motivate on line creations