Why EVS can be an opportunity for your organization?

Why Public Institution could benefit, politically, socially and pedagogically, from hosting foreign volunteers in your institution?

The guide "European Voluntary Service in institutions of formal education"offers a wide perspective on the theme and was created thanks to the international training course "EVS Academy" co-financed by Erasmus+ programme.

Defending and promoting LGBT* rights in the EU-MED Area.

 Kellimni.com - Offers free confidential support to young people

Learning4all - Inclusive Settings and Strategies for Adolescents of Different Abilities Training Course

Progetti artistici nell'ambito del programma Erasmus e Protocollo tra Comune e SEYF per promovere una cultura dell'accoglienza coi giovani migranti.

SEYF is looking for 1 Bulgarian and 1 Irish participant aged 18-27 years old for an European Voluntary Service in Italy on migrants' issues.

SEYF is looking for 1 Bulgarian and 1 Irish participant aged 18-27 years old for an European Voluntary Service in Italy on migrants' issues.

Be part of an Erasmus Plus youth exchange in Italy, from 01 till 09 April 2017, with SEYF Malta!

 SEYF è lieta di presentarvi un'opportunità di formazione all'estero nell'ambito del programma Erasmus Plus sul tema dell'Hate Speech e la difesa dei diritti umani online.

Cerchiamo 3 partecipanti dal 3 al 12 marzo 2017.

Women Overcoming the World (WOW) è un progetto di mobilità (scambio di giovani) ospitato da SEYF dal 21 al 28 settembre 2016.

Il progetto ha coinvolto 40 giovani partecipanti tra i 18-25 anni e 8 youth leader provenienti da organizzazioni giovanili da Grecia, Malta, Bulgaria, Germania, Italia, Irlanda, Polonia, Spagna,

LE ORIGINI

Il progetto è nato in seguito a esperienze progettuali maturate in precedenza, in cui era evidente un gap di informazione riguardo alle Gender Issues e per le quali abbiamo consapevolizzato la necessità di  e da cui si era divenuti consapevoli della necessità di operare un cambiamento culturale, attraverso una comunicazione mirata e consapevole. A ciò, si sono aggiunti gli episodi sempre maggiori, sempre peggiori, di violenza e discriminazione di genere che, imprerversando in tutta Europa, hanno acuito il senso di responsabilità della società civile ad agire e mettere in pratica azioni innovative e in un'ottica europea.

Attraverso la condivisione, il monitoraggio, l'analisi, le valutazioni, il racconto di esperienze, conoscenze e buone pratiche, il progetto ha stimolato i giovani partecipanti verso la tendenza di un approccio pienamente partecipativo.

GLI OBIETTIVI

WOW ha perseguito i seguenti obiettivi specifici:

- equipaggiare i giovani partecipanti con informazione, conoscenza e strumenti per combattere la discriminazione di genere, attraverso un approccio empatico ed esperienziale;

- educare i giovani ai media (media literacy) afffinché producano cambiamenti positivi attraverso la creazione di una campagna media, nonché con una appropriata educazione al fenomeno degli Hate Speech;

- costruire una campagna online (spot virali) per la promozione di un’immagine positiva della donna.

I RISULTATI

A conclusione del progetto WOW! SEYF ha lanciato una campagna di comunicazione online per promuovere un'immagine positiva delle donne e far riflettere sullo stato attuale di discriminazioni subite dal genere femminile nelle società europee.

WOW – Women Overcoming the World is a youth mobility project that took place in Castro, a village in the South of the Apulia Region. The activities have been implemented from 21st to 28th September 2016. The project involved a platform of 48 young people (aged 18-25 years old), members of youth organizations from Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Malta, Ireland, Germany, Poland and Spain.

THE ORIGINS

The project’s idea come from the need of the involved NGOs to fight discrimination and violence against women within their local communities (offline) and within the wider society (online and on media), which is continuosly arising, despite the great institutional efforts. All the involved stakeholders agreed with the urgency to educate young people to a more inclusive society based on the equal access for women to society. Moreover, the project’s promoters are strongly motivated to think that, together with Institutional efforts, youth work, non-formal learning activities and volunteering can significantly contribute to produce positive and cultural change for promoting equal opportunities for young people facing gender discrimination.

The successful stories of WOW stories, together with its results, have been shared and spread all over the network as an example and a best practice in the field, to be replicated in different context ad a model for promoting gender equality.
Through the sharing, monitoring, analyzing, evaluating experiences, knowledge and best practices, the project dealt with the new trend of the intercultural approach. Thus, the project focused on new ways of young people best involvement in youth projects, educating them to a stronger sense of active citizenship.

THE OBJECTIVES

- to enhance the value of differences and cultures through team building effect and through the construction of intercultural dialogue;

- to promote Non Formal Education and Participatory Approach as a powerful method for improving ourselves and the society;

- to stimulate creativity and talents of young people involved, allowing them able to use them concretely as tools for changing theirselves and their societies );

- provide young people with information, knowledge and tools for fighting gender discrimination and violence, through an empathetic and experiential approach;

- provide media literacy and proper digital education for youngsters as tool for producing positive change in the society, through the creation of media-campaign and equipping them with a wider knowldege on Hate Speech;

- settle a Campaign Offline (flashmob) and online (viral spot) for the promotion of positive image of women on media.

 THE RESULTS

At the end of the implementation phase, SEYF has launched an online campaign to promote a positive image of women and to reflect on the current state of gender discrimination experienced by women in European societies.

 Watch the WOW Campaign!

WOW adventures

WOW!: The Flash Mob

WOW!: We are all human

WOW! - Let's fight for it!

WOW! Equity vs Equality

Report on Impact and Dissemination

PRESS RELEASE / RASSEGNA STAMPA

* Corriere Salentino (Italy)

* Icdet (Bulgaria)

* NNZ online (Germany)