ECEPAA

About the project

YOUCAN (YOUth with migrant dropout tackling: CApacity buildiNg) is a KA2 European Project whose aim is to contribute to triggering the modernisation and to reinforcing the response of education, training systems and youth policies considering the main challenges provided by the migrant youth school drop-out and social exclusion, by building the capacity of the consortium to work transnationally and with a cross-sector approach.

Objectives

The implementation of the project foresees the following achievements:
1) opened synergies and reinforced cooperation with local organisations/partners active in the fields of education, training and youth or in other socio-economic sectors, strengthening collaboration among all actors within schools, as well as with families and other external stakeholders;
2) an increased allocation of financial resources (other than EU funds) to organise EU/international projects in the field of education, training and youth;
3) an increased quality in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and follow-up of EU/international projects and increased capacity and professionalism to work at EU/international level( improved management competences and internationalization strategies).

Activities

In order to achieve its purposes, the project will be carrying out several activities:
1) 3 Transnational Project Meetings in Turin (Italy), Brussels (Belgium) and Milan (Italy);
2) 6 Organisation-to-Organisations tailored Trainings during which a participant will be taking part in a week of training in another organisation of the consortium;
3) 6 Local Multiplier Events and 1 Final Multiplier Event in Portugal, Italy, Spain, Greece and Belgium;
4)1 Learning, Teaching, Training event to train over the use of the Toolkit.

Outputs

The final output of the project are:
1) YOUCAN best practices publication: to identify best practices coming from projects that have focused on the importance of cross-sectoral cooperation to address youth with migrant dropout from school.
2) YOUCAN toolkit publication: the toolkit will train members of the participating organisations in increasing the quality in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and follow-up of EU/international projects and increased capacity and professionalism to work at EU/international level by better knowing the project cycle management.

PROJECT PARTNERS

The Association Maison d’Enfant pour la Culture et l’Education is a social promotion NGO based in Turin since 2000; its activities aim to understand and address the needs of children, teenagers and young adults with migrant backgrounds, most of them originally from north African countries. The organisation seeks to foster the growth and education of the new generations, starting from their extra-curricular and social education. In particular, AMECE works in order to raise awareness in migrant families about their children’s needs, offering targeted action in school support, promoting opportunities for discussion and intergenerational dialogue and pushing for intercultural social education in the local community.