RED project (Recognition of Youth Work and volunteering, Empowerment of Young people and Development of Youth Work and volunteering) is a project of 12 months duration coordinated by YUPI – Youth Union of People with Initiative organization in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal, in close partnership with TE IS Foundation (Hungary), Espaço Cultural Francisco de Assis França (Brazil), Asociación Negra de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (Peru), Jugendtreff Beelen (Germany), Association for Social Integration and Environmental Protection “Feed-Back” Braşov (Romania), Centro de Juventude de São Vicente (Cape Verde) and Agenda Global Siglo 21 (Argentina) for a total number of 1700 young people and more then 50 youth workers and indirectly reaching more than 1200 more young people in the 8 countries involved from South America, Africa and Europe.
RED aims at contributing to the Recognition of Youth Work and Volunteering as tools and instruments for the development of local communities.
We will act at different levels to achieve this goal: the Kick-off meeting in Brazil (Volta Redonda), where the coordinators met to negotiate expected results and fine-tune all activities and methodologies; the International Youth Summit/Conference in Portugal (Vila Nova de Famalicão) where we gather experts, youth workers specialists and young people in order to reflect about youth work and volunteering and identify the key elements and the methodologies to promote it; Local Red Action, where young people will have the opportunity to decide and implement local youth initiatives to support the recognition (by society, peers, local authorities and private sector) of youth work and volunteering; RED @ work, where through jobshadowing on a long term basis it is possible to get to know other methodologies, contexts and concepts of youth work and volunteering, taking also the opportunity to have a bilateral learning, while answering to the question “How does youth work and volunteering contribute for the development of local communities?” for a transversal research in this project.
The last phase of the project is the Final Seminar to happen tin Budapest (Hungary) and Lima (Peru) at the same time, where coordinators will present each other and the local communities the achievements through RED project and plan future steps, as well as to finalize the edition of the RED booklet, which will gather all the experiences and methodologies used during the project.
This project is co-financed by the European Program “Youth in action”, with the reference 374678-3.2-PT-2012, under the call for projects EACEA/06/12.
Recognition, Empowerment & Development of Youth Work
