European Network of Youth Centres – ENYC
Better Places for Young People
The general assembly of the European Network of Youth Centres 2019 was held by Timis County Youth Foundation (FITT), at Timisoara Youth House – Romania, on 08-10 February 2019.
Besides the election of the new board, the focus of this general assembly was on the PR of ENYC, on the youth policies and on the membership of our network.
Continue reading “General Assembly 2019”Strategic EVS voluntary service in Kindergarten ‘Young europe without racism’ 01.09.18 – 11.08.19. Sending organization: Filoxenia. Host organization: JUBI
Objectives:
Apart from voluntary service, young Europeans and employees of the EVS hosting organisations participated in the Jubi training programs (‘Coach for racism critical and intercultural work’ and ‘Betztavta’) and then acted as multipliers. The long-term goals were: to train European volunteers as well as employees in the EVS hosting projects as multipliers in the field of racism-critical work, to contribute the European dimension to the idea of a non-discriminatory and racist-free approach in Europe and to take steps towards a European citizenship that feels connected to this European idea.
Activities:
Voluntary Service and additional seminars on migrational pedagogy and racism criticism
Results:
With this long-term and strategic project, we wanted to develop racism-critical youth work in Europe. We want to train and prepare with the EVS experience and training programs, which are very practice but also theory-oriented, multipliers of youth work that are traveling in Europe. With our support, we plan that the EVS organisations, together with the European volunteers, organize places and structures in the municipalities where they can identify and tackle discrimination.
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Our Youth Service is operating for 21 years in the local area. We have a multi-disciplined team of experienced qualified youth workers with a supporting team of volunteers of various levels of experience and qualifications. All the leaders have taken part in multiple exchange projects before. All adults involved have been Garda Vetted. The Child Protection Policies are in place.
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Our organization is a Family Resource Centre providing services such as Childcare, Older people, Adult Education, Training, Employment services, citizen information and Youth Services. Our Youth Services have youth work programmes such as:
Our projects have both taken part in and hosted bilateral, trilateral and multilateral exchanges over the past 16 years, with most countries around Europe and partner countries including Russia. We plan and implement programmes for ages between 10 and 21 years, for more than 200 young people.
Our “International Programme” is part of the many overall services of the projects.
Our projects normally operates five days a week every evening after school times, although also works weekends and the residential throughout the year. We were successful in securing a building from DCC and have opened a Youth Café. Our projects play a significant role and influences many local structures such as:
We are partners with various National Universities in relation to organising student placements in various Social Study courses.
As a Community Youth Service we are often called upon and involved in all aspects of Community Life and Community Development.
We have hosted youth exchanges twice here in Dublin in 2019, the first was between Ireland, England and Wales and the theme was “Anti social behavior and knife crimes” two countries from the Enyc (Ireland and England) and one other, the age range of this exchange was 13 / 15 years.
Our second youth exchange was called “A carnival of Inclusion” which included young people from Ireland, Reunion Island (France) Slovenia, and Austria. Three countries from the ENYC and two others. The age range of this exchange was 15 / 17 years.
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We host our youth exchanges at Larchill adventure center and at Cavan adventure center.
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The Jubi is a hosting, sending and coordinating hosting
Jugendbildungsstätte Unterfranken -The Youth Education Centre in Lower Franconia (Jubi) is an
We offer diverse facets of youth work- it especially supports youth groups, social institutions and school classes in their process of intercultural opening. Jubi offers practice in civil of one’s conviction.
In the international
Integration of the intercultural learning, human rights education and education for active citizenship in its activities:
Our educational offer is concerning mostly the topics: intercultural learning, civil courage, participation etc. We are working also together with the network of ‘School without Racism, School with Courage’.
Our experience in
One of the fields of our work is the international youth work. We are hosting (one volunteer a year), coordinating (5-10 volunteers a year) and sending (around 20 volunteers a year) organisation of the European Voluntary Service. We are also members of the Platform Network, Eurodesk as well as the european Network of Youth Centres. We are organising international youth exchanges as well as seminars for youth workers.
The mechanisms we use in our
We are working closely with young people. During the seminars and projects, we are asking them about their needs and wishes. Then we try to put their ideas in action.
Where we see the role of our
Integration of the intercultural learning, human rights education and education for active citizenship in its activities: Our educational offer is concerning mostly the topics: racism criticism, migration, democracy, civil courage, participation, Human Rights Education etc.
Our experience in of international youth activities and the training of youth workers in and multicultural context: One of the fields of our work is the international youth work. We are hosting (one volunteer a year), coordinating (10-15 volunteers a year) and sending (around 20 volunteers a year) organisation of the European Solidarity Corps. We are also members of the Platform Network, Eurodesk as well as the European Network of Youth Centres (ENYC). We are organising international youth exchanges as well as seminars for youth workers.
The mechanisms we use in our in terms of ensuring the participation of young people in and realization of our activities: We are working closely with young people. During the seminars and projects, we are asking them about their needs and wishes. Then we try to put their ideas in action.
Our priorities / fields of interest for cooperation with other members of the Network in the sphere of intercultural learning: We are interested in cooperation with the ESC projects as well as trainings for youth workers. Cooperation between partners “Young Europe without racism” (Jugendbildungsstätte Unterfranken) – 2018/2019 In the frame of this strategic EVS ‘Young Europe without racism’ we have hosted three volunteers from ENYC partner organisations:
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The Jugendbildungsstätte Unterfranken (Youth Education Centre in Lower Frankonia) is an organisation, working on migration pedagogy and racism criticism. We offer diverse facets of youth work- it especially supports youth groups, social institutions and school classes in their process of intercultural opening. It offers practice in civil of one’s conviction. In the international context the Jubi supports international youth exchanges under racism critical perspective and communicates through its own offers and in cooperation with other experienced organisations advanced practice to key competences.
We are organising projects for and with young people as well as training programmes for multipliers in the youth work, we cooperate also with schools and many youth organisations.
The slogan of the house is the ‚powered by migration’ because we practice the idea of the racism critical migration pedagogy.
The 5 pillars of the Youth Education Centre are working on the variety (‚inclusive‘) and against the threat of diversity (‚courageous’) is only dealing with two sides of the same coin. This work can not be performed within narrow limits or even thought nationalities (‚borderless‘). One needs the confrontation and wide development (‚qualified‘) and it requires the work in networks (‚linked‘).
There are seven pedagogues working on the five departments in the pedagogical team of the Centre (employed in the centre). Additionally we cooperate with external trainers and pedagogues.
We have 96 beds in private, double and bigger rooms. There is a canteen providing breakfast, lunch, dinner and coffee breaks in the centre, as well as a cafeteria and free time facilities. We have 7 seminar rooms (hosting groups of 10 till 80 people) and a conference hall (for max. 280 people).
Therefore, are available:
Our priorities / fields of interest for cooperation with other members of the Network in the sphere of intercultural learning:
We are interested in cooperation with the EVS projects as well as trainings for youth workers.