Do you know you can go to another country for one week, meet with great young people from different countries, engage in meaningful conversations, share your ideas, learn from each other and all this for free? No, this is not a scam!! This is Erasmus+-the program of the EU for young people`development ! Erasmus+ is based on non formal education approach-thus everything you learn is by doing and sharing so it is much more fun to learn!
So just like this we participated in this kind of project-youth exchange called YOUth vs Radicalization -it happened in a beautiful small town of Bansko. The project focused on the important topic of youth radicalization for Europe-something that we all hear and read about but feels so distant from us. In our nobody really had much information, knowledge or experience with the topic. First of all wasamazing to research the topic from before, be able to plan our agenda as we were all involved from before-so it is really different from school because we were learning from each other and learning by doing! Before the project we had some preparation with our organization and coordinators and even though it was Covid time we really felt safe –we had all needed information and details needed.
We also had an amazing group leader that helped with all details and preparation!
After the project with the help of our organization we were able to organize a info workshop within the members of the local student club No hate of our organization. We had presented our project, showed them videos, as well as talked about what we learnt, we shared with them the booklet we created. we did a Radicalization cafe /world cafe style/ workshop to facilitate discussion on youth radicalization, then we shared with them some tools, campaigns and useful ways to engage in preventing youth radicalization.