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Youth Tea Talk and European Union Integration

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Meeting of AMAD’s youth workers and activists with Tirana Municipal Council member Klodiana Beshku, professor of Political Sciences lecturing Geopolitics and International Relations’ Theories. Discussions focused on youth empowerment, career, discrimination, EU integration and Albania’s path towards EU membership, freedom of movements in the Internal Market and opportunities for youth, national and local strategies for youth employment in Albania, etc.

“Youth Tea Talk and EU” gathered experts of politics, EU studies, youth workers and youth activists in a roundtable of discussions to talk about:
🔹 The empowerment of young people
🔹 Career orientation
🔹 Labor Market in Albania
🔹 National Youth Strategy and the local ones
🔹 Integration of Albania into the EU
🔹 EU policies for youth empowerment
🔹 Trend of internal and external migration (in EU countries) – barriers, the opportunities and challenges.

This activity was carried out as part of “Fuqizona” program in revitalizing the activism and also promoting EU values that stands also in our “Colors of humanity” projects, co-financed by the EU and “Growing youth capacities” supported by the Minister of State for Youth and Children and National Youth Agency in Albania.

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🔛🔜Such activities will take place during the month of May (as the Month of Europe).

 

 

COL-Colors of Humanity

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The project “Colors of Humanity” (COL) is an international action to be implemented by a consortium of organizations on four countries: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria and Kosova. AMAD has the leading role/coordinator in this consortium. The project is co-financed by EU under the Erasmus+ Programme: Capacity Building in the field of Youth.

COL promotes EU values gender equality and counter discrimination through using non-formal education and youth work to create social mechanisms that involve different stakeholders.

The activities of COL will be focused on:

  • Empowering youth workers competencies in promoting EU values of non-discrimination, tolerance, inclusive societies
  • Support and raise the advocacy capacities
  • Increase the involvement of several stakeholders on gender antidiscrimination and awareness activities
  • Raising awareness and advocacy countering hate speech

This project will be implemented for period of 2 years, beginning on 1st of January 2023 and ending on 31 of December 2024.

Stay tuned and be part of AMADs network for more opportunities.

Feel the beat: The project that enables deaf youngsters to “hear” the music

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Music is considered food for the soul. Our happiness hormone gets activated when hearing the beat of music. Living in a world with so many sounds and not being able to be part of music entertainment activities makes it feel discriminated and having less possibilities. These barriers have a mental health impact especially among youngsters. The project “Feel the Beat” brings the approach and activities that enables this group of youngsters with less possibilities to live experience the music activities. Brightening up someone’s day is considered our mission specially in this project. Through this project, we aimed in creating and enabling the integration of deaf youngsters through some dedicated spaces where music is played, so that they can experience the feeling of the music vibrations. Read more

Reacting on Hate Speech, Improving Teenagers Mental Health

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AMAD concluded the project about countering hate speech that brought together various stakeholders. Through the activities of this project 83 teenagers aged 14-18 got involved through essays sharing their experience when encountered hate speech. And hundreds more were involved in the national survey on hate speech, as well as in the focus groups of discussions. Read more

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