YOU(th) CARE FOR CHANGE
Engaging new generations on innovative, joint and multidimensional actions addressing the Global ChallengesThe challenge
The COVID 19 and the raising of conflicts exacerbated by multilevel crises even in the heart of the EU showed, especially for the youngest generations, the urgency of choosing between individual exit strategies and global care solutions. The ethics of care, originated and recently re-launched from a feminist perspective, refers to ‘a moral framework characterized by a commitment to relational and care as the basis of human well-being and it is now more at the center of new paradigms: from the #FridaysForFuture to the #MeToo marches, young Europeans are evidently active actors of civic movements targeting policies’ changes and dialogue.
The opportunity – the scope
The Project will contribute to reinforce the active citizenship and engagement of the next generation of Global Care takers for a common sustainable Euro-Mediterranean future. The youth can be engaged in the change when enabled to recognize, monitor and network pilot initiatives and policies with the involvement of communities in transformative and systemic actions.In this line, the project aims at empowering youth organizations, groups and local communities in selected European and Mediterranean territories to co-design and implement Global Care Agendas and Actions adopting a multidimensional perspective to address the SDGs.
Goal
The 40-months long project aims at empowering youth organizations, groups and local communities in the European and Mediterranean territories to engage, co-design and implement Global Care Agendas and Actions on socio-ecological transition, adopting a multidimensional perspective to address complexity towards a common change as well as strengthening gender equity in the European and Mediterranean territories.
The Partnership
Expected outcomes
CARE Agendas and Toolkit
Youth organizations share knowledge, experiences and skills for co-designing diversity sensitive and eco-durable tools in an intersectional perspective to analyse, raise awareness and coach actions addressing Global Care.
CARE Actions
Youth organisations, collectives and communities elaborate and carry out pilot territorial initiatives targeting social and ecological transition, selected, funded and technically supported.
CARE Voicing
Youth networks activate synergies and exchanges at the Mediterranean level to amplify and multiply co-responsibility, youth engagement and mobilization.
CARE Gender Lens
Youth organizations adopt tools and strategies to promote girls and women rights and gender perspective in their actions.
CARE Gender Keepers
Youth feminist and intersectional organizations and collectives become watchdogs of the adoption of a gender perspective in initiatives and institutional decisions affecting the Global Change.
THE YOU(TH) CARE ACTIVITIES
Kick off, Italy, 8-10 April 2024
You(th) Care for Change kicked off in Florence and Torino on 8-10 April engaging the partners in participatory sessios exploring and codeciding upcoming tasks: toolkit, trainings, campus, etc.
Welcome on Board Meeting 16 July 2024
The meeting brought together more than 100 youth initiatives from all project’s countries and introduced them to its key aspects : Learn – Act – Engage
Pre-Campus & Campus Sessions, Sept-Nov 2024
Some 300 youth engaged in Campus sessions (online workshops) including interventions from the CARE Collective and youth driven projects on the SDGs.
YOU(TH) CARE EVENTS IN GREECE
Online interviews, May-June 20244
Focus group in Athens, July 2024
Capacity builing in Vilia, Oct 2024
Territorial Meeting in Crete, Oct 2024
YOU(th) CARE event Thessaloniki Dec 2024
The project is co-funded by the EU through the DEAR Programme – Raising public awareness of development issues and promoting development education in European Union.