Our Project
Europe for all? Raising Youth awareness on European Citizenship and Second Generation Immigrants
2nd generation immigrants face several difficulties, problems and obstacles growing up as “European citizens” with no actual rights (and usually no citizenship), trying to integrate both worlds (own ethnic group and mainstream society) into their own individual ethnic identity.
The aim of the project is to involve young people with fewer opportunities (2nd generation immigrants) in the organization of an information campaign and cultural events addressed to other young people, exploring and dealing with the issues of cultural diversity and European citizenship in Europe.
The project will target 100 2nd generation young immigrants, 16-25 years old that will be involved in the following activities:
- Implementation of art workshops in each partner country (e.g. playing through theatre, hip-hop music, videos, photography, etc) exploring issues like ethnic identity and cultural diversity.
- Organisation, by the young people, of a transnational festival in Greece, including all forms of cultural expression developed in each partner country (during the workshops), aiming to inform other young people and the wider public in general, on the problems 2nd generation immigrants face growing up as “European citizens” with no rights.
- Organisation of an information campaign about the problems of 2nd generation immigrants, targeting youth in general (web site for the communication of young 2nd generation immigrants from various countries, production and dissemination of a fanzine, production and dissemination of flyer, organisation of final press conference, etc.).
The project is co-funded by the European Commission (Youth in Action Programme) and the Anna Lindh Foundation and is implemented by:
- ANCE (Greece)
- Nexes Interculturals de Joves per Europa (Spain)
- XENA – Centro Scambi e Dinamiche Interculturali (Italy)
- Baraka (Romania)
- Hangar Art Association (Turkey)
- OCSCD – The Orient Center for Studies and Cultural Dialogue (Jordan)
- Project Hope (Palestine)
- EFYF – Egyptian Future Youth Foundation (Egypt)
