VOYCE Project

Have you been to Athens before? If you have, do you think the time flew quick? One of the participants felt like it. Maybe because they enjoyed it a lot, you may all know that time passes quickly in happy moments. They found their happy VOYCE to share and listened to people sharing their VOYCE from nine different countries, which made the time fly quick.

Life is all about discoveries. You can be a VOYCE to other people and find your true VOYCE participating in a project. Hear what one of the participants from the Social Hackathon discovered about life.

Criticism allows us all to , and we are glad that we can do it together with youth.

But what inspires us the most while working on the projects as ?
Seeing the in participants' eyes for sure 🤩.

This project many young people to step up and stand for their voices. Looking forward to meeting more and more activists in the field!

Sharing the VOYCE of Swedish participants

What was the biggest of the project for you?

In our case, we are glad that we were able to show the existing possibilities for young people. Social Hackathon in Greece had a big impact on that - telling young people about + and its' differences in a simple way was the best takeaway.

From now on, participants know what's the difference between , and and how to use these and other programs to create the impact themselves.

Cheers to that!

Sharing the VOYCE of our participants from the Swedish team.

Hello Youth!

projects involve participants from different backgrounds. And what amazes us the most is the possibility to learn in various ways, including learning from each other. Relatable peer-to-peer experiences inspire way better than any formal presentation!

And through the whole learning path, Lithuanian participants created their for the inclusiveness and attractiveness of and activities.

You can have a look at it here: https://bit.ly/3FzBiAo

Tell us, do you agree with their thoughts?

While working with , especially on the inclusiveness of and activities, it is important to create a safe space for young people to feel comfortable, feel free to express their ideas and engage in teamwork.

We are glad that participants felt exactly that way and discovered the power of working in a team. 🤩

Have you ever wondered what did give to you?

It looks like so long ago, but in Lithuania, local workshops many times had to happen online - so we learned about so many digital tools!

Have you ever heard of https://www.gather.town/ ? 😏

Check out more recommendations for interactive work together created by Active Youth Projects: https://startbusiness.today/digital-tools/

offers a lot of opportunities for young people. project was one of them. And when you decide to catch one opportunity, others are coming along! Be active, be curious, and catch your chance! 🤩😎

Project reach out a lot of young people around Europe, and empowered them to explore their own needs and interest! 🌏🤓

When you plan your crowdfunding campaign, do your best to reach some influencers/authorities who will give credibility to your action. 🤝

What can you expect from them and what can you offer? 🕵️‍♀️ Read the infographic. Do you have any other ideas about it? 🍃 Feel free to share your comments! 🌟

Social Hackathon was an intense and very fruitful 5-days event, which was designed to promote cultural exchange, collaboration, and sharing of ideas and international values. Moreover, 8 initiatives for social inclusion were created back in February in Athens! 🇬🇷

Do you want to get to know how to draft an effective pitch? 🤓

Follow our steps and start your crowdfunding campaign today! 🏆

One of the main of the project was to put young people in the driver’s seat and give them the necessary tools to make a change in their societies.
Non-formal education, its activities, and learning outcomes is definitely one of the most powerful tools!🤩

Do you want to implement your crowdfunding campaign and don't know how?👀

👉Today we would like to give you some tips on how to plan your campaign 🎯

Good luck ✨

On 13 December, as part of the European project "VOYCE - the values and opinions of young people in Europe" co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme, non-formal education trainer Monika Sobanska from Active Women Association held an English-language online workshop for the international community "How to effectively plan and run a crowdfunding campaign for projects and ideas?". It was attended by 23 participants from the UK, Lithuania, Georgia, Turkey, Spain and Greece.

During the workshop, M.Sobanska shared her knowledge of crowdfunding, its principles, campaign planning and effective ways to increase the chances of successful fundraising.
The starting point was a completed crowdfunding campaign for the completion of the 2017 film , which served as an example and a so-called case study.

It is hoped that the knowledge and skills gained will help young people from across Europe to campaign and raise funds for worthwhile social projects, especially those developed as part of the 'VOYCE' project during the Social Hackathon in Greece.

VOYCE Project is going to an end. It was a and journey for all of us!🤩
In the next few days, we would like to share with you some testimonials from young people, who took part in VOYCE Project!📣

📢 LAST CALL ‼️
Don’t miss the opportunity. Tomorrow at 17.00 CET we are online with CROWDFUNDING FOR VOYCE!
Subscribe your free (virtual) seat (link in bio).

Not registered yet? 😲
Don't miss this opportunity! 😭
Sign up to the Crowdfunding for VOYCE workshop and expand your project's potential 🚀
It's free 💸
It's online 💻

Register here: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSew.../viewform

Transform your ideas into projects and give your projects the chance to expand! 🤩 CROWDFUNDING for VOYCE is designed to introduce you to the crowdfunding practice and enable you to start your campaign.
You will learn different types of crowdfunding approaches, and receive detailed advice on what to do 👍 (and what don't 👎) when crowdfunding.
Register here (it is FREE): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSew-7GtNbswD4Sxeylk-Zj1UD9EayCJHva2NPyF_m9rSFJoLg/viewform

⛑️ YOUTH AND WORK SAFETY

🔎 The NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) estimates about 70 youths died from work injuries in the United States every year and the injury rate for young workers under age 25 is approximately two times higher than for workers 25 years and older. 🇺🇸

📈 The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) reports a rise in yearly deaths at work in 12 EU countries, most notably in Italy (+285) and Spain (+45) where the incidence of mortality among young people is significant:

🇮🇹 According to the INAIL report, the number of young people and women who have died at work has almost doubled compared to a year ago: for the former, the number of deaths rose from 34 to 49, and for the latter even from 14 to 24.

🇪🇸 Statistics on accidents at work of the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy show an increase in accidents at work among young people: 88 young people under 40 died between January and June.

👆 The trade unions argue that these figures are not a consequence of increased economic activity after the coronavirus crisis but of a lack of investment in training and safety in the workplace.

Your voice is needed to say stop to these deaths and to demand decisive action to achieve zero deaths at work. Youths must work in safe places!

To learn more:

https://youngworkers.org/injuries/stats/
https://www.fanpage.it/economia/rispetto-a-un-anno-fa-sono-quasi-raddoppiati-i-casi-di-giovani-e-le-donne-morti-sul-posto-di-lavoro/
https://www.elindependiente.com/economia/2022/08/20/mapa-de-los-accidentes-laborales-mortales-los-aplastamientos-y-las-caidas-letales-este-ano/

The VOYCE partners have been in Rome yesterday and today to celebrate the 🇪🇺 and participate to the project final conference. A great occasion to discuss and share with young people and representatives from institutions and other youth NGOs the central role of youth. A lot of things have been done and more than a lot are still to do... but we are on the good way!

CIAPE - Italian Permanent Learning Centre Stowarzyszenie Aktywne Kobiety Ikkaido Hello Youth EKOgreece Active Youth Projects Faal Derneği

📣 We are ready! the final event will take place this week. Follow the profile on October 13th to receive all the updates in real time!

🔔🔔 LAST CALL‼️
Our survey will close in one week. Only few days to allow us to collect all your inputs and put your values and ideas at the basis of the future EU agenda in the field of .

The questionnaire is here ➡️ https://forms.gle/rU9Sk6NVsrQjXVva9

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ideas and active contribution are central for the future of Europe 🇪🇺. We have the duty and the real willingness to make it possible. Help us to know you(th) better and to work together toward the future ✌️.
Leave your answers here ⬇️. The survey is open till the end of September!

➡️ https://forms.gle/rU9Sk6NVsrQjXVva9

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The world needs to leverage the full potential of all generations 👫👫🧍🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️🧍. Solidarity across generations is key for sustainable development. We must collaborate to foster successful and equitable intergenerational relations and partnerships to ensure “no one is left behind.”
Youth have the power and the energy to change the world and we have the duty to listen to their voice and support their ideas.

Summer is here! 🏖 Enjoy, relax but do not forget to fill in our questionnaire, we really want to know your opinion and you still have time to do it! You can also share it with your friends, travel mates, brothers and sisters... anyone between 18 and 30 is invited to participate!

➡️ https://forms.gle/rU9Sk6NVsrQjXVva9

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🔔 Hey! Are you aged 16-30? Take 5 mins to fill in our questionnaire. Your contribution is important and will help us to better understand what young people are thinking and dreaming over Europe 🇪🇺

➡️ https://forms.gle/rU9Sk6NVsrQjXVva9

According to the European Institute for Gender Equality, young men and women in the EU have the same digital skills and access to the internet. Studies show that nine out of ten young women (92%) and men (93%) use the internet daily. This means that this generation, aged 15-24, is the most digitally literate in the EU. However, even if the chances of access are the same, the use of digital tools remains different. And confidence in service also differs. Indeed, young men are more confident in their digital skills than women. For example, 73% of young men aged 15-16 feel comfortable installing software themselves, compared to 49% of women.
The institute proposes ways of thinking about how to provide a safer space for young people. For example, to strengthen gender equality online. Offer digital education with a double objective: to increase the opportunities offered by digitalization and reduce the risks.
© European Institute for Gender Equality, EIGE
For more information 👉 https://bit.ly/3mnJo65

Recognition of refugees :

In 2021, EU countries took 522,400 first-instance asylum decisions. 39% of these decisions were positive:

- 111,700 persons received refugee status,
- 63,000 were granted subsidiary protection status and
- 27,100 received humanitarian status.

A further 155,300 final decisions were made following an appeal, including:

- 15,900 decisions granting refugee status,
- 14,000 granting subsidiary protection status and
- 24,900 granting humanitarian status.
Overall, EU countries granted protection to around 257,000 people in 2021.

⚠️ In 2021, 183,600 people seeking asylum were under 18 years old – nearly 13% of them (23,200) were unaccompanied children. Most unaccompanied children came from Afghanistan, Syria, and Bangladesh.

© European Union, 2021

VOYCE Project

📢Everybody in the European Union should be safe and free to be themselves📢
Recent research shows that even when greater social acceptance and support for equal rights is present, it has not always translated into clear improvements in LGBTIQ people’s lives. With an LGBTIQ equality strategy, the Commission addresses the inequalities and challenges affecting LGBTIQ people to move towards a Union of Equality.

This strategy follows a series of targeted actions across four pillars:
1. Tackling discrimination against LGBTIQ people;
2. Ensuring LGBTIQ people’s safety;
3. Building LGBTIQ inclusive societies;
4. Leading the call for LGBTIQ equality around the world.

Read all the articles here: https://bit.ly/3zt2MX5

Pride Month begins tomorrow, June 1! We are excited ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Why is June Pride Month❓

Pride Month is celebrated every June to pay tribute to LGBTQIA+ people who organized and actively resisted systemic discrimination based on their orientation and gender identity in the late 1960s.

On a June night in 1969, the LGBTQIA+ bar Stonewall Inn in the 🇺🇸 was the scene of another routine inspection of a "suspicious" establishment. Then a group of about 200 people, fed up with the unequal and degrading treatment, begins a protest that soon turns into a riot involving uniformed services. In the following days, several thousand people demonstrated in the streets. The protests of 1969 were the first such uprising in which non-heteronormative people stood up in solidarity against persecution and the first emancipation demands of LGBTQIA+ people were raised. It also gave rise to the tradition of equality marches.

On this occasion we would like to wish all LGBTQIA+ people safety, freedom, and the longed-for equality that you deserve! 🏳️‍🌈🫶



On the occasion of Pride Month, it is also worth taking a look at this year's ILGA-Europe ranking❗️

📍ILGA-Europe has been producing the Rainbow Map and Index since 2009, using them to illustrate the legal and political situation of LGBTQIA+ people in Europe.

The Rainbow Map and Index ranks 49 European countries on their legal and policy practices regarding LGBTI people, on a scale from 0 to 100%.

Where does your country rank? And what do you think needs to change in it for LGBTQIA+ to have a better life there? 🤔




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Project funded by the + programme in partnership with:
https://www.facebook.com/HelloYouthSverige
https://www.facebook.com/IkkaidoEU
https://www.facebook.com/AssociationAuxCouleursduDEBA
https://www.facebook.com/activeyouthlt
https://www.facebook.com/EKOgreececom
https://www.facebook.com/CIAPE.IT
https://www.facebook.com/faaldernegi
https://www.facebook.com/StowarzyszenieAktywneKobiety

CHECK THIS OUT! ⬇️

https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/horizon-europe-new-initiative-young-observers-evaluations-2022-apr-01_it

May, fifth month of the Gregorian calendar. It was named after Maia, a Roman fertility goddess and spring—appropriate for the growth and increase we see in the month of May ☀️

However, the ancient times are long behind us...today our Mother Earth is getting poorer and no longer yields as much as it once did. Goddess Maya, where are you? 😓

Planet Earth is facing a dramatic decline in biodiversity, caused by unsustainable human activity 🥺

What is biodiversity? 🌍

Biodiversity refers to the variety of life on Earth as a whole - every plant, animal, insect and microbe that makes up the ecosystems on our planet. These species work together through complex interactions to create and sustain life.

According to a World Economic Forum (WEF) report, biodiversity loss is one of the most serious risks of the next decade. Already today, species extinction rates are tens/hundreds of times higher than the average of the last 10 million years! According to a World Wildlife Fund report, global wildlife populations have declined by an average of 68% in just over 4 decades. In addition, as many as 1 million plant and animal species are at risk of extinction within the next decades ❗️🙃

All of this poses a huge threat to humanity. The question is, what can we do about it❓

The governments of this world must immediately set long-term goals for halting the overexploitation of the environment. Take action to curb the effects of climate change and pollution, and understand the value chain and the interdependence of nature within it 🙌🏻

What is the role of young people in preventing disaster ⁉️

The young have a voice! They have the energy and power to act. It is on our side to educate our peers and society at large from the bottom up. Lobbying to local politicians, politicians in our national governments to finally be heard. We are the future of this world! Decision makers need to understand that if they don't act immediately, they will be taking away the future from us, our children and grandchildren in a few decades. However, we can prevent this from happening! Be the voice 🫶🗣

Stowarzyszenie Aktywne Kobiety


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Project funded by the + programme in partnership with:
https://www.facebook.com/HelloYouthSverige (Sveden)
https://www.facebook.com/IkkaidoEU (Irlandia i UK)
https://www.facebook.com/AssociationAuxCouleursduDEBA (France)
https://www.facebook.com/activeyouthlt (Litwa)
https://www.facebook.com/EKOgreececom (Grecja)
https://www.facebook.com/CIAPE.IT (Włochy)
https://www.facebook.com/faaldernegi (Turcja)
https://www.facebook.com/StowarzyszenieAktywneKobiety (Poland)

www.europe-en-france.gouv.fr

Do you know the most important EU values❓

The EU values are common to the EU countries in a society in which inclusion, tolerance, justice, solidarity and non-discrimination prevail. These six values are an integral part of our European way of life ➡️➡️➡️

Stowarzyszenie Aktywne Kobiety


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Project funded by the + programme in partnership with:
https://www.facebook.com/HelloYouthSverige (Sveden)
https://www.facebook.com/IkkaidoEU (Irlandia i UK)
https://www.facebook.com/AssociationAuxCouleursduDEBA (France)
https://www.facebook.com/activeyouthlt (Litwa)
https://www.facebook.com/EKOgreececom (Grecja)
https://www.facebook.com/CIAPE.IT (Włochy)
https://www.facebook.com/faaldernegi (Turcja)
https://www.facebook.com/StowarzyszenieAktywneKobiety (Poland)

The United Nations estimates that the availability of clean and safe drinking water could drop by as much as 40% over the next decade. By 2050, demand for water will have doubled and more than half of the world's population will be at risk of water scarcity.

Water is becoming scarce in places where it was previously abundant. Currently over 2 billion people in the world do not have access to clean drinking water, the problem affects 100 million inhabitants of Europe.

This unfolding crisis is the result of climate change and global population growth.

Your voice is powerful 🗣💪🏻 Use it to speak 🆙 for decisive climate policy 💚 Get Your Voice Heard On Climate Issues 🌱 Protect our water 💧, protect our future 🌍. Youth, be the voice! 🙌🏻

Stowarzyszenie Aktywne Kobiety


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Project funded by the + programme in partnership with:
https://www.facebook.com/HelloYouthSverige (Sveden)
https://www.facebook.com/IkkaidoEU (Irlandia i UK)
https://www.facebook.com/AssociationAuxCouleursduDEBA (France)
https://www.facebook.com/activeyouthlt (Litwa)
https://www.facebook.com/EKOgreececom (Grecja)
https://www.facebook.com/CIAPE.IT (Włochy)
https://www.facebook.com/faaldernegi (Turcja)
https://www.facebook.com/StowarzyszenieAktywneKobiety (Poland)