Since April 2024, CEPS is leading and participating in the European project EUR(H)OPE together with our partners QCODE Associazione Culturale (Milan, Italy), Qendra Uja (Tirana, Albania) and Morocco’s Friends Foundation (Tiznit, Morocco).

The project will run from April 2024 to March 2026 and receives funding from the Erasmus+ Capacity Building Programme for Youth.

EUR(H)OPE is a project that explores in depth issues of migration, identity and belonging and includes training and exchange activities aimed at the exploration of national and European identity. Above all, the project aims to empower young people
aged 18-25 and professionals working with young people living in Mediterranean and Adriatic border communities to tell their own stories and develop new skills in storytelling, journalistic techniques and non-formal education methodologies.
Professionals from our partner organisations and other related entities will also receive training in soft and professional skills so that they can transmit these skills to their local communities, especially to groups at risk of social exclusion.

Throughout the project, we will develop the following materials and activities:

  • A Self-Telling Kit and other relevant materials for developing one's own stories through self-narration and narrative journalism techniques.
  • An international training for youth workers, which shares the groundwork of self-narration and narrative journalism and how they can be implemented in workshops and activities with young people in varied cultural contexts.
  • A series of local workshops with young people aged 18-25, where we train young people from each country participating in the project in the same competencies of self-narrative and narrative journalism. This will enable them to develop their own editorial line for the next phase of the project, in which they carry out their own self-telling projects.
  • An international exchange for young people, where they can further develop their skills in self-narration and produce their own journalistic outputs about their personal experiences with migration and their conceptions of national and European identity, sense of belonging and other relevant topics.
  • Four journalistic outputs , comprising the audiovisual productions resulting from the projects planned and produced by the young people during the international exchange, which will be disseminated worldwide.
  • A series of policy labs in each member country on the theme of ‘European identity, migration and border communities in the Mediterranean-Adriatic Area’, which aim to foster advocacy on migration and identity issues through the creation of specific spaces to exchange ideas and experiences and to create new networks, collaborations and alliances between different segments of society around the idea of European identity, migration and border communities' expectations.
  • Four infographic reports communicating the results of the policy labs, thus conveying their main conclusions to those responsible for social and cultural policy in each member country.
  • Four final local conferences in Barcelona, Milan, Tirana, and Tiznit, presenting the results of all project activities and offering opportunities for exchange and networking between the main project stakeholders: young people, professionals working with young people, local authorities, local NGOs and other associations active in the field of migration or interested in European
    identity and cohesion.

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