An open access digital mechanism supported youth organisations in planning and implementing youth exchanges focused on reconciliation and trust building. It combined organisational self assessment, Starters and Developers curricula, and an open resource centre in multiple languages.
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Exchange It
Building trust and reconciliation through stronger, more inclusive and higher quality youth exchanges across the Western Balkans.
Project details
The formal framework, scale and collaboration behind the project.
- Full project name
- Exchange it - towards cooperation and reconciliation
- Project duration
- 18 months · November 2019 — April 2021
- Call
- Capacity building in the field of youth (WB)
- Programme
- Erasmus+ Programme
- Country(es)
- Kosovo, North Macedonia, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Serbia
- Value of the project
- €106,887
- Partners
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- Kosova Young Lawyers
- Združenie za kulturna sorabotka INTERKULTURA
- Connect International
- PRONI CENTER FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
- SYLLOGOS APOFITON EKPEDEFTIRION MANDOULIDI
- BACKSLASH
- Udruzenje gradjana Libero
Project overview
Exchange It strengthened the quality of youth exchanges as tools for intercultural learning, trust building and reconciliation in post conflict and frozen conflict contexts. The project developed practical support for youth organisations while building their capacity in planning, advocacy, cooperation and delivery of meaningful mobility activities.
In previous two decades many youth exchanges were organized in WB region and in Europe. The need for them
is evident as well as enthusiasm of all involved but their quality regarding technical and program aspects was
questionable. We decided to work on standardization of YE by offering to YO open learning tool which could
benefit them in any time for all questions related to YE contributing to intercultural learning and reconciliation in
participating countries. The aim of this project was to foster proactive participation of YO in order to contribute to the building of trust and
work on reconciliation. We worked on identifying existing potentials of organizations to carry on youth exchanges
in post conflict and frozen conflicts areas and ton increasing capacities of YO and individuals involved in youth
exchanges. All parties involved in the project gained practical knowledge in strategy planning, advocacy, lobbying
and independent work. Project is implemented in challenging period of Covid-19 time. Team managed to implament it as closely to the
main idea knowing that in-person meeting for this kind of exchange and learning was important. Partners
communicated intensively to cover all the new opened challenges and managed to achieve planned results of all
activities and defined project objectives.
Project Results
Baseline research across six partner countries mapped organisations' capacities to plan and implement youth exchanges and informed the self assessment function and training curricula of the Exchange It Online Mechanism.
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