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Strategic partnership project ‘Peace&Love Vector’ 2017-2018 - Like us on Facebook!

The project ‘Peace&Love Vector’ represents an ambition to build a metaphorical link across geo-political borders, cultural differences, formal disciplines and imbalance of experience. The aim of the project is empowering of youth leaders and youth workers in the field of preventing extremism and radicalization focusing on young people with migrant background through exchange of practices and experiences between partners' organizations from the EU and the Eastern Partnership countries.

The organizations involved in ‘Peace&Love Vector’ are:

Armenian Progressive Youth (Armenia);
Eesti People to People (Estonia);
More Mosaic (Sweden);
Center for European Initiative (Ukraine).

The project includes different layers of local and transnational activities designed to empower youth workers and youth organizations to work closely with young people and promote harmonic, inclusive and tolerant European communities.

Have a look at 'Peace&Love Vector' handbook to get insight into the project activities conducted in Sweden, Armenia, Estonia and Ukraine, get inspiration for your work with youth and use unique educational material and games developed by the project participant during 2017-2018.

The project includes 3 transnational meetings and 1 training:

1 – Management meeting in Sweden;
2 – Training in Estonia;
3 – Mid-term evaluation meeting in Ukraine;
4 – Evaluation and dissemination meeting in Armenia.

‘Peace&Love Vector’ objectives are to:

improve and professionalize the cooperation among partner organizations based in the EU and EU-neighboring countries in the area of work with young migrants, IDPs, refugees trying to reduce growing radicalization and extremism among young people;
foster and improve transnational cooperation through staff and youth workers exchange, through innovation and the exchange of good practices in the area of combating extremism and radicalization against migrants;
develop a network of stakeholders that are willing to contribute to the migrants, IDPs, refugee's integration processes;
bring together youth leaders and workers, staff members, project managers, educators in the field of non-formal education from the partner organizations in order to develop new competences;
increase knowledge of the participants in combating violent extremism and hate speech towards migrants, misinformation about refugees and xenophobic discourse by drawing attention of their local communities to positive contributions of refugees;
empower youth leaders to become stronger actors for current problematic and to contribute to the resolution of the crisis through influencing local and national policy making;
establish a working reference group for knowledge and information exchange.

Training course for youth workers in Estonia

December 18-23, 2017, Nelijarve, Estonia
Partner countries: Armenia, Estonia, Sweden and Ukraine.

The aim of the training course was to empower participants to achieve inner peace and learn how to teach and train final beneficiaries – young people in their organisations and communities – to be in balance with inner and outer world. Final target group included young people with fewer opportunities, youth from post-conflicts regions and youth in risk of radicalization and extremism.