FIRST STEP TO EUROPE - boosting active citizenship among youth in small cities

"Youth is our future" - this slogan has never been as relevant as it has been in our time. In times of Extreme Right Movements, opposition between member states, climate crisis, raise of hate spee...

"Youth is our future" - this slogan has never been as relevant as it has been in our time. In times of Extreme Right Movements, opposition between member states, climate crisis, raise of hate speech, intolerance, discrimination and racism, COVID-19 pandemic, there is hope in youth for building a common, civic and green Europe. This sentence from application form was even more important when on February 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine and change our lives. Then with even more determination we carried out our project. The main goal of the project was to build a strong and long-term partnership of organizations dealing with the social inclusion of young people from smaller cities and rural areas (and thus strengthen the potential of our organizations) and encourage young people to invest themselves in their local communities and to participate in non-formal education and spread knowledge about European Union and common values. We carried out the activities in accordance with the principle of "nothing about us without us", promoting active citizenship, young people's sense of initiative and youth entrepreneurship and European Education.