BEYOU - Boosting sustainability and social change through Youth led-community development

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"The project ""BEYOU - Boosting sustainability and social change through Youth led-community development"" targets local communities in Italy (Agrigento and Trapani), Greece (Athens), Spain (Alcalà de Henares), Cyprus (Nicosia) and Romania (Craiova) that are characterized by a high proportion of young people at risk of social exclusion and educational poverty. In line with the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027, the European Green Deal and the EU Youth Goals, the project addresses the global needs of young people to be actively engaged in their local communities and to learn how to tackle by themselves the problems that most affect their lives and peers. Through an innovative socio-educational intervention addressed to young people, with particular focus on those in vulnerable situations (economic, social, cultural), the project includes the launch, testing and validation of a “Community Youth Incubator” programme, aiming at engaging actively both youth workers and young leaders into inclusive, green and sustainable development of their local communities. Disadvantaged young people will be engaged in grass root projects that address community issues that matter to them, take responsibility & contribute to the sustainable development & social innovation of the community in which they want to grow and live. Through the Community Youth Incubator programme, both youth workers and vulnerable and socio-economic disadvantaged youth will be engaged directly and gain their first experiences in leadership, community resources mobilization, project management, networking, providing also a meaningful voice to them in the framework of the Covid-19 recovery process in their local communities."