Solidarity Without Borders in Egypt

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Solidarity Without Borders in Egypt is a 1-month Volunteering Teams in High Priority Areas project, involving 40 volunteers from Portugal, Germany and Egypt, that will take place in Egypt, aims to: 1. Contribute to unmet societal challenges in the area of “preservation of cultural heritage” using green and sustainable approaches as well as implement environmental responsibility and awareness of cultural heritage preservation in the participating volunteers and target groups. 2. Enable the participating young volunteers to improve their personal skills and gain competences that are useful for their educational, social and professional development, practice new languages rather than the mother tongue, while improving their European citizenship and promoting diversity, intercultural and inter-religious dialogues, media literacy, critical thinking and sense of initiative. The volunteers will be able to positively influence the local community, especially the target groups (children, youngsters, migrants and refugees), relevant stakeholders, policymakers and the general public, through intercultural exchange (English, Portuguese, German and Arabic courses), awareness-raising and hands-on activities regarding nature preservation, personal projects, dissemination and visibility activities culminating with a conference about the European Solidarity Corps and Erasmus+ Programme, to be implemented in both online and offline formats, where the ESC volunteers will share their experience and it will be given visibility to both programmes. These objectives are totally in line with the general objectives and the priorities of the call, and these activities are designed to tackle 3 of the most urgent problems in Iceland, which are unemployment; water pollution and the lack of recycling culture; and Heritage tourism.