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Application deadline: 29th March (Saturday)
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📆 15th - 21st May 2025 (including travel days)
📌 Bologna, Italy
🦸🏻 Are you a youth worker, educator, or facilitator working with LGBTQIA+/queer youth? Are you eager to explore Cassero LGBTQIA+ Center’s activities, connect with their local partners, and discover the queer side of Bologna?
🌈 Following the third study visit we have recently completed here in Riga, our three years-long cooperation “Activate Youth” continues the journey in Bologna!
🫶🏼 Join us as we will be exploring the work of Cassero LGBTIA+ Center and meet organisations and their network engaged in queer activism and youth empowerment!
🔎 This program is for you if you are:
▪ A youth worker, youth leader, mentor, NGO staff, educator, facilitator, or a project manager - someone who works with queer youth daily or in your projects;
▪ Coming from one of the participating countries: The Netherlands, Latvia, Italy, Greece, Estonia or Slovenia;
▪ Above 18 years old;
▪ Part of the LGBTQIA+/queer community, an ally and/or interested to expand your competencies;
▪ Ready to participate in an intercultural environment, work on your personal and professional development, further inspiring your target groups;
▪ Able to work and communicate in simple English.
ℹ️ Infopack: https://shorturl.at/YvzlJ
🖇 Application link: https://shorturl.at/rKbcq
⏳ Deadline: 30th March 2025
🤝 The Activate Youth KA2 Erasmus+ project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme and the Dutch National Agency Erasmusplus Jeugd. It’s a cooperation and synergy between Active Rainbow 🇱🇻, Olde Vechte Foundation 🇳🇱, and our partners: Global Cassero 🇮🇹, Roes Cooperativa 🇬🇷, Moja Mavrica 🇸🇮, and Rõuge Noorsootöö Keskus - Rõuge noortekeskus 🇪🇪.
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We are an educational platform and community of people that celebrate personal growth and inclusivity. Our platform is open, accessible, and welcomes everyone who is interested in non-formal learning, mobility opportunities, and contributing their verse to society.
Active Rainbow was founded in 2014 and started at first as a self-organized initiative. Since 2020, it is an organization in Latvia.
Our team is active in the field of youth work and in the implementation of learning programs for the past 11 years, working on a local, national, European and international level. We have established and leading a sustainable network of organizations, collectives and informal groups working with LGBTQIA+/Queer Education, and sharing mutual values for increasing the quality of inclusive, intersectional, accessible and safe youth work.
[Our Vision] We contribute to the creation of a world where diversity is welcomed and celebrated as a value.
[Our Mission] We are committed to strengthen the implementation of Human Rights and improve the quality of LGBT+ spectrum education, by offering learning opportunities for people to grow and thrive.
Our motto is - learning made simple, yet significant.
[Our objectives]
- Support (young) people in their personal and professional development - equipping them with lifelong skills
- Offer safe and inclusive educational environments for everyone without discrimination, especially to LGBTQIA+ people
- Promote and participate in the development of youth work and the training of youth workers and educators
- Promote the initiatives of young people
- Increase the visibility of non-formal learning as a type of activism
- Offer and foster volunteering opportunities, building young activists and social changemakers
- Develop and sustain an engaged and connected network of organizations, fostering international cooperation and cross-cultural exchange
- Create a more inclusive and cohesive society to ensure equal opportunities for all to achieve full potential in life