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Albanian Youth Project

Civic Education

Through the Civic Project, the youngsters will have the possibility to contribute in their community. By participating and contributing in the community they will practice how to solve out the community problems; they will develop their research and communicative skills, thus, resulting to realize their civic education. Through the integration of the Civic Project, "Learn by Participating", the youngsters will have new access in their education process in the schools by practicing and communicating with experts of the different organizations acting in this area.

Active citizen

During Civic Project the youngsters will have the opportunity to learn about the practical aspects of the civic participation. The youngsters themselves will identify their needs and community issues they have to tackle, and they will also be the ones to propose the solutions. In such a way, they will practice their knowledge and supported by us they will also widen this knowledge. The project will help identify the active youngsters, who have the will to get involved, and who possess organizational and management skills.
Defining priorities, the rule of law as the means to solve out local community problems, transparency, etc. will be some of the areas where these active young citizens will get skilled.

Cooperation

During the implementation of this project the youngsters will get to know with the best practices of the community work. They will have the chance to be trained, to participate in the implementation process of the projects and to get informed on the community issues they are concerned and interested. During this process they will cooperate with the local power authorities, different actors of the civil society, youth organizations, environment organizations, community, etc. where they will find support and help for their future plans. The web page of the Civic Project will provide to the youngsters the opportunity to join their forces and ideas and realize their goals through these community projects where in the meantime announcement may be published by the Local Power Authorities.
Access to information
In the Web Page of the Citizenship Project, youth will find information about the ways to be involved and work in the youth field. The information will address how to draft and implement a project-idea, how to plan and organize the work with the community, information regarding the practices followed by students and youth organizations in European Union countries and the opportunities to collaborate with them. A considerable space will be dedicated to the Local Government Transparency, giving to the public a way to know the activities of the respective municipalities.

Inclusion in the Local Government Budget
Activities proposed directly by the communities will have part of the required funds foreseen in the Local Governments Budgets.

Aims of the project and indicators
To promote Active Citizenship giving to youth the opportunities; to be involved in decision making and offering solutions for the acute problems of their communities, to become part of debates and social movements, to take part and responsibilities in their communities, thus improving their role and skills as citizens.

To offer the model of active youth who has the will to create, to change and to improve things valuable for the community. This youth can join the ideas and forces with others, in a project plan with a common aim.

To integrate Active Citizenship as part of social issues in high schools and Universities.

Establishment of the Community Action Groups as joint bridge between community and local government, by specifying priorities and by generating solutions with respective project drafts. Inclusion of the community initiatives in the budgets of local governments.

Objectives
Establishment and training of Action Groups in 7 pilot communities.
Development of an interactive web-site that will help by providing information about the work with the community, support information and ideas, and by working together with the communities in realizing the projects they presented
To encourage the best projects through symbolic premiums and to generate financial opportunities for other projects, by promoting them in the web site, in media and during other activities of the Citizenship Project (Ideas Fair, meetings with different donors, agreements with municipalities, etc).
To meet the initiatives and projects of the communities with the programs and local or international organizations, to promote their needs in the collaboration with the communities, and to offer training and education opportunities for the people involved in Citizenship Project.