📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: Südwind Tirol - Association for development education and public relations
Country: Austria Funding amount: € 26.300,00 Project start: 01.02.2024 End: 31.01.2028
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The primary goal of Global Districts is to interest and mobilize young adults between the ages of 15 and 30, whose potential for civic engagement against global injustices is currently untapped, in global issues. The project pursues a progressive participation approach, whereby young people delve ever deeper into issues surrounding global challenges and injustices, thereby gradually moving from individual awareness to collective engagement. To this end, in collaboration with various institutions (open youth work, youth centers, civic society associations, schools, etc.), low-threshold offerings are initially developed at the level of creative activities, leisure activities, or sports. These engage young people in their interest in (local) global issues and encourage them to become active in their own communities. Finally, through workshops, summer schools/civic participation schools, and digital campaigns, they are given the opportunity to learn and try out techniques and skills of civic engagement and activist practice. In the final step, supported by existing civil society institutions, they implement their own projects at the local level that take a global perspective.
Expected results
1.1 Multipliers (local activists, teachers, educators, youth workers, etc.) have improved their capacity to carry out Global Citizenship Education (GCE) activities in an inclusive manner.
1.2. Young people, including at least 50% young women and girls, who have previously shown little commitment to global justice, have been given the opportunity through various programs to strengthen their awareness of interdependence in the world and to develop an understanding of their own role in it.
1.3 Through workshops and summer schools, young people have improved their ability to address global challenges and engage in local and global sustainable development at the civil society level.
1.4 Civil society organizations have improved their knowledge of inclusive education and are better able to reach young people who were previously less involved in engagement for sustainable local and global development.
Target group / Beneficiaries
1) With the goal of working towards a more inclusive society, the project focuses on young people (25,000) in Europe who are disadvantaged due to discriminatory circumstances and attributions (including gender, economic background, educational background, ethnicity) and who are often not addressed by civil society organizations. Furthermore, the project is committed to a gender-sensitive and intersectional approach and places particular emphasis on the empowerment of young women and girls. In this context, workshops in girls-only spaces are planned, as well as a summer school on the empowerment of girls and young w
