📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: KJSÖ - Catholic Youth Office of Austria - Federal Office for Church Child and Youth Work. Branch: Catholic Jungschar of Austria
Country: Austria Contract type: NGO co-financing Project start: 01.01.2025 Funding amount: € 180.000,00 End: 31.12.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The educational program 'Learning Missions' of the Three Kings' Action of the Catholic Boys' Club of Austria (DKA) offers young adults the opportunity for a learning process around global and intercultural issues.
The participants are to be sensitized to global contexts, development policy challenges and concrete living realities of (marginalized) people in countries of the Global South through knowledge transfer and holistic learning experiences in contact and direct exchange with committed people in the partner countries.
Learning assignments offer participants the opportunity to gain awareness of development policy, to test and further develop knowledge and skills in intercultural communication, to experience solidarity across national borders, and to expand their judgment and action skills. Participants become more aware of their potential for social transformation, and their motivation to get involved is increased. This is intended to sustainably promote the development policy engagement of young people in Austria.
Expected results
90 participants are engaged in nine learning assignments (Ghana, Philippines, Kenya, and two South-to-North learning assignments) to delve deeper into development policy issues and continue to be involved in development policy after the learning assignment, supported by follow-up offers and individual mentoring.
In Austria, two South-to-North missions and events will reach around 2,000 people in at least three federal states, meaning the program also includes a nationwide awareness-raising component.
Around 50,000 people are reached through social media (newsletters, Facebook, Instagram, magazines, etc.).
Through close cooperation with partner organizations in the target countries, the learning missions promote the ability to engage in dialogue and long-term, equal cooperation in the spirit of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 'global partnerships'.
Target group / Beneficiaries
Target groups: The learning assignments are primarily aimed at people in Austria who are interested in development policy, who want to engage intensively with global issues and development policy, and who are willing to get involved in these issues in Austria. The primary target group is young adults between 18 and 35 years of age.
Other target groups include full-time and volunteer staff from participating organizations in Peru and the Philippines, who are the focus of the program as part of South-to-North learning assignments to Austria.
Partners: We have long-standing collaborations with partner organizations in the target countries. Our partners in Ghana are the Tamale Institute for Cross Cultural and Language Stu
