A PART OF EU 2.0 project focuses on one of the EU's greatest challenges for the future: achieving the integration of migrant and minority youth (MMY) into society through their participation. As the proportion of migrant and/or minority youth in Europe has increased, the problems and difficulties in terms of their participation have also become more complex, with high barriers to their effective participation. The following objectives of the project are described below:
 
1. Providing professionals with innovative methods to encourage the participation of MMY in 5 areas: (a) Political and social participation, (b) Participation through volunteering and associationism, (c) Participation through training and access to employment, (d) Participation through sport and culture, and (e) Participation through the family.

2. Increasing social, civic and digital competences of MMY through training and participation.

3. Providing tools to professionals of social organizations, public bodies and private sector to create structures, procedures and synergies to improve MMY participation.

4. Offering practical solutions and policy recommendations to institutions, civic society, private sector in local, regional, national and European context, in order to improve the MMY participation.


INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT I: EUROPEAN TRAINING AND PARTICIPATION PLATFORM FOR MIGRANT YOUTH, MINORITIES AND PROFESSIONALS

The European Platform for Learning and Participation is a website that contains the following objectives:
 
• To improve the social, civic and digital skills of young immigrants through training and participation.
• To put in contact the youth participants of the project with the objective of creating a European participation structure.
• To provide a Learning Area to professionals working with MMY.
• To disseminate of the products of APOFEU 2.0
 
The platform will be composed by these areas: (I) YOUTH LEARNING AND PARTICIPATION AREA and (II) LEARNING AREA FOR PROFESSIONALS
 

RESULTADO INTELECTUAL II: MANUAL DE HERRAMIENTAS INNOVADORAS DE INTERVENCIÓN DE A PART OF EU 2.0
 
The APOFEU 2.0 INNOVATIVE INTERVENTION TOOLS MANUAL is aimed to professionals working with Youth (MMY), and aims to provide innovative tools:

• To carry out an integral and transversal intervention with MMY so that they can develop their social competences.
• To promote the participation of the MMY in the 5 areas of participation.

With these innovative tools, the capacities and competencies of the professionals who work with the MMY will be strengthened, so that they can help these groups to promote their social inclusion. To this end, the MANUAL will contain 7 intervention zones, conceived as learning modules that provide the professionals the best tools and methods to develop the skills and competences of the MMY: (1) Design of the intervention, (2) Social and political participation, (3) Participation through associationism and volunteerism, (4) Participation through training and access to employment, (5) Participation through culture and sport, (6) Participation through the family, and (7) Follow-up.


INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT III: A PART OF EU 2.0 GUIDE WITH INNOVATIVE METHODS AND TOOLS TO PROMOTE SYNERGIES AND COOPERATION BETWEEN SOCIAL ORGNIZATIONS, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS AND PRIVATE SECTOR TO PROMOTE MMY PARTICIPATION
 
The APOFEU 2.0 GUIDE TO PROMOTE SINERGIES AND COOPERATION will provide innovative methods and tools for professionals to involve and support public administrations and enterprises for social inclusion and MMY participation. Consequently, the GUIDE will be divided into two zones: one to involve public bodies and the other to involve and guide companies.

1. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS

The GUIDE will provide the best methods for professionals working with MMY to carry out a two-way process of interaction with public bodies that facilitates and enables social inclusion and participation of MMY: offering services from civil society to public administration and from public administration to civil society.

2. PRIVATE SECTOR

The APOFEU 2.0 GUIDE will train professionals working with MMY with the essential guidelines and tools to involve companies in the MMY social inclusion process.


INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT IV: POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS REPORT
 
The APOFEU 2.0 Policy Recommendations Report will provide innovative policy measures and recommendations to improve the social inclusion and participation of young migrants and minorities (MMY). The recommendations set out in the Report will be clear, concise, consistent and useful for different actors at local, regional, national and European level:

• Policy makers, decision-makers and experts with competence in social inclusion and youth participation.
• Social organizations working with migrant and minority youth.
• Enterprises.

The APOFEU 2.0 Report will highlight the importance of improving training for professionals working with MMY, and thus improve their interventions with these groups. Likewise, the importance of specific training for MMY will be highlighted, so that they become the actors of their own social inclusion and integration. It will also indicate the important role that companies, public administrations and social organizations must play to achieve these objectives.



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