Scambieuropei

Scambieuropei is an organisation promoting the values of active European citizenship, intercultural dialogue, inclusion and integration especially among young people. Our mission is to support young people’s personal, educational and professional development through the promotion of interculturalism, exchange of good practices, and an “active European Citizenship” in an European context. Scambieuropei was established in 2010 to support our young people in gaining social engagement and skills and allow them to create their own future choices by feeling empowered and ready to accept challenges and new initiatives. We organise and implement local and EU activities for young people mainly aged 18-30. We focus particularly on young NEETs as they need to boost their empowerment, competences and develop a path for their future with awareness and positivity. Scambieuropei has participated in different projects in the topic to gain skills that can be useful to support young people not only professionally but also on a human basis. Under this background, we have different local projects to integrate young people in getting to know their possible developments. In collaboration with some local associations in the project “Le competenze che non ti aspetti”, we want to foster the target employability through the increase of hard and soft skills. For this reason, it is the 3rd year that we have a space inside the InformaGiovani of the Municipality of Bologna to have individual meetings with young people where they can express their needs and backgrounds to assess together the better possibilities to continue or change their path. We have the possibility to promote youth exchanges, training courses, volunteering projects in the ESC Program, but also summer camps, internships, etc, according to the person we are talking with. Scambieuropei also organises meetings and infodays with schools, universities, youth centres around the local territory to promote the organisation activities, the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Programs along with other EU initiatives. Scambieuropei has also developed a workshop run regularly on European projects to support young people in starting their own initiatives with the support of an expert trainer. During the last years, we are ever more organising local activities to promote intercultural learning and aggregation in the community. Also thanks to the support of our ESC volunteers, we have been organising events such as human library based initiatives, sport activities, etc. Scambieuropei has also a collaboration with the EuropeDirect of the Regione Marche to promote digitally the European initiatives and possibilities for young people. With them, we also organise meetings in high schools to campaign Europe, activism and European possibilities. At a European level, we organise and collaborate in Erasmus+ projects chapter Youth and the European Solidarity Corps Program. In this framework, we send Italian volunteers in the ESC projects while also hosting European volunteers in Bologna to promote social activism and volunteering in the local community through meetings, local activities and digital means. Scambieuropei is also part of KA2 projects focused on the employability for NEETs through which we have promoted volunteering activities, training courses and youth exchanges. The organisation is a partner of 2 Erasmus+ Sport projects to promote social inclusion and activism among young people and the local communities. For instance, we are creating a group of young ambassadors who should promote a locally healthy lifestyle and wellbeing by meeting other young people through non-formal activities. Scambieuropei has a deep focus also on digital media and communication. In 2009, the association developed a website to promote among Italian young people free and open opportunities to experience European (or extra-European) mobility, through the promotion of youth exchanges, volunteering, job offers, scholarships and