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“EMBRACE! Embracing Diversity through Cultural Exchange” is a Youth Exchange project designed by groups of young people based in the European Union (Italy, Spain and Portugal) and the Neighboring Partner countries (Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Georgia).

The aim of the project is to explore the unconscious bias and emotional literacy of youth workers so that they can make more informed choices and decisions and to foster the importance of diversity in inclusion. Through this project, we would like to increase awareness of bias in many fields and its negative impact on decision-making and provide tools to address it to support decision-making and inclusive cultural diversity.

Migration affects not only migrants but also the communities of origin. Migration exists both in the past and in the present. According to the 2020 World Migration Report analysis of the International Organization for Migration, the number of immigrants worldwide has increased to 272 million, reaching 3.5 % of the world population.

Our project is aimed at EU, Western Balkan and EECA countries at developing and improving the conflict management competencies with a special focus on emotional intelligence and communication of youth workers in order to become able to prepare run and evaluate high-quality youth work activities targeting young people with different cultural background

While creating our project idea; We have found that there are problems such as strong, effective, large and sustainable partnerships in the E + projects, inability to implement the project activities with innovative methods, inadequacy of the youth workers to develop their skills, the number of new youth workers, the inefficiency of the project activities, the inability of the young people with limited opportunities to benefit from E + opportunities.

Hate Speech is experienced daily by many young people across Europe. With the development of social networks, the number of cyber-bullying and cyberharassment cases has increased, increasing the risks to democratic order and creating concerns among young people and youth organizations. As youth organizations working with young people on local, national and European levels and promoting digital participation, we have developed the long-term project “UP! Unleashing the Power of Youth Work to Counter Online Hate Speech” to address and transform online hate speech in a safe and transformative way.

The despair that arises when young people choose the wrong occupation target causes them to be worried about not achieving the target and then to abandon the target, namely unemployment. Choosing a profession is one of the most important decisions a person will make during his or her life. Today, the most common “instability” affects this. It is necessary to turn this instability of young people into a stable state and to contribute to career choice and career choice.