Young ways in Europe
Young Paths in Europe is a funding program of the Robert Bosch Foundation and is part of the Education and Society program area . The program has been promoting joint projects by school and youth groups from Germany and Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe since 1998. The purpose is exclusively non-profit. MitOst eV is responsible for the content implementation .
Emergence
The program has been carried out by MitOst eV since 2003. Since 1998, the Robert Bosch Foundation has funded around 600 projects with a total of 5 million euros. Around 21,000 schoolchildren and young people had the opportunity to get to know and exchange ideas intensively through the program.
aims
The program is designed to realize your own ideas, interests and future expectations in joint projects. The aim of the program is to support the next generation in shaping a common Europe based on partnership and at the same time to participate in the socio-political education of European youth. The projects are intended to strengthen young people's democratic, civil society and / or economic skills and promote tolerance and the idea of European partnership.
subjects
The topics can relate to the following fields of work:
- Get involved and get involved
- Own, foreign, common
- Youth and the world of work
- Media and information
- Common Europe
- Innovation and experiment
The last category is intended for project teams who try out new methodological approaches and / or provide forward-looking content impulses.
The projects funded so far show that there are no limits to the creativity and imagination of young people when designing their project. Whether theater, ecological projects or looking for traces in the past - the decision on a topic lies with the young people themselves.
Type of promotion
The projects are financially supported and the project teams are advised and qualified in a “workshop” lasting several days, to which young people are also invited.
Funding can be requested for:
- Preparation and follow-up meetings
- Traveling expenses
- Accommodation costs (including necessary insurance, entrance fees, etc.)
- Project implementation costs (e.g. for work material)
Appropriate participation by the participants is required; the acquisition of third-party funding is desirable.
Who can apply?
School and youth groups with their supervisors from Germany, Albania , Belarus , Bosnia-Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Estonia , Croatia , Latvia , Lithuania , Macedonia , Moldova , Montenegro , Poland , Romania , Russia , Serbia , Slovakia , Slovenia , the Czech Republic , Ukraine and Hungary .
Groups from a third European country can be included as project partners, although a maximum of three partner groups may be involved in the project. The age of the project participants should be between 13 and 21 years.
requirements
- The partners must already know each other before applying for funding
- The project is accompanied by a preparation and follow-up meeting
- The meeting lasts at least ten days, of which at least four days are reserved for project work
- The project partners deal in advance with the language, country and culture of the partner country
- Getting to know each other should be intensified through a longer stay with a host family (e.g. at the weekend)
- The project leads to a practical, presentable result that is presented to the public
canditature
The funding competition is advertised twice a year, on December 15th and January 15th. The current tender text will be sent by post and email to various institutions in the field of school / youth work and is also available on the Young Paths in Europe website . Anyone interested can also register there in a mailing list to be informed about the latest tenders.
A complete application includes a project plan as well as detailed cost and financing plans for the preparation and follow-up meetings as well as for the meetings themselves.
The selection is made by an international commission made up of various areas of education, school and youth work.
Award
The best projects of a year are awarded. The winners will be invited to Berlin to take part in a seminar, the focus of which is a festive event.