Solidarity Action Day Movement in Europe
| Solidarity Action Day Movement in Europe (SAME) |
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| legal form | Network / umbrella organization (ivzw) |
| founding | 2016 |
| Seat | Brussels |
| motto | You (th) Make (s) Change Happen |
| main emphasis | Youth and educational work (social day) |
| Action space | Europe / project regions of the member organizations |
| Employees | 4th |
| Members | 9 member organizations |
| Website | same-network.org |
Solidarity Action Day Movement in Europe (SAME for short) is a European network consisting of youth organizations that hold a social day every year . During the Social Day, schoolchildren from all over Europe swap their school desk for a job and thus support projects all over the world.
SAME consists of nine member organizations (as of 2019):
Operasjon Dagsverk ( Norway ), Operation Dagsværk ( Denmark ), Schüler Helfen Leben ( Germany ), YOUCA ( Belgium ), Social Day ( Italy ), Operation Daywork (Italy / South Tyrol ), Unija Srednjoškolaca Srbije ( Serbia ), Asocijacija Srednjoškolaca u Bosni i Hercegovini ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ) and Unija Srednjoškolaca Crne Gore ( Montenegro ).
Even if the member organizations differ in their work, there are common basic ideas that unite the organizations. These are set out in the Basic Common Principals .
Member organizations
YOUCA - Belgium
The story of YOUCA began in 2005 when three young people from Halle met while working for the NGO Daconia in Brazil. At the Norwegian Student Awards ceremony in 2005, they came into contact with young people from Operasjon Dagsverk and got to know the concept of the Social Day. Driven by the idea of founding a “social day organization” in their hometown, they contacted the Belgian social entrepreneur Ewoud Monbaliu. With his help, they organized the first YOUCA day of action in 2006 (then called the Zuiddag day of action) in Halle . What started small quickly developed into a large organization with five employees and 200 participating schools. At the moment, the YOUCA day of action is only being held in Flanders and the Brussels-Capital Region . However, there are plans to expand it on a national level.
Operation Dagsværk - Denmark
Inspired by a Swedish initiative, students from the Danske Gymnasieelevers Sammenslutning (Danish student movement) and the Landssierendenlutningen af Kursusstuderende (Danish national student council) formed Operation Dagsværk in 1985 . The now independent organization collected donations totaling over 128 million DKK (approx. 17 million €) through the annual Social Day . Every year around 20,000 students take part. The money was used for projects in Kenya , Iraq and Zimbabwe , for example .
Students help life - Germany
Schüler Helfen Leben is a youth welfare organization that emerged from the indignation of individual schoolchildren over the 1992 wars in Yugoslavia . They decided to take charge of where aid supplies and donations are spent. In 1998 the association Schüler Helfen Leben e. V. and four years later the associated foundation . The Social Day took place in Schleswig-Holstein for the first time in 1998. It has been carried out nationwide since 2006. Around 80,000 schoolchildren now jointly donate 1.5 million euros on Social Day every year. The funds will be used specifically for youth and education projects in Southeastern Europe and, since 2013, also in the Syrian-Jordanian border region
Social Day - Italy
The social day is organized in the province of Vicenza under the auspices of Progetto Zaterra Blu . Around 10,000 students now take part there every year. Although the organization has existed in its form since 2003, it was only through contact with Schüler Helfen Leben in 2006 that the desire to carry out an action like the Social Day arose.
Operation Daywork - Italy / South Tyrol
Since 2007 in South Tyrol , the organization operation Daywork . The Danish organization Operation Dagsværk gave the impetus in this case. The day of action is locally limited to 24 schools, of which between 400 and 600 students take part. Unlike the other member organizations, the money does not support specific projects, but an annual human rights award that can be chosen by the students. Due to the special situation in South Tyrol, the organization works in three languages.
Operasjon Dagsverk - Norway
Operasjon Dagsverk has been organizing a social day in Norway since 1964 . The organization was founded in 1963 at the General Assembly of the School Student Union of Norway . The day of action has now been established, around 90,000 schoolchildren take part each year, who collectively work out sums of up to NOK 29 million (approx. € 3.3 million). Over the years 49 projects have been supported all over the world, for example in Brazil , Peru and Bangladesh . For example, a 2010 project in Brazil set the goal of strengthening the rights of young people in slums and supporting them in the fight against social injustice. To this end, educational measures were taken and training courses for young people were made possible. Youth organizations there were also supported.
Unija Srednjoškolaca Srbije - Serbia
Unija Srednjoškolaca Srbije is a union of Serbian student councils that want to strengthen the rights and decision-making ability of students in the politics of the country. It was founded in 2003 and has since joined various international networks such as NAPOR, a Serbian, non-partisan network of civic associations that promote work with children and young people, or OBESSU . About 80,000 Serbian students are represented by the organization. The Social Day has also been practiced in Serbia since 2010, and in 2012 2,000 students took part, who earned 9,000 euros. The money supports various school-related projects.
ASuBiH - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Asocijacija srednjoškolaca u Bosni i Hercegovini was founded with the help of Students Help Life. The members of the organization initially had too few resources to hold their own social day. With the support of the SAME network, their first social day took place in 2006.
Emergence
The concept of the Social Day was implemented by Swedish schoolchildren back in 1963, in memory of the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, who died in 1961 on a peace mission . Hence the title Day for Dag at the time . The concept spread quickly in Scandinavia, and Operasjon Dagsverk organized a social day in Norway as early as 1964. In the past few years there has been repeated cooperation between the organizations in the form of a summer camp in Denmark under the title Operasjon Gränsløs .
The expansion to a European cooperation took place in 2011. The summer camp of the then unnamed SAME network took place in Oslo for the first time . The following year the network in Berlin received its name and the first brochures and other public relations materials were completed. It was also the beginning of work on the Basic Common Principles and Quality Guidelines , which took another year of work to complete. In this work phase, the need for clearer work structures and groups became clear. Therefore, in addition to the adoption of the Quality Guidelines by all organizations at the 2013 summer camp in Italy , the establishment of two working groups was achieved. On the one hand, it is a working group that deals with public relations and, on the other hand, a strategically working group. In 2014, a working group was added in Belgium to work on the right support for new “social day actors”. The next summer camp took place in Norway in 2015. Most of the funding comes from third-party funds such as the European Union's Erasmus + program . In 2018 SAME opened a program office in Lübeck , which is intended to ensure the steady growth of the network.
Basic Common Principles and Quality Guidelines
Through the Basic Common Principles , the common principles of the organizations involved in the network were recorded in a document in writing. It refers to the universally applicable human rights as well as the freedom and equality of all people. In eight paragraphs, for example, the importance of youth, solidarity, the right to participate and the sustainability of the projects are emphasized. By adhering to these principles, the network undertakes to follow and implement them, i.e. to place value in its work on finding and selecting appropriate and sustainable aid projects and project partners.
These principles were in turn implemented in the SAME Quality Guidelines , ie guidelines that serve as orientation for the members and new “social day initiatives”. These guidelines comprise a total of 20 points. Several points deal with youth participation around and within the individual organization. This also includes the fact that the projects are aimed at young people and should promote and support education. In addition, all organizations agree to donate the money collected from the social day to transparent projects that can finance themselves in the long term. This concept of sustainability should also be striven for in the ecological and social aspect of the projects. The respective partner organization itself should be clearly structured and secure knowledge through continuous documentation and evaluation. The views and values within the organization should also be actively discussed again and again.
aims
In general, it is the aim of SAME to spread the social day in Europe and to make it better known. The reason for this is the common view that young people should take responsibility for themselves and others. They should work together towards a fair and democratic world. By participating in the Social Day and the projects financed by it, but also by actively participating in the individual organizations, the youth's sense of responsibility is strengthened and promoted.
Action Day Initiatives
The network offers young people and other youth organizations help in initiating new social days. All organizations provide their experiences and offer both visits and workshops to support the Action Day Initiatives . This help is based on the Quality Guidelines so that a high quality of new social days can be guaranteed.
Learning network
The exchange of experiences, mutual visits and the joint work of the organizations in the network also enable an exchange of best practice . This means that possible best practices regarding different areas of the Social Day and its organization should be communicated. Thus the members can benefit from each other and inspire and strengthen each other.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Who we are. November 1, 2014, accessed December 6, 2018 .
- ↑ YOUCA Belgium. November 2, 2014, accessed December 6, 2018 .
- ↑ What is YOUCA doing? Retrieved December 6, 2018 (Dutch).
- ↑ Brief portrait of Operation Dagsværk
- ↑ Projects
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Formation of the association
- ↑ Brief portrait of students helping life
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ Brief portrait of the Progetto Zattera Blu
- ↑ Operation Daywork Italy. November 29, 2018, accessed December 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Operation Daywork. Accessed December 6, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Brief portrait of Operasjon Dagsverk
- ↑ Projects
- ↑ Project description
- ^ NAPOR
- ↑ Brief portrait of the Unija Srednjoškolaca Srbije
- ↑ History of origin
- ↑ History of origin
- ↑ [3]
- ↑ Lübeck becomes a meeting place for Europe's youth. Retrieved December 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Justification of the Schwarzkopf Foundation for the “Young European of the Year” award ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Foundation Report SHL, p. 42 ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)
