Look Up Stand Up

The target groups of the project are young people aged 15-24 from marginalized Roma communities. Their voices usually disappear in local politics in communication on tackling inclusion. The project offers non-formal educational activities (trainings, community meetings, consultations) for young people from four excluded marginalized communities with the intention of creating joint campaigns on diversity, discrimination and social inclusion. Campaigns addressed primarily to local actors will have a methodological basis for storytelling, building positive narratives and communication models that increase public support and depolarize society. Project will actively involve disadvantaged youth. Main phases of the project: 1) creating local partnerships, identifying the needs and barriers of the target group that they feel in relation to social inclusion; 2) analysis of findings and setting up effective tools in cooperation with local actors; 3) trainings in individual communities. It is a combination of active citizenship, community organization and campaigns using positive narratives, which gives a strong potential for the involvement of disadvantaged youth in polarized communities.