What is Erasmus +?
Erasmus+ is the EU’s programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe.
The 2021-2027 programme places a strong focus on social inclusion, the green and digital transitions, and promoting young people’s participation in democratic life.
It supports priorities and activities set out in the European Education Area, Digital Education Action Plan and the European Skills Agenda. The programme also
- supports the European Pillar of Social Rights
- implements the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027
- develops the European dimension in sport
How can migrants and refugees get involved by Erasmus+ Projects:
Youth exchange
Cooperation among organisations and institutions
Erasmus+ inclusion and priorities
Create your own project
Sweden national managing authorities
Youth Exchange
🌎 🙋🏽This exchange promotes those who are curious to meet young people from other countries.
🤸💡Through youth exchanges, participants exchange ideas and experiences while learning about different topics through non-formal education and creating their own knowledge.
💭 🧍🏼🧍🏽♀️🧍🏼♂️🧍🏽 These exchanges are an opportunity for young migrants and refugees to share their experience with others from the new country and beyond.
Sometimes the exchanges are based on the theme of migration or the inclusion of marginalised groups, topics in which they can empower themselves by contributing their experiences to others.
Participants 🎂13 – 30. Liders NO upper limit.
⚠️Any person in Sweden that wants to take part of an Erasmus+ project needs to be legal resident in the country ➡️ have a permanent or a temporary residency permit. Refugees and migrants are not eligible when they are in the middle of an asylum residency permit process or living in Sweden based on a tourist visa.
📅The length of the youth exchanges is from 5 to 21 days.
💸 EU grant supports travel as well as practical and activity-related costs necessary for the exchange (accommodation, food, activities, insurance and visa if required).
Travel costs covered by the grant
➡️➡️➡️ You can apply as a participant contacting one of the organisations involved in the project.
💭 exchange of ideas between local Swedish and international people to create programs that provide development opportunities for disadvantaged communities and groups.
YE: Near the Sport
💭They are happy to create opportunities for lifelong learning through non-formal education activities and people.
Initiative: Friends Without Borders.
💭 projects for youth focus on well-being, integration and migration.
YE: Back to Business
More organisations working with Erasmus projects with and for migrants in Sweden:
Hope För Ungdomsutveckling Förening
https://www.mustaqbalfoundation.org/
Also, you can find more information about Youth Exchange and other Erasmus + programs opportunities in European Youth portal
Cooperation among organisations and institutions
These projects integrate all stakeholders, as they involve all levels of society. For example, to work on the integration problem, they try to create better working practices among those who work with migrants and refugees; studies are conducted by asking the target population; training with the skills and resources these people may need are organised; conferences; awareness talks in schools… Different methodologies and formats are used to involve everyone in the solution, providing mutual enrichment.
Participants 🎂depends on the project.
Activities:
- youth exchanges
- local workshops
- training exchange
- research on the topic
- development of new technologies or methodologies
- …
💸 EU grant supports travel as well as practical and activity-related costs necessary for the exchange (accommodation, food, activities, insurance and visa if required).
➡️➡️➡️ You can apply as a participant contacting one of the organisations involved in the project
Organization: Kompetenta unga
💭 exchange of ideas between local Swedish and international people to create programs that provide development opportunities for disadvantaged communities and groups.
Project: Migration to Integration
The project was developed by organisations from Sweden, Myanmar, Kenya, and Colombian. Its aim is to promote the integration of migrants and refugees through:
- youth workers’ development in new working methods for inclusion
- promoting international cooperation and development of best practices
- building new social initiatives to integrate refugees.
Organisation: Mobilising expertise
💭 they develop training and Erasmus+ project based on youth and social inclusion.
Project: LiteracyAct
Organisation: STIFTELSEN KURSVERKSAMHETEN VID U-AUNIVERSITET
💭 develops and promotes all types of formal and non-formal education for adults, with the objective of promoting a richer life with knowledge and creation. Among its target groups are migrants and refugees, promoting learning groups with skills necessary for their integration.
Project: Critical information for immigrants regarding parenting to promote social inclusion
Erasmus+ inclusion and priorities
The organisations are concerned with meeting the needs of people with fewer opportunities, through funding, inclusive and adapted activities, a plan of accompaniment by facilitators, local activities that make the first experience easier, communication at all times during the program and monitoring that the environment is safe and inclusive for all of them.
❌No discriminatory or violent acts will be tolerated within the program.
✅Multicultural environments of support and growth are promoted.
The Erasmus+ program priorities:
- 🌈inclusion of diversity
- 💻digital transformation
- ♻️environmental policy and the fight against climate change
- ⚖️participation in democratic life, common values and civic engagement. All of them are presented in a transversal or direct way in the objectives of these programs.
Create your own project
💡 The programs are often enriched when the coordinators are the people who are involved in the problem they want to solve. If you have any idea of how to solve your community’s needs through youth participation, you will need to either
- form an entity in order to apply for funding
- ask for mentoring from an existing organisation that will help you develop your project and host it under its name.
📞We as a non-profit organisation try to provide this mentoring. Contact us for more information.
More information: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/programme-guide/part-b/key-action-1/youth-exchanges
https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/resources-and-tools/how-to-apply
