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Twenty-six participants from six EU and southern Neighbourhood countries last week took part
in a study visit organised in Ramallah by the Palestinian NGO “JUZOOR” in the framework of
the EU-funded Euromed Youth IV programme.
The project, entitled “Explore Youth Initiatives in Palestine”, brings together participants from
Spain, Slovakia, Italy, Turkey, Jordan, Morocco, and Palestine. It aims at exposing young people
from the EuroMed region to social entrepreneurship experiences through youth initiatives, and
seeks to develop the understanding of youth initiatives entrepreneurship, its relation to youth
work and to reflect on how youth work can be recognized as provider of youth
entrepreneurship.
The study visit programme included an information session, educational activities, working group and discussions, study visits to around 20 youth initiatives (social, educational, economic and entrepreneurial) as well as three youth organisations in Ramallah, Qaliqilia, Tulkarem, and Jericho. Young people worked together to come up with new ideas to cooperate together on joint EuroMed youth initiatives and activities in their countries, and all partners developed long strategic partnerships for 2015 within the Erasmus + and EuroMed Youth programmes.
The EU funds the regional programme EuroMed Youth IV with a budget of €5 million under the European Neighbourhood Policy. The programme aims at stimulating and encouraging mutual comprehension among youth in the Euro-Mediterranean region, fighting stereotypes and prejudices and enhancing the sense of solidarity among youth by promoting active citizenship. It also seeks to contribute to the development of youth policies in the Mediterranean Partner Countries. The programme promotes the mobility of young people and the understanding between peoples...(link)