Month: July 2015

Locally based NGO JUHOUD for Community and Rural Development alongside with the participants of ENI-CBC CaBuReRa Project held, on the 28^TH oh July  at the Ministry of Labor a Seminar about Youth Mobility in the Euro-Mediterranean area. The seminar’s goal achieved with the contribution of prominent speakers who participated in it.

During the Seminar, a presentation of the CaBuReRa youth mobility Project was offered. The presentation not only included information about the Project, but also shared experiences from its participants. Highlighting the points of various opportunities through youth mobility programs, difficulties that the participants may face, cultural exchange involvement of the participants and also multiple aspects of the benefits of youth mobility practices.

In addition to this presentation, the Seminar also offered a brief exposition for the Deadalus Project, by one of its responsible project managers. Deadalus portal is a cross-border network including members from the Mediterranean area, which hopefully become a useful tool for youth across the Mediterranean zone.

Last but not least, the hosting organization pay its regards to the European Union representative, Maria Fraskou, who kindly participated in this attempt and offered an interesting perspective on the matters of this Seminar along with Mr. Nasser Qatami the representative of the Ministry of Labour in Ramallah. JUHOUD and the Caburera participants want to acknowledge the public support and also express their gratitude to all the people who contributed in the Seminar’s success.

As a closing event of their mobility programme in Jordan, the CaBuReRa interns at Al Hayat Centre For Civil Society Development organised and held a “dissemination seminar”, which took place on the 27^th of July at the University of Jordan. The seminar  focused on the topic of unemployment, as well as on the methods and attitudes that youth should take in order to overcome this problem.

Lack of job opportunities, lower salaries, and a more and more competitive labour market, are nowadays issues affecting young people globally. The Mediterranean area is certainly one of the regions mostly interested by this phenomenon, with Greece, Italy and Portugal (the countries of origin of the European CaBuReRa participants) being on the “black list” of European countries with respect to youth unemployment.

Nonetheless, a programme such as CaBuReRa shows how useful mobility can be for the personal and professional life of youth, adding a recognised international experience in their curriculum and enhancing their employability both in their country and abroad. The aim of the seminar was thus to share experience and knowledge with Jordanian university students, who will soon face the same challenges as their European colleagues.

The 18 students participating in the event, mostly coming from the faculties of Foreign Languages and International Studies, showed a strong interest in travelling and improving their knowledge and skills in a foreign country. During the seminar they could learn about programmes and online platforms offering Euro-Mediterranean mobility opportunities, study and research programmes in Europe, as well as international traineeship and jobs. Furthermore, they were given tips on how to render their applications more effective and their profile more appealing in their future search for a job.

The event was concluded by an open and informal discussion, during which the students and the CaBuReRa participants exchanged information and experiences. The meeting proved to be an important source of inspiration for both students and interns, as well as a good starting point for the creation of new networks and ideas.

Capacity Building Relay Race – CaBuReRa

Tissu Associatif et Transfert de Connaissances [Network of Associations and Knowledge Transfer] – TATRAC

Friday, the 31^st July, at 17:00
in MoltiVolti
Via Puglia 21, Palermo

“The future of the associations of the civil society in Maghreb and in the Middle East”: conference and event in Moltivolti

• Rita Quisillo, CESIE, Coordinator of the CaBuReRa project
• Abdelhamid Abidi, ANPR, Coordinator of the TATRAC project
• Mohammad AlHasan, Muna Sbouh and Dyaa Mubaideen, participants of the CaBuReRa project

In the framework of the CaBuReRa (Capacity Building Relay Race) and TATRACTissu Associatif et Transfert de Connaissances [Network of Associations and Knowledge Transfer]) projects, the conference called “The future of the associations of the civil society in Maghreb and in the Middle East” will be held on Friday, the 31^st July at 17:00, in Moltivolti (via M. Puglia, 21, Palermo).

In the framework of the ENPI programme (European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument) and thanks to a total budget of € 1.680.000, funded at 90% by the European Union, CaBuReRa develops a training, exchange and networking project. CaBuReRa wants to contribute to the development of a Mediterranean network between youth, local authorities, public authorities and education protagonists in order to facilitate the school-to-work transition and promote active citizenship and intercultural dialogue through mobility experiences. In such context, the project will involve 30 Youth Workers and 60 Young Unemployed, who will carry out a period of mobility in Italy, Greece, Portugal, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine.

TATRAC (Tissu Associatif et Transfert de Connaissances [Network of Associations and Knowledge Transfer]) is on the other hand a cross-border cooperation project funded by the ENPI programme Italy-Tunisia 2017-2013. The project aims mainly at encouraging the civil society to take up an active role in the innovation process, by supporting the associations, enhancing scientific knowledge, sharing good practices and promoting the building of a culture of innovation.

Both projects will be presented during the conference held on the 31^st of July, organized as a conclusion to the period of mobility carried out by the 10 young participants to the CaBuReRa project who performed volunteer services and did training sessions in Palermo during the last month. The conference will also be the occasion to put an end to the training sessions and the visits to which participated the Sicilian and Tunisian partners of the  TATRAC project from the 27^th to the 31^st of July 2015.

The 31^st of July will thus be dedicated to intercultural values, associative work and exchange of good practices, to promote the development of a culture of innovation. The conference will be followed by an Intercultural evening, during which the 10 young participants to the CaBuReRa project, currently carrying out a mobility period in Palermo, will share their experience and culture through music, food and traditional dances from their own countries (Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine).

CaBuReRa Partnership Meeting and Mid-Term Mobility Meeting for the second group of participants took place in Amman, Jordan, from June 26^th to the 2^nd of July 2015. It involved the 51 young participants from Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Portugal, Italy and Greece who from May till August 2015 are doing an internship in the field of project management in different organisations located on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea basin. These participants are young graduates and unemployed who are trying to become part of the labour market: they belong to the second group of young people to whom CaBuReRa offers a valuable opportunity of capacity building.

CaBuReRa is an ENPI CBC Med project aimed to reduce the rate of youth unemployment in the Euro-Mediterranean area by giving participant the opportunity to gain across-the-board skills in the field of project management and international cooperation.

During the Partnership Meeting the CaBuReRa partners analysed the state of play of the project implementation and focused their attention on the 51 young participants who are now living their mobility experience.

The Mid-Term Mobility Meeting was a unique opportunity for the participants to meet each other, to be trained on project writing and call for proposals and to share their mobility experience. Moreover, the trainers and participants worked in synergy to capitalise the skills acquired during their mobility experience, learning a successful way of using these competences in the labour market. The Mobility- Meeting has been also an opportunity to introduce the CaBuReRa participants to the internship at national level they will do once back in their own countries.

The Mid-Term Mobility Meeting held in Amman, Jordan within the CaBuReRa project, has just ended. 58 young participants from the Target Group 2 (TG2), coming from Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Greece, Portugal and Italy, met up together for evaluating the first part of their mobility and plan the forthcoming part. These participants are all Young Unemployed who are currently spending a period abroad for attending a training in the field of project management in different organisations located on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea basin.

During the Mid-Term Meeting in Jordan, CaBuReRa participants took part in some intensive training sessions related to project management and had also the opportunity to circulate ideas, opinions, knowledge and professional aspirations among the colleagues coming from all the other countries involved in the CaBuReRa project.

So, between moments of fun along the Dead Sea coasts and hours of in-depth analysis about Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, it should be said that future project managers are growing up…!

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