The ‘SafeNet’ project is implemented by New Vision, in cooperation with Club for Youth Empowerment 018 (KOM018) – Serbia, ‘Impress’ Road Daruvar – Croatia, Beyond Borders – Italy, Red Cross Novo Sarajevo – Bosnia and Herzegovina and SPPMD – North Macedonia , in the period 01.11.2019 – 31.12.2021.
This project addresses the problem of youth safety in Europe on two levels. On the one hand, the activities have an educational feature aimed at raising awareness of youth safety issues in Europe and the role of youth workers and NGO activists and volunteers in the same. On the other hand, young people will be allowed to directly respond to security problems and give opinions on various security issues focusing on peer-to-peer violence, internet safety, radicalism and extremism and dangerous lifestyles. . The general participation of young people in the development and implementation of the local youth safety policy will be strengthened. General objective: To contribute to the development of the youth safety culture and to strengthen the cooperation between institutions and civil society in addressing safety issues and youth safety. Specific objectives:
– To activate youth workers and young people to take an active role in promoting safe behavior and safety culture;
– Provide a range of recommendations on safety issues created by young people for young people;
– Raise awareness of security issues in local communities in participating countries and promote non-violent behavior through engaging youth activities.
Main activities:
Local workshops – trained participants will be responsible for organizing follow-up activities through workshops at the local level where they will work on the issue of youth safety in local communities. Trained participants will test the methodology they have adopted through training and organize creative workshops at the local level.
Focus groups – development of recommendations for improving youth safety where each partner will organize 5 focus groups at the local level in which each group will discuss a specific segment of safety (general safety and youth safety, violence from peers, online safety, radicalism and extremism and risky lifestyles) and provide a number of recommendations for improving the safety and security of young people in participating countries. The final phase of this project took place in Corato, Italy on November 17-20. At the final conference, the six partners who participated in the event had the opportunity to share what they had done in their countries regarding the project.
