EMPOWER VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUNGSTERS FOR A MORE INDEPENDENT LIVING (EMVIMIL) project financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union

The consortium of 6 partners continues the international project EMVIMIL, an Erasmus+ Youth 4 activity project, financed by the European Union and developed by Asociatia Babilon Travel in partnership with VIEWS International (Belgium), Karabaglar Kaymakamligi (Turkey), Mreza za Dozivotno Ucenje-Lifelong Learning Network (North Macedonia), Projekte Vullnetare Nderkombetare (Albania) and INSIDE EU (Ireland).

The project focus on supporting youth workers to develop quality activities, based on values like equality, equity, inclusion, access to education and culture, democracy and human rights, including VIPs in these activities, in order to increase their mobility, employability and sense of entrepreneurial initiatives, capacitating in this way their independent living.

To achieve its objectives, a Youth Exchange is held in Izmir, Turkey, between 4-10 October, 2022.

The participants who take part in the youth exchange in Izmir are from Romania, the Republic of Northern Macedonia, Albania, Turkey, Ireland and Belgium with a total of 42 participants of whom 30 youngsters. They will be given the opportunity to experience adapted and inclusive activities and workshops in a mixed-ability group. Together with visually impaired participants will discover and develop skills for more independent living. During the youth exchange, the participants will develop or improve a set of soft skills, develop and build good practices in regard of in-door and outdoor activities with visually impaired/blind youngsters and proposals to improve infrastructure and services meant to include VIPs in their local communities.

All the activities are held in the Erasmus+ spirit and are based on non-formal education methods and tools in an inclusive and adapted way, considering the presence of visually impaired/blind participants (study visits, working groups, debriefings, free discussions, workshops, teambuilding exercises, energizers, reflections, presentations etc.).

EMPOWER VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUNGSTERS FOR A MORE INDEPENDENT LIVING (EMVIMIL) project financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union

The consortium of 6 partners starts the international project EMVIMIL, an Erasmus+ Youth 4 activity project, financed by the European Union and developed by Asociatia Babilon Travel in partnership with VIEWS International (Belgium), Karabaglar Kaymakamligi (Turkey), Mreza za Dozivotno Ucenje-Lifelong Learning Network (North Macedonia), Projekte Vullnetare Nderkombetare (Albania) and INSIDE EU (Ireland). 

The project focus on supporting youth workers to develop quality activities, based on values like equality, equity, inclusion, access to education and culture, democracy and human rights, including VIPs in these activities, in order to increase their mobility, employability and sense of entrepreneurial initiatives, capacitating in this way their independent living. 

To achieve its objectives, a Youth Exchange is held in Izmir, Turkey, between 4-10 October, 2022.

The participants who take part in the youth exchange in Izmir are from Romania, the Republic of Northern Macedonia, Albania, Turkey, Ireland and Belgium with a total of 42 participants of whom 30 youngsters. They will be given the opportunity to experience adapted and inclusive activities and workshops in a mixed-ability group. Together with visually impaired participants will discover and develop skills for more independent living. During the youth exchange, the participants will develop or improve a set of soft skills, develop and build good practices in regard of in-door and outdoor activities with visually impaired/blind youngsters and proposals to improve infrastructure and services meant to include VIPs in their local communities.

All the activities are held in the Erasmus+ spirit and are based on non-formal education methods and tools in an inclusive and adapted way, considering the presence of visually impaired/blind participants (study visits, working groups, debriefings, free discussions, workshops, teambuilding exercises, energizers, reflections, presentations etc.).

On September 12, a meeting was held between the partners of the EMVIMIL project consortium, where they discussed the preparations for the youth exchange that will take place between October 3 and 11, 2022 in Izmir, Turkey.

Lifelong Learning Network joined the Kick-Off Meeting of the project "Designing green growth learning aids for young persons with disabilities”  co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Commission, which brings together 6 partners from 6 countries:  North Macedonia, Romania, Austria, Albania, Sweden and Turkey. The KOM, was held in Tetovo, Macedonia on 20-21.06.2022. 

During the kick-off meeting the partners defined technical and operational aspects of the Project Results and related activities. The goal of the meeting was also to define the project and financial management aspects as well as aspects pertaining to Internal Quality, Monitoring & Evaluation, Risk Management. Project partners discussed about the project results implementation, project timeframe administrative aspects and choose the project logo.

The project main objective is developing and creating learning aids for persons with disabilities, related to Green growth and culture. 

For this purpose, a curriculum and modules will be designed addressing the topic of green growth and culture. These curricula shall be used as extracurricular activities in the schools and for NGO training of youth. Furthermore, we want/will to extend this material and adjust it to the needs of disadvantaged youth with disabilities

The project will develop the following Project results: 

R1: Developed learning content for the educational material suitable for young persons with disabilities of topics of green growth and culture

R2: Produced audio for visually impeded and special books as learning aids for young persons with intellectual disabilities

R3: Produced learning films about green growth and culture to each of the participating countries.

R4: Created mobile application and compassion the developed learning AIDS

More about the project you can find:

website: mdu.mk

facebook: Lifelong Learning Network