Youth integration and empowerment project

The aim of the project is to evaluate and popularize the experience and good practice collected by 12 schools in the project EXPLORING. BELONGING. ACTING 1^st stage as well as to provide diverse opportunities for young people from minority schools to engage in interactive, meaningful experiences and learning about Latvia, European and global values in order to improve critical thinking, media literacy, debating and other skills, and so strengthen sense of belonging and civic participation in the life of school, community and state with other schools of Latvia in Latgale, Riga, near-Riga areas and other schools.

It includes following activities:
1) seminar of evaluating the impact of the project EXPLORING. BELONGING. ACTING (1^st stage) for the representatives of the school teams;
2) Local school and community activities;
3) 2 conferences for popularizing the sustainability/good practice of the project in Riga and Latgale;
4) PR activities and dissemination of the information.

n order to achieve the goal included in the title of the project – OUTSPREADING –all project activities were targeted at increasing skills and readiness to share gained experiences and to communicate with students, teachers and other stakeholders within and outside the schools – in the community, municipality and region.

In March 1^st in Riga and March 2^nd in Daugavpils regional forums took place where teams from ten involved schools shared experience with more than 200 guests from 30 schools and other organizations. Among audience and active participants of the workshops were students, teachers, state and municipal educational leaders, decision makers from municipalities, partners from youth centers etc. More