Zapping Poverty September 20-27- 2010, Bucharest, Romania

Zapping Poverty is a youth exchange having as topic the youth unemployment and youth employability, producing direct effects on the youth’s poverty and social exclusion. For 8 days, 35 youngsters from 7 countries will work together, in an intercultural setting, producing the Youth Employment Action Plan, analyzing the actual situation with the youth unemployment and coming with proposals for the stakeholders, for the Universities, for the private sector and for their peers to tackle the unemployment situation. Through the experiential workshops, through the simulation and role playing games and through the group working on the Youth Action Plan, the youngsters’ mutual support, their solidarity and their understanding will be fully challenged. Also, we want to bring awareness on the youth’s group about the global movement against poverty and social exclusion, promoting the 2010’s priorities – as the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. At the end of the 8 days, the 35 participants will come with a consistent and coherent document that will reflect their perspective on the youth unemployment and its actual status but also with practical solutions for different stakeholders to tackle this problem. The action plan will then be shared with their peers, through the dissemination and multiplication plan.
Integrating also YiA’s objectives and its permanent and annual priorities, Zapping Poverty has the following priority objectives:
1. Promoting the active youth participation and offering to 35 youngsters from 7 countries the opportunity to discuss about the youth unemployment
2. Empowering youth to come with their own practical proposals to for youth unemployment through the Youth Action Plan on Unemployment
3. Encouraging the cultural exchange and having a great impact on the participants’ intercultural learning and intercultural dialogue
4. Promoting the cooperation in the youth field and developing new cooperation plans and follow up projects
5. Promoting the 2010’s priorities and the 2011 priorities – promoting volunteering and the benefits that can be conducted through volunteering
6. Promoting Youth in Action and its opportunities
7. Promoting the non-formal education and its recognition – through the skills and competencies development and providing the participants with the Youthpass
8. Coming with a consistent and coherent document, at the end of the exchange, the Action Plan and disseminating it to the stakeholders to whom these proposals are addressed.
Creating a network of active youngsters and active promoters who will continue working on youth unemployment also disseminating the Youth Action plan in their networks and communities.