About
EUR(H)OPE is a 24-month Erasmus+ project which aims to build the capacities of young people aged 18-25 living in the Mediterranean-Adriatic border communities by engaging them in training and advocacy activities regarding European identity by means of journalistic techniques and NFE methodologies.
This project, which involves four organizations from Albania, Italy, Morocco, and Spain, intends to provide some food for thought on the question: what does the concept of Europe mean today for those who are EU citizens, for those who will become them, and for those who migrate to live in the EU?
We imagine Europe not as a bureaucratic space, but as a container of imaginaries, of identities, a model of democracy. Is this still the case for young people from countries that are part of Europe (Spain and Italy), that have asked to enter Europe (Albania) and that represent one of the main migration routes to Europe (Morocco)?
We imagine that, equipped with the right professional tools, they will be able – now and in the future – to develop their own generational narratives in order to bring to the EU decision-making centres proposals that will contribute to make the idea of Europe more and more solid and innovative. And we believe that if this narrative comes from those who are always portrayed as crossing borders it can be even more important.
Outputs
Activities
Training course
From 9 to 13 December 2025, project partners will hold a Training Course in Tirana, Albania. Through it, youth workers from partner organizations will receive the skills and techniques needed to analyze current narratives, develop interview techniques, and prepare content in both self-telling and narrative journalism, as well as measuring the shared vision in the field with participatory interviewing and writing work, together with a Non-Formal Education (NFE) approach. Feedback received from participants will lead to an updated version of the Self-Telling Kit, which will include some narrative journalism products produced during the mobility.
Local workshop
Three local workshops will be organized in each partner country, where the youth workers from the Training Course in Albania will share what they learned in the mobility with 10 local youths, specifically regarding interview techniques, self-narrative, and memory study.
Youth Exchange
A Youth Exchange will take place in Barcelona on the theme of “The right to tell your story: personal and collective narrative techniques and approaches”. Five local youth representatives from each partner country will meet and, under the supervision of a trainer and journalism professionals, will work on post-production, creating and editing together communication products that tell their personal stories of migration and identity through their own preferred formats (podcast, web series, mini doc, etc.). These results will be made available after the Youth Exchange.
Policy Labs
Two Policy Labs will be organized in each partner country, where representatives of local and regional public authorities will engage in a facilitated roundtable with local youth workers, young people and the partners’ project managers with the aim of facilitating the uptake of the projects’ results and evidence into policy and practice. These Policy Labs will provide a space in which the values, emotions, experiences and perceptions of different stakeholders are expressed and explored, alongside evidence generated from the project.
Partners
Keep in touch
Italy (Milan)
Morocco (Tiznit)
Spain (Barcelona)
Email: dbishop@asceps.org