KICK OFF MEETING OF THE C YOU PROJECT

The meeting was held in Voitsberg (Austria) 26^th-29^thof October with the participation of partners from Austria, France, Romania, Italy, Denmark and Greece. The project partners got to know each other and to discuss the activities and developments to be carried out during the next 2 years. The meeting also provided the opportunity to meet street workers and other stakeholders and discuss different topics related to the project with them.

The project is  supported by the DAPHNE III programme of the European Commission. 

The overall aim of “C You! – Communities preventing Youth violence” is to develop and implement preventative measures aimed specifically at the community level by integrating all groups of persons and organisations that are in close or more general contact with young people and have the opportunity to influence and / or interact.

C You! further aims to strengthen the roles of communities and support cooperation between the institutions at different levels (such as families, schools, youth centres, youth meeting/info points, counselling centres, sports clubs, hospitals, police but also street workers, trusted citizens and residents in general).

Target groups are

1. persons working with young people or with the motivation of guiding, influencing and supporting them with the aim of implementing preventative measures on a long-term basis
   
2. persons who have more unstructured social and cultural contacts with young people. These contacts happen mostly at their work place and are very often part of leisure time activities of young people (e.g. bar staff, salespersons). For this second target group the motivation for implementing preventative measures is more short-term, such as recognising risk situations and reacting quickly in order to avoid a situation escalating into violence.

 Coming next |

In the first project period all partners will collect good practices of prevention work from an educational perspective. They will describe the practice examples according to a matrix that was developed during the meeting in Austria and present the results at the next meeting in France.

2^nd transnational project meeting in Segré (France) from March 5-6 2012.

A big awareness campaign will be launched in March to reach and attract young people all over Europe and involve them in project activities such as youth events and European competition on the topic “youth and violence”.