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 held a Training Course in Tirana, Albania. Through it, youth workers from partner organizations received 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 led to an updated version of the Self-Telling Kit.
Local workshops
From May to June 2025, 2-3 local workshops were organized in each partner country, with youth workers from the Training Course in Albania sharing what they learned during the mobility and external trainers imparting new skills in interview techniques, self-narrative, and memory study to 10 local youth participants.
Youth Exchange
After an online Kickoff Meeting, a week-long intensive Youth Exchange took place in Barcelona from 7-11 July 2025, on the theme of “The Right to Tell Your Story: Personal and Collective Narrative Techniques”. Five local youth representatives from each partner country met for an intensive training in narrative creation and audiovisual production techniques and, under the supervision of trainers and journalism professionals, worked on creating, producing, editing, and presenting 4 audiovisual communication products that told their personal and collective stories of migration and identity through varied audiovisual formats (short films, documentaries, and experimental audiovisual/soundscape pieces).
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