Finished Projects
Please check the project pages for detailed information on the projects:
“Goal 5” Youth exchange 2022
The project was hosted by Proqvi and supported by its long term partners. Erasmus+ is a fantastic tool to work with young people on gender equality. It brings different cultures together to learn from each other. With “Goal 5”, we brought young people from Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and Albania together. This youth exchange was to raise awareness of and to promote gender equality among young people in an intercultural environment.
Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/nL5aVttexo9ekFEe9
Been There Done That 2022
The "Been There Done That" project took place in Turkey with the support from Erasmus+ program, in February 2022. It was a training course developed as an answer to numerous conferences and workshops all focusing on best practices. Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/nL5aVttexo9ekFEe9
Break the silence! 2023
During this sensitive project in Uganda we want to use culture: film and theatre, to open up for public discussions the sensitive and taboo subject of violence and harassment against women and find means to spread women's experiences "behind the scenes", despite harsh censorship and poor internet access. We want to carry out some discussion meetings with local issues as well as a series of workshops in film and theatre techniques for women influencers, thereby changing and giving higher priority to societal debate issues of gender equality, sexual assault and legal security. We want to give a voice to women in the media, teachers, students and activists within the SCO. Partner organisations: Muwada and High Sound for Children, also cooperating tight with Media Challenge Initiative, a modern hub of media production run by and for young people in Kampala, where we had a number of meetings and workshops. Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/1LiQfxg419nzx2ot8
Business As Unusual
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Climate Youth Ambassadors
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Collaboration with Söderscen
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Discriminhate Nobody
Cyberbullying is an issue widely debated in current society. The increase in online content sharing maximised its influential power; within the global trends exploiting this wave, the diffusion of distorted
standards about aesthetic, body image and shape. Therefore, people face discrimination and victimisation because of their physical appearance, falling within the definition of body shaming.
DiscriminHate NoBody (DHNB) project aimed to draw attention on body shaming at European level, aiming to raise awareness and to disseminate empathic behaviour in order to counter every form of bullying and negative judgement addressing physical appearance.
The project consised of two activities: a methodology development session and a implementation period, both takin gplace in Sweden in 2021 and bringing together 40 people from 4 different countries: Sweden, Greece, Romania, Germany, Italy.
Some photos here:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/2Q1MjAts6aGmkemG7
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/8QmcveL9apGTSMM67
Supporting Youngsters with Autism – How to deal with sensory issues
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Distant Voices
Distant Voices was a youth exchange that took place between 15-24 April 2019, in Hässleholm, Sweden under Erasmus+ KA1 Youth Exchanges, hosted by Proqvi (Sweden). It aimed to provide a space for learning, discussions and exchange of ideas about issues that young people face in rural areas, as well as to promote intercultural learning among young people. Partner organisations from Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Portugal will co-shape the event, recruit and prepare participants and conduct dissemination and follow-up activities. Each group consisted of 1 leader and 7 participants. Overall, the project brought 40 people from 5 different countries. Some picrures here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/gT3qhGhxXvJ1K3m47
Film Tajm Academy 2019
Date: 03-17 July, 2019
Place: Hästveda, Sweden
Participants: 36 young people (12 participants from each country, aged 16-30)
Countries: Sweden, Italy and Turkey
During the project a number of short films were produced and published online, projects developed and new intiatives born.
Some pictures: https://photos.app.goo.gl/8uAoaQQkU75KaSBN7
Film Tajm! 2018
PLACE AND DATE: 28 February-9 March 2018, Karlstad, Sweden.
COUNTRIES: Sweden, Italy, Romania, UK, Lithuania and Turkey
“FILM TIME” was a project where 60 young people from Sweden, Italy, Romania, UK, Lithuania and Turkey met in Karlstad, Sweden between 28 February-9 March 2018 win order to produce their own multimedia product, focusing on topic of discovering/interpreting feelings and identities. No special skills or qualifications were needed in order to apply to this project.
The organizing team provided inspiration, challenge and knowledge to youngsters about shaping their experiences into messages that could be spread to a wider audience, using audiovisuals like film as a means of communication. The participants experienced that they have more similarities than differences, in their cultural contexts and personal opinions.
Some pictures: https://photos.app.goo.gl/gVrAgXY1FxezC1yX6
GAME ON! 2021
A training course brining board game developers together to research and experiment applying gamification principles to tools and methods of social work in intercultural meeting, non-formal learning, integration and civil orientation. One of our best tool, game "Wild Bees Hive" comes from this training.
Gender: Still an issue 2024
intercultural Gender Equality festival was held with support of Anna Lindh foundation in Sweden in May - June 2024, when we had a priviledge to host two coleagues from Egypt and Jordan. We were working on featuring dilemmas and challenges of gender equality work in intercultural environments. The festival continued for one week just before the school year finishes (3-9 June) and contained workshops (creative writing, visual storytelling, law and morals, drama and theater, art and installation, poetry slam), history seminars, debates and round table and study visits, however the core of the activity was a collective manifesto that was designed and shaped by the young people together. Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/75xBrKXMwTPsctVC7
Intercultural Playback Theatre
Training course for youth workers on increasing soft skills for social change 20.09.2021 – 26.09.2021, Sappada, Province of Udine, Italy Intercultural Playback Theatre is a training course for youth workers, educators, NGOrepresentatives who work with young people who would like to increase their competencesto create social change for their youth groups. The youth workers involved will specificallygain knowledge, skills and attitudes towards intercultural learning, active listening,recognition of various sides of one story, and exploration on how expressed emotions andfeelings help us to create meaningful conversations around cultures and identity. Throughoutthe course we will explore how playback theatre can help to facilitate cross-culturalcommunication of youth in their organisations and communities. With these skills, theparticipants will be able to learn creative and participative methods to facilitate meaningfulcultural exchange in their own organisations. Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/8MM89EVDDWx7VrTA6
Let’s make it together! 2022
Young people often get disconnected from the knowledge and skills of basic and vital processes like cooking, gardening or fixing simple things at home. Most of them don't even consider it as a problem because they are used either to services that annihilate the problem, or a possibility to simply replace the object with a new one. When people don't know the basic process they become very dependent on these extern services and resources and in case they can’t keep up with their demands and can’t pay for all their wishes they get helpless and anxious. Target group of the project: Young people aged 18 to 28 including young people with fewer opportunities Venue: Hästveda, Sweden Duration: 19/7-1/8 2022 Partner Countries: Sweden, Serbia, North Macedonia, Ukraine, Turkey Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/SC2Cx5tZRNRZJTFD9
Outintic 2019
The project brought together 20 specialists and youth workers from 4 countries: Sweden, Netherlands, Italy and Turkey. The objectives of the project were: @ To develop a cross-sectorial discourse of deviant competences, where youth workers (generalists) and social workers (specialists) can develop their professional competences on the inclusion of young people with psychosocial and cognitive conditions; @ To encourage new clusters of stakeholders to cooperate on the learning approach and socializing of young people, by seeing all young people as their own specialists; @ To raise awareness about special learning conditions and learning capacities; @ To enrich and equip youth workers with understanding and tools to work with deviant competences; @ To promote cooperation between ‘narrow’ specialists working with deviant competences and youth workers, using both their knowledge and experiences in order to develop opportunities to include young people with psychosocial and cognitive conditions in their local communities; @ To increase the quality of youth work regarding inclusion processes; @ To promote Erasmus+ as a tool of further development of young people’s and youth workers’ professional and social skills. The first activity of the project, the study visit, was taking place in Istanbul 2019. The second activity was held in Sweden, July 2019: https://photos.app.goo.gl/P5Wktjhe3DjsPYiR6
Outintic Summit 2021
Rethinking the paradigm of learning for people with deviant competences. During a dare devil week in a splinter of open air amids corona chaos, we brought together researchers, social workers, specialists in education and HR-provision for competence driven innovation in recognition and utilization of unspoken variety of competences of young people, for a conference in Helsingborg, with support of Helsingborg city. Some photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/pkePTiJm4Ju94bwRA
Plus Gender 2018-2019
Plus Gender is a long-term project combining a contact-making event which will take place between 10-16 December 2018 and a training course will take place between 8-14 April 2019 both in Hässleholm, Sweden hosted by ProQvi under Erasmus+ KA1 Mobility of Youth Workers. The project will bring overall 27 people (25 youth workers and 2 trainers) from 12 different countries: Sweden, Luxembourg, Turkey, Bulgaria, Poland, Italy, Lebanon, Jordan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro and Ukraine. A particular interest that lays behind this project is increased international migration processes, that actualize and problematize differences in social and political development in the countries, and therefore, different patterns of behavior, preparedness, and reaction on different challenges and situations in social life, by private individuals and in the work of officials. The main objectives of the project are first, to create a wide and strong network of professionals in field of youth work, gender equality and advocacy, and second, to deepen and develop knowledge about gender issues and develop capacities of organizations related to gender equality issues. The target group is youth workers who are already working or have a strong motivation to work on gender equality issues. By establishing this positive example of cooperation, we hope to promote sustainable cross-sectorial partnerships for organisations working on gender equality issues all around Europe and outside, and to create a deep long-term impact on a personal and organizational level. The project run in two sessions. Plus Gender Jonstorp Sweden 2018-2019: https://photos.app.goo.gl/GCh7axncCsX9Zyb97 Svalöv April Plus Gender 2019: https://photos.app.goo.gl/4giNveeqhaBs7H9J6
Restoring history of learning and work “RESTORY” 2018-2020
Place: South Sweden, base in Hästveda (municipality Hässleholm); Izmir, Turkey; Naples, Italy. Period: May 2018 - April 2020. Duration: short term participation, 2 weeks; and long term participation, up to 1 year. Partner organizations from countries: Sweden, Turkey, Italy. The working language was English. The project was held under Erasmus+ program of European Commission. It was designed to support Program Countries' efforts to efficiently use the potential of Europe’s talent and social assets in a lifelong learning perspective, linking support to formal, non-formal and informal learning throughout the education, training and youth fields. The Program also enhances the opportunities for cooperation and mobility between organizations in Program countries. This investment in knowledge, skills and competences will benefit individuals, institutions, organisations and society as a whole by contributing to growth and ensuring equity, prosperity and social inclusion in Europe and beyond. Here are some photos from the project: https://photos.app.goo.gl/eJJbBed38WC8R5kk8
See the girl - ProQvi goes to Africa 2022
This project supported by Swedish Institute, initiated a number of discussions on different levels: from families and education specialist to young children, public officials and non-profit NGOs, about implications of gender discrimination and inequality. This contributes to wider awareness of the issues and therefore normalization of counter measures, public expression of condemning the inequality and unjust behavior on the level of everyday choices, starting from early age. In this way, we hope we help to end all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere. During the projet we have conducted: - Online meetings and workshops, - Trainings for teachers during 2 weeks period where we highlighted pedagogics, tools and potential of filmmaking for opinion building. Participants got the knowledge about how to produce short videos with simple equipment and software, about human rights advocacy and long term effects of gender inequality, about empowering students for peaceful struggle for better conditions for education for girls, also about tools and effects of opinion building through media and culture. - Meeting with girls students, to discuss the outcomes of the training with the teachers. We expected to meet 30 persons, we met over 80. - Evaluation of the project and planning for the future. - Followup meetings with the participants for an overview of the project and next steps in the topic.
See The Girl Film Festival 2023
We want to establish a film festival as a sustainable forum for raising awareness of youth workers and pedagogs in Ethiopia about gender inequality in access to education, decision making and expression of needs by young girls. We want to teach and promote skills of filmmaking as opinion work and encourage youth workers by cooperation with kids, to call attention of local decision makers and publics both inside of the country and outside, to the obstacles that limits girls in education, active participation in local development, access to public services and personal growth. The project is based on the massive learnings of the seed project See the Girl that we conducted previously in Ethiopia, where the idea of a film festival emerged naturally in discussions with teachers and activists. The project gathered over 200 participants in 15 activities, 18 short films were produced. Partners for the project were DANFE and EBDTA, Ethiopia. The whole experience ws nade possible due to the support of Swedish Institute.
Skåne Innovation week 2019
Under the wing of regional government, a number of activities took place around Skane county, including a workshop even at Proqvi with young entrepreneurs and creators.
Supporting Youngsters with Autism – How to deal with sensory issues
YOUTH WORKERS MOBILITY – TRAINING COURSE 23.8 – 29. 8. 2021 Domžale (Dob), Slovenia Project aimed to support youth workers work with different youngsters with different needs and backgrounds, including young people with autism and sensory issues. The rise of the diagnosis of autism indicate that there is a possibility that youth workers will meet in their work youngsters with autism, even if they haven’t met them yet. Therefore, it is important for youth workers and others who work directly with young people, to acquire knowledge an competences in the field of autism and sensory issues, for more successful involvement of young people in the social and civil life or simply in the activity that is being performed. The project aimed to build on last year’s project, Supporting youngsters with autism in youth work, where we learned the basics of autism and methods of working with young people, this time we are focusing on sensory issues. The main objective of the project was for participants to gain new knowledge and experiences of working with young people with autism and sensory issues and practical experience of making gadgets and tools that can help in the process of sensory integration. Sensory room and tools will be made by the principle DIY. Our aim is also to strengthen international dimension and cooperation between organizations that are active in the field of social inclusion. Training was led by three trainers, who are coming from two different organizations and have experiences in working with youngsters with autism and youngsters with special needs, including sensory challenges and searching for different solutions. The training included working with young people with autism. The participants prepared various tools and sensory room, which youngsters will also try out. The methods of non-formal education and experimental learning were used. Here you can see some of the picture: https://photos.app.goo.gl/1o7dJE4neq7EPfrH7
Talk2Talk 2018
This project included 40 youths, 10 youth leaders and 2 accompanying persons coming from five different countries, Sweden, Czech Republic, Turkey, Lithuania and Croatia. These youths participated in youth exchange as the activities were a build-up and complementary to each other. With the present challenges in Europe with the immigration crisis, intolerance and racial discrimination in Europe has drastically increased. The exchange aims to identify the common causes of intolerance and analyse persisting cases of non-tolerance on the basis of culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation and race against various minorities, formulate good practices in order to reduce it, as well as strategies, which could help increase tolerance toward minorities in the participant countries and beyond. The specific objectives of this project were: - To increase awareness among young people from a minority background (cultural, ethnic, etc.) on European citizenship; - To empower youth to take an active role in local communities; - To bring together young people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds; - To create space for dialogue; - To foster their feeling of sharing common values; - To raise their sense of belonging to Europe. Tolerance nowadays has become a major factor in life and we want to equip ourselves and fellow youths with the knowledge and skills to use to as to live in harmony and raise awareness on various topics related to human rights, democracy, social inclusion, faiths, and culture. The methodology used during the project included workshops, debates, hands on activities, case studies, simulations, visits to NGOs and outreach projects. You can see some pictures from the project here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/4kFSPc5L68VCLvcH7 And a little glimpse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nokaegUTU_Q&t=3s
Videolink 2021
Projektet handlar om att etablera ett yrkesmässig relation mellan barn och vuxna med grund i deras teaterintresse, genom en serie av interaktiva teaterföreställningar. Det finns flera skeden i projektet. Första är att utbilda en grupp av barn i ålder 10-13 i grunder av filmteknik (ljud, ljus, storytelling, uppträdande, filmande, redigering, åldersanpassade regler om upphovsrätt, publicering och delning samt principer och hederligt uppförande, nätsäkerhet och näthat) på ett lätt och tilltalande sätt, skapa tillsammans serie av korta filmer med grund i deras teaterintresse, och publicera dessa videor på egen youtube kanal. Varje video ska presentera en viss konflikt eller dilemma som barn ser. Samtidigt, gör en grupp av vuxna skådespelare (behöver inte vara professionella) en kort video där de också filmar en kort teaterföreställning på 1-3 minuter, och publicerar på samma kanal. I kommenterer till varandra, lämnar barn och vuxna under en vecka förslag på hur roller kunde ha spelats annorlunda. En eller två veckor senare träffas barn och vuxna genom en videolänk och spelar upp för varandra, dem ”redigerade” versioner av egna stycken, med ändrade enligt kommentarer av sina kollegor från en annan generation. Spel filmas och publiceras sedan på samma kanal. Efter det utvecklas stycken vidare, eller avslutas och en ny påbörjas: motpartens spelar in ett stycke, publicerar, läser kommentarer, träffas med varandra via videolänk, spelar om med ändringar enligt förslag. I slutet av projektet, genomföra “Awards Ceremony” då filmsnuttar som samlade flest gillatryck, får utmärkelse. Publicering sker med godkännande av deras vårdnadshavare. Tanken var att grupper möts två gånger i månaden, under tre månader, alltså 6 gånger totalt. Antal av teater stycken är inte bestämt och kan bli fler eller färre. Här är länken till några av episoder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tePX3CsEhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQGre-xMinc
Volunteering Pays Off 2021
Many young people nowadays are not happy with what they have studied or what are they working. There are many reasons for that, some of them are that they don't see the impact of their work to other people's lives. On the other way in many European countries the teenagers and those in their twenties who are fresh out of education do not find jobs right away, especially if the country’s economy is experiencing difficulties. Volunteering is an active expression of civic participation which strengthens common European values such as solidarity and social cohesion. Volunteering also provides important learning opportunities, because involvement in voluntary activities can provide people with new skills and competences that can improve their employability. The main aim of the project “Volunteering Pays Off” is to increase the employability of young people from our partner organizations and our communities through tailored Eco and sustainable volunteering programmes. The participants got an opportunity to: develop and improve new eco and sustainable opportunities based on volunteering programmes, aimed at increasing employability of young people, become more confident and self-assured in facilitating volunteering programmes for young people, have an extensive experience in using online learning platforms, promote and develop new projects in the framework of Erasmus + Programme, share new knowledge about cultural diversity, equal opportunities and active citizenships, transfer gained skills in developing and implementing employable eco and sustainable tourism based volunteering programmes and involve more young people in it, develop cultural awareness and personal, organizational and social skills which will help them to adopt easier in new environments and increase their own employability, develop reflective attitude towards self-directed learning, become more interested in practicing youth work at the European level and in different European countries and become more involved in European level activities, such as exchanges, seminars, trainings… develop future cooperation and partnerships on projects in the framework of Youth in Action/Erasmus+ Programme. ` Partners: SWEDEN - ProQvi internationell förening för kvinnor och ungdomar HUNGARY - Alapitvány az Elmaradott Térségek Felzárkóztatásáért SLOVAKIA - INNONET n.o. NORTH MACEDONIA - Association for Education and Sustainable Development BRIGHT TURKEY - Kreatif Dusunce (Yaratici Dusunce) ve Egitim Dernegi POLAND - Europejskie Forum Mlodziezy "FRATERNITAS" GERMANY - THINKCAMP GEM EG SPAIN - Associació per la mobilitat internacional i emprenedoria YOUTH BCN BULGARIA - Foundation "Solidarity Works" CYPRUS - Moufflons Here are some pictures from the project: https://photos.app.goo.gl/pQkAafrBzkzZauia6
BWA – Brave Woman in Action 2023
This was a two-step training course approved under the Key Action KA153 - Mobility for Socioeducational Animators of the Erasmus + program. The project aimed to raise awareness among youth workers on the need to find suitable tools and methods to improve women's self-esteem and determination, to allow them to become aware of their means and abilities, to find an adequate place in the world of work and in the social context. At the end of the training, youth workers were able to prepare integration and motivational programs for young women using non-formal learning techniques based on "Tangotherapy" and "Self Defense". The Swedish part of the project took place 17-13 April 2023 i Hästeda, in our learning center Outintic House. Here are some pictures from that experience: https://photos.app.goo.gl/TJuLHwFPFCPqZdcT6
EVE–EWRA (Example Versus Exception – Empowering Women through Realistic Approaches) 2016-17
EVE-EWRA was a Strategic Partnership project supported by the European commission through the Erasmus+. programme which include three countries at three different levels of women recognition and culture: Sweden, Spain and Turkey. In Sweden women are highly independent, the country mostly protestant and with a high GNP; In Spain young women are also highly liberated, while elderly women are still much dependent, it is a catholic country and the GNP is intermediate and in Turkey, women at all ages are still men dependent, el Islam is the dominant religion and the GNP is lower. These three highly important differences in social characteristics, make this project very interesting and the conclusions and recommendations could by applied to different levels. The aim of the project was: - Analyze the situation of young women entrepreneurs in rural areas Identify common ground and differences between the countries - Analyze personal, social and economical constrains in young women entrepreneurship through case studies. bring together knowledge from different areas and different countries into a neutral discussion, to find a common grounds regarding facilitation of young women through entrepreneurship, - Prepare recommendations that could be taken by local communities, and be developed further by the stakeholdersto support women entrepreneurship at local level. - Develop methodology to support young women business in rural areas Strengthen international network of specialists working in area of personal facilitation of young women in rural areas. You can find more information about the project in the final report. Here are the pictures from the project: https://photos.app.goo.gl/87H2Z3irsxzehcTU6
2ND CONNECTION 2020
“2nd connection” was an Erasmus+, KA1 Mobility of Youth Workers, training course project. It took place between 29 February and 7 March 2020 (yes, just a second before the global lockdown!) in Antalya, Turkey coordinated by ProQvi and facilitated together with partner organisations from Turkey, UK, Ireland, Romania, Greece and Italy. It brought an overall 30 people, 28 youth workers and 2 trainers, from 7 different European countries. The main aim of the training course was to improve the intercultural competence of youth workers to improve the quality of youth work. The participants were youth workers actively involved in working with young people, especially with immigrant youth. Priorities will be given young people with fewer opportunities. We addressed the subject of culture as all the material and spiritual values created in the process of historical and social development and used to create them and transmit them to the next generations, in perspective of identity building for young people of the second generation of migrants. Here are some pictures from the project: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qnBLBz1mAvzbCp6Q7