The project focuses on young people with a migration background and aims to create opportunities for them to take an active role in promoting change in areas where they encounter disadvantage with a specific focus on the area of secondary education, where this group is confronted with systemic barriers in the form of unequal opportunities, a lack of support and a lack of appropriate ways to voice their concerns and defend their interests. The primary target group are young people with a migration background, from whom an action group of around eight young people will be set up and then supported in the process of reflecting and identifying issues that they face and they feel passionate about. The action group will explore situations they and other young people encounter during their studies, in which they experience a disadvantage due to their migration background or their lack of knowledge in the language of instruction and they will think of possible solutions together.
The group of young people will actively participate in the creation of a handbook and take appropriate actions that will be presented in a campaign to the public. Through their active involvement, they will learn how to exercise their rights among other young people and the wider public, and with the support of the team, they will also be able to contribute to raising the profile of the topic of needs and the generally disadvantageous situation of young people with a migration background in the Czech school system.
All the activities in the project are designed to be conducted according to participatory principles, which is an area in which the employees of the organisation will receive training and will then translate their learnings into internal materials that will inform the processes of the organisation going forward.
The project is being supported by the Committee of Good Will – the Olga Havel Foundation from the Active Citizens Fund. The programme promotes citizens´ active participation in the public life and decision making and empowerment of vulnerable groups. The Active Citizens Fund is financed from EEA and Norway Grants.
