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Shared Horizons
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Ongoing
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Financing amount (Euro)
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2m
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Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Europe
The project aims to promote the work on the challenges of remembering and common perspectives in the EU among young people in Southeast Europe.
Shared Horizons: an initiative for memory and youth in Southeast Europe
The “Shared Horizons” project is contributing to the work on remembering and common perspectives in the EU among young people in Southeast Europe.
It is based on four cross-cutting components, implemented jointly with various partners:
- Youth mobility through sport, with the NGO Play International.
- Rehabilitation and economic development of heritage, alongside the NGO ALDA and the Museum of the 90s in Belgrade.
- Countering misinformation, jointly with CFI.
- Debates on building a united Europe, in partnership with the Institut Français.
Bootcamps for young people to promote social inclusion through sport
Eight bootcamps will be organised for young people in the project’s countries of operation, with socio-sports and collective cooperation sessions on various issues. The objective is to strengthen cohesion among young people, as well as their life skills.
Each bootcamp will have about 32 participants, aged between 18 and 24 (with a total of about 260 young people), from various socio-economic backgrounds in the Balkans region, in particular from Kosovo, North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Rehabilitation and economic development of heritage
The second component of the action focuses on remembrance sites and intangible heritage, with the objective of promoting regional dialogues:
- Work on reclassifying and rehabilitating heritage to promote its ownership by local communities and establish a regional dialogue led by the NGO ALDA
- An economic and touristic development of heritage to promote the development of entrepreneurial initiatives. This activity is implemented by the NGO ALDA, which is already conducting the BOOST project on rural economic development and the employability of young people in the Balkans
- Support to structuring the Museum of the 90s in Belgrade. The objective is to address the turmoil of the 1990s through an innovative museographic approach, especially targeting young people. This will foster reconciliation at regional level.
In this respect, the activities include the organisation of travelling exhibitions and support for teacher/student working groups based on writing history textbooks.
Promoting positive European storytelling
The Shared Horizons project will also focus on issues related to informing the general public. The objective is to fight against nationalist rhetoric and uphold positive European storytelling. To this end, it relies on relays (young journalists and influencers) and communication channels (social networks, podcasts) that can reach young people in the Balkans.
Since 2023, CFI has been implementing the Balkan Voices 2 project, which is already organising several activities on media literacy and training journalism students in how to counter misinformation. Shared Horizons will enable CFI to add a component on combating hate speech and training journalists in European issues, in association with local partners.
Stimulating debate, based on the “European Dialogues”
The debates are based on a series of travelling events to organise discussions on “shared memories” and European issues, through a transdisciplinary and trans-European approach, focusing on young people.
They involve a wide range of European stakeholders, including historians and teachers/academics and, more generally, figures from think tanks, the media, culture and the public sphere, as well as young entrepreneurs.
These activities will be carried out alongside a network of universities in the Western Balkans, including the new campus of the College of Europe in Tirana.
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