Re-Act
Metaphor Project
Youth Mental Health Advocacy – Mental Health for Young People
The METAPHOR project aims to strengthen the self-confidence and self-esteem of young people and encourage them to actively participate in change in their communities.
Period:
01.11.2023 – 31.10.2025
Countries involved:
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Germany
- Serbia
- Spain
Donor:
- European Union
Program:
- Erasmus + Programme, Cooperation partnerships in youth
Lead partner:
- Udruzenje Svetlost
All partners:
- Udruzenje Svetlost
- Sdruzhenie RE-ACT
- Association Europe 2020
- AJ Mesa Local de la Juventud de Puente Genil
- Udruga Za Promicanje Aktivnog Sudjelovanja Studio B
- KulturLife gGmbH
Contacts:
Lyuben Georgiev
luben@re-act.bg
Documents:
Hashtags:
#metaphorproject #erasmusplus #metalhealth #youth #bicycle #sustainability #sustainablecommuting
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AT A GLANCE
The project focuses on the mental health of young people. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic in particular, the number of young people suffering from mental illness has risen. The project aims to promote the mental health of young people and encourage them to deal with their own needs in a more self-determined way. The goal is to strengthen young people’s activism so that they learn to draw attention to their own needs and create an environment in which they feel safe, valued, and accepted. Metaphor will use tools from the fields of film and multimedia. These are now among the most common and powerful means of communication in our society and are ideally suited for the broadest possible transnational dissemination of the project results. The individual progress and results of the project should strengthen the self-confidence and self-esteem of young people and encourage them to actively contribute to changes in their communities.
PROJECT GOALS
- Mental health and wellbeing: to achieve that young people’s voices and needs about mental health will be heard in their local community and transnationally, using multimedia and film making, as well as local and transnational events.
- Youth activism and advocacy: to achieve that young people participate in society and campaign for changes in order to tailor their communities according to their needs. To achieve progress on more accessible psychological support, depending on the needs, for example a publicly funded psychological support in rural areas.
- Multimedia and filmmaking: as mentioned above, multimedia and filmmaking are the main tools of communication and we want to achieve that young people gain competences of creating multimedia content which will give them a powerful tool for further campaigning, participation locally, as well as transnationally.
- Transnational cooperation: to achieve the connection of young people from four different countries, to achieve their cooperation on the topic that is important to them, and to create a foundation to achieve transnational initiatives during the project lifetime and in the future.
RESULTS
- Research of the Mental health issues understanding from the youth work perspective within all countries of the consortium
- Seminar with youth workers and other national and local stakeholders related to youth work to discuss and validate findings of the researches and potential adjustments
- Training and multimedia filmmaking: training course for youth leaders connected to the use of multimedia, videos, and filmmaking
- Organizing local workshops for creating video material and films to be used in advocacy
- Production of the final Manual
- Training of Trainers for youth workers and youth leaders from all countries of the consortium on the topic of advocacy and supporting young people for advocacy
- National advocacy activities with young people and youth workers in all countries of the consortium
- Info sessions for local institutions and/or organizations related to youth all countries of the consortium
- Promotion of project outputs at the national and local level
- Final conferences with beneficiaries, actors and stakeholders to be implemented in all countries of the partnership
Metaphor e-learning materials
This project has been funded with the support of the European Commission. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the author; the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.