Youth Line
Our team have participated and organised many
initiatives within the field of developing of skills and competences, many of
which included young people as participants or target groups but some of which
included them as co-organisers, assistants or volunteers as well.
Our team has a network of contacts, gained during these activities, of young people, minorities, as well as youth workers whose specific situation or knowledge can be put to good use within this project. Moreover we have really positive experience in organising youth projects, we know all the stages and always do everything as effective and responsible as possible. We care about our reputation, about our partners, about our participants and about our donors.
In spite of content of our projects, we spend a lot of recourses for organising and reporting. And surely we are oriented not only to achieve the best results, moreover we tend to share the information about our achievements and to make our results more useful in a long-term perspective.
Kateryna Shepeliuk, President of Youth Line Family
OUR NEWS
13-21 May 2024
Saulkrasti, Latvia
Youth Exchange "Our green future"
Participants from Latvia, Turkey, Spain, Ukraine, Italy
The main objective of the project “Our Green Future” was to promote environmental awareness and green practices among young people. Through this project, we empowered young people to become active change makers in their local communities by expanding their knowledge, skills and attitudes in the field of sustainable development.
We promoted sustainable and green practices and fostered intercultural dialogue and understanding among young people from different European countries.
Ultimately, this project had a positive impact on the environment and on the participants, inspiring them to continue working towards a greener and more sustainable future.
4-12 March 2024,
Eastermar, The Netherlands
Youth Exchange "How nutrition affects our health and culture"
Participants from The Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine
In this youth exchange, we brought together 35 young people from five countries, including young Europeans and recent immigrants, and promoted healthy eating habits and promoted intercultural understanding and exchange. We achieve this by providing a platform for young people from different countries to come together and share their knowledge, skills and experiences related to healthy eating and cooking, while also learning about each other’s cultural heritage.
3-11 March 2024
Oranienburg, Germany
Youth Exchange "My strong mental health"
Participants from Germany, Latvia, Greece, Czech Republic, Turkey
Mental health problems and psychological distress are important drivers of suicide among adolescents and youngsters in the EU. Over 1 500 15-19 year-olds died of suicide across EU countries in 2019, and most of these deaths were among boys. Despite the relatively low absolute number of suicides among adolescents,
suicide is one of the leading causes of death in this age group.
In 2020, the overall costs related to mental ill-health are estimated to have exceeded 5% of GDP across the 28 EU countries. This equates to more than EUR 680 billion. Studies have found that about 25% of young people between 16 and 24 feel anxiety or stress at least once a day. This is a very important phase of life, where we define personality, finish high school, choose the course, and then finally enter the world of work. In schools or at home, we are not taught to manage our stress, but as an important tool, we should learn to manage it. That is why Youth Line Germany has started developing and associating itself with projects in the areas of mental health, sports, and meditative practices. We believe that there is a set of tools that can help us build and prepare for our future in a sustainable and healthy way for our bodies.
7-15 NOVEMBER 2023
YOUTH EXCHANGE "INTEGRATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH SPORT"
Youth Line Netherlands
In this youth exchange we want to bring together 35 young people from five countries, including young Europeans and recent immigrants and motivate them to use sports activities to create successful intercultural communication. Using sports as a vehicle for integration, we hope to encourage social cohesion and cross-cultural communication.
Taxes and financial regulations in Portugal
Unfortunately, there is a lot of frightening information on the Internet about double taxation for Ukrainians in Portugal. At the webinar organised by the project from Ukraine to Portugal, the accountant Susana Velasquez answered all the questions and helped to fully understand the taxation issue. More than 100 people registered for the webinar and more than 60 people were online at the same time. If you were unable to attend but this is also a concern for you, a video recording is already available at the link:
July, 23-31, 2022
Youth Exchange "Boost your financial literacy"
Youth Line Porugal
Financial literacy is a core life skill for participating in modern society. Children and youth are growing up in an increasingly complex world where they will eventually need to take charge of their own financial future. There are plenty of decisions involving a financial element throughout a person’s lifetime, be it financing university studies, using payment cards, buying a car in instalments, making investments, taking out a mortgage, taking out insurance or saving for retirement. The main aim of this Youth Exchange is to improve participants’ knowledge and skills of the youth of Europe in order to empower them to take the right decisions when managing their personal finances.
8-16 July 2022,
Youth Exchange - "Upgrade your financial knowledge"
Ramava, Latvia
Financial literacy is a core life skill for participating in modern society. Children and youth are growing up in an increasingly complex world
where they will eventually need to take charge of their own financial future.
European surveys show that young adults have amongst the lowest levels of financial literacy. This is reflected by their general inability to
choose the right financial products and often a lack of interest in undertaking sound financial planning. Even from an early age, children need to develop the skills to help choose between different career and education options and manage any discretionary funds they may have, whether from allowances or part-time jobs. Other than a lack of financial literacy, a lot of people have a fear of money. It is often believed that being rich means being a bad person
or that money is a source of evil. On the other hand, there’s a widespread myth that money is an exclusive condition to access an amazing education, start a business or make a trip around the world. Limiting beliefs are creating a lot of obstacles to lead a prosperous life. We intend to show that one does not need a lot of money to have a great education, travel the world, or establish a company. We will be talking about what it means to be mentally rich, that this is a specific mindset plus a set of financial skills.
01.05.2022-09.05.2022
European Kitchen
Youth Line Porugal
Finally, after the pandemics, we can implement Erasmus Plus projects! The first one happened in Figueira da Foz during 1-9 May 2022. This was a youth exchange called “European Kitchen”. Youth Line Portugal hosted 35 young adults from 5 European countries. Every day we practised cooking, talked about the connection between nutrition and culture, learned how to eat healthier and of course promoted intercultural dialogue!
February 24, 2022…
This day has completely changed our lives before and after. Our YouthLine organization could not stay away, our thoughts, and hearts were filled with horror at what was happening in Ukraine.
So we decided to create the project www.fromUkranetportugal.com and help refugees, but we had no idea on what scale we would reach. Today the project has more than 3000 saved lives, and that’s not the limit. The war continues, some regions of Ukraine remain very hot and new families keep arriving in the hope of being rescued. Let’s support the Ukrainians together.
In what areas is the FromUkrainetoPortugal project supporting Ukrainian refugees?
100 days of war flew by very quickly, but we, together with our team, we're able to help a huge number of families.
Main activities:
1. Providing free temporary accommodation for a period of 1-3 months.
2. Finding and contracting paid accommodation for a period of 1 year.
3. furnishing flats with furniture and all the necessary household equipment.
4. Finding jobs for refugees and assistance in interviewing and legal support in concluding contracts.
5. Assistance in processing documents for temporary asylum and social benefits.
6. Free Portuguese lessons.
7. Registration of all arriving children in schools and kindergartens.
8. Food provision - every week our organization prepares food packages for the neediest families.
9. Health - each week we provide 3-4 consultations to the families in relation to hospital visits, prescriptions, visits to the dentist, optician, cardiologist, etc. As well as buying medication, glasses and other things.
10. Clothing - since a huge amount of clothes has been collected, all families have the opportunity to choose all the clothes they need,
11. Psychological assistance - about 60% of refugees from Ukraine were provided with psychological help and support in connection with the current critical situation.
12. we also work closely with realtors, residents of different cities, Junta da Freguesia, and address issues of Ukrainians who have turned to them for help.
13 June, 2022
Call for 7 Latvian 🇱🇻 and 7 Portuguese 🇵🇹 participants for a Youth Exchange project in Figueira da Foz, Portugal!
Youth Line Portugal is organizing a YOUTH EXCHANGE project "Boost your financial literacy" together with Youth Line Latvia, VSI "VEIKLUS ZMOGUS", GO Ahead and ASOCIACION 217 SUR
Participant’s Profile:
Age of participant between 18 and 30 y.o. The exception is possible for younger participants (16-17) in case they demonstrate a strong motivation to partake and if their profile corresponds with one set up for this exchange, these participants will be accepted only if they have all supporting documentation from their parents. For leaders, there is no age limit.Level of English: Intermediate+Availability: to be able to attend the full duration of the youth exchange with passion and fullest contribution.
November 16 – 24, 2019
Training Course: Academy of Entrepreneurship for Mentors
Youth Line Greece
The aim of this training course was to stimulate young entrepreneurship and make it fairly accessible to marginalized European youth through increasing standards of business and organisational training and promoting mentoring.
September 11 – 19, 2019
Youth Exchange: Train Your Digit Brain
Youth Line Latvia
Humanity digitalize more and more. Work, entertainment, communication are transited to online platforms.
August 22 – 30, 2019
Youth Exchange: More Sport – More Health!
Youth Line Netherlands
Foster physical activity and promote healthy lifestyle among youngsters, which altogether is pivotal in building an healthier European society and increase general wellbeing and quality of life.
August 21 – 28, 2017
Youth Exchange: Positive Practices of Mental Success
Youth Line Portugal
The main aim of the project was to improve studying and working productivity, level of social involvement and leadership, find balance between body and soul by raising mental health and brain capacities of participating youngsters.
July 11 – 18, 2017
Youth Exchange: Rhythm Of Inclusion And Equality
Youth Line Latvia
The main aim of this Training Course was to prove that DANCE is a bridge between PEOPLE.
November 16 – 23, 2016
Youth Exchange: Social Records – Let’s Highlight Equality Matters
Youth Line Latvia
This Youth Exchange aimed to develop the theme of inclusion and equality by challenging the participants to film short movies upon which they projected how they perceive social exclusion, poverty, homelessness, disability, membership of an ethnic minority, lack of adequate literacy skills, unemployment, family circumstances, addiction problems and similar issues connected to social exclusion. These short movies would then be used to raise the awareness of general public, government officials and European officials about these issues and freely distributed so that may be used by others to further expand the work that was developed.
November 26 – December 3, 2016
Youth Exchange: Improve Your Productivity by Raising Mental Health
Youth Line Latvia
The main aim of the project was to improve studying and working productivity, level of social participating and leadership by raising mental health and brain capacities of youth participating.
July 20 – 27, 2017
Training Course: Higher Skills For Better Employment
Youth Line Latvia
The main aim of this Training Course was to increase competencies of youth leaders/workers who are working with the phenomenon of youth unemployment or are facing this problem directly and to foster employability of young people in their communities in Europe, through the development of skills, knowledge and attitudes useful to enter the labour market.
September 15 – 23, 2018
Youth Exchange: Take a Brush and Draw for Inclusion!
Youth Line Latvia
ART due to the importance it plays in culture and traditional heritage of the people has been identified as the main tool for achievingthis purpose. We strongly believe that thanks to ART we can effectively contribute to the abatement of prejudices and cultural barriers. For this reason, we thought it would have been a great idea to build a youth exchange on these topics, including as well the idea of the building of a future Europe based on inclusion and equal opportunities.
July 7 – 15, 2019
Youth Exchange: Sport Values!
Youth Line Latvia
Foster physical activity and promote healthy lifestyle among youngsters, which altogether is pivotal in building an healthier European society and increase general wellbeing and quality of life.
