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Queer Lab Europe

WHY QUEER LAB EUROPE?

LGBT+ youth in Europe faces daily challenges due to homobitransphobic issues still present in our society: lack of visibility and representation, bullying, negative stereotypes, lack of knowledge, inequality, interiorized discrimination, homophobic violence, hate speech, social exclusion. All these can represent barriers to a young person’s socialization and personal development.

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In order to improve this situation, first of all we need to raise awareness about the LGBT+ spectrum and the questions and rights of the LGBT+ community. A widespread ignorance about sexuality and the resistance of a strong taboo on LGBT+ existence still makes it possible for young citizens to be left with no knowledge about these identities and for LGBT+ people to struggle to acknowledge them and accept them for themselves.

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Secondly, it is important to increase young people’s cultural awareness and civic competences; to allow them to learn how to look at the environment surrounding us with a critical eye and to empower them to take a stand and create the visibility, the awareness, the support their society lacks.

WHAT IS QUEER LAB EUROPE?

It’s an Erasmus+ Youth Exchange about:

LGBT topics: sex and gender, orientation, stereotypes, discrimination

LGBT+ activism

Grassroots  activism

Queer communities (non-conforming to the hetero and cisgender norm)

Gender topics

Intersectionality: how LGBT topics interact with other minority issues and types of discrimination

focus on migrants issues and their relation with LGBT issues

WHAT ARE OUR GOALS?

The exchange’s objectives are:

WHY QUEER LAB EUROPE?

LGBT+ youth in Europe faces daily challenges due to homobitransphobic issues still present in our society: lack of visibility and representation, bullying, negative stereotypes, lack of knowledge, inequality, interiorized discrimination, homophobic violence, hate speech, social exclusion. All these can represent barriers to a young person’s socialization and personal development.

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In order to improve this situation, first of all we need to raise awareness about the LGBT+ spectrum and the questions and rights of the LGBT+ community. A widespread ignorance about sexuality and the resistance of a strong taboo on LGBT+ existence still makes it possible for young citizens to be left with no knowledge about these identities and for LGBT+ people to struggle to acknowledge them and accept them for themselves.

​

Secondly, it is important to increase young people’s cultural awareness and civic competences; to allow them to learn how to look at the environment surrounding us with a critical eye and to empower them to take a stand and create the visibility, the awareness, the support their society lacks.

WHAT IS QUEER LAB EUROPE?

It’s an Erasmus+ Youth Exchange about:

LGBT+ topics: sex and gender, orientation, stereotypes, discrimination

LGBT+ activism

Grassroots  activism

Queer communities (non-conforming to the hetero and cisgender norm)

Gender topics

Intersectionality: how LGBT+ topics interact with other minority issues and types of discrimination

focus on migrants issues and their relation with LGBT+ issues

WHAT ARE OUR GOALS?

The exchange’s objectives are:

To create a stimulating and rich working environment for LGBT+ people, allies and human rights activists

To provide a group of young, diverse people from different countries in Europe with new skills, inspiration, ideas and knowledge about activism and its impact on the local areas

To bring new energies and inspirations in the areas of South Italy, that have at the same time a very rich and lively LGBT+ culture and high levels of social homophobia and stereotypes

To create a network of contacts and connections between local and international organizations for future collaboration

Online surveys about LGBT+ issues that will be spread in the participating countries

Videos  to promote the work done and the method used

we will create

An online platform that gathers the material produced during the exchange

A final collective event in the local area

How

The exchange is organized in cooperation with all the LGBT+ associations of the regional area, Campania.

HOW?

The method used will be non-formal education. The participants will learn and do through:

Playing

Team work

Outdoor activities

Contact with local organizations

Use of media tools

Use of online tools

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APV (Advanced Planning Visit) 
ONLY ONE GROUP LEADER PER COUNTRY

APV

ADVANCED PLANNING VISIT

28 JUNE      ARRIVAL DAY

29 JUNE   ACTIVITY DAY

30 JUNE      POMPEI PRIDE

1 JULY           DEPARTURE DAY

(before 18.00)

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*The leaders will have the chance to actively participate to the pride, by creating an action inside the parade

Where: NAPLES

Apartment in the heart of Naples – shared rooms

APV ACCOMODATION

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EXCHANGE

EXCHANGE
5 PEOPLE PER COUNTRY: 1 LEADER + 4 PARTECIPANTS

31 AUGUST                    ARRIVAL DAY

10 SEPTEMBER   DEPARTURE DAY

There will be some themed outdoor activities in different cities of the region

(before 17.30 – we will meet at Naples central station and we will travel by bus to Vitulano mountain shelter)

Where: Vitulano mountain shelter 

EXCHANGE
ACCOMODATION

PROJECT TIMELINE

DEADLINE

DEADLINE

APV

TEAM LEADER

20 JUNE

deadline for the selection of the team leader

28-29-30 JUNE

1 july 

28 June and 1 July are travels days

DEADLINE

PARTICIPANTS

10 JULY

deadline for the selection of the partIcipants

1ST PHASE

JULY

analysis through questionnaires on local level

EXCHANGE

FOLLOW

UP

2ND PHASE

follow up activities

31 AUGUST

10 SEPTEMBER

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

(travel days included)

AUGUST

media assignment on the Facebook group

The preparation phase is of great importance for the success of the project, since it will not only include activities aimed to preparing the best working environment, but also activities aimed at creating the first results, to be used later on during the exchange

who
Young people aged 18 to 25
FROM: ITALY, LATVIA, THE NETHERLANDS, LITHUANIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, GREECE, SLOVENIA, SLOVAKIA

Involved in or willing to learn about LGBT+ topics

 

Willing to learn new ways to do activism in local areas

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Knowledgeable about or willing to explore the issues of minorities, especially LGBT+

 

Knowledgeable/passionate about and willing to learn new skills in the field of media and online activism

 

Knowledgeable/passionate about or willing to explore new ways of researching and monitoring the LGBT+ community

Participants will have to

Contribute to the project’s  expenses with a participation fee of 50 euros (15 euros for leaders)

Find creative ways to raise this small amount of money while already working on the exchange’s objectives (details will be shared during the APV)

We encourage gender balance, ethnic diversity and heterogeneous background of the participants

WHO

Participants will receive travel reimbursement

Participants will receive travel reimbursement at the end of the project (the follow up is also considered a phase of the project. This implies that the reimbursement will be given after this last activity)

COUNTRY

REIMBURSMENT

(euros)

ITALY

180

LATVIA, SPAIN, LITHUANIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, GREECE, SLOVENIA, SLOVAKIA

275

A reimbursement of max 100 euros will be given to each national team to cover the expenses of the follow up

CONTACTS

Mail: info@vagamondo.info

Phone: +39 3476034787

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