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What is a youth project?

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A youth project is a project whose main target is represented by young people. Thus, a youth project aim is to involve young people in the definition of a series of activities, which can range from culture, sport, education and several other sectors of citizenship. Youth projects aims are to involve young people in society, to make them aware of their potential and to know how they can have an impact on their community, both local and national. Moreover, we can state that a youth project is a project designed “for” young people and “with” young people. Young people represent not only the target of the project itself but an essential actor which contribute to drawing up and managing the project during his entire life. This is the reason why those projects are characterised by a bottom-up approach, namely by horizontal cooperation between all of his components, where the qualities of each one of them are shared to achieve a common goal. Sports activities represent one of the main axes of several projects; collaborating with other young people strength the capacity to work in a team, to cooperate for the achievement of a common goal, and to reinforce their self-esteem. In recent years, USMA has put its experience in the youth sector at the disposal of national and international partners, both public and private, and together with them is carrying out activities and projects that concern a multiplicity of aspects relating to the youth dimension linked with sports activities. The first project resulting from this collaboration is the CULTNET project, which aims at training and professionalizing young people in the field of cultural events production.