Young people are the key to development in the city of Tirana. Prospects for young people aim to encourage all stakeholders to rethink their ideas. This includes encouraging them to engage in youth activities in a sustainable way, rather than pursuing a needs-driven participatory approach.
Promoting and forming an active, far-sighted and sustainable youth, developing training skills and capacities that take responsibility for becoming ambassadors in their community and actively participating in the economic and social life of the country.
Participation
The main target group in this project are young people aged 15-18, representatives from all administrative units of the Municipality and District of Tirana, ensuring as much involvement as possible and guaranteeing a geographical extension beyond the urban area of Tirana.
Aim of the Project
The project aims to engage and give the role of the youth of the future. This requires not only the involvement of young people, but also the structures of administrative units at the local level, high schools, other organizations operating in the area, parents, youth forums, etc. However, the involvement and institutional support of the Municipality of Tirana and the Ministry of Education and Sports in the success of the project implementation cannot be avoided. Young people, parents and the community whether in urban neighborhoods or rural areas of the city of Tirana. For this project the Albanian Sports Sciences Association will work closely with professionals in the field for every aspect described in the project.
Methodology
In strategic terms, the project focuses on capacity building of youth structures aged 15-18, as well as to be leaders in youth promotion.
The project model is spread over five activities.
Activity 1
Capacity building of young people to develop leadership skills and to become a guide for peers in their community and the city of Tirana. Promoters of a healthy and active nature-related lifestyle and lifestyle. For each unit will be set up the structure of young people who will have the representative role of their units and will be described as “AMBASSADOR” of their community (boys / girls). For this first activity, the ambassadors of the units will be trained with theoretical and practical training. The courses will provide theoretical and practical modules in which participants learn how to prepare strategies, action plans, support programs, and how to apply them in the field by organizing various activities.
Activity 2
Identification and discovery of space for planning and development of the calendar of activities in the community according to the circumstances, capacities and conditions of the respective administrative unit (rural / urban). This aims to develop the planning of activities and the calendar of the units and to promote the values of each administrative unit. This phase will be the most interesting phase which will bring commitment, coordination, cooperation and realization to young people and with a corresponding.
Activity 3
This phase is the Integration of young people between units and aims at the interaction of young people to share ideas and exchange different experiences about their communities and how they can create mutual advantages between life in urban and rural units. in the district of Tirana. The units will organize invitations between the units, where a young delegation (visitor) of one or more units and the host unit that organizes activity in their space will be invited. This will enable them to interact and integrate into different spaces from their unit.
For more recognition and sharing of experiences, sports activities and camps will be organized, which will be followed by training and educational activities by the project organizers. This further enhances the integration and cooperation between them.
Activity 4
Mass Festive Activity with representatives from all units (recreational, sports, cultural, integrative festival)
This phase will be concluding, which will be in the form of a youth festival, in which the youth delegations of their units, coaches, collaborators, etc. will be invited. Various fun and sports activities will be held, planned by the groups of units and recognitions and certificates will be distributed to the youth.
Activity 5
A final report will be made with all the developments carried out from the beginning to the end, as well as a guide will serve the other young people in the respective units for this project to be sustainable and long-lasting. Each activity will be reflected in a joint closing activity.
The project was successfully completed: Active Youth Ambassador – Nature Lovers
The project implemented by the Albanian Sports Sciences Association – ASSA aimed to include and give a role to the youth of the future in the organization of community activities. Young people are the key to the city in Tirana. In total, 55 young people were trained by this project, where sports activities in the community with a total of 950 children and young people were activated.
This project was organized within the Tirana European Youth Capital 2022 program with the financial account of the National Youth Congress in cooperation with the Municipality of Tirana
