Out of the Box International, together with partners from Belgium (Connect International), Poland (Union of Baltic Cities), Germany (Wisamar), Lithuania (VšĮ Kauno Jaunimo Slėnis), Serbia (Libero, Municipality of Vracar), Slovenia (Tipovej, Javni Zavod Mladi Zmaji) and Spain (Backslash, Ayuntamiento de Quart de Poblet) have submitted an application for a project, called “EUppers” – youth accelerators of EUropean values and initiatives”.
The main aim of the project is to create a system that will bring European values to local communities using the experience, competences and motivation of youth who took part in EU mobility projects. In order to help foster a sense of European citizenship among the youth at local/national level, we have to mobilize young people that we already worked with at EU level to become accelerators of these ideas as they are an enormous resource, key to encouraging youth to participate in the democratic processes. We decided to call this system “EUppers ecosystem” as its participants are “uppering” impact of EU at local level.