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# Main Framework ### Vision The YOU(th) CARE for Change is a project co-funded by the EU-DEAR Programme, supporting Youths across 12 countries (8 in the EU and 4 extra EU, in the Med Area) in tackling global challenges. From December 2023 to March 2025, it aims to support the engagement of nearly 300 Youth groups who are interested in embracing, sharing and re-framing the CARE for people and the planet. Spanning generations, the CARE approach underscores the interdependencies between realities, global challenges, and macro-micro actions, allowing us to connect the dots of our initiatives globally, in contrast to the extractive and often destructive logic of the market. The Project will organize online and on-site trainings exploring interdependencies, climate change, human rights and intersectionality, and strengthening our gender perspective. Hundreds of youth aged 14 to 25 will access the YOU(th) CARE Campus, conceived as a platform to design the CARE Toolkit collaboratively. The toolkit will guide youth groups and learning communities in elaborating territorial agendas which will become actions which can be supported by the project through sub-granting and not only: learning initiatives, alternative economic actions, and campaigns at the territorial, national and Mediterranean level. <hr/> ### 1. Framework Funded under the DEAR Programme (Development Education and Awareness-Raising, www.dearprogramme.eu), the YOU(th) CARE project aims to reinforce the active citizenship and engagement of the next generation of Global Care takers, supporting young innovators in building a common European and Mediterranean future. In its first stages, the Project will promote the setting up of eight Global Care Agendas, where young people will highlight priorities and strategies to cope with the multiple crises that affect their territories, the global community and the whole planet. A multilayer approach, as embedded in the Global Care Approach, will be implemented throughout the project, as from the initial mapping activity, aimed to identify existing youth-led CSOs, movements and initiatives oriented towards diversity, inclusion and social and ecological transition, with a particular focus on women's rights and gender equity. A participatory methodology will provide the Project with important information about the ambitions, priorities, needs and weaknesses of European and Mediterranean youth organizations. It will also serve as basis for the elaboration of critical thinking tools and the development of targeted trainings and mentoring sessions allowing young people to join and set up strategies, pilot Actions and campaigns, ensuring that “society and decision-makers listen more to youth’s opinions and needs” (EU Communication “Youth and Democracy in the European Year of Youth”, 2022). Training modules and relevant documents will be made available through the YOU(th) CARE online Campus, allowing young people, members of youth organizations, community groups, educators, civil society activists and public representatives to familiarize with the Global Care approach and acquire key skills to deal with complexity and change. Throughout the project, euro-med youth organizations, movements, schools and educational centres will be empowered towards the development and application of innovative, eco-friendly, diversity and gender sensitive tools and methodologies. Based on the priorities set out through the 8 YOU(th) CARE Agendas, 24 territorial youth-led initiatives will be selected, funded and coached along three main axis: (1) LEARN: innovative Global Citizenship Education initiatives; (2) ACT: innovative initiatives towards social and ecological transition; (3) ENGAGE: innovative information, awareness-raising and advocacy actions and campaigns. A gender-sensitive and intersectional perspective will inform pilot territorial initiatives in all their phases. The adoption of gender lenses will be promoted through the activation of intergenerational and intercultural dialogue experiences on women's rights and gender equity involving youth associations and collectives. Territorial and international meetings will be also organized in order to mainstream gender in all the activities and initiatives implemented along the Project, supporting the empowerment and engagement of young people as Gender Keepers. Moreover, participatory impact assessment activities will feed the process with contents and favor systematization and capitalization of results. Finally, international Forums will take place in the final stages of the Project through the active participation of youth-led organizations, groups and movements involved in previous activities. Advocacy campaigns on gender equity and social and ecological transition will further boost public awareness and strengthen the role of Euro-Mediterranean feminist and intersectional youth organizations and collectives as watchdogs, promoting the adoption of a gender perspective by institutional decision-makers in dealing with global changes. ### The YOU(th) CARE Project - Key Features Countries involved. The YOU(th) CARE Project will involve young people, organizations, groups and movements from 8 EU Countries (Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece) and 4 non-EU and South Med Countries (Albania, Serbia, Tunisia, Morocco). **List of Project partners** * Main Applicant: COSPE - Cooperazione per lo Sviluppo dei Paesi Emergenti (www.cospe.org); * Co-applicants (in alphabetical order): HREYN Human Rights Education Youth Network (www.hreyn.net); GIOSEF Italy Giovani Senza Frontiere Aps (www.giosef.it); GRDR Groupe de Recherche et de Realisations pour le Developpement Rural (www.grdr.org); MDIG Media Diversity Institute Global (www.mdi-global.com); MIO-ECSDE Mediterranean-Information-Office for Environment-Culture-and-Sustainable-Development Mesogeiako Grafeio Pliroforisis gia o Perivalon Ton Politismo Kai Tin Viosimi Anaptixi Astiki mi Kerdoskopiki Etaireia (www.mio-ecsde.org); OJA Organisation des Jeunes Africains (www.ojafricains.org); RIPESS Europe Solidarity Economy Europe (www.ripess.eu). * Associated partners: Fridays for Future Italia (www.fridaysforfutureitalia.it). * Starting date and duration. The Project has started in December 2023 and will last 40 months. ### Scope of the Work In order to enable YOU(th) CARE for Change to become a project bridging dialogue among Euro-Mediterranean Youth Initiatives, * Develop, host and maintain a multilingual e-learning platform to be utilized (>1000 users at the same time) for the training and capacity building activities, including material and documents to be exchanged, and possibilities of contacts among participants and project teams. The platform should be customized with the visual identity of the project and in line with EU policies on General Data Protection Regulation and Privacy (GDPR). The platform shall allow the issue of open badges and the possibility to earn and manage them. * Activate a technical solution, integrated within the platform, to organize online participatory events, webinars, videoconferences. Assuring a tool, integrated in the platform, to collect data in order to monitor users’ registration and utilization of the platform (i.e. the number of accesses to the webinars/events/etc.) and in order to trace the interaction of each user with the platform, according to the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Department’s indications. * Designing and activating an assembly space, like a virtual community, to allow the interaction among Youth Initiatives and promote the exchange of ideas, actions, stories and the co-building of campaigns. * Assuring the technical assistance to the YC Project Co-ordination for the whole duration of the project (estimated end in April 2027) and the training of the Consortium in the use and management of the different functionalities of the Platform in order to assure the future sustainability. ### Timetable proposed by Traversées (original tender) * [Last week of July 2024]: Building up of the digital infrastructure. > * Setup of a new dedicated server located in Europe (Hetzner or OVH with a hardware profile close to CPU 40 cores, RAM 128Gb, NVMe SSD disks). > * Setup of a scalable virtualization environment (based on the open technologies Proxmox, KVM, LXC). > * Configuration of a working digital environment splitted into a production server and a development server, featuring tools for collaboration and code building (Redmine, GIT). > * Setup of a security backup and server monitoring policy (Zabbix). * [Weeks 1 and 2 of August 2024]: Coordination and installation of the main core of Moodle, duplicating the configuration of edu.ripess.eu. > * Briefings with the project’s coordination (identification of contacts, semantic updating of the project, planning). > * Installation of the core components and extensions of Moodle (internationalization, Big Blue Button, monitoring) using the model built for edu.ripess.eu. > * Installation and testing of a Big Blue Button/Fair Blue virtual server (or a cluster of servers if it is necessary to host up to 300-400 simultaneous participants). > * Graphic customization of the Moodle interface according to the existing visuals of the YOU CARE project and other institutional brands. * [Week 3 of August 2024]: Tests and adaptation of Moodle and first internal learning session for administrators. > * Customization of the server for a high-performance rendering, able to host more than 1000 users and up to 200 video conferencing participants (caching, optimization of SQL, PHP, Apache/Nginx, eventually load balancing and multi-servers). > * Installation of a Big Blue Button streaming extension, to be connected with the open video server Peertube. > * Installation of a self-hosted Peertube video server (with a high performance configuration). > * Configuration of a Moodle’s common extension for users’ monitoring and statistics. * [Month 9-12 of 2024]: Training and enhancement of the platform to an assembly functionality > * Feasibility of creating a task group of facilitators of the platform. > * Installation and testing of a forum/assembly functionality, based on Matrix (instant messaging integrated to Moodle 4.3), or Discourse (advanced community forum and knowledge base). > * Development of missing or additional functionalities; improvement of graphic templates. > * Trainings of the project’s coordination (and eventually the facilitators group). * [Month 1-6 of 2025]: Reporting, training and supervision of the platform > * First report based on statistics, shared contents in the platform and emerging interactions. > * Supervision and maintenance of the platform (core and components optimization, security checking). > * Activation of the participative assembly module (March 2025). > * Trainings and a working group of the project’s coordination (and eventually the facilitators group). * [Month 6-12 of 2025]: Reporting, training and supervision of the platform > * Second report based on statistics, shared contents and emerging interactions. > * Trainings of the project coordination (and eventually the facilitators group). > * Maintenance of the platform (core and components update, security checking). * [2026-2027]: Reporting, training and supervision of the platform.