8. Y.E.A.S.T. - Genova, Italy

Promoter
Role in the application	Promoter (PROM)
Promoter’s legal name (national language)	POGGI MONICA VANESSA
Promoter’s legal name (latin characters)	POGGI MONICA VANESSA
Acronym, if applicable	Y.E.A.S.T.
City	GENOVA
Country	IT-ITALY
Email	poggimonica@hotmail.com

ABOUT US:

We are a group of youth that knows each other from different kind of social and political projects in Genoa, for example via the cultural and sport center UISP . We are  planing to arrange national and internatinal youth innitiatives in 2013. We hope this project will help us to learn about this program, so we can make projects for empowering the young generation in Italy, which is meeting an unsecure future. We support the project with our experience with our experience with youngsters, especially with "special needs" or few opportunities. Also we are used to organize workshops, seminars and exhibitions in Genoa and other cities or villages.

We would like learn more about how to work with and develop initiatives in groups, with youth people from diverse cultures.

This group has not arranged any Youth Extramanages. However, the leader have a lot experience as participants and volunteering in European programmes (YIA, Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus, Grundvig) and local project.

Monica Vanessa Poggi comes from Genova, she has a master degree in Philosophy from the University of Genova, She worked as an educator for children and youngsters with special needs, Rom community children, youngsters with mental and phisical disabilities. Also she is an educator for "peace games Uisp".