COMANITY is a project funded under the EU’s ‘Erasmus+’ programme (2017-2019).
Its main objective is to train youth workers and volunteers for a new role in youth work – the ‘Community Animateur’.
The Community Animateur’s role will be to bridge the existing gap between young people on the margins and ‘mainstream’ institutions by acting as a “Social Mediator”.
Community Animateurs come from the community, and are trusted by their peer group.
They act as a point of mediation between young people who don’t trust ‘the system’ and the system itself.

Over two years, COMANITY will:
• Carry out research to find out what young people ‘on the margins’ feel about their lives; what they think needs to change in their communities and how the ‘Community Animateur’ can help make these changes possible.
• Develop a framework that describes the skills and competences needed to become a successful Community Animateur
• Develop a ‘self-assessment tool’ that helps people find out which of these competences they are good at and which ones they need to improve
• Develop a Learning Programme – linked to the competence framework – that provides the training needed to become a successful Community Animateur
• Deliver the Learning Programme in four different EU cities
• Support programme graduates to work in collaboration with young people to help solve problems in their communities