Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships in the Field of Youth

Erasmus+ strategic partnerships in the field of youth

ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnerships in the field of youth Compendium 2015

Erasmus+ EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Education and Culture Directorate B – Modernisation of Education II: Education policy and programme, Innovation, EIT and MSCA Unit EAC/B-1 – Higher Education Contact: Erasmus+ Higher Education & OLS team E-mail: [email protected] European Commission B-1049 Brussels ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnerships in the field of youth Compendium 2015 Getting in touch with the EU

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Print ISBN 978-92-79-61260-2 doi:10.2766/376942 NC-AP-15-006-EN-C PDF ISBN 978-92-79-61261-9 ISSN 2467-3838 doi:10.2766/912391 NC-AP-15-006-EN-N EPUB ISBN 978-92-79-61262-6 ISSN 2467-3838 doi10.2766/904057 NC-AP-15-006-EN-E Introduction

Under the Erasmus+ Programme, Key Action 2 promotes cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices in the fields of education, training and youth. The action supports a wide range of diverse projects best described as ‘transnational strategic partnerships between organisations involved in education, training and/or youth activities or other relevant sectors developing and implementing joint initiatives and promoting exchanges of experience and know-how’. Strategic Partnerships are expected to result in development, transfer and implementation of innovative practices at organisational, local, regional, national or European level. At systemic level, they are expected to trigger modernisation and reinforce the response of education and training systems and youth policies to the main challenges of today’s world: employment; the need to promote social, civic and intercultural competences; intercultural dialogue; democratic values and fundamental rights; social inclusion; non-discrimination; and active citizenship, critical thinking and media literacy. The Strategic Partnerships may address an issue in one specific field, but they also seek to promote cooperation across the education, training and youth fields and to establish links with the world of work. They may vary considerably in scale, ranging from fairly simple cooperation projects between small organisations to large-scale projects focusing on the development and exchange of innovative outputs in all fields of education, training and youth. Over the lifetime of a project, partnership members have a broad flexibility in how best to organise the proposed activities. The emphasis is put on the achieved deliverables and expected impact. Activities organised by the projects may include development and adoption of innovative practices relating to new curricula or courses and modules; the testing and integration of a greater variety of study modes (distance, part-time and modular learning); strategic collaboration between learning providers, local and regional authorities, enterprises and other relevant players; joint study programmes and joint curricula; intensive programmes; and common modules between members from different countries, disciplines and economic sectors (public and private). Depending on the priority and the objectives addressed by the project, Strategic Partner- ships should involve the most appropriate and diverse range of relevant partners (local and regional authorities; enterprises; small and medium-sized enterprises; European networks; social partners; research institutions; civil society organisations; etc.) who possess the necessary profile, experience and expertise to ensure that activities can be implemented efficiently and effectively and to produce relevant and high-quality project results. A strong emphasis is given to potential impact inside and outside the project. This implies a timely identification of the relevant stakeholders to be reached at the most appropriate level (local, regional, national or European) as well as the identification of project results that can be transferred to and used by relevant target groups and in other European countries. Selection and management of the projects are decentralised: implemented by National Agencies located in each Programme Country. This mode of implementation enables better C4 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

consideration of the national context, brings project management closer to the beneficiaries and helps to ensure stronger relevance and maximum impact of the selected projects. While the projects are managed by National Agencies at national level, each of them possess an inherent transnational dimension and is expected to generate results and an impact at the European level as well. There is, therefore, a common interest between the European Commission’s DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture and the National Agencies to ensure the appropriate level of quality of funded projects. These compendia are part of the DG’s contribution to better dissemination of information about ongoing projects, and can also be used as a networking tool among project coordinators to identify the projects working on the same areas and with similar topics. The present publication is dedicated to the projects that were awarded funding in 2015. In 2015, a total of more than EUR 369 million was granted to 1 910 projects in the fields of school education, vocational and educational training, higher education, adult education and youth. The funded Strategic Partnerships involve more than 10 900 organisations and are ben- efitting over 450 000 participants in learning, training and teaching activities. It is also worth stressing that over three quarters of the projects are producing ‘intellectual outputs’ such as open educational resources, massive open online courses (MOOCs), e-learning platforms or other pedagogical material. Topics covered by selected projects deal with important items on the EU policy agenda, including quality in teaching and training; new technologies and digital competencies; employability; improving the quality of education/training systems; inclusion and tolerance; and youth and education for sustainable development. Among the subjects, there are also health and medicine, research and innovation and international cooperation. In the compendium for youth, you will find a short description of each project with its objectives, activities, methodology of work, profile of participants and expected impact as well as the contact details of the coordinating organisations and a list of partners involved. The projects are grouped by country and by cluster of topics covered. This will allow you to easily identify projects coordinated by specific organisations or to obtain an overview of themes and subjects covered by projects in particular fields. The compendium gathering strategic partnerships of all fields is ISBN 978-92-79-61245-9. Summary

Strategic Partnership Projects sorted by country �� C7

Austria ��C7

Belgium ��C7

Bulgaria ��C8

Croatia ��C8

Cyprus ��C8

Czech Republic ��C8

Denmark ��C9

Estonia ��C9

Finland ��C9

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ��C9

France �� C10

Germany �� C10

Hungary �� C11

Iceland �� C11

Ireland �� C12

Italy �� C12

Latvia �� C13

Liechtenstein �� C13

Lithuania �� C13

Luxembourg �� C13 C6 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

Malta �� C14

Netherlands �� C14

Norway �� C14

Poland �� C14

Portugal �� C15

Romania �� C15

Slovakia �� C16

Slovenia �� C16

Spain �� C16

Sweden �� C17

Turkey �� C18

United Kingdom �� C18

Strategic Partnership Projects sorted by clusters of topics �� C18

Education for Sustainable Development �� C18

Employability �� C19

Health and Medicine �� C23

Improving the Quality of Education / Training Systems �� C23

Inclusion and Tolerance �� C24

International Cooperation �� C27

New Technologies and Digital Competences �� C29

Teaching and Training �� C30

Youth Empowerment �� C34 Table of contents

Strategic Partnership Projects sorted by country

Austria

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-AT02-KA205-001198 Time for Diversity! ��SP2 2015-1-AT02-KA205-001199 Interdisciplinary competence development for youth workers in residential youth care and crisis intervention centers ��SP4 2015-3-AT02-KA205-001337 Youth ideas into action ��SP273 2015-3-AT02-KA205-001360 Active citizenship pays off: European cooperation on a recognition system for volunteering and active young people ��SP275

Belgium

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-BE04-KA205-001626 BruxAl Andalus ��SP6 2015-2-BE04-KA205-001686 VIP awareness raising on unemployment ��SP132 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001702 art neighboryouth ��SP134 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001708 Reaching Further - Exploring the healing effects of Adventure Education and Experiential Learning, a methodology to increase the quality of youth work for European youngsters with fewer opportunities ��SP136 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001716 The c.i.p.h.e.r: The community international progressing Hip Hop evolutions and revolutions ��SP138 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001734 Borderless Young Artists ��SP140 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001737 Spread your skills ��SP142 2015-3-BE03-KA205-013507 Jugendarbeit zwischen Wiesen und Feldern - Entwicklung und Erprobung eines für den deutschsprachigen europäischen Raumes anwendbaren Fortbildungsmanuals für angehende und junge JugendarbeiterInnen des ländlichen Raumes aus bilateraler Perspektive ��SP276 2015-3-BE04-KA205-001731 SenseCube Brussels ��SP277 2015-3-BE04-KA205-001738 Ensemble en Europe ��SP278 2015-3-BE05-KA205-001784 I R I S ��SP279 2015-3-BE05-KA205-001815 How storytelling can change the world. ��SP281 2015-3-BE05-KA205-001822 Youth e-perspectives on migration ��SP283 C8 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY COUNTRY

Bulgaria

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-BG01-KA205-013652 Youth Entrepreneurs for Healthy Lifestyle(s): From Passion to Business ��SP8 2015-2-BG01-KA205-014544 ForProve theatre ��SP143 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022681 Youth Short Movies Learning App ��SP285 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022709 Civic education - a tool for active society ��SP287 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022764 Инициативни и креативни млади хора - заедно в съвременна Европа ��SP289 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022771 Innovate and Ideate for Social Entrepreneurship ��SP291

Croatia

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-HR01-KA205-012734 European Coworking network ��SP53 2015-2-HR01-KA205-013173 New methods for inclusion ��SP189 2015-2-HR01-KA205-013280 European Youth News Exchange ��SP191

Cyprus

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-CY02-KA205-000485 Modern Youth NGO Management- The Challenge of Professionalism ��SP10 2015-1-CY02-KA205-000486 Efficient information flow through peer networking ��SP12 2015-2-CY02-KA205-000528 Open Parliament Cyprus ��SP145 2015-3-CY02-KA205-000599 Empowering and Activating the young Generation though the Learning of Employability Skills ��SP293

Czech Republic

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-CZ01-KA205-012834 Mezinárodní portál pro podporu dobrovolnických aktivit mládeže ��SP13 2015-1-CZ01-KA205-012835 Sad mikrograntů jako nástroj strukturovaného dialogu mezi mládeží a městem ��SP15 2015-2-CZ01-KA205-014071 ROJENÍ - SWARMING ��SP147 2015-2-CZ01-KA205-014187 Empowering Youth To Become Social Innovators ��SP149 2015-3-CZ01-KA205-022712 Who Else? - Student Local Initiatives ��SP295 FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C9

Denmark

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-DK01-KA205-004088 Culture on a broomstick ��SP23 2015-1-DK01-KA205-004090 Salaam-Shalom Interfaith Learning ��SP24 2015-2-DK01-KA205-004358 Creating Opportunities and Understanding foR Avoiding and preventinG Exclusion ��SP161 2015-2-DK01-KA205-004400 Community Counteracting radicalisation ��SP163 2015-2-DK01-KA205-004402 European Youth Volunteers as Active Citizens ��SP165

Estonia

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-EE01-KA205-013267 SPREAD! ��SP26 2015-1-EE01-KA205-013268 Agora ��SP28 2015-1-EE01-KA205-013269 Message Wear: Supporting Youth Groups Through Entrepreneurship and Design ��SP29 2015-2-EE01-KA205-013547 Ecology of the young spirit ��SP167 2015-2-EE01-KA205-013581 How did they do it? ��SP169 2015-2-EE01-KA205-013590 Exceed the wall ��SP170 2015-3-EE01-KA205-016952 Developing Strategic Cooperation in History and Human Rights Education and Youth Work in Estonia ��SP314 2015-3-EE01-KA205-016982 Children at risk: (Non-formal) Education, Experience, Efficiency ��SP316

Finland

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-FI01-KA205-008653 Professionalizing European Youth Circuses (part 2) ��SP41 2015-1-FI01-KA205-008654 TransInnovation Camp for Youth ��SP43

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-MK01-KA205-002714 Cease Cowering: Youth Empower Action Here! ��SP84 2015-3-MK01-KA205-021422 Youthocracy - European network for promotion and introduction of good practices about youth work, volunteerism and activism through non formal education. ��SP374 C10 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY COUNTRY

France

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009797 Youth Commitment for climate ��SP44 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009798 Partnership for Better Education ��SP45 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009802 ABEONA ��SP47 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009805 Mobilité internationale pour tous ��SP49 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009809 Take IN / Take OFF, Art&Culture + Mobility, a lever for youth social and professional inclusion ��SP51 2015-2-FR02-KA205-010301 LEurope en signes ��SP182 2015-2-FR02-KA205-010340 Travaux identitaires pour le vivre ensemble dans une citoyenneté interculturelle ��SP184 2015-2-FR02-KA205-010357 Young Citizens in Action for Rural HEritage / Jeunes Citoyens en Action pour le Patrimoine Rural ��SP187 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010611 TEDDIPEUROPE ��SP331 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010661 Roma Cinema Youth Project ��SP333 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010701 PRACTICE ��SP335 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010722 European Volunteer Inclusion Program ��SP336 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010740 Comp-pass ��SP338

Germany

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012534 Work on it! - Take an active part for the future of young peolpe in Europe ��SP16 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012536 OnGea! Online Gear Enhancing Youth Work ��SP18 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012541 „With or without you“ – on regional, national and European identities ��SP20 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012559 Gemeinsam Europa gestalten ��SP21 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012710 Unleashing Youth Initiative and Involvement Through Empowerment with Key Competencies - Developing Tools and Disseminating Best Practice ��SP150 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012802 Team Up for NEETs - Innovation for Youth Employability ��SP152 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012956 Living Dictionaries ��SP154 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012981 CONNECT 2.0 - Intercultural Learning Network 4 Europe ��SP155 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012982 Between Ages: Network for young offenders and NEET ��SP157 ICELAND C11

2015-2-DE04-KA205-013046 Deutschsprachige Agora: Innovation, Vernetzung und Engagement durch Youth Empowerment ��SP159 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013135 Skills#EU - Learning Mobility - Opening European Minds ��SP297 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013137 Talk with me - Voluntary language mentors for refugees ��SP299 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013236 Youth for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics ��SP301 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013293 You and Me - A youth film project for a new European narrative ��SP303 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013380 European Food Fusion ��SP305 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013415 Entwicklung von Standards in der Zuwanderungsbegleitung junger EU-Migrant(inn)en vor und während ihrer Berufsausbildung in einem anderen EU-Land ��SP307 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013440 Social work with global perspective - An interdisciplinary contribution to youngster’s citizenship building ��SP309 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013453 CityToolBox ��SP311 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013455 Fortress Europe 2.0 - Film Festival ��SP313

Hungary

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-HU02-KA205-000867 Social Promotions for Active Citizenship and Environment ��SP55 2015-2-HU02-KA205-000935 YouthCompass - Competence Balance of young Roma for recording, assessing and acknowledging their non-formally and informally acquired competences ��SP193 2015-2-HU02-KA205-000984 Measuring is Key to Improvement – Interventions that Work in Dealing with Youth Aggression ��SP195 2015-2-HU02-KA205-001010 Get engaged! ��SP197 2015-2-HU02-KA205-001071 Learned Inactivity – Decreasing the Number of ESL Students in Disadvantaged Communities with the Power of Non- Formal Learning ��SP199 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001223 Development and testing of Youth Mediator - a non-formal qualification in youth field in line with new European common competence standards ��SP340 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001245 LAWrider ��SP342 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001299 Hagyományos szakmákkal a jövőnkért ��SP343 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001323 Learning active citizenship through urban beekeeping - Lets learn deep and flavorful democracy from bees ��SP344

Iceland

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-IS02-KA205-001567 EU Street Project ��SP61 2015-1-IS02-KA205-001568 Breiðholt Festival ��SP62 C12 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY COUNTRY

2015-1-IS02-KA205-001569 Youth in Europe – Evidence-based drug prevention ��SP63 2015-2-IS02-KA205-001580 Frelsun / Salvation ��SP203 2015-2-IS02-KA205-001586 ISLANDIA ��SP206 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001601 e-support your mobility preparation ��SP357 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001606 Fail Forward - development of fail-resilience workshops and the movement ��SP359 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001609 Reitir bók ��SP361 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001611 Story of my heart ��SP362

Ireland

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-IE01-KA205-008549 Progression through Active Civic Engagement ��SP57 2015-1-IE01-KA205-008552 From Illusion to inclusion ��SP59 2015-2-IE01-KA205-008719 Unwrapping Words ��SP201 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016671 Acting OUT 100 ��SP346 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016690 Fight the beast dont become obese ��SP347 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016697 Young Community Mediators ��SP349 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016708 Youth Work - Music and Cultural Entrepreneurship ��SP351 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016713 virtual youth work ��SP353 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016716 Limited Utopias ��SP355

Italy

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005738 Recovering the Future ��SP65 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005757 European Badge Alliance ��SP66 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005764 Work, Research and Innovation for the Tomorrows Entrepreneurs ��SP68 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005771 DIS-PLAY YOUR ABILITIES - Roles change as innovative approach to educate youngsters toward diversities into schools ��SP70 2015-2-IT03-KA205-005954 SUSTAIN YOUR LIFE THROUGH SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ��SP208 2015-2-IT03-KA205-006103 Go Deep! ��SP212 LUXEMBOURG C13

2015-2-IT03-KA205-006146 SMART Generation - Smartphone potential and educational resources for young generation ��SP214 2015-3-IT03-KA205-006677 RAP e parKOUR: larte di strada per favorire linclusione sociale e culturale dei giovani ��SP364 2015-3-IT03-KA205-006975 Visually impaired youths empowerment ��SP366 2015-3-IT03-KA205-007030 People, Places, Partnerships: from Youth Initiatives to Community Hubs ��SP368

Latvia

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-LV02-KA205-000609 By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn ��SP82 2015-2-LV02-KA205-000815 Enterprising and surprising through 8 key competences ��SP224 2015-3-LV02-KA205-000921 Young Animal Advocates - Training for Young Trainers in the Mediation of Agricultural Issues and Ethical Consumption Patterns ��SP372

Liechtenstein

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-LI02-KA205-000016 Youth Alpine Express ��SP72 2015-1-LI02-KA205-000017 WRITE- weil alles mit einer Idee beginnt ��SP73 2015-2-LI02-KA205-000019 Initiative Jugend Entrepreneurship ��SP216 2015-2-LI02-KA205-000021 kuska ��SP218

Lithuania

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-LT02-KA205-004096 Six Steps to Global Citizenship ��SP74 2015-1-LT02-KA205-004100 Competitive European Youth ��SP76 2015-2-LT02-KA205-004306 Trusted Badge Systems ��SP219

Luxembourg

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-LU02-KA205-000150 Student Theatre in Europe ��SP78 2015-1-LU02-KA205-000151 Improving Education - Improving Life ��SP79 2015-1-LU02-KA205-000152 Iniuarapolis ��SP81 2015-2-LU02-KA205-000178 INTER-NATIONAL net_works+ ��SP221 2015-2-LU02-KA205-000185 Foire de lEtudiant ��SP223 C14 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY COUNTRY

2015-3-LU02-KA205-000209 POTENTIAL4LIFE ��SP370

Malta

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-2-MT01-KA205-003762 Youth Environmental Training Initiative ��SP226 2015-3-MT01-KA205-015040 Islanders - Capitalising on Tourism to increase the employability of young people with fewer opportunities ��SP376

Netherlands

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-NL02-KA205-000960 Young Queer Europe ��SP86 2015-1-NL02-KA205-000963 Democratic governance in youth organization - key to participation ��SP88 2015-3-NL02-KA205-001127 Changing the game by changing its players ��SP378 2015-3-NL02-KA205-001150 The best of both world, Youth work in a Britsh and a Dutch city ��SP380 2015-3-NL02-KA205-001161 Creating Opportunities for Young Entrepreneurs through E-Commerce ��SP381

Norway

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-NO02-KA205-000521 Your KITE- The initiative to enhance Young people Knowledge and skills on IT and Entrepreneurship and increase their Employability ��SP90 2015-2-NO02-KA205-000585 Demokratiutvikling på tvers av landegrenser - utgivelse av politisk blad ��SP228 2015-3-NO02-KA205-000615 360° participation model ��SP383

Poland

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014197 NEW FILM TOOLS IN YOUTH WORK ��SP92 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014212 Design yourself ��SP93 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014217 Strategic cooperation for better entrepreneurship education ��SP94 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014223 Design your life ��SP96 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014228 Traces of identity ��SP97 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014235 Jak być przedsiębiorczym nie będąc przedsiębiorcą - mocne zapotrzebowanie na miękkie kompetencje ��SP99 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014238 Shake up Start ups ��SP101 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014245 Dziurawa Skarpeta na Emigracji ��SP103 ROMANIA C15

2015-1-PL01-KA205-014395 Create a film, create a future! ��SP104 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014406 Liderzy w organizacji mniejszościowej. Podnoszenie standardów działania organizacji pracujących na rzecz aktywizacji młodych przedstawicieli środowisk polonijnych ��SP106 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017220 Jak pracować z dziećmi? Polscy i Rumuńscy pedagodzy na rzecz dzieci. ��SP230 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017265 Cooperation for social and civic competences’ innovative education ��SP232 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017512 Integracja przez Inspiracje. Pozaformalne metody edukacji narzędziem wyrównywania szans młodzieży zagrożonej wykluczeniem społecznym. ��SP234 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017584 Europejski Program Przedsiębiorczości na rzecz wspierania NEETs ��SP236 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017670 Dla młodzieży i z młodzieżą odkrywamy świat. ��SP238 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022787 First ADR Kit ��SP385 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022881 Europejska Akademia Animatorów Wolontariatu Przyjaźń nie zna granic ��SP387 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022914 Clubbing Europe - strengthening active European clubs and creating new ones ��SP388 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022937 Wake-up! Intensyfikacja edukacji pozaformalnej młodzieży w Gminie Łobez poprzez strategiczne partnerstwa międzynarodowe ��SP390 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022945 Dziurawa Skarpeta na Emigracji ��SP392 2015-3-PL01-KA205-023235 TRY: TRansition Youth - sustainable development and local entrepreneurship (Transnational Youth Initiative) ��SP393

Portugal

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-PT02-KA205-002322 100% Youth City ��SP107 2015-1-PT02-KA205-002334 PLAY4CHANGE ��SP108 2015-2-PT02-KA205-002395 European Challenges and Opportunities ��SP240 2015-2-PT02-KA205-002410 Empowering youth potential ��SP242 2015-3-PT02-KA205-002787 Practice@Business: transferring, applying and disseminating Practice Enterprise methodology in Portugal ��SP394

Romania

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014080 Inclusive Partnership ��SP109 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014083 We have the same beat! ��SP110 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014094 Social Innovators Programme ��SP111 C16 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY COUNTRY

2015-1-RO01-KA205-014098 ERASMUS 4 VIP ��SP113 2015-2-RO01-KA205-015310 YES for Entrepreneurial Youth NGOs, YES for Millennials Changers ��SP244 2015-2-RO01-KA205-015354 Creative Approach to Key Competence Building for Marginalized Young Adults ��SP246 2015-2-RO01-KA205-015405 Social entreprises calling young people for solving problems of communities ��SP248 2015-3-RO01-KA205-022891 Skill Matching Assistance and Reporting Tool ��SP396 2015-3-RO01-KA205-022930 Leveraging sport to tackle gender inequalities ��SP398 2015-3-RO01-KA205-022949 Virtual Reality for STEM Entrepreneurship Training ��SP400

Slovakia

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-SK02-KA205-000519 Youth Activation - Long Term Ambition ��SP122 2015-1-SK02-KA205-000521 Biofarma- naše zamestnanie, naše poslanie! ��SP123 2015-2-SK02-KA205-000608 CLOSER ��SP261 2015-3-SK02-KA205-000660 Mladí proti rasizmu ��SP411 2015-3-SK02-KA205-000698 Príprava študentov a ich prepojenie s praxou ��SP412 2015-3-SK02-KA205-000714 Way to live ��SP413

Slovenia

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-SI02-KA205-012914 Rock ob Sotli / Rock na Sutli ��SP117 2015-1-SI02-KA205-012917 Drop in! ��SP118 2015-1-SI02-KA205-012925 Youth support youth ��SP120 2015-2-SI02-KA205-013022 European hub model for socially responsible young entrepreneurs ��SP257 2015-2-SI02-KA205-013070 Post-YU Trilateral Bottom Up Learning - Empowering Youth in the Region ��SP259 2015-3-SI02-KA205-013260 Mladina ustvarja: partnerstvo za razvoj izobraževanja za socialno podjetništvo ��SP408 2015-3-SI02-KA205-013302 Set up ��SP410

Spain

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006022 Building a network of employment opportunities for youth at risk of exclusion ��SP30 SWEDEN C17

2015-1-ES02-KA205-006026 Coding for Young People ��SP31 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006031 YEScowork.eu ��SP33 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006033 IMPULSA - Promoviendo un fútbol social ��SP35 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006048 This is a Green´s World ��SP37 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006051 European project school of enterpreneurship ��SP39 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006372 PATH TO A JOB. Youth Inclusion through Employability ��SP172 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006454 The YES Alliance 1ª ALIANZA EUROPEA PARA EL EMPRENDIMIENTO SOCIAL JUVENIL 1ERST EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS ��SP174 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006457 Young entrepreneurs - if not you then who? ��SP176 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006551 Projecting YOUth ��SP178 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006640 Fight against isolation through participative IT tools: the participatory video ��SP180 2015-3-ES02-KA205-006835 YounGO ��SP318 2015-3-ES02-KA205-006862 WERE SUPER ��SP320 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007096 Menmosine ��SP322 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007151 Developing locally, changing globaly ��SP324 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007222 CreacTICvity and Econolabs in trasnational projects ��SP326 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007265 Sports for All ��SP327 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007279 Modernising Youth Service Teams for Innovation and Knowledge-based practice ��SP329

Sweden

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-SE02-KA205-001167 Exception Versus Example: Empowering Young Women in Rural Areas Through Conventional and Social Entrepreneurship. ��SP115 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001214 Developing working tools and methods how to reach young people aged 13-22 in disadvantaged socio-economic areas. ��SP251 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001236 Project instruments for Erasmus + ��SP253 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001247 Beyond Tokenism: Effective models of children and youth participation in an adult organisation for children and youth ��SP255 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001262 Think Twice - Youth, Environment and Drugs in the EU ��SP256 2015-3-SE02-KA205-001293 NEw Tools for NEw Targets: a challenge for youth workers ��SP402 2015-3-SE02-KA205-001295 InterCity Youth ��SP404 C18 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY CLUSTERS OF TOPICS

2015-3-SE02-KA205-001349 Rescued Food for Street Meals ��SP406

Turkey

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-TR01-KA205-015652 Social Impact Measurement Tools for Young Social Entrepreneurs ��SP125 2015-2-TR01-KA205-022935 Global Innovative Leadership Module ��SP263 2015-2-TR01-KA205-023646 360 Degrees Entrepreneurship ��SP265 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024137 Sign Language Speaking Tour Guides ��SP414 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024506 Training Of Youth for Preparedness Against Marine Induced Hazards ��SP416 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024571 Developing an innovative platform to impact millions of refugees with social circus! ��SP417 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024834 Emotion to Motion Emotional Intelligence Skills Development to Foster Youth Employability ��SP418 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024900 Biomimicry for entrepreneurs ��SP420

United Kingdom

KA205 – Strategic Partnerships for youth 2015-1-UK01-KA205-012536 Youth Leaders Across Borders ��SP127 2015-1-UK01-KA205-012540 The Filter Europe ��SP129 2015-1-UK01-KA205-012555 Abused no More: Safeguarding Youth & Empowering Professionals ��SP130 2015-2-UK01-KA205-013994 Youth Enterprise through Arts ��SP267 2015-2-UK01-KA205-014040 Young Entrepreneurs Teaching Initiative for Young Entrepreneurs ��SP269 2015-2-UK01-KA205-014061 Resources for Inclusion, Diversity and Equality ��SP271 2015-3-UK01-KA205-022861 Developing and Communicating the Impact of Youth Work across Europe ��SP421 2015-3-UK01-KA205-023003 Employable Young People - EYP programme ��SP423

Strategic Partnership Projects sorted by clusters of topics Education for Sustainable Development §§ Topic: Environment and climate change §§ Topic: Rural development and urbanisation 2015-1-BG01-KA205-013652 Youth Entrepreneurs for Healthy Lifestyle(s): From Passion to Business ��SP8 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006022 Building a network of employment opportunities for youth at risk of exclusion ��SP30 EMPLOYABILITY C19

2015-1-FI01-KA205-008654 TransInnovation Camp for Youth ��SP43 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009797 Youth Commitment for climate ��SP44 2015-1-IS02-KA205-001568 Breiðholt Festival ��SP62 2015-1-LI02-KA205-000016 Youth Alpine Express ��SP72 2015-1-SE02-KA205-001167 Exception Versus Example: Empowering Young Women in Rural Areas Through Conventional and Social Entrepreneurship. ��SP115 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006640 Fight against isolation through participative IT tools: the participatory video ��SP180 2015-2-MT01-KA205-003762 Youth Environmental Training Initiative ��SP226 2015-2-NO02-KA205-000585 Demokratiutvikling på tvers av landegrenser - utgivelse av politisk blad ��SP228 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001262 Think Twice - Youth, Environment and Drugs in the EU ��SP256 2015-3-BE03-KA205-013507 Jugendarbeit zwischen Wiesen und Feldern - Entwicklung und Erprobung eines für den deutschsprachigen europäischen Raumes anwendbaren Fortbildungsmanuals für angehende und junge JugendarbeiterInnen des ländlichen Raumes aus bilateraler Perspektive ��SP276 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013293 You and Me - A youth film project for a new European narrative ��SP303 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013440 Social work with global perspective - An interdisciplinary contribution to youngster’s citizenship building ��SP309 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001323 Learning active citizenship through urban beekeeping - Lets learn deep and flavorful democracy from bees ��SP344 2015-3-PL01-KA205-023235 TRY: TRansition Youth - sustainable development and local entrepreneurship (Transnational Youth Initiative) ��SP393 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024506 Training Of Youth for Preparedness Against Marine Induced Hazards ��SP416

Employability §§ Topic: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education §§ Topic: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment 2015-1-BG01-KA205-013652 Youth Entrepreneurs for Healthy Lifestyle(s): From Passion to Business ��SP8 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012534 Work on it! - Take an active part for the future of young peolpe in Europe ��SP16 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012541 „With or without you“ – on regional, national and European identities ��SP20 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012559 Gemeinsam Europa gestalten ��SP21 2015-1-EE01-KA205-013269 Message Wear: Supporting Youth Groups Through Entrepreneurship and Design ��SP29 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006026 Coding for Young People ��SP31 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006048 This is a Green´s World ��SP37 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006051 European project school of enterpreneurship ��SP39 C20 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY CLUSTERS OF TOPICS

2015-1-FI01-KA205-008654 TransInnovation Camp for Youth ��SP43 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009798 Partnership for Better Education ��SP45 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009802 ABEONA ��SP47 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009809 Take IN / Take OFF, Art&Culture + Mobility, a lever for youth social and professional inclusion ��SP51 2015-1-HR01-KA205-012734 European Coworking network ��SP53 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005738 Recovering the Future ��SP65 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005764 Work, Research and Innovation for the Tomorrows Entrepreneurs ��SP68 2015-1-LU02-KA205-000151 Improving Education - Improving Life ��SP79 2015-1-MK01-KA205-002714 Cease Cowering: Youth Empower Action Here! ��SP84 2015-1-NO02-KA205-000521 Your KITE- The initiative to enhance Young people Knowledge and skills on IT and Entrepreneurship and increase their Employability ��SP90 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014217 Strategic cooperation for better entrepreneurship education ��SP94 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014235 Jak być przedsiębiorczym nie będąc przedsiębiorcą - mocne zapotrzebowanie na miękkie kompetencje ��SP99 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014238 Shake up Start ups ��SP101 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014094 Social Innovators Programme ��SP111 2015-1-SE02-KA205-001167 Exception Versus Example: Empowering Young Women in Rural Areas Through Conventional and Social Entrepreneurship. ��SP115 2015-1-SI02-KA205-012917 Drop in! ��SP118 2015-1-SK02-KA205-000521 Biofarma- naše zamestnanie, naše poslanie! ��SP123 2015-1-TR01-KA205-015652 Social Impact Measurement Tools for Young Social Entrepreneurs ��SP125 2015-2-BG01-KA205-014544 ForProve theatre ��SP143 2015-2-CZ01-KA205-014187 Empowering Youth To Become Social Innovators ��SP149 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012802 Team Up for NEETs - Innovation for Youth Employability ��SP152 2015-2-EE01-KA205-013581 How did they do it? ��SP169 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006372 PATH TO A JOB. Youth Inclusion through Employability ��SP172 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006454 The YES Alliance 1ª ALIANZA EUROPEA PARA EL EMPRENDIMIENTO SOCIAL JUVENIL 1ERST EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS ��SP174 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006457 Young entrepreneurs - if not you then who? ��SP176 EMPLOYABILITY C21

2015-2-ES02-KA205-006551 Projecting YOUth ��SP178 2015-2-HU02-KA205-000935 YouthCompass - Competence Balance of young Roma for recording, assessing and acknowledging their non-formally and informally acquired competences ��SP193 2015-2-HU02-KA205-000984 Measuring is Key to Improvement – Interventions that Work in Dealing with Youth Aggression ��SP195 2015-2-IT03-KA205-005954 SUSTAIN YOUR LIFE THROUGH SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ��SP208 2015-2-LI02-KA205-000019 Initiative Jugend Entrepreneurship ��SP216 2015-2-LV02-KA205-000815 Enterprising and surprising through 8 key competences ��SP224 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017584 Europejski Program Przedsiębiorczości na rzecz wspierania NEETs ��SP236 2015-2-PT02-KA205-002395 European Challenges and Opportunities ��SP240 2015-2-PT02-KA205-002410 Empowering youth potential ��SP242 2015-2-RO01-KA205-015310 YES for Entrepreneurial Youth NGOs, YES for Millennials Changers ��SP244 2015-2-RO01-KA205-015405 Social entreprises calling young people for solving problems of communities ��SP248 2015-2-SI02-KA205-013022 European hub model for socially responsible young entrepreneurs ��SP257 2015-2-TR01-KA205-022935 Global Innovative Leadership Module ��SP263 2015-2-TR01-KA205-023646 360 Degrees Entrepreneurship ��SP265 2015-2-UK01-KA205-013994 Youth Enterprise through Arts ��SP267 2015-2-UK01-KA205-014040 Young Entrepreneurs Teaching Initiative for Young Entrepreneurs ��SP269 2015-3-AT02-KA205-001337 Youth ideas into action ��SP273 2015-3-BE04-KA205-001731 SenseCube Brussels ��SP277 2015-3-BE05-KA205-001784 I R I S ��SP279 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022764 Инициативни и креативни млади хора - заедно в съвременна Европа ��SP289 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022771 Innovate and Ideate for Social Entrepreneurship ��SP291 2015-3-CY02-KA205-000599 Empowering and Activating the young Generation though the Learning of Employability Skills ��SP293 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013236 Youth for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics ��SP301 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013415 Entwicklung von Standards in der Zuwanderungsbegleitung junger EU-Migrant(inn)en vor und während ihrer Berufsausbildung in einem anderen EU-Land ��SP307 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013453 CityToolBox ��SP311 C22 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY CLUSTERS OF TOPICS

2015-3-ES02-KA205-006835 YounGO ��SP318 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007151 Developing locally, changing globaly ��SP324 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007222 CreacTICvity and Econolabs in trasnational projects ��SP326 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010740 Comp-pass ��SP338 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001299 Hagyományos szakmákkal a jövőnkért ��SP343 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016708 Youth Work - Music and Cultural Entrepreneurship ��SP351 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001609 Reitir bók ��SP361 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001611 Story of my heart ��SP362 2015-3-IT03-KA205-007030 People, Places, Partnerships: from Youth Initiatives to Community Hubs ��SP368 2015-3-MT01-KA205-015040 Islanders - Capitalising on Tourism to increase the employability of young people with fewer opportunities ��SP376 2015-3-NL02-KA205-001127 Changing the game by changing its players ��SP378 2015-3-NL02-KA205-001161 Creating Opportunities for Young Entrepreneurs through E-Commerce ��SP381 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022787 First ADR Kit ��SP385 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022937 Wake-up! Intensyfikacja edukacji pozaformalnej młodzieży w Gminie Łobez poprzez strategiczne partnerstwa międzynarodowe ��SP390 2015-3-PL01-KA205-023235 TRY: TRansition Youth - sustainable development and local entrepreneurship (Transnational Youth Initiative) ��SP393 2015-3-PT02-KA205-002787 Practice@Business: transferring, applying and disseminating Practice Enterprise methodology in Portugal ��SP394 2015-3-RO01-KA205-022891 Skill Matching Assistance and Reporting Tool ��SP396 2015-3-RO01-KA205-022949 Virtual Reality for STEM Entrepreneurship Training ��SP400 2015-3-SI02-KA205-013260 Mladina ustvarja: partnerstvo za razvoj izobraževanja za socialno podjetništvo ��SP408 2015-3-SI02-KA205-013302 Set up ��SP410 2015-3-SK02-KA205-000714 Way to live ��SP413 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024506 Training Of Youth for Preparedness Against Marine Induced Hazards ��SP416 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024834 Emotion to Motion Emotional Intelligence Skills Development to Foster Youth Employability ��SP418 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024900 Biomimicry for entrepreneurs ��SP420 2015-3-UK01-KA205-023003 Employable Young People - EYP programme ��SP423 IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION / TRAINING SYSTEMS C23

Health and Medicine §§ Topic: Health and wellbeing 2015-1-IS02-KA205-001569 Youth in Europe – Evidence-based drug prevention ��SP63 2015-1-UK01-KA205-012536 Youth Leaders Across Borders ��SP127 2015-1-UK01-KA205-012540 The Filter Europe ��SP129 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001708 Reaching Further - Exploring the healing effects of Adventure Education and Experiential Learning, a methodology to increase the quality of youth work for European youngsters with fewer opportunities ��SP136 2015-2-EE01-KA205-013547 Ecology of the young spirit ��SP167 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013380 European Food Fusion ��SP305 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016690 Fight the beast dont become obese ��SP347 2015-3-IT03-KA205-006677 RAP e parKOUR: larte di strada per favorire linclusione sociale e culturale dei giovani ��SP364 2015-3-LU02-KA205-000209 POTENTIAL4LIFE ��SP370 2015-3-PL01-KA205-023235 TRY: TRansition Youth - sustainable development and local entrepreneurship (Transnational Youth Initiative) ��SP393 2015-3-SE02-KA205-001349 Rescued Food for Street Meals ��SP406

Improving the Quality of Education / Training Systems §§ Topic: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits) 2015-1-CY02-KA205-000485 Modern Youth NGO Management- The Challenge of Professionalism ��SP10 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005757 European Badge Alliance ��SP66 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001737 Spread your skills ��SP142 2015-2-DE04-KA205-013046 Deutschsprachige Agora: Innovation, Vernetzung und Engagement durch Youth Empowerment ��SP159 2015-2-IE01-KA205-008719 Unwrapping Words ��SP201 2015-2-LT02-KA205-004306 Trusted Badge Systems ��SP219 2015-3-AT02-KA205-001360 Active citizenship pays off: European cooperation on a recognition system for volunteering and active young people ��SP275 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010701 PRACTICE ��SP335 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010722 European Volunteer Inclusion Program ��SP336 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001223 Development and testing of Youth Mediator - a non-formal qualification in youth field in line with new European common competence standards ��SP340 2015-3-RO01-KA205-022891 Skill Matching Assistance and Reporting Tool ��SP396 C24 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY CLUSTERS OF TOPICS

Inclusion and Tolerance §§ Topic: Access for disadvantaged §§ Topic: Disabilities - special needs §§ Topic: Ethics, religion and philosophy (incl. Inter-religious dialogue) §§ Topic: Gender equality / equal opportunities §§ Topic: Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law) §§ Topic: Inclusion - equity §§ Topic: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning §§ Topic: Romas and/or other minorities §§ Topic: Social dialogue 2015-1-AT02-KA205-001198 Time for Diversity! ��SP2 2015-1-AT02-KA205-001199 Interdisciplinary competence development for youth workers in residential youth care and crisis intervention centers ��SP4 2015-1-BE04-KA205-001626 BruxAl Andalus ��SP6 2015-1-CY02-KA205-000486 Efficient information flow through peer networking ��SP12 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012559 Gemeinsam Europa gestalten ��SP21 2015-1-DK01-KA205-004088 Culture on a broomstick ��SP23 2015-1-DK01-KA205-004090 Salaam-Shalom Interfaith Learning ��SP24 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006022 Building a network of employment opportunities for youth at risk of exclusion ��SP30 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006026 Coding for Young People ��SP31 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006033 IMPULSA - Promoviendo un fútbol social ��SP35 2015-1-FI01-KA205-008653 Professionalizing European Youth Circuses (part 2) ��SP41 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009805 Mobilité internationale pour tous ��SP49 2015-1-IE01-KA205-008549 Progression through Active Civic Engagement ��SP57 2015-1-IE01-KA205-008552 From Illusion to inclusion ��SP59 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005771 DIS-PLAY YOUR ABILITIES - Roles change as innovative approach to educate youngsters toward diversities into schools ��SP70 2015-1-LU02-KA205-000150 Student Theatre in Europe ��SP78 2015-1-LU02-KA205-000152 Iniuarapolis ��SP81 2015-1-NL02-KA205-000960 Young Queer Europe ��SP86 2015-1-NL02-KA205-000963 Democratic governance in youth organization - key to participation ��SP88 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014223 Design your life ��SP96 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014228 Traces of identity ��SP97 INCLUSION AND TOLERANCE C25

2015-1-PL01-KA205-014245 Dziurawa Skarpeta na Emigracji ��SP103 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014395 Create a film, create a future! ��SP104 2015-1-PT02-KA205-002334 PLAY4CHANGE ��SP108 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014080 Inclusive Partnership ��SP109 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014083 We have the same beat! ��SP110 2015-1-SE02-KA205-001167 Exception Versus Example: Empowering Young Women in Rural Areas Through Conventional and Social Entrepreneurship. ��SP115 2015-1-SI02-KA205-012914 Rock ob Sotli / Rock na Sutli ��SP117 2015-1-SI02-KA205-012925 Youth support youth ��SP120 2015-1-SK02-KA205-000519 Youth Activation - Long Term Ambition ��SP122 2015-1-SK02-KA205-000521 Biofarma- naše zamestnanie, naše poslanie! ��SP123 2015-1-UK01-KA205-012536 Youth Leaders Across Borders ��SP127 2015-1-UK01-KA205-012540 The Filter Europe ��SP129 2015-1-UK01-KA205-012555 Abused no More: Safeguarding Youth & Empowering Professionals ��SP130 2015-2-BE04-KA205-001686 VIP awareness raising on unemployment ��SP132 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001702 art neighboryouth ��SP134 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001734 Borderless Young Artists ��SP140 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001737 Spread your skills ��SP142 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012981 CONNECT 2.0 - Intercultural Learning Network 4 Europe ��SP155 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012982 Between Ages: Network for young offenders and NEET ��SP157 2015-2-DK01-KA205-004358 Creating Opportunities and Understanding foR Avoiding and preventinG Exclusion ��SP161 2015-2-DK01-KA205-004400 Community Counteracting radicalisation ��SP163 2015-2-DK01-KA205-004402 European Youth Volunteers as Active Citizens ��SP165 2015-2-EE01-KA205-013581 How did they do it? ��SP169 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006372 PATH TO A JOB. Youth Inclusion through Employability ��SP172 2015-2-FR02-KA205-010301 LEurope en signes ��SP182 2015-2-FR02-KA205-010340 Travaux identitaires pour le vivre ensemble dans une citoyenneté interculturelle ��SP184 C26 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY CLUSTERS OF TOPICS

2015-2-HR01-KA205-013173 New methods for inclusion ��SP189 2015-2-HU02-KA205-000935 YouthCompass - Competence Balance of young Roma for recording, assessing and acknowledging their non-formally and informally acquired competences ��SP193 2015-2-HU02-KA205-000984 Measuring is Key to Improvement – Interventions that Work in Dealing with Youth Aggression ��SP195 2015-2-HU02-KA205-001071 Learned Inactivity – Decreasing the Number of ESL Students in Disadvantaged Communities with the Power of Non- Formal Learning ��SP199 2015-2-IS02-KA205-001580 Frelsun / Salvation ��SP203 2015-2-IS02-KA205-001586 ISLANDIA ��SP206 2015-2-IT03-KA205-006103 Go Deep! ��SP212 2015-2-LI02-KA205-000021 kuska ��SP218 2015-2-LV02-KA205-000815 Enterprising and surprising through 8 key competences ��SP224 2015-2-NO02-KA205-000585 Demokratiutvikling på tvers av landegrenser - utgivelse av politisk blad ��SP228 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017584 Europejski Program Przedsiębiorczości na rzecz wspierania NEETs ��SP236 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017670 Dla młodzieży i z młodzieżą odkrywamy świat. ��SP238 2015-2-PT02-KA205-002410 Empowering youth potential ��SP242 2015-2-RO01-KA205-015354 Creative Approach to Key Competence Building for Marginalized Young Adults ��SP246 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001214 Developing working tools and methods how to reach young people aged 13-22 in disadvantaged socio-economic areas. ��SP251 2015-2-SK02-KA205-000608 CLOSER ��SP261 2015-2-TR01-KA205-023646 360 Degrees Entrepreneurship ��SP265 2015-2-UK01-KA205-014061 Resources for Inclusion, Diversity and Equality ��SP271 2015-3-AT02-KA205-001337 Youth ideas into action ��SP273 2015-3-BE05-KA205-001822 Youth e-perspectives on migration ��SP283 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022681 Youth Short Movies Learning App ��SP285 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013137 Talk with me - Voluntary language mentors for refugees ��SP299 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013236 Youth for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics ��SP301 2015-3-EE01-KA205-016982 Children at risk: (Non-formal) Education, Experience, Efficiency ��SP316 2015-3-ES02-KA205-006862 WERE SUPER ��SP320 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION C27

2015-3-ES02-KA205-007265 Sports for All ��SP327 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010611 TEDDIPEUROPE ��SP331 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010661 Roma Cinema Youth Project ��SP333 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010701 PRACTICE ��SP335 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010740 Comp-pass ��SP338 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016690 Fight the beast dont become obese ��SP347 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016697 Young Community Mediators ��SP349 2015-3-IT03-KA205-006677 RAP e parKOUR: larte di strada per favorire linclusione sociale e culturale dei giovani ��SP364 2015-3-IT03-KA205-006975 Visually impaired youths empowerment ��SP366 2015-3-MT01-KA205-015040 Islanders - Capitalising on Tourism to increase the employability of young people with fewer opportunities ��SP376 2015-3-NO02-KA205-000615 360° participation model ��SP383 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022787 First ADR Kit ��SP385 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022881 Europejska Akademia Animatorów Wolontariatu Przyjaźń nie zna granic ��SP387 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022945 Dziurawa Skarpeta na Emigracji ��SP392 2015-3-RO01-KA205-022930 Leveraging sport to tackle gender inequalities ��SP398 2015-3-SE02-KA205-001293 NEw Tools for NEw Targets: a challenge for youth workers ��SP402 2015-3-SK02-KA205-000660 Mladí proti rasizmu ��SP411 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024137 Sign Language Speaking Tour Guides ��SP414 2015-3-UK01-KA205-023003 Employable Young People - EYP programme ��SP423

International Cooperation §§ Topic: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation 2015-1-CZ01-KA205-012834 Mezinárodní portál pro podporu dobrovolnických aktivit mládeže ��SP13 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012536 OnGea! Online Gear Enhancing Youth Work ��SP18 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006031 YEScowork.eu ��SP33 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009805 Mobilité internationale pour tous ��SP49 2015-1-HR01-KA205-012734 European Coworking network ��SP53 2015-1-IS02-KA205-001568 Breiðholt Festival ��SP62 C28 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY CLUSTERS OF TOPICS

2015-1-LT02-KA205-004096 Six Steps to Global Citizenship ��SP74 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014094 Social Innovators Programme ��SP111 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014098 ERASMUS 4 VIP ��SP113 2015-1-SI02-KA205-012914 Rock ob Sotli / Rock na Sutli ��SP117 2015-1-SI02-KA205-012917 Drop in! ��SP118 2015-2-BE04-KA205-001686 VIP awareness raising on unemployment ��SP132 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001708 Reaching Further - Exploring the healing effects of Adventure Education and Experiential Learning, a methodology to increase the quality of youth work for European youngsters with fewer opportunities ��SP136 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001716 The c.i.p.h.e.r: The community international progressing Hip Hop evolutions and revolutions ��SP138 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001737 Spread your skills ��SP142 2015-2-CZ01-KA205-014071 ROJENÍ - SWARMING ��SP147 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012956 Living Dictionaries ��SP154 2015-2-EE01-KA205-013590 Exceed the wall ��SP170 2015-2-IS02-KA205-001586 ISLANDIA ��SP206 2015-2-LI02-KA205-000021 kuska ��SP218 2015-2-RO01-KA205-015405 Social entreprises calling young people for solving problems of communities ��SP248 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001236 Project instruments for Erasmus + ��SP253 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001247 Beyond Tokenism: Effective models of children and youth participation in an adult organisation for children and youth ��SP255 2015-2-SI02-KA205-013070 Post-YU Trilateral Bottom Up Learning - Empowering Youth in the Region ��SP259 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013455 Fortress Europe 2.0 - Film Festival ��SP313 2015-3-EE01-KA205-016982 Children at risk: (Non-formal) Education, Experience, Efficiency ��SP316 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016716 Limited Utopias ��SP355 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001601 e-support your mobility preparation ��SP357 2015-3-LV02-KA205-000921 Young Animal Advocates - Training for Young Trainers in the Mediation of Agricultural Issues and Ethical Consumption Patterns ��SP372 2015-3-SE02-KA205-001295 InterCity Youth ��SP404 2015-3-SK02-KA205-000698 Príprava študentov a ich prepojenie s praxou ��SP412 NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND DIGITAL COMPETENCES C29

2015-3-TR01-KA205-024571 Developing an innovative platform to impact millions of refugees with social circus! ��SP417 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024900 Biomimicry for entrepreneurs ��SP420

New Technologies and Digital Competences §§ Topic: ICT - new technologies - digital competences §§ Topic: Open and distance learning 2015-1-CZ01-KA205-012834 Mezinárodní portál pro podporu dobrovolnických aktivit mládeže ��SP13 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012536 OnGea! Online Gear Enhancing Youth Work ��SP18 2015-1-EE01-KA205-013267 SPREAD! ��SP26 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006026 Coding for Young People ��SP31 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006031 YEScowork.eu ��SP33 2015-1-LT02-KA205-004100 Competitive European Youth ��SP76 2015-1-MK01-KA205-002714 Cease Cowering: Youth Empower Action Here! ��SP84 2015-1-NL02-KA205-000963 Democratic governance in youth organization - key to participation ��SP88 2015-1-NO02-KA205-000521 Your KITE- The initiative to enhance Young people Knowledge and skills on IT and Entrepreneurship and increase their Employability ��SP90 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014217 Strategic cooperation for better entrepreneurship education ��SP94 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014235 Jak być przedsiębiorczym nie będąc przedsiębiorcą - mocne zapotrzebowanie na miękkie kompetencje ��SP99 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014238 Shake up Start ups ��SP101 2015-2-CZ01-KA205-014071 ROJENÍ - SWARMING ��SP147 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012981 CONNECT 2.0 - Intercultural Learning Network 4 Europe ��SP155 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006640 Fight against isolation through participative IT tools: the participatory video ��SP180 2015-2-IT03-KA205-006146 SMART Generation - Smartphone potential and educational resources for young generation ��SP214 2015-2-LT02-KA205-004306 Trusted Badge Systems ��SP219 2015-2-LU02-KA205-000185 Foire de lEtudiant ��SP223 2015-2-RO01-KA205-015405 Social entreprises calling young people for solving problems of communities ��SP248 2015-2-TR01-KA205-022935 Global Innovative Leadership Module ��SP263 2015-2-UK01-KA205-014040 Young Entrepreneurs Teaching Initiative for Young Entrepreneurs ��SP269 2015-3-BE04-KA205-001738 Ensemble en Europe ��SP278 C30 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY CLUSTERS OF TOPICS

2015-3-BE05-KA205-001815 How storytelling can change the world. ��SP281 2015-3-BE05-KA205-001822 Youth e-perspectives on migration ��SP283 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022681 Youth Short Movies Learning App ��SP285 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022764 Инициативни и креативни млади хора - заедно в съвременна Европа ��SP289 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013380 European Food Fusion ��SP305 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007151 Developing locally, changing globaly ��SP324 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007222 CreacTICvity and Econolabs in trasnational projects ��SP326 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007279 Modernising Youth Service Teams for Innovation and Knowledge-based practice ��SP329 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010701 PRACTICE ��SP335 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016713 virtual youth work ��SP353 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001601 e-support your mobility preparation ��SP357 2015-3-MK01-KA205-021422 Youthocracy - European network for promotion and introduction of good practices about youth work, volunteerism and activism through non formal education. ��SP374 2015-3-NL02-KA205-001161 Creating Opportunities for Young Entrepreneurs through E-Commerce ��SP381 2015-3-RO01-KA205-022949 Virtual Reality for STEM Entrepreneurship Training ��SP400 2015-3-SE02-KA205-001349 Rescued Food for Street Meals ��SP406 2015-3-SK02-KA205-000698 Príprava študentov a ich prepojenie s praxou ��SP412 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024834 Emotion to Motion Emotional Intelligence Skills Development to Foster Youth Employability ��SP418 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024900 Biomimicry for entrepreneurs ��SP420

Teaching and Training §§ Topic: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education §§ Topic: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses §§ Topic: Teaching and learning of foreign languages 2015-1-CY02-KA205-000485 Modern Youth NGO Management- The Challenge of Professionalism ��SP10 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012534 Work on it! - Take an active part for the future of young peolpe in Europe ��SP16 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006051 European project school of enterpreneurship ��SP39 2015-1-FI01-KA205-008653 Professionalizing European Youth Circuses (part 2) ��SP41 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009798 Partnership for Better Education ��SP45 TEACHING AND TRAINING C31

2015-1-FR02-KA205-009802 ABEONA ��SP47 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009809 Take IN / Take OFF, Art&Culture + Mobility, a lever for youth social and professional inclusion ��SP51 2015-1-IE01-KA205-008549 Progression through Active Civic Engagement ��SP57 2015-1-IE01-KA205-008552 From Illusion to inclusion ��SP59 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005764 Work, Research and Innovation for the Tomorrows Entrepreneurs ��SP68 2015-1-LT02-KA205-004100 Competitive European Youth ��SP76 2015-1-LU02-KA205-000151 Improving Education - Improving Life ��SP79 2015-1-LV02-KA205-000609 By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn ��SP82 2015-1-MK01-KA205-002714 Cease Cowering: Youth Empower Action Here! ��SP84 2015-1-NO02-KA205-000521 Your KITE- The initiative to enhance Young people Knowledge and skills on IT and Entrepreneurship and increase their Employability ��SP90 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014197 NEW FILM TOOLS IN YOUTH WORK ��SP92 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014212 Design yourself ��SP93 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014217 Strategic cooperation for better entrepreneurship education ��SP94 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014238 Shake up Start ups ��SP101 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014395 Create a film, create a future! ��SP104 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014098 ERASMUS 4 VIP ��SP113 2015-1-SI02-KA205-012925 Youth support youth ��SP120 2015-1-TR01-KA205-015652 Social Impact Measurement Tools for Young Social Entrepreneurs ��SP125 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001702 art neighboryouth ��SP134 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001708 Reaching Further - Exploring the healing effects of Adventure Education and Experiential Learning, a methodology to increase the quality of youth work for European youngsters with fewer opportunities ��SP136 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001716 The c.i.p.h.e.r: The community international progressing Hip Hop evolutions and revolutions ��SP138 2015-2-CZ01-KA205-014071 ROJENÍ - SWARMING ��SP147 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012710 Unleashing Youth Initiative and Involvement Through Empowerment with Key Competencies - Developing Tools and Disseminating Best Practice ��SP150 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012802 Team Up for NEETs - Innovation for Youth Employability ��SP152 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012981 CONNECT 2.0 - Intercultural Learning Network 4 Europe ��SP155 C32 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY CLUSTERS OF TOPICS

2015-2-DK01-KA205-004358 Creating Opportunities and Understanding foR Avoiding and preventinG Exclusion ��SP161 2015-2-DK01-KA205-004402 European Youth Volunteers as Active Citizens ��SP165 2015-2-FR02-KA205-010340 Travaux identitaires pour le vivre ensemble dans une citoyenneté interculturelle ��SP184 2015-2-HR01-KA205-013173 New methods for inclusion ��SP189 2015-2-HR01-KA205-013280 European Youth News Exchange ��SP191 2015-2-HU02-KA205-000935 YouthCompass - Competence Balance of young Roma for recording, assessing and acknowledging their non-formally and informally acquired competences ��SP193 2015-2-HU02-KA205-000984 Measuring is Key to Improvement – Interventions that Work in Dealing with Youth Aggression ��SP195 2015-2-HU02-KA205-001010 Get engaged! ��SP197 2015-2-HU02-KA205-001071 Learned Inactivity – Decreasing the Number of ESL Students in Disadvantaged Communities with the Power of Non- Formal Learning ��SP199 2015-2-IE01-KA205-008719 Unwrapping Words ��SP201 2015-2-IT03-KA205-005954 SUSTAIN YOUR LIFE THROUGH SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ��SP208 2015-2-IT03-KA205-006103 Go Deep! ��SP212 2015-2-IT03-KA205-006146 SMART Generation - Smartphone potential and educational resources for young generation ��SP214 2015-2-LI02-KA205-000021 kuska ��SP218 2015-2-LU02-KA205-000185 Foire de lEtudiant ��SP223 2015-2-LV02-KA205-000815 Enterprising and surprising through 8 key competences ��SP224 2015-2-MT01-KA205-003762 Youth Environmental Training Initiative ��SP226 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017220 Jak pracować z dziećmi? Polscy i Rumuńscy pedagodzy na rzecz dzieci. ��SP230 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017265 Cooperation for social and civic competences’ innovative education ��SP232 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017512 Integracja przez Inspiracje. Pozaformalne metody edukacji narzędziem wyrównywania szans młodzieży zagrożonej wykluczeniem społecznym. ��SP234 2015-2-RO01-KA205-015354 Creative Approach to Key Competence Building for Marginalized Young Adults ��SP246 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001236 Project instruments for Erasmus + ��SP253 2015-2-SI02-KA205-013022 European hub model for socially responsible young entrepreneurs ��SP257 2015-2-SI02-KA205-013070 Post-YU Trilateral Bottom Up Learning - Empowering Youth in the Region ��SP259 2015-2-TR01-KA205-022935 Global Innovative Leadership Module ��SP263 TEACHING AND TRAINING C33

2015-2-TR01-KA205-023646 360 Degrees Entrepreneurship ��SP265 2015-2-UK01-KA205-014040 Young Entrepreneurs Teaching Initiative for Young Entrepreneurs ��SP269 2015-3-AT02-KA205-001337 Youth ideas into action ��SP273 2015-3-BE03-KA205-013507 Jugendarbeit zwischen Wiesen und Feldern - Entwicklung und Erprobung eines für den deutschsprachigen europäischen Raumes anwendbaren Fortbildungsmanuals für angehende und junge JugendarbeiterInnen des ländlichen Raumes aus bilateraler Perspektive ��SP276 2015-3-BE04-KA205-001731 SenseCube Brussels ��SP277 2015-3-BE05-KA205-001784 I R I S ��SP279 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022709 Civic education - a tool for active society ��SP287 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022771 Innovate and Ideate for Social Entrepreneurship ��SP291 2015-3-CY02-KA205-000599 Empowering and Activating the young Generation though the Learning of Employability Skills ��SP293 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013135 Skills#EU - Learning Mobility - Opening European Minds ��SP297 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013137 Talk with me - Voluntary language mentors for refugees ��SP299 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013236 Youth for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics ��SP301 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013415 Entwicklung von Standards in der Zuwanderungsbegleitung junger EU-Migrant(inn)en vor und während ihrer Berufsausbildung in einem anderen EU-Land ��SP307 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013440 Social work with global perspective - An interdisciplinary contribution to youngster’s citizenship building ��SP309 2015-3-EE01-KA205-016952 Developing Strategic Cooperation in History and Human Rights Education and Youth Work in Estonia ��SP314 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007096 Menmosine ��SP322 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007265 Sports for All ��SP327 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007279 Modernising Youth Service Teams for Innovation and Knowledge-based practice ��SP329 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010661 Roma Cinema Youth Project ��SP333 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010740 Comp-pass ��SP338 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001223 Development and testing of Youth Mediator - a non-formal qualification in youth field in line with new European common competence standards ��SP340 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001601 e-support your mobility preparation ��SP357 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001606 Fail Forward - development of fail-resilience workshops and the movement ��SP359 2015-3-IT03-KA205-007030 People, Places, Partnerships: from Youth Initiatives to Community Hubs ��SP368 C34 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY CLUSTERS OF TOPICS

2015-3-LU02-KA205-000209 POTENTIAL4LIFE ��SP370 2015-3-LV02-KA205-000921 Young Animal Advocates - Training for Young Trainers in the Mediation of Agricultural Issues and Ethical Consumption Patterns ��SP372 2015-3-MK01-KA205-021422 Youthocracy - European network for promotion and introduction of good practices about youth work, volunteerism and activism through non formal education. ��SP374 2015-3-NL02-KA205-001127 Changing the game by changing its players ��SP378 2015-3-NL02-KA205-001150 The best of both world, Youth work in a Britsh and a Dutch city ��SP380 2015-3-NL02-KA205-001161 Creating Opportunities for Young Entrepreneurs through E-Commerce ��SP381 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022787 First ADR Kit ��SP385 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022881 Europejska Akademia Animatorów Wolontariatu Przyjaźń nie zna granic ��SP387 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022914 Clubbing Europe - strengthening active European clubs and creating new ones ��SP388 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022937 Wake-up! Intensyfikacja edukacji pozaformalnej młodzieży w Gminie Łobez poprzez strategiczne partnerstwa międzynarodowe ��SP390 2015-3-PT02-KA205-002787 Practice@Business: transferring, applying and disseminating Practice Enterprise methodology in Portugal ��SP394 2015-3-RO01-KA205-022949 Virtual Reality for STEM Entrepreneurship Training ��SP400 2015-3-SI02-KA205-013302 Set up ��SP410 2015-3-SK02-KA205-000714 Way to live ��SP413 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024137 Sign Language Speaking Tour Guides ��SP414 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024571 Developing an innovative platform to impact millions of refugees with social circus! ��SP417 2015-3-UK01-KA205-022861 Developing and Communicating the Impact of Youth Work across Europe ��SP421

Youth Empowerment §§ Topic: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy §§ Topic: Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers §§ Topic: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) 2015-1-AT02-KA205-001199 Interdisciplinary competence development for youth workers in residential youth care and crisis intervention centers ��SP4 2015-1-BE04-KA205-001626 BruxAl Andalus ��SP6 2015-1-CY02-KA205-000485 Modern Youth NGO Management- The Challenge of Professionalism ��SP10 2015-1-CY02-KA205-000486 Efficient information flow through peer networking ��SP12 2015-1-CZ01-KA205-012834 Mezinárodní portál pro podporu dobrovolnických aktivit mládeže ��SP13 YOUTH EMPOWERMENT C35

2015-1-DE04-KA205-012534 Work on it! - Take an active part for the future of young peolpe in Europe ��SP16 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012536 OnGea! Online Gear Enhancing Youth Work ��SP18 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012541 „With or without you“ – on regional, national and European identities ��SP20 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012559 Gemeinsam Europa gestalten ��SP21 2015-1-DK01-KA205-004088 Culture on a broomstick ��SP23 2015-1-DK01-KA205-004090 Salaam-Shalom Interfaith Learning ��SP24 2015-1-EE01-KA205-013267 SPREAD! ��SP26 2015-1-EE01-KA205-013268 Agora ��SP28 2015-1-EE01-KA205-013269 Message Wear: Supporting Youth Groups Through Entrepreneurship and Design ��SP29 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006022 Building a network of employment opportunities for youth at risk of exclusion ��SP30 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006031 YEScowork.eu ��SP33 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006033 IMPULSA - Promoviendo un fútbol social ��SP35 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006048 This is a Green´s World ��SP37 2015-1-FI01-KA205-008653 Professionalizing European Youth Circuses (part 2) ��SP41 2015-1-FI01-KA205-008654 TransInnovation Camp for Youth ��SP43 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009797 Youth Commitment for climate ��SP44 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009798 Partnership for Better Education ��SP45 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009805 Mobilité internationale pour tous ��SP49 2015-1-HU02-KA205-000867 Social Promotions for Active Citizenship and Environment ��SP55 2015-1-IE01-KA205-008549 Progression through Active Civic Engagement ��SP57 2015-1-IS02-KA205-001569 Youth in Europe – Evidence-based drug prevention ��SP63 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005738 Recovering the Future ��SP65 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005757 European Badge Alliance ��SP66 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005771 DIS-PLAY YOUR ABILITIES - Roles change as innovative approach to educate youngsters toward diversities into schools ��SP70 2015-1-LI02-KA205-000016 Youth Alpine Express ��SP72 2015-1-LI02-KA205-000017 WRITE- weil alles mit einer Idee beginnt ��SP73 C36 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY CLUSTERS OF TOPICS

2015-1-LT02-KA205-004096 Six Steps to Global Citizenship ��SP74 2015-1-LT02-KA205-004100 Competitive European Youth ��SP76 2015-1-LU02-KA205-000150 Student Theatre in Europe ��SP78 2015-1-LU02-KA205-000151 Improving Education - Improving Life ��SP79 2015-1-LV02-KA205-000609 By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn ��SP82 2015-1-NL02-KA205-000963 Democratic governance in youth organization - key to participation ��SP88 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014197 NEW FILM TOOLS IN YOUTH WORK ��SP92 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014223 Design your life ��SP96 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014228 Traces of identity ��SP97 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014245 Dziurawa Skarpeta na Emigracji ��SP103 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014395 Create a film, create a future! ��SP104 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014406 Liderzy w organizacji mniejszościowej. Podnoszenie standardów działania organizacji pracujących na rzecz aktywizacji młodych przedstawicieli środowisk polonijnych ��SP106 2015-1-PT02-KA205-002322 100% Youth City ��SP107 2015-1-PT02-KA205-002334 PLAY4CHANGE ��SP108 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014080 Inclusive Partnership ��SP109 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014094 Social Innovators Programme ��SP111 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014098 ERASMUS 4 VIP ��SP113 2015-1-SI02-KA205-012917 Drop in! ��SP118 2015-1-SI02-KA205-012925 Youth support youth ��SP120 2015-1-UK01-KA205-012536 Youth Leaders Across Borders ��SP127 2015-1-UK01-KA205-012540 The Filter Europe ��SP129 2015-1-UK01-KA205-012555 Abused no More: Safeguarding Youth & Empowering Professionals ��SP130 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001702 art neighboryouth ��SP134 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001734 Borderless Young Artists ��SP140 2015-2-CY02-KA205-000528 Open Parliament Cyprus ��SP145 YOUTH EMPOWERMENT C37

2015-2-CZ01-KA205-014187 Empowering Youth To Become Social Innovators ��SP149 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012710 Unleashing Youth Initiative and Involvement Through Empowerment with Key Competencies - Developing Tools and Disseminating Best Practice ��SP150 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012802 Team Up for NEETs - Innovation for Youth Employability ��SP152 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012956 Living Dictionaries ��SP154 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012982 Between Ages: Network for young offenders and NEET ��SP157 2015-2-DE04-KA205-013046 Deutschsprachige Agora: Innovation, Vernetzung und Engagement durch Youth Empowerment ��SP159 2015-2-DK01-KA205-004358 Creating Opportunities and Understanding foR Avoiding and preventinG Exclusion ��SP161 2015-2-DK01-KA205-004400 Community Counteracting radicalisation ��SP163 2015-2-DK01-KA205-004402 European Youth Volunteers as Active Citizens ��SP165 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006372 PATH TO A JOB. Youth Inclusion through Employability ��SP172 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006551 Projecting YOUth ��SP178 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006640 Fight against isolation through participative IT tools: the participatory video ��SP180 2015-2-FR02-KA205-010301 LEurope en signes ��SP182 2015-2-FR02-KA205-010340 Travaux identitaires pour le vivre ensemble dans une citoyenneté interculturelle ��SP184 2015-2-FR02-KA205-010357 Young Citizens in Action for Rural HEritage / Jeunes Citoyens en Action pour le Patrimoine Rural ��SP187 2015-2-HR01-KA205-013173 New methods for inclusion ��SP189 2015-2-HR01-KA205-013280 European Youth News Exchange ��SP191 2015-2-HU02-KA205-001010 Get engaged! ��SP197 2015-2-HU02-KA205-001071 Learned Inactivity – Decreasing the Number of ESL Students in Disadvantaged Communities with the Power of Non- Formal Learning ��SP199 2015-2-IS02-KA205-001586 ISLANDIA ��SP206 2015-2-IT03-KA205-006103 Go Deep! ��SP212 2015-2-LI02-KA205-000019 Initiative Jugend Entrepreneurship ��SP216 2015-2-LT02-KA205-004306 Trusted Badge Systems ��SP219 2015-2-LU02-KA205-000178 INTER-NATIONAL net_works+ ��SP221 2015-2-LU02-KA205-000185 Foire de lEtudiant ��SP223 C38 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY CLUSTERS OF TOPICS

2015-2-MT01-KA205-003762 Youth Environmental Training Initiative ��SP226 2015-2-NO02-KA205-000585 Demokratiutvikling på tvers av landegrenser - utgivelse av politisk blad ��SP228 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017220 Jak pracować z dziećmi? Polscy i Rumuńscy pedagodzy na rzecz dzieci. ��SP230 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017265 Cooperation for social and civic competences’ innovative education ��SP232 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017512 Integracja przez Inspiracje. Pozaformalne metody edukacji narzędziem wyrównywania szans młodzieży zagrożonej wykluczeniem społecznym. ��SP234 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017584 Europejski Program Przedsiębiorczości na rzecz wspierania NEETs ��SP236 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017670 Dla młodzieży i z młodzieżą odkrywamy świat. ��SP238 2015-2-RO01-KA205-015310 YES for Entrepreneurial Youth NGOs, YES for Millennials Changers ��SP244 2015-2-RO01-KA205-015354 Creative Approach to Key Competence Building for Marginalized Young Adults ��SP246 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001214 Developing working tools and methods how to reach young people aged 13-22 in disadvantaged socio-economic areas. ��SP251 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001247 Beyond Tokenism: Effective models of children and youth participation in an adult organisation for children and youth ��SP255 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001262 Think Twice - Youth, Environment and Drugs in the EU ��SP256 2015-2-SI02-KA205-013070 Post-YU Trilateral Bottom Up Learning - Empowering Youth in the Region ��SP259 2015-2-SK02-KA205-000608 CLOSER ��SP261 2015-2-UK01-KA205-013994 Youth Enterprise through Arts ��SP267 2015-2-UK01-KA205-014061 Resources for Inclusion, Diversity and Equality ��SP271 2015-3-AT02-KA205-001360 Active citizenship pays off: European cooperation on a recognition system for volunteering and active young people ��SP275 2015-3-BE03-KA205-013507 Jugendarbeit zwischen Wiesen und Feldern - Entwicklung und Erprobung eines für den deutschsprachigen europäischen Raumes anwendbaren Fortbildungsmanuals für angehende und junge JugendarbeiterInnen des ländlichen Raumes aus bilateraler Perspektive ��SP276 2015-3-BE04-KA205-001738 Ensemble en Europe ��SP278 2015-3-BE05-KA205-001815 How storytelling can change the world. ��SP281 2015-3-BE05-KA205-001822 Youth e-perspectives on migration ��SP283 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022681 Youth Short Movies Learning App ��SP285 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022771 Innovate and Ideate for Social Entrepreneurship ��SP291 2015-3-CY02-KA205-000599 Empowering and Activating the young Generation though the Learning of Employability Skills ��SP293 2015-3-CZ01-KA205-022712 Who Else? - Student Local Initiatives ��SP295 YOUTH EMPOWERMENT C39

2015-3-DE04-KA205-013135 Skills#EU - Learning Mobility - Opening European Minds ��SP297 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013293 You and Me - A youth film project for a new European narrative ��SP303 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013380 European Food Fusion ��SP305 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013440 Social work with global perspective - An interdisciplinary contribution to youngster’s citizenship building ��SP309 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013453 CityToolBox ��SP311 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013455 Fortress Europe 2.0 - Film Festival ��SP313 2015-3-EE01-KA205-016952 Developing Strategic Cooperation in History and Human Rights Education and Youth Work in Estonia ��SP314 2015-3-EE01-KA205-016982 Children at risk: (Non-formal) Education, Experience, Efficiency ��SP316 2015-3-ES02-KA205-006835 YounGO ��SP318 2015-3-ES02-KA205-006862 WERE SUPER ��SP320 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007096 Menmosine ��SP322 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007151 Developing locally, changing globaly ��SP324 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007222 CreacTICvity and Econolabs in trasnational projects ��SP326 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007279 Modernising Youth Service Teams for Innovation and Knowledge-based practice ��SP329 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010611 TEDDIPEUROPE ��SP331 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010722 European Volunteer Inclusion Program ��SP336 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001223 Development and testing of Youth Mediator - a non-formal qualification in youth field in line with new European common competence standards ��SP340 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001245 LAWrider ��SP342 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001323 Learning active citizenship through urban beekeeping - Lets learn deep and flavorful democracy from bees ��SP344 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016671 Acting OUT 100 ��SP346 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016697 Young Community Mediators ��SP349 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016708 Youth Work - Music and Cultural Entrepreneurship ��SP351 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016713 virtual youth work ��SP353 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016716 Limited Utopias ��SP355 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001611 Story of my heart ��SP362 C40 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SORTED BY CLUSTERS OF TOPICS

2015-3-IT03-KA205-006975 Visually impaired youths empowerment ��SP366 2015-3-IT03-KA205-007030 People, Places, Partnerships: from Youth Initiatives to Community Hubs ��SP368 2015-3-LV02-KA205-000921 Young Animal Advocates - Training for Young Trainers in the Mediation of Agricultural Issues and Ethical Consumption Patterns ��SP372 2015-3-MK01-KA205-021422 Youthocracy - European network for promotion and introduction of good practices about youth work, volunteerism and activism through non formal education. ��SP374 2015-3-NL02-KA205-001127 Changing the game by changing its players ��SP378 2015-3-NL02-KA205-001150 The best of both world, Youth work in a Britsh and a Dutch city ��SP380 2015-3-NO02-KA205-000615 360° participation model ��SP383 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022914 Clubbing Europe - strengthening active European clubs and creating new ones ��SP388 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022937 Wake-up! Intensyfikacja edukacji pozaformalnej młodzieży w Gminie Łobez poprzez strategiczne partnerstwa międzynarodowe ��SP390 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022945 Dziurawa Skarpeta na Emigracji ��SP392 2015-3-RO01-KA205-022930 Leveraging sport to tackle gender inequalities ��SP398 2015-3-SE02-KA205-001293 NEw Tools for NEw Targets: a challenge for youth workers ��SP402 2015-3-SE02-KA205-001295 InterCity Youth ��SP404 2015-3-SE02-KA205-001349 Rescued Food for Street Meals ��SP406 2015-3-SI02-KA205-013260 Mladina ustvarja: partnerstvo za razvoj izobraževanja za socialno podjetništvo ��SP408 2015-3-SK02-KA205-000660 Mladí proti rasizmu ��SP411 2015-3-SK02-KA205-000698 Príprava študentov a ich prepojenie s praxou ��SP412 2015-3-SK02-KA205-000714 Way to live ��SP413 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024506 Training Of Youth for Preparedness Against Marine Induced Hazards ��SP416 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024834 Emotion to Motion Emotional Intelligence Skills Development to Foster Youth Employability ��SP418 2015-3-UK01-KA205-022861 Developing and Communicating the Impact of Youth Work across Europe ��SP421 ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnerships in the field of youth Compendium 2015 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS SP2 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-AT02-KA205-001198

TITLE: TIME FOR DIVERSITY!

DESCRIPTION: Nowadays we hear and read a lot of stereotypes about different groups of our societies. More and more we see that the fear against unknown people /cultures is growing – this fear is mainly coming because we do not have the time to learn about it or inform ourselves about backgrounds, etc. Fact is that more and more people are moving from different countries to other places because of varied reasons (war, job situation, etc.) Also a lot of young people are searching for other possibilities out of their ‘home’ countries. To take this fear and to inform ‘local’ people about the backgrounds of other cultures/people is our daily work since more than 65 years. In 2009 Grenzenlos developed an education program called Grenzen- los@schools (More info at www.schools.or.at) The aim of the project is to talk with students/pupils about stereotypes and prejudices and to give them the cance to grow on their own personal and social level and to foster respect for cultural and social diversity. The concept of the educational program itself was developed by the University of Passau and friendly introduced to us by Prof. Dirschler. (More infos under http://www.inkup.uni-passau.de/fremdgeher.htm) Grenzenlos discovered soon that Passau and Vienna are geographically not so far away but the needs of Austrian pupils are different. Therefore Grenzenlos has adjusted it 2010 successfully with the feedback of several schools. In 2012 the project Grenzenlos@ schools won as well some funds so we could develop and open the project for vocational schools. Some years ago also our international partners showed a high interest for our project that’s why we decide to apply for a partnership within Erasmus+. In January 2015 Grenzenlos hosted a meeting with LINK Italy, JAVVA Belgium, IBG Germany and EstYes to prepare a Strategic partnership on sensibilisation workshops at vocational schools, schools and youth The strategic partnership is ment to create a work space for LINK, JAVVA,IBG, EstYes and Grenzenlos to work on linking our non formal working methods within a school setting and to empower each other in starting up local workshops. The frame of this project allows us to train trainers for local workshops, to constantly monitor and evaluate the workshops and to create a handbook which will allow each organisation to keep the gained knowledge sustainable.‘Time for diversity’ will bring already gained experiences on an international level and help us to start a network of trainers and institutions that are willing to support on the one hand intercultural learning and on the other hand to promote the link between formal and non formal education possibilities.We will have several target groups related to the environment and realities in each participating countries.During the preparation meeting we defined the following target groups:- Youngsters in youth centers- Primary and high schools- Vocational schools- Multipliers eg teachers, youthworkersThe partners within the project are choosen carefully and all organisations bring different added values to the partnership.The aim of this project is µ To promote social and cultural inclusion in schools especially in vocational schoolsµ To support non formal and intercultural learning in vocational schoolsµ To link formal learning within the non formal learning field and to learn from each other while exchanging our organisational experience during the implementation phasesµ To develop methods suitable for each international partners environment µ To train trainers in Italy, Germany, Estonia, Belgium, Italy µ To develop a training handbook together with the participating organisation and their trainers in order to have a work book for trainers, to pass the skills on to other trainers after the project and to share the results with partners who were not part of the projectµ To underline the importance of linking formal and non-formal educationµ To strengthen the partnership among organisations from different education actors (NGO´s, universities, vocational schools, local authorities, trade, etc)µ To establish a network of educational organisations/institutions and trainers

COORDINATOR: GRENZENLOS - INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGES LATSCHKAGASSE 1/4 1090 WIEN, Austria www.grenzenlos.or.at

CONTACT: Barbara Eglitis

PARTNERS: ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE LINK, IT; Jeunes Actifs dans le Volontariat et les Voyages Alternatifs asbl, BE; MTÜ NOORTEVAHETUSE ARENGU ÜHING ESTYES, EE; INTERNATIONALE BEGEGNUNG IN GEMEINSCHAFTSDIENSTEN, DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 104 080 EUR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP3

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Professional development of VET teachers and trainers

TOPIC 1: Social dialogue

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance SP4 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-AT02-KA205-001199

TITLE: INTERDISCIPLINARY COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT FOR YOUTH WORKERS IN RESIDENTIAL YOUTH CARE AND CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTERS

DESCRIPTION: The importance of youth work for the whole society and inclusion has been clearly expressed by all Eu- ropean member states. There is no doubt that professional youth work is needed to provide conditions for development, participation and inclusion of young people in Europe which in times of crisis is even more needed than before. owever the challenge for professional youth work especially because of its cross-sectoral approach and also the fact that different support systems are in place and overlapping in relation to different forms of youth work and in particular when it comes to inclusion topics for young people with mental disorders and disabilities. Youth workers in residential youth care as well as crisis intervention centers providing support in situations where living at home with families is no longer possible or an option are confronted with complex situations where youth welfare as well as support for people with mental disabilities start to overlap, where drug abuse, alcohol abues and delinquency appear, where young people in this centeres are partically still in the compulsory school age with school contacts and discussions, where unemployment topics as well as job loss and job search become relevant.In front of this it is not only the social pedagogical competences required from professional youth workers about youth culture, youth problems, learning and social embedding of young people, communication etc. it is much more also knowing about the interfaces to medical services (psychiatric support and disease pat- tersn), drug abuse support services, services for people with intellectual and multiple disabilities etc. that would help tackle these complex situations for the benefit of the young people in question. The INCREASE project provides an innovative contribution to the training offers for youth workers with an interdiscpinary character reflecting teh challenges of modern youth work in residential youth care and crisis intervention. The main aim and objective of the INCREASE Project is the development of an interdisciplinary further training programme which allows and enables youth workers to tackle the complex situations in daily work in this cross over perspective especially in residential youth care and crisis intervention where these situations and patterns become particularly evident and challenging for youth workers. The INCREASE project will therefore produce three distinct intellectual outputs: 1) Exploration study: during this introduction study the members of the target group as well as experts will be investigated about their concrete content needs and requirements in relation to the training programme developed. 240 members of the target group will participate in this study throughout the partner countries2) INCREASE Training programme: an 80 hours modular training programme will be elaborated by the partneship which will be setup on the principles of units of learning outcomes to make the use of the ECVET approach possible for the acccreditation and recognition of learning outcomes. The pilot training and testing of the training programme is also part of the intellectual output. 3) INCREASE green paper: the experiences of the whole partnership during the project implementation period will be collected and channelled into a policy recommendation paper which will be presentred at a final multiplier event in Austria. This paper should give concrete support and recommendations to policy makers for an improvemenr of an inclusive youth policy in Europe. The partnership of the project consists of 7 experienced organisations from AT, DE, IT, EL, UK and RO. Partners have all experiences with the topic and the target group of the project. They will provide their experiences and expertise for the devlopment of the single intellectual outputs. The partnership reflects well the different stakeholders and interest groups in the subject and as well a sound European geographical balance which will allow for a clear European added value in the ouptuts. A comprehensive dissemination and sustainability strategy will ensure the achievement of the short and long term impact in the project. All results will be made available as open educational resources (OERs) for free after the projec thas finished to ensure widest possible imact and use.

COORDINATOR: JUGEND AM WERK STEIERMARK LENDPLATZ 35 8020 GRAZ, Austria www.jaw.or.at

CONTACT: Regina Enzenhofer STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP5

PARTNERS: UNIVERSITAET ULM, DE; Directia Generala de Asistenta Sociala si Protectia Copilului Harghita, RO; ARSIS - Association for the Social Support of Youth, EL; VOLUNTEERING MATTERS, UK; Formazione Co&So Network, IT; E.N.T.E.R. GMBH, AT

GRANT AMOUNT: 237 456 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP6 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-BE04-KA205-001626

TITLE: BRUXAL ANDALUS

DESCRIPTION: Philosophy to live together ( medieval Andalusia was the first rule of law. The Arab philosophers who lived there had to separate religion from politics and science ) . Background: with a group of fifteen young Brussels from a popular district of Brussels, in the low economic level, the average education but are at risk of dropping out, all aged between 16 and 22 years , the goal is to create a philosophy café within their district in a neighborhood house simultaneously sharing this unique experience ( in Molenbeek- Saint- Jean) with a youth in Granada evolving in a similar environment . A transnational meeting is scheduled between l1 / 10/2015 and 07/11/2015 to share the experience with a partner in the project itself the general objectives of mainly public- train the young to respect the rights and freedoms fundamental and the exercise of tolerance and freedom within the democratic principles of living together , peace , cooperation and solidarity . Young people want to advance social harmony of the Andalusian civilization. It has existed and flourished for eight centuries, it is not a myth ... The latter has had an undeniable impact on philosophy on the following civilizations. The main tool to achieve the goal is the creation of a philosophical coffee in the communal area Heyvaert House . In connection with the great Andalusian philosophers, it will be a meeting place for debate, reflection and questioning the current company to relocate us ( young and old , from all corners of Brussels) deal with contemporary social issues . Also, we will not ignore the darkest episodes of this civilization which led to its decline.objectives:- Achieving a goal of mobilizing motivation for the creation of a philosophical coffee in the Heyvaert neighborhood home . This should , prior to its launch , educate youth issues and present evils related to living together ( secularism, interfaith and intercultural dialogue , discrimination in all its forms ) .- From the first sessions of the tool café philo achieve objective knowledge by participating in themed evenings philosophical coffee. By revisiting the Andalusian civilization ( its contributions , his interest , his influence on the European continent ) by learning philosophy , this should generate interest in historical knowledge (understanding , analyzing , associate ) to relocate and finally we are sending.- A target of expertise within the rules of the philosophy café deconstruct , reconstruct ideologies , beliefs , myths , prejudices and other stereotypes by questionnant- by relying questionnaire should enable young people to practice the art of speech and argument from the start of Café BruxAl Andalus .- An objective of knowing how to be : at the end of the project , having invested in a brand new group advocating the mix (gender and social) being around respecting other cultures, beliefs and philosophies, participated in the creation a movement for the plurality philosophers friends , young people should be able to open up more about the world while being forearmed against any form of literalist and extremist ideologies.Method used : philosophy in the service of living together with such methodology, problematization question and work the issue , assumptions and not truths , learn to dialogue , the Socratic method , an animation method, simplicity and conciseness of mind.Outcomes, impacts and benefits to product: impact on mixed gender and culture, develop civic actions in favor of living together to reduce tensions and increase tolerance between faiths , exiting the philosophy of its academic setting , instill citizen reflection without prejudice or stereotypes for better prospects of life in the future, the first experience of philosophy café in parallel with a transnational partner located within the expert formerly home on secularism will educate , raise awareness , the 15 young people, so that in their laps , they mobilize and lasting commitment on the issue of living together. An intergenerational transmission channel it will maintain / save / protect so that it perpetuates the long term. The effects on the target audience will quickly sometimes visible on the other medium-term and some not until a few years. Ultimately ensure that most young people are responsible citizens of tomorrow and transmit the sa

COORDINATOR: Asbl LES rue du comte de flandre,15 1080 Molenbeek, Belgium www.cohésion1080cohesie.org

CONTACT: Soufyan LAOUTI

PARTNERS: Ayuntamiento de Albolote. Área de Juventud, ES

GRANT AMOUNT: 17 625 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP7

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Supporting schools to tackle early school leaving (ESL) and disadvantage as well as to address all students from the lowest to the highest end of academic spectrum

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Social dialogue

TOPIC 3: Ethics, religion and philosophy (incl. Inter-religious dialogue)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Inclusion and Tolerance SP8 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-BG01-KA205-013652

TITLE: YOUTH ENTREPRENEURS FOR HEALTHY LIFESTYLE(S): FROM PASSION TO BUSINESS

DESCRIPTION: The Youth Healthy Lifestyle(s) Entrepreneurs: From Passion to Business project is 2 years long -term project proposal that aims to design new possibilities for youth employment in the healthy lifestyle industry. The project will create an e - learning platform and open space for discussion, sharing experiences and good practices of successful social innovations in the field of youth entrepreneurship in healthy lifestyle industry , and proposing new future tools and plans among the group of participants. „Interactive Educa- tional Program for Youth Entrepreneurs in Healthy Lifestyle will be created during the project and will be available at the e-learning platform. The project consists of the following groups of activities :- Research : identifying the existing youth subcultures based on the idea of healthy lifestyle and behavior: healthy eating , organic farming, subcultures referring to various outdoor activities etc. The Methods we plan to use are: Case studies, interviews and focus group with youngsters representing such subcultures; creating database of potential young entrepreneurs from the 4 countries represented into the project - Romania, Italy, Turkey and Bulgaria - A set of training activities: involving the creation of programmes, seminars and trainings as well as dissemination events that provide the values and basics of starting and running a business based on the healthy orientated hobbies common for nowadays youngsters . Both - the set of training events (thematic seminars; workshops, round tables, exchanges of young people; youth workers mobilities) for development of the entrepreneurial capacity of the young people and youth workers as well as the entrepreneur-training programme have the aim to increase the employability and develop the entrepreneur skills based on youth healthy behaviors. The Open resources based educational programme developed in this part of the project will be focused in particular on issues relevant to the capability of these youngsters to start a business idea based on their own healthy lifestyles hobbies. In the trainings trainers and experts in the field of business and science (chemistry, sport and biology Phd students) financial experts and entrepreneurs will share their expertise.- Creation of manual with good practices of youth entrepreneurial experience from Romania, Italy, Turkey and Bulgaria demonstrating how the youth healthy behaviors could be transformed into personal business or increase the youth capacity for employability. The manual will also summarize a set of achievements – skills, understandings and personal attributes – that make the healthy lifestyle oriented youngsters more likely to create /gain employment and be successful in their chosen occupations.

COORDINATOR: ICCS 17 Baykal Str., bl. 22, entr. 1, fl. 1 7005 Ruse, Bulgaria www.iccsbulgaria.wordpress.com

CONTACT: Pavlina Ivanova

PARTNERS: IPEC - Uluslararasi Arastirma Organizasyon Proje ve Egitim Merkezi L.T.D., TR; Organizatia pentru Educatia Noua, RO; Association of Doctoral Candidates in Bulgaria, BG; BOND OF UNION SOCIETA’ COOPERATIVA SOCIALE, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 174 000 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Environment and climate change STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP9

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Education for Sustainable Development; Employability SP10 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-CY02-KA205-000485

TITLE: MODERN YOUTH NGO MANAGEMENT- THE CHALLENGE OF PROFESSIONALISM

DESCRIPTION: Youth work is a progressive field that provide space and opportunities for young people to shape their own future and has veryimportant role of encouraging young people to take responsibility for others and get engaged and involved in shaping societybeyond more individual interests. Youth sector employs many people working as full time, part-time, periodical/seasonal workers oron voluntary basis. In Europe, we only find a few countries with well-established youth work policies and structures governed bypublic authorities with paid youth workers, developed vocational training, and higher education curricula for youth workers. Youth Work in Europe started to develop intensively in last decades mainly through civil society organisation. Up to now, civil society organisations kept its position as the main providers of Youth Work. With the increasing number and scope of Youth Work projects, the need for professionalism, standardisa- tion, and quality assurance work within the CSOs became a need. This created a demand for professional youth workers and related studies at the Universities. Considering the most recent report of the European Commission about the Youth Work it confirms the gap on the formalrecognition of the Youth Worker as a salaried or volunteer basis, there’s no existing census even of youth workers across Europe. Thisreport shows us that is not even comparable in terms of numbers due to various definitions of the youth workers. For example asalaried worker involved in the youth work sector are at least 1 230 000 across the EU and on the other hand the number ofvolunteers is even more difficult to estimate given the lack of official figures gathered at the national level however out of 9 EUcountries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland and the UK) there’s an estimated of 1 370 000volunteer youth workers (Report of the EC on “Working with young people: the value of youth work in the European Union. P. 113,201).Is in the name of this context that the Project will produce special products and initiatives to support the establishing a youth work studies that combine best practices of the theoretical studies about youth sector and similar subjects on one hand and grass-root and policy work undertaken by the CSOs as a complementary supplement. As a result we will have a completely evidence based developed curricula and clear plan how to implement it from 2016 in the University of Istanbul as part of Pilot Project. We expect to have a pilot with at least 10 students for the year 2016-17 where the fisrt semester will be dedicated to theoretical knowledge and second semester for the practical work in CSOs. Advocating for greater recognition of youth worker as a profession on European level in order to increase quality in youth work, mobility of youth workers and achievements of the sector in generally is idea behind this project and innovative elements are related to the involvement of Universities who are usually not familiar with youth sector and its practices. The cross-sectoral evidence in this project will also bring other expertise, experiences and dimensions that we believe will bringsteps further on the recognition of youth worker as profession creating - consequently - impact on the labor market. The target groups of this project will be Youth Workers, Policy Makers and Youth organizations and Universities all of them benefiting from innovative practices the project will bring.

COORDINATOR: Patriarchi Gregoriou 29 3083 Limassol, Cyprus

CONTACT: Antonis Polydorou

PARTNERS: OUT OF THE BOX INTERNATIONAL, BE; ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITESI VAKFI, TR

GRANT AMOUNT: 47 039 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP11

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Improving the Quality of Education / Training Systems; Youth Empowerment SP12 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-CY02-KA205-000486

TITLE: EFFICIENT INFORMATION FLOW THROUGH PEER NETWORKING

DESCRIPTION: The youth unemployment rate is excessively high in both partner countries Cyprus and Greece. Not being able to find regular employment many young persons in both countries are looking for alternative ways of employment such as voluntary service, internships, non formal education activities etc. Although such opportunities exist both on a local and a EU level, information about them does not always reach the target group of young unemployed persons partly because authorities and young people do not use the same channels of communication and dont speak the same language. The aim of the project is to support a group of young persons (4 from Cyprus and 4 from Greece) to become mediators between authorities/ institutions and the target group ie. young unemployed persons and those still in education. The mediator group will collect relevant information such as job postings, internships, voluntary service, participation in youth projects etc. and disseminate this information in a way that will be accessible to the group of their peers. In order to reach as big a group as possible, information will be forwarded both via social media, internet platforms and other digital media and in meetings in which the mediator group will also act as living books for their peer group giving information about their own experiences and facilitating the way through understanding announcements, realising deadlines, writing applications and other potential obstacles. The impact on both groups (mediators and peer group in both countries) will be significant as a result of the hands on methodology and the real life activities of the project which will lead to a higher rate of participation of young persons in society during and after the end of the project. On a European level the project supports the greater visibility of EU actions for young persons and the idea of youth engagement and participation.

COORDINATOR: Artpoint informal youth group Polymnias 27 2102 Aglantzia, Cyprus

CONTACT: Elena Demetriou

PARTNERS: Youthnet Hellas, EL

GRANT AMOUNT: 12 850 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 11 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Gender equality / equal opportunities

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP13

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-CZ01-KA205-012834

TITLE: MEZINÁRODNÍ PORTÁL PRO PODPORU DOBROVOLNICKÝCH AKTIVIT MLÁDEŽE

DESCRIPTION: The goal of the project “International portal for youth organizations is to develop a unique international portal – a tool that will help those organizations be more attractive and conspicuous, will strengthen partnerships between student’s organizations and will motivate young people to take part in social entrepreneurship and to learn and train new skills thanks to the membership in youth organizations. We are expecting involving of whole youth sphere as a target group of this project. Young people and school students from each educational level can use the portal to find information about youth acitivities on the international level. The innovative part of the project is represented by specified module Alumni and module Humanita which will be open for all young people.The project is going to be realized within the partnership between Academic Centre for Students Activities (ACSA) from Czech Republic and SRVS obcianske zdruzenie (SRSV) from Slovakia. The idea of this project is based on our own experience with youth organizations and young people involved. There is a huge necessity in interconnection between youth organizations, students and educational institutes which will help young people to be involved not only in national activities but also in international grants. Both partners work with youth people and students, but their activities are different. ACSA is supporting volunteer, social entrepreneurship and development of personal skills, SRVS is focusing on active citizenship and political initiatives of young people.We want to create ICT tool which would support young people and students in their exceptional activities and help them with exchange of good practices, and enable cooperation on international level. We are not proposing just a simple web page. We will implement a complex information system which includes international database of youth and student’s organizations and system of functions and modules focused on interconnection of users and organizations.The core of the portal will be complete database of organizations with exhaustive list of activities – young people will be able to join the database, register their organizations, create profile of the organizations, add new content, promote their activities, etc. Portal will be also a useful virtual mobility tool enabling organizations to find partners, contact them and collaborate with them online.The portal will be open also for unregistered young users. They will be able to use the content, see that activities which they could join, discuss issues with each other or ask organizations questions.We want to motivate people to take part in student’s activities and to join youth organizations or to participate in humanitarian activities; therefore the portal will include a unique module that will connect young people with humanitarian organizations. They will be offered to participate in their activities based on their preferences and possibilities.Another important part of project activities in our partnership will include conferences and disseminations activities promoting social entrepreneurship, ICT competences and active citizenship.

COORDINATOR: Akademické centrum studentských aktivit Jungmannova 866 664 34 Kuřim, Czech Republic www.acsa.cz

CONTACT: Petr Bílek

PARTNERS: SRVS obcianske zdruzenie, SK

GRANT AMOUNT: 303 566 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 36 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences SP14 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; International Cooperation; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP15

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-CZ01-KA205-012835

TITLE: SAD MIKROGRANTŮ JAKO NÁSTROJ STRUKTUROVANÉHO DIALOGU MEZI MLÁDEŽÍ A MĚSTEM

DESCRIPTION: Project support exchange of good practice between and search for new ways of work with youth among cities Karviná, Český Těšín, Cieszyn, Katowice a Jastrzębie-Zdrój. We try to develope cooperation between youth councils in Poland and Czech republic and foster of the local and regional identity of the young generation through their involvement in youth initiatives and participatory non-formal educational activities. The aim of the project is to create innovative system of support youth in the cities recognized by local authorities, youth workers and youth. In the same moment we want to generate youth policy strategies and tools that serve young people to use their creativity and talents to achieve their goals and dreams in the SilesiaProject ACTIVITIES* Dialogs and meetings with experts* Youth Camps * System for support youth work and youth innitiatives * Meeting youth and local authoritiesOrganizations involved: Petrklíč help, Fundacja Laja and 5 cities - Karviná, Český Těšín, Cieszyn, Katowice a Jastrzębie-Zdrój• Target Par- ticipants: City representative, city councilman, city clerk, Youth, Youth workers, Youth leaders, local leaders • Number of Participants: 80 youth, 40 citi representatives, 25 Youth workers• Date and venue: 365 dní (1.6.2015 - 30.5.2017)• Methodology: non-formal education, practical workshops, practical expirience, structured dialogue

COORDINATOR: Petrklíč help Hrabinská 33 73701 Český Těšín, Czech Republic www.petrklichelp.cz

CONTACT: Mariola Kluzová

PARTNERS: Stowarzyszenie Transgranicznego Centrum Wolontariatu, PL; FUNDACJA LAJA, PL

GRANT AMOUNT: 49 040 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) SP16 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012534

TITLE: WORK ON IT! - TAKE AN ACTIVE PART FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUNG PEOLPE IN EUROPE

DESCRIPTION: Youth unemployment is still a hot problematic European topic. On the other hand we have and especially young people have to face job and training markets that are more and more confusing referring to job offers and opportunities and also to required skills and competences that young people have to bring with them. Life makes demands and offers a lot of opportunities at the same time. So, youngsters feel overstrained and it becomes difficult for them to orientate themselves, find the right place and develop their own identity and personality. That makes it also difficult for them to generate an idea of their future life and in particular their professional life. However there are people who are working with youngsters all over Europe. They are social workers, educators, pedagogues, vocational counsellors, helpers for youngsters with special needs or heritage, volunteers of institutions and associations that work with youngsters etc. They have the task to support and to attend to young people by orientating and planning their professional way and life. But they have just little methods and tools to motivate and support young people individual and appropriate. Furthermore the different kinds of professionals are not enough networking to exchange and combine their different action strategies for a better support of young people. Therefore we will increase the vocational and social pedagogical competences of these professionals by concentrating on their existing competences. We will furthermore enable and encourage them to develop local cooperation systems for the support of young people from the age of 13 years on – pupils, unemployed young people, disadvantaged and disabled youngsters – to offer them assistance that includes their entire living environment on their way to a satisfying occupational and social life. We are a project consortium of 4 European project partners from Germany, Spain, Latvia and Bulgaria. We are experienced in implementing regional and international projects for and with youngsters. In this project „Work on it!“ we will work and cooperate with 40 local practice partners in the field of youth work from the partner countries .Method- ically we rely on an intensive, cooperative and democratic teamwork with our practice partners. We plan to determine different methods, tools and good practices, that our practice partners and target group implement in their daily work with youngsters and that are useful to support young people on their way to a suitable profession. The collection of methods and tools will be the base for a handbook that should help our target group to increase their professionalism and methodical competence. We will develop the handbook together with our practice partners who will provide the methods and tools, test the handbook and give feedback for a final usable version. Also networking, exchange and cooperation between the different practice partners and stakeholders on regional and international level will increase pedagogical and methodical competences. They will learn together and from each other in learning activities, based on a curriculum developed during the project. All project outputs will be available in English and in the languages of the partner countries. In this way they can be used by many stakeholders in Europe. The close cooperation with our target group during the project offers the possibility to stablish longer-term relationships beyond the project. That will lead to local network systems to support young people. And it would also result in a further development of the project outputs. In this context we plan to offer regional opportunities for further education for professionals and volunteers of youth work on the base of the curriculum. And furthermore we will offer international workshops on that topic to exploit the project results and outputs on a European level.

COORDINATOR: LEB Thüringen e.V. Hinter dem Bahnhof 12 99427 Weimar, Germany www.th.leb.de

CONTACT: Beatrice Bojarra-Schachtzabel

PARTNERS: Latvian Adult Education Association, LV; ONECO CONSULTING SL, ES; Association Generations, BG

GRANT AMOUNT: 190 653 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 33 months STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP17

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Fostering access to continuing VET, including groups at risk

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment SP18 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012536

TITLE: ONGEA! ONLINE GEAR ENHANCING YOUTH WORK

DESCRIPTION: “Ongea! means “talk! or “speak up! in Kiswahili. The OnGea! project plans to create ONline GEAr to empower and enhance youth work activities; especially international youth exchanges and international networks of youth organisations.For youth work institutions, organisations and networks, presence in the digital domain has become increasingly vital during the last decade: To reach their target group, to promote and disseminate their work, to reach possible funders and to address the general public with young peoples messages. For the communication with young target groups, platforms such as Facebook and apps for mobile devices such as WhatsApp have gained importance.Youth work institutions, organisations and networks aiming for an adequate online presence and useful digital communication tools have the options to either have an agency design and program a dedicated website/app tailor-made for their needs, use whats on the market/available for free or a combination of both.RRCGNs core team has been closely following the discourse of youth work and internet since 1999, compared projects/online platforms with similar goals and features and found dedicated systems programmed from scratch mostly superior to systems using a pre-built CMS framework; not only in functionality and user-friendliness, but also in cost- to-features ratio.We plan a complete re-write of the website system used for rootsnroutes.eu for a more general approach that will be made available for other youth work organisations and networks as open source. That system is planned to have an advanced multi-country and multi-lingual concept, an easily adaptable new state-of-the art visual design, interface to social media, a strong but adaptable potential to be used as an “outward bound presentation homepage and other features as to be researched.In addition, we want to develop an open source mobile app, dedicated youth work, that enables participants of larger youth events/exchanges to keep track of the activity program, to get reminders/push messages of group meetings etc, includes a tool for participants to evaluate the event, has an open multilingual system, works offline and includes other features as to be researched.Oct - Dec ’15: - Preparation 1st seminar- development of basic concepts for website system and mobile app- research on accessibility criteria, programming standards concerning privacy and connectivity- graphic design drafts- questionnaires to associated partnersJan ’16: International idea development seminar and management meeting:- Presen- tation of basically new concepts for a website system and a mobile app for youth work- Presentation of prepared research and design drafts- Discussing and prioritizing ideas, checking what is feasible within the time and budget- Outcome: The partnership will agree on formal concepts, a prioritised list of features to be implemented within the available amount of time and budget and a scheduleJan - Dec ’16: First phase of programming:- Research on working guidelines, quality and formal standards- Preparation of the rough framework, implementation of high rated modules based on the results of the first seminarTranslation: All partners translate texts used by the website system and mobile app into their languages. The translation work will be reasonably bundled by the programmers and passed to the partners in a few packages at crucial points of time.Feb ’17: 2nd international seminar and management meeting:- Partners will be introduced to the first version of both website system and mobile app- Check of the current state- First feedback by partners, agreement on changes of schedule or featuresFeb ’17:- The website system will be installed as the official website for the ROOTS & ROUTES network, filled with general information and activity results during various projects- The mobile app will be used at various projects taking place in the ROOTS & ROUTES network, used by staff and participants- Feedback from all partners is collected, prioritised and bundled by RRCGN in dialog with the partners and passed to the programmersFeb ’17 - Feb ’18: Second phase of programming:- Implementation of further, lower rated modules and feedback from testing phase- RRCGN and programmers support users of website system and mobile appMarch ’18: Final international seminar and management meeting:- Official publishing of mobile app and website system source code- Introduction to new and revised features of both the website system as well as the mobile app- Check of the current state- New feedback of the partners is collected- Discussion of possibilities for further developmentDuring April to June ’18, national multiplier workshops in all partner countries will be held. There, interested people and organisations are introduced to the mobile app and website.From June ’18: further dissemination, preparing reporting.

COORDINATOR: ROOTS & ROUTES Cologne e. V. Widdersdorfer Str. 246 50825 Köln, Germany www.rootsnroutes.de STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP19

CONTACT: Sascha Düx

PARTNERS: STICHTING ROOTS & ROUTES, NL; SYNERGEIO MOUSIKOU THEATROU ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA, EL; Viesoji istaiga Kauno ivairiu tautu kulturu centras, LT; Associació Rutes i Origens, ES; FEDERATIA SHARE CLUJ-NAPOCA, RO; ROOTS & ROUTES International, NL; Szubjektív Értékek Alapítvány, HU; Rock in Faches, FR; BROUHAHA INTERNATIONAL, UK; Centro di Creazione e Cultura, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 270 582 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 36 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; International Cooperation; Youth Empowerment SP20 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012541

TITLE: „WITH OR WITHOUT YOU“ – ON REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN IDENTITIES

DESCRIPTION: Taking part in the project “`With or without you` – on regional, national and european identities, 30 young people from 4 different organisations and initiatives from England, Scotland, Austria, and Germany for 16 months want to discuss the development of identities in Europe (eg. people seeing themselves as a Scot, a Brit, North European vs. Southern Europe). The link of the development of these identities to the economic development will also be of interest. On the one hand, this issue is complex enough on its own, on the other hand, it is indispensable for a Europe in solidarity which will also be discussed. Additionally, the exchange about this issue shall serve as a vehicle to further develop a network related to education policy. The regional working groups together reflect their youth educational work, they create concepts for public meetings during the workshop session of the three international meetings and they can exchange their experiences and their professional knowledge. Through public leaflets and brochures as well as on public meetings, the concrete learning results shall be presented already during the projects and thereby the new knowledge can be applied. At the same time, more material is created to be used for peer learning that can then together be evaluated. The results of the common learning processes should be useful for the educational work to come, and shall be documented for other interested organisations to be accessible as well.

COORDINATOR: Junge Linke Nds. e.V. c/o Tim Heitecker, Helmkestr. 24 30165 Hannover, Germany www.junge-linke.org

CONTACT: Harald Klindworth

PARTNERS: West Glasgow Against Poverty, UK; Grüne & Alternative StudentInnen Salzburg, AT; Association for Free Education, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 24 600 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 16 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Fostering access to continuing VET, including groups at risk

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP21

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-DE04-KA205-012559

TITLE: GEMEINSAM EUROPA GESTALTEN

DESCRIPTION: The idea of the transnational youth initiative Building Europe Together is based on the following guiding principles: Every European citizen can contribute to make a place in Europe more attractive to live and thus practically to make Europe a more attractive place to live. We, the project participants, are convinced that Europe can only be structured through shared commitment beyond the borders of any European country; because in terms of mobility and economic integration Europeans are closely connected and cannot therefore afford to reduce their world to their own hometowns, as it is a matter of time that social problems in an EU member state affect the well-being in another. Therefore, we believe it is useful to take care not only for the interests of the people in the own hometowns, but to participate in designing attractive places to live in other European countries. Having these thoughts in mind, we developed our project idea with overall twenty nine German and Bulgarian participants with the mission to make a Bulgarian city more attractive to live. Teams of people with and without disabilities, with and without migration background and with different social backgrounds were formed in West Germany and Bulgaria. Especially for people in risk of discrimination, it is often difficult to feel belonging to a place and we wish that this would change! That is why this project gives these people the opportunity to help determine how a city should look like, so that they can feel good residing it.In our common urban design, we will not look for usual solutions of social problems: Want to make it work better? Then just follow the example of the richer countries! Rather, we want to use a method based on inclusion: I accept you with your limitations and potential and want to know what you really need in order to offer you help, as you took part in decision-making and really want to accept this help! Therefore, the German participants go to Bulgaria not in the role of a fault-finder; their hosts, the Bulgarian participants, will be „experts in showing their own world“ with its limitations and possibilities. These limitations and possibilities are to be respected by all project participants and so they will together contribute to sustainable solutions to social problems.We will prepare a meeting in the Bulgarian town Razlog and together with locals realize prospective ideas on how the city can be made more attractive to live. We will also organize an exhibition and a discussion with representatives from politics, economy and culture to present our ideas in the form of art works and to clarify our questions. Through an online exchange, we want to reflect on our own inclusive experiences and make them comprehensible to interested groups. Besides, the online exchange will help us gather ideas on how to make our own hometown more attractive to live. Furthermore we will participate in the production of a documentary. Finally, we will organize a film screening. The film should serve as an important basis for the discussion with policy makers and the struggle with responsible authorities to intensify the inclusive development of living together. We also want to extend a network to work together with prospective ideas on how to build an inclusive Europe and promote it in a meaningful way.

COORDINATOR: Schölling 35 48308 Senden, Germany europajugend.wordpress.com

CONTACT: Bernd Volmer

PARTNERS: “OGANIAT NA ORFEI” / “THE FIRE OF ORPHEUS”, BG

GRANT AMOUNT: 24 373 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 7 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy SP22 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Inclusion and Tolerance; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP23

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-DK01-KA205-004088

TITLE: CULTURE ON A BROOMSTICK

DESCRIPTION: In 2014 Liveform and Rollespilsfabriken made up a team of larp organizers from both Poland and Den- mark to make the larp College of Wizardry. While there are many seminars and conferences where larp- makers from different countries meet, this is to our knowledge the first instance where organizer teams from two organizations in two different countries in Europe have teamed up to make an actual larp.With the participatory nature of larp, we believe that this format has a great potential for bringing young people together and form strong bonds accross the borders. However, we need to develop more methodology on how to make larps when the organizers are from different cultures, in different countries and speaking different languages.Through the Culture on a Broomstick project, we will continue working with developing these methods in organizations, as we cooperate on the creation of new larps together, and we will involve young people in a series of workshops where we work specificly with sharing ideas, testing out methods and discussing what works and doesnt work. Our aim is that these participants will make larps with organizers from different countries, which in turn again will recruit players form different communities that will play togheter and form networks.We will work on day-to-day basis in the two organizations with involving young people in the project, but the main activities will be five workshops where we will share knowledge, get input from other fields and work together wil actual larp production projects. We will also make two open events where we will share results and discuss with the wider community.We believe that we will develop new methods that make cross-border larp production easier and more fruitful, something that thousands of people accross Europe can make use of. We believe that the young people involved in this will use their knowledge and networks to create more larps with organizers from different countries, bringing not just themselves, but hundreds of people together to play their larps.We hope that Culture on a Broomstick can be a starting point for a new tradition of collaborating accross the borders not just on larp theory, but also on actual larp design.

COORDINATOR: Rollespilsfabrikken Brønshøjvej 17 2700 Brønshøj, Denmark www.rollespilsfabrikken.dk

CONTACT: Claus Raasted Nielsen

PARTNERS: Stowarzyszenie Liveform, PL

GRANT AMOUNT: 70 272 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP24 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-DK01-KA205-004090

TITLE: SALAAM-SHALOM INTERFAITH LEARNING

DESCRIPTION: Salaam-Shalom Interfaith Learning is a project meant to bring together people of different faiths, with special focus on the Jewish-Muslim relations in Europe. Violence and wars around the world can create a segregation between these two communities, and media can help spread this fear by reporting on the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Europe. Rather than treat these two forms of discrimination separately, Salaam-Shalom aims to look at their similar roots and hold debates and discussions about this commonality. Experts from NGOs across Europe, including countries most affected by the tension of these interfaith relations (France, Germany, Sweden and Denmark) can share their practices in the youth work they have been doing to integrate people of different backgrounds and create a space where everyone belongs. The meeting of the youth and youth workers will include include a space for self-expression through slam poetry, as well as a film night with a discussion and a debate. There will also be a film created and shared on a Salaam-Shalom website, which will highlight the concerns and challenges of such an approach but also show its ultimate long-term benefits. While there are many projects now working on fighting discrimination in a sub-community, this project takes a different approach, because it sets in place a group that can be role models for each faiths community. This group can continue to be active in the face of stories in the media that spread fear in order to show that our reality also includes those who very much wish to live and work together peacefully. The film about this project will be spread through social networks and the website to reach as broad an audience as possible.The project will bring together 16 youth workers from France, Germany, Sweden and Denmark (4 from each country) to first share their strategies in working with young people on issues of discrimination and diversity. These strategies will be used as inspiration for each partner organization to go back to their countries and organize at-least two Salaam-Shalom events. These will include leaders and members of the Jewish and Muslim communities, along with other faiths. Each partner organization will have its own strategy to implement during this event, but all will include discussion with a larger, diverse audience. This is to give the audience a chance to participate and join the Salaam-Shalom initiative. The partners will then come together again for a training and implement some of these strategies. The amount of people indirectly affected by this project will be at-least 200. The concrete outputs for this project are a website and a film. The website will consist of the documentation of meetings and events from all the partners local activities, as well as the joint activity in Copenhagen. The film will be a documentation of some of the challenges of living in Denmark (in terms of inter-faith relations) and what the Salaam-Shalom project is doing about it. It is expected that this film will be shown in each participating country, as well as picked up by other EU channels to share the importance of inter-faith dialogue. If there is another unfortunate incident, similar to Charlie Hebdo, or even smaller offenses based on discrimination of one persons culture or religion, the group can rise up in solidarity and prevent the divisive reactions that often take place after such events. This is the long-term benefit of the project - to put in place a group that shows there is a way to work that is based on solidarity and unity, even when least expected.

COORDINATOR: Mellem Education Tagensvej 126, 416 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark www.mellemeducation.org

CONTACT: Tal Padan

PARTNERS: Trampolinhuset I/S, DK; Humanity in Action France, FR; KREISAU-INITIATIVE E.V., DE; Föreningen Fredens Hus på Uppsala slott, SE; i,Slam e.V., DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 57 350 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP25

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Ethics, religion and philosophy (incl. Inter-religious dialogue)

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP26 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-EE01-KA205-013267

TITLE: SPREAD!

DESCRIPTION: SPREAD! is long-term (24 m.) project between two countries Estonia and Latvia, and two organisations NGO VitaTiim and Young Folks LV. The main aim of this transnational youth initiative project SPREAD! is to promote participation, empowerment and the active citizenship amongst Russian-speaking young people in Estonia and Latvia through enabling them to implement international youth projects. More specific goals of the project are: - to create conditions for development of young peoples competences, especially key competences, through increased participation in Erasmus+: Youth in Action projects on the highest level of youngsters capability;- to improve quality of youth work aimed at Russian-speaking population in Estonia and Latvia. To achieve these goals we plan the following objectives:- to produce a long-term project writing and management training course in cooperation with and for young people in Estonia and Latvia;- to form a group of young peer leaders and mentors who have competence to support youngsters in international projects;- to create Online-platform that offers young people the flexibility of participating in project writing and management course from anywhere and at any time over the Internet;- to develop 275 youngsters competence in project writing and management by involving them into project activities; - to support young people to submit at least 25 project applications to National Agencies; - to make a guidebook for youth workers and leaders on how to organize project writing and management training course together with and for young people in local community. Target groups of the project: - Young peer leaders and core group of the project (10 youngsters from Estonia, 10 youngsters from Latvia);- Russian-speaking young people from Estonia and Latvia aged 13-30 who participate in project writing and management training courses both offline and online (c. 325 youngsters);- Youth leaders and youth workers who are potential multipliers of both offline and online training courses.We expect to achieve the following results during the project and on its completion:- a programme of long-term project writing and management course that encourages and enables groups of young people to develop and implement their own international youth exchanges;- a guidebook for youth workers and leaders on how to organize project writing and management training course together with and for young people in local community;- an Online-platform that offers young people the flexibility of participating in project writing and management course from anywhere and at any time over the Internet;- a group of 20 youth peer-leaders and mentors with motivation and capability to support and consult youth groups during all project phases, including project idea development, application writing, preparation, implementation, evaluation, analyze of the project and report writing;- at least 275 Russian-speaking youngsters from Narva and Riga have developed their key competences, including project writing and management competence, while participating in the training courses;- at least 25 project application forms, prepared by youngsters, were submitted to relevant National Agencies during project period;- working with Russian-speaking youngsters youth leaders, workers and organizations in Estonia and Latvia are aware of created tools (guidebook and Online-platform) and at least two of them have applied guidebook and/or Online-platform in practice with young people from local community;- international youth work and cooperation amongst Russian-speaking population is developed due to implemented international projects, empowered young people and youth workers and increased intercultural dialogue and learning;- Russian-speaking adults who have influence on young people, e.g. parents, teachers, hobby-teachers and youth workers, believe in availability of Erasmus+: Youth in Action programme opportunities and in youngsters capability to implement their own international projects;- enhanced digital integration and competence in youth work through developing and applying an Online-platform for training course.We plan to produce two intellectual outputs during this transnational youth initiative SPREAD!: 1) Guidebook for youth workers and leaders on how to organize project writing and management training course together with and for young people in local community. 2) Online-platform for project writing and management training course that offers young people the flexibility of participating in the course from anywhere and at any time over the Internet.

COORDINATOR: Kose 12 20103 Narva, Estonia www.vitatiim.ee

CONTACT: Yuliia Dem

PARTNERS: Young Folks LV, LV STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP27

GRANT AMOUNT: 50 350 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Youth Empowerment SP28 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-EE01-KA205-013268

TITLE: AGORA

DESCRIPTION: Project Agora deserves its meaning. Agora was a gathering place in Ancient Greek for all the citizen meeting and gatherings. As our project name it resembles the meeting point between the youth and politics, where on one side there are youngs and on the other side, there is everything happening on political grounds. This project is a strategic partnership in youth field, where both Maltese and Estonian young participants wish to initiate activities in their own countries for bringing politics closer to the young people by giving tips to politicians, how to bring it closer. Both Estonia and Malta are countries, where lowering the voting age is an actual topic. A survey done in Estonia emphasizes the need for adjustment for both main targets - the 16 to 17 year old young and also as well for the parties and candidates, in case of the situation where the voting age will lowered. The need for adjustment is extremely severe during the campaign period, because currently no party addresses the interests of the young clearly and invitingly enough and therefore the young voters dont have any interest for election programs.This project creates an environment, where the young from all the regions can analyze the activities held during the election campaign periods, find different oversights but also interesting activities and approaches. Doing this will increase the young participants knowledge and critical sense in politics, they can analyse better over the happenings in their society and see the reasons and consequenses. The input made by young people about how an election campaign should be like so that it would be attractive for also the young people is an important material, which will be created during the project and shared with the politicians.The nucle- ous group of the project will be formed of 20 youngs, who wish to reach to at least 350 youngs and 50 politicians through their activities. There will be surveys for the young people, collecting for examples of election campaigns, the analysis and introduction of those and the forming of recommendations for the politicis held in the process of the project. All the material of the project is available on the website of the project.As a result of the project we wish to increase the youngs wish to be an active member of the society, an active voter and with that we are increasing the youth participation in regional, parliamental and as well in European Parliament elections.

COORDINATOR: Ööbikuoru 4 66201 Rõuge, Estonia

CONTACT: Joanna Kurvits

PARTNERS: Archbishop’s Seminary, MT

GRANT AMOUNT: 24 220 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 10 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Increasing attainment levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP29

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-EE01-KA205-013269

TITLE: MESSAGE WEAR: SUPPORTING YOUTH GROUPS THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DESIGN

DESCRIPTION: MessageWear is a transnational youth initiative between young people in Tallinn and Riga. MessageWear aims to support youth groups involved in dance, music, art and sports from Latvia and Estonia by creating and sustaining a street-wear brand that will contribute to the development of the youth groups. We believe that we can empower and lead by example. Learning about entrepreneurship and helping local youth is what we think makes MessageWear special. The project will run in the period of August 2015 to September 2016. The problem as follows is that active youth groups who want to promote their music group, dance crew, local sports team want to feel as a community and want to have uniforms or some wear that would make them seem as a team, crew or group. However in Latvia and Estonia it has been always challenging to find companies willing to invest into this and young people, especially, from the Russian-speaking communities have to either find own resources for creating their identity or have to develop without it. These groups often do not have access to designers, manufacturers and end up without any result or of a low quality. Feeling part of a community and being noticed is crucial for youth groups it often empowers and motivates to proceed with their activities. During the project there will be held two international meetings of young people involved in the project, we will also organize inspirational meetings with designers, have trips to local manufacturers, lead sessions on entrepreneurship and branding. Much of the TYI will be concentrated on creating designs, branding material and promoting the idea of the wear. Created materials together with youth groups will then be spread amongst these youth groups to ensure their empowerment and promotion of the brand. Project participants are expected to finish the project with an understanding of the importance of being active, participating and motivated. Participants will understand the possibilities of such actions and recognize its learning outcomes. With the help of feedback, reflection and evaluation the impact will be seen and understood. The initiative produces products that can have long-term perspective for the participants. MessageWear is seen to be a platform for young people to start acting in the clothing industry and might become a permament brand in the Baltic region.

COORDINATOR: Shokkin Group Läänemere tee 6-55 13913 Tallinn, Estonia www.shokkin.wordpress.com

CONTACT: Pavel Vassiljev

PARTNERS: Shokkin Group LATVIJA, LV

GRANT AMOUNT: 21 250 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 13 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Employability SP30 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006022

TITLE: BUILDING A NETWORK OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH AT RISK OF EXCLUSION

DESCRIPTION: The main objective of the WEEELABS project is the construction of a strategic partnership between organizations with experience in the social field, to work and learn together exploring new opportunities for the employability of youth in situation or at serious risk of exclusion.These profiles form the targeted group: young people with diverse circumstances that share specific elements of their territory and local context, such as expectations and difficulties in integrating into the social and productive system, but with common educational and integration needs.To facilitate their social integration and incorporation into the labour market, the project partners have identified the recovery and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEES) as an opportunity of labour incorporation and social integration of these young people, line with the European Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment.This is an opportunity of employability that could be realized with the creation of new social enterprises or / and intra-enterpreneurial projects in organizations.In this sense, WEEELABS will explore a new way of non-formal education processes, tailored and specifically oriented to our targeted group of young people ein situation or at serious risk of exclusion, both to serve as specific training in handling, recycling and recovery of waste electrical and electronic equipment -not yet reflected in formal education system- and the development of core basic skills (spoken language, reading comprehension and calculation) and transversal skills (problem solving, teamwork, organization of work, creative thinking and monitoring instructions ...). This way is to validate the adaptation of the FabLab model (Fabrication Laboratories) which were promoted by by the Massachusetts Institute Technology (MIT) as workshops / learning communities in digital design and manufacturing scale for personal or local use (usually with 3D technologies).

COORDINATOR: Grupo Emaús Fundación Social Ronda de Don Bosco, nº 9, interior bajo 36202 Vigo, Spain www.emaus.com

CONTACT: María Juncal Blanco Granado

PARTNERS: YOUNET, IT; MINE VAGANTI NGO, IT; UNITED SOCIETIES OF BALKANS ASTIKI ETAIREIA, EL; Contextos Información Estrategia y Comunicación SL, ES; ASSOCIACAO BACKUP, PT

GRANT AMOUNT: 108 235 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: Environment and climate change

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Education for Sustainable Development; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP31

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006026

TITLE: CODING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

DESCRIPTION: Coding for Young People is an Erasmus+ project under Key Action 2 - strategic partnership in the youth- field. The project addresses the issue of current underdevelopment of ICT skills among young people, especially girls who areunderrepresented in STEM careers. As the European Union adopted the Europe 2020 strategic framework, it became clear thatcompetitiveness and innovation is directly linked to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). There is aconsensus about the crucial importance of e-skills – their shortages, mismatches and digital divide affect negatively EU growth,innovation, competitiveness and social cohesion. New technologies are developing rapidly, so that news skills have to be acquiredand constantly updated.The project is aimed at transferring and implementing innovative practices in the field of programming in non-formal educationsystem at the European level. The project will contribute to the increase of digital competences among youth and support the formal education system in implementing innovative STEM curricula. It involves three partners from Spain and Belgium: Consulta Europa Projects and Innovation, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática and Digital Leadership Institute. Partners will also involve representatives of their professional networks to contribute to the project.Consulta Europa Projects and Innovation – the coordinator of the project - is a Spanish SME. It is specialized in designing andimplementing innovative strategies for companies and institutions. Asociación de Técnicos de Informática is a non-profit organization founded in 1967 and based in Spain. It gathers IT professionalsand students of computer science. ATI is the leading, largest and oldest association of ICT professionals in Spain with more than3000 members. Its objective is promoting and supporting activity of those who work as technicians and professionals in the field ofinformation technologies, providing its partners an opportunity to exchange experience, training and access to information aboutthe latest developments in the field of ICT.The Digital Leadership Institute is a Brussels-based, international NGO whose global mission is to bridge the gender gap and digitaldivide by educating and empowering digital leaders of today and tomorrow. DLI (formerly Zen Digital Europe) is a recognised worldleader in promoting greater participation of girls and women in strategic, innovative ESTEAM (entrepreneurship, science,technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) sectors, through four areas of activity: education and skills development, innovationand entrepreneurship support, advocacy and awareness building, research and consultancy.PRISM is an italian association that works with youngsters, encouraging cooperation and international mobility in the youth field, and supporting initiatives for European cooperation in lifelong learning, education and vocational training.In the course of the project, partners will develop a study and a database of stakeholders related to programming initiatives inMember States. The aim of the study is diagnosis of opportunities to acquire digital competences through non-formal education -especially computer programming throughout the EU. It will investigate to what extent young people in the selected countries haveaccess to non-formal digital education and what is the impact of non-formal initiatives on digital competences improvement. Thepartners will also develop a database of public/private institutions, NGOs active in the field of teaching programming to youth innon-formal way. The database will also contain a pool of experts and trainers who can support ICT youth-oriented initiatives.The project will particularly result in developing a network of partners actively involved in promoting ICT skills among rele- vantstakeholders; exchanging knowledge and good practices between partners and relevant stakeholders; promoting organizationsactively supporting development of programming skills and extremely skilled and dedicated people who could be role models foryouth; engaging young people, especially girls, in programming activities ran by partners to address the gap between genders inSTEM – related skills and attracting youth workers to adopt ICT tools in their work and develop their professional skills in this field. During the second phase of this 2-year project, the partners will work together to directly involve youth workers and youngsters in existing initiatives, in order to foster the improvement of their competences in programming. A joint staff training event will be organised for the youth workers of the partners’ organisations involving the experts and organisations identified in the networking phase: this will lead to the transfer of adapted best practices in the partner’s organisations.

COORDINATOR: CE PARQUE CIENTIFICO Y TECNOLOGICO CAMPUS UNIVERSITARIO DE TAFIRA EDIFICIO CENTRAL 35017 LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA, Spain www.consulta-europa.com

CONTACT: Michelle Perello SP32 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: ASOCIACION DE TECNICOS DE INFORMATICA, ES; PRISM - PROMOZIONE INTERNAZIONALE SICILIA - MONDO, IT; Digital Leadership Institute, BE

GRANT AMOUNT: 70 295 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: Gender equality / equal opportunities

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Employability; Inclusion and Tolerance STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP33

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006031

TITLE: YESCOWORK.EU

DESCRIPTION: YEScowork is an innovative project of virtual co-working for Young Social Entrepreneurs at european level, provides a Platform with new digital tools for its outstanding to fostering the development of collaborative projects. With applications and Services of YEScowork, is enhanced and perpetuates the collaboration between social entrepreneurs (SE) , and the possibility to create new projects within the same virtual space is encouraged.YEScowork1. Make easier the collaboration and exchange of best practices among SE at European level.2. Breaking the Barriers space / time: Freedom to teamwork at transnational level.3. Offer a virtual coworking system:• Multidirectional,• Dynamic,• In interactive experience,• Collab- oration,• Diversity,• Creative Expression.How it works:Using a set of business & learning tools at virtual level, helping to speed up the work and achieve professional goals of the SE, by services below:a- PUB- LIC SERVICES:1)Directory of Experts: publication of studies made by experts, news, reports, calendar of events, new laws and youth policies. All information that collaborators can offer the benefit of transferring knowledge and best practices for the work of SE.2) Promotion SE users: Space for registered users to promote and raise awareness their social work through: publication of its activities, news who want to share, publish interviews and reports of Prominent SEb- PRIVATE SERVICES:1) Virtual meetings and work: Have more productive meetings, integrated management tasks, shared documents, create working groups, communication via chat / email and time tracking. Allowing maximum efficiency in communications and daily work.2) Social Space: Each user can follow the latest news of social entrepreneurship, participate in debates and discussions, create Help Boards between ES, creating a personal profile, publish their activities, share information of general interest and related events ES, space review proposals for new services and users.c- INTERNAL SERVICE: 1) Internal Management Platform: resolving doubts, overseeing the operation of the system, analysis of relationships, work and groups generated and collaboration of experts.Provides to SE:- Support in the initial stage and consolidation in the market, with the assistance of experts and between SE.- Opening in the national and international market.- Support in the dissemination of organizations, expand the professional network of the EU.- Have a virtual interaction, to collaborate with other related organizations and thus add efforts and to forge partnerships.- Stay updated with information about ES: events, activities, new legislation offers, updates....- What can strengthen working relationships established in face meetings in Europe once finished.Addressed:1) Social Entrepreneurs: With entrepreneurial spirit who spend hours and effort into their projects with motivation, desire to improve and assume the risk involved. They are starting or trying to strengthen their own social enterprises.Also, are already established social enterprises who want to expand its international network with other SE. Being traditional NGOs, social organizations, non-profit or social enterprises for profit. The falling age of SE are mostly between 25 and 44 years.2) Government: Collaboration and support of the public administration is paramount, to join efforts to create new synergies and generate greater impact. Especially the support of the departments of Youth and Employment, at local, regional, or national level.3) Universities: In order to create a bridge between education and work, are considered target universities who develop in their study plan areas of social entrepreneurship. Thus they can transmit to their students new approaches SE internationally and give them more options in their future work4) Are also addressed: Private companies, physical Cowork offices, virtual platforms, Organisers of events and seminars: who work on social entrepreneurship and want to share information, news and use the services YEScowork how complement their services, contact SE, to publish their studies, also for the spread of social impacts generated.

COORDINATOR: CAUdel’ArT Pirineus Barri Sant Sebastià, nº 12 baixos 25790 Oliana, Spain www.caudelart.cat

CONTACT: Aina Pujol Ortega

PARTNERS: DATAJOCKEY: Social Research & Dialogue, DE; MIND - Med INnovation Dialogue, IT; CEGE - Centro de Estudos de Gestão do Instituto de Economia e Gestão da UTL, PT

GRANT AMOUNT: 50 959 EUR SP34 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTRACT DURATION: 14 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; International Cooperation; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP35

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006033

TITLE: IMPULSA - PROMOVIENDO UN FÚTBOL SOCIAL

DESCRIPTION: The IMPULSA - Promoting social football project is an initiative of the Foundation for Professional Football (FFP) of Spain, the Football League Trust (FTL) in the UK, Liga Profesionista de Fotbal (LPF) from Romania and the FK Banga of Lithuania. They are non-profit entities linked to the world of professional football in their respective countries. All of them are fully aware of their appeal and the strong influence of this sport on young people and, therefore, its value as a driver of change and personal development, and as a tool to address the problematic faced by young people. IMPULSA is born in order to establish a framework for collaboration between those entities, to address the identified needs. The needs are linked to:- Improving the abilities of the institutions in the field of youth work, familiarizing the staff thereof (including sports coaches) with its basics and practical tools.- Increasing knowledge of education and inclusion through sport, work with youngster with special needs and practical tools to work in these fields, especially with young people- Strengthening of management abilities of nonprofit entities in areas such as communication in digital environments, project management within the framework of European projects, internationalization, innovation, etc.Satisfying these needs, the Consortium members and the entities that depend on them (29 affiliated football clubs foundations in the case of Spain) will be able to meet their social goals more effectively, putting at the service of youth, the media impact of football.The main beneficiaries will be the youth. Both those who work as volunteers in the different foundations linked to the world of professional football (2900 young people only in Spain) and those involved in some of the activities organized by such entities (for example, summer Football Campus). In addition to young people, the staff of the entities participating in the project and foundations connected with them will also benefit from the project, as well as all other entities and professionals who might incorporate the results of the project into their daily work. It should be noted that grassroots soccer coaches and technicians responsible for summer Football Campus will be also invited, due to their direct and frequent contact with young people. Throughout the different phases of the project, a wide range of activities, both face-to-face and virtual, including coordination meetings, facilitation sessions, personal interviews, etc. will be held. The detailed program of actions to perform, can be broadly summarized in the following phases:a) selection of beneficiary entities, b) detailed diagnosis of their abilities and needs, c) determining of an action plan, d) training & empowerment:- e-learning- educational campuse) mentoring & support and, finally, f) dissemination & exploitation of results. All of them will be framed in a strict planning and with the guarantee of a quality plan that includes a continuous monitoring and an evaluation of stages. As one of the aims of the project is to promote the youth work of the professionals and beneficiary entities, during different parts of the project and, in particular, during the Training Campus, we will make an intensive use of non-formal education methodologies. This way the use of horizontal and participative methods will be promoted.The project results will also be numerous, both the intangible, related to meeting needs, and tangible, such as:a) the Web Platform with its numerous dimensions, such as: portal of visibility of the project and its results, collaborative tool between partners, learning platform and an axis for the users’ communityb) the Guide of Best Practice, which will gather the basic contents of the three modules covered during the training phase; with a practical approach, it will provide resources, recommendations and case studies to not only be a theoretical text, but also a tool to transform the work of organizations and professionals.c) the Training Package (including resources, methodologies, etc.) used in the Training Part also will be available. The communication, dissemination and exploitation of results strategy will be one of the axes of the project and will address both the entities described in the previous paragraph and other stakeholders. It aims to raise awareness of the project, its results and to involve different actors in implementation. Therefore, this strategy will be the first axis of the sustainability of the project. Establishing partnerships with other European institutions of the same nature, will be the second axis.The IMPULSA project is in line with the general objectives of Erasmus + program, and its specific objectives of the Strategic Partnerships in the field of Youth, as well as with the general and specific priorities.

COORDINATOR: FUNDACION DEL FUTBOL PROFESIONAL CALLE HERNANDEZ DE TEJADA 10 28027 MADRID, Spain www.lfp.es

CONTACT: Olga De la Fuente SP36 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: London Sport Limited, UK; VIESOJI ISTAIGA GARGZDU FUTBOLAS, LT; Liga Profesionista de Fotbal, RO

GRANT AMOUNT: 151 960 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP37

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006048

TITLE: THIS IS A GREEN´S WORLD

DESCRIPTION: In Europe, young people are facing real difficulties and increasing employability. In the past 20 years, the number of unemployed youth has tripled on average, adults in this situation and, at present, there are regions where the rate becomes five times higher than adult unemployment. Their condition before the crisis, in his dual capacity of young and mostly temporary, has grown even more in recent years. This is why we urge solutions and emergency measures that facilitate the integration of young and confirmation of new employment paths. Thus, this project arises, in which six European partners have proposed to increase employability among youth at social exclusion of 16-30 years based on a growth sector, as is the green economy, socially inclusive and a real job opportunity.The objectives of this project are:-Promote social and professional integration of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, offering them a useful tool to access the labor market.-Facilitate theoretical and practical knowledge based on non-formal learning, related to bio, organic farming and promoting sustainable development.-Create a cooperation network to exchange experiences among organizations working in the field of youth, to establish lasting relationships and contribute to the development of youth policies, employment and volunteering.-Increase the debate, discussion and activities related to youth, of relevance to local communities involved.-Stimulate the training of youth and involve them in identifying issues that are of interest to them, increasing their active participation in public life, and facilitating cultural diversity through the exchange of experiences.-Identify the needs of youth at risk of social exclusion in local communities, analyze and propose alternatives for labor integration.The work plan includes:-Seminar in Germany (October 2015) for youth workers on employment, focusing on the opportunities offered by the green economy.-Local workshops focused on green jobs for the edition of individualised business plans.-An online Green Busi- ness competition will be organized to select the best business plan in Europe.-Transnational meetings to improve information systems to young people about entrepreneurship, UK (March 2016), Cyprus (October 2016) and Spain (April 2017)- Creating a virtual network focused on youth employment through new methodologies and sectors.- Editing a Web and social networking profiles specific to the project.The results:- Creation and design of at least 140 business plans focused on the green economy by young people from 6 European countries.- Editing a Green Guide containing all the project activity to facilitate the inclusion of youth in social exclusion in the labor market, through green jobs.- In addition, 80 workers and youth technical personnel receive updated information on green economy employment counseling for youth training, providing new tools to access its labor market success. Among them, a guide for workers, including employment insertion methodologies for youth. The project will involve all stakeholders in the field of youth, environment, employment and social integration in the work plan, which will run for 24 months. The impact, therefore, refers not only to young people and youth structures of the participating organizations, but to other key players that take part in the process and benefit from the activities and results.

COORDINATOR: Ayuntamiento de Tafalla Plaza Navarra 5 31300 Tafalla, Spain www.tafalla.es

CONTACT: Miguel Angel González Ojer

PARTNERS: AGIOS ATHANASIOS MUNICIPALITY, CY; Action with Communities in Rural Kent, UK; wisamar Bildungsgesellschaft gemeinnuetzige GmbH, DE; BILINGUAL LITFEST DE SAINT CLEMENTIN FETE LITTERAIRE BILINGUE, FR; INSTITOUTO ANAPTIXIS EPICHEIRIMATIKOTITAS ASTIKI ETAIREIA, EL

GRANT AMOUNT: 87 780 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work. SP38 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP39

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-ES02-KA205-006051

TITLE: EUROPEAN PROJECT SCHOOL OF ENTERPRENEURSHIP

DESCRIPTION: EUROPEAN PROJECT: EUROPEAN SCHOOL UP is an initiative 16 months for cooperation and multisec- toral strategic partnership of organizations from Norway, Netherlands, Lithuania, Spain, UK and Portugal. This is a draft trasnversal character involving educational organizations, youth associations, a company placement of Norway and other entities strongly linked to the promotion of young entrepreneurship.The fundamental objective of promoting young employability in the European Union. The project is based on the development of competencies and skills related to entrepreneurship as:management skills - leadership - decision makingcommunication skills: speech, expression, negotiationMultilingualism: business Inglésnetworking - work in international teamsMarketing - Branding - market positioningHRMInternation- alization: e-commerceIncubation business plan / business: monitoring and supportTo achieve the initial objective has been devised and planned a series of activities of virtual and physical mobility on which pivot the project. First, the activity will be launched through a seminar on entrepreneurship to be held in Santiago and combine the exchange of good practices study visits to young entrepreneurs and debate about through building a European School of Entrepreneurship. This initiative will take place in parallel with the school year (8 months) and train young 6 countries simultaneously through a methodology of non-formal and informal learning. Creativity, maximizing the individuals skills, teamwork and focus on real situations they will have to enfrontar in their companies will be encouraged. Through ICT, master classes, meetings with business and technical human resources as well as meetings with leaders of other social spheres as trade unions, politicians, entrepreneurs associations or chambers of commerce.Intellectuals results are mainly two:development of a single European research plan for implementing school thanks to the virtual enterprise work facilitators of the different partner organizations.creation of a study on entrepreneurship in Europe, the results will come from the three study visits made facilitators, technicians and professionals FESAN Norway, Lithuania and the Netherlands.It is estimated that a total of 300 young people will benefit from the activities of the school, participating in an innovative project and adapted to the current job market. Similarly, the project will provide peer learning and focus on the problem of unemployment through a cross-sectoral strategic partnership.For the dissemination and exploitation of results we valeremos the operational capacity of the entities, with extensive experience in European programs and with very powerful devices in social networks. Intellectuals publish results and made available to other European institutions for free access and modification.

COORDINATOR: Rúa de Amio 114 - Parque Empresarial Costa Vella 15707 Santiago de Compostela, Spain www.fesan.org

CONTACT: PATRICIA PIÑEIRO SANTAMARÍA

PARTNERS: WELL PERFORMANCE AS, NO; Lietuvos sakaliuku sajunga, LT; NEW INTERNATIONAL COMPANY OF LIVE ARTS, UK; Município de Albergaria-a-Velha, PT; Eurobridge di Claudia Sedda, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 78 771 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 16 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses SP40 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP41

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-FI01-KA205-008653

TITLE: PROFESSIONALIZING EUROPEAN YOUTH CIRCUSES (PART 2)

DESCRIPTION: The project aims to improve the quality of the youth work done in the youth circus field by educating professionals. This is done by offering several master classes: two focusing on sharing best practices between experienced circus trainers and three between circus school leaders and administrative staff. All the training modules also have a strong emphasis on sharing best practices about social inclusion, as previous experiences show that circus is a very powerful tool that can be used for this purpose. This aspect is shared for the wider field of youth workers along the way, and especially in the final dissemination seminar.The project is based on the idea of circus as an activity that can be used as a tool to increase the psycho-physical and social wellbeing of young people. Circus also improves the self-esteem and gives positive learning experiences for different kinds of people. The project aims to develop the professionalism of the youth circus workers in order to increase the positive effects that can be reached through circus. There is a strong focus on giving more tools to the trainers and youth circus leaders and raise their professional self-esteem as well as increase their motivation to stay in the field and be better at organizing the circus activities for young people from all kinds of backgrounds. There is a strong need for more well-organized circus activities in the youth field all around Europe as circus is an activity that can support and connect together young people from all kinds of backgrounds. There is a lot more young people wanting to participate in youth circus than there is possibilities for participation. This is very much due to the lack of skilled teachers and functioning youth circus organisations and the lack of knowledge in the youth sector about the ways to involve circus as a method in youth work.The project is conducted by nine organizations. All partner organizations are national umbrella organizations in the youth circus field or have a similar, unofficial position representing the wider youth circus field in their country. This provides the partners with a good overview of the whole field in their countries as well as the needs and demands that the youth circuses have. The organisations also have good networks in their countries which means that the project results will not only stay within the participating organisations but touch a very large group of young people and youth organizations. Through the partners the project is closely connected to hundreds of youth circuses, thousands of youth circus teachers and leaders/administrators and more than 100 000 young people having circus as a hobby. The project activities will be organized in five different countries. The local partner is in charge of organising the activity in their country. During the project, an open-knowledge resource centre is created where all the learning material created during the project will be collected. These are disseminated to the whole youth circus field in each partner country and to the wider youth field. The dissemination will happen also internationally through the already existing connections and networks.The project will gather altogether 54 participants for the administrative master classes and 36 for the pedagogical master classes. The dissemination seminar is expected to collect 80 participants. The project steering group will meet four times during the project. Through the existing networks that the partners have in their countries and in other parts of Europe it is possible to reach thousands of people working in the field of youth circus and give them the chance to benefit from the project results. In addition to that, several national actions will be made to include a wider field of youth work in each country and give them knowledge about circus as a method to increase the wellbeing of young people.The project will influence the youth circus field through trainings that support the participants and the youth circuses where they work but also the creation of national training courses and thus the long-term development of the youth circus field on the way of becoming more professional. As all the curricula, training materials etc. are available online as an open resource, the project benefits even actors who dont take part in the project but who are invited to take advantage of the received results. In this way, the project is expected to have an international influence on the professionalization of the youth circus field. PEYC (part 2) will be organized in close connection to the bigger project PEYC with the same partners and same goals and methods. Together they form a PEYC -project with 7 master-classes, a basic circus trainer course in two parts, a resource center with virtual learning materials and dissemination seminar in connection with the wider European youth sector.

COORDINATOR: Suomen Nuorisosirkusliitto Kaasutehtaankatu 1/4 00540 Helsinki, Finland www.snsl.fi

CONTACT: Evianna Lehtipuu SP42 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: Fédération Française des Ecoles de Cirque, FR; Associació Cultural Esplai de Circ, ES; Vlaams centrum voor circuskunsten vzw, BE; Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Giocolieri e Dintorni, IT; BAG-Zirkuspädagogik, DE; Danske Ungdoms- og Børne- Artisters Landsforening, DK; CircusWorks, UK; Circomundo, NL

GRANT AMOUNT: 120 000 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP43

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-FI01-KA205-008654

TITLE: TRANSINNOVATION CAMP FOR YOUTH

DESCRIPTION: The project will support the involvement of young people from peripheral areas in the local and rural development and will sustain their businees expertise. Young people, around 20/camp (3-4 sent by every each of the partner organizations, age 18-30) from Latvia, Hungary, Romania (Transilvania) and Finland will work together in small groups (around the topics such as local culture, agriculture, bioproducts) for a week. The main goal is that during the week, in workshops leader by professionals and by the help of the local experts, they can develop different local projects or enterprises. The Innovation-camps will be held in every each of the partner countries (4 alltogether) and will supported by local experts in businesses. As an outcome we hope the method will be recognized as a very practical way of development and will be used by many organization besides the partner organisations. We do believe the method fits rural development and helps young people to get involved in the local operation and improvetheir expertise in businesses and multiculturalism.

COORDINATOR: Rieska-Leader ry Vierimaantie 5 84101 Ylivieska, Finland www.rieskaleader.fi

CONTACT: Rita Kovacs

PARTNERS: Asociatia Bogatalji Mozgalom Csikrakos es Gorocsfalva, RO; Publisko un privato partnerattiecibu biedriba “Zied zeme”, LV; Mecsekvidék Helyi Közösség Egyesület, HU; Keskipiste-Leader ry, FI

GRANT AMOUNT: 249 235 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 25 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Rural development and urbanisation

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Education for Sustainable Development; Youth Empowerment; Employability SP44 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009797

TITLE: YOUTH COMMITMENT FOR CLIMATE

DESCRIPTION: Youth Committed to Climate (YCC) works for a better citizen appropriation of ecological transition issues and climate changes. The group leeding this project wants to organise educational project for young people from Germany , Romania, Italy and France in order to improve the understanding of connection between local and globalThe project built jointly by the members , over a period of approximately 16 months , focuses on important citizens mobilizations at national, European and international levels, such as COP21 and Youth mobilisation (nammed FOREJE ) .The YCC project aims to:- Mobilize youths on climate issues and major international events ;- Improve and strengthen the capacity building of educational organizations to integrate climate issue in their scope of daily work - Develop collective action skills of youth workers and their audiences through the exchange of practices and the joint production of tools (duplicated - Highlight actions and tools of project participants during major international mobilizationsBy this way, 100 youth mobilized and accompanied by four partner organizations will take part of 3 major international times, which are : COP21 , the FOREJE 2015 and 2016. A preparation of participants on challenges of climate change ( from a scientific point of view / impacts / adaptation ...) and on methodology of mediation will be led before each time of mobilisation.In addition to participation to these major events of civil society (village of civil society , extended forum ... ) , project participants will decline through a methodological guide , accompanying the youth project ( YCC ) and a valuation platform .This action with youth will promote individual and collective commitment of the actors of YCC project and that they will be the commitment promoters from other actors.The YCC project is organized to support the commitment of a hundred young people on climate issues. It aims to accompany young people to create, acquire and transfer skills on these isses. Because of its commitment to developing the competence of individuals and the collective capacity development of its members, the YCC project will adopt the principles of a learning organization whose governance will collegially on the basis of participation, cooperation and collegiality.

COORDINATOR: AFPD RUE DE LA CLOTURE 2 LA HALLE AUX CUIRS 75930 PARIS CEDEX, France www.lespetitsdebrouillards.org

CONTACT: François Deroo

PARTNERS: Asociatia Renato, RO; Le club des Petits Débrouillards asbl, BE; Controvento Società Cooperativa Sociale ONLUS, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 145 969 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Environment and climate change

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Education for Sustainable Development STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP45

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009798

TITLE: PARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER EDUCATION

DESCRIPTION: The strategic partnership is composed of highly complementary body including the applicant and non- profit organizations from different regions of Europe. The decision to realize the “Partnership for Better Education project was made in cooperation of 4 Partners from Europe: Luxembourg, Poland, France and Estonia.The previous cooperation and researches conducted by the partners of the project revealed many important things in common in their countries such as insufficient level of education, rising unemployment especially among young people, not enough qualified youth workers especially in field of non-formal education and youth with fewer opportunities, insufficient cooperation of NGOs with local authorities, insufficient number of NGOs working in the field of youth.After several non-formal discussions and mail exchange we realized that all organizations forming the strategic partnership combine the following common aims such as: - promoting young people’s social inclusion, notably through projects tackling the issue of youth unemployment and innovative support- developing and promoting new methodologies and tools uptake in youth work and non-formal learning- developing basic and transversal skills in the field of youth, using innovative and pedagogical approaches and developing appropriate assessment and certification methods based on learning outcomes.According to our needs we have established common objectives of the project such as:- to give opportunities to youth workers organizations to develop a quality European mobility projects to support young people in the realization of mobility projects and to facilitate their professional inclusion;- to reinforce the European cooperation in order to improve capacities of organizations involved in the field of youth education and professional inclusion to support young people in the realization of mobility projects;- to share practices, existing methods and tools in different European countries used to support youth workers in the realization of projects and activities in the field of youth and non-formal education;- to better understand the needs and problems of youth workers and people working in non-formal education;- to create new methodology and tool to train and reinforce the capacities of youth workers in the European mobility projects;- to gain a better understanding of importance of non-formal education and its working methods in combating youth unemployment and social exclusion;- to favor dissemination of the tool and methods created by diffusing results of this project at local, national and international level.In a frame of our strategic partnership we plan to organize transnational meetings of youth workers to exchange practices and to develop a final design tool in the form of publication with selected working methods in the field of non-formal education. Furthermore, we plan to conduct activities in the field of practical educational experience - Study Visit activity. Moreover, the results and experience gained during the implementation of the project will be discussed by on transnational meeting - Final Evaluation Seminar. To ensure the sustainability and dissemination of the project’s results, after finishing the project’s lifetime we will conduct conferences at local / regional level in order to start a dialogue with local authorities and institutions about the need of developing a common strategy to fight the unemployment and low level of education among youth. During the conference, we will take discussion about the possibilities of using non-formal education and its methods in combating youth unemployment in the future.

COORDINATOR: ACSSM57 25 rue saint ladre 57950 MONTIGNY LES METZ, France

CONTACT: Mathilde BERGED

PARTNERS: YOUTH FOR NARVA, EE; CONNEXIONS, LU; STOWARZYSZENIE AKTYWNI DLA DLUGOPOLA GORNEGO, PL

GRANT AMOUNT: 54 505 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers SP46 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Supporting schools to tackle early school leaving (ESL) and disadvantage as well as to address all students from the lowest to the highest end of academic spectrum

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP47

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009802

TITLE: ABEONA

DESCRIPTION: The ABEONA project aims at strengthening youth workers competences to better support young people in foster or residential care in succeeding in their transition to independent adult living, and hence to promote young people’s social inclusion and well-being.Care leavers are a vulnerable group who, without targeted support, may face an increased risk of social exclusion through issues such as homelessness and unemployment. The success of their transition to adulthood is therefore partly related to their ability to establish a foothold on the career ladder, either through education and training or through first work experiences. To do so, young people need to develop some formal and informal job-related capacities during their teenage years. These can be improved thanks to the educational support of youth workers. However, youth workers often lack the necessary tools and methodologies to provide an efficient support to the youth in the area of professional integration. Therefore, the ABEONA project aims at pooling the good practices already experimented among youth workers in Europe and at developing subsequently a training program that would improve their support to young people in foster or residential care in their transition into independent adult living.To reach those objectives the ABEONA project aims to set up a best practice methodology exchange between European organizations working in the youth care sector. The operational objectives are to design adapted training modules and tools for the professionals dealing with young care leavers to assist them during the transition phase between the care environment and the professional world. Next to those concrete actions and deliverables, a focus will also be done on the political dimension on the subject. The point will be that the consortium identifies topics regarding youth workers work or care leavers conditions that will be analysed during the project to bring some arguments and proposal to the European bodies. Drawing on Groupe SOS Youth sector experimentation on care leavers integration, the consortium of partners is composed of 10 different organisations with specific competences. Indeed, ABEONA gathers field organisations as well as federations of care institutions, Scholars, School of social workers and EUROCEF INGO.Each partner is involved in regards of its skills and asset in the different projects phases:1/ Study on care leavers and social workers needs and collection of good practices2/European Conference on children at risks3/Training material and tool kits designing4/Ex- perimentation: training of 160 youth workers and testing the practices with 300 youth between 15-215/ Evaluation of the program6/ Dissemination and consolidation of a European NetworkThe ultimate impact of the ABEONA project is to promote the youth leaving care systems access to an autonomous and balanced adult life.To reach such an objective we do believe that besides care leaving material support on housing or administrative help, what’s at stake is the maturation of the personal and professional project of the youth. That is why the main expected impact of the ABEONA project is to deliver a package of competences and tools for social workers to support young people in this reflection and its implementation.

COORDINATOR: Plateforme insertion 102C Rue Amelot 75011 Paris, France www.groupe-sos.org

CONTACT: Maud LEBLOND

PARTNERS: Fundacja Robinson Crusoe, PL; FICE - Austria, Österreichische Sektion der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Erzieherische Hilfen, AT; Federación de Entidades con Proyectos y Pisos Asistidos (FEPA), ES; STIFTUNG UNIVERSITAT HILDESHEIM, DE; Fundació Plataforma Educativa, ES; EUROCEF, FR; HELHa, BE; J.C.L.T “Jeunesse, Culture, Loisirs et Technique”, FR; Internationale Gesellschaft für erzieherische Hilfen (IGfH) (Sektion Bundesrepublik Deutschland der Fédé- ration Internationale des Communautés Educatives (FICE) e.V., DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 260 172 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 25 months SP48 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 2: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

PRIORITY 3: Adult educators’ competences

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP49

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009805

TITLE: MOBILITÉ INTERNATIONALE POUR TOUS

DESCRIPTION: An experience in European or international mobility is an asset for any young person. The skills gained through this type of experience are very important and valuable for his future life as a person, a professional, and a citizen. This statement matches even more the public of young people with fewer opportunities. Contrarly to what is generally thought, young people with a low level of qualification, few financial ressources, social/personnal issues, or disabled, etc, could benefit from a mobility experience, should they access a professional guidance, support and proper preparation. In France and in Europe, several organisations share the same values and work in favor of this public. The field of international mobility has evolved in France as in Europe in the past few years, with new programs; but mostly with the development of a wide approach on international mobility. With employment, training and volunteering opportunities, with project in group or for individuals, mobility comes in all shapes and forms. This project is created with the aim to work extensivly on the subject, with a consortium of 8 partners, including 3 French (Jeunes à Travers le Monde, UNAREC, et Itinéraire International), 4 European (Cesavo en Italie, Institute for United Europe et Eduq en Pologne, Dynamo en Belgique), and a European network (Volonteurope), who would gather around this subject and these values, emphasizing strongly on the essential role of guidance and mentoring of young people with fewer opportunities. Public of youngsters we are dealing with is composed of young people with fewer opportunities, or Netts, or vulnerable adults aged between 18 and 30.The project coordinator is a French organisation amed Itinéraire International. The organisation has the opportunity to cooperate with each organisation, most of which already know each other. All of them share the same observation and motives. The projects offers to the partenrs to cooperate together for:- the promotion at EU level, of a proper trade on mentoring young people with fewer oppotunities, and the creation of new training tools for professionals or future professionals. - the development of a common advocacy speech and create a formal cooperation network that will disseminate the speech and will act to make mobility more accessible and inclusive in the future. The end of the project will drive us to 2017, when the partners will be able to participate to the dialogues around the future Europea programmes in 2020. Activities of the project will be carried around workshops and between groundwork professionals who will exchange on their (best) practices, develop and experiment new working methods. The project also includes 2 seminars, one is organised during the project to invite a wide number of new partners to join the formal network, and one that will be the closing event to present and disseminate the results at the end of the project. Among various dissemination and communication activities, a website will be created to share information with any person or organisation interested.

COORDINATOR: Itinéraire International 9 rue de la Véga 75012 PARIS, France www.itineraire-international.org

CONTACT: Clémentine LAFORET

PARTNERS: Jeunes à Travers le Monde, FR; Cesavo, IT; VOLUNTEERING MATTERS, UK; DYNAMO INTERNATIONAL ASBL, BE; UNAREC, FR; Stowarzyszenie EDUQ, PL

GRANT AMOUNT: 171 011 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people. SP50 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; International Cooperation; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP51

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-FR02-KA205-009809

TITLE: TAKE IN / TAKE OFF, ART&CULTURE + MOBILITY, A LEVER FOR YOUTH SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL INCLUSION

DESCRIPTION: Art & Culture + Mobility = Youth Take Off !ContextTake IN / Take OFF gathers 5 European organisations working on youth NEETssocial and professional inclusion through mobility experience within artistic projects : - Banlieues d’Europe (France), a European cultural network - Kontrapunkt e.V (Germany), a training and cultural center- Zavod Horus(Slovenia), a research and consulting organization- Tremplin ANEPA (France), a vocational training center- Coordi-Nation Europe (Sweden), an international platform for cooperation between governmental and nongovernmental labor market measures for the long-term unemployedFor the last 5 year, looking for more equity and inclusion, these 5 organizations have been successfully experimenting, developing and testing new methods and pedagogical approach working on artistic projects with disadvantaged youth NEETs enhancing their profesionnal and social inclusion. Based on this long-term experience, the project Take IN /Take OFF wants to increase and develop the quality of those projects.Indeed, these 5 partners have identified several issues they want to address together. Among them are : - lack of cooperation between non-formal education and cultural sectors - lack of recognition of the youth NEETs’ competences developed into non-formal and informal learning environment- need of harmonization of existing tools to assess formal and non-formal competences and a need to imagine and develop creative tools to improve recognition of competence again in informal learning environments- need of including and strengthening transnational cooperation in youth artistic projects.Objectives of Take IN / Take OFF1/ To improve cross-sector cooperation between the non-formal education and the cultural sectors2/ To increase the quality of youth NEETs projects Art &Culture especially in:- Designing educational program using non formal education methods - Improving competences of artists and youth workers involved in these projects- Including mobility and cross-border cooperation dimensions (internationalization of strategies, networking, support to new comers in E+)3/ Develop and test new tools for assessing informal, non-formal and formal competencies for disadvantaged youth NEET using artistic methods and new creative tool (such as portfolios etc...) Number and profile of participants* Partners organization staff : 8 persons- Manager- Researchers- Youth workers* Target groups involved in the activities : 351 persons- Youth NEETs : for testimonies and sharing experiences during transnational meetings and multiplier events, participation in the development of the handbook, attending the training course- Artists : for testimonies and sharing experiences during transnational meetings and multiplier events, participation in the implementation of the handbook, attending the training course- Decision makers, for profit sector : testimonies during transnational meetings and multiplier events, participation in the implementation of the handbook, attending the training course- Medias : participation to dissemination / multiplier eventsActivitiesThe action plan of the partnership is structured around :- 6 transnational meetings- production of a handbook addressed to youth organizations, education actors, social sector, artistic and cultural organizations, youth NEETs, independent artists, decision makers, for profit sector- 4 multiplier events- 1 training course to experiment the handbookDescription of the results and impact envisaged -Development a common quality framework for youth artistic + mobility project in term of * trans-sector work (cultural, NFE, For profit sector)* European partnership building* internationalization of organizations’ strategies* Educational approach (role of artist, of trainer as facilitators learning processes, creating good learning environment, self-assessment and self directed learning, etc). - Better knowledge about Art&Culture + mobility projects in Europe and their impact about social and professional youth NEETs. - Raise capacity of organization working with youth NEETs for developing project into Erasmus + program framework. Youth workers from disadvantaged areas and youth NEETs are informed about mobility opportunities. New comers apply for an Erasmus+ programme-Conducted well organized lobby-activity toward governmental organizations to have enhanced the recognition of this innovative practice and ensure their financial support (co-funding European projects)- To have developed and experiment creative tools for competences assessments, validation and recognition for youth disadvantaged NEETs in accordance to European standard

COORDINATOR: RUE VENDOME 271 LA LAITERIE 69003 LYON, France www.banlieues-europe.com

CONTACT: Marjorie Fromentin SP52 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: Coordination Europe, SE; Kontrapunkt e.V., DE; Zavod Horus, Inovacijsko razvojni institut, SI; Tremplin ANEPA, FR

GRANT AMOUNT: 256 381 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP53

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-HR01-KA205-012734

TITLE: EUROPEAN COWORKING NETWORK

DESCRIPTION: Youth unemployment rate in the EU-28 increased levels of poverty and risk of social exclusion of young people. This project intends to foster sense of initiative and entrepreneurship among young people and to stimulate them to be entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs in order to build new opportunities for the future. Potential for self-employment of young people have not yet been fully realized in the European Union. Many young people have professional and vocational, but not entrepreneurial skills. They lack relevant information and financial resources that could encourage them to start own business, rent a space and buy equipment. Project idea is about networking of coworking spaces and uses across the Europe and raising awareness about its potential among public administration at regional and local level in order to boost further coworking communities and self-employment possibilities of young people. Coworking is a style of work that involves a shared working environment and independent activity. Coworking users are mostly young entrepreneurs who use the space for work, cooperation, professional development and so- cializing. In coworking space they can find new possibilities of mentorship and learning from experienced professionals who also use coworking space. Coworking spaces provide global networking opportunities and can be a central point for the promotion of entrepreneurship among young people.The Project is about networking of coworking spaces and users across the Europe and raising awareness of decision makers on the coworking concept and its role in promoting entrepreneurship culture among young people. The partners involved are 7, coming form: Croatia, Spain, Belgium, Latvia and Hungary. Partners have different background and represent private companies, public institutions and civil society organisations. All partners have been involved in coworking space and community management in their countries and identified possibilities and need to support young people self-employment via coworking concept. The project aims to stimulate entrepreneurship of young people, to motivate them to be responsible and active citizens, and to improve business ecosystem for young entrepreneurs through better cooperation between public, private and civil sector.

COORDINATOR: Agencija za razvoj Zadarske županije ZADRA NOVA Grgura Budislavića 99 23000 Zadar, Croatia www.zadra.hr

CONTACT: Renata Marušić

PARTNERS: SOCIALAS INOVACIJAS CENTRS, LV; Pokreni ideju - Udruga za promicanje socijalnih inovacija, HR; Sociedad de Promocion Economica de Gran Canaria, S.A.U., ES; Betacowork Collaborative Working, BE; P-55 Ltd., HU; GRAD ZADAR, HR

GRANT AMOUNT: 168 645 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation SP54 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability; International Cooperation STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP55

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-HU02-KA205-000867

TITLE: SOCIAL PROMOTIONS FOR ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP AND ENVIRONMENT

DESCRIPTION: Many times we feel European Community far away from our everydays life, from our working contexts, from familiar problems, from bad marks, from our relationships and little fights with circumstances or marvellous enemies, etc. We hardly think about educational policies, horizontal issues, programme objectives or decision makers during our shopping, surfing on internet, watching TV or making phone calls. In spite of our unconsciousness, rules and decisions work behind all our steps and activities, and we usually lead our lives according to general European values keeping us among social barriers approved by even us. The project brings these basic European values such as human rights, tolerance, solidarity, fight against racism and xenophobia, equal opportunities, cultural diversity etc. closer (more conscious) to participants everyday life by fostering dialogues and art activities related to them. The project raises awareness of preferably youth target groups on norms and rules of active, conscious European citizenship with the help of exciting mass art actions focusing on well visible objects of the environment (for further dissemination), involving at least 5 cities or bigger districts of each participating countries. The actions are followed by thematic workshops, debates, focus group discussions and information campaigns enhancing participants knowledge on possibilities of active (youth) citizenship; their reflection on EU values and rights, identifying problems such as youth unemployment, and focusing on opportunities and perspectives provided by the EU. Further opinion polls and debates encourage youngsters and citizens as indirect target groups to share and list their views of how to improve their well-beings, collecting their expectations, their fears, their preconceptions, their putative barriers and opportunities regarding to European Community. The project foresees END PRODUCTS such as a.) well-visible painted objects introducing EU logos and European thoughts in at least 5 cities of each country (20 locations), b.) debates, focus group discussions, interviews and opinion polls with local community members in these locations, c.) national short movies and video clips introducing local community members opinions and suggestions in native language. Three further international INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS summarize and structuring results and end products of the project: a) A well-visible painted surface as a work of art created by an international team of youngsters and indirect target groups interactively; commercializing European thoughts and logos for a long-term period for wide publicb.) A Comparative Case Study collecting and analyzing results of national debates, opinion polls and focus group discussions; producing a sort of SWOT analysis and suggestion-list for relevant decision-makers and youth workers,c.) An International Promotional Movie summarizing and analyzing interviews and results of national short movies about local community members opinions and suggestions. The main movie as a modern video-clip and work of art provides an information transfer about European issues enjoyable for young X and Z generations; and also provides a sort of digital SWOT analysis towards relevant decision makers. Two international MULTIPLIER EVENTS assure further effective dissemination of results for the project:a.) An Art Flash-mob in a well-visited metropolis (Rome) producing one of the intellectual outputs in front of public, as a modern way of raising awareness campaign and innovative information transfer.b.) An International Exhibition Opening and Press Conference accompanied by thematic workshops and seminars for direct and indirect target groups.All the activities are based on intercultural dialogue between participants, respecting cultural diversity and related to basic values of the EU; fostering a sense of ownership of the European Union among its citizens. 4 countries participate in the project.

COORDINATOR: MOSTart Nemzetközi Kulturális Közcélú Egyesület Wesselényi utca 15. 2344 Dömsöd, Hungary http://www.mostart.org

CONTACT: Anett Varga

PARTNERS: Szilagybagosi Banffy Kulturalis Egyesulet, RO; United Youth Councils Association, BG; Associazione Genitori Scuola Di Donato, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 75 272 EUR SP56 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTRACT DURATION: 22 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP57

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-IE01-KA205-008549

TITLE: PROGRESSION THROUGH ACTIVE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

DESCRIPTION: The project, over two years, will design, implement and review a Civic Engagement learning programme for socially excluded young people. Organisations from three countries will participate (Ireland, Greece and Portugal). There will be two partners from each country: one with expertise in education, research and review; and the other partner being an NGO with a development base within the excluded community targeted. The lead partner is a Regional Youth Service from Ireland, with extensive experience of integrating innovative practice and learning into mainstream youth work services. Programme participants (aged 16-20) will be drawn from the Traveller youth community in Ireland and the Roma youth community in Greece and in Portugal.The project is based on the premise that the standard progression routes (relating to labour market, education and training opportunities) are often difficult, if not impossible, to access for members of marginalised and excluded groups of young people. Experience to date – working with our target groups in each country – has shown that delivery of broader learning programmes about engagement with society can act as an essential platform for more meaningful progression in the longer term. The learning programme to be implemented and tested through PACE is aimed at increasing knowledge about civil society, and increasing capacity amongst young participants interacting with wider community and mainstream service provision. In order to recognise the formal and informal learning of the young people, the prorgramme will include innovative assessment methodologies , including Youthpass and tools as developed in previous EU funded projects. The experience of our project team to date has also demonstrated that these aims are more likely to be fulfilled if the learning environment is one of mutual support that can be maintained in the longer term. As well as delivering a learning programme about active citizenship engagement, therefore, the PACE project will also impart skills in self-organisation, self-representation and mutual support structures that are sustainable into the future.The project com- prisess the following elements:1. Reaching transnational agreement on course content and delivery. The Irish partner will take the leading role in this – based on successful initiatives already delivered, but all partners need to agree on relevance and consistency within their own practice base. This phase will also aim to achieve clarity amongst partners on approach and style of delivery.2. Programme implementation. The programme will be delivered as part of NGO development programme with young people in their own environments. The academic partner in each country will provide advice and support in programme implementation, including assistance with the ongoing application of evaluation mechanisms and instruments.3. Post programme support for participants. All participants will be supported (through information, advice and advocacy delivered as part of ongoing NGO development programmes) in efforts to build upon their learning in the programme. 4. Review of outcomes. All participants will be centrally involved in assessing the programme contribution to their own knowledge, levels of civic engagement and future progression prospects. Central to this will be a multiplier event bringing together youth workers from all three countries in an international seminar. The seminar will allow for presentation of the results and assessment of the programme, recording of outcomes to date, identifying elements of good practice and ‘what has made the difference’, as well as a mapping of future development pathways and routes to influence mainstream policy. Academic partners will act as a resource in seminar preparation: producing data collection instruments for review, supporting the preparation of presentations, and undertaking research into relevant policy environments in each country.The main project outcomes will be:• Increased capacity and enhanced potential for individual participants.• Significant assets for youth NGO sectors in each jurisdiction through the enhancement of leadership skills, mutual support structures and increased capacity to pass on learning content and style.• Greatly enhanced understanding of blockages to progression for those young people who are most excluded from progression opportunities, and an approach to addressing these blockages that is fully tested and reviewed.• Stakeholder-specific recommendations addressing how the approach can be best supported and embedded in the mainstream service responses of each participant country; as well as pointers as to how lessons emerging can be taken on board in the broader European policy context (especially in relation to LLL).

COORDINATOR: Waterford and South Tipperary Community Youth Service Edmund Rice Youth & Community Multiplex, Manor Street Waterford, Ireland www.wstcys.ie

CONTACT: Shirley Griffin SP58 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: ALIENDE - Associação para o Desenvolvimento Local, PT; Nexus Europe Ireland Ltd, IE; COFAC COOPERATIVA DE FORMACAO E ANIMACAO CULTURAL CRL, PT; Tipperary Rural Traveller Project, IE; ERGON KENTRO EPAGGELMATIKIS KATARTISIS , EL; PRAKSIS, EL

GRANT AMOUNT: 194 872 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 3: Fostering access to continuing VET, including groups at risk

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Romas and/or other minorities

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP59

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-IE01-KA205-008552

TITLE: FROM ILLUSION TO INCLUSION

DESCRIPTION: The purpose of our proposal is to develop a toolkit for the wider youth sector which will support the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities in EVS projects. This toolkit will be developed based on the expressed need arising through two ASO projects carried out on behalf of the Irish NA & as a result of our successful partnership in the last two years where we supported the Irish National Agency to increase the number of young people going on short term EVS by almost 400%. Our proposal will support the implementation of the European Youth Strategy, Brighter Futures Better Outcomes and The Children First Act by putting disadvantaged young people as central to our work. One of the priorities for the Irish National agency in 2015 is to support young peoples transition from NEET TO EET by involving them in quality EVS projects. As part of their TCA plan with Poland, Netherlands, Estonia and UK Leargas will be involved in a number of transnational events in this context. These NAS identified that EVS is not used enough to support YPWFO. Organizations who work with YPWFO do not know how to use EVS as a tool to support employability. Our proposal has two key objectives, they are as follows:1.To develop an Online tool kit for youth work practitioners based on our past and present experiences of working with young people with fewer opportunities. This tool kit will be targeted at practitioners who wish to support the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities in EVS projects. It will be an A-Z of how to support young people with fewer opportunities in EVS. It will include everything from the benefits of EVS, the challenges, dealing with the challenges, turning the challenges into learning, per-departure training, one to one support, effective mentoring for young people with fewer opportunities, the importance of working in partnership, AXA insurance, integrating the volunteer into the community, putting the emphasis on learning in EVS projects and youth pass and other key areas.Proposal RationaleThe rationale for the toolkit is to support the professionalization of youth workers, building their confidence and competences for working with this target group and setting quality standards and ethical and professional codes when working with young people with fewer opportunities.2.To foster the inclusion and employability of young people with fewer opportunities, in particular young people who are considered to be in the NEETS category- not in education, employment or training by supporting the wider youth sector include to not be afraid to include them in EVS. This project builds on our NEXT STEP project which will support 20 more young people to go on short and long term EVS in 2015.These EVS placements will support us to pilot some of our toolkit templates and improve them for the final toolkit.Follwoign our initial consultations we have agreed some templates to be developed for the toolkit as follows:The toolkit will be designed based on the use of non formal methods which will support the wider youth sector to include their young people in EVS projects. All templates will be developed based on our real experience of working with young people with fewer opportunities and the expressed need of youth sector through 2 former ASO projects (Advice and Support).Some of the templates will include the following:IntroductionWorking with young people with fewer opportunities to support inclusion through short term EVS.This will be one page opening which will demonstrate the benefits of working with young people with fewer opportunities for both young people and organization. It is important to us that when people open this toolkit they want to continue reading it. We want them to know that Inclusion is not an Illusion.Some possible topics in the toolkit:NEETS - How EVS support the employability of young people with fewer opportunities(case study-linked to the ev splacements)Why are the supports needed for young people with fewer opportunities different ? doesnt this create a new label ?What are the challenges facing YPFWO in EVS ?What are the challenges for organizations supporting YPWFO going on EVS.Turning the challenges into opportunities.What are the benefits of EVS to your organization in supporting the implementation of National and European policy objectives ?How can EVS sport the employability of young people for later life ? How can i support my young people to get involved in EVS ?How do i identify supports needed for my young people in EVS ?How can i find a partner who will support the needs of my young people ?

COORDINATOR: Beyond 96 youth club 41 Decies Road Dublin 10 Ballyfermot, Ireland [email protected]

CONTACT: Janice Mc Garrry

PARTNERS: Zdruzenie na mladi KREAKTIV Skopje, MK SP60 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

GRANT AMOUNT: 27 257 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Effective strategies for enhancing basic skills

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP61

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-IS02-KA205-001567

TITLE: EU STREET PROJECT

DESCRIPTION: Has IT technology reached such a high level that it is no longer necessary for members of musical bands to be together in the same country when music is made and recorded? Leading developers of recording software now claim that this is the case. We like to find out if this is true.EU Street Project is an informal group of young musicians and film makers from three European countries: Iceland, Germany and Czech Republic. These young artists will experiment with the idea of band-making and working together through the internet crossing European borders. The group will then compare this work in cyberspace to live re- hearsals and concerts where all members are in the same location. The band aims to work together over the internet and to prepare a program consisting of both cover songs and original material. Six songs will be recorded during the process and music-videos supporting each song will be available for public viewing.Over seven months period the group will meet every two weeks for online workshops on Skype. However, in the middle of the project´s timeline, all the participants will meet up in person in capital cities of their home countries, Reykjavik, Berlin and Prague. The purpose of these meetings will be to compare notes, by hosting workshops where lessons from the internet music making sessions are discussed. Fol- lowing these meetings, the results of the band´s work will be put on public display by live Street Concerts held in central location of each city.At the end of the process, a short documentary film will be made and released by the group where experiences of participants are shared. This project will be a learning experience for members of the group and perhaps other bands can gain from lessons learned.

COORDINATOR: Grundarland 19 Reykjavík, Iceland

CONTACT: Guðrún Ólafsdóttir

PARTNERS: The Berlin Group, DE; The Prague Group, CZ

GRANT AMOUNT: 16 880 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 7 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

PRIORITY 3: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture SP62 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-IS02-KA205-001568

TITLE: BREIÐHOLT FESTIVAL

DESCRIPTION: Breiðholt Festival is a cross-country collaborative project focusing on culturally neglected district Breiðholt, one of Reykjavíks biggest. The festival will showcase emerging artists from Breiðholt, motivating outsid- ers to visit the area and experience the local craft while empowering the artists and providing a platform for their work and a pride in their home turf. The idea comes from a need expressed by locals and the city of Reykjavík alike - the importance of highlighting the diverse culture in Breiðholt - a population of around 20,000, 10% of which hold foreign citizenship. Two Danish partners will bridge the gap between context and culture even more - bringing in Danish artists to participate and co-create with artists from Breiðholt during the festival - and then bringing chosen output to their organizations in Denmark. The festival is organized by three organizational groups - Bedroom Community (artist collective/multimedia outlet), Mejlgade For Mangfoldighed (culture & diversity festival) and Artoteket (art lending library) and aims to attract and impact approx. 5400 people for its first year. The young organizers will work together using tools and methods from extensive experiences and entrepreneurial studies with an overall project leader and one for each organization working closely together. Activities within the festival will include cross-country co-creation with Breiðholt artists, art performances within the fields of music, visual arts, literature, dance and much more (Breiðholt-based artists) as well as educational workshops to empower young people. Young artists from the area will have a chance to apply. The festival will then branch out with its partners to showcase performances by Breiðholt artists at the large festival MFM and the up-and- coming Artoteket art-lending-library and exhibition.It is the hope of the organizers that the impact will be long-lasting and result in a culturally renown Breiðholt district, local funding for young artists from the area, recognition outside Iceland, interest and motivation to contribute to ones community and cultural diversity.

COORDINATOR: Bedroom Community Vogasel 9 109 Reykjavik, Iceland www.bedroomcommunity.net

CONTACT: Hildur Hamíðsdóttir

PARTNERS: Artoteket I/S, DK; Mejlgade for Mangfoldighed, DK

GRANT AMOUNT: 20 560 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 16 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: Rural development and urbanisation

CLUSTER(S): International Cooperation; Education for Sustainable Development STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP63

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-IS02-KA205-001569

TITLE: YOUTH IN EUROPE – EVIDENCE-BASED DRUG PREVENTION

DESCRIPTION: The Youth in Europe project is an evidence-based primary prevention project aimed at preventing the initiation of alcohol- and substance use amongst adolescents in European cities and municipalities. The project has been developed and tested in Iceland for over 15 years, leading to Iceland now having one of the lowest rates of alcohol- and substance use amongst 15-16 year old adolescents in Europe. The project works on the basis of using evidence from questionnaire studies to map the risk and protective factors of alcohol- and substance use amongst adolescents. By working with those factors locally, the risk of early initiation of alcohol and substance use amongst adolescents can be decreased substantially. The current project consists of the following municipalities in Europe: Victoria (Malta), Istanbul (Turkey), Vaison la Romaine (France), Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal), Tarragona (Spain), Dobele (Latvia), Santa Severina (Italy) and Thessaloniki (Greece). In addition, the Icelandic Centre for Social Research and Analy- sis at Reykjavik University (Iceland) will lead the professional/methodological part of the project and build on the centres experience from applying the model in Iceland. The project consists of two main parts: a) mapping the status- and risk and protective factors for adolescents alcohol and substance use locally within the partaking municipalities, respectively and b) working on a local level with those influential factors with the aim of decreasing the use of alcohol and substances among adolescents. This will be carried out with questionnaire surveys filled out in schools by a representative sample of adolescents 15-16 year old within each municipality. Results will then be presented at local dissemination meetings with all relevant stakeholders including field workers, policy makers, local governments and others. The dissemination meetings aim to inform local personnel on the status of adolescents alcohol and substance use within their municipality and provide information on how to work with influential factors in order to decrease the use. The expected long-term impact includes less use of alcohol- and substances amongst adolescents in the partaking municipalities. The decreased use will also have an impact on the adolescents close communities and families. The participating organizations will acquire better knowledge on the status of adolescents´ alcohol and substance use within their municipality, along with information on the risk and protective factors they can work with to achieve even more decrease in use. While this exact methodology has led to successful prevention work in Iceland and more close-knit communities working together towards better health and well-being of youth, we hope the current project will have the same impact in the partaking municipalities. The desired impact at the local level is decreased use of alcohol and substances among adolescents within each municipality. Also, the project will result in better local knowledge of field workers, policy makers and local governments of the status of adolescents alcohol and substance use within their municipality. The desired impact on the national level involves other municipalities hearing about the project and seeking ways to apply the methodology within their municipality with the help of their neighboring municipalities, partaking in the current project. The desired impact on national levels involves a stronger network of European municipalities working towards better health and well-being of youth by sharing their knowledge and experience in the field of evidence-based prevention work.

COORDINATOR: RightNow ehf Asbud 28 210 Gardabaer, Iceland www.thorvald.eu

CONTACT: Thorvald Finnbjörnsson

PARTNERS: Rabat Citta’ Victoria Local Council, MT; Rannsóknir og greining / The Icelandic Centre for Social Research and Analysis, IS; Esenler Municipality, TR; Dobele Municipality, LV; Municipio de Santa Maria da Feira, PT; EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION, FR; AJUNTAMENT DE TARRAGONA, ES; YOUTH INFORMATION CENTER -MUNICIPALITY KORDELIO EVOSMOS, EL; Comune di Santa Severina, IT SP64 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

GRANT AMOUNT: 218 348 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Health and wellbeing

TOPIC 2: Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Health and Medicine; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP65

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005738

TITLE: RECOVERING THE FUTURE

DESCRIPTION: The main purpose of “Recovering the future” project is to define a strategic cooperative relationship thanks to the creation of a European network of associations and formation structures able to promote a “handbook” with the mains operation models of the European cultural centers. The operation project will ensure the elaboration of analysis and comparative studies and the identification of concrete solutions that are immediately activated and repeatable. The promotion of the recovering operations, chosen as best practices within the participating countries, will have the function of accompanying the young participants in the creation of job opportunities in the cultural and performance field. The training activities, embodied in a permanent work in progress, are constantly open to new proposals. In this perspective, the “Recovering the future” project should not be seen as a place for the artistic creativity for its own sake, but also as a context where different technical and organizational forms of artistic expression are employed as tools to acquire qualified skills. The activities of the project provide the realization of a virtual platform and the experimentation, within the Stazione Leopolda, of the operation of the identified strategies.

COORDINATOR: Associazione Casa della Città Leopolda Piazza Guerrazzi snc 56125 Pisa, Italy www.leopolda.it

CONTACT: Martino Alderigi

PARTNERS: FUNDATIA JUDETEANA PENTRU TINERET TIMIS, RO; KOMUNIKUJEME OS, CZ; DRAMBLYS, ES

GRANT AMOUNT: 156 376 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Addressing low achievement in basic skills through more effective teaching methods

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Youth Empowerment SP66 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005757

TITLE: EUROPEAN BADGE ALLIANCE

DESCRIPTION: Today’s learning opportunities for young people are limitless, individuals learn and acquire new competences not only in the traditional setting of a classroom (formal learning) or at work, but more and more outside of it. Important learning takes place through participation in civil society whether individually or with peers, increasingly often, young people experience mobility to develop key competences through organised but non-formal or informal learning, namely the EVS. Experts agree that volunteering experiences generate skills, knowledge and wider competences that often remain invisible.The partners have identified a series of needs interesting the situation of young people in the European socio-economic context. In particular The existing recognition tools are not sufficiently oriented toward the needs of young people; key competences acquired through non-formal or informal learning, namely through mobility, by young people need to be more valorized, Youth workers lack of competences regarding innovative approaches on recognition; cooperation among institutions at regional national and European level needs to be reinforced and there is a scarce integration of NFIL recognition with formal education, VET sector, and labor market.Therefore the European Badge Alliance is a project aimed at innovating the recognition, validation and communication processes of key competences acquired by young people in NFIL contexts, with particular reference to learning mobility, in order to increase their personal and professional development, their participation in learning and their employability. 4 specific objectives have been set out by the partnership. 1) To increase the use of learning badges as an innovative tool for the recognition of key competences2)To improve Youth workers competences pertaining recognition processes of non-formal or informal learning.3)Raise awareness on the importance of improving recognition of key competences learned through mobility among decision makers4)To increase the integration and interaction among non-formal, informal and formal learning, including vocational educational training.The project will unfold into a the realization of 5 intellectual outputs:1) A study analysis on the identification of the state of the art and potential of learning badges2) The creation of a set of badges for all the eight key competences3) testing of badges and guidelines on the use of learning badges addressed to all youth workers in Europe4) Policy recommendations on the potential of learning badges as a tool for the recognition of competences from non formal and informal learning addressed to decision makers 5) A user-friendly website that allows organizations to issue learning badges to young people and include the possibility for the latter to update the Europass CV with the earned badgesIn order to achieve these outputs all the partners will be responsible for the implementation of the project according to a management strategy outlined since the beginning of the activities. 1 representative for each organization will participate in 5 transnational meetings held every 6 months to assess the project development and coordinating the activities. 2 training events with 30 participants will be addressed to youth workers before the testing of the leaning badges. A multiplier event will be arranged in Bruxels in occasion of the final meeting of the project to disseminate the projects results at European level, in particular among decision makers. After the creation The main results of the project will be:Introducing, testing and mainstreaming the use of learning badges as a new tool for the recognition of competences from non-formal and informal learning among young people in Europe; valorizing the key competences acquired by young people through the use of badges in the Europass CV; increasing competences of youth workers in the process of recognition, meaning improving capacity of answering to young people’s need; mainstreaming the use learning badges toward the creation of a badge ecosystem across Europe for the modernization of organizations working in the youth field. Increasing knowledge among decision makers on the role of mobility in the acquisition of key competences: improving the integration of formal, non formal and informal learning and their collaboration through the use of badges The impact of the project in the long run will contribute to the discussion on the policies for recognition of competences gained through non-formal and informal learning at European level. EBA will provide evidence-based material on the used of learning badges which can be transferred to other sectors (i.e. formal education, vet, labor market).

COORDINATOR: UNISER SOC. COOP. ONLUS Piazzale della Vittoria, 17 47121 FORLì, Italy www.uniser.net

CONTACT: Lucia Mancino STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP67

PARTNERS: “Zenkliuku amatas”, UAB, LT; Associazione Emiliano-Romagnola Centri Autonomi di Formazione Professionale - A.E.C.A., IT; Lietuvos neformaliojo ugdymo asociacija, LT; EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR INTERCULTURAL LEARNING, BE; SEMPER AVANTI STOWARZYSZENIE, PL; ASSOCIATION DES ETATS GENERAUX DES ETUDIANTS DE L’EUROPE, BE; POLITECNICO DI MILANO, IT; Youth exchange Umbrella Ass. Juvenil (Youth for Exchange and Understanding), PT

GRANT AMOUNT: 163 960 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

TOPIC 1: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Improving the Quality of Education / Training Systems; Youth Empowerment SP68 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005764

TITLE: WORK, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FOR THE TOMORROWS ENTREPRENEURS

DESCRIPTION: Youth people would consider themselves like learners because they know how to learn for education, one adapts and changes and is aware that if research is a learning process the knowledge is assured and the future will be guaranteed positively . The current economic and financial crisis could not give a chance to young Europeans enter the labor market. Youth face a new complex background increasingly focused network, it is required more often a mind-expanding to new education and learning. Sometimes the Innovation in education is considered as “subversive nevertheless more open-minded, liberal and flexible companies of new educational system; companies will have the opportunity to bring out innovation, where the young will have more incentive, where the results of innovative training will reward those who have invested in it. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the labor market current situation, emerges that more than 40% of employers assigned importance to the experience obtained as a result of study and work abroad, which not only allow young to improve their language skills but also to acquire other competences that are very valued. Youth ideas, especially those innovative, are the lifeblood of a company. Every company raises from a spark of brain’s man. Then, new ideas need of expanding operations, create new products, face competitors. The European area is still dynamic and active but it needs of supporting and holding: we have to introduce a new economic path, it needs to change the objective from young people seeking employment to young people who will create the growth and innovation of tomorrow. The great deal of effort is to create new and suitable occupation. Europe has many chances to have succeed and win it. Courage and confidence are essential to open new opportunities, support ideas and initiatives for creating real lasting and sustainable development. In Europe, many young people have creativity and enterprising spirit. However, these energies must be releasing from the constraints of bureaucracy. The Young people who want to do business have the right to obtain in short time reliable and complete answers. For the companies already established as start up the challenge is to overcome innovation and competitiveness. Thus, the company must be supporting in all its aspects. It is necessary to re-establish a virtuous circle in the chain of occupation starting from professional training, employment to enterprise. In this context, it is important that young people become new entrepreneurs and builders of the future; they are able to share innovation, creativity and enterprise. The European economy is going through critical time it is full of difficulties. For businesses and even more for those conclude the studies and face a closed and stagnating labor market. In this blustery situation, the contribution of young people in particular those have better training and good skills, may reveal like an operative resource to face the crisis. Often young people under the age of thirty-five have much talent and are distinguished for their flexible approach and innovative competences. It is more and more essential for Institution, University or privately owned to promote the initiative concerning projects that skills of young people keep in touch business world.According to Europe 2020, this planning with its main aim is to reduce the phenomenon of dropout school and to grow up the higher qualifications by year 2020. Moreover, our project has a strong network shared between different partners. Each of them has some tasks such as to define, spread, gather, foster and develop the enterprise culture among young people. By using platform as means of monitoring during the most important steps of enterprise cycle: starting from its growth to the following development. The action of the project is to support the focus established by European Union for youth that consist of an employment stands of 75% during the next ten years, meanwhile it will ensure that they are equipped with the skills necessary to fill the jobs of tomorrow. Writing about future, no one can fail to see what happens between the Young People, the culture and innovation. Young people are the future for any country, culture affects the mentality of people, innovation is the result of human capital, and economy developed within a given culture. Therefore is essential to plan for young people because they are the future needed for a country.

COORDINATOR: Via P.Vena n. 66/C 75100 Matera, Italy www.iformt.it

CONTACT: Maria Selva Verzica STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP69

PARTNERS: Orienta Consulting Soc. Coop. a r.l., IT; CFI - Consorzio Ferrara Innovazione società consortile a r.l., IT; EDUcentrum o.s., CZ; EYROPAIKO INSTITOYTO TOPIKHS ANAPTYKSHS, EL; NGO MY WORLD ASSOCIATION, BG; PEDAL CONSULTING SRO, SK

GRANT AMOUNT: 205 848 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Teaching and Training SP70 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-IT03-KA205-005771

TITLE: DIS-PLAY YOUR ABILITIES - ROLES CHANGE AS INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO EDUCATE YOUNGSTERS TOWARD DIVERSITIES INTO SCHOOLS

DESCRIPTION: DIS-PLAY YOUR ABILITIES - Roles change as innovative approach to educate youngsters toward diversities into schools The intent of this partnership is to build a methodology based on the inversion of the role of the young disabled person to be proficient in train other young people on the theme of diversity, starting with the idea of working on real skills that each of them possesses.- Objectives:* Exchange of good practices and the development of quality strategies and innovative tools and methodologies to improve non-formal education for young people with disabilities* Structuring corpus of theories and methodologies to support the social inclusion of young people with disabilities through the theater* Development, testing, implementation and dissemination of the methodology of the reversal of roles and innovative instruments for the training of young people with disabilities as co-leaders of theater workshops and education of young people toward diversities into high schools- Expected results:* Knowledge and exchange of theatrical techniques and methodologies of social workers in the field of inclusion of young people with disabilities* Production of a text on the methodology of role inversion experienced by the partner organizations* Creation of a format of theater workshop on diversity co-led by young people with disabilities to be implemented in high schools* Sharing and testing of tools for evaluating the skills acquired by the young people involved in the activities and the impact of the workshops in high schools.* Dissemination of the project results to all stakeholders in the territories of the partner organizations and operators that deal with inclusion of young people with disabilities and education toward diversities- Number and profile of the actors involved:The direct beneficiaries of the activities will be: 10 social workers or technical theater, 9 young people with disabilities, 18 teachers, 150 young people aged between 14 and 18 years of high school involved in the testing laboratories.The indirect beneficiaries involved through specific activities of visibility will be: aproximatly 40 educators of the team of actors, about 600 young students and 30 teachers of the involved schools.- Project duration: 2 years (from the 1st of July 2015 to the 30th of June 2017).The project includes 3 short-term training events involving theater technicians, social workers and young people with disabilities with experience in theater activities within the participating organizations who will build together the theoretical and practical elements of the innovative methodology through cooperative learning.The project is developed in the following stages:* Sharing of innovative theories and conceptual tools for the management of individual projects to accompany young people with disabilities to become co-leader in theater workshops* Development, testing and adoption of innovative methods and tools for the non-formal education of young people with disabilities, in order to recognize and assess the skills acquired in the learning process* Creation of a shared format of theater workshop on the theme of diversity* Experimentation of the partner organizations at local level by using the format of the theater workshop on diversity within high schools and the instruments developed to evaluate the methodology.* Implementation of the final events of the laboratories in the involved schools in order to inform and raise awareness on the work done about the topic of diversity through all young people not directly involved previously in the workshops.* Sharing and dissemination of the results between all different actors involved in the inclusion of young people with disabilities and education toward diversities.- Method of work:In order to ensure a high level of cooperation, each organization will assign a project manager and a person responsible for the communication. They will work together through regular contact and will meet in three transnational project meetings planned (at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the project) in order to cooperate in the construction and monitoring of the project.The dissemination of the project results will be achieved through the realization of multiplier events organized locally by each partner organization in order to present to stakeholders the innovative methodology and launch a major impact at the local, regional, national and European level. In addition, the communication system via the web forseen for the output provides a wide dissemination at different levels: regional, time and type of recipients.As benefit of long-term every organization will have a new way of working and format of workshops tested in high schools to be proposed within its territory.

COORDINATOR: STRANAIDEA S.C.S. IMPRESA SOCIALE ONLUS VIA FIESOLE 19/4 10151 TORINO, Italy www.stranaidea.it STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP71

CONTACT: Lidia Greco

PARTNERS: APATRIS21, PT; Asociación Alfa Alternativa Familiar, ES; Stichting Theaterwerkplaats Tiuri, NL

GRANT AMOUNT: 139 378 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Disabilities - special needs

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP72 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-LI02-KA205-000016

TITLE: YOUTH ALPINE EXPRESS

DESCRIPTION: The project YOUTH ALPINE EXPRESS is a project for strengthening youth participation in the Alps regarding the topic of sustainable mobility and new consumer behavior through the development of a new learning tool: an experiential journey through sustainability in the Alps. Target groups are young people, youth workers and decision-makers from several Municipalities from all over the Alps. Around 20 young people from 4 alpine countries (France, Italy, Slovenia and Austria) accompanied by 4 youth workers are participating. They are travelling from their hometown to two alpine relevant events only by sustainable transport means. They have a given time and a given CO2 Budget to respect. The travel is as team-game conceived, so the CO2 Budget is valid for the all group for 5 days. It means the singles or some small groups will have to bargain with each-other to stick to the given rules. During this travel the participants are meeting some decision-makers, presenting their experience in the public and recording their choices in a CO2 Documentation, where it will be visible also the added value of each decision (travelling by feet was taking longer but I enjoyed the landscape, I got a new friend and so on….)A coach will support the young participants before the journey, in the planning phase and in producing creative formats (postcards, flash mobs) to present the thematic challenges to a broader public during the event thy are joining.A website will report about the journeys, collect the CO2 documentation as well as multimedia-reports, dialogue with decision-makers and stay as a new tool to travel in a sustainable way through the AlpsAims of the project are:- young people living in the Alps is aware that traveling in a sustainable way has an high added value and is an important contribute to reach the aim carbon-neutral Alps.- decision-makers make possible more youth participation regarding mobility policies- Youth workers increase their know-how regarding the topic of sustainable mobility and 2000-Watt society and are able to inform and sensitize a broader group of young people.

COORDINATOR: CIPRA Im Bretscha 22 9494 schaan, Liechtenstein www.cipra.org

CONTACT: Nicoletta Piersantelli

PARTNERS: Municipio di Belluno, IT; GEMEINDE WERFENWENG, AT; OBCINA IDRIJA, SI; Mairie Annecy, FR; Verein Alpenstadt des Jahre e.V. Città alpina dell’anno Ville des Alpes de l’Année Alpsko mesto leta, DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 48 100 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 16 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: Environment and climate change

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Education for Sustainable Development; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP73

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-LI02-KA205-000017

TITLE: WRITE- WEIL ALLES MIT EINER IDEE BEGINNT

DESCRIPTION: WRITE – because everything begins with an ideaBackground of the project:The idea of this project is that young motivated people discover their passion and talent for literature. We want teach the participants about the handling with publishing house and literary world closer and we want motivate to try something new and to strengthen self-confidence. Through our own experience we know how difficult it can be to gain a foothold in Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Austria. Mostly the problem begins with the publisher search. There are little recognizes publishers. Just as there aren’t much good organisations that promote young writers.Our team consists of 8 members. Sonja Wehrli and Jacqueline Frick are leaders of the project and are authors and publisher from Liechtenstein. They have carried out a successfully workshop for young people in 2013. Our active members occupy a decisive role. Irma Wille and Christof Posch are members resident in Austria. But our team is with the members completely. To this team belong Mathias and Andreas Deplazes resident in Liechtenstein, Rolf Wehrli and Christina Konzilia resident in Austria.The workshop sets off 8 half days, 3 days in addition and the publication.While the half days we offer the participants a program consisting of theory block, visits from the author Armin Öhri, the president of the literature and author Amelia Blackwoods and practice block which can be used from the participants to work on their own story.During the workshop the participants will work out a work dossier which can be used after termination of the workshop.With this workshop we want provide Liechtenstein, Vorarlberg and Ostschweiz the possibility over the country to build a community for young writers to socialize. Such youth development is not there yet in this area.

COORDINATOR: WRITE-Weil alles mit einer Idee beginnt Eschnerstrasse 18 9487 Bendern, Liechtenstein www.sonjawehrli.li

CONTACT: Jacqueline Frick

PARTNERS: WRITE - weil alles mit einer Idee beginnt, AT

GRANT AMOUNT: 11 250 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 15 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment SP74 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-LT02-KA205-004096

TITLE: SIX STEPS TO GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

DESCRIPTION: The life of young people in Europe is very much dependent on the economical, social and political situation throughout the globe. Migration trends, increasing diversity in the societies, military conflicts and economic sanctions makes a significant impact of the EU citizens, as EU plays an important role in the global market as one of the biggest economies. Although a large number of young people in Europe support the EU contributions towards sustainable global development, only 1/5 of the youngsters have a strong belief that the global development and support to poorer can have a positive impact to the lives of the EU citizens. Furthermore, only a very small percentage of youngsters have a strong belief that they as individuals can play an important role in tackling global poverty. One of the reasons of such results might be the lack of understanding, how the world is connected, how the decisions made in EU affect the lives of people around the world, and how the problems and disasters that happen in other parts of the globe affect the lives of EU residents. Moreover, the youngsters lack of knowledge and skills for active civic engagement in meeting the global challenges. They lack of understanding that active civic participation or the change of individual habits and behaviors can make an impact to people and countries living in other parts of the world. The present project intends to meet the above mentioned needs and concerns by increasing opportunities for young people in Lithuania, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Spain to gain more knowledge, skills and change their behaviors necessary to meeting the global challenges and taking an active civic role to cope with them. The project aims to broaden civic participation of young people and enable them to contribute to meeting global challenges through local civic actions. This will be done by improving the quality of youth work and joining efforts of youth and educational bodies towards making young people promoters of global citizenship.The project will engage 380 participants: 240 young people, who will be provided with the opportunities to increase and apply their global citizenship competencies, 128 youth workers and youth leaders who will be give the possibility to improve their professional competence and embed global citizenship into their daily work, as well as 12 educators and youth policy maker, who will inform the process of development of a common framework for active global citizenship in partner countries. The project will develop a number of outputs aimed to create, pilot and share good global citizenship practices. The include publications, joint educational frameworks, learning/teaching resources, ICT-based learning tools, interactive resources summarizing good global citizenship practices in partner countries. The outputs will be piloted and embedded into youth work and non-formal education practices with the help of a number of international training and multiplier events. The project will provide an opportunity for young people to think of the issues they face everyday from the global perspective. It will allow the project participants to find their own role in the global society, as well as stimulate their behavioral change in order to contribute to sustainable development both locally and globally. The project will also allow its participants to identify the effects of the global issues to their own lives and make them become more active and responsible by changing their own views, attitudes, daily habits. It is also expected that the respect for diversity, self-esteem and personal responsibility of the project participants towards the issues happening around will be increased.The current project addresses the issues which are common for the whole European community. First of all, by providing innovative non-formal education methodologies and tools it will contribute to promoting the common European values, such as solidarity with poor countries in the world, as well as solidarity among people with the EU, dialogue between cultures and religions, respect for human rights, and others. Secondly, through increasing global citizenship education opportunities it will foster active citizenship among young people in Europe, thus contributing to the increase of active participation of the youngsters in the decision making processes throughout the EU.

COORDINATOR: VšĮ Pasaulio piliečių akademija Susves g. 15a 46377 Kaunas, Lithuania http://www.pasauliopilietis.lt

CONTACT: Indrė Augutienė

PARTNERS: CYPRUS NEUROSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE, CY; ASOCIACION CAZALLA-INTERCULTURAL, ES; PRO EUROPEAN NETWOR, BG STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP75

GRANT AMOUNT: 144 614 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; International Cooperation SP76 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-LT02-KA205-004100

TITLE: COMPETITIVE EUROPEAN YOUTH

DESCRIPTION: In a world increasingly reliant on technology, youth need to be given an opportunity to learn ICT skills in interesting, innovative and relevant way. In Europe non-formal education initiatives are needed not only to cultivate basic ICT skills at an early age, but also to raise interest in continuing with computing-related studies after school. The Competitive European Youth project aims at enhancing youth (14-18 years old) ICT and project management skills critical for their professional development through applying innovative approaches of non-formal education. The specific objectives are:1. Through exchanging the practices among partner organizations to develop blended non-formal education programme (methodology and online training course) to promote greater inclusion of ICT and project management in youth non-formal education;2. To empower 16 youth leaders as ambassadors to pursue ICT-related career paths;3. To enhance 80 youth (14-18 years old) ICT and project management skills through applying innovative practices of non-formal education and thus improve their competitiveness on the job market;4. Through application of innovative methods to keep the youth workers up to date to the rising challenges of the digital age. Expected results:1. Developed blended non-formal education programme (methodology and online training course) which promotes inclusion of ICT and project management in innovative way in non-formal education.2. Empowered youth leaders as ambassadors of IT career promoters.3. Improved competitiveness of at least 80 youths’ competitiveness through enhancing their skills in ICT and project management. 4. Strengthened and improved digital skills of 4 youth workers in new educational approaches and methods through synthesis of ICT and project management education.5. Created 16 IT projects by the youth.Special added value lies in the composition of the partners involved in this project. The project covers four organizations that represent different countries and regions across Europe (Lithu- ania, Hungary, Cyprus and Spain). Each partner is a provider of youth non-formal education in its country and has a wealth of experience in lifelong learning. We hope that through this project we will boost the potential of ICT in youth non-formal education. Within the project we aim to introduce flexible, innovative non-formal learning methods. We strongly believe that these alternative to formal education learning methods would contribute a youth to find a pathway to the marketplace. Also, through this project we will put strong emphasis on youth leaders and workers and their capacity to use ICT and to gain the competences necessary for empowering young people in their countries.

COORDINATOR: Viešieji interneto prieigos taškai Sausio 13-osios street, 10 Vilnius, Lithuania www.vipt.lt

CONTACT: Laura Grineviciute

PARTNERS: SYNDESMOS EKPEDEFSIS ENILIKON KYPROU, CY; Fundación Acción Social Educación y Tiempo Libre ESPLAI, ES; “Legjobb vagyok” Tehetsegmentoralo Kozhasznu Nonprofit Kft., HU

GRANT AMOUNT: 118 205 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP77

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment SP78 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-LU02-KA205-000150

TITLE: STUDENT THEATRE IN EUROPE

DESCRIPTION: Student Theatre in EuropeThe objective of the project is to intensify the exchange of the student theatre groups within the European Greater Area of SaarLorLux, and in specific individual cases beyond. Within the framework of this strategic partnership, the partners from Luxembourg, Saarbruecken, Metz and Cam- bridge should have the possibilty to get regularly in touch with each other over a certain period of time in order to gain a better knowledge of the individual situation. The experience so far has demonstrated, that the student theatre at the respective universities is characterized by large differences. Depending on the local academic constraints and involvements, the theatre groups reasonably vary in structure and concep- tional direction. In this course, the partners shall receive suggestions on how to develop and live student sheatre beyond borders and national specifities in order to define their profile and highlight their own significance.The project is scheduled from Mai 2015 until September 2016, whereas the partners should have the opportunity to experience their individual theatre landscape as host and as participant. In particular the theatre festivals (Saabruecken: June 2015, Cambridge: October 2015 and Metz: Summer 2016) which are taking place within this period, should serve as a forum and a platform of exchange.Scope and function of the partners:Theatre groups: Best practice in studen theatreGrrrrr: PR & Documentation of the project, PR-Workshop Promotion of student theatreMochila Productions: Profile-Coaching: View from the outside, Thematic input and impulses towards sustainability, EU-Citizenship, EmpowermentGrAFiTi Asbl.: Conception and coordination

COORDINATOR: GrAFiTi asbl 162 A, Avenue de la Faïencerie 1511 Luxembourg, Luxembourg

CONTACT: Tom Streeb

PARTNERS: Ars in Fieri, UK; Los Mutantes, DE; Mochila Productions UG, DE; Espace culturel Grande Région, LU; Théâtre Universitaire de Metz (TUM), FR; edudrame, LU

GRANT AMOUNT: 42 650 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 15 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 3: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Inclusion and Tolerance STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP79

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-LU02-KA205-000151

TITLE: IMPROVING EDUCATION - IMPROVING LIFE

DESCRIPTION: The strategic partnership is composed of highly complementary body including the applicant and non- profit organizations from different regions of Europe. The decision to realize the “Improving Education - Improving Life project was made in cooperation of 4 Partners from Europe: Luxembourg, Poland, Mace- donia and Estonia.The previous cooperation and researches conducted by the partners of the project revealed many important things in common in their countries such as insufficient level of education, rising unemployment especially among young people, not enough qualified youth workers especially in field of non-formal education and youth with fewer opportunities, insufficient cooperation of NGOs with local authorities, insufficient number of NGOs working in the field of youth.After several non-formal discussions and mail exchange we realized that all organizations forming the strategic partnership combine the following common aims such as: - promoting young people’s social inclusion, notably through projects tackling the issue of youth unemployment and innovative support- developing and promoting new methodologies and tools uptake in youth work and non-formal learning- developing basic and transversal skills in the field of youth, using innovative and pedagogical approaches and developing appropriate assessment and certification methods based on learning outcomes.According to our needs we have established common objectives of the project such as:- to give opportunities to youth workers organizations to develop a quality European mobility projects to support young people in the realization of mobility projects and to facilitate their professional inclusion;- to reinforce the European cooperation in order to improve capacities of organizations involved in the field of youth education and professional inclusion to support young people in the realization of mobility projects;- to share practices, existing methods and tools in different European countries used to support youth workers in the realization of projects and activities in the field of youth and non-formal education;- to better understand the needs and problems of youth workers and people working in non-formal education;- to create new methodology and tool to train and reinforce the capacities of youth workers in the European mobility projects;- to gain a better understanding of importance of non-formal education and its working methods in combating youth unemployment and social exclusion;- to favor dissemination of the tool and methods created by diffusing results of this project at local, national and international level.In a frame of our strategic partnership we plan to organize transnational meetings of youth workers to exchange practices and to develop a final design tool in the form of publication with selected working methods in the field of non-formal education. Furthermore, we plan to conduct activities in the field of practical educational experience - Study Visit activity. More- over, the results and experience gained during the implementation of the project will be discussed by on transnational meeting - Final Evaluation Seminar. To ensure the sustainability and dissemination of the project’s results, after finishing the project’s lifetime we will conduct conferences at local / regional level in order to start a dialogue with local authorities and institutions about the need of developing a common strategy to fight the unemployment and low level of education among youth. During the conference, we will take discussion about the possibilities of using non-formal education and its methods in combating youth unemployment in the future.

COORDINATOR: LASSO 40, rue des Minières 3526 Dudelange, Luxembourg

CONTACT: Miomir Vujovic

PARTNERS: Limitless, PL; Amanet - Dobra Misla, MK; BE ACTIVE, EE

GRANT AMOUNT: 54 625 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers SP80 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Supporting schools to tackle early school leaving (ESL) and disadvantage as well as to address all students from the lowest to the highest end of academic spectrum

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP81

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-LU02-KA205-000152

TITLE: INIUARAPOLIS

DESCRIPTION: Iniuarpolis is an intercultural project which wants to realize a transcultural film production. It discusses in what way and to what extent the cultural origin and the location where someone lives interrelate with each other. 24 to 30 teenagers in the age of 12 to 18 from three different cities ( Vienna, Berlin and Lux- embourg) will meet for that film production. The guideline for the movie will be: „a superhero in metropolis „ Iniuarapolis“.“ Each city will have 8 minutes in the movie. The individual parts are based on each other and will be filmed in parts. In this way city A will be shown in the beginning, B in the middle part and C will end the movie. This will create a sense of community for the participants and will motivate each individual. The first step will be to approach one’s own city and think about what represents the location of living and what problems might concern the city. This will help to illustrate it on video later on. Then the participants should contact residents of the city and talk to them to find out about the cultural variety and to get a new insight of the town ( as part of the own identity). It is important to gain cultural affiliation without having the problem to deny one’s cultural origin. In the following step of course the movie functions as a mediator between the adolescents of the different towns. Together there must be a conversation about how the content of the movie should be expressed to form a unified whole. Therefore it is also possible to develop a storyboard together or decide on facts about film distribution and movie release. This project allows us through active media relations: to get to know unfamiliar opinions or sights and to understand them, to reconsider one’s own and others illustration and to get rid of prejudices, to get to know people, to build up a communication network and last but not least to be creative and to reinforce self-awareness. The future potential in this project lays in publishing, distributing the movie and in the serial character of the movie ( open ending). This could convince and inspire other facilities or youth groups to be a part of the metropole „Iniurapolis“ and motivate them to perform other projects with and about film production.

COORDINATOR: Reidener Jugendtreff a.s.b.l Rue de Niederpallen 1 8506 Redange/Attert, Luxembourg

CONTACT: Ken Nilles

PARTNERS: Sozialdiakonische Arbeit Berlin GmbH, DE; Verein Wiener Jugendzentren, AT

GRANT AMOUNT: 9 150 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 8 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 2: Effective strategies for enhancing basic skills

PRIORITY 3: Addressing low achievement in basic skills through more effective teaching methods

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Social dialogue

TOPIC 3: Gender equality / equal opportunities

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance SP82 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-LV02-KA205-000609

TITLE: BY LEARNING YOU WILL TEACH, BY TEACHING YOU WILL LEARN

DESCRIPTION: The necessity of the project implementationIn general, all partners have a similar situation – schools or institutions limit the work of student self-government by various events organizing (involving, entertaining and consolidating events). Self-government is underused as the potential of intellectual resource. Young people aren’t informed and involved in problem solving and decision making on issues related to life of educational institutions. Not all schools or educational institutions are interested in the development of student self-government, considering that it is extra work.Basically, the risk of early school leaving will increase in all EU countries. The project will offer the solutions to the problem. Student self-government, increasing the efficiency of their work, will improve work with young people from groups of social risk and reduce the risk of early school leaving.Project objectives: to improve and intensify the work of schools or other educational institutions’ student self-government with young people, thus increasing the capacity and work efficiency of student self-government and reducing the risk of early school leaving.Profile and number of participants: * Trained and involved in mutual mobility 98 young people from student self-governments of educational institutions and social risk groups * approximately 280 young people will take part in different activities * 48 teachers involved in the mobility as an accompanying staffAc- tivitiesThe project activities are planned in two ways:1.Activities carried out by any partner at the same time throughout the project. Each partner organization trains student self-government purposefully.In the course of training there is provided to introduce the young people the content and meaning of the planned topics and the importance of working with young people groups of social risk, methodological support of different theme learning.Trained young people from student self- governments will use this knowledge to involve and train young people from group of social risk.2 . Mobility activities in a particular country. The members of self-government and teachers exchange knowledge learn some abilities and skills in a particular field and transfer their experience in their school or institution.The methods used ice-breaking activities, discussions, role-plays, tests, interviews with representatives of various professions, visiting social institutions, excursions to companies, local and state government and manufacturing companies, charity campaigns, organization of various events, filming movies, activities of group formation and consolidation, organization of events, workshops, training, etc.Description of the project results * 210 detailed handouts * The developed materials will be summarized on the overall blog, supplemented by description of the situation in different countries, statistical data, theoretical guidelines and conclusions; all interested have access to these materials * Partners and trained young people from student self-government will continue to work in their own schools, informing about the project results and involving other young people of institutions in activities; the total number - more than 3,000 young people from all partner organizations Effects * There is expected that around 50% of young people groups of social risk will be motivated to continue learning and to acquire the selected educational or another programs in all the partner organizations due to project activities * after the project results are in open access and available for public. The staff of other educational and social institutions, members of student self-governments and young people will be interested in the project experience learning and its practical application in their own institutions* young people from groups of social risk will be encouraged to participate in activities that are organized by various educational institutions and NGOs.Long-term benefits * Young people will be motivated to continue or resume studying to get formal education as well as improve the motivation for studying and building their careers, thereby potentially reducing the number of people at the risk of unemployment in the region.

COORDINATOR: Valmieras 2. vidusskola Raiņa iela 11 LV4201 Valmiera, Latvia www.v2v.edu.lv

CONTACT: Daiga Ramata STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP83

PARTNERS: ABIDIN PAK PAKMAYA ANADOLU LISESI, TR; ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT MARKETING GATE SKOPJE, MK; BUGARSKI SVOBODEN UNIVERSITET, BG; Associação Intercultural Amigos da Mobilidade, PT; Kreateam Egyesület, HU; Liceul Tehnologic “V. M. Craiu”, RO

GRANT AMOUNT: 160 882 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Supporting schools to tackle early school leaving (ESL) and disadvantage as well as to address all students from the lowest to the highest end of academic spectrum

TOPIC 1: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment SP84 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-MK01-KA205-002714

TITLE: CEASE COWERING: YOUTH EMPOWER ACTION HERE!

DESCRIPTION: In times of financial crises and increasing youth unemployment, alternative solutions to achieve progress and development are more than essential. The youth remain one of the most vulnerable groups in these turbulent times and therefore, the current EU-YOUTH strategy by the European Commission has recognized the needs to provide more and equal opportunities for young people in education and in the job market and to encourage young people to actively participate in society. The idea behind the Cease Cowering: Youth Empower Action Here (CC: YEAH!) project led by Mladiinfo International and its partners: Mladiinfo Slovakia The Global Experience and Iversity.org, is to create sustainability through youth empowerment and to transform youth into active citizens, well-educated and with well-developed skills and tools to contribute to the labor market and move the society forward. The idea behind the CC: YEAH! project lies exactly in providing a program that will strength the capacities of young people to locate, exploit and transfer the knowledge and skills that are available online in the sphere of education and work, and in that way to make an example of how young people can grow into active citizens and change-makers in their societies. The very implementation of the project which strives at providing the very first on-line MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) course in the field of youth empowerment and building youth capacities as well as a print handbook, presents a unique material of this type. Whilst most of the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are focused on enhancing the knowledge on particular formal education topic and are moreover one-way oriented, Mladiinfo International attempts to actively include the youth and provide a two-way communication through the web-platform, as well as to provide guidance and not only teaching material but also a concrete actions plans and consultancies. Moreover, the priorities addressed by the project are: supporting the production and adoption of OER in diverse European languages, as well as promoting the professional development of staff and youth workers in ICT methodologies. In accordance with the priorities defined in the ERASMUS + Programme Guide, the project is expected to enhance the quality and relevance of education, training and youth work, to increase the entrepreneurship, languages and digital skills of youth, to develop critical thinking by using ICT, OER and virtual mobility, as well as to level up the management and coordination between the three Mladiinfo Network members. A kick off meeting, where 4 participants (1 from each organization) will gather and define the forthcoming activities is planned to take place in Germany. The long-term youth worker mobility is foreseen as one of the crucial project actions, where 2 youth workers from M! International will come to the office of M! Slovensko in Mlynska Dolina, Bratislava, and would jointly work with their 2 Slovak colleagues on the content of the MOOC course and the handbook with title Skills You Need to Brand You(th). The evaluation meeting is foreseen to take place in Bratislava where all partners will evaluate the reach out and success of the very first MOOC course in the area of youth empowerment and will discuss the follow up plan. The project target is to reach minimum 100,000 youth globally that will become aware about the required skills and competencies needed for youth career development and where minimum 500 youth globally will get their soft, entrepreneurial and digital skills increased through non-formal online education opportunities. Last but not least, the project CC: YEAH! would be a starting point for strategic mutual response on youth unemployment and youth exclusion in the region of South-East and Central Europe and broader, including the EU member-states, and the non-EU countries. We expect it to be a bottom-up process that would initiate strong youth partnerships in the field of education and would act as generator on future ideas and activities that would use the youth enthusiasm and would empower young people for action all around the globe. A long-term impact of the project is expected to happen on the European governments that should strive to support alternative solutions to the youth unemployment in a form of a policies and strategies, on the employers that would receive employees with a clearer vision about their professional development and more societally-aware as well as to the educational institutions that should consider the non-formal education as an important element of the individual’s development and should provide space for the implementation of the non-formal methods (peer-to-peer, learning by doing, role play) in order to assure best transfer of knowledge.

COORDINATOR: Mladiinfo International TRIFUN HADZIJANEV 7/5-1 1000 SKOPJE, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia www.mladiinfo.eu

CONTACT: Antoaneta Ivanova STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP85

PARTNERS: IVERSITY GMBH, DE; The Global Experience, DE; Mladiinfo Slovensko, SK

GRANT AMOUNT: 33 015 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 13 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Open and distance learning

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Teaching and Training; New Technologies and Digital Competences SP86 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-NL02-KA205-000960

TITLE: YOUNG QUEER EUROPE

DESCRIPTION: With our Strategic Partnership Young Queer Europe (YQE) we aim to bring non-LGBT organizations and LGBT organizations from different parts of Europe together in order to share experiences on dealing with sexual identity issues in youth work and to learn from each others expertise and working methods. We have brought a strong coalition of partners together with specific expertise in the field of LGBT related issues, in media&video and in awareness campaigns. We consider the collaboration between these organizations as innovative and very strong. The organizations will learn how to effectively use media and narrative structures as a method for fostering awareness and acceptance regarding LGBT issues. Also, the partner organizations will be trained in transferring this knowledge to their target groups (youth workers and youngsters). Finally, sharing expertise, sharing good practices and training is the core of this strategic partnership project that will lead to two main outputs: toolkit and website. This project has several objectives, it:- provides useful tools for youth workers to open the discussion on LGBT issues with their youngsters - raises awareness regarding social inclusion, gender equality and protection of young LGBT people;- learns youth workers how to effectively use media, film and performing arts in awareness campaigns regarding LGBT issues and human rights issues in general;- builds strong Gay-Straight Alliances between LGBT organizations and non-LGBT organizations. The organizations will be strengthened by these alliance in general and they have a exemplary role in specific towards other organizations; - enables partnering organizations tools to execute awareness campaigns;- provides organizations the tools to involve more young LGBT people in the work to increase the visibility and acceptance of LGBTs in Europe;- builds strong network of LGBT organizations all over Europe, sharing of knowledge; - attracts better attention for the position of LGBTs, specifically in countries were it is less accepted; - empowers young LGBTs in countries where homosexuality is not accepted in general; - capacity building, organizations will be trained in how to use media in raising awareness etc.;- creates material for an effective EU educational awareness campaign, such as website and toolkit. The organizations will learn how to effectively communicate issues deriving from their sexual and cultural diversity. The website and toolkit which will be launched eventually are crucial vehicles in exposing our project. Also, recorded video testimonies of young LGBTs will be visible on the website. The toolkit consists of: 1. examples of narrative structures which can be used for opening up the conversation on sexual diversity;2. exercises that can be used to discuss sexual diversity and LGBT issues in a safe environment;3. methodology on how to support LGBT youngsters;4. videos with testimonies of the young LGBTs which can be used for educational purposes at youth centers and schools in the participating countries (and the rest of EU)5. road-map: strategy on how to facilitate young LGBT activists and frontrunners in their work;6. strategy how to effectively use (social) media in LGBT activism/ raising awareness campaigns;7. strategy on how young LGBTs effectively could influence local/national stakeholders and policymakers. Moreover, the visibility of young LGBT people, by the website and toolkit, will empower other young LGBTs and lead to a more active and conscious EU citizenship. Also, it will lead to a broader understanding of the common European values regarding social inclusion, gender equality and protection of LGBT people.

COORDINATOR: Stichting art.1 Hasebroekstraat 34 / 1 1053CV Amsterdam, Netherlands www.stichtingart1.nl

CONTACT: Christiaan Belloni

PARTNERS: Angelica Entertainments LTD, UK; MiGaY - Verein zur Integration und Förderung von homosexuellen MigrantInnen, AT; Kolektiv za razvoj, istrazivanje i propitivanje queer kulture - queerANarchive, HR; Association of citizens for social and multicultural development ZENSKA ALIJANSA Skopje, MK; Festival Yperifaneias Athinas - Athens Pride, EL; Drustvo Parada ponosa, SI

GRANT AMOUNT: 167 661 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 19 months STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP87

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Social dialogue

TOPIC 2: Gender equality / equal opportunities

TOPIC 3: Inclusion - equity

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance SP88 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-NL02-KA205-000963

TITLE: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN YOUTH ORGANIZATION - KEY TO PARTICIPATION

DESCRIPTION: The project Democratic governance in youth organization - key to participation’ is addressing one of the key issues in youth organizing: the aspect of real effective and meaningful participation, quality management and outreach. It is lasting from August 2015 to till December 2016 and involves 4 partners (JUB Netherlands, CID Macedonia, TOG Turkey and Out-of-the-box Belgium).The projects main aim is to strengthen the capacity and sustainability of youth organizations by developing the competencies of their democratic leadership and management structures in order for them to be able to grow sustainably. It will strengthen the internal communication among the volunteers, youth workers and employees within the organizations, which will affect the impact of their work. Objectives of the project are the following: - To develop a common understanding of the concepts related to democratic leadership in youth organizations such as: democracy, participation and leadership, civil society, human rights and citizenship - To raise participants’ awareness and provide space to reflect upon the value of youth organizations/structures - their role and impact as democratic leaders within society - To develop the participants’ ability to relate the work of their organizations with youth policy and provide them with up-to-date research (study) on youth organizations management- To develop participants’ understanding and knowledge of various forms of youth participation through youth organizations and their applicability for the management of a youth organizations- To define and further develop leadership and civic competencies as well as relevant management skills (conflict management, advocacy, motivation, shared leadership, decision making, empowerment, strategic planning, resource management) - To support participants in analyzing and further developing their organization internal processes and mechanisms in order to strengthen their work as youth organizations- To provide participants with ICT tools for online youth participation, better communication and coordination to stimulate their growth.The project is addressing one of the key issues in youth organizing, the aspect of effective and meaningful participation, quality management and outreach online, and as well offline. This project will provide a research and good practices on how to manage a youth organization, and how to provide space for democratic decision making through introducing the concepts of online youth participation and e-democracy in national youth organizations.The project will address the following questions/issues:1. How to manage democratically youth organizations and how to ensure active participation and links between young people from rural areas and remote areas, with the organization2. How to address youth policies related to the needs of local youth organizations, and to create meaningful discussions among the organization and with other stakeholders3. How to empower local level youth organizations to allow enough space for practical development of strategies and com- petencies5. How to use ICT to strengthen the communication and coordination within youth organization, and to provide space for active youth participation through online tools

COORDINATOR: JUB Abraham Kuyperlaan 16B 3038PK Rotterdam, Netherlands www.jubinternational.org

CONTACT: Martijn Bergsma

PARTNERS: ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE - KUMANOVO, MK; OUT OF THE BOX INTERNATIONAL, BE; TOPLUM GONULLULERI VAKFI, TR

GRANT AMOUNT: 59 993 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 16 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP89

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Social dialogue

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP90 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-NO02-KA205-000521

TITLE: YOUR KITE- THE INITIATIVE TO ENHANCE YOUNG PEOPLE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS ON IT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INCREASE THEIR EMPLOYABILITY

DESCRIPTION: YourKITE project develops digital media and communication skills of young people, and promote volunteering and professional orientation in order to ease the youth’s access to the labor market. At the same time, the project promotes entrepreneurship within youth as a way out of unemployment, by developing entrepreneurship knowledge and skills of young people. Our project wishes to contribute to this effort by providing an integrative approach to train and capacitate young people to become skillful entrepreneurs and employees. The project aims at developing the skills and competences of young people by creating an integrative education toolkit that will be used in promoting knowledge volunteering, enhancing entrepreneurship competences and developing the media and communication skills of youth. This toolkit will be made available, as open source material, to various organizations and institutions as well as individuals. The toolkit will be developed in an international team from organizations from Romania, Poland and Norway, whose members are experts in the fields the project is based on. The expertise from each organization participating in the project will be provided to the other partners, though three short-term joint staff trainings, allowing for an exchange of knowledge and enhancement of competences of the organizational members in order to develop jointly the toolkit and provide training to young participants (age 18-30). The toolkit will be put to a test during a pilot phase in which 18 young participants will be invited to learn how to use the toolkit and put the gained knowledge into practice during a transnational training. The participants of the transnational training will put their grained skills and knowledge to a test by conducting in to total 27 workshops for 400 teenagers and youth in Poland, Romania and Norway. During the pilot phase also online webinar trainings (distance learning) will be provided to 40 young participants ( age 18-30) who may be limited by various obstacles preventing them to join for the transnational training. Feedback and suggestions provided through evaluation forms collected from all direct and indirect participants in the pilot phase as well as from 40 partner organizations and three external experts will allow all organizations participating in this project to finalize the integrative toolkit. Moreover, it will allow to finalize: the online learning platform , on the project website, where additional information and materials will be provided and can be downloaded; the insight report which will provide other organizations and institutions with evaluation materials project management insight which they can put into use when establishing projects which will make use of the toolkit and young volunteers; the online trainings which will allow individuals and organizations to learn in addition to the provided toolkit. In addition to the above mentioned activities the project partners will meet for two transnational meetings which will allow them to prepare and finalize the trainings and all other materials which aim to fulfill the demands and expectations of young people to help them develop and find work opportunities. Moreover, to create comprehensive and ready to use materials which will allow other organizations and institutions too support young people who want and need ICT based knowledge, entrepreunalship knowledge and work experience through engaging in knowledge volunteering activities.

COORDINATOR: NORSENSUS MEDIAFORUM Karl Johans gate 16 B 0154 Oslo, Norway www.norsensus.no

CONTACT: Vedat Sevincer

PARTNERS: FUNDACJA ROZWOJU SPOLECZENSTWA INFORMACYJNEGO, PL; Fundacja Rozwoju Wolontariatu/Volunteering Development Foundation, PL; FUNDATIA DANIS PENTRU DEZVOLTARE MANAGERIALA, RO

GRANT AMOUNT: 139 138 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 22 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP91

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Employability; Teaching and Training SP92 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014197

TITLE: NEW FILM TOOLS IN YOUTH WORK

DESCRIPTION: NEW FILM TOLLS N YOUTH WORK is an international project of Polish, Italian and Hungarian experienced in cultural and educational activities organizations. The aim of the project is to create, use, and promoting film as an innovative tool for working with young people in non-formal education. As well as training and support for educators and animators in their efforts to stimulate activity, creativity, free thinking, develop talents, skills and acquire knowledge freely. As a result of project activities, the training program for educators and animators, will be created, as well as a guide book for educators and animators and public educational website. All will constitute a complete source of knowledge and support for people interested in film education and non-formal education.

COORDINATOR: Banderii 4/231 01-164 Warszawa, Poland

CONTACT: Tomasz Moskal

PARTNERS: Stowarzyszenie FILMFORUM, PL; Szitafilm kft, HU; Associazione cinematografica e culturale Laboratorio dei sogni, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 159 145 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP93

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014212

TITLE: DESIGN YOURSELF

DESCRIPTION: Clothing and design style plays one of the most important role in young peoples lives. The way young people dress becomes part of their identity and the way they are perceived by the others. On the other hand, the question what exactly young people express through their clothes and how is it related to their self-esteem and self-perception remains open. Young people, especially those with disadvantaged backgrounds, are often unaware of their needs and passions or believe that they are not able or skilled to express themselves by their personally crafted clothes. Thus, the main idea of this project is to explore if and how it is possible through cloth design process enter young people personal sphere to reveal they talents, passions and competences in order to use them as resource in further social and professional pro-activity. To do so we are planning to create an innovative educational model stimulating self-awareness of young people and entrepreneurship through cloth design called Design Yourself Educational Model (DYEM). This educational tool will be openly accessible to the youth workers, trainers, teachers and counselors offering also the online space for follow up, feedback and new ideas. Another objective is to conduct a research study on youth pro-activity in clothing design and craft that will be conducted both in Poland and in Germany. We would also like to create DesignYourself online platform as an interactive space for young people who are creative in redesigning own cloths and want to become proactive it that area as well as for youth workers and trainers interested in a topic and new methology.To realize these objectives we will create the partnership consisting of two partnership organizations: Arte Ego from Łódź experienced in international and local projects addressed to young people using different art media: circus, sound system, visual art and street work, and its German partner GrenzKultur gGmbH/ Kabuwazi from Berlin providing children and youth with the help in building up needed social skills mainly through the methods of circus. The project will be realized with the support of the psychiatric hospital of the Medical University of Lodz (Youth Department) and the network of designers and companies involved in the design of clothing, tai- loring and creating accessories. We will also involve the group of 16 young participants (including min 4 persons with fewer opportunities) who will participate in pilot workshops being part of DYEM elaboration process.

COORDINATOR: Arte Ego Strycharska 24/82 93-521 ŁÓDŹ, Poland [email protected]

CONTACT: Dagna Gmitrowicz

PARTNERS: GrenzKultur gGmbH, DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 46 253 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 7 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training SP94 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014217

TITLE: STRATEGIC COOPERATION FOR BETTER ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION

DESCRIPTION: The project Strategic cooperation for better entrepreneurship education is a 12 months venture of two partners: The Centre for Sustainable Development “HORIZONSfrom Poland and Hyperion University Foun- dation from Romania.The problem we would like to address in the project is lack of or insufficient entrepreneurship competences (skills and knowledge) among youth learners. One of the causes of the problem is the way of competence development, insufficient creative activities and not appropriate teaching methods as well as learning and teaching environments.A distinguishing feature of our contemporary societies is that they appears to be in constant process of transformation that affects all areas of our life. Succeeding in such a complex change process calls for better entrepreneurship competencies and it is related to creativity and innovative thinking. The world needs enterprising, resourceful, energetic, and bold individuals, who takes on imaginative projects, take initiative in order to be successful, can produce creative solutions for the challenges of the working life.Through the project we wish to contribute to a reduction in the number of entrepreneurship low-skilled youth.Goals within the project are:1) contributing to a reduction in the number of low-skilled youth by improving the level of key entrepreneurship competencies (knowledge and skills), with particular regard to their relevance for the labour market and their contribution to a cohesive society, in particular through increased opportunities for learning mobility and through strengthened cooperation between the world of education and training and the world of work;2) developing basic and transversal entrepreneurship skills by using innovative and learner-centred pedagogical approaches; delivering of curriculum/teaching programme, methods and models that have the aim to teach entrepreneurship in a creative fashion and developing appropriate assessment based on learning outcomes. 3) exchange of good practices regarding teaching entrepreneurship between partner countries by development of curriculum and conference 4) enhancing the quality of the entrepreneurship training and youth work by developing new and innovative approaches;5) dissemination of good practices developed indirectly during the project;6) reinforcing the links between entrepreneurship training of youth and world of work;7) promote entrepreneurship thinking, employability and new business creation (including sustainability entrepreneurship), supporting future learning and career paths for individuals in line with their personal and professional development; Project activities includes: 1) Intellectual Out- puts: development of modern Sustainability Entrepreneurship Teaching Program, development of Virtual entrepreneurship platform.2) Short-term training activities: 40 hours of physical and 20 hours of virtual training course on entrepreneurship according to the developed teaching programme (testing). Number of participants: 24. From each partner county: 12 participants. Profile of participants: young people, willing to up-skill their entrepreneurship, having a desire to start their own business (eg. unemployed).The methodology to be used in carrying out the project is Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and elements of PRINCE2 .Results:1) Sustainability Entrepreneurship Teaching Program and Virtual Entrepreneurship Laboratory (tested) 2) international conference proceedings 3) Evaluation report from testing of Sustain- ability Entrepreneurship Teaching Program4) increased competencies (skills and knowledge) among 24 youth learners;5) increased self-esteem of learners;6) increased ability of learners to adapt to changing conditions and perception of opportunities and their exploration;7) increased partners institutional capac- ityImpact envisaged and the potential longer term benefits:1) more creative undertakings and ventures2) more product/process/marketing/organizational innovations 3) developing a creative, intelligent regions4) Better understanding of other cultures and countries;5) Increased creativity and inventiveness, dynamism and pro-activity of learners Added value for the participants of the project will be additional skills learned indirectly during the project activities: Envisioning, Critical thinking and reflection,Systemic thinking, better multicultural dialogue and, learning to work together; better understanding of other cultures and countries; Increased creativity and inventiveness, dynamism and proactivity.

COORDINATOR: Centrum HORYZONTY Obryte 105A 07-215 Obryte, Poland www.fundacjahoryzonty.pl

CONTACT: Matuesz Dela

PARTNERS: Fundatia Universitara Hyperion, RO STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP95

GRANT AMOUNT: 33 570 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Teaching and Training; Employability SP96 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014223

TITLE: DESIGN YOUR LIFE

DESCRIPTION: Project Design your life is organized by non-governmental organization - Somali Association in Poland in cooperation with the British organization SHIFT. Project will undertake topic of Design and will engaging young people with migrant backgrounds into different activities. The participants will be young creative and interested in the topic people from 20 to 30 years. These will be mainly volunteers from partner organizations as well as individuals from the communities working with the organizations. From the submitted applications we will select 41 participants, half of which will come from migrant backgrounds. The aim of the project is to increase entrepreneurship among the youth, increasing the level of key competences and skills of young people, including those with fewer opportunities, increase awareness of intercultural dialogue, developing basic and interdisciplinary skills such as entrepreneurship, digital skills and multilingualism, growth of innovation in pedagogical and methodological approach in working with young people, improving foreign language skills of the participants.The project is based on 2 trainings, one will be held in Poland and one in the UK, each project will last for 7 days. During the course, participants will take part in workshops, sessions and practical classes about Design as a tool to support and increase chances of the youth on the labor market. After the primary training which will be held in Poland, we will organize three workshops about design. During this workshops participants will share their knowledge with other youth. After the training in the UK, we will organize 12 seminars with practical module with the youth, based on their interests and identified needs. Evaluation conferences are planned after completion of the project, each of them will be organized in one country (Poland and UK). We will create mini guides and web-based platform to disseminate the project results. The result of the project activities will increase the opportunities and learning mobility of young people, strengthening the link between young Europeans and the labor market, as well as through conttacts of ethnically mixed groups and participation of unemployed youth will enable to develop intercultural dialogue and integration.

COORDINATOR: Stowarzyszenie Somalijskie w RP Al. Jerozolimskie 51 m. 3A 00-697 Warszawa Warszawa, Poland ssrp.org.pl

CONTACT: Elmi Abdi

PARTNERS: Sheffield Independent Film & Tv Ltd, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 40 740 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 7 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Increasing attainment levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP97

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014228

TITLE: TRACES OF IDENTITY

DESCRIPTION: The project „Traces of identity aims at encouraging young people to search for peculiarities of their local identity and belonging intheir regions both historical area and contemporary life.We want two countries to establish cooperation and make this local research : Poland and Italy. Even though separated and not evenbordering, are linked by very interesting aspect of local identity and „small fatherland. Lower Silesia (Poland) has passed throughnumerous outstanding events and governors, not necessarily Polish ones throughout its history and became part of Poland onlyafter second world war end. Multicultural past of the region makes it incredibly interesting to find local „typicalness.Contrarily, Marche - region in Italy, may cause different challenge. Since Italy united in 1871 and is often associated with group oflabels or stereotypes abroad that are rather national than regional, it is worth to find and preserve features typical for region. If itcomes to language, history, cuisine our countries are so different and meaning of “regionalism , “campanilismo are so different thatit would be very interesting and surprising to discover it with youngsters.4 areas of topic:History and archeology are the disciplines that go deep in the search for historical data. Nevertheless, it not always known what kindof research was held in given area and what its outcomes were. We want to find it out and make young people not only aware ofbasics archeological methods but also increase interest in what has been discovered specifically in their regions.Proposed activities: treasure hunting/orientary game connected with pieces of history; story telling meeting for kids about theregion in collaboration with local communities (f.e. Held in local libraries or district clubs, get- to-know-the-roots walk witharcheologist, historical theatre play presenting part of the history of region. Art is a language of expression widely spoken and spreading in all the possible directions. However, the certain disciplines ortechniques start art certain place therefore we want to discover the specifiqueness of the regions and find out not only the localbranches but also those who hot into the history of art and were widely practiced, but to underline their origin.Proposed activities: visits and interviews in local mu- seums and galleries, handcraft workshop, painting plenaire to portrait theregion.Language is one of the crucial elements of identity. Even though both Polish and Italian are national ones spread in the area of thewhole country, we want to identify local aspects and show that some lexical or accentual variations make it different. We want toshow also differences between Italian and Polish approach to languages and dialects.Proposed activities: workshop with Polish/Italian teachers, interviews with older inhabitants of regions to listen and get to knowtheir way of speaking, village game to communicate with inhabitants in Polish using some basic words.Last but not least, cuisine is one of the most powerful means to present local identity, due to local or locally seasonal products, wayof preparing them, ending up in dishes that motion of that be known or served in one area only. Cuisine has its history and cuisine isan art, so this part of the guide will present both contemporary situation of whats locally served to peoples palates and how itoriginated.Proposed activities: cooking workshop with local and seasonal local products, interviews with local farmers to find out what iscultivated in the region, best local dish contest and voting. We will create a short movie showing how we cooked.The final outcome for each partner will be creation of ebook – digital guide book of our small homeland. It will show the effects ofthe investigation and present the traces of local identity. Youngsters will choose by themselves monuments and places that theywant to show. It can be untypical and subjective. Both guidebooks will be created in national languages and in English and dividedinto 4 areas mentioned before. We want to make it catchy and nice, very visual, with a lot of photos and testimonies of participants.Between two of our meetings youngsters will have time to implement their own activities which will help to show project in theirlocal communities and gather data to create guide books at the end.We will propose some common activities, but young people may still come up with ongoing events in their local communities.

COORDINATOR: Centrum Inicjatyw UNESCO al. Wiśniowa 33 53-137 Wrocław, Poland www.unescocentre.pl

CONTACT: Kamila Wierzbicka

PARTNERS: Vicolocorto, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 15 950 EUR SP98 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTRACT DURATION: 13 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP99

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014235

TITLE: JAK BYĆ PRZEDSIĘBIORCZYM NIE BĘDĄC PRZEDSIĘBIORCĄ - MOCNE ZAPOTRZEBOWANIE NA MIĘKKIE KOMPETENCJE

DESCRIPTION: “How to be entrepreneurial without being an entrepreneur - soft skills in demandThe main objective of the project is entrepreneurial learning , however not only to understand how to run a company but also to understand importance of good attitude. We’d like to give participants opportunities to develop both, theoretical and practical skills from the point of view of the future employer.Specific objectives:• shaping entrepreneurial attitudes• to explain how to start a business, run a company or social enterprise • learning about self-presentation and public speaking • developing skills in using digital technologies, especially for creating marketing materialsThere’ll be 20 participants + two leaders. We prefer young people from rural areas, that are about to graduate and look for a job. Due to great distance from the city, young people have limited opportunities to improve their interests and gain experience in the preferred direction.Planned activities:1. RURAL ACADEMY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIPThe local entrepreneurs will be the teachers - people with the knowledge, experience and skills of its transmission. Classes will take form of lectures and workshops providing specific skills and competences that shape the entrepreneurial attitude.2. PATHWAYS TO PERSONAL GROWTHCareer counselor will be responsible for this task. This task will include: recognition of competencies, planning the next steps in gaining work experience, define the necessary support, creating a portfolio with documents like CV and cover letter, preparation for the job interview. 3. WORKSHOPS ABOUT SOCIAL ENTERPRISESLegal aspects, financial and organizational management of entrepreneurs, financial support for social enterprises, local partnership. 4. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES WORKSHOPCreat- ing marketing materials, electronic presentation, leaflets, interactive posters, business cards, banners, spots.5. WEBINAR – “How to make a good impression - the art of public speaking.6. WEBINAR – “How to create a positive self image by means of social media?7. BUSINESS SPEED DATING 1 (ITALY)Presentation of young people for employers to meet with prospective job seekers. Employers are choosing youngsters, who made the best impression justifying their choice.8. BUSINESS SPEED DATING 2 (POLAND)This time polish young people will present themselves in front of local entrepreneurs. Local schools, organizations and institutions will be invited. This event will end the project.Expected results:• growth of entrepreneurial attitudes among participants• increasing knowledge in the field of setting up and leading a business• mutual understanding of the expectations of entrepreneurs and youth• determining the proper path for personal development• improving public speaking skills• getting to know new possibilities of education at home – webinar • acquisition of skills in creating attractive digital marketing materialsThe long-term impact of the project:• knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship• preparation for a job search and for a job interview • digital marketing skills• ability of using the internet to expand knowledge• knowledge about the local labor market and expectations of potential employers

COORDINATOR: Plewki 19 07-210 Długosiodło, Poland www.tradycyjnienowoczesni.pl

CONTACT: Joanna Bloch Bloch

PARTNERS: Jump in associazione culturale, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 26 150 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences SP100 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP101

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014238

TITLE: SHAKE UP START UPS

DESCRIPTION: Project Shake up Start ups aims at young people between 18-30 years old and youth workers from Croatia, Latvia and Poland. This project aims at promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people and internationalising youth work, opening it up to cross-sectoral cooperation, professionalising youth workers, building their competences, of 4 project partners, by developing new and innovative approaches, practices and supporting the dissemination of best practices. Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship is crucial on today’s labour market. According to the statistics from 2014 in 28 European Union countries unemployment affects 5 million young people under 25 years old and 7,5 million of young people are considered as NEETs (not employed, not in education and not in training). Youth unemployment among young people up to 25 years old, amounts to 27,3% in Poland, 49,7% in Croatia and 23,2% in Latvia. The reasons of such a high unemployment are complex and are largely related directly to the circumstances of the education system and cultural environment in which young people grow up in.Additional aims of the project are: developing basic and transversal skills (entrepreneurship, digital skills and language competences) of 60 young people from Croatia, Latvia and Poland, by participation in testing and implementation of the method of non-formal entrepreneurship academy; internationalising and professional development of 12 youth workers; enhancing digital integration in youth work and promoting of access to open educational resources (OER) in the youth field for 150 participants from dissemination of intellectual outputs events.In the frames of the project we will implement: a study visit in Poland, 3 Shake up Start ups events to disseminate the projects results and intellectual output, training course on Shake up Start ups non-formal entrepreneurship academy for youth-workers from the project partners in Latvia. The aim of the training is to expand knowledge about the method for those who will use the method in the project, during testing in each country and international implementation. Furthermore the implementation of the project, as blended mobility, will allow groups of young people to put entrepreneurial ideas for start ups into practice with a view to tackling challenges and problems identified within their communities.The intellectual outputs is a method of non-formal entrepreneurship of activities, developed by experts and youth workers, which will be described in an open educational resource (OER).The developed method involves also scenarios, case-studies, methods of conducting tests, approaches in youth work, assessment and certification methods, solving problems, gamification - use of game thinking and game mechanics in non-game contexts to engage users in.The method of non-formal entrepreneurship academy will be based on a non-formal education process (training and mentoring from professionals, sharing inspirations, new ideas, boosting power, getting practical knowledge, networking, pitching, internationalising etc.) connected with entrepreneurship areas (promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people and internationalising youth work, opening it up to cross-sectoral cooperation, professionalising youth workers, building their competences).The non-formal entrepreneurship academy will be possible to implement as the whole method or in parts, as the regular activity/non-formal learning offer of other organizations, so after the end of the EU funding in the frames of this project, allowing the result to be maintained. The project will have a relevant positive impact on the project participants, project partner organizations and other participating organisations, target groups and other stakeholders, coming out from not only the project activities, but also from the project intellectual output (the method of non-formal entrepreneurship academy). As the project will be carried out transnationally, the impact will be local, regional, national and also European.Thanks to the implementation of the project it will be possible to develop organization skills regarding international cooperation, group work skills and also develop a method of non-formal education (ICT methodologies, learner-centred pedagogical approaches), using ICT to youth work and non-formal learning.

COORDINATOR: KTP Olszewskiego 6 25 663 Kielce, Poland www.technopark.kielce.pl

CONTACT: Joanna Rudawska SP102 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: Stowarzyszenie Edukacja przez Internet, PL; BIEDRIBA “RADOSAS IDEJAS”, LV; Lokalna razvojna agencija Pins, HR

GRANT AMOUNT: 101 095 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Teaching and Training; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP103

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014245

TITLE: DZIURAWA SKARPETA NA EMIGRACJI

DESCRIPTION: The project aims to deepen the integration of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in the democratic life of the European Union through the ability to influence and knowledge sharing on global issues of common concern. The project involved about two groups of six young people from the Polish and England, coming from communities threatened with social and economic exclusion, some of which have health problems or diagnosed disability. Problems that we want to move this emigration and homelessness, which will be disseminated through created by the youth of Polish and English media and social networks. The main objective of the project is multi-level non-formal education and business development groups involved in the project. Results will be the development of participants and a documentary about a project that will serve as an educational tool in various institutions and for different social groups. The project will also serve as a form of opportunities to meet in another country and learn other than the national language.

COORDINATOR: Human Instytut Matki Teresy z Kalkuty 3/111 19-300 Ełk, Poland

CONTACT: Michał Łebski

PARTNERS: OTI YOUTH LTD, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 19 250 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP104 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014395

TITLE: CREATE A FILM, CREATE A FUTURE!

DESCRIPTION: CREATE seeks to address the issue of youth social and economic exclusion in Poland, Greece, Slovenia and UK where low levels of youth participation in both labour market and the democratic process is indicative of their marginalization. We aim to prevent their further marginalization by developing a new methodology for learning about the history of Europe through intergenerational and intercultural activities which will simultaneously allow them to gain not only useful soft skills but also professional skills in use of the creative media. This integrated methodology will both increase the employability of disadvantaged young people and strengthen their understanding of European citizenship.The methodologies which will result from the project will focus on the needs of young people with low skills, low educational attainment and who most likely to be unemployed. Remaining on the margins of society is invariable related to an ignorance of the history of ones own country and of Europe. Non-comprehension of political and economic systems and democratic processes and lack of awareness of the real nature of changes in Europe, coupled with a lack of opportunity to go abroad and to meet people from other cultures can make people closed-minded, passive and forced to live on the margins of public life. The 5-member Partnership, drawn from 5 countries, will seek to counteract these problems by developing new methodologies and training and learning tools based on the practice over two years of organizing training for young people and creating a portal to learn about the contemporary history. Our methodology for teaching contemporary European history is designed to impact in young peoples awareness of the EU and help them to better understand European history, its culture and their own background. We aim to strengthen their sense of citizenship by offering opportunities which allow them to exercise their rights, such as traveling to other countries, using a youth travel card, having insurance or taking part in a professional training course with youth from other parts of the EU. In addition, our methodology includes intergenerational work which will involve older people sharing their knowledge of contemporary history based on personal experience or as witnesses to events earlier in their lives. This approach will promote intergenerational cohesion and allow older citizens to feel valued with greater mutual respect between young sand old. Four partners will each recruit 16 disadvantaged young people who will be trained in contemporary history for 3 days and for 1 day on preparing film scenarios. Each partner will then offer 3 young people the opportunity to acquire new skills by taking part in two transnational 7-day modules on film making. The first 7-day module will focus on creating the film and the second module will focus on editing. The same scheme will be used for a second group of 3 participants from each country. Our methodologies and training/learning materials will be developed, tested, amended and evaluated through our work with these 24 young people from different countries who will work in transnational groupings to produce their films on topics from contemporary European history. As a final product, every film will consist of parts in different languages with subtitles in English. The films will be accessible in a special dedicated portal.Young people not selected for transnational training will also be trained over 5 days in film making at the national level and will work on their creating and editing their film in national teams. In this way all participants will be equipped with professional skills: learning how to develop and write make a film scenario, how to shoot and edit a film and eventually create a good quality film. During the training participants will have the chance to develop a portfolio and start to build up build a professional network. In this way the learners will increase their employability. The certificate of attendance (Youthpass) that they will receive for the two week training course will be an additional asset in the labour market. In addition to the impact on young peoples learning, their acquisition of new skills - both soft skills and creative media skills - and their improved levels of knowledge and understanding of contemporary history and EU citizenship, one of the key facets in the evaluation of our methodologies and tools will be the difference in effectiveness between those young people who received transnational training compared to those who continued learning at the national level. The intellectual outputs of the project will be:- an innovative Methodology for Integrated Creative Media, Employability Skills and Citizenship Training for disadvantaged young people,- a new method of learning contemporary history,- training Programme in film making,- the portal of contemporary history of Europe.

COORDINATOR: Piłsudskiego 6/2 75-511 Koszalin, Poland www.aperto.org.pl; www.bpokoszalin.pl STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP105

CONTACT: Anna Magryta-Urban

PARTNERS: Glotta Nova, center za novo znanje, d.o.o., Ljubljana, SI; Four Corners Limited, UK; EDRASE - Eteria Drasewn Epimorfosis (Educational Activities Society), EL; VEGAN SOLUTIONS SRL, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 36 000 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

TOPIC 3: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training SP106 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-PL01-KA205-014406

TITLE: LIDERZY W ORGANIZACJI MNIEJSZOŚCIOWEJ. PODNOSZENIE STANDARDÓW DZIAŁANIA ORGANIZACJI PRACUJĄCYCH NA RZECZ AKTYWIZACJI MŁODYCH PRZEDSTAWICIELI ŚRODOWISK POLONIJNYCH

DESCRIPTION: Project Leaders in minority organisations. Improving organizational standards of Polish diaspora organizations working on activisation of youth is a joint initiative of four organizations from four EU countries. The main objective of this project is to increase the potential of Polish organizations working in the field of civic education of young representatives of the Polish community in EU countries through the exchange of good practices, joint trainings of the staff of these organizations and development of new solutions to support work of these organizations.Within the last 10 years over 1,8 million of Poles have left Poland. According to the Central Statistical Bureau, by the end of 2013 most of them inhabited Great Britain (555 000), Germany (415 000), Ireland (140 000) and in Italy, the Netherlands and Spain (around 85 000 in each). Despite such high numbers of the polish communities in the EU countries, polish diaspora organisations working in the field of education are not very active when it comes to civic education and activisation. This leads to a shortage of initiatives aimed at promotion and encouragement of civic participation of the polish youth living abroad, their active citizenship and intercultural dialog.As part of a 24-month set of activities, there are planned joint trainings of staff, development of three intellectual products targeted at organizations working with young memebers of Polish community abroad, as well as dissemination events. The products of this project will be three widely available publications on:a) diagnosis of a local community with migrant/minority groupsb) creating the strategy of organisational growth and management for an organisation working with local diasporac) innovatie ways of activisation and engagement of the young polish diaspora through civic educationThe project is in line with the specific objectives of the Erasmus Programme + for young people, in particular it contributes to: - promotion of participation of young people in democratic life in Europe, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, - improvement the quality of the educational offer for young people.

COORDINATOR: Fundacja Szkola Liderow Wiejska 12a 00-490 Warsaw, Poland www.szkola-liderow.pl

CONTACT: Przemysław Radwan-Rohrenschef

PARTNERS: Polonia Nova Közhasznú Kulturális Egyesület, HU; Projekt:Polska.is, IS; Polish Cultural Festival Association, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 170 921 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP107

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-PT02-KA205-002322

TITLE: 100% YOUTH CITY

DESCRIPTION: 100% Youth City is KA2 Strategic partnership to develop an innovative approach to new generation of City Youth friendly Policies.The project aims to create and develop a quality label 100% Youth City, on Youth Friendly policies city and the all certification process to implement it.Project will combine the Structured Dialogue methodology and a new and innovative tool defined by the European Union on the Lisbon Treaty, the Open Method of Coordination. Project will start with short learning activity to learn how to work with the methodology and define milestones and budget and inance procedure for the implementation of 100% Youth City.The methodology will be implemented by defining the overall key topics and subtopics, identifying priorities and a division of learning outcomes in the certification process of 100% Youth City, emphasizing the key role of the youngsters and decision makers in collaboration with the project partners, Youth sector, experts and policy makers designing high quality transnational seminars and putting in place a good communication practice between transnational seminars all contribute towards good coherence in the partnership.The project will gather 7 Cities recognized by their good practices on Youth policies all future and actual European Youth Capitals, are partners of this project and we gather two more cities, Valencia as a good practice on the development of long term Strategic Youth Plans and the City of Riga as good practice on inclusion and work with minorities.The structure of the project activities is the management of one short Learning activity with all project coordinators and the management of 4 Transnational seminars.Each Transnational Seminar will conclude on process of certification, or stage as 100% Youth City and start another one. Partner will have six months between each Transnational Seminar to implement the tools and necessary indicators to achieve the certification on each stage.The project will be concluded with all 7 partners with certified as 100% Youth City and all certification process on Youth Friendly Cities ready to be disseminated as an innovative, new and powerful process to have Cities with real youth friendly policies.

COORDINATOR: Rua Santo António das Travessas 4700-312 Braga, Portugal www.bragacej2012.com

CONTACT: Carlos Santos

PARTNERS: Ganja European Youth Capital 2016 Public Union, AZ; MUNICIPUL CLUJ-NAPOCA , RO; CITTA DI TORINO, IT; Education, Culture and Sports Department of Riga City Council, LV; AYUNTAMIENTO DE VALENCIA, ES; Municipality of Varna , BG

GRANT AMOUNT: 130 628 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Increasing the efficiency of public expenditure and the investment in education, training and youth

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment SP108 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-PT02-KA205-002334

TITLE: PLAY4CHANGE

DESCRIPTION: The project PLAY4CHANGE aims to create an innovative tool based on a strategy game that has as its backdrop the action lines of the European Strategy for Youth: Education; Employment; Creativity and En- trepreneurship; Health and Sports; Participation; Social Inclusion; Volunteering; and Youth in the World. The tool will be created with the contribution of the participants in a participatory and collaborative dynamic between the project partners. Thus, the tool becomes enriched by the strategic partners. The tool created will allow to work with young people with fewer opportunities, including institutionalized and / or in vulnerable situations . In this process, participating organizations, respective staff and volunteers will be also empowered.The project will be developed in five phases: (1) PREPARATION: transnational coordination meeting; design of project image ; identification of staff and volunteers to be involved; (2) TRAINING: Training Course with volunteers and youth workers for capacity building and creation of the Game; production of the final version of the Game; production of game materials in 4 languages - Portuguese, Italian, German and English; (3) INTERVENTION: tool implementation with young people with fewer opportunities as the target group, by volunteers and youth workers; (4) MONITORING: individual follow-up sessions with young people, establishing conclusions and future commitments; and (5) EVALUATION: Final conference for the dissemination of results and the tool created.Apart from formal partners, the project will include two informal partners with national influence: the Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth and the General Directorate of Rehabilitation and Prison Services. These two partnerships greatly strengthen the project has to ensure on one hand a network of dissemination of results and high standards of quality and on the other ensure access to young people with fewer opportunities, including those in institutions in Education Centers. Similar dynamics occur in the countries of the formal partner organizations.420 young people will be covered with fewer opportunities, 24 youth workers or volunteers, 8 technicians for Education of DGRSP centers. The tool can be used with other public / groups and will last far beyond the formal end of the project.The game will be available in 4 languages: Portuguese, English, Italian and German and can be requested by any organization in the youth field which allows to reach a wide audience.

COORDINATOR: Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa Avenida 31 de Janeiro, 317 4715-052 Braga, Portugal www.cruzvermelha.pt

CONTACT: João Miguel Gomes

PARTNERS: Haus der offenen Tür, DE; STUDIO PROGETTO SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 72 588 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 16 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Inclusion and Tolerance STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP109

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014080

TITLE: INCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIP

DESCRIPTION: The project Inclusive Partnership has been developed by 3 youth organizations, CREED, BB and EEHYC, and a 4th partner, Capacity London, training provider company experienced in VET and working with disadvantaged groups. The project has as sole purpose the improvement of youth workers competencies in relation with inclusive activities for young people with fewer opportunities and more specifically, for young people from rural areas.The specific objectives are:- To assess the availability of learning opportunities for youth workers from UK, Spain, Lithuania and Romania aimed at improving the impact of inclusion related activities- To identify good practice examples for informal and non-formal learning activities (i.e. mentoring programmes) designed to improve youth workers competencies and assess whether such programmes can and should be replicated at local, national or European level- To challenge and improve the competencies of 23 youth workers from CREED, BB, EEHYC and Capacity London, during an 8 days short term joint staff training event for 20 youth workers and one long term mobility for 3 youth workers- To develop recommendations on the topic of youth workers competencies improvement in relation to inclusion activities for young people facing fewer opportunities, especially those from rural areasThe needs that we identified refer to an improved training and education system for youth workers. Although the partners encourage their staff to be actively engaged in personal and professional development opportunities, including through non-formal education activities and trainings, there is still the need of a unified approach that would allow youth workers to be involved in an efficient training and educational process meant to improve competencies required for raising the impact of inclusion activities and overcoming the various differences existent at national levels.The activities of the project include a short term training for 20 people, as well as a 12 months long term mobility for 3 youth workers. The Intellectual Outputs of the project consist of a Comparative analysis of learning opportunities avaialable for youth workers in the 4 countries, a Good practice document in the filed of competencies improvement for youth workers, and a Youth workers guide to better inclusion activities.

COORDINATOR: CREED CUT 721 617187 NEAMT DUMBRAVA ROSIE, Romania www.creedromania.wordpress.com

CONTACT: Gianina Vasnic

PARTNERS: ASOCIACION BUILDING BRIDGES, ES; Europos aplinkos ir sveikatos jaunimo koalicija, LT; Capacity London, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 98 730 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

TOPIC 1: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP110 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014083

TITLE: WE HAVE THE SAME BEAT!

DESCRIPTION: The project We have the same beat! is a transnational youth initiative which aims to involve young people in the creation / implementation of attractive activities together with young people with disabilities in order to sustain their integration and overcoming prejudices and discriminatory attitudes of community members.It will run for 29 month and will involve a total of 30 young people, of which 15 with special needs. The partner countries are Romania, France and Italy. Young people will be encouraged to work together on specific activities and workshops, representing a progressive training to the final show Leave the sign which will close the project and will present a group of young people working together in an attempt to break the wall, a metaphor to represent the promotion of social inclusion of youth with disabilities.The project represents a youth initiative developed in a context-based on non-formal education methods. It is in line with increasing living standards and quality of life of young people with special needs by addressing emotional content and expressive activities, respecting the fundamental rights of persons with disabilities, promoting non-discrimination, equal opportunities and social change.A guide will be developed during the lifetime of the project Leave a sign! which is a learning material adressed to youth workers and volunteers that are wanted to develop inclusive activities for youth with special needs. The material contain detailed activities (based on nonformal methods), tips and guidelines to communicate an interact with disabled persons.

COORDINATOR: CECIS 16 Februarie, no. 8 210134 Targu Jiu, Romania www.cecis.ro

CONTACT: Alexandra Babuca

PARTNERS: EUROCIRCLE, FR; MV INTERNATIONAL, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 103 199 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP111

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014094

TITLE: SOCIAL INNOVATORS PROGRAMME

DESCRIPTION: This project proposal builds on the need to develop the social economy in “newer EU Member States so that it reaches at least the same level as in the ‘older’ Member States. While the UK prides itself on a vibrant social economy estimated at £24 billion and a supportive political power, the concepts of social innovation and social enterprise have limited recognition in Romania and the Czech Republic. The social enterprise sector in these 2 countries emerged as a result of the fall of communism and it is a relatively underdeveloped sector, due to legal & institutional constraints. In contrast, the social enterprise sector in the UK emerged from an active effort by the state to push social enterprise as an approach toward solving its massive economic problems.The purpose of the Social Innovators Programme (SIP) is to promote sustainable social entrepreneurship & social innovation among young people (aged 18-30) in Eastern Eu- rope by training them and encouraging them to implement innovative solutions to social problems in their countries. We will do this by using social economy models tested in the UK & by shaping them to meet the needs of the Czech Republic & Romania. Our project will enable 120 young people to develop the confidence, resilience & business skills necessary to be a successful entrepreneur & the vision, values & ethics needed to set up a social enterprise. As part of the project, participants will also be provided with a list of funding sources & they will be assigned a mentor who will ease their path into starting up. A study visit to Edinburgh for 20 beneficiaries, who are most likely to start an enterprise, will enhance their learning about social innovation.The project will involve the following activities:• Development of training materials that will introduce participants to the foundation of social innovation and social enterprise.• Development of methodology to help trainers deliver the training.• Development of project website. • Recruitment and retention of volunteer mentors: 6 social entrepreneurs per pilot country (Romania, Czech Republic) will help project participants to start up.• Piloting: Rotaract and Ustav will run 6 pilot programmes each over 18 months. Each programme will run over 6 days and will cover a set of 5 topics on social innovation and social entrepreneurship. We expect that at least 10 young people will take part in one programme, which means a total of at least 60 people per country taking part in the pilot.• 2 study visits to Edinburgh: 5 young people from Romania & 5 from the Czech Republic per study visit (a total of 20 in the entire project) will meet with 8 young social innovators from Scotland. All participants in the pilot programmes will be evaluated & 10 young people from each pilot country will be selected to go on the study visits to enhance their learning. • 3 mobilisation meetings (2 per partner). • Evaluation: of the pilot projects and of the entire project.• Development of e-guide comprising of all the materials and tools developed during the project, including guidance on how to use them. • Dissemination: 1 multiplier seminar in each of the countries piloting the programme (Romania, Czech Republic) & 1 final conference. It is envisaged that the project will have a great impact not only on beneficiaries, but also on partner organisations, volunteers and other stakeholders, which will result in longer term benefits:• Entrepreneurial skills and social enterprise start-ups – we hope that at least 4 social enterprises will be up and running by the end of this project.• Enhanced interest in social innovation & improved creativity, competencies and transversal skills of the participants.• Increased knowledge and skills of managers in the youth field through the sharing of good practice at international level. With the new knowledge, skills and tools (project outputs), the organisations will be able to update their practices, develop innovative strategic actions that focus on helping young people to become social innovators and be active European citizens.• Improved organisational performance, offering additional stability and professional satisfaction to staff (having more capable and motivated teams) at local and regional level. • Increased visibility and reputation will be achieved by all partner institutions as well, measured on the increased number of contacts and potential followers (through web based communication tools and resources engaged in the project).• Social entrepreneurs will gain satisfaction from sharing their knowledge and experience.• The project will Influence a large number of third-party organisations, & consequently their beneficiaries.

COORDINATOR: Asociatia “Rotaract Club Bucuresti” 37 Londra Street, Ground floor, 1st District, Bucharest, Romania Bucharest, Romania http://www.rotaract-bucuresti.ro

CONTACT: Monica Liana Predatu SP112 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: Ústav sociálních inovací, o.p.s., CZ; European Development Innovation Network, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 90 125 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): International Cooperation; Youth Empowerment; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP113

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-RO01-KA205-014098

TITLE: ERASMUS 4 VIP

DESCRIPTION: Erasmus for VIP Project is run by Ofensiva Tinerilor Association, youth organisation from Romania in partnership with 4 organisation such as, Magnites Tifli (Greece) Association of People with Disabilities Vision Magnesia; Pancyprian organization of the Blind POT is a ngo from Cyprus; NART - National Association of Resource Teachers Bulgaria, a national NGO for professionals working for full and quality integration, inclusion and education of children with different abilities and Center for Youth Activism CYA KRIK from Rep. of Macedonia.This initiative wants to explore the real context of integration of visually impaired youngsters and to design powerful resources for the youth workers and youth organisation in order to remove their fear to integrate visually impaired youngsters in the non formal education and mobility .The overall objective of the project Erasmus 4 VIP is to develop, during 24 month, methodologies, human resources, tools, and recommendations, dedicated to fostering participation of visually impaired youngsters in the learning mobilities through Erasmus + . Emphasis is given to the youth workers willing to increase the capabilities in facilitating activities focused on inclusion of visually impaired youngsters.The specific objectives of Erasmus for VIP are:-To foster the capabilities of youth organisations to include visually impaired youngsters in learning mobility projects and non formal education activities-To intensify transfers of experience, knowledge and know how between youth organizations and public institutions working with visually impaired youngsters-To jointly design and exchange methodological tools and recommendations to efficiently support the youth workers who include visually impaired youngsters in their activities-To identify innovative practices in the integration of visually impaired youngsters in non formal education activities.Within core project activities partners will develop intellectual outputs: I.O.1) Survey and research on integration of visually-impaired youngsters with Recommendation paper;Will strengthen capacity of youth NGOs regarding the work with visually-impaired youngsters: providing (I.O.2)1 Training kit including: rationale, training objectives, agenda, methods to be used and (I.O.3)1 Youth-work methods brochure with 20methods and tools adapted for the work with visually impaired; I.O.4) 1 web-Platform for diffusion and information of outputs of the project, sharing, communication and empowerment for youth ngo and relevant stakeholders. I.O.5) IT&C4VIP Panel of e-applications to support and assist youth workers, to be used by those who are working with v.i.p, or by v.i youths. Project will implement structured research for survey, non-formal methodologies in working with participants, project cycle management for achieving objectives. Leader will assume transversal responsibilities, such as, project management, quality and evaluation system, visibility and dissemination and multiplication strategy for activities afore mentioned to achieve estimated results and ensure quantity and quality targets tailored according to the needs of final users.Every partner will organize 2 interactive workshops addressed to youth workers and special trainers at national level. Every partner will organize will organize a multiplying event with interactive feature, in order to maximize the level of transferring final intellectual outputs. 40 participants attending to multiplying event will be: youth NGOs, youth workers, institutions, policy makers from educational and social care system. Direct beneficiaries of the project are:1. Youth NGOs who are working with visually impaired youths or those who want to integrate partially sighted/visually impaired youngsters, to strengthen their capabilities to integrate their beneficiaries in nonformal activities and learning mobilities, to increase the visibility of their actions and to facilitate the international cooperation among actors from different EU countries2.Youth workers/trainers/facilitators - increasing their competencies regarding the specific approaches related to integration of visually impaired youths in their activities. Increasing their access to resources, methods and tools: training kit and Compendium with methods and tools3. Special schools for blind in projects countries and RO for increasing the level of using the non formal education and development of new partnership at local and international levels with NGOs or other key actors in field on non formal education 4. Visually impaired youngsters - all the project is designed in order to increase their level of participation in non-formal education activities and learning mobilities.5.Other private and public stakeholders (youths, parents, policy makers, authorities, private sector, general public): the focus will be to increase the awareness and to make them realize the capabilities of visually impaired youths, not only the disability.

COORDINATOR: OFENSIVA TINERILOR STRADA MIORITEI 43 BL 207 SC B AP 8 310287 ARAD, Romania SP114 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTACT: Astrid Dorothea Elek

PARTNERS: National association of resource teachers, BG; Pancyprian Organization of the Blind, CY; Society for people with visual impairment at the district of Magnesia, EL; Center for Youth Activism CYA KRIK, MK

GRANT AMOUNT: 164 019 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): International Cooperation; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP115

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-SE02-KA205-001167

TITLE: EXCEPTION VERSUS EXAMPLE: EMPOWERING YOUNG WOMEN IN RURAL AREAS THROUGH CONVENTIONAL AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP.

DESCRIPTION: The project is formed to develop the methodology and build up the network for cross-sectoral cooperation in questions of facilitation and empowerment of young women in rural areas. It arises not only as the articulation on many challenges: economic and social, that communities in rural areas face today, but also as a way to widen up the perspective for solutions of these challenges, that often lay within better facilitation of vulnerable or underprioritized groups of people, like young women. There are partner organisations from three countries involved in this project: Turkey, Spain and Sweden. This partnership is built on the recognition of similar challenges and the mutual will to bring both the youth work within the organisations, and interactions with extern stakeholders to a higher level, with a specific focus on gender factor, with recognition and support for social entrepreneurship initiatives and conventional entrepreneurship approach, and with developing sustainable methods of cross-secroral collaboration. These processes face particularly much obstacles when adressed in the rural areas, which makes this project into an important puzzle piece in a picture of sustainable development in Europe, regarding both economical stability and social comfort environment.The objectives of the project, with reference to the background of the partnership, are - to initiate a critical discussion about the factors and conditions for young women - entrepreneurs in rural areas, - to bring together stakeholders from different sectors into a strong network promoting empowerment of young women and collaboration over borders for collecting the knowledge and learnings, adaptation and implementation of good practises.- to put into perspective, evaluate and develop methods of facilitation and empowerment.Partner organisations are represented by 5 persons each, forming a core goup of the project of 15 persons. Their profiles include experience of public, non-profit NGOs, private sector and educational establishments, and qualifications of conducting social research and facilitate social design processes, mass media, political communication, organisation development, issue management. The skills represented by the participants include personal coaching and organisation of group work, events and projects of different scale and target group. There are competences of gender equality, youth employment and meaningfull occupations, social investments, social mobilisation, media and PR, as well as cultural production, represented in the group of persons involved in this project. This diversity is defined due to the methods of social design used in this project. Other methods used in the project are group discussions, SWAT-analysis, peer learning and evaluation, personal and media presentations, case studies, mindmapping, storytelling, brainstorming. Activities carried out in the project include meetings, study visits, evaluation sessions, presentations, workshops, seminars, panel debates, networking and mingle, round tables, and a conference.The results of the project include strengthening of participants competence in relevant areas, creation of a cross-sectoral expert network including opinion makers, articulation of special factors for women intrepreneurship in rural areas, widening of the discourse of social entrepreneurship in gender perspective. Impacts of the project involve higher effectiveness of youth work,, acceleration of processes of cross-sectoral clustering and collaboration; higher rate of discussions of relevant issues, leading to changes in national and local policies and politics, further development of key-actors collaboration and spreading of good practices with regards to common EU-vision and rules, articulation of young womens role in the development of rural areas, spreading and adjusting of European experience to other parts of the world facing similar challenges.Potential long term benefits include higher efficiency of facilitation activities designed for young women in rural areas, which would lower the costs for these activities in the long term, and accelerate the process of establishing of new women entrepreneurs. This would lead to higher occupation rate and therefore lower unemployment in rural areas, development of new productions and services. This in its turn would accelerate development of infrastructure and communication, which would lead to further diversity.

COORDINATOR: ProQvi ideell förening lokalt resurscentrum för kvinnor med utländsk bakgrund Parkgatan 12 26776 Ekeby, Sweden www.proqvi.se

CONTACT: Tatsiana (Tania) Bauder SP116 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: Asociación de empresarias y profesionales de la provincia de Alicante, ES; Nigde Valiligi, TR

GRANT AMOUNT: 64 740 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Gender equality / equal opportunities

TOPIC 2: Rural development and urbanisation

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Education for Sustainable Development; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP117

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-SI02-KA205-012914

TITLE: ROCK OB SOTLI / ROCK NA SUTLI

DESCRIPTION: Rock by the River(Rock ob Sotli / Rock na Sutli)Bistrica ob Sotli Youth Association (Slovenia, acronym MDBS) is organizing concerts of contemporary music genres for over 15 years. One might say the same thing about the other partner of the transnational youth initiative Rock by the River - Hum na Sutli Youth Association (Croatia; acronym HUM) - with the exception of them being active for a somewhat shorter period of time. But a closer look reveals that the events of the associations differ greatly. While the MDBS specializes in small club events, members of HUM organize a large-format event: a Hoomstock festival. This diversity is an opportunity, as the MDBS wishes to increase visibility of their larger BoSorok festival, while HUM members wish to test local interest for smaller events that might enrich the cultural offer in their town. Therefore, it is one of the main purposes of the project for each organization to assist the other in carrying out events they have more experience in. Another focal point is the fact that both villages have a long tradition of creating modern (mostly rock) music. Some groups still exist, but many of them have dissolved. We wish to store testimonies about the rock scene in both settlements before it’s too late. The historical study - one of the main results of the project - will be conducted by the young participants in their home towns (5 on each side). Young people who are interested in contemporary music or create music themselves will be common members of the research groups. Members of rock bands from both villages will have one more pleasant task: they will be musical guests at events in partner towns - groups from Bistrica ob Sotli will perform in Hum na Sutli and vice versa. Another important result of the Rock by the River project will be a short documentary video. Also this result will be produced by young participants. Its purpose is to present the current state of rock scene and contemporary-music venues in Bistrica ob Sotli and Hum na Sutli in a innovative way. These activities, combined with a workshop on marketing of cultural events will lead to developing a vision for contemporary music offer in both villages. During the project young people, including young people with fewer opportunities, will gain competencies in cultural contents management, video production, research activities and others and thus facilitate easier entry into the labor market. Provided long-term effects of the Rock on the River project are: an increase in the visibility of both music scenes, the greater fluidity of ideas, content and performers across the border, more effective program design and contents enrichment for both associations, as well as increased support from both local communities.

COORDINATOR: Mladinsko društvo Bistrica ob Sotli Bistrica ob Sotli 31 3256 Bistrica ob Sotli, Slovenia www.klub-metulj.org

CONTACT: Irena Černelč

PARTNERS: Humska Udruga Mladih, HR

GRANT AMOUNT: 16 230 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 17 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

TOPIC 3: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; International Cooperation SP118 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-SI02-KA205-012917

TITLE: DROP IN!

DESCRIPTION: Setting up a competitive, dynamic and healty social environment for EU citizens has become an important European issue in the recent years. Pursuing the main objectives of the Strategy EU 2020, for smart sustainable and inclusive growth, we advocate for improving employment opportunities and reduction of the share of early school leavers. Dealing with young dropouts and unemployment especially among the young generation represents one of the core problems of todays Europe. The number of unactive youngsters - NEETs (not in education, employment or training) in the modren Europe is still very high. Early school leavers tend to face problems in finding a job and are ussually not involved in participation in active society. The consequences of early school dropout are usually related to social exclusion and poverty. Our main objective is to improve the level of key compenteces and skills for young people, especially those with fewer opportunities, needed for the competitive entrance to the labour market and cuntribut- ing to a cohesive society. With that purpose we will analyse existing programs of participating partners, exchange experience, reveal good practises in the field of youth work, prepare, develop and promote an improved and complex model of approaches and innovative contents in the field of career guidance for youngsters.On the one hand, our target group are vulnerable young people, especially NEET, with their specifics that require special approaches and on the other, youth workers who are dealing with those youngsters. We wish to empower both target groups with skills needed for the best possible outcome of the projects. Specific number of cooperating participants are mentors from each partner countries. The main project activities of the project are:1.Exchange of good practice dealing with dropoutsPartner institutions share their good experience and approaches in working with young NEET in their countries.2. Setting up the project Website Website with description of the project, information about the project objectives, progress of the work and intelectual outputs.3. Identification of best practices and modules in the field of career guidance for young NEET The findings of the research in the field of career guidance for young NEET will be summarized in an overview on the different national transition systems and their approaches in the field of career guidance for young NEET. 4. Suggestion, proposals on e-quidance Partner institutions will prepare a suggestions/proposals for design a common career E- guidance working with NEET that will offer new contents and successful approaches in the field of career guidance in order to increase competitiveness in the labour market and improve overall social skills needed to be able to achieve a certain quality of life.5. Development of career E-guidence on the basis of proposals of all partnersCareer E-guidance will summarize the findings from the analysis in the field of career guidance and will focus on examples of good practice. 6.Smart steps for making a pitch On the basic of foundings and analyses our key activity is to make smart steps on how to make a video presentation (pitch - video CV)7. Evaluation The project will be monitored by evaluations carried out after each activity and at the end of the project. That will mark the quality and moving to the next stage. 8. Dissemination of the project Project results will be announced and widely promoted throughout the project duration (media articles, leaflets, promo spots, website,...). A final international conference will sum up and conclude project activities and present intelectual outputs. 9. Final Report, documenting all the activities undergone and the achievements made. The methods the partnership uses differ from case to case depending from the respective activity and include discussions,research, analysis, developing, reporting, summary. Our aim is to create web site, containing relevant information about the project and esspecially promoting our main objectives, career e-quidance for mentors and trainers, containing new and improved, enriched approaches, contents or methods working with the target group in the field of career guidance. Special attention will be paid to developing a new model of approach towards labour market and potential employers, video presentation, pitch-video CV. It is one of the modern aproach within career quidance and it is well acepted among employers in Europe. Our project will impact both trainers and mentors working with young dropouts as NEETs population of our partner countries and possibly wider. Our wish is to improve educational and training programs for NEET, so that they will benefit more from it in particular, in the field of career guidance, since employability is related to an active citizenship and quality of life.

COORDINATOR: RCR Podvine 1410 Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia www.rcr-zasavje.si

CONTACT: Ida Smajlagic STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP119

PARTNERS: C.I.P Citizens In Power (PO.SI Polites se Ischy), CY; MISTRAL Società Cooperativa Sociale ONLUS, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 59 736 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Employability; International Cooperation; Youth Empowerment SP120 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-SI02-KA205-012925

TITLE: YOUTH SUPPORT YOUTH

DESCRIPTION: Project of transnational youth initiative Youth support youth will start on 1. 7. 2015 and end on 30. 6. 2016 (365 days). The legal applicant of the project in Youth center Krško (Slovenia). The partner organizations are Loma-Nurmes Oy (Nurmes, Finland), Verein zur Förderung von Kulturaustausch und Nachhaltigkeit in Europa (Graz, Austria) in Association pour lAccompagnement des Actions de Mobilité Internationale (Echi- rolles, France). The project activities will be organized in all local activities od the partners. There will be 4 initiative groups in the project (6 young people/country, together 24), age from 18 to 28, that participated in the international youth mobility projects (EVS, exchanges,…) in the past and have been volunteers in the local area. Initiative groups will be gender balanced.The project exists from an idea, given by the young people from Krško, on the dialogue with the decision makers, that there should be more inovative methods when trying to include young people with fewer opportunities. Some of the partners (Finland) have years of experience with that, but will upgrade their program with this initiative. The main objective of the project is to empower young people to become an active citizen in the society, to ensure that thay have access to gain informal knowledge, to strengthen the youth field in Europe and to learn new information about enterpreneurship (especially social ent.) and to put them in practice.There are more leading activities in the project. Firstly the intitiative group will identify 24 youngsters that are not included into formal education and they not work. The result of the project should be that some of them decide to participate in the international youth projects (short term EVS, exchanges,…) in some of the partner organizations. The initiative groups will weekly prepare workshops with various themes (computers, learning English, enterpreneurship, basics and history about EU,…). Young people will also meet the decision makers, who will be informed about the proccess of the project, and will show the results, gianed knowledge. Together they will set the new actions for the future concerning how to include young people into society. The main method will be learning by doing of young people, individual support of young person (member of the initiative group) to a young person with fewer opportunities, group work, researching,… The initiative groups will meet once during the project, on the mid-term evaluation that will take place in Austria. The theme of the meeting will be presenting past work, sharing experience, searching better soultions for the challenges and will plan the second half of the project. They will meet monthly with using e-conference tools (Lync).At the end of the project the intitative group members will get Youthpass certificate with the project description and the gained competences. The project participants, young people with fewer opportunities will receive internal tool from their local organization that will also proove thier participation into the project. We will mainly use mother language in each initiative community (except while English language course), during the e-meetings and mid-term evaluation in Austria they will use English.

COORDINATOR: Mladinski center Krško Cesta krških žrtev 105 8270 Krško, Slovenia www.mc-krsko.si

CONTACT: Katarina Ceglar

PARTNERS: Association pour l’Accompagnement des Actions de Mobilité Internationale, FR; Verein zur Förderung von Kulturaustausch und Nachhaltigkeit in Europa, AT; NUORISO- JA MATKAILUKESKUS HYVARILAOY, FI

GRANT AMOUNT: 26 460 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP121

TOPIC 2: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment SP122 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-SK02-KA205-000519

TITLE: YOUTH ACTIVATION - LONG TERM AMBITION

DESCRIPTION: The YALTA project - Youth Activization - Long Term Ambition has the ambition from the long-term perspective to influence systematic work with youth with visual impairment in both involved countries – in Slovakia and Slovenia. We are intending to develop and to verify a model which enables activation of young people with visual impairment and to run their own activities. Moreover this model will provide practical information and examples on creating inclusive environment within the already existing youth groups involving youth without disabilities. Despite various efforts in the area of inclusion people with visual impairment are still facing discrimination in various areas of life. This specific group has very few opportunities to participate on mainstream activities (social, cultural and leisure-time activities). There- fore they spend most of their free-time in a passive way without any motivation to influence social life. Very similar situation concerning this group of youngsters is observed in both involved countries.During this project we are planning to work with three types of target groups that are considered to be crucial for developing systematic activities for youth with visual impairment. Within the first group there are young people with visual impairment (16 persons); the second group is formed by Professional staff (16 persons) that are from a long-term perspective to influence the support of youth activities; the third group is represented by volunteers without visual impairment (8 persons) whose main role is in fostering inclusive dimension of established youth groups.In order to achieve main project goals we are intending to realize several activities and outcomes. In the first phase we will summarize know-how of all involved partners and will create a toolkit for youth workers and for youth leaders. These toolkits will form a basis for the following project phases – for the training phase as well as for the testing and implementation phase within which the functionality of the proposed model for activization and inclusion of youngsters with visual impairment will be verified.Among main project outcomes will be beside the toolkits (the content of which will be revised and updated) also four organized groups of youth with visual impairment cooperating with youngsters without any disability as well as realization of several regular activities for youth with visual impairment and for elementary school and secondary school pupils. All activities will be prepared by trained young leaders with visual impairment.We are expecting that this project will contribute to the direct activization of youth with visual impairment and to their organizedness and their involvement into leisure-time and various civic and social activities that we consider to have a big importance especially regarding self-advocacy and promoting rights. Furthermore this project can have its impact over a much wider group as are the target groups directly participating at the project.

COORDINATOR: UNSS Sekulska 1 84250 Bratislava, Slovakia http:\\unss.sk

CONTACT: Tímea Hóková

PARTNERS: The Slovenian Association of Disabled Students, SI; Platforma dobrovolnickych centier a organizacii, SK

GRANT AMOUNT: 163 773 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 28 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Disabilities - special needs

TOPIC 2: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 3: Inclusion - equity

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP123

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-SK02-KA205-000521

TITLE: BIOFARMA- NAŠE ZAMESTNANIE, NAŠE POSLANIE!

DESCRIPTION: Project comes out from the connection of needs of disadvantaged young people (long-term unemployment, socially disadvantaged, disabled young ppl, with chronic diseases, etc.) to be integrated to the working process and the need of state administration to create new jobs. Current situation is insufficient in order to secure the fulfillment of those needs. The solution of the status quo could be the development of abilities, competencies and entrepreneurial mindset of the mentioned groups of young ppl in regard with longterm effor of the Slovak Republic to increase the ratio of agricultural and food production within the national economy. From the global point of view, this could lead to better competetivness of state and higher standard of living of the population.In the beginning of the project the group of 20 young ppl will be selected by the commission of all project partners. The criteria of the selection will be formal: high school education, knowledge of foreign languages and the most important is their personal motivation.The project is divided into two levels: theoretical and practical:Theoretical includes:-psychological tests targeted on personality characteristics. This would help them to know themselves better and more concretely and effectively focus their tasks and activities within the project and later their own business.-workshops where the participants will gain the overview of the current situation in the area of agriculture and food in Slovak Republic but also abroad. They will be trained to create their own business plan – which is also expected as an outcome of this part of training. The professional mentor of this part is the Slovak agricultural and food chamber. -lecture of the university expert in the field of marketing of products. This expert will teach how to make their own marketing strategy for products, how to get and maintain customers through the e-media and create own trademark.-innovative method of multilingual learning of two foreing languages neccessary during the communication with potential foreing business partners.Practical part is based on the direct work at the farm close to Nitra. The participant will work on the cultivation of biofarm which would be later used as a „training center- sheltered workshop“ for their future business plans.Very important part of the practical learning is the active participation of the foreign project partner from Czech Republic, which is very successful in running their own biofarm. In the firs part of the project, the group from SK will visit the biofarm in CZ. CZ partners will show the rest of project partners (PP) the exact methods of farming and ways of running of such a settlement. They will educate PP in the process of the production of agricultural products and their preparation for the market. The foreign partner will continue with the practical training of the participants in Slovakia by personal visits or support them by interactive teleconferences through the e-media.As the key tool for the project, the website will be created with the english language mutation. This web will contain all learning materials which could be used by all PP, space for online webinars, and the whole section of photo, video and written materials monitoring the implementation process of the project and its final results. This would be used by wide range of target groups.

COORDINATOR: YMCA MZ NITRA Na hôrke 30 94911 Nitra, Slovakia www.ymca-nitra.sk

CONTACT: Anna Petrovičová

PARTNERS: Slovenska polnohospodarska a potravinarska komora, SK; Sdruzeni Neratov, CZ; Lymfoma Slovensko, o.z., SK

GRANT AMOUNT: 59 655 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 13 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged SP124 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP125

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-TR01-KA205-015652

TITLE: SOCIAL IMPACT MEASUREMENT TOOLS FOR YOUNG SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS

DESCRIPTION: Overall objective of this project is strengthening social entrepreneurship as a sustainable and reliable model to solve social problems. Our specific objective is equipping young social entrepreneurs to become more impactful through improving their capacity on social impact analysis. Our strategy is to create an awareness among social entrepreneurs and eco-system developers, to increase access to knowledge by developing materials in native languages, and to increase skills of social entrepreneurs by providing training and coaching program.Our target group is young start-up social entrepreneurs as many social entrepreneurship leaders are young and even though they are inspired, they are not much experienced in defining and measuring societal objectives, which results less public benefit, less public support and less funding. Young start-up social entrepreneurs have much potential and energy, but no experience. Without guidance, the risk to fail is high. In addition, start- up social entrepreneurs are focused on their business models and getting funding rather than tracking their social impact. That is why, we need to establish necessary mechanism to support these young social entrepreneurs.The Europe 2020 strategy recognizes entrepreneurship and self-employment as key for achieving smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, and several flagship initiatives address them (www.ec.europa.ec). In its support to entrepreneurship and self-employment, the EC focuses its efforts on business start-ups by unemployed and people from disadvantaged groups, sustainability and quality of work of self-employed businesses and micro-entrepreneurs; and support for social entrepreneurs. According to the Eurostat, youth unemployment rate is 23.4 % in the Euro Area. The concept of social entrepreneurship might be an alternative way to strengthen the situation of young people in the EU. In the face of increasing economic, social and environmental pressures it could be rightfully argued that social entrepreneurship should be on the agenda of both non-governmental and business organizations.The project would consist of three consecutive parts:In a first phase running until the end of 2015 the project would conduct a comprehensive and complementary need analysis report among social entrepreneurs in Estonia and in Turkey through workshops among social entrepreneurs (in total 20 participants) and ecosystem developers (in total 30 participants), expert interviews (in total 30 participants) and a study of online social impact communication (in total 150-300 social businesses) before developing the social impact analysis framework and the training tools and program (Social Impact Analysis Guide).In a second phase ending in July 2016 the project would develop a social impact analysis framework, a comprehensive training tools and program (Social Impact Analysis Guide), select 15 young social entrepreneurs from Estonia, and 15 from Turkey to participate to the program, conduct an international training boot camp in Turkey with the participation of these 30 young social entrepreneurs and 11 trainers.In the third and last phase ending in July 2017 the project would develop the best practices on social impact analysis for social entrepreneurs with monitoring-evaluation and coaching program; and disseminate (dissemination conferences with 195 participants in total), promote the project outputs to increase the capacity of young social entrepreneurs on social impact analysis at national and European levels.The expected results on participants and participant organisations include:Increased awareness of the benefits of social impact analysis among ecosystem developers, social entrepreneurs and social investors.Increased skills of young start-up social entrepreneurs on social impact analysisIncreased training and coaching capacity on social impact analysis of ecosystem developersIncreased access to knowledge on social impact analysis among ecosystem developers, social entrepreneurs and social investors.In- creased peer learning opportunities between social entrepreneurs via training and social impact web por- talThe main outputs of the project, “social impact analysis framework, training tools and program (social impact analysis guide), best practice compendium on best social impact analysis cases for the use of the young social entrepreneurs and ecosystem developers such as social investors, social entrepreneurship centers, socially entrepreneur civil society organizations, will be shared on the social impact web portal developed during the project as a resource and knowledge center. Next phase after this project could be to transfer the knowledge developed during the project to the on-line education platform.

COORDINATOR: Koç University Rumeli Feneri Yolu 34450 Istanbul, Turkey www.ku.edu.tr

CONTACT: Gonca Ongan SP126 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: SOCIAL VALUE NETWORK UK, UK; MTÜ Sotsiaalsete Ettevõtete Võrgustik, EE; Mikado Danismanlik Hizmetleri Ltd. Sti., TR

GRANT AMOUNT: 261 532 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP127

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-UK01-KA205-012536

TITLE: YOUTH LEADERS ACROSS BORDERS

DESCRIPTION: 1. The ‘Youth Leaders Across Borders’ project is a strategic partnership in the field of youth, led by 4 high quality youth leadership organisations from the UK, Germany, Sweden, and Poland. The project is led by StreetGames in the UK - a national youth sports charity. The other three participant organisations are BSJ based in Brandenburg in Germany; SISU based in Vastergotland and Varmland in Sweden and V4S which works across Poland. 2. This two year project will create an innovative training resource to improve the transversal and leadership skills of young people, particularly those with fewer opportunities. The 4 participant organisations are specialists in grassroots sports for youth, and each organisation has developed successful youth leader training programmes. 3. The focus is on promoting healthy behaviours through the practice of grassroots sport. The 6 module training resource enables young leaders to promote healthy behaviours to their peers. In addition, the project will focus on engaging more disadvantaged young females as new leaders, and ensuring that both youth and sport workers and the young people gain an international understanding from the training.4. The new training resource will improve and add value to the best existing modules from the 4 participant organisations through transnational cooperation, and create new modules about gender and internationalisation. 5. The new training resource is targeted at over 2000 organisations that deliver youth leadership training. Initially, these will be the organisations in the networks of the 4 participant organisations. Beyond this initial goal, the project dissemination plan will reach thousands of organisations across the EU that want to provide disadvantaged youth with access to innovative and informal learning that develops soft transversal skills that are ad- vantageous in the labour market. The resources will be in 5 languages.6. The transnational significance of this project is very important, as it adds value to best practice in four different countries to create a unique and important new training resource that will stimulate young people to be active. Levels of physical activity are dropping across Europe leading to a public health crisis, especially for young people with fewer opportunities. 7. The project will bring together the four participant organisations five times to develop and test the training resource. A robust evaluation plan will ensure that a number of methods are used to determine the success of the new training modules and ensure that the project is kept on track.8. The project will produce important results. A new open resource website will be created, which details all of the results of the project, including free access to the new training resource. The results will impact on the pedagogy of the training programmes of the four participant organisations, and the target group organisations in their networks and beyond. 9. The results will be disseminated to higher and further education, NGO’s and strategic organisations in the 4 countries to impact on their policies for informal youth leader training. 10. In the longer term, youth leadership training in healthy behaviours will be modernised and successfully delivered by a large number of institutions in the four participating countries and beyond. Thousands of disadvantaged young people will develop new leadership skills through this new training course which will generate a long term leadership impact. Young women with fewer opportunities will be more engaged in leadership roles. 11. The project will positively impact on the views of young people in understanding their lives in a wider international context, promoting more mobility, intercultural dialogue, and increased participation in European democratic life. Their leadership work will have positive health benefits for tens of thousands of their peers. The multiplier effect potential is a very exciting aspect of this important project.

COORDINATOR: StreetGames UK Barton Hall Estate, Hardy Street M30 7NB Manchester, United Kingdom www.streetgames.org

CONTACT: Hannah crane

PARTNERS: FUNDACJA V4 SPORT, PL; Sportjugend im Landessportbund Brandenburg e.V., DE; Sisu Idrottsutbildarna, SE

GRANT AMOUNT: 207 461 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 30 months SP128 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: Health and wellbeing

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Health and Medicine; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP129

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-UK01-KA205-012540

TITLE: THE FILTER EUROPE

DESCRIPTION: The Health at a Glance: Europe 2014 (European Commission / OECD) states that smoking is the highest avoidable health risk in Europe with 22.8% of EU citizens smoking. There is a strong link between smoking and poverty, with smoking prevalence rates highest in deprived areas of Western Europe such as the South Wales valleys and parts of Eastern Europe. Youth unemployment rates remain high across Europe.The Filter Europe is a project aimed at improving the skills and knowledge of youth workers and disadvantaged young volunteers. The aim will be to equip young volunteers and youth workers with the skills to work with young people to prevent them from smoking in the first place or address their smoking behaviour. By working with their peers and those who work closely with them, we have found that this has the greatest impact on young people. The partners include: ASH Wales in the United Kingdom as lead partner; Asociación Ser Joven in Cantabria, Spain; Jugend:info NÖ in Austria; Fundacja Dobra wola in Po- land and Asociatia idei si proiecte pentru tineri activi in Romania.This will be supported by a toolkit, social media portals and a website so that young people are able to access information in the ways they want to.We will produce a good-practice guide and report on the impact of the intervention so as to encourage and inform good practice for those working in the youth field across Europe.

COORDINATOR: Ash Wales Ltd 2nd Floor, 14-18 City Road CF24 3DL Cardiff, United Kingdom www.ashwales.org.uk

CONTACT: Julie Edwards

PARTNERS: Jugendinfo NOE, AT; Asociatia idei si proiecte pentru tineri activi, RO; FUNDACJA DOBRA WOLA, PL; ASOCIACIÓN SER JOVEN, ES

GRANT AMOUNT: 263 685 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: Health and wellbeing

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Health and Medicine; Youth Empowerment SP130 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-1-UK01-KA205-012555

TITLE: ABUSED NO MORE: SAFEGUARDING YOUTH & EMPOWERING PROFESSIONALS

DESCRIPTION: At present, school education in the law and basic rights that would allow young people to lead their lives equally in modern European societies is almost non-existent. However, research supports that when people are given the basic legal knowledge to deal with everyday situations not only they stand a better chance in society, but also avoid consuming public services unnecessarily (IARS, 2010). The question of what make us legally capable becomes particularly timely in the current financial climate where more and more young people are struggling to cope, and the demand for legal advice is ever increasing. For young people, a legal problem – let that be crime or debt related, domestic violence or employment – will have a bigger impact. Starting out in life presents young people with enormous new challenges. Marginalised youth are even less likely to receive help or want to engage with the system and what is available to the mainstream population. However, communicating law related information through formal education or training to marginalised youth and those servicing them is not an easy task. International projects (e.g. Street Law, PLENET, Youth Empowerment Project) have shown that to achieve basic legal literacy among the public, including young people, it must be carried out organically and in a user-led fashion. Therefore, in Europe, a gap is identified in the field of training, education and youth that could be filled through the free dissemination of a youth-led programme for service providers and young people with the aim of increasing their legal capability. The Abused no More (AnM) project will help to bridge this gap by focusing on increasing legal capacity in the areas of gender-based discrimination, exclusion and abuse against some of the most marginalised youth groups and in particular those who tend to be disadvantaged due to their gender and cultural differences (e.g. immigrants, refugees, descendants from immigrant families) and other social obstacles e.g. sexual orientation and ethnicity.Inspired and motivated by the priorities of the EU Youth Strategy, the AnM project will bring together young people and professionals to establish a cross-sector, transnational Strategic Partnership in order to design and implement innovative practices and come up with a set of reference documents (online & in print) that will: (a) empower marginalised youth (b) increase the capacity of service providers, notably in the areas of integration, equity and inclusion, gender-based abuse and discrimination.Focusing on the Europe 2020 Strategy, AnM aims to foster, migrant integration, social equity and inclusion through a two-tier approach i.e. by empowering and involving directly marginalised youth in its delivery, while at the same time increasing the capacity of organisations servicing them. In line with the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty to encourage the participation of young people in democratic life in Europe, through non-formal learning activities and the development of an evidence-based training programme, AnM will promote innovation, exchange of experience and know- how between different types of organisations providing services to youth with fewer opportunities.AnM will be carried out in key EU locations (UK, Poland, Italy, Romania and Cyprus), building on the learning of partners projects. It will:1. Map and analyse key concepts in the areas of marginalised young people legal literacy, focusing on gender-based discrimination and exclusion2. Identify relevant innovative educational and training practices in the participating countries and produce a free report3. Organise seminars with partners to exchange learning and to perform cross-training activities4. Design a free, user-led, face-to- face training package and pilot them in the participating countries5. Involve young people directly in the design and piloting of the programme engaging at least 20 young volunteers in each country6. Design and deliver an elearning course reaching at least 1000 organisations and individuals across Europe7. Set up and facilitate a wider network (database) in order to disseminate its practical results, exchange further best practices and ideas and ensure multiple effect and sustainability.8. Publish a book (online and in print) bringing together its 3 year learning and practical results, launch it at an international conference and disseminate internationally. The project will not only help the employability and social inclusion of the young people directly involved, but also bring positive and long-lasting effects on the participating organisations. Moreover, through the transfer and implementation at national and European levels of its innovative practices and training programme we expect to help bring about EU-wide institutional and cultural change, improve services provided to marginalised youth experiencing exclusion and discrimination, while fostering social equity and inclusion.

COORDINATOR: The IARS International Institute UNIT 14 DOCKS OFFICES SURREY QUAYS ROAD CANADA WATER SE16 2XU LONDON, United Kingdom www.iars.org.uk STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP131

CONTACT: Theo Gavrielides

PARTNERS: ANZIANI E NON SOLO SC, IT; Romanian U.S. Alumni Association, RO; KISA - Action for Equality, Support, Antiracism, CY; Stowarzyszenie Interwencji Prawnej, PL

GRANT AMOUNT: 438 644 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 36 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: High quality learning opportunities

TOPIC 1: Gender equality / equal opportunities

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP132 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-BE04-KA205-001686

TITLE: VIP AWARENESS RAISING ON UNEMPLOYMENT

DESCRIPTION: VIEWS International in cooperation with five partner organizations from Germany (2 promoters), Italy (2 promoters) and France (1 promoter) want to establish a 16 months strategic partnership, from 1/09/2015 till 1/01/2017, which aims developing: §§ a strong partnership between the partners of the project §§ attracting more institutions that could hire or offer internships for young visually impaired young persons §§ sesitazation and awareness raising sessions for public job related institutions which will help these services to get a better understanding of the living condition vision impairment.

We aim at improving the employment environment of vision impaired persons, by decreasing attitudinal barriers, imparting of important knowledge and raising awareness for their strengths and needs.

This project will involve in the same time institutions with different profiles, all working for the integration of visually impaired persons, and young visually impaired persons (mainly unemployed). We estimate the number of the persons involved in this project at 1000.

This project will include 3 transnational meetings, 4 long term mobility projects , 4 multiplier events (1per country) and 40 awareness national sessions (10/country). The intelectual outputs will be an awareness brochure and a policy paper which will be disseminated among diffrent European and national stakeholders.

The methodology used will mix several types of non-formal means: brainstorming, working in small groups, debates, peer to peer learning, public debates, training & info sessions etc.

We expect that with this project we will build a strong partnership, where more institutions will join this partnership and that all together we can build the second part of the strategic partnership (2017-2019), where more young visually impaired will be involved and more emploeyers will be aware about the benefits of hiring a visually impaired person in their working environment.

The impact can be measured by how many future employers will join our project and how many young visually impaired persons will find a job after participating at this strategic partnership project.

This strategic partnership will improve the interaction between different employement institutions, employers and visually impaired beneficiaries.

COORDINATOR: VIEWS INTERNATIONAL 62BIS RUE DE LA LEGIA 4430 ANS, Belgium www.viewsinternational.eu

CONTACT: Anca DAVID

PARTNERS: ISTITUTO REGIONALE RITTMEYER PER I CIECHI DI TRIESTE, IT; LWl Berufsbildungswerk soest, DE; SOCIETA’ COOPERATIVA A.FO.RI.S.MA.-ACLI FORMAZIONE RICERCA SERVIZI MANAGEMENT, IT; Deutscher Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband e. V., DE; Groupement des intellectuels aveugles ou amblyopes, FR

GRANT AMOUNT: 107 000 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 16 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP133

TOPIC 1: Disabilities - special needs

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; International Cooperation SP134 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001702

TITLE: ART NEIGHBORYOUTH

DESCRIPTION: *context/background of project:

In youth work there is a great demand for a method which youth workers can use for the organisation and guidance of youth art communities in public space. This question is formulated by the particpation organisations. As an answer we will develop a generic European roadmap with a special attention to local context of aspects. We will present this roadmap as a poster. The roadmap will document the process which we follow in three youth art communities which we organise in Belgium, Slovenia and Bulgaria. Every community is formed by youngsters, youth workers (in education) and youth worker educators. The results will be implemented in trainings for youth workers.

*objectives of your project:

-Objective 1: Promoting high-quality of youth work. -> The roadmap as a qualitative method

-Objective 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.-> Young- sters choose a social theme, such as food waste, gender equality, the role of minorities...

-Objective 3: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers ->The result will be implemented in trainings for youth workers

*number and profile of participants:

We will involve participants with different profiles.

-60 youngsters

-30 youth workers in education

-4 youth workers

-3 youth worker educators

There are also 29,103 indirect participants. We will disseminate the results under youth workers and youth worker educators. They can use the developed roadmap in their own practice.

*description of activities:

The first three activities are the organisation and guidance of the local youth art communities in Belgium, Slovenia and Bulgaria. Every community is organised two times. The first time for five months. The second time, for four months. During those months the youngsters, youth workers, youth workers in education and youth worker educators will work together at least five times (every period). The youngsters have an age between 14 and 16 years. The big difference is the local context in which the community is organised. In Belgium we will work with a heterogeneous group of youngsters. In Bulgaria we will work with youngsters out of a Turkish minority in Dazhdovnitsa village. In Slovenia it are mostly female youngsters with a passion for art. These differences are the power of the project, because it will prove if the generic roadmap is functional and useful in very different contexts.

*methodology to be used in carrying out the project:

The approach of the community is supported by a variety of theories, like design thinking, cocreation, communities of practice, working processes of the encounter artist and connectivism.

*short description of the results and impact envisaged: STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP135

A generic European roadmap with special attention for local context of aspects is an important result of this project. This is a graphical map in de form of a poster. Youth workers can use this poster when they organise and guide a youth art community in public space. For the moment, this kind of methodology doesnt exist. The developed poster will visualise of the processes of the communities. That communities refer to three youth art communities that we will organise in Belgium, Bulgaria and Slovenia and one transnational youth art community that connects the communities in the different project countries. During the project we will share the situations in the different communities using different media (text, photo, movie...)

*the potential longer term benefits:

Art neigboryouth should contribute widely to youth work in Europe. In youth work there is no method to get to work with youngsters and arts in the public space. Within this project we develop a generic European roadmap with special attention for local context of aspects! The roadmap documents the process of this project and will be published in the form of a poster. The roadmap will give youth workers guidance for this kind of projects. The method will be widely distributed and embedded. This embedding will be done at the level of youth organisations and trainings for youth workers. For this, we provide several guarantees. Each partner has a European network. Interim and final results will be disseminated through these networks to youth organisations and training. Also the ECYC guarantees a broad European distribution and embedding. Furthermore, the process will also be registered on the website of the project. Thus, we will provide a blog. The project results are open source and can also be found on that site. The results will also appear on the websites of all partners. In this way, the long-term retrieval is not dependent on one site. There is a great distress for a methodology by the project partners. But we have already been contacted by an Serbian partner, with the question if they can use our project results.

COORDINATOR: CAMPUS DIEPENBEEK AGORALAAN GEBOUW B BUS 1 3590 DIEPENBEEK, Belgium www.ucll.be

CONTACT: Tobias Frenssen

PARTNERS: Villa Basta, BE; Europese Confederatie van Organisaties voor Jeugdcentra ECYC, BE; Znanstveno-raziskovalno zdruzenje za umetnost, kulturne in izobrazevalne programe in tehnologijo EPE- KA, socialno podjetje, SI; KRUG Youth Center (Krug Art Movement), BG

GRANT AMOUNT: 41 710 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment SP136 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001708

TITLE: REACHING FURTHER - EXPLORING THE HEALING EFFECTS OF ADVENTURE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING, A METHODOLOGY TO INCREASE THE QUALITY OF YOUTH WORK FOR EUROPEAN YOUNGSTERS WITH FEWER OPPORTUNITIES

DESCRIPTION: Mental health amongst youngsters is a tremendous challenge for our society. The number of youngsters dealing with socio-emotional problems like depression or anxiousness and other related mental troubles has reached an alarming level. Among other benefits, is an appreciative point of view in our opinion an important added value that youth work and non-formal education can offer. Adventurous outdoor activities might very well suit this purpose, as they often provide youngsters and young adults a feeling of an extraordinary achievement when participants for example attain the summit after a difficult rock climb.

In all our outdoor and adventure educational programs participants are invited to challenge themselves by going out of their comfort zone. In some stages of the learning process, this approach can create emotional and psychological destabilization. These particular stages are very crucial for learning and growing and need appropriate support and care from the youth workers’ side. So it is important that youth workers can receive a frame where they can learn to contain and canalize these moments, using interventions that can also facilitate moments of healing with the youngsters (= also a way of learning).

This is why we think “Adventure Therapy (AT) could be an effective method to address the needs of these youngsters. It isn’t therapy ‘as we know it’, but a way in which experiential outdoor programs within the frame of youth work can help young people on a voluntary basis, in their free-time, to overcome some of their problems.

This Strategic Partnership will last for 18 months and will involve organizations from eight different partnership countries. Transnational meetings will take place in 5 different countries. Participants are 24 trainers and youth workers from Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Iceland and the Netherlands. Together participants share a passion for AT. This methodology can be a tool to put more quality into youth work with youth at risk through experiential learning and outdoor education. One of the innovative parts in it is that we want to take the “healing facilitating and sometimes therapeutic skills out of the “ivory tower and put them into a more integrated, practical, down to earth method of group experiential learning.

Participants all work directly or indirectly with different target groups of youth in different contexts like youth centers, training/summer camps, family houses, public institutions, therapy centers or in social services, but always within the framework of experiential learning and outdoor education. Participants from five participating countries share a common experience from participating in an AT training in September 2014 and the others were connected through our network. In January 2015 partners from all organizations, in total 16, held a preparation meeting to form our ideas of the partnership.

Our main goals for this partnership will be: 1. To provide a platform where youth workers can share knowledge, experience and resources regarding AT as an approach 2. To create a common understanding of AT in Europe and define this into clear and effective guidelines 3. To explore AT as a method used in youth work and experiment with new practices

In order to achieve those goals we plan on working in different action groups: Website, Training and inter- vision, Research and publication and Conference. This work will take place through 5 phases; Preparation phase, Observation phase, Training phase, Testing phase and Dissemination phase.

The outcomes of this partnership will be a website, a European conference and the publication of guidelines for AT in Europe. These can be used to enrich youth work with more specific approaches to address youngsters with socio- emotional difficulties and fewer opportunities. The guidelines may also add to youth workers competences in reaching out to this target group as they will use them as resources for STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP137

increasing the quality of adventure learning programs. Through our national programs with youth at risk, youngsters will benefit directly from this approach.

The results of this project will impact the current discourse on a European level about: §§ the quality of non-formal learning in youth work with a specific focus on outdoor and adventure programs §§ the creation of new tools for equal learning opportunities for young people with psychological, social and behavioral problems.

In the long run, every European organization working with youth at risk in outdoor and experiential learning programs who wants to improve the quality of their work with the methodology of AT, can benefit from our guidelines and from this platform. We will keep the network alive and include more European countries and AT practitioners. They will be able to participate in all announced trainings on the website, share information and experiences with each other and keep broadening our knowledge of AT in youth work.

COORDINATOR: NATURE Hoegaardsestraat 214/1 3000 Leuven, Belgium www.nature.be

CONTACT: Lynn Van hoof

PARTNERS: Upplifun - Samtök um reynslunám og útinám, IS; Pressley Ridge - Associação de Solidariedade Social, PT; Mutsaersstichting, NL; A.S.D. Kamaleonte, IT; iacone & thiesen gbr, DE; Asociación Experientia, ES; Hungarian Experiental Education Foundation, HU

GRANT AMOUNT: 61 550 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

TOPIC 1: Health and wellbeing

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): Health and Medicine; International Cooperation; Teaching and Training SP138 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001716

TITLE: THE C.I.P.H.E.R: THE COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL PROGRESSING HIP HOP EVOLUTIONS AND REVOLUTIONS

DESCRIPTION: Why? Taking up your responsibility and accountability as an artist, active agent for social change and representative of Hip Hop culture, this is what The c.i.p.h.e.r (The community international progressing hip hop evolutions & revolutions) is about. A yearlong program and lifelong network based on Hip Hop pedagogy, that combats the indifference and divide of our society with awareness, articulation and action. Meeting youngsters where they are at, integrating internationals/mentors/experts, honoring the roots, elements and true purpose of Hip Hop to create social change.

What? Every month, youngsters will get the chance to (virtually) collaborate with other youngsters from different regions and countries (Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands) to create original music and video footage on topics that matter to them and their community (e.g.: education, healthy relationships, identity, environmental issues, etc.).

How? Fun, dynamic, youth-lead workshops twice a month and two youth exchanges during the year will facilitate the creation of songs. The workshops will include (1) exploration of the topic based on research and involvement of guest speakers and local grass roots movements, (2) cross-border virtual meetings with youngsters from another country or region and (3) time for creation and recording. The topics and partnerships between the groups of youngsters will change every month. The youth exchanges give youngsters the opportunity to travel, visit/host other youngsters, perform together and deepen their connection and collaboration.

Who? The community is for youngsters between 13 and 30 years of age who will be supported by project mentors and by the project consultant spiritchild (Hip Hop artist and pedagogue from New York, USA) and project coordinator Dorien De Vidts (learning & development professional and singer-songwriter, Belgium)

Benefits? It will allow youngsters (1) to develop personally, professionally and artistically and get tangible skills (song writing, recording, documenting, communicating, problem solving, organizing), (2) to broaden their network locally, regionally, nationally and internationally and strengthen their ties with their own communities and grass roots movements, and (3) to explore and perform in European cities. It will allow youth workers, mentors and centers (1) to apply Hip Hop pedagogy, a highly effective youth-centered approach, (2) to develop their coaching skills to support youngsters to lead workshops, grow as an artist and create social change and (3) to stimulate inter-cultural dialogue and long-term cross-borders collaborations through the unifying culture and pedagogy of Hip Hop.

COORDINATOR: The c.i.p.h.e.r crew Geraardsbergsesteenweg 83 1541 Herne, Belgium

CONTACT: Dorien De Vidts

PARTNERS: Aight, NL; Gangway e.V., DE; Caleidoscopia vzw, BE; Vzw AjKo, BE

GRANT AMOUNT: 28 125 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 13 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP139

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): International Cooperation; Teaching and Training SP140 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001734

TITLE: BORDERLESS YOUNG ARTISTS

DESCRIPTION: This Erasmus+ traject Borderless young artists is a mix of bringing international partner organisations on the one hand, and youngsters from different countries on the other hand together.

An organisation as De Centrale will be enriched by this project, to work with youngsters and to extend its existing networks and even create new ones.

The project wants to launch and establish an exchange project in which the international network of young talented artists from Belgium, Morocco and Turkey will have an extra dimension. Een exchange of a young group of dancers and musicians on the one hand, and young talents from Morocco and Turkey on the other hand, who will make a creation together. The result will be shown as try outs and presentations in Tanger and Istanbul, and then finally on the Urban Sport & Art Festival in Ghent and Antwerp. This project is an aspiration of these young people. Lots of them have a migration background (especially Morrocan and Turkish) and are anxious to get to know the modern cultural life of young people of their age in these countries of their background. This of course besides the usual exotic and traditional forms of cultural expression from these countries as we can see here many times. The celebration of 50 years of Moroccan and Turkish migration to Belgium in 2014 enflamed even more the motivation and curiosity to launch an exchange project with these countries.

The young people from Belgium with this migration background will be connected to the large Turkish and Moroccan communities in both Ghent and Antwerp. It is for this also important that they get a view in this modern artistic and cultural life in the countries with which they have a historical and original affinity. The modern cultural-artistic output which is often ignored or underestimated in these countries, doesn’t always get the attention it deserves in the west. Here we often prefer the more exotic and ethnic defined art forms from these countries. The young artists from Morocco and Turkey can by this means also break out of these ‘traditional’ networks and exchange with other young people. In this project they can expand their network and experience, and create a production of their own which will be shown on different stages – this only is already a big experience. The young artists from Belgium with this migration background will learn more about the situation in other countries and vice versa.

Youngsters from Belgium, Morocco and Turkey are in need of extra professional input and are eager to explore new opportunities and experiences, so they can create new ways of blossoming. With this project the youngsters will get to know each others possibilities and benefits, and learn how to create something with this.

Essential in this project is exchange, network and meeting between the young participants. In total there will be working intensively 24 participants between 13 and 25 years. Most of them didn’t follow any art classes or artistic education, and are mostly coming out of a difficult socio-economic situation. At het end of the project they will have more experience in exploring and improve their skills by exchange, peer-to- peer learning, and they will have developed a better view on the structures and the forms of expression in other countries.

Parallel and very important is of course is the connection between the partner organisations which will be established in this project.

The method which will be used will unroll itself in three steps.

First the youngsters will get it to contact with each other in an informal way via social media, e-mail.

A first meeting before all will be held to create the project design, timing and to set the first dates of visits and meetings.

On the first visit there will be communal dance, theater and music sessions. In this way there’ll arise spontaneous exchange between the youngsters. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP141

In a second step the youngsters will work together with a choreographer on a first assignement. During this assignement there’ll be created, experimented and played with music, moving and choreography. They’ll explore different styles, work methods and will have time to exchange ideas and try them out; there’ll also be support and coaching in this phase.

The project want to create a working environment which challenges the youngsters to explore and extend their boundaries, to be open for new contexts, to learn new forms of expressions. They will be triggered to re-new themselves, to break through to a higher level. No static identities, but continously evoluating and merging identities.

In the next step they’ll work on the creation and get the chance to create their own choreography and to teach his to each other.

They’ll work intensively with the choreographer on the production with different try outs and a presentation on the Urban Sport & Art Festival.

The making of and the result will be filmed and printed on dvd for further use and future projects.

COORDINATOR: vzw De Centrale Kraankinderstraat 2 9000 Ghent, Belgium www.decentrale.be

CONTACT: Cedric De Bock

PARTNERS: Darna Centre Culturel d’Initiatives Citoyennes, MA; Demos vzw, BE; vzw Rhythm Naturals, BE; Bogazici Gosteri Sanatlari Toplulugu Organizasyon Egitim ve Yayincilik Hizmetleri Ticaret Limited Sirketi, TR

GRANT AMOUNT: 36 240 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 17 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP142 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-BE05-KA205-001737

TITLE: SPREAD YOUR SKILLS

DESCRIPTION: The project gathers youth from Austria, Belgium and Netherlands.

The project aims to create a collectif of youth talents and skills.

The objectifs of the collectif are to mutualize the talents and multidisciplinary skills of young people in order to achieve their collective and individual development as well as their promotion at national and international level with a particular focus on Europe and its partner countries.

The collectif will allow a collective development: all members will work towards collaboration, the establishment of partnerships, exchange and sharing of knowledge and expertise, and on solidarity. We believe everyone needs everyone to progress. No one can know everything and do everything alone. We believe that everyone has a skill that can be usefull for other. By combining the skills and individual talents, the project will create a kind of collective intelligence that will serve individual and collective projects.

This is a situation WIN_WIN process.

The collective will allow individual development: to complete the skills he has, a member may apply to the collectives network for information, knowledge or expertise, logistical support, national and international visibility. .... he will earn new opportunities for his career.

It will be led by 30 young persons from the partners organizations. Each partner will gather a group of 10 youngsters of 13 to 16 years old.

The collective will be lead in all three countries by these young project managers. Their work will be based on local specificities and opportunities and on the demands of their members. Secondly, they will provide the international dimension of the project by establishing a network of cooperation between the national collectives and their members. By organizing promotional and communication events. The most biggest one will be a youth skill festival with the item Theater. They will also work on the extension of the network.

COORDINATOR: Partage en couleurs asbl vzw Kolomstraat 54 B4 1080 Brussels, Belgium www.assepartageencouleurs.asso-web.com

CONTACT: Irma Somanza

PARTNERS: Spielbetrieb, AT

GRANT AMOUNT: 32 550 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 13 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

PRIORITY 2: Effective strategies for enhancing basic skills

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; International Cooperation; Improving the Quality of Education / Training Systems STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP143

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-BG01-KA205-014544

TITLE: FORPROVE THEATRE

DESCRIPTION: According to the European Commission, in the second quarter of 2014 over 5 million young people (under 25) were unemployed in the EU-28. This represents an unemployment rate of 21.7% (23.2% in the euro area), which is more than twice as high as the adult unemployment rate (9.0%). Unemployment among youths has been a top priority for EU countries. One of the reasons for the unemployment is the lack of entrepreneurial spirit and skills amongst young people. The elaborated innovative method under the current project idea will create and develop in youth people transversal skills that are crucial in dealing with unemployment and lack of working skills.

Willing to reduce and smooth this problem and contribute to the reduction of the unemployment the Part- nership plans to create completely new and innovative method called ForProve theatre. It will be based on the combination of two kinds of theatrical models: Improv Theater and Forum theatre. The ForProve theatre method is addressed to the business world: support young people in gaining transversal skills that will help them find a job and improve and sharpen their work skills.

The main aim of the project is to equip young people with entrepreneurship skills by innovative method ForProve theatre. For the achievement of this aim the partnership plans to accomplish the following objectives: §§ To use the attractiveness of the theatre art for creating and strengthening the skills of youth people which they needed in order to be successful in the business world §§ To combine the strengths and good practices used in Forum theatre and Improv theatre techniques reducing and mitigating their weaknesses §§ To produce innovative non-formal educational method called ForProve theatre, as a method for stimulation of the entrepreneurship, leadership and transversal skills §§ To equip youth workers with tools for implementation of the ForProve theatre method §§ To raise the awareness regarding the newly developed innovative ForProve theatre method and in this way to foster the entrepreneurial and leadership spirit of young people.

For the fulfillment of these objectives the partnership is planning to undertake the following activities:

-Mapping the strengths and weaknesses of the Forum theatre method and Improv theatre technique in order to have a firm base for development of new methods §§ Developing of completely new and innovative method for entrepreneurship stimulation called ForProve theatre, avoiding the weaknesses of the methods mentioned above and combining their strengths

-Elaborating a Guide on ForProve theatre method in electronic format and on paper to be used for entrepreneurship stimulation by the youth workers in their work with young people

-Elaboration of a Visual Guide on ForProve theatre, representing the new method in action §§ Training of youth workers of 6 EU countries how to implement the ForProve theatre method and the products created §§ Raising the awareness of the stakeholders and society regarding the new method ForProve by organising national multiplier event in each partner country

The direct target group is youth workers who work with youth at the treshold of work, newly employed and NEETS.

The indirect target group: people between 16 and 30 years who are umemployed; are actively seeking employment; have been recently employed; new and soon to be graduates. SP144 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

At least 144 youth workers will be involved in the project activities and as a result will be aware of the new ForProve theatre method and the Project results. 24 of them (4 youth workers per county) will be trained during an international learning event in Bulgaria and will conduct the testing of the Guide on For- Prove theatre. Other 120 youth workers and other stakeholders will be involved in the national multiplier events (at least 20 people in 6 EU countries).

By equipping youth workers from 6 EU countries (Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Poland, Croatia and Lituania) with new methods and tools for entrepreneurship stimulation, the project will have positive impact on the young people in this countries. The youth entrepreneurship stimulation will lead to the reduction of the youth unemployment in a long-term. As all the products will have also an English language version the new ForProve theatre method could be used in other countries as well. The attractiveness and efficiency of the method will help to ensure the sustainability of the project results.

COORDINATOR: KNOW AND CAN ASSOCIATION BUL EVLOGI GEORGIEV 52 1504 SOFIA, Bulgaria www.znamimoga.org

CONTACT: Rumyana Shalamanova

PARTNERS: Coges Società Cooperativa Sociale, IT; SOCIALINIU INOVACIJU FONDAS, LT; M&M Profuture Training, S.L., ES; Klub mladih Split, HR; STOWARZYSZENIE CENTRUM WSPIERANIA EDUKACJI I PRZEDSIEBIORCZOSCI, PL

GRANT AMOUNT: 177 255 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP145

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-CY02-KA205-000528

TITLE: OPEN PARLIAMENT CYPRUS

DESCRIPTION: It is commonly accepted that democracy, as a form of governance, enjoys high approval ratings. Nonethe- less, disappointment with politics (and politicians) is evident throughout Europe. Many people, especially youth, feel powerless and cannot see a way of contributing to politics or to feel heard outside of elections. Coupled with a lack of adequate transparency and accountability, this disappointment has driven voters (especially new or soon to be voters) away from participation in politics. Thus, citizens and politicians are moving further and further apart, election turnout is falling, and fewer and fewer people are willing to become involved in the political life of the country. These tendencies, which are evident throughout Europe, have given grounds to a continent-wide rise or resurgence of extremism movements and parties, targeting primarily the vulnerable youth communities.

Youth (around 16-30 years old) is a component of the most productive part of the society & is the main group that faces the societal problems that may occur. During this period, young people try to form ideas, their own political views &they are exposed to everyday incidents, which take place in the political scene. This is the most vulnerable group to extreme ideas & ideologies as they have not yet formulated concrete ideas & personalities.

The tendency in Cyprus is no different to the rest of Europe. The continuously falling election turnout, especially among young people, whose apathy and disappointment prevails and the lack of trust in the democratic institutions of the country is at an all-time low: a staggering 91% of respondents to the latest Eurobarometer (Autumn 2014) does not trust political parties, while 77% does not trust the House of Representatives. These percentages are among the 5 highest in Europe. Even though extremist movements have not managed to secure strong percentages among Cypriot voters yet, the disappointment with the mainstream political parties, along with the current volatile economic climate and subsequent unemployment, decreasing societal moral values and growing number of reported incidents related to corruption makes youth vulnerable and should be given adequate tools & education in order to resist affiliating with any extremist ideologies in the future.

The scope of this project is to empower young people in Cyprus by creating more opportunities for their participation and greater transparency and accountability in politics. Open Parliament Cyprus (OPC) is going to be the tool to achieve this. OPC will be a web platform that bridges the increasingly widening gap between citizens and their representatives. It will enable citizens to put public questions to their national or European MP. It will be a civic discussion forum where citizens pose direct questions to politicians to better understand their views. The purpose of OPC will be to increase accountability and transparency in politics by creating an ongoing, respectful conversation between citizens and their elected officials, one question at a time.

The project objectives are to:

-promote the dissemination of a promising tool for active civic engagement with an emphasis on young people

-design, develop, test, optimize and evaluate an innovative web based platform for the active and effective engagement of youth in CY

-introduce high level of technical innovation related to the interactive web based platform & methodology used in order for it to be developed efficiently

-significantly increase the active engagement of young citizens with politics in general and Parliament in particular

-demonstrate an innovative method of assessing, evaluating and operating an interactive platform

-lead to concrete and practical conclusions regarding the reasons behind political apathy among young people, in Cyprus and the EU SP146 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

-provide insight on how this interactive engagement strategy could be applied at larger scale in other European countries after the completion of the project

disseminate the project progress and findings through the World Wide Web, conferences, etc.

With its effect on voters, MPs and the media, OPC will strive to increase participation in the political process and to make government more effective and citizen-friendly. It aims to increase voters’ trust in politics and in democracy, moving from a passive to an active democracy.

The project brings together an organization that has already successfully developed a similar platform in their own country (VW) and the organization that was behind its technological development (CP), two important players in the field of youth at European (Cafe Babel) and national (CYC) levels and a newly created organization (MW) dedicated to the successful implementation of OPC.

COORDINATOR: MakeWaves Plithonos 3 3081 Limassol, Cyprus www.makewaves.org.cy

CONTACT: Eliza Loucaidou

PARTNERS: SYMVOYLIO NEOLAIAS KYPROU, CY; BABEL INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION, FR; Vouliwatch, EL; Crowdpolicy Private Capital Company, EL

GRANT AMOUNT: 192 743 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP147

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-CZ01-KA205-014071

TITLE: ROJENÍ - SWARMING

DESCRIPTION: The whole world, the European Union as well as the Czech Republic deals with the growing problem of irreplaceable loss of plant pollinators such as bees. This global problem could be solved only by increasing number of beekeepers. The trouble is that today´s young people are not attracted enough to be beekeepers so it is very difficult to get them to do this activity. For this reason the group of young beekeepers from the Czech non-profit association VČELÍ STRÁŽ created the project called ROJENÍ-SWARMING in which they try to solve this problem.The whole world, the European Union as well as the Czech Republic deals with the growing problem of irreplaceable loss of plant pollinators such as bees. This global problem could be solved only by increasing number of beekeepers. The trouble is that today´s young people are not attracted enough to be beekeepers so it is very difficult to get them to do this activity. For this reason the group of young beekeepers from the Czech non-profit association VČELÍ STRÁŽ created the project called ROJENÍ-SWARMING in which they try to solve this problem.The project implementers focused their attention on education and international exchange of knowledge and experiences in the field of beekeeping. Approximately ten-member groups of young people from ten countries (the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland, Germany, Romania, Wales, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Finland and the Netherlands) will be actively involved in the project. Each of these participating countries was chosen because of their unique and valuable experience.Within the bounds of the project there will be created a comprehensive set of essential outcomes. On the one hand the outcomes will deal with innovative approaches to non-formal education of young people in beekeeping (e.g. e-learning course YOUNG BEEKEEPERS) and on the other hand with long-term and permanently sustainable methods and ways of international cooperation of young people – young beekeepers (e.g. methodical instructions about how to work as a young beekeeper or manual on international cooperation). To create these documents and to achieve goals of this project we will hold two seminars in Prague as well as project meetings of the managers of beekeeping organizations which will be held in Germany and Czech Republic activities focused on checking up on the project in beekeepers´own backyard, international conferences and other events. The project will participate in several activities that are not supported financially by the EU, but will serve to achieve its mission or checking up on the project essential outcomes. There are also for example two national meetings of the beekeeper youth clubs in the Czech Republic and three national seminars of the Czech beekeeping youth leaders and two years of national beekeeping knowledge competition- GOLDEN BEE.The admission to these project activities was able on many years base of cooperation with project implementers and the central committee for work with the youth of the Czech Beekeeper Union.

COORDINATOR: VČELÍ STRÁŽ při ČSV o. s. Vladislavova 248 26901 Rakovník, Czech Republic www.vcelistraz.cz

CONTACT: Jiří Cafourek

PARTNERS: Zespol Szkol Rolniczych CKP w Pszczelej Woli, PL; REGIONALNA ZLOZKA SLOVENSKY ZVAZ VCELAROV BANSKA BYSTRICA, SK; Bal-Ara, KZ; Lithuanian Beekeeping organisation, LT; South Clwyd Beekeepers Association, UK; Staatliche Realschule Nürnberg II, DE; IMYB-Nederland, NL

GRANT AMOUNT: 193 616 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation SP148 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PRIORITY 3: Fostering access to continuing VET, including groups at risk

TOPIC 1: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Open and distance learning

CLUSTER(S): International Cooperation; Teaching and Training; New Technologies and Digital Competences STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP149

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-CZ01-KA205-014187

TITLE: EMPOWERING YOUTH TO BECOME SOCIAL INNOVATORS

DESCRIPTION: The 21 months partnership project named Empowering youth to become social innovators aims at promoting youth initiative in the area of community welfare, and more specifically at development of entrepreneurial mind and social innovation. This is realizing a long term mission to contribute to the recognition of youth achievement as an important condition of better access to the job market. Realized by a Czech youth organization DYNAMA and an Estonian NGO Youth Club Active, the project will offer the participants, youth aged 16 - 21, a chance to develop knowledge, skills and experience important for becoming a social innovation promoter. The project activities will take place in Brno and Tallinn from October 2015 to the end of June 2017. There will be two sustainable social innovation models developed by youth participants to address a need of a chosen target group representing the disabled and the economically and socially excluded. Their featuring stories will be captured by animations. The project activities will include a transnational seminar, a number of intellectual outputs and a final multiplier event - a symposium. The new key knowledge will be shared widely by participant’s video blogs. The project outcomes will be promoted and disseminated by various PR and marketing tools including social media posts, newsletters, visuals, strips, articles and street art objects to effectively target a wide young audience as well as those with special needs. There will also be public debates run to collect public feedback on the potential of the youth in the area of community welfare. The main methodology outcome will be the social innovation cook book - a useful reference material for potential brave young innovators. Non formal learning methodology will be applied in all learning activities. By sharing project results internationally, both partnering organizations hope to attract wider international interest for a future transnational partnership on youth empowerment and social entrepreneurship.

COORDINATOR: DYNAMA, z.s. Za Potokem 65/3 66431 Lelekovice, Czech Republic www.dynama.org

CONTACT: Anna Palacká

PARTNERS: NGO Youth Club Active, EE

GRANT AMOUNT: 35 749 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 21 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 2: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Employability SP150 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012710

TITLE: UNLEASHING YOUTH INITIATIVE AND INVOLVEMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT WITH KEY COMPETENCIES - DEVELOPING TOOLS AND DISSEMINATING BEST PRACTICE

DESCRIPTION: The project aims at strengthening the capacities of facilitators in youth education in Europe with sharing tools, methods and best practice, how to empower youth by addressing transversal, key competencies in youth empowerment. With our activities we support the dissemination and promotion of approaches that address key competencies in learner-centered, holistic EMPOWERMENT concepts. We build bridges between §§ theoretical dimension, §§ societal impact (socio-political dimension) §§ and the concrete working fields of actors in formal and non-formal education (field dimension).

Under competencies we understand in a broad sense a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate to the context. Our project offers practice, methodology and advice, how to implement transversal competencies (UNESCO) or key competencies like EU in 2006 defined for lifelong learning [Recomm. of the EP and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on key competencies for lifelong learning] in concrete youth education and empowerment activities.

MAIN TOPIC AND ITS ASPECTS

With our activities we offer in form of outputs, dissemination activities and advocacy measures answers on the challenges: How experts and education concepts need to cross sectoral barriers for empowering individuals better? What experience with key competencies needs to be transferred more precise to facilitators? What innovative materials and outputs need to be developed to promote competency orientation? How facilitators could empower their target groups for facing the challenges of the knowledge society, the social conditions for European youth, and for becoming active democratic European citizens?

TARGET GROUPS

With the activities we reach 30.000 European facilitators and experts in the field of youth education from different regions and with diverse backgrounds and working with different educational approaches.

Grounding on our expertise we identify these topical fields as focus of our partnership: §§ General aspects of key competencies and their validation/recognition §§ Basic assumptions and approach of empowering learning/group processes §§ Facilitating development of self-responsible initiative: From idea development to the implementation of independent projects other forms of social innovation or participation. §§ Facilitating and planning qualitative experiential and holistic learning §§ Art, culture & non-formal learning: fostering creativity, holistic expression, socio-cultural impact §§ European, global, and international dimension of learning

Key competencies cover a broad range of skills, knowledge and attitudes-EU describes 8 fields. Therefore, the involved partners cover a corresponding broad experience between democratic citizenship education, facilitating social innovation and social entrepreneurship, global learning, community mobilization, facilitating cultural expression, digital competencies and cross-sectoral societal dialogue.

OUTPUT & IMPACT

A central activity of this partnership is the virtual toolbox: (EM)POWER. UNLEASH INITIATIVE WITH COMPE- TENCY BASED FACILITATION. It offers facilitators as experts for civic education and youth empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP151

easy to access, free to use content and experience of our organizations and the community. We ground on existing experience with virtual tools such as http://getting-involved.net (for thetarget group young changemakers in civil society).

A facilitator Tool Series completes this online toolbox. We publish high quality handbooks in different formats - print and PDF, .ebook or Flipbooks. This attunement between print product and online source allows to use the strengths of each media best. §§ Facilitating the development of self-responsible initiative: From motivation to initiative §§ Facilitating and planning experiential and holistic learning §§ European, International and Global dimension of learning §§ Stimulating creativity, using art, culture and holistic expression in empowerment

Additionally at the end of the partnership stands a conference Competency Orientation in Youth Educa- tion: Building Bridges between Practice, Policy and Science In the follow up of this conference we produce: §§ Recommendations - Unleashing Youth Initiative and Involvement Through Empowerment with Key Competencies - Developing Tools and Disseminating Best Practice

Outputs and networking complement in our partnership. With events, the virtual toolbox and our international networks we connect those that like to share enthusiasm and practice with other facilitators and multipliers. In multiplier events and our network activities, also in activities beyond this partnership, our staff, members and partners share the findings and products, that we collaboratively produced and developed.

The concept of key competencies will be popularized among educational experts and practicioners.The dialogue with the policy level will contribute to the further European development of youth empowerment policy.

COORDINATOR: MitOst e.V. Alt-Moabit 90 105 59 Berlin, Germany www.mitost.org

CONTACT: Nils-Eyk Zimmermann

PARTNERS: Südwind Entwicklungspolitik Niederösterreich Süd, AT; Stowarzyszenie SKORO, PL; FABRIKA ZA IDEI, BG; Working Between Cultures Partnerschaft Prahl, Skowron, Heublein - Training - Beratung - Moderation, DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 164 367 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 32 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Teaching and Training SP152 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012802

TITLE: TEAM UP FOR NEETS - INNOVATION FOR YOUTH EMPLOYABILITY

DESCRIPTION: “Team Up for NEETS – Innovation for Youth Employability fosters synergies between innovative approaches to non-formal education, sport-based youth work and employment training for NEET young people. The project establishes trans-European cooperation amongst key-organisations from eastern, western, northern and southern parts of the EU. Together, they will build the capacity to act as European knowledge hubs and set high quality standards in the field of attractive youth work and NEET employability initiatives.

In order to establish the necessary basis for dissemination, “Team Up will create a user-friendly European toolkit as a modular solution to transfer impact-measured, successful practices to wider audiences. In addition, the development of a shared Monitoring and Performance Measurement Framework will track social impact and help assess the collective and individual organisations’ progress against key indicators.

The systemic approach to disseminating successful innovative practices of quality youth work at organisational, local, regional, national and European level facilitates cross border cooperation amongst coaches, trainers and social workers. These actors, in turn, will help to engage over 60.000 of the hardest- to-reach young Europeans in structured youth and non-formal education programmes, with the goal of getting them back into employment or training.

streetfootballworld works with a consortium of project partners from the UK, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal and Spain to unite leaders in the field of education and employability through sport. Drawing on their many years of successful work at local and regional levels, each of these partners brings great expertise into the project to ensure sustainability, ownership and real societal transformation from within European communities. We are driven by the belief that all parts of society need to join forces to tackle social, cultural, economic and educational challenges of NEET young people, and we work closely with various corporate partners, sport federations, employment agencies, local authorities and schools.

The “European Toolkit on Youth Employability through Football aims to inspire, mobilize and expand the promotion of innovative practices to tackle the European youth unemployment crisis. Over the course of two years, the toolkit will be researched, developed and tested to ensure it serves as a valuable guide for trainers and youth workers throughout Europe, opening spaces for youth with fewer opportunities to compete in the labour market as trained professionals with sustainable life-skills. Furthermore, the toolkit allows youth organisations, schools and vocational training centres to increase the attractiveness of and commitment to their programmes. Finally, the toolkit will establish a strategic evaluation vision amongst all key stakeholders and implement a set of recording tools that enable organisations to provide a consistent and comparable dashboard of social impact indicators that their projects deliver.

In many areas of promoting high quality youth work, the most profound learning and training activities can only be achieved on-site, by actually relating to the physical environment in which an organisation operates. We have thus selected a set of distinct case studies that are in a position to share their knowledge via facilitated peer-to-peer learning, teaching and training activities, and to support the practical creation of the toolkit.

To further leverage the results of the project, streetfootballworld and the project consortium offer concrete training opportunities in the toolkit’s inclusive methodologies for interested youth organisations, enhancing their capacity in employability programmes and thus increasing life-saving opportunities for disadvantaged youth across Europe. Visibility will be bolstered through Multiplier Events, using streetfootballworld’s expertise in European mega-events (for instance, the UEFA Euro 2016 in France or a public conference) to launch the “Team Up! intellectual output to a wider European audience in Brussels. In sum, the event and conference will attract an estimated 100,000 spectators and reach a wider audience of more than 4,000,000 Europeans through media and online coverage.

COORDINATOR: STREETFOOTBALLWORLD WALDENSERSTRASSE 2-4 10551 BERLIN, Germany www.streetfootballworld.org STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP153

CONTACT: Niklas Soendgen

PARTNERS: Sport dans la Ville, FR; RHEINFLANKE GGMBH, DE; ALBION IN THE COMMUNITY, UK; Sport Against Racism Ireland Ltd, IE; Sport 4 Life UK, UK; Fundacion Red Deporte y Cooperacion, ES; CAIS - ASSOCIACAO DE SOLIDARIEDADE SOCIAL, PT; OLTALOM SPORTEGYESULET, HU

GRANT AMOUNT: 219 329 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment SP154 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012956

TITLE: LIVING DICTIONARIES

DESCRIPTION: Taking part in the project „Living Dictionaries,“ 20 young people from three different groups from Germany and Austria for 10 months want to discuss the transatlantic trade and investment partnership TTIP and its impact on EU-citizens, transatlantic relations, and the global role of the transatlantic partners. The goal of the project is to eeducate and empower the participants themselves as „living dictionary“ with regard to the topic on TTIP. Further, this process should result in an online dictionary, which is accesible for everyone interested. The groups aim to gain expertise by educating themselves and invite and motive other interested youth to join their activities and develop pleasure in grappling with European topics. The autonomous examination with TTIP aims showing that even topics that seem to be complicated and po- larizing can be understood by non-professionals. Hence, everyone can participate in the political process.

COORDINATOR: Sonnenallee 93 12045 Berlin, Germany https://yapineurope.wordpress.com/

CONTACT: Elisabeth Winter

PARTNERS: Jugare, DE; Basisgruppe Gesellschaftskritik, AT

GRANT AMOUNT: 11 150 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 10 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; International Cooperation STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP155

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012981

TITLE: CONNECT 2.0 - INTERCULTURAL LEARNING NETWORK 4 EUROPE

DESCRIPTION: Mobility measures of Erasmus+ enable young people in Europe to gain valuable and essential intercultural experiences for their personal and professional development. Whereas participants of non-formal youth exchanges (e.g. EVS) are provided with in-person pedagogical support, only few students who take part in the Erasmus program have the opportunity to attend instructed intercultural learning and reflection sessions before, during and after their stay abroad. The youth sector on the other handis at a shortage for a strategic approach to integrate virtual learning methods into the intercultural support. The project CONNECT 2.0 - Intercultural Learning Network 4 Europe aims at combining these two learning methods (presence and virtual learning programs) for both sectors (formal and non-formal mobilities), thereby bridging the still-existent gaps of both fields.

The project consortium is comprised of organizations from both educational sectors as well as an IT partner. This composition allows intensive exchange and development of the learning methods based on scientific evidence. Connect 2.0 will develop a scientifically sound intercultural learning scenario that is specifically adjusted to the target groups and comprises presence and virtual exercises and reflection units. There will be an e-learning platform which combines the learning units with information and community elements within an “Experience Map. This map allows interactive access to personal, reflecting reports of experiences of current and former participants as well as to factual information that stimulates active exchange. Apart from the learning scenario, mentoring and multiplier programs will be worked out, which enable qualitative intercultural support of exchange participants through trainings. Moreover, an alumni community will arise from the multiplier program, further encouraging cross-sectoral engagement.

Throughout the three-year project period of Connect 2.0, pilot runs of the developed programs will be carried out within the educational institutions (universities and non-formal educational organizations). Thus, 160 students within the Erasmus program and 20 participants of volunteer programs will benefit directly from Connect 2.0. At the same time the programs will be evaluated and optimized immediately. Further- more up to 80 people will have the opportunity to take part in the training measures within the mentoring and multiplier programs. Beyond the project, a significantly higher number of people will benefit from the results: All educational institutions of Connect 2.0 and the participants of these institutions’ programs as well as their partner organizations. On a long-term basis all educational institutions in Europe will have the opportunity to integrate the project results into their systems.

Methodically, the project is based on the didactic model of experience-based learning according to D. A. Kolb. Besides the pilot phases (which include preparation and evaluation seminars), the trainings and the obligatory consortium meetings, several small and large dissemination events will be implemented throughout the project. These serve to guarantee a wide-scale public awareness of Connect 2.0 from the very beginning.

The main results of Connect 2.0 can be summarized as follows: an intercultural learning scenario containing educational material for the presence and virtual learning units as well as the programs of the mentoring and multiplier trainings will be developed, revised and optimized. Appropriate certification methods will behave been developed for the programs. The virtual 2.0 learning will be based on software that can be integrated easily into European campus management and other systems. It will be available open source. An additional result of Connect 2.0 is are the accompanying application guidelines guaranteeing a smooth implementation of the project results in additional institutions and contexts. Furthermore, scientific papers and presentations as well as an overall evaluation of the project will be produced.

All these results enable a continuation of the products subsequent to Connect 2.0. A sustainable effect and an application of the developed learning curriculum for higher numbers of students and universities as well as for volunteers and volunteer organizations will be promoted on the European level. Therefore from the start, these and other stakeholders beyond the project partners themselves will be involved in the project. Moreover, sustainability will be ensured by a pan-European, public availability of the application of the products after the project. Also, the project partners will stay available to all people interested in advice regarding implementation. SP156 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

It is the aspiration of the project partners to establish the project outcomes as strategic, cross-sectoral and scalable standard for pedagogical support of participants within the Erasmus+ framework.

COORDINATOR: InterCultur gemeinnützige GmbH Friedensallee 48 22765 Hamburg, Germany www.intercultur.de

CONTACT: Britt Slopianka

PARTNERS: UNIWERSYTET IM. ADAMA MICKIEWICZA W POZNANIU, PL; Karlshochschule gemeinnützige GmbH, DE; HAAGA-HELIA AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY, FI; FUNDACIO UNIVERSITARIA BALMES, ES; Universita’ degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, IT; Datenlotsen Informationssysteme GmbH, DE; Fundação Fernando Pessoa-Universidade Fernando Pessoa, PT; UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK, IE; AFS Interkulturelle Begegnungen e.V., DE; FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITAT JENA, DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 427 471 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 36 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

TOPIC 3: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP157

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012982

TITLE: BETWEEN AGES: NETWORK FOR YOUNG OFFENDERS AND NEET

DESCRIPTION: The efforts done in the last decades from the European institutions to tackle the NEETs problem and to provide, accordingly to international and European convention on protection of children and young people, better policies in the juvenile justice system have proven to create benefic effects for many young European. The rationale of those policies and recommendation is the same as the one that leads to this project: support youth in participation’s process, preventing them to fully or partially disengage from the “social contract and help them to develop attitude, skills and knowledge for a fully integrated life in the European society. The strategic partnership BA-Network in the field of youth is established between European associations, civil and educational institutions and operators active in the juvenile justice and in the wider field of NEET. Main objectives of the BA-Network consist of development of alternative methods and measures to imprisonment of young offenders and increase the chances of NEETs for social inclusion. More over the partnership intends to promote the debate among social, educational and political institutions as well as social entrepreneurs for create a reengagement platform according to the Europe 2020 youth strategy. Methodologies of the BA-Network are: share and transfer experiences and know-how among the partners, development of strategies and methods toward juvenile crime prevention, implementation of a platform for policies and practices at a European, national and sub-national level for rehabilitation in society of young offenders and NEETs. The design of this project ensures a balance between experience and innovation distributed among the partners. The most innovative aspects introduces by the BA-Network is, involve countries that haven’t yet developed the pilgrimage for young offenders and NEETs in their welfare and juvenile justice policies and the cross sectorial transfer of knowledge, good practices and scientific documentation on this topic. The activities involving the Italian partners have an absolute innovative character, since these measures for young offenders and NEETs have never been implemented there. Due to the activities carried out by the BA-Network we expect to transfer and implement specific non-formal learning processes and tools in social and educational contexts in which they have not yet being tested and which are aimed at combating social exclusion, prevent recurrence and early school leaving, promote social security in community and the containment of crimes related to petty crime, promote commitment and empowerment of young people and positive initiation into adulthood, favoring the containment of public spending in particular with regard to health issues , welfare and judicial affairs. We expect to have impact on non-governmental organizations of both third sector organizations already involved in the project target as well as other companies who are interested in certain topics covered by the project. Public institutions will be also affected by the result of this project which will create conditions more suitable to test and implement the pilgrimage, to start collaborations useful to enter the labor market for youngsters. Also several youth under probation or in prison will benefit from the activation of new projects such as pilgrimage, internship and work placement. Because of being able to implement our project under the effigies of the European Union we expect to be a powerful example for other to carry on and promote the Europe2020 strategy in the field of youth. the BA-Network target the creation of a European association for coordinating pilgrimage activities for young offenders and NEET with the help of the European and National institutions

COORDINATOR: Fachhochschule Dresden gGmbH Gasanstaltstraße 3-5 01307 Dresden, Germany www.fh-dresden.eu

CONTACT: Karsten König

PARTNERS: Alba vzw, BE; Seuil, FR; MINISTERO DELLA GIUSTIZIA - DIPARTIMENTO GIUSTIZIA MINORILE, IT; Bischof-Benno-Haus, DE; Associazione di Promozione Sociale Onlus “Il Portico”, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 297 426 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 36 months SP158 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law)

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP159

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-DE04-KA205-013046

TITLE: DEUTSCHSPRACHIGE AGORA: INNOVATION, VERNETZUNG UND ENGAGEMENT DURCH YOUTH EMPOWERMENT

DESCRIPTION: The germanspeaking Agora („Deutschsprachige Agora“) is a youth initiave aiming for youth empowerment, sustainable youth involvement within the german-speaking scout and guide associations as well as young person’s broad engagement within society and communities. The community of the so called “german-speaking scout and guide associations consists not only of the organizations from originary german-speaking countries, but also from associations who have members from german-speaking minorities.

The initiative adresses youth and young adults in the age range of 16 to 25, who, as an active part of the last age section of their association’s programme, want to participate in creating a better world. Providing them with the necessary knowledge, skills and motivation, up to fourty participants will be empowered to actively engage in meeting challenges both within and outside their organizations. Building up on the internationally recognized scout method (http://scout.org/method), the educational tool of „Agora“ (http:// rovernet.eu/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ForRoversByRovers_GuidelinesForRunningASucessfulAgo- ra-copy.pdf) provides a methodical framework for projects initiated and ran by youths, for youths. This means, that all members of the organizing team are within the target group of the initiative and are responsible for organization and content of the initiative, including this application.

The germanspeaking Agora extends the notion of a single event on a long-term process, providing both an intensive preparation and a follow-up phase. Due to the networking activities on social media in advance and by using modern educational methods like webinars, participants get introduced to the initiative’s topics in a structured, animating and participatory way well early on. The main „Forum“ brings together all the participants in an event of intercultural dialogue, fostering transnational partnerships as well as an understanding of democracy and european identity.

Using various non-formal learning methods (e.g. open space technique, break out sessions, world cafés, workshops, simulation games) young people engage in the field of youth empowerment, involvement and active citizenship. They articulate and develope their own perspectives and strategies on the role, function and participation opportunities within their association’s age section and local communities. A major focus of the programm lies on the ideas of employabilty and skills for life, i.e. the valorization of generic skills gained during scouting activities and their application in a professional context. External speakers and facilitators act as ambassadors for their ideas providing inspiration, experience and expertise. Using the project method and a learning by doing approach participants get familiar with the potential of social innovation (e.g. through social entrepreneurship) and bring it into action during their individual project processes.

The participants will be enabled to put the skills they acquired from the “Forum and its preparations and the therefrom newly generated ideas into practice, as they will run individual projects on a local level. Thereby they contribute to the sustainable development of their communities and scouting and guiding associations. By running self-chosen and self-directed projects, young people give individual answers on social challenges like youth unemployment, flows of refugees and exploitation of natural resources, or they actively participate in shaping their scouting and guiding associations. The participants receive active support on developing and running their projects by the organizing team, which therefore mentors the participants in small groups. Online-meetings within these so-called learning groups are held for that purpose, both to exchange the progress of the projects and to guarantee a suitable assistance.

The comprehensive documentation of the initiative, a manual on methods, as well as the creation of toolboxes, which contain both the collection of contents and reports about the local projects of the participants, ensure the further use of the outputs of the initiative and provides input for possible repetitions of the germanspeaking Agora in the future. The implementation of possibilities for participation within the scouting and guiding associations, the improvement of the programme activities of the last age section “Ranger/Rover and inputs on a local or regional level serve as a basis to start from for further, independent developments and projects. SP160 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

The participants also act as multipliers as they disseminate the ideas of the Agora in a widespread network of engaged scouts and guides. Smaller Transnational learning groups foster the exchange (e.g. of experiences, views and traditions) between the participating countries and therefore enable strategic partnerships for the long-term development of European youth perspectives.

COORDINATOR: Bundesamt Sankt Georg e.V. Martinstr. 2 41472 Neuss, Germany www.dpsg.de

CONTACT: Madline Kurylo

PARTNERS: Pfadfinder & Pfadfinderinnen Liechtensteins, LI; Fondation FNEL, LU; Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego, PL; Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Ö, AT; Lëtzebuerger Guiden a Scouten, LU

GRANT AMOUNT: 34 175 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 10 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Improving the Quality of Education / Training Systems STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP161

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-DK01-KA205-004358

TITLE: CREATING OPPORTUNITIES AND UNDERSTANDING FOR AVOIDING AND PREVENTING EXCLUSION

DESCRIPTION: Our project is a 3-year programme of research and development undertaken by partnership of 5 institutions integrating educational, youth, sports and other leisure activities in Denmark, Portugal.,Ireland, Lithuania and Norway. It addresses the exclusion of young people from social, educational, cultural and economic opportunities associated with full citizenship a serious issue across Europe.

Current research indicates:

a) the particular importance of this issue for younger people characterized as NEETS - Not in Employment, Education or Training, and those at risk of becoming NEETs through Early School Leaving (ESL) and more general disengagement from mainstream education and wider, socially inclusive networks.

b) that within the broad range of life-skills needed to exercise full citizenship, the development of social skills, self-confidence and positive self-esteem is very important for young people

c) sporting activities, non-formal types of education, and community activity such as drama, dance, music and multi-media workshops can be very effective in engaging or re-engaging young people in wider social and educational networks, raising self-confidence and self-esteem, developing social skills and team-working and thus combating social and economic exclusion

d) Effective initiatives have been “spear-headed and supported by prestigious sporting and other organizations such as those our partners have worked with, e.g. those associated with two premiership football teams, Benfica in Portugal and “Arsenal in the Community in the UK.

In relation to these issues , we aim to explore and disseminate best practice in educational organisations, youth services, sports and other recreational associations working together to combat the social exclusion of young men and women.

The immediate target groups for our findings and products are youth and community workers, school leaders and teachers, trainers, and coaches, working with young people in varying degrees of co-operation with related agencies and with varying and often inadequate resources for training and support. Our ultimate beneficiaries are the many hundreds and thousands of young people whose life-chances will benefit during and after the lifetime of the project.from our target groups’ enhanced knowledge and competence

Preliminary needs analysis with our immediate target groups shows a crucial need for more specific training and support directed particularly towards developing and sharing best practice for more effective inter-agency collaboration Currently, even those initiatives which seem most successful have often been developed on a largely ad hoc and “top-down basis which has not encompassed a wide range of related practitioners and professionals from other agencies who typically have limited opportunities to share their experience and make more effective, collaborative intervention.

We aim to help meet these needs by bringing together partners with considerable, but differing types and levels of inter-agency working to combat youth disengagement. We identify and explore best practice in our different national and socio-economic contexts in order to develop and disseminate a range of innovative training and support materials and resources to meet the needs of our target groups.

Specifically, we aim to produce detailed reports and filmed analysis of “best practice case-studies in 5 partner countries. These will be major outputs in their own right but will also form the basis for renewable resource packs and a sustainable, self-financing training course + associated handbook adaptable for distance or residential learning in all European countries and regions.

All of our findings, conclusions, analyses, reports, films and resource packs will be disseminated through a freely accessible public website sustainable after the project’s lifetime; through publications and SP162 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

presentations in the academic and professional literature; and through a European conference for practitioners delivered at the end of the project.

We believe that the most effective exploration and dissemination of “What works, where, and why in this field, producing a core of best practice transferable to all European countries, must be based upon transnational analysis of practitioners’ experience of similar problems and strategies in a variety of different European settings. Our partners are from contrasting regions of 5 different countries from North, West, South and Eastern Europe. Each one has a variety of local and regional networks of related agencies in education, youth and community work, sport and leisure. Their staff are drawn from both educational and youth work backgrounds and all have specific and varied experience of working with different types of disadvantaged learners from marginalized communities in different European contexts, many with a migrant background.

COORDINATOR: Albertslund Ungecenter Liljens Kvarter 2 2620 Albertslund, Denmark www.albertslund-ungecenter.dk

CONTACT: Tina Jensen

PARTNERS: Alytaus jaunimo centras, LT; Clare Youth Service, IE; Haugaland videregående skole, NO; Agrupamento de Escolas Carlos Gargaté, PT

GRANT AMOUNT: 221 254 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 36 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP163

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-DK01-KA205-004400

TITLE: COMMUNITY COUNTERACTING RADICALISATION

DESCRIPTION: The overall aim of the project is to contribute to improving the prevention efforts against militant islamist radicalisation and extremism among young Muslims. Furthermore, the overall aim is to strengthen young Muslims active citizenship and to build a sustainable bridge between local Muslim communities and prevention professionals in order to improve collaboration, cohesion and efficiency in the efforts to empower young Muslims to active citizenship on democratic terms. We seek to break down the mutual distrust and make use of the knowledge, credibility and trust that local Muslim communities hold about the local youth in risk of being radicalised.

Thus the CoCoRa project will develop and test a new prevention strategy that involves civil and local Mus- lim communities actively in the prevention of radicalization through the process of empowering young Muslims to feel affiliation and positive citizenship.

The community-based CoCoRa Prevention Strategy will be composed of three partial programs which will be detailed described step-by-step in a sample of methodical handbooks in order to ensure the concrete transfer value and utility for future prevention projects based on the community collaborative approach:

The CoCora Collaborative Program to establish and anchor the local collaboration

The CoCoRa Prevention Program to empower and qualify youngsters to assume the socalled self-including citizenship

The CoCora Ambassador Program to train the youngsters to present the programs and their own empowered narratives for l practitioners and other stakeholders in the professional prevention efforts as well as for other young Muslims and representatives from Muslim communities facing the same need for a participartory initiatives.

The aims and objectives of the CoCoRa project represents an innovative perspective on the approach and methods used in the general European efforts to prevent and respond to young Muslims radicalization and increased sympathies for militant Islamist groups. The CoCoRa project provides an innovative approach by developing and implementing a prevention strategy, built on 1) the active involvement of and collaboration with local civil Muslim communities and 2) the systematic linking of deradicalisation and empowerment to active citizenship on democratic terms.

In summary, in the CoCoRa project we will build and anchor the prevention strategy on the direct collaboration and the insight, resources, credibility and trust within local Muslim communities in order to prevent and counteract radicalization from the inside, so to speak.

Furthermore, we want to adopt an empowerment and equality approach to the prevention strategy in order to relate the deradicalisation closely to the perspective of an equal and active citizenship.

COORDINATOR: mhtconsult ApS Karlsgårdsvej 11 DK-3000 Helsingør, Denmark www.mhtconsult.dk

CONTACT: Margit Helle Thomsen

PARTNERS: CESIE, IT; VEREIN MULTIKULTURELL, AT; CULTURES INTERACTIVE E.V. - VEREINZUR INTERKULTURELLEN BILDUNG UND GEWALTPRAVENTION, DE; ASSOCIATION POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES INITIATIVES CITOYENNES ET EUROPEENNES, FR

GRANT AMOUNT: 186 602 EUR SP164 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Inclusion and Tolerance STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP165

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-DK01-KA205-004402

TITLE: EUROPEAN YOUTH VOLUNTEERS AS ACTIVE CITIZENS

DESCRIPTION: The project European Youth Volunteers as Active Citizens (EYVAC) aims at improving the quality and sustainability of social work for marginalised youth in Europe with Youth volunteers as drivers of change. The three main objectives of are: a) Exploring and developing innovative methods for sustainable social youth work based on best practices from relevant NGOs, scholars, practitioners, local authorities and Red Cross societies in Denmark, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria b) Establishing a transnational European network where innovative and best practices are shared through an online Open Educational Resource (OER) Plat- form to inspire all relevant stakeholders c) Empowering young volunteers and youth workers in Denmark, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria to become progressive leaders of social work, leaders of change and active citizens in their local communities.

Youth in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Denmark are at the forefront of the societal challenges and have a risk of being excluded both socially and economically from their society. In order to reach out to the youth and address the negative impacts in their lives there is potential for civil society organisations to keep working on improving and adjusting their social projects and use innovative methods to empower and enable youth to become positive influential citizens in their local communities. Since the economies of many European countries are still affected by the financial crisis there is a need for the states, public and local authorities to explore innovative cooperation forms, new alliances and find alternative ways to sustain the quality and high level of social support and services to marginalized groups. Within this new situation many states are seeking to improve and utilise the cooperation with the civil society sector and their social programs. Danish Red Cross (DRC) together with Danish Red Cross Youth (DRCY), Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC), Romanian Red Cross (RRC) and Hungary Red Cross (HRC) are strong and consolidated CSOs and all aim at ensuring sustainability in their projects. The target groups of the project are: active youth volunteers in the NRCS, relevant public authorities (ministries, municipalities, regions), students from relevant academic disciplines, scholars/experts, NGOs, local practitioners and marginalised and vulnerable youth. These different stakeholders will participate in the following activities:

The activities and results can be divided into three phases. The preparatory phase where a participatory transnational meeting will take place. Implementation phase where the various sectors and stakeholders will come together in the Leadership Academy ACTIVATE training, the conference and in the four National Academies. The participants will experience new ways and methods of facilitating social volunteer driven projects for marginalised youth. The discussions and established learning forum will be kept alive at the OER Platform that will be developed, tested and launched in this phase. Dissemination and final phase will be where the OER is developed as an engaging and motivating digital platform where all stakeholders involved in this project is being nursed and keep developing their skills.

EYVAC will be using a peer-to-peer method and the project will have impact at both the European, national and local level: At the European level the project will establish a transnational network that are sharing knowledge, experiences, best practices and innovative methods in conducting social youth work. The OER platform will become a learning platform relevant for all NRCSs in the world as well as CSOs in Europe working with youth projects. At the national level the volunteers will increase their capacities and gain knowledge in initiating dialogue and cooperating effectively with the local authorities. The volunteers and youth workers will ensure that the innovative practices and exchanges developed at the European level, will be converted to the national level and thereby increase the capacities of national social youth work in the local NRCSs. At the local level: youth workers, volunteers and socially marginalised youth will experience increased capacities and feel inspired from their youth peers. The work with social marginalised youth will improve and they will become active, democratic and engaged citizens contributing positively to their local communities.

The EYVAC project will in the long term create hundreds of engaged and motivated youth as active citizens in more than four European countries. They will have a lot of social capital and the potential to become progressive leaders in their organisations. SP166 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

Indirectly the EYVAC project will in a few years have reached more than 2000 different stakeholders through the OER platform that will be one of the leading digital inspiration source of social work for especially youth volunteers in Europe and the Middle East.

COORDINATOR: BLEGDAMSVEJ 27 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

CONTACT: Astrid Elisabeth Hasselbach

PARTNERS: SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE CRUCE ROSIE DIN ROMANIA, RO; MAGYAR VOROSKERESZT TARSADALMI SZERVEZET, HU; Bulgarian Red Cross, BG; Ungdommens Røde Kors, DK

GRANT AMOUNT: 92 022 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 16 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP167

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-EE01-KA205-013547

TITLE: ECOLOGY OF THE YOUNG SPIRIT

DESCRIPTION: The project Ecology of The Young Spirit is a trilateral transnational youth initiative in which take part Esto- nia, Bulgaria and Slovenia youth organizations. The project takes place between 01.09.2015-01.07.2016.

Objectives of the project: §§ To develop participant’s competencies, specially in the field of ecological education (healthy consumer, saving your place of living, green lifestyle), healthy life style (physically activity and healthy eating habits, attitudes about individual health responsibility and care accountability) §§ To involve more young people into activities of the project about their healthy lifestyle §§ work out program for children and youngsters to increase their awareness of ecological and healthy lifestyle.

Project was initiated by youth group from Sillamäe Youth Center Beehive, who want to make changes in their lives and in the life of youth in their town and increase awareness of young people about reasonable consumption, healthy lifestyle and importance of ecological education.

There are different activities planned: §§ 3 transnational meetings in Estonia Bulgaria and Slovenis, to share best practices in ecological education and to learn new methods of working with young people §§ over 27 activities for young people on topics: Healthy lifestyle, ecological education, reasonable consumption §§ TAC-TAC activity (during which they suggest any person join their project by taking personal challenge about improving lifestyle or making lifestyle more healthy)

Transnational youth initiative wil be held by 27 young participant from Estonia, Bulgaria, Slovenia and 3 youth leaders to support them. They will get certificate-Youthpass and knowledge about program Eras- mus + and a very rich experience in youth work field. Over 300 young peple will take part in project activities in every particpating country.

COORDINATOR: SHNK Ulei Vladimir Majakovski, 7 40231 Sillamäe, Estonia www.ulei.ee

CONTACT: Irina Meljakova

PARTNERS: GIMNAZIJA FRANCA MIKLOSICA LJUTOMER, SI; Narodno chitalishte “Badeshte sega 2006”, BG

GRANT AMOUNT: 30 850 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 10 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Effective strategies for enhancing basic skills

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Health and wellbeing SP168 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 2: Healthy lifestyle, active ageing

CLUSTER(S): Health and Medicine STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP169

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-EE01-KA205-013581

TITLE: HOW DID THEY DO IT?

DESCRIPTION: The main objective of project HOW DID THEY DO IT? is to introduce youth from disadvantaged families to different professional pathways in Estonia and Latvia. We would like to introduce to them ways of how other people have chosen their occupations and how they succeeded in their professional life. In the included work-shops participants will work on their self-esteem, problem-solving and communication skills as well as learning how to create a good CV and prepare for job interview. We will visit various work places in different parts of the country and talk to professionals there: engineers, craftsmen, journalists, musicians, Eco-farmers and government officials. We will also talk to carier - advisors in order for young people to know of such possibilities and what kind of assistance they could get. Along the way we would visit places of cultural heritage to introduce youth to the culture of their country.

COORDINATOR: Ida-Virumaa noorte sakslaste ühing Jaama 22-10 41532 Jõhvi, Estonia http://johvideutsche.wordpress.com

CONTACT: Julia Jermosina

PARTNERS: ERFOLG, LV

GRANT AMOUNT: 18 700 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 14 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Employability SP170 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-EE01-KA205-013590

TITLE: EXCEED THE WALL

DESCRIPTION: Project - Exeed the wall- wishes to offer an alternative for young people to express their ideas to their peevs and the community. The activity of young people in small fairs of Estonia and neighbouring Lat- via, tends to be low regardless of the local authorities attempt to affect young people and give them opporturinities for self- realisation, young people´s opinion is not heard much. The reason may not be in the lack of ideas, but in the formality of self- realisatsion which decreases the opportunities of creative self- realisatsion. The imaginary wall between the young and the rest of the community makes them feel unnecessary in society ( which affects their election activity and social belonging). Still, the young are able to offer innovative solutions and views that are worth taking into consideration.

The project gives the opprutunity to students aged from 15- 19 from Rakvere and Riga and Ventspils for creative self -realisation through aduiovisual media eg shortfilms or clips. Shortfilms allow the young to handle problems in community and society. Since filmart is quite popular among the young and contains narration, scenography and also the tehnical side in filming. People with different skills and talents get the oppurtunity for self- realisation depending on their personal wishes and goals. Filmmaking is a creative progress which is closely connected with teamwork and cognition. Collective filmmaking allows the young to discuss the chosen topic and through each others oppinions and ideas understand better. Our aim is to use filmmaking as the best way of expressing the social-critical ideas of the young.

The project aims to reach 600 sutdents, 200 in every partnercountries. And 400 students through additional workshops. In addition the students we would like 800 people to visit our festival.

The main purpose of the prject is to allow the young to map the strenghts and weakenesses of community, define themselves as a part of society and discuss different solutions. Eventually the young should be able to express theid thought through adiovisual media.

To achieve our goals there will be different discussions based on the problems handled beforehand. There will be projectdays that teach the realisation of ideas and the introduce the tehnology used in filmmaking. The shortfilms will be presented in August 2016 in the filmfestival of the project in Rakvere. Where the shortfilms of the young from both countries will compete with each other. The contsetents get professional feedback and the best works will be acknowledged. The festival wished to highlighte the creativity and activity of the young through presenting different way of self-realisation (nätiused) on the streets. The creativity of the young to the local community.

The project is conducted by international project team from all the partnercountries. The leader of the project is the six-member group from Estonia, who all have been part of organising national filmfestival. The previous skills and knowledge are wished to be improverd and shared with the partner. For the Latvian organisation Baltic Youth Way is important to strenghten the cooperation between the asociations of the Baltic countries and to tutor the young by offering them to aquire new skills with big empahsis on personal development. The other Latvian partner Ventspils Youth Council puts the main emphasis on improving the creativity of the young and personal inicative and ability to conduct and organise.

Our message of the project - We bring the World to you- wishes to introduce and compare the ideas of the young from different cultures. At the same time similar discussions and projectdays will conducted in the partnercountries. The members of the project team improve their teamwork and socialskills and to get the experience of conducting a project and leading a team.

As a result we wish to raise the activity on a local level and encourage the young to be more creative and eager. The participate of the project is able to express ideas through audiovisal media and have tehnical skills to take up similar creative projects. The also have the change to express their creations, ideas and speak up for themselves. The leaders of the project have practical skills in conducting personal initiative and leading a team, that can be shared as a good example in other countries as well in Estonia. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP171

COORDINATOR: Vaba Noor Koidula 6-21 44308 Rakvere, Estonia

CONTACT: Karl Andreas Sprenk

PARTNERS: Baltic Youth Way, LV; Ventspils Jauniesu dome, LV

GRANT AMOUNT: 40 445 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 14 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

CLUSTER(S): International Cooperation SP172 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006372

TITLE: PATH TO A JOB. YOUTH INCLUSION THROUGH EMPLOYABILITY

DESCRIPTION: PROJECT CONTEXT.

The single biggest crisis facing the European Union is youth unemployment. High rates of youth unemployment and young school leavers show the need for implementing projects which launch reflection and experimentation actions designed to improve quality and innovation in youth workers’ approaches to unemployment. At the same time the project will support the social inclusion of young people through employability - in line of objectives and fields of action of the renewed framework for European cooperation in the youth field (2010-2018)

DATA

Dropouts: EU28 average (12.7% in 2012). Spain (24.9%); Italy (17.6%); United Kingdom (13.5%)

Youth unemployment: EU28 average (23%). Italy (35.3%); Spain (53.2%); UK (21%) (Eurostat).

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

The project aims to promote a strategic partnership between 4 European organisations in order to foster the inclusion and employability of young people, ( aged between 17 and 24 years), with fewer opportunities (NEETs and young people with disadvantage backgrounds). We will achieve this through a comprehensive social intervention at personal, family and social level in their path to a job.

Specific objectives: 1. To share innovative good practices in youth workers’ approaches to unemployment, especially for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. §§ Activity: Development of a database. 2. To develop a comprehensive approach (methodology) to support young people with fewer opportunities in their path to a job by involving young people, youth workers, families, companies and other stakeholders. §§ Local working groups, methodological guide. 3. To improve the skills and competences of youth workers, especially digital competences, so that they will be able to offer a high quality support to disadvantaged young people in their job seeking.

Activities: Training activitiesin ICT for youth workers and the development of ICT-based resources for cooperation and communication (portal web). 4. To empower disadvantaged young people in their path to a job as well as promoting meetings and reflection spaces with stakeholders (companies, public administrations and policy-makers) and other European young people (virtual mobility). §§ Activities: local events and virtual mobility. 5. To improve the international capacity of participating organisations by adding European value to their experiences, guidance and job placement programmes for young people with fewer opportunities. They will achieve this through joint work with organisations in other European countries, the use of European tools for dissemination (Dissemination platform Erasmus+), the recognition of learning outcomes (Europass) and the implementation of the following intellectual outputs (digital, under Creative Commons license and in different languages): §§ Database: Innovative good practices about youth inclusion through employability. §§ PATH TO A JOB. Comprehensive methodology for the accompaniment of young people with fewer opportunities in their path to a job. §§ Web portal: Path to a job. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP173

NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS

The project involves approximately 1720 people, both directly and indirectly. The profile of direct participants: young people with fewer opportunities, youth workers and companies’ representatives. Indirect participants’ profile: policy makers, decision takers, businesses, local and regional authorities, civil society organisations, education and training providers, employment agencies, youth workers and organisations and young people and families.

RESULTS AND IMPACT

Youth workers will be trained to develop key competences such as linguistic and digital skills and specific ones related to coaching for improving the quality of youth work.

Open educational resources, multilingual and freely available will be developed.

The implementation of a comprehensive methodology for the accompaniment of young people with fewer opportunities in the path to a job will be facilitated through a structured guide with quality indicators, a database of innovative good practices and a portal web about youth inclusion through employability

Promote active participation of young people with fewer opportunities in key aspects affecting their lives (empowerment)

COORDINATOR: FUNDACION ADSIS CALLE PEÑASCALES, Nº 14 LOCAL IZDO 28028 MADRID, Spain www.fundacionadsis.org

CONTACT: JUNCAL YUBERO SOLANILLA

PARTNERS: FRIDAY PEOPLE LIMITED, UK; AYUNTAMIENTO DE VINAROS, ES; FONDAZIONE MONDO DIGITALE, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 144 764 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 28 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP174 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006454

TITLE: THE YES ALLIANCE 1ª ALIANZA EUROPEA PARA EL EMPRENDIMIENTO SOCIAL JUVENIL 1ERST EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS

DESCRIPTION: Form a Strategic Alliance to facilitate the exchange, transfer and the dissemination of innovative practices related to promote entrepreneurial education and improving the employability of young social entrepreneurs, which will be held three Market Place (one per country involved), who meet in a single space and place to all relevant stakeholders in each country, connecting them also with the ecosystems of other countries explicitly: initiatives related to youth social entrepreneurship will be presented (contests, awards, training, accelerators, etc.), articulated through different institutions (foundations, NGOs, funding entities, etc.), connecting them in turn with your target audience, youth and educational institutions, and making visible the work of young social entrepreneurs as referents.

This project responds to the need to unite and empower the work of organizations that work with youth Social Entrepreneurship to maximize their reach and pave the way to young people who want to undertake a project of social change.

We miss a space that brings together information and resources available on the ESJ ecosystem for easy access by users (young people and youth and educational institutions), which is in turn a space of encounter, interaction and exchange of knowledge between the actors themselves. A public and open place where to meet and generate social value, as well as connecting supply with demand.

For all this we have designed a project aimed to generate spaces for meeting, collaboration and joint learning to collect, analyze and disseminate existing resources and thus articulated the extensive but still disconnected, work of organizations who work by and for social entrepreneurship with youngsters, through:

-The creation and articulation of a strategic alliance working for young social entrepreneurs in Europe (6 entities, 3 countries). .

-The collection and mapping resources for young entrepreneurs social (support programmes, initiatives of foundations, associations, companies, public entities, ONG´S, etc.).

-Celebration of 3 events Market Place for youth social entrepreneurship (Greece, London, Madrid), for young people in 4º ESO and BACHILLERATO 1st and their counterparts in Greece and United Kingdom. Accompanied by representatives of educational, educational entities and executives.

-Monitoring of the impact on young people and participating entities.

COORDINATOR: Impact Hub Madrid CALLE GOBERNADOR NUM 26 28014 Madrid, Spain www.madrid.impacthub.net

CONTACT: Mikel Oleaga

PARTNERS: Hub Islington CIC, UK; Asociación de fomento del emprendimiento social, ES; Logou Paignion - Psychagogia, Techni, Glossa sto scholio Astiki Mi Kerdoskopiki Eteria, EL; ImpactHubLabs, EL; Year Here, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 89 440 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 10 months STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP175

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability SP176 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006457

TITLE: YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS - IF NOT YOU THEN WHO?

DESCRIPTION: This project is an outcome from the recent economic situation in Europe and its high unemployment, affecting mostly young people.

The public education system doesn´t adapt fast enough to the socio-economic changes in the society and therefor it does not supply young people with tools and attitudes, so necessary to become an active member of our societies. Young people will rather look for a job than think to create one, as they are lack of self confidence, personal initiatives as practical knowledge and tools in order to develop their ideas and consider to become an entrepreneur.

Partners: §§ Asociación Jóvenes Solidarios, Spain §§ Patronus, Slovakia §§ London Borough of Hackney, UK §§ Hacetteppe Univercity, Turkey §§ CIM Horyzonty, Poland

With the project: If not you, then who?Teaching Entrepreneurship we want to work on the following aims: 1. To fight the state of passivity and no active participation of young people in the stage when they are still students. 2. To create and investigate a range of didactic tools that will help youth workers and teachers to teach young people skills and abilities necessary to consider a future entrepreneurship, with emphasis on entrepreneurship considering added value to the community. 3. To increase the quality of youth sector as an important actor of fomenting and teaching youth initiative and entrepreneurship by disseminating the booklet with developed entrepreneurship sessions. 4. To complement the formal education with no formal methodology.

The project will address young people in age between 13 and 30, members of non profit organizations and public educational centers.

The project will contain the following activities: §§ 3 Work meetings among the staff /partners involved §§ Design of serie of pedagogic sessions about teaching entrepreneurship §§ Implementation of sessions §§ Internal evaluations §§ Creation of a booklet with the teaching methodology,session plan and didactic tools based on experience and field investigation §§ Creation of the e-booklet in order to make the result accesible for everybody §§ Creation of a leaflet to make the dissemination of the intelectual result more easy §§ 4 multipier events (in Spain, Slovakia, Turkey and UK)

Results:

A document created by all participants with session plans to be taught on the following levels:

a) Directed to students between 13 and 17 years (Secondary Education) STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP177

b)Directed to students between 16 and 30 years (VET Education and Superior Education)

Through the created booklet (and e-booklet) with the didactic tools we hope to contribute in the field of entrepreneurial education. As in the current times with a huge unemployment, we believe in the significance of teaching our youth entrepreneurial skills and in the implementation of similar projects that can be copied and multiplied over whole European Community.

Impact:

The project will influence three main groups of people engaged in its implementation: 1. The involved organizations, 2. The young participants of the sessions , 3. The youth workers, trainers and teachers interested in the implementing of the sessions.

The staff of all our organizations will gain new knowledge and experience in the field of youth work. Thanks to the new tool that we will have developed, the organizations will be able to widen their offer of activities for young people and to increase quality of teaching entrepreneurship and initiative.

The young people, who will participate in the sessions, will learn concrete entrepreneurship skills and abilities, as well as other know-how that will increase their employability (social skills, functional skills, communication skills, etc.) We expect to broaden their horizons and help them to become more active and to discover their capacity to become an entrepreneur.

As for the youth work sector and the schools ‘staff, they will receive help in their professional work related to youth initiatives, active citizenship and entrepreneurship.

Through the created booklet with the didactic tools we hope to contribute to the field of entrepreneurial education. As in the current critical times, with a huge unemployment, we believe in the significance of teaching our youth entrepreneurial skills and in the implementation of similar projects that can be copied and multiplied over whole Europe and beyond.

COORDINATOR: Asociación Jóvenes Solidarios Avda. de la Constitución 48 05400 Arenas de San Pedro, Spain www.ajovenes.es

CONTACT: Monika Izabela Dericks Wiśniewska

PARTNERS: Patrónus, SK; HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI, TR; LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 75 650 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability SP178 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006551

TITLE: PROJECTING YOUTH

DESCRIPTION: “Projecting YOUth is a European project coordinated by Asociación Juvenil Teatral On&Off (Spain) in cooperation with Calypso - il teatro per il sociale (Italy) and Integration För Alla (Sweden) which main aim is to improve among young people those basic and horizontal competences needed on each personal and professional field, but focused on its use on the development and creation of theater and artistic projects that do not only increase the active participation of youth, but also promote on the communities on which they could take place, values centered on achieving an inclusive society.

Funded under the Key Action 2 of the European Commission’s mobility and education programme Eras- mus+ (Strategic partnership for youth), “Projecting YOUth is a one-year partnership at international level that aims to join together organisations and experts from different countries in order to work and exchange good practices related to the training of young people for their employability on the mentioned field, and that could allow them to develop their own initiatives thanks to a combination of formal and non formal methodologies.

To achieve this, partner organisations have designed and will develop different workshops at local level that will provide concrete competences and create learning materials for young people using as a base the theory of the multiple intelligences of Howard Gardner: Musical–rhythmic and harmonic, Visual– spatial, Verbal–linguistic, Logical mathematical, Bodily-kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Naturalistic and Existential. Even if these workshops will be especially focused on training young people to develop artistic and theater projects, these materials (Collected in a manual) will be suitable for any kind of young person who aims to promote him/her own internal development and acquire horizontal competences basic for any kind of position within the labor market and on the professional field.

During the project implementation, partner organisations from the three mentioned countries will run together different activities such as: §§ Coordination meetings on the project partner countries in order to get to know the best practices and local projects related to youth education through arts and theater. §§ Design, creation, test and publication of a manual for organisations managing projects for young people, who aim to develop their skills and especially those related to the creation and implementation of theater and drama events for personal or professional reasons. §§ Transnational activities for youth trainers to capacitate them to use the project outputs. §§ Local activities for learners (young people) interested on improving their personal competences and professional profiles through the use of theater or by creating their own artistic projects and events. §§ Visibility and multiplier events on each partner country to disseminate the project results.

The work of the partnership will give the opportunity to all organisations working with the education of young people through theatre and drama techniques to access to quality and innovative learning materials specifically adapted to their target groups, therefore ensuring that no one becomes a person at risk of social exclusion and promoting their professional and personal growing through local projects and international initiatives related to the theatre field.

COORDINATOR: Asociación Juvenil Teatral On&Off Labradores, 26 bajo 26005 Logroño, Spain teatro-onoff.blogspot.com.es

CONTACT: Silvia Sáenz

PARTNERS: CALYPSO, IT; Integration För Alla, SE

GRANT AMOUNT: 42 286 EUR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP179

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Effective strategies for enhancing basic skills

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Employability SP180 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-ES02-KA205-006640

TITLE: FIGHT AGAINST ISOLATION THROUGH PARTICIPATIVE IT TOOLS: THE PARTICIPATORY VIDEO

DESCRIPTION: REC-THINK project aims at developing tools and methodologies to involve rural youth in the process of “re-think themselves and their role in the future of their localities. To achivie this, it will be used the Partic- ipatory Video as an innovative tool for the collective expression, in such a way press REC will be the first step in the construction of sustainable alternatives to these young people in their regions.

A significant part of the rural areas in Europe is experiencing a strong process of depopulation and a grad- ual aging of the population in rural areas. This is the same situation for the partners’ countries: France, Portugal, Spain and Italy.

These phenomena have negative consequences for both the personal development of young people and for the whole area and its economic and social perspective.

In this sense, REC-THINK seeks to create a new strategy for working with young people in rural areas, which, together with these organizations, form the main target groups. It is intended that young people in rural areas will be the voice of their regions, expanding their knowledge and skills with an active dimension, participation and action, breaking geographical isolation and creating a network that serves as a point of collaboration, reflection and consolidation of social relations.

Therefore this strategic partnership aims to: 1. Develop methodologies and training tools to promote empowerment, participation and integral development of rural youth in Europe through the participatory video tool. 2. Create a virtual community for exchanging experience, strategies and generating sustainable alternative for European rural areas, with the involvement of young participants, stakeholders and members of organizations as key actors.

3.Train young participantes to become active agents in the processes of political and economic transformation, through the development of digital and communicative skills.

4.Train workers of the participant organisations in the developed tools and methodologies.

To achieve these objectives the project will foresee the following activities:

-Management, coordination and communication activities.

-Development of a methodological guide for the implementation of innovative strategies to promote the participation of young people in rural areas through participatory video

-Development of a training path for the promotion of transversal skills in rural areas: technology and communication

-Development of a methodological guide for the development of collaborative projects among rural youth

-Training activities targeted to rural youth to promote their empowerment and participation through a participatory video as an innovative tool

-Learning activity targeted to workers in the field of youth through the exchange and transfer of ICT tools and communication techniques

-Celebration of thee forum How slow the isolation of rural youth through the development of technological and communication skills STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP181

Besides the intellectual results that will be developed through the first three activities, the REC-THINK project foresees other outcomes such as:

-Elaboration of a WEB-DOC

-Consolidation of a community of actors involved in rural development

-Four short documentaries prepared by the young participants in the project, around the theme of needs and vulnerabilities of their region.

-Digital -review: young participants draw up a report in multimedia format on the specific subject (resources and collective heritage)

The REC-THINK´s expected impacts are the following:

-Improving skills, methods and tools for the organizations participants to work with young people in rural areas, in order to promote social and political participation organizations.

-Empowerment and personal development of the young participants through the development of communication and digital skills.

-Extended partnership for the development of new projects and joint initiatives in these areas of activity.

-Improved local development of the regions participating in the project and possible regions and organizations tahat adopt tools developed in REC-THINK.

-Visibility of the alternatives for local development in rural areas and the role of youth in these processes as protagonists and not as mere recipients.

COORDINATOR: Santa Clara, 3 1ºC 35002 Pontevedra, Spain www.agareso.org

CONTACT: Lorena Seijo

PARTNERS: MINE VAGANTI NGO, IT; Contextos Información Estrategia y Comunicación SL, ES; SOLIDARITES JEUNESSES MCP, FR; YOUTH UNION OF PEOPLE WITH INITIATIVE ASSOCIACAO PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO SOCIAL E COMU- NITARIO, PT

GRANT AMOUNT: 97 655 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 9 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Rural development and urbanisation

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Education for Sustainable Development; Youth Empowerment SP182 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-FR02-KA205-010301

TITLE: LEUROPE EN SIGNES

DESCRIPTION: The project was based on those observations:

-Deaf people do not have access to information :

-80% of them have a low writing level (primary school level for most deaf adults and high illiteracy rate).

-young deaf people have little or poor mastery of abstract knowledge because of lack of information and vocabulary.

-very little access to radio and medias (lack of Sign Language interpretation and subtitling + low writing level)

-Deaf people have very little knowledge in Sign Language: Sign Language isn’t spread out , it still remains a minority language at school (the option of auditory-verbal intervention is preferred in deaf schools); if the deaf person is not born in a deaf family, he has very little opportunity to meet deaf adults who use proper Sign Language.)

-The lack of Sign language in some schools deprives the deaf from a most necessary tool for understanding and communication and therefore deprives them from understanding the functioning of democratic institutions and political items in EU.

In order to meet these specific needs and create the conditions needed for deaf or bad hearing people to fully exercise their citizenship in the EU, the project partners designed a website with those contents:

-75 signs related to EU with contextualization of the signs and visuals (photos, drawings, diagrams..)

-A 52 pages magazine downloadable containing many pictures. Its items are history and institutions of the EU and the impact on the daily life of its citizens. §§ Des pistes pédagogiques pour une utilisation du site et des propositions d’activités pour faire découvrir l’Union européenne au niveau primaire et secondaire de l’enseignement spécialisé pour sourds. §§ Une interview d’un député sourd européen réalisée par les jeunes des trois pays partenaires et contextualisée

This website will be accessible to deaf and hearing people. Its content will be available in French Sign Language (FSL) Belgian French Sign Language (BFSL), Polish Sign Language (PSL) , International Sign Language, in French, Polish and English. Navigation will be available through links from the video (like in website www.irit.fr/GlossaireDD-LSF) or from the text.

We will organize various events all along the designing of the website to involve program beneficiaries and prepare them to that new tool: logo contest, animation events on EU, Focus groups, l’interview d’un député européen sourd The target aim of the project is to allow deaf people to fully exercise their citizenship.

The objectives of the tool were defined as follows:

-Deaf people will use it as a reference tool to improve their vocabulary in Sign Language

-Provide all explanations on the concepts and values of EU (history, institutions …)

-Create a platform of exchanges and permit a public debate related to the selected topics;

-Organize meetings between young deaf people and people strongly involved in public life.

-Suggest new learning activities STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP183

COORDINATOR: route d Espagne 99 31100 Toulouse, France http://www.websourd.org

CONTACT: Audrey Sangla

PARTNERS: KATOLICKI UNIWERSYTET LUBELSKI JANA PAWLA II, PL; Collectif Recherche et Expression, BE; EUROPEAN UNION OF THE DEAF YOUTH, BE

GRANT AMOUNT: 30 000 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Inclusion and Tolerance SP184 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-FR02-KA205-010340

TITLE: TRAVAUX IDENTITAIRES POUR LE VIVRE ENSEMBLE DANS UNE CITOYENNETÉ INTERCULTURELLE

DESCRIPTION: A resident on two in urban sensitive areas came from immigration (Liberation, nov 2011). In the large Eu- ropean cities, the concentration of immigrants in the slums has an impact on their integration, their desire for participation in democratic institutions and their self-image and perception of others. Several studies show that young people see this segregation as negative, and realise they’re receiving poorer educational opportunities and chances of success arte lower than in other parts of the city. (Douzet, Robine 2013). Moreover, the weight of prejudice tends to increase in periods marked by crises (economic, social or political), so thepeople from immigration become the first scapegoats (Leyens, J.P; 1994). The danger occurs when young people internalize these prejudices as part of their identities and replicating the behaviors associated to them. (concept of negative identity developed by the psychologist Camilleri, C 1990).

The TICI project aims at the exploration and development of adaptive, beneficial and multicultural identity strategies among young people living in sensitive areas in order to foster their personal development and living together.

Specific objectives:

Towards the young from 16 to 25 years residing in disadvantaged and multicultural neighbourhoods:

-Explore their own dynamics and identity strategies while recognizing and identifying those that are more adaptive, beneficial and consistent with the living together.

-Through an artistic experience, (creation of short films) address the causes that can be the basis of identity conflicts so that develop social skills (interpersonal collaboration, oral communication, conflict management)

-Increase their motivation and commitment in the multicultural civic life and living together

How? through a combined methodology of action and research (interviews filmed by peers) and esthetical intervention (creation of documentaries and short films)

To professionals of youth working with young people from difficult neighbourhoods:

-facilitate the understanding of identity issues and their impacts on the lives of young people

-give concrete and practical ideas for interactive activities with youth that promote dialogue and living together

-the tools so that they can better assist youth in the process of building healthy and appropriate intercultural identities.

How? Through an innovative non-formal methodology based on an action and research made by the same young people and enriched with theories on subjects and practical activities.

Target groups:

-young people 16/25 years old, residing in disadvantaged and multicultural neighborhoods

-Youth Professional Workers (educators, facilitators, advisors) working in disadvantaged areas.

A total of 5950 persons belonging to the two target groups will be involved in the project both directly and indirectly.

Activities: STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP185

For young people: §§ workshops: documentary-research - Action .

-workshops:short films for a multicultural citizenship and living together.

For Youth Professional Workers

-workshops to teach them to use the Toolbox mosaic of identities.

-international training

-an international conference

For both group targets

-Participation in the Forums Everydody for a multicultural citizenship and the living together .

Methodology

-Research - participatory action

-Esthetical approach

-Non-formal education

Results

-A report on the Action and research methodology

-5 documentaries on the identities of young people in multicultural neighborhoods and the living together

-1 research report

-15 short films

-Training for Youth Professional Workers

-An interactive portal with educational resources and artistic online

Impacts a) at the end of the project the young people of sensitive and multicultural neighbourhoods:

-will identified and developed more intercultural, healthy and adaptive, identity strategies in conformity with the living together.

-will develop social skills (interpersonal collaboration, oral communication, conflict management), as well as related to the action-research methodology

-increase the motivation and engagement in civic and multicultural life b) Youth Professional Workers:

-will have a clearer understanding of identity issues among young people from disadvantaged and multicultural districts, as well as resources to better support them in the process of healthy and adapted construction of intercultural identities healthy and responsive.

Partners: SP186 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

5 TICI partners represent different geographic areas and disciplines, which will mutually enrich themselves during the life of the project.

COORDINATOR: 22 rue Deparcieux 75014 PARIS, France www.ani-international.org

CONTACT: Benoit MIDA-BRIOT

PARTNERS: Rede Portuguesa de Jovens para a Igualdade de Oportunidades entre Mulheres e Homens, PT; Elan Interculturel, FR; MERSEYSIDE EXPANDING HORIZONS LIMITED, UK; DW-RS PRODUCTIES, NL

GRANT AMOUNT: 290 975 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP187

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-FR02-KA205-010357

TITLE: YOUNG CITIZENS IN ACTION FOR RURAL HERITAGE / JEUNES CITOYENS EN ACTION POUR LE PATRIMOINE RURAL

DESCRIPTION: In most European rural areas, more and more young people find themselves today in a socially and civic marginalized situation for various reasons : geographical isolation, ever-increasing rural poverty, difficult access to employment, low level of participation in decision-making processes, low capacity for initiatives by lack of support, low interest in the resources or assets of their region and low awareness of the assets these resources could offer for their professional and personal development, bigger difficulty than urban young people to join international mobility programmes.

Yet, many rural youth organisations are trying to reinforce young people’s involvement in their region but they are having more and more difficulties to elicit their commitment, this due to a lack of tools and means which are adapted to their expectations and difficulties, and a lack of sufficient knowledge of the resources which local heritage can represent to support their civil participation, while organisations involved in rural heritage preservation are having increasing difficulties to mobilize young people.

At the same time, cultural heritage, whether tangible or intangible, represents a fundamental basis of the identity of rural areas and it is often in danger of disappearing in the absence of a transmission and efforts to recapture this heritage which are adapted to younger generations. Yet this heritage represents a concrete support for the development of an active European citizenship as well as a source of employment for little or not qualified young people.

YCARHe (Young Citizens in Action for Rural Heritage) brings together 6 partners (youth and cultural organizations) in 5 countries (Bg, Cr, Fr, Gr, It) to address these findings in a global and interdisciplinary manner. The project aims mainly at reinforcing rural young people’s citizenship, personal development and entrepreneurial spirit based on rural heritage.

For this purpose, YCARHe wishes to: §§ Reinforce the quality and the innovation of non formal educational methods for young people in the field of rural heritage, and to integrate them better in educational pathways to citizenship which are carried out by youth organisations §§ Reinforce the cooperation between youth organisations and rural heritage preservation organizations §§ Develop a transnational and intercultural non formal education programme for European rural young people, especially for those who are in marginalized social situation or dropping out of school, in order to lead them to engage for their local communities through collective and individual actions for their local heritage §§ Capitalize the methods, tools and results of the project and disclose them at European level.

To meet these objectives, YCARHe is based on 5 complementary activities, §§ The formulation of a European frame of reference for the training of youth leaders and rural heritage animators on the theme of non formal education to heritage and citizenship which integrates innovative educational methods such as the use of NICTs or the guidelines of Heritage Interpretation, §§ The implementation of a transnational pilot training workshop for youth animators and heritage animators on those themes, §§ The setting up a European non formal educational pathway for rural young people based on 3 se- quences of 6 days in 3 countries (Bg, Cr, Fr), aimed mainly at young people with less opportunities, in order to boost their citizen engagement and their personal development. §§ The creation of an E-Learning platform in 6 languages aimed at European youth animators, rural heritage animators and European rural young people. §§ The development of an active strategy to disclose the results based on the organisation of 5 national multiplier events. SP188 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

The implementation of these actions will be based on a largely collaborative working method between the partners and an intercultural approach to citizenship and the enhancement of rural heritage.

YCARHe will mobilize directly 26 youth animators and at least 30 young people from 5 countries, of which 20 at least in marginalized social situation or dropping out of school.

At the end of the project, YCARHe will have reached indirectly: §§ At least 500 young people in 5 European rural areas §§ At least 100 representatives of cultural organisations, youth organisations and local development actors in those areas.

The dissemination of the results, including the E-learning platform, will enable us to reach several hundreds of European youth and cultural organisations and several thousands of European young people over a one-year horizon after the end of the project.

COORDINATOR: Union APARE-CME BOULEVARD PAUL PONS 25 84800 L ISLE SUR LA SORGUE, France www.apare-gec.org

CONTACT: Matthieu GUARY

PARTNERS: Center for Heritage Interpretation, BG; Udruga za otocni razvoj Brac, HR; Association Community integration initiatives, BG; AMESCI, IT; Mesogeiako Kentro Perivallontos, EL

GRANT AMOUNT: 209 842 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP189

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-HR01-KA205-013173

TITLE: NEW METHODS FOR INCLUSION

DESCRIPTION: Project New methods for inclusion is a strategic partnership between three NGOs: Association of the deaf and hard of hearing of the city of Zagreb from Croatia, Centrul pentru Recuperare,Reabilitare si Educatie Speciala from Romana and Baltic Regional Fund from Latvia, that work with youngsters with fewer opportunities. It was created according to need analyses that has shown that the main reason for excluding youth with special needs from society are the communication barriers. Therefore, through activities of this project and creation of manual Learn how to communicate, learn how to include, we wish to enable overcoming of those barriers.

This strategic partnership will be implemented with following objectives:

The overall objective §§ Establish a European dimension in the work of our organization, as well as partnerships among organizations working with young people with fewer opportunities and create a informal network of organizations that include in their work young people with fewer opportunities.

Specific objective

-improve the skills of youth work, and develop new methods for working with youngsters with fewer opportunities, especially those with communication barriers, in order to strengthen the capacity of participating organizations;

-increase the social capital of hearing impaired people and reduce prejudices in the local community towards the integration of people with disabilities

-create a manual that will contain new non-formal learning methods for working with young people with communication difficulties and possible ways of overcoming communication barriers

-provide better planning and preparation of projects and exchange of best practice between our organizations.

The project is designed as an equal partnership between three organizations in order to strengthen mutual cooperation, to develop European dimension of our organizations and to exchange good practice examples which will lead to strengthening communitys social capital. Participant will be youth workers and youngsters from our organizations; while the indirect beneficiaries will be youth workers from all over Europe and young people with communication difficulties. Intellectual output of this partnership, the book and DVD Learn how to communicate, learn how to include, will serve as an unique manual for working with young people with communication difficulties, but also for working with youngsters that are facing communication barriers and therefore arent included in the society enough.

Strategic partnership activities will be held in Latvia, Romania and Croatia, but the impact of this project will be much wider, and it will involve youngsters and youth workers from all over Europe and beyond.

Dissemination of the results of this project will enable long-term impact and sustainability since other organizations, not just in these two countries, but all over Europe, will benefit from intellectual output and be able to provide in their communities activities that will be follow-up of this project. This strategic partnership will last for twenty months.

COORDINATOR: SGINGZ Kneza Mislava 7/1 10000 Zagreb, Croatia www.sginzg.hr

CONTACT: Josip Brozović SP190 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: Baltic Regional fund, LV; Centrul pentru Recuperare,Reabilitare si Educatie Speciala, RO

GRANT AMOUNT: 61 604 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 20 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP191

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-HR01-KA205-013280

TITLE: EUROPEAN YOUTH NEWS EXCHANGE

DESCRIPTION: The unemployment rate for youth in the EU under the age of 25 is at staggering 22.9%. Such extreme unemployment has a negative effect on their future employability and self-esteem, increasing their risk of poverty, deskilling and social exclusion. It affects the role the young people have in the society and presents an economic burden on state finances, producing a negative effect on economic growth and productivity. As one of the key issues in the EU, youth unemployment is often discussed without sufficient participation of the young people themselves, which adds to the feeling among the youth that their situation is given, and that the causes and the scale of the problem are too great and too far removed from their sphere of influence. This feeling leads to a loss of motivation and active participation in the society, further increasing the threat of cultural, economic and social exclusion.

Through an innovative training program in mobile journalism, the project will contribute to the empowerment and active citizenship of young people, increasing their capacity for political and social participation. Through the creation of the European Youth News Exchange (Y-NEX) service, the project will enable young people to connect with the general public, express their opinions and have an influence on the political and social processes affecting their lives.

The first objective of the project is to develop a new training program and MOOC in mobile journalism. The program will consist of six modules: 1) Media Literacy and Human Rights, 2) Mobile Journalism Tech- nology, 3) Mobile Journalism Storytelling, 4) Mobile Journalism Production, 5) Intellectual Property Rights, 6) Digital Entrepreneurship. Each module will present a 16-20 hour learner workload in blended learning format, with maximum total program duration of 120 hours.

The second objective is to develop the European Youth News Exchange (Y-NEX) as a service which will draw on the news-gathering and production resources of all the youth trained in mobile journalism, and be used for dissemination and exchange of news in text, photo, audio and video formats - created by the youth, for the youth.

The first target group of the project includes youth workers and staff active in education, which will be trained as trainers and act as multipliers in youth empowerment. The second target group includes highschool pupils, students, trainees, volunteers and unemployed young people who will be trained in mobile journalism. The project aims at training 18 trainers who will pilot the mobile journalism program with 150 youth participants in partner countries. Another 150 youth participants will be included in the piloting of the MOOC.

The project consortium is formed by civil, private and public sector organizations from Croatia, Belgium, Ireland and Spain, including a national public broadcaster and three higher education institutions. As such it combines vast experience in education and training, youth-work, project management, media and information literacy, audio-visual production, information and communication technologies and cross-media publishing.

The planned duration of the project is 24 months. It will be implemented in 3 stages. Stage 1 will focus on the production of the Mobile Journalism Curriculum. Stage 2 will be dedicated to training the trainers and the production of the Mobile Journalism MOOC. Stage 3 will focus on launching the Y-NEX service and piloting the program with the youth, who will produce the news and disseminate it through the Y-NEX service and social media as the final learning outcome.

Implementation of the project will empower young people for participation in society and active citizenship. The developed training program will be used by the project partners in their regular training activities, while the developed MOOC will be available to the general public, both promoting and fostering citizen journalism. The new Y-NEX service will enable youth to create, publish and disseminate news, providing an open service for citizen journalism and cultural exchange.

The European Youth News Exchange will be promoted through a final project conference in Croatia with three multiplier events in Belgium, Ireland and Spain. These forums will host over 500 participants SP192 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

interested in exploitation of the European Youth News Exchange. The dissemination of the project results will include coverage by youth/student media and national public broadcasting services in project countries, as well as distribution through the European Broadcasting Union’s Eurovision network and European Association of Regional Television, reaching millions of viewers throughout the EU.

COORDINATOR: Croatian radiotelevision (HRT) PRISAVLJE 3 10000 ZAGREB, Croatia www.hrt.hr

CONTACT: Nela Gudelj

PARTNERS: SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU FAKULTET POLITICKIH ZNANOSTI, HR; DUN LAOGHAIRE INSTITUTE OF ART, DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY, IE; ATIT BVBA, BE; Telecentar, HR; UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA, ES

GRANT AMOUNT: 231 820 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Supporting the implementation of the 2013 Communication on Opening Up Education

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP193

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-HU02-KA205-000935

TITLE: YOUTHCOMPASS - COMPETENCE BALANCE OF YOUNG ROMA FOR RECORDING, ASSESSING AND ACKNOWLEDGING THEIR NON- FORMALLY AND INFORMALLY ACQUIRED COMPETENCES

DESCRIPTION: With 10 to 12 million members, Roma are the biggest ethnic minority in Europe. A relevant reason for their permanent discrimination is their low education level. Due to that the disadvantages are especially obvious in the education sector. A real segregation exists. Of course, actual education deficits, discrimination, prejudices and clichés of the majority population as well as missing motivation, self-chosen isolation and the lack of self-knowledge of Roma are responsible for their limited access to education and employment.

A large threshold for the access to education and employment, however, is the missing prove of their informally and non-formally acquired competences. Therefore, our project focuses on the recording, assessment and acknowledgment of those competences of young Roma. This way it will contribute to the implementation of the national Roma Integration Strategies in the partner countries as part of the Europe 2020 Strategy, particularly to the increasing of the employment rate and the reduction of school dropouts of young Roma.

YouthCompass will be realised by partner organisations from Hungary, Germany, France and Romania and aims concretely at the modification of the French Model of Competence Balance for 14 to 25 year old Roma. After the successful test this target group will obtain tools for the professional orientation, career planning and the improvement of their employability. For the exploitation of those tools there is the need for Competence Councillors. Therefore, youth work actors from Hungary, Germany, France and Romania will be trained based on developed training material who will again educate additional multipliers in their countries. In order to be able to provide Competence Balance in the partner countries, two partner organisations will be certified as Competence Balance Centre within the project duration.

Political decision makers ensure the implementation of the Competence Balance in the youth work systems of the partner countries.

The project enables the target group in the partner countries for the first time to give a clear image of their personality and to recognise and assess existing strengths and weaknesses clearly. Based on this, they can plan a realistic future, check education and employment plans and build up motivations in order to face requirements of the education and labour market due to their strengths. Youth and educational institutions, labour administrations, NGO and employers are familiar with the target group Roma and receive through the project appropriate instruments, methods and practices to involve Roma as clients, learners, apprentices, job seekers, employees and partners.

COORDINATOR: Humán Erőforrásért Egyesület Dél-Alföldi Régió Bogárzó 0241/3 hrsz. 6400 Kiskunhalas, Hungary

CONTACT: Ronald Schönknecht

PARTNERS: KISKUNHALAS VAROS ONKORMANYZATA, HU; FEDERAT EURO CENTRES BILAN ORIENT PROF, FR; Asociatia Vox Civica, RO; JUGENDSTIL EV, DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 107 031 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Increasing the efficiency of public expenditure and the investment in education, training and youth

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers SP194 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: Romas and/or other minorities

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Employability; Inclusion and Tolerance STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP195

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-HU02-KA205-000984

TITLE: MEASURING IS KEY TO IMPROVEMENT – INTERVENTIONS THAT WORK IN DEALING WITH YOUTH AGGRESSION

DESCRIPTION: Context

At the EU level, it is estimated that today 20-25% of children between the age of 5-19 fight with learning difficulties and/or behavior issues. Due to deficiencies in the normal development, i.e. lack of proper development of the proprioceptive sense, a lot of behavior observed can be interpreted as aggressive or violent. The Dutch numbers indicate that that in 2011, 48% of the employees in care settings were confronted with aggression. Behavioral problems are not recognized on their own right in Hungary and barely in other project countries. Violence, aggression and juvenile delinquency in some countries are viewed as character flows and not as circumstantial responses of the child. Thus, the common reaction to serious behavioral issues is retaliation and punishment. This is very much so in Hungary, but to some extent it is also true for the other project countries. Thus, complex methodological systems need to be developed and their effectiveness measured in working with kids with serious behavioral problems.

Objectives

In the long run our project will contribute to enhancing the chances of vulnerable children and youth with serious emotional and behavioral disturbances (EBD) to become happy and productive citizens.

Goals:

The proposed project targets to categorize and channel the expertise of each participating organization working with kids with EBD into a common methodological base. More specifically, the project will §§ improve the knowledge, methodology tools, and techniques of professionals working with kids with EBD at the participating organizations and beyond, §§ increase the ability of professionals working with children with EBD to tailor interventions to individual kids, §§ facilitate the distillation of the core intervention elements common in the partner organizations’ practice, §§ improve the availability of the latest methodological and intervention approaches for the broader professional community, and §§ strengthen the basic competences and entrepreneurial skill of kids with EBD.

Profile of partners

Pressley Ridge Hungary brings expertise in developing models in the human services fields and transferring them transnationally. They will also share the basis of Re-ED – philosophy of re-education of emotionally disturbed children.

UC Limburg has years of experience in training educators/social workers/teachers and organizations in how to deal with aggression as individuals or as organizations. They have also conducted extensive research on aggression management.

Jeugdwijs is specialised in working therapeutically with children with emotional and behavioral disorders. They will also contribute the expertise using Social Return on Investment (SROI) concerning youth care.

Activities and methodology

The 3 main activities of our project are 1. Via Prima – a pilot intervention with troubled and troubling youths in Hungary to develop and run a social entrepreneurship, while learning to manage their own behavior, SP196 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

2. Developing a model description of Via Prima to ensure the replicability of the model in other settings, 3. Scientific research on existing methods for aggression management and identifying the effective ones.

The project will also examine the applicability of SROI in youth care settings and explore the possibilities for implementation.

The activities and the results of the partners will be documented in a collection of blog entries that will serve as a methodological knowledge base for professionals working with kids with disturbing behavior.

Results and impact

The direct beneficiaries of this project are the youths in Salgotarjan and the staff who work at the participating organizations. As a result of the project, §§ the cooperation and collaboration of the partners will strengthen; §§ the combination of a direct intervention for kids with EBD (Via Prima), the strong research component and the link to longer-term impact of our work (SROI) will fortify the efforts to create effective intervention models.

On completion of the project, the tangible outputs will be: §§ a research report based on the work and output of the systematic data collection and analysis during the project in the project countries, §§ a collection of blog entries: about the most used and most effective methods concerning aggression management, about different pathways in youth care, and on small methodology pieces available for frontline staff to use in their everyday practice managing aggression, §§ an adaptable model description of Via Prima.

COORDINATOR: Alsoor u. 9/b. 1142 Budapest, Hungary www.pressleyridge.hu

CONTACT: Andrea Gruber

PARTNERS: UC LIMBURG, BE; Jeugdwijs B.V., NL

GRANT AMOUNT: 133 555 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 36 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP197

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-HU02-KA205-001010

TITLE: GET ENGAGED!

DESCRIPTION: Get engaged! project is a long-term strategic partnership among 3 organisations across Europe. The project is 20 month long and aims to provide professional support for umbrella organisations working in the youth field.

The project idea was born out of an experienced problem that we face during our daily work. One of the biggest challenge is the lack of active participation and motivation from our member organisations. As a solution for this existing problem we face we developed this project together with Erasmus Student Network (ESN) and the Polish Council of Youth Organisations (PROM).

The main aim of the project is to develop innovative and diverse methods and techniques to motivate member organizations for active participation in order to help umbrella organisations to fulfil the aim they were established for.

Our objectives are: §§ to share best practices and efficient methods umbrella organizations work with to motivate their members §§ to evaluate and analyse the different methods used by organizations in the youth field §§ to develop new methods, techniques and strategies to motivate umbrella organizations’ members for active participation §§ to develop the skills and competences of young leaders of the umbrella organisation in order to make them capable developing innovative ideas and implement the new methods §§ to create a Toolkit available for all organisations §§ to disseminate the findings and impact of our project as best practise §§ to improve knowledge about the Erasmus+ Youth Programme as a tool for improving the quality and enhancing the international dimension of youth work

In order to achieve the goal of the project we will implement the following actions:

International training course will improve knowledge and develop the competences of 28 youth workers. They will learn about organisational development and motivation and introduce tools for project management and strategic thinking. During the training course they will analyse and improve the quality of the work of the organisations we will provide space for discussion, sharing best practices and to develop their skills and competences and to improve their ability to transfer methods and experiential learning concepts into youth work practice.

Get engaged! - Toolkit will include the methods we developed, analysed and evaluated during the project. The aim of this Toolkit is to introduce the methods and techniques which in the case of this consortium will be the best solutions to reach the aims and objectives of the project. The Toolkit will be available in English as a common language of the partnership.

Get engaged! - Ebook will include all the activities and events we organised during the project with their results, the outcome of the training course held for capacity building and all the methods we put into practice (short summary of them). The aim of the ebook is to summarize the results and the impact of the project following the feedback and evaluation outcomes.

Two national dissemination events are going to be held where every partner organisation will require to invite the organisations working with the same structure in their country, the media and press entities and other actors like youth workers, youth policy makers and anyone who is interested. The materials used and disseminated on the national dissemination event will be available online as well on every partners’ website and they will share the access to the Toolkit in their newsletter and will share it on their social media platforms. SP198 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

Two international dissemination events are going to be organised where we will introduce the Toolkit for the participants of the BBC+ meeting and the participants of the General Assembly of the European Youth Forum. On the BBC+ meeting youth councils from Western and Central Europe are participating, on the European Youth Forum’s event national youth councils from across Europe and other youth organisation working on European and on international level are represented. The aim of sharing the Toolkit is that every national and international youth organisation working as an umbrella organisation representing youth will gain information about the results of this project. Through these events we will reach about 150 representatives of such organisations.

The project’s events (transnational meetings, training course, multiplier events) will be based on an interactive and participative approach. The processes of learning from each other and learning by doing will be crucial. The training course will stimulate creativity, risk taking and developing innovative ideas. During the project methods of non-formal and informal education will be used, such as individual, pair and group work, creative workshops, simulation and situation games, problem solving and debate exercises, interactive presentations, case studies, facilitated debates and discussions.

Participants on all events will get information about the Erasmus+ Programme.

COORDINATOR: NEMZETI IFJUSAGI TANACS FO FASOR 11. I.6. 6727 SZEGED, Hungary www.ifjusagitanacs.hu

CONTACT: Boglárka Szilárd

PARTNERS: POLSKA RADA ORGANIZACJI MLODZIEZOWYCH, PL; ERASMUS STUDENT NETWORK, BE

GRANT AMOUNT: 65 980 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 20 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP199

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-HU02-KA205-001071

TITLE: LEARNED INACTIVITY – DECREASING THE NUMBER OF ESL STUDENTS IN DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES WITH THE POWER OF NON-FORMAL LEARNING

DESCRIPTION: Early School Leaving (ESL) is on the raise in both Hungary and Romania. Those two countries are amongst those having a larger than average rate of ESL in the EU, despite efforts made by the educational structures. Phenomenon of ESL is occurring more frequent to young people with disadvantaged background, often the members of Roma communities.

Association Co-Efficient is operating an afternoon school (Tanoda) in tandem with Association Green Wave, located in Gyöngyös with the aim of decreasing the danger of ESL amongst disadvantaged young people. 85% of the students are Roma, some of them already left the schooling system before reaching the age of 15 due to early family foundation; despite the fact that it is very much possible to continue the studies while expecting or raising a child. Nevo Parudimos reinforced the project idea with similar experiences; despite the direct correlation of labour market position and education, the correlations between disadvantaged young people, early family foundation and early school leaving is under-researched and under-threated. Staff of educational structures are often lacking the capacity or toolkit to reach out for those dropping out of the system, general prejudices toward Roma people further deteriorate the situation.

Main aims and specific objectives

Learned Inactivity (LEADNFE) project aims to develop a toolkit for youth workers and youth organizations which

-based on practices and principles of non-formal education

-is suitable for the target group

-is based on empirical evidences -

can be used or adapted across EU countries

Ultimately, our aim is to reduce the risk of ESL amongst young people by applying NFE principles specially tailored at a disadvantaged target group.

Activites

-to conduct a research in Romani and Hungary involving 300 young people to map their needs and check the validity of our hypothesis

-develop a toolkit to combat ESL with NFE

-pilot the methods by involving 15 disadvantaged young people into a long-term process

-widely disseminate and mainstream the results amongst countries affected by the phenomenon

COORDINATOR: ISTVAN 28 1078 BUDAPEST, Hungary www.egyutthato.eu

CONTACT: Elemér Szentpétery

PARTNERS: PHIREN AMENCA INTERNATIONAL NETWORK, BE; ASOCIATIA NEVO PARUDIMOS, RO SP200 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

GRANT AMOUNT: 99 020 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 3: Supporting schools to tackle early school leaving (ESL) and disadvantage as well as to address all students from the lowest to the highest end of academic spectrum

TOPIC 1: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

TOPIC 2: Romas and/or other minorities

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP201

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-IE01-KA205-008719

TITLE: UNWRAPPING WORDS

DESCRIPTION: The ‘UNWRAPPING WORDS’ programme seeks to explore the literary heritage of some of the many writers connected to Inishowen and the North West border region of Ireland and make them more accessible and relevant to young people in the twenty first century by bringing together the multi-media and creative strands of art, music, words and film and using current computer and media technologies.

‘UNWRAPPING WORDS’ seeks to look at the diverse literary works of writers such as Joyce Cary, Frank McGuinness, Leon Uris, Brian Friel, Frank McCourt and Joseph O’Connor who are writers of international standing and who are connected in some way with

Inishowen through their books, family, themes, sense of place or geographical reference in their work.

The project seeks to engage with two youth groups one in Inishowen County Donegal and another in Derry City to reinterpret and contextualise this literary work in the form of a site specific mural work and to reinterpret some of the authors writings by creating and recording a contemporary rap CD inspired by the words of the writers and their local connections and also to create a short film

dvd of the project.

The overall project will break down in three main areas

1.Creating a site specific Literary Mural that will engage Youth Group participation through facilation/ workshops and hands on creation of the mural working with local graffiti artists. There will be a seperate worshop session on Visual Community Identity before the start of the mural project to allow participants to introduce each other and their community perspectives. 2. There will be two workshop music sessions with a rap artist that will create a recording and produce a rap audio CD that engages

the Youth Groups with the work of the writers from this region in a contemporary fashion and will provide new multi-media skill sets for those involved that will include audio recording, editing and production techniques using adobe audition software to produce a high quality CD in a professional studio setting. There will be also be an initial rap workshop at the begining of the project to explore the importance and use of language within communities in a post conflict society and the idea of identity in the context of the Irish border region. 3. The various elements of the project will be filmed using workshops to train members from both youth groups to document visually the overall outcome of the ‘UNWRAPPING WORDS’ project and to produce a short film dvd for presentation using computer software technology.

‘UNWRAPPING WORDS’ is an exciting opportunity for young people to participate in an innovative project in the creative arts in a fun and supportive environment that allows them to connect with a local cultural literary heritage in a contemporary manner using new skill sets in multi-media and the creative strands of art, music, words and film and using current computer and media technologies.

The project sets out to engage two groups by using communication methodologies as a field of study whilst having fun directing the content to reflect their own interests and passions using talented, exciting and motivated tutors to deliver the project who are focused on making learning enjoyable as a creative alternative to the classroom model.

COORDINATOR: Moville Family Resource Centre James St Moville, Co Donegal, Ireland [email protected]

CONTACT: Michael McDermott SP202 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: North West Play Resource Centre, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 23 288 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 7 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

TOPIC 3: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Improving the Quality of Education / Training Systems STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP203

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-IS02-KA205-001580

TITLE: FRELSUN / SALVATION

DESCRIPTION: Project Summary:

CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND

The project Salvation is a 20-25 minute short film that will be produced by two different groups of filmmakers in two different countries. The pre-production and shooting of the film will be conducted in Reykjavik whilst the post-production of the film will be done in London. The film is about a young religious woman who belongs to a small religious group in Iceland where, amongst other things, blood transfusions are strictly forbidden. After suffering serious injuries in a car accident, she is accidentally given such a transfusion and wakes up to find that her body has been contaminated. The film observes the woman as she tries to save her soul and win back the trust of her fellow parishioners and family members. A small sliver of doubt enters her mind and she starts questioning the rules by which she has chosen to live her life. We observe this young woman as she stands on a crossroad, uncertain as to whether she should commit to her faith or turn her back on everyone she knows.

Members of both our groups have religious backgrounds and as a group we have had many discussions about religion. We wanted to further explore the subject of faith and after researching small religious groups and cults, we decided to use the Jehova Witnesses ban against blood transfusion as a basic premise for our film. We want to elevate the discussion though and focus more on what happens when someone is thrown out of their comfort circle and isnt sure whether he wants to go back inside it? The theme of blindly adhering to social pressures and norms and realizing only too late that your heart lies elsewhere is a universal sentiment and we want our film to reflect that.

ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGY

There will be four main activities. The pre-productions, the shoot, the post-production and the film festival. In each department the members of both groups will have specially designed tasks that they will have to commit to and deliver before a special deadline.

PRE-PRODUCTION :

Writing:

Members of the group will have to brainstorm ideas and comment on script drafts until everybody involved agrees on overall story. The screenwriter, director and producer will have the final say but a clear focus is set on developing the story as a group.

Making-of: The director of the making-of film will start filming as soon as the pre-production starts and capture the whole process on film.

Location Scouting and Casting:

When the script is ready, the producer in Iceland: Anna Sæunn, and director will arrange for location scouting and set up auditions for actors.

CREW AND EQUIPMENT:

Anna Sæunn will get a crew together and rent the needed equipment.

ART DEPARTMENT:

Once the location and actors have been decided upon, the production designer, Snædís, will start renting props, furniture and costumes. She will send pictures to both groups so that everyone can capture and understand the general atmosphere and artistic feel of the film. This is something that will help all the other departments when preparing their work. SP204 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

SHOOTING SCHEDULE AND FRAMING

The 1st AD, Bylgja, the DOP, Þór, and the producer, Anna Sæunn, will set up a shooting schedule with the director.

ACTOR REHEARSAL AND DRESSING

Everybody in the Iceland group will assist the rehearsal and dressing for the actors. The 1st AD, producer, DOP and director will go over the details of each scene. The production designer will set up a list of costumes needed for each scene, each day. The Sound Engineer and producer from London will fly over to assist the rehearsal and shooting of the film.

During the pre-production the music composer will have sent over some samples of music which both groups will be able to comment on.

SHOOTING OF THE FILM

The film will be shot in 6-7 days.

POST-PRODUCTION:

1st DRAFT OF EDITING:

The footage will be taken to London and the producer in London, Sophie Brooks, will oversee and manage the overall procedure. She will create a time frame for a first draft of the movie to be sent to everyone so that both groups can comment and bring their ideas to the mix. The director and producer will have the final say.

MUSIC COMPOSING / SOUND ENGINEER

When the first draft has been completed the music composer and sound engineer can start working on their craft. During the course of the production they will have prepared and so will not be working from scratch. Samples of music and sound will sent to both groups.

A strong online presence will be created for the film.

FESTIVAL SEASON

Both groups will participate in applying for festivals that particularly apply to the project and subject matter. We will attend the festivals when possible, participate in classes and lectures and try to create a lasting international network for both groups.

COORDINATOR: Askja Films ehf. Einholt 7 105 Reykjavik, Iceland www.askjafilms.com

CONTACT: Anna Sæunn Ólafsdóttir

PARTNERS: E8FILMS, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 26 050 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP205

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Social dialogue

TOPIC 3: Gender equality / equal opportunities

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance SP206 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-IS02-KA205-001586

TITLE: ISLANDIA

DESCRIPTION: This is a dramatic short film based on a diary of a woman set prison after a physical and sexual abuse in a culture very different from hers. The character of the film is joyful, impulsive young woman who decides quickly to book all inclusive trip to an exotic destination. The journey starts well but one night, a hotel employee breaks in to her hotel room while she is asleep and rapes her. In the conflict between them there is a damage in the hotel room. Therefore she is charged for the damage and put in all women prison where she is has no name, she is called ´Islandia´. Inside the prison she encounters women from all over the world who all have a dramatic stories behind them. The story takes place at the same time as the massacre of Gaza were at its highest.

European (Icelandic) woman is experiencing the hard reality which is a everyday reality for some women worldwide. Its important to look at other cultures in order to contribute change of attitude for our own culture and increase knowledge

and understanding for others. In the opinion of the applicants is our human nature to open our eyes, listen and connect better

when something happens closer to us. The story of a European woman is true. The connection to the story and the characters become stronger and can become part of providing inspiration, increase knowledge and understanding in the women right movement (witch is barely begun for a large proportion of women in the world) as well as fighting for human rights.

Our story is perhaps a key that will unlock someone elses prison thats why we want to share this testimony.

The Icelandic organisation Islandia is group of four upcoming film makers.

Eydís Eir Björnsdóttir is the project coordinator/writer/director and producer.

Marta Óskarsdóttir is a director/producer and cinematographer.

Sturla Viðar Jakobsson is a director, editor, cinematographer and muscican.

Ásta Sif Árnadóttir is a graphic designer, cinematographer, editor/after affects specialist, animation and photographer.

The Danish partnership organization Islandia_Copenhagen is a group of five upcoming film makers

Nanna Rúnarsdóttir is an editor, cinematographer and a costume designer.

Agatha Paulina Mlynczak is a graphic designer, artist and cinematographer.

Mikkel Haynes is a cinematographer and a video artist

Laura Rechnagel is a producer and editor.

Mikolaj Marcin Lewandowski is a light designer and photographer.

The Spanish partnership organizations Islandia_spain is a group of four upcoming film makers

Manuel Gónzales-Simancas Gónzalez is a director and expert technician in image and production assistant.

Julio César Tortuero is a director of photography and documentary filmmaker.

Olvido Pérez is a director of photography. Guillermo López Cabrera is a audiovisual artist, photographer, scriptwriter and director. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP207

In the process we plan to have have human rights organizations to host a lecture and talk panels with all participating organizations in each country on the transnational meetings depending witch human right organizations are available and if they want to participate e.g. Amnesty International, Islamic Human Rights Commission and International Alliance of Women. We want to discuss about women in similar situations and listen to similar stories. Through the process we have to investigate everything that comes to mind regarding human rights, women rights and subjects around them, the legal systems in each countries and hopefully there will be a lot of new discoveries and learning paths we have to go through together and will be reflected in the process of the project, in the documentary and through the film itself. The desired impact for the film is to reach European and other international audiences. We will translate the film in multiple languages because the characters of the film are international and have different cultural experiences and characteristics. We hope therefor that project will have broader impact on international levels. We want to create complex and relateble characters who have different cultural background so different audiences can identify with characters and the project will have more impact on international level. We will document the whole experience and journey by taking interviews to the participants, people we meet on our way, human right organizations and others involved in the project or come our way for some reasons. We will publish our documentary material such as photographs, documentary clips, our diaries or blog on the projects website which we will create together and share it with the world online. We want the participants to be more open and aware of their own human rights and learn about human and women rights in broader context. Films are testimony for life in other cultures and their journey and we hope the voices of characters will inspire you, surprise you, and break your heart. This documentary material and film are our testimony and we hope it will live on.

COORDINATOR: Eydís Eir Björnsdóttir Eiðistorg 1 170 Reykjavík, Iceland

CONTACT: Eydís Björnsdóttir

PARTNERS: Islandia_spain, ES; Islandia_Copenhagen, DK

GRANT AMOUNT: 30 840 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: High quality learning opportunities

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law)

TOPIC 3: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Inclusion and Tolerance; International Cooperation SP208 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-IT03-KA205-005954

TITLE: SUSTAIN YOUR LIFE THROUGH SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

DESCRIPTION: CONTEXT

The project aims to contribute to exchange of practices and the creation of a favourable environment to encourage and enable

youth workers to pursue social entrepreneurship in their local and global communities. In a period when Europe and its neighbours

face an economic crisis that has increased levels of youth unemployment and reduced youth participation in the labour market, the

projects aims at promoting social entrepreneurship as a sustainable way in addressing these challenges. Indeed entrepreneurship

and self-employment could help young people to develop key competences, to respond to emerging social needs and fully

participate in society and economy development.

GENERALE OBJECTIVE §§ To engage youth workers and young people in social entrepreneurshipto in order to play a key and active role in their local

communities as ambassadors of sustainable development and growth.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES §§ To equip and support youth workers and young people with knowledge, key competences and tools related to social

entrepreneurship and social innovation that are needed to turn entrepreneurial ideas into social start-ups, with a view to tackling

challenges and problems identified within their communities. §§ To exchange experiences and practices related to social entrepreneurship and social innovation among organizations active in the

youth field from different social and cultural contexts in Europe §§ To develop a better understanding of this emerging field and new non-formal education approaches on social entrepreneurship

through the development of a transnational training programme. §§ To foster cooperation and build new opportunities for further collaboration on social entrepreneurship between organisations

active in the youth field from different EU countries.

MAIN RESULTS ARE: §§ Development, testing, and development of innovative non-formal training modules on social entrepreneurship addressed to

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§§ N.196 youth workers from different local communities in Europe, equipped with knowledge, tools and key competences related to

Social Entrepreneurship. §§ Improved understanding of the social entrepreneurship phenomenon and its potential in the youth field. §§ Increased cooperation, networking and professional exchange in the field of youth and social entrepreneurship between local authorities, universities and not-for profit organizations in EU

Main outputs include: §§ N. 7 Itinerant Training Courses on social entrepreneurship involving N. 196 disadvantaged youth workers in all participating countries (IT, ES, PT, NL, LT, RO) §§ Training programme on social entrepreneurship in form of booklet (Languages: EN, IT, ES, PT, LT, RO). §§ Open learning portal about social entrepreneurship, including the learning modules developed and tested during the project

(Languages: EN). §§ N. 1 Multiply international seminar (ES) + N. 5 Multiply local seminars (IT, PT, RO, LT, NL), reaching a wider audience of young people, education leaders, policy makers and stakeholders.

TARGET GROUPS

The project is intended to youth workers who have an interest in social entrepreneurship & local community development.

Participant profile: §§ youth workers aged between 18 and 35 years old, providing services and opportunities to support young people in developing a sense of a competences, belonging and empowerment in community-based activities; §§ have an idea for a project or business with a social or environmental benefit; §§ have experience with youth work and young people facing social, economic, cultural, geographic and humanitarian obstacles

FINAL BENEFICIARIES

A wider audience of new young entrepreneurs will be reached through the dissemination and exploitation of the project results and outcomes by optimizing and strengthening their impact and integration in different communities and contexts. SP210 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT WORKING PACKAGES (WP)

WP1_PROJECT MANAGEMENT

WP2_DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRAINING PROGRAMME

WP3_PILOT TEST: ITINERANT TRAINING COURSES IN ALL PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES

WP4_LEARNING PORTAL ON SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

WP5_COMMUNICATION, DISSEMINATION AND EXPLOITATION OF THE PROJECT

WP6_ EVALUATION, LESSONS LEARNED AND QUALITY ASSURANCE

LONG TERM IMPACT

The impact of the project at regional and EU level:

1) SOCIO-PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH WORKERS §§ Participants trained on social entrepreneurship, including access to a set of resources designed to support social entrepreneurship.

2) CAPACITY BUILDING §§ Shared experiences, learning methods and best practices on social entrepreneurship and youth work from different nation/local

context in Europe.

3) NETWORK §§ Development of an international network and increased cooperation at EU level between partner organizations and young people

involved

4) SOCIAL INNOVATION §§ Innovation in the social economy and improved competitiveness of the social field: experimental learning products, processes and

services for social and community development.

5) MULTIPLICATION

COORDINATOR: PRISM VIA ALBERTO MORAVIA 24 93100 CALTANISSETTA, Italy www.associazioneprism.eu

CONTACT: Fausto Amico

PARTNERS: Freguesia de Cascais e Estoril, PT; Asociatia Dominou, RO; CONSULTA EUROPA PROJECTS AND INNOVATION SL, ES; STICHTING HOGESCHOOL ROTTERDAM, NL; SOCIETA CONSORTILE ROCCA DI CERERE, IT; Vilniaus Kolegija, LT

GRANT AMOUNT: 167 838 EUR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP211

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Employability SP212 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-IT03-KA205-006103

TITLE: GO DEEP!

DESCRIPTION: The basic idea of the project is to develop, in the transnational partnerships, a new methodology to work with groups of young people. This methodology will be a deepening and a synthesis of 2 methodologies: Oasis game and process-work. With the project we want to create an efficient way to train youth workers to develop as much as possible the skills of young people with whom they get in contact giving them the space to discover and develop their personal skills. At the same time encourage greater participation of young people to the growth of communities through activities’ game and community growth. Go deep’s aim is to foster personal and professional growth of those involved at different levels: - internal workers in partner organizations that will exchange expertise and ideas and increase their professional skills methodologies that are strengths of the different partners, see the best practices developed by other partners, and at the same time bring their own ideas. -youth workers chosen by the associations to be trained in the methodology developed by the project, both during the course transnational and during the national training events; -Young people involved that by working in local activities proposed by the project and in the dissemination of it will discover and develop personal skills, improve their interpersonal skills and ability to participate in improving their local communities. At the same time also the local community of the association project partners will benefit of the activities carried out, for the general increasing skills and training of the hosts and for the realization of activities in the territory (arrangement of degraded areas, parks, gardens structures etc.). The project is part of a situation highlighted by the various partners in the years of their work with young people where they could see what are the main difficulties in this environment and deficiencies in the methods most commonly used. The usual way, mainly used by non-profit organizations working with young people, focus on the creation of the group, the internal dynamics of the groups and the exchange of “peer to peer” connections: these methodologies often don’t consider the individual and the possibility to let emerge all the different parties and talents of the single element. In this way some competencies can be unfolded, and at the same time focusing on relationships, roles and power dynamics inside the group. Often in the environment of non-formal and the horizontal exchange of skills we tend to define a role as official leader (youth leader, entertainer, etc.), that take all the attention, hiding other roles and relationships that are present in all groups both formal and informal. In go deep! We want to better highlight what are the ambitions and dreams of young people with whom we’ll get in contact and help them in the development of those projects that resonate with them. Innrwork, from Processwork, will allow a better focus on personal talents that will help the personal growth and the communitarial one. Importatto foster the capacity of the youth to find within themselves the input to take the responsibility of a project, and to develop it independently. At the end of the path they can be themselves facilitators of innovation processes. At the same time the project makes up another typical limit of activity of the group in its interaction with the local community: a low permeability to and towards the community. In the project youth will work continuously in the interaction and exchange with the stakeholders of the local community, through the tools from the Oasis game and participatory processes. This new methodology will born from the meeting between innerwork and selfawarness, of the perception of own feelings and the skills to deal with conflicts and to deepen the personal project, coming from Processwork, with the work on participatory processes, community building, urban regeneration and active citizenship coming from Oasis game. The project has a transnational nature because has the aim to put together methodologies that were developed in different areas of the world, and the partners are the most experts in the different fields.

COORDINATOR: Xena centro scambi e dinamiche interculturali Via Citolo da Perugia, 35 35138 Padova, Italy [email protected] / www.xena.it

CONTACT: Emiliano Bon STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP213

PARTNERS: Stichting Elos Nederland, NL; Associazione Comunitare, IT; Instituto Elos Brazil, BR; Diversity Matters Ltd., UK; Altekio, iniciativas hacia la sostenibilidad, S.Coop.Mad., ES

GRANT AMOUNT: 135 616 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 20 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Social dialogue

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment SP214 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-IT03-KA205-006146

TITLE: SMART GENERATION - SMARTPHONE POTENTIAL AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR YOUNG GENERATION

DESCRIPTION: The smartphone is the personal media that has become more widespread among children in the last decade and it has become overwhelmingly a part of their lives, and as a symbolic element characterizing their culture, which is often perceived as essential,. However, the use of the smartphone without adequate precautions exposes children to various risks. In fact, it can produce adverse effects on mental and physical health (risk tumors, ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder); endanger the personal safety (in the case of cyberbullying, the online micro-violence, public humiliation on social networks); induce com- pulsive behaviors (in the case of Nomophobia - No-MobilePhone which can be considered a true modern form of addiction).

The specific objective of the SMART GENERATION project is to develop an innovative training model at European level in order to promote a conscious use of the smartphone, its potential and its risks, and to open a public debate on the role of digital technologies in the consprocess of the quality of social relationships between young people and between generations.

SMART GENERATION project is based on Media Education as innovative methodology of reflection on new media, supporting processes of citizenship in the knowledge society, promoting courses that see the media at the same time as the instrument and the educational content.

In particular, the project will: §§ Investigate the European youth universe and the methods of communication with smartphones, as well as cultural differences in their use at the European level, given the convergence of various communication technologies - Internet, TV and Radio - on newer phones. §§ Develop, test and transfer to different European countries - by cultural and technological background - an educational model

related to digital, communicational, relationships, social and civic skills thanks to the networking of experiences and best practices useful to produce effective tools, truly innovative and transferable to a wide European audience. §§ propose and encourage positive and responsible use of smartphones by providing young people with the tools necessary to decipher consciously the enormous amount of data and multi-sensory stress that pass through the mobile phone; §§ help young people living in Europe to develop critical thinking, digital citizenship, life and work skills - communicational, relational, digital, social and civic, continuous learning - or educate them to properly and constructively live these tools as aware producers and distributors of information and reports, building up together with them an effective path to literacy; §§ spread a culture of collaborative learning between schools and extra -schools through cooperation between youth and educational organizations, school and extra-curricular.

The project includes several activities: an analysis of the training needs of young people and teachers / educators about the smartphone, the planning of a training program on the conscious and critical use of the smartphone, the testing of the pilot path through workshops of Media Education in schools and in environments outside the classroom, the production of Recommandations Policy on the use of smartphones, the creation of a e-learning platform opensource and dissemination of these instruments through 2 multipliers events.

Direct beneficiaries of the project will be the class groups and non-formal groups of young people from each PP as well as teachers and educators / youth workers. The age considered for youth is from 12 to 17 years. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP215

It is expected to involve during the project, and the during the implementation of the Media education training course, 2 classes + 2 non-formal groups for PP (about 500 young people) and 4 teachers + 10 educators / youth workers to PP (70 adults). The anaysis phase of the training needs analysis will involve about 1,500 children aged 12 to 17 years and about 500 teachers / educators / animators residents in the five partner countries (Belgium, Italy, Latvia, Spain, Romania) and in the other 37 (EU and non) Federated within the European Network EAEA.

The expected results are: to build an integrated package of digital literacy, increasing the supply of learning in the field of Media Education, create strategic local alliances between formal and non-formal education, raise awareness of the potential and limitations of the smartphone.

COORDINATOR: Centro culturale F. L. Ferrari Via Emilia Ovest, 101 41124 Modena, Italy www.centroferrari.it

CONTACT: Valeria Ferrarini

PARTNERS: SOLIDARCI, IT; FUNDACION CIBERVOLUNTARIOS, ES; EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF ADULTS, BE; Jauniesu organizacija “Ligzda”, LV; Asociatia Nationala a Femeilor din Mediul Rural, RO

GRANT AMOUNT: 173 533 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Teaching and Training SP216 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-LI02-KA205-000019

TITLE: INITIATIVE JUGEND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

DESCRIPTION: Enabling education, training and discussion on entrepreneurial activities in an early stage are central elements to support the European Entrepreneurship 2020 Action plan. The present project Youth Entre- preneurship 2015 is following this perception and combines national activities in a cross-border initiative.

Todays and future entrepreneurs with special skills for the creation of innovation and competition are identified as drivers of growth and job creation. Therefore it is a requirement to develop new methods and initiatives for new approaches and attractiveness of the entrepreneurship business. The European forecast for economic growth and job vacancies shows a negative trend. (1) Furthermore and as highlighted in a study of the European Parliament, the motivation for starting a business in the group of 16-30 years in the EU-wide comparison is at its lowest level in Germany and Austria. (2) A different picture of the intentions in launching a company can be drawn from students at the University of Liechtenstein by the Global University Entrepreneurial Students Spirit Survey» GUESSS study 2013 (3). They show more potential compared to the international average.

The key for Entrepreneurial thinking and acting is set at an early stage, like children and young people who are influenced by entrepreneurial thinking at an early stage through the example of their parents or by their environment. Children and young people are rarely confronted with entrepreneurship topics through the current, existing school system.

The partner organisations of the consortium are the Zeppelin University from Germany, the Chamber of Commerce in Austria and the SME Centre of the University of Liechtenstein. All partners already have participated successfully on pilot projects, learning experiments and activities within the topics Innovation, Youth and Entrepreneurship, which are carried out at national level and in cooperation with the target group of young people (e.g. pupils, students and young professionals aged 16-30 years). The findings from these pilot projects and their success in implementation now serve as a basis to establish a strong and long-term oriented strategic partnership within the European cooperation on Youth and Entrepre- neurship and to strengthen the link between research and practice. The aim of this partnership project is to develop a teaching and learning module for the professionalization of professionals in youth work in collaboration with youth people from the target group, considering formal elements of reference, focusing on the creation of an innovative, creative and non-formal environment in entrepreneurial learning for young people. The development and prototyping process of this module will take place in cooperation with institutions (schools, youth facilities) on a national level and under consideration of the target groups needs, accompanied by a quality assurance process. A comprehensive study which contains recommendations for the implementation and transfers the experiences from the project work to the target group will be developed to work as a manual for implementation. Furthermore the project aims to implement a highly effective, international platform for the establishment of a youth entrepreneur network, enabling the presentation of young entrepreneurs and the connection between each other and for supporting the implementation of their business idea across the country borders.

This project supports the integration and employability of young people on the basis of units switching to independently, social orientation in the sense of active entrepreneurship. Through the involvement and participation of the target group during project development an informal, non-formal learning environment is created in which the integration and employability of people with fewer opportunities (unemployed, low academic / school / vocational training, as well as caused by social, cultural and language barriers) is enabled and supported.

At the same time a sphere of activity will be generated through the international cooperation and cross-sector collaboration, in which the current and in future participating people can benefit from the transnational political action, on a local, regional, national and European level. This project will allow the current and future participating groups of young people to develop their entrepreneurial ideas by focusing on the strengths of entrepreneurship thinking and particularly taking into account the aspects of social entrepreneurship among young people, especially to address the identified challenges and problems they are faced within their communities. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP217

Sources: (1) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2012:0795:FIN:EN:PDF (2) http://www.zeit.de/karriere/2014-04/infografik-unternehmensgruendungen-junge-leute-europa (3) http://www.guesssurvey.org/PDF/2013/GUESSS_2013_LIE_Laenderbericht_26_05_2014.pdf

COORDINATOR: FURST FRANZ JOSEF STRASSE 9490 VADUZ, Liechtenstein www.uni.li

CONTACT: Thomas Moll

PARTNERS: WIRTSCHAFTSKAMMER OESTERREICH, AT; ZEPPELIN UNIVERSITAT GGMBH, DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 72 658 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 2: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Employability SP218 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-LI02-KA205-000021

TITLE: KUSKA

DESCRIPTION: Within the framework of the project “kuska, materials are being developed on the questions currently facing international development cooperation. They will be uploaded onto a website for anyone to use free of charge. The goal is to work towards an understanding for global interdependence, tackling inter-cultural challenges as well as the functionality in development cooperation. The resources readied for this purpose will enable young people to take reflective action based on solidarity. The skills which they will acquire by using these resources could be useful not just for their future experience abroad, but also for their future career.

The project „kuska“ is a follow-up project of the project „LERNEN HELFEN LERNEN“ which includes a website, a model exhibiton, a short film and preparatory trainings for prospective volunteers. The project „kuska“ complements these materials with web-based preparatory trainings and useful resources for prospective volunteers as well as draft lectures and workshop concepts for students collecting donations for projects in so-called „developing“ countries. Organizations involved with development cooperation can use these materials transferring knowledge about development cooperation with little time.

The project will be undertaken by four organizations from Liechtenstein, Italy and Germany. Three of these organizations work in the field of development cooperation and one in the field of art and culture. The interdisciplinary composition of the team will facilitate the development of demanding and attractive materials for both teaching and learning.

All products of the projects „LERNEN HELFEN LERNEN“ and „kuska“ will be provided in German, English and partly in Italian and will remain freely accessible.

COORDINATOR: Verein Kipu Im Zagalzel 50 9494 Schaan, Liechtenstein www.kipu.li

CONTACT: Laura Hilti

PARTNERS: Kunstverein Schichtwechsel, LI; Organisation für Eine solidarische Welt, IT; Sterne auf den Straßen Boliviens e.V., DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 73 830 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 14 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; International Cooperation; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP219

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-LT02-KA205-004306

TITLE: TRUSTED BADGE SYSTEMS

DESCRIPTION: The project “Trusted Badge Systems aims at fostering the use of ‘Open Badges’ in European youth work in cooperation with the employment market. Open Badge is a visual representation of individual learning and achievements. Every badge contains meta-data which describes learning process, criteria and achievements of badge owner. They offer innovative ways to visualise learning pathways and document learning achievements. Badges are usually organised into badge systems helping to organise any learning and adapt it to the individual needs of target groups.

GENERAL AIM of the project: Cross-sectoral consortium of partners from Lithuania, Netherlands, Spain and Germany are aiming to integrate technological innovation of Open Badges and increase the quality of youth work field by creating unique digital non-formal learning recognition systems using Open Badges standard in the field of youth work. These badge systems will be created and endorsed in close cooperation with the representatives from the employment sector in each country.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: §§ To build/review comprehensive competence framework for the non-formal education programmes provided by partner organisations in cooperation with the representatives from the employment sector. §§ To design and test Open Badge systems, allowing to recognise young people’s non-formal learning results §§ To achieve endorsement of employers for the created badge systems and increase social recognition of non-formal learning in this way. §§ To create seamless experience for young people to manage their own non-formal learning evidence by creating online systems of Education Quests and mobile application, allowing to issue, earn and manage Open Badges instantly and via mobile devices. §§ To disseminate project results and build the base for the wider use of created and employers’ endorsed Open Badge systems across Europe and across various fields of education.

This project brings true innovation the recognition of non-formal by building digital tools using the innovative Open Badges technology. Another significant innovation is cooperation with the employment-related sector to achieve better endorsement of recognition systems using Open Badges. This project is bringing something that does not exists so far in the field of youth neither in other education fields.

Project will develop Open Badge systems specific to youth work programmes implemented by project partners. To achieve this the significant development of this project will be the production of two digital products: 1. Online system of Educational Quests 2. Mobile application will be developed for two major platforms Android and Apple iOS. It will enable young people to access their online profile of achievements; to review existing projects they are in and quests to be accomplished.

The project directly involves more than 600 youth workers and young people, more than half being youth with fewer opportunities. Through the range of dissemination activities online and live, this project will indirectly reach up to 50 000 people.

We expect that at least 80% thus majority of learning from the various programmes will have specific evidence of their learning achievements.

The “Strasbourg process of improving recognition in Europe actually calls for most of the actions, which are planned in this project. Therefore in a long-term perspective the project will successfully contribute to reaching a better recognition of youth work and non-formal learning on all levels. The project will provide well developed badge systems with endorsement from employment sector. These systems will be accessible and available for re-used or adaptations by other organisations in Europe. SP220 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

COORDINATOR: TAIKOS 181-1 05209 VILNIUS, Lithuania www.neformaliai.lt

CONTACT: Laimonas Ragauskas

PARTNERS: Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Landesverband Sachsen-Anhalt e.V., DE; Stichting JeugdWelzijnsBeraad, NL; LIETUVOS PRAMONININKU KONFEDERACIJA, LT; ASOCIACION CAZALLA-INTERCULTURAL, ES; Asociación de Jóvenes Empresarios de la Comarca del Guadalentín, ES; Breakthrough Foundation, NL; Plattform e.V., DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 170 753 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Improving the Quality of Education / Training Systems; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP221

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-LU02-KA205-000178

TITLE: INTER-NATIONAL NET_WORKS+

DESCRIPTION: INTER-NATIONAL net_works+ is a training and networking project for youth workers, educators and organisers of youth music competitions across Europe. The main objective is to facilitate exchange and create sustainable cooperation between the participants in order to find creative and innovative solutions to the new challenges facing youth workers and organisers of youth activities in the cultural field, enhancing the mobility of youth workers and young people will improve the quality of support systems for youth activities on a local, national, and European level.

The activities of the participatory project employs non-formal education methods to enhance intercultural learning and provide participants with practical knowledge and transferable skills that they can use on a national and local level to improve the current and future possibilities for young people from a range of educational, social and cultural backgrounds.

There are nine project partners from FYR Macedonia, Germany, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Slovakia and Spain. We expect to directly involve 50 participants from the partners including, youth workers, educators, experts and at least 25 young musicians.

The project will focus on the exchange of best practices through workshops, conferences, exchange of jury members and educators, and competition visits. The partners will call experts in key areas to develop competences to provide high quality youth work and support young European musicians.

The results as well as the publications created during this project will be disseminated through the EMCY and partner networks and will significantly benefit around 50 music competitions, indirectly impacting over 30,000 young people annually as well as youth workers, professors and directors of local and national music schools and conservatoires, jurors and organisers of youth music competitions.

COORDINATOR: ECOLE DE MUSIQUE DE L’UGDA ROUTE D’ARLON 3 8009 STRASSEN, Luxembourg www.ugda.lu/ecomus/

CONTACT: Paul Scholer

PARTNERS: Musikkpedagogene Norge, NO; BALIO DVARIONO LABDAROS IR PARAMOS FONDAS, LT; Hochschule fuer Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, DE; Association of Music Teachers of Slovakia - section EMCY Slovakia, SK; CONFEDERACION JUVENTUDES MUSICALES DE ESPANA, ES; EUROPAISCHE UNION DER MUSIKWETTBEWERBE FUR DIE JUGEND - EUROPEAN UNIONOF MUSIC COM- PETITIONS FOR YOUTH - EMCY - EV, DE; VIESOJI ISTAIGA NATU KNYGYNAS, LT; Zdruzenie na gragjani MUZICKI I BALETSKI PEDAGOZI Skopje, MK

GRANT AMOUNT: 129 450 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 36 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Creativity and culture SP222 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP223

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-LU02-KA205-000185

TITLE: FOIRE DE LETUDIANT

DESCRIPTION: After 28 successful editions of the national Student Fair in Luxembourg, it has become urgent to provide the 10.000 young visitors with a complete set of information regarding the choices they need to make at the end of their secondary school.

Through the collecting of information regarding exhibitors of the fair into a simple to use webtool, and through the presence of a few foreign youth information centers, and through the availability of Eurodesk partners online at the fair, any european destination will be made available.

The choice that is offered to young people between higher education, mobility and volunteering is an essential development of the fair which traditionnally only focused on higher education.

Through the special edition of the newspaper SLAM! and through the year-long availability of http:// my.studentfair.lu, young people have access to quality information that enables them to safely make the best informed choices in regards to their future.

COORDINATOR: CIJ 87 route de Thioville 2611 Luxembourg, Luxembourg www.cij.lu

CONTACT: Jean-Claude Bisenius

PARTNERS: National Youth Federation Limited, IE; Solna Youth Center, SE

GRANT AMOUNT: 25 600 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Increasing the efficiency of public expenditure and the investment in education, training and youth

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Improving the quality and relevance of higher education

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment SP224 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-LV02-KA205-000815

TITLE: ENTERPRISING AND SURPRISING THROUGH 8 KEY COMPETENCES

DESCRIPTION: Erasmus + Strategic Partnership Project “Enterprising and surprising through 8 key competences (8KEY- COM) will be implemented in order to develop a new method of non-formal education - interactive Com- petence game, which will promote and develop 8 lifelong learning competences: communication in the mother tongue; communication in foreign languages; mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology; digital competence; learning to learn; social and civic competences; sense of initiative and entrepreneurship; cultural awareness and expression. It will be an interactive game, which will include various elements of NFE - simulations, discussions, individual, group work, etc. In game will be established several levels of complexity of the tasks which will be suitable for young people aged 13+, through which will be possible to develop all 8 competences. The game will be developed in 5 languages - Latvian, Spanish, Croatian, Estonian and English. An important element of the game will be the evaluation, through which young people themselves will analyze and reflect which competences through game tasks/exercises they developed, why these competences are important and how they are connected with personal and professional life. Particular attention in game will be given to the Initiative and entrepreneurial competence, to encourage young peoples entrepreneurship spirit in order to develop attitude that is requested in todays labor market. Often it is the right attitude that makes the difference between failure and success in entrepreneurship.

Nowadays, additionally to the formal education, different Non formal trainings and activities are essential components for enhancing young peoples competitiveness. Games and learning relationship is deter- mined as a pleasure - if the game allows its members to enjoy, then learning, despite the difficulties will be much more effective. Each game is based on learning and participating in the game on a voluntary basis and with the aim to entertain, they allow participants to learn new things, thus improving their basic skills / competencies.

Project Context:

In EU currently more than 5 million young people are unemployed, which means that one of five young Europeans can not find a job. One of the four main objectives of the EC is to tackle unemployment and to develop skills that are related to the labor market. And those who have the least knowledge or fewer opportunities, are most at risk. Non-formal teaching methods can help to develop young peoples skills and give them an understanding of them, which is necessary to find and keep a job, or even to become entrepreneurs. Especially for those who are excluded or discriminated for various reasons, and those who lack self-confidence and personal motivation. Researches shows that young people learn best when they are given the opportunity to take an active role and provided with an opportunity, so that they clearly understand the learning goals and are aware of their own choices.

Implementation of the project in an international environment will focuses on young people from social risk groups and with fewer opportunities and NEETs.

Objectives of the project: 1. Make research (qualitative and quantitative) in each partner country about 8 competencies that will be used in the development of interactive game. 2. Share best practices of youth work and include these elements of good practices in the interactive game. 3. To develop a new method of NFE - interactive game through which young people will be able to better understand 8 competences, to develop them and to better assess competencies that are required by the labor market. 4. To develop game Handbook, where will be included summary of the research, informative material about 8 competencies and rules of the game, the tasks/exercises and all necessary supportive documents. 5. Implement pilot training, bringing together 25 young people in each partner country. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP225

6. Produce game materials and Handbook in 200 copies. 7. Implement multiplying activities – training in each country, to train 15 youth workers/trainers/teachers to familiarize them with the new game and 15 young people. 8. Prepare Interactive Game Video , which will contain information about interactive game play rules, its advantages and key benefits. 9. Make wide publicity and dissemination activities. 10. Implement, coordinate, monitor and evaluate project.

The project implementation time will be from September 1, 2015 to March 1, 2017. Project Coordinating Partner is from Latvia Baltic Regional Fund, project partner from Spain AC Amics de la Biblioteca de la Fonteta, from Estonia Eesti MTÜ Edel Arenduskeskus, from Croatia Association of the deaf and hard of hearing in Nova Gradiška.

The total budget of the project EUR 90 406.00

COORDINATOR: Baltijas Reģionālais fonds Brivibas gatve 204 LV-1039 Riga, Latvia www.brfonds.lv

CONTACT: Ginta Salmina

PARTNERS: Udruga gluhih i nagluhih Nova Gradiska, HR; MTÜ Edela Eesti Arenduskeskus, EE; AC Amics de la Biblioteca de la Fonteta, ES

GRANT AMOUNT: 90 406 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

TOPIC 3: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training SP226 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-MT01-KA205-003762

TITLE: YOUTH ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING INITIATIVE

DESCRIPTION: YETI (Youth Environmental Training Initiative) aims to be the first partnership aimed at going all the way in collecting environmental / sustainable energy good practices, developing them into coursework material, make the latter available to teaching institutions and finally testing and delivering the outcome of the coursework developed.

Whereas other energy / environmental related courses are fundamentally based on theory, YETI will be able to take REAL WORLD practices, develop teaching material, deliver the aforementioned coursework and re test it in the real world, making one full circle and greatly enhancing the skills and knowledge of the groups being targeted.

There is presently a short coming in emphasis on sustainable use of energy, resources and the environment within most educational systems. Especially when it comes to real world applications. As a matter of fact where teaching coursework exists, it fails to successfully stimulate the individual to link the theoretical approach to real life scenarios.

With the upcoming Europe 2020 targets, the partners believe that a shift is required from text to deeds. It is crucial to target the young adult market since otherwise many school leavers will never have the opportunity to orient themselves in a Europe (and ultimately a world) where the word sustainable is becoming increasingly common without however the skills and actions to back it up sufficiently.

YETI requires a mix of technical experts in the field of environment and energy, with a mix from the academic and the manufacturing scenarios to incorporate the best of both worlds into the final project deliverable. Moreover for the project to be successful institutions that are proficient in pedagogical field need to be on board for further enhancement and delivery of the coursework being developed. Finally YETI takes a totally unique and different approach to any other project in the sense that it goes a step further by recruiting a municipality amongst its partners to ensure the practicality and real world applications of the material being developed. Moreover, the municipality also ensures maximal target reach of youths in their regional area. All partners have been carefully selected in order to fall into one or ideally more of the above categories. The partner selection gives a perfectly balanced mix to the equation in order to achieve an international panel of skilled experts across the required board. Such a strategic choice is also the key behind our confidence and commitment that the project has the right ingredients to be successful on all proposed grounds.

The partnership aims to be clearly and logically structured with Partners divided into 3 specific sub groups being: Technical experts, Teaching institutions and Municipalities. Thus the role of the partner is carefully orchestrated from the very beginning and is not a matter of random allocation, but a matter of categoriz- ing available strengths and resources and making use of the latter accordingly.

Moreover the project is well structured in Phases (1-4) as follows:

Phase 1 - Good Practice gathering exercise

Phase 2 - Course work development phase

Phase 3 - Practical testing phase

Phase 4 - Dissemination phase

The project aims to deliver various concrete results including ready to use course work targeted to the youth population in Europe. YETI works with youths in piloting the training course and will tailor make the content based on feedback received from all the youths involved in the project.

A clear ideology, structured and modular project phases and a balanced partner mix are the winning ingredients that aim to make YETI a recipe for success. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP227

COORDINATOR: IZI Ltd 331, St Paul’s street VLT1211 Valletta, Malta www.easysl.com / www.easyjobbridge.com

CONTACT: Galeann Barbara

PARTNERS: Trans-Sport Consulting Betéti Társaság, HU; Juvenile Justice International CIC, UK; KUNSILL LOKALI ISLA, MT

GRANT AMOUNT: 48 253 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: High quality learning opportunities

PRIORITY 3: Increasing attainment levels

TOPIC 1: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

TOPIC 2: Environment and climate change

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Education for Sustainable Development; Youth Empowerment SP228 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-NO02-KA205-000585

TITLE: DEMOKRATIUTVIKLING PÅ TVERS AV LANDEGRENSER - UTGIVELSE AV POLITISK BLAD

DESCRIPTION: Young people today does not have enough to say in the democracy, and one of the main reasons for this is that they do not politically engage themselves enough. With this project Rød Ungdom and Socialistisk Ungdomsfront wish to cooporate in order to raise the political engagement among youth in both Norway and Denmark.

The projectgroup will consist of ca. 8 participants from each country who are between 13 and 30 years old, who will paricipate in the transnational project meetings and will work with the project all the way. The project participants will have different backgrounds, the same goes for the indirect participants, the people that recieve the political magazines. All direct and indirect participants will be youth in Norway and Denmark.

The main activity in this project is to publish three issues of a political magazine in both Norway and Denmark. The issues will be coordinated between RU and SUF, and they will have the same themes. The themes for the issues will be: Inclusion -equity, Environment and climate change and Youth. We want to focus on issues that applies in both Denmark and Norway, in addition to international problems that are important across the whole world, for example environment and climate.

We will have three physical meetings, two in Norway and one in Denmark. The project meetings will take place before publishing each issue of the magazines. 8 participants from each country will attend these meetings, and these participants will be youth under 30 years old. We will also have continous communication via mail, skype etc. Young people will be leading in this project in addition to being the target audience.

The results of this project is that thousands of Norwegian and Danish youth will recieve the magazines and hopefully become more interested in politics, so that they will want to involve themselves more in the democracy. This will in the long run contribute to encourage youth to take more place in the democracy, which will be healthy for both Norway and Denmark as democratic states.

COORDINATOR: Rød Ungdom Dronningens gate 22 0154 OSLO, Norway www.rødungdom.no

CONTACT: Tomine Sandal

PARTNERS: Socialistisk Ungdomsfront, DK

GRANT AMOUNT: 34 800 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 10 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Environment and climate change

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP229

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Education for Sustainable Development; Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP230 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017220

TITLE: JAK PRACOWAĆ Z DZIEĆMI? POLSCY I RUMUŃSCY PEDAGODZY NA RZECZ DZIECI.

DESCRIPTION: Presented project is mainly concentrated around the preparation and empowering for teachers, pedagogues and youth workers to face challenges in the subjects of equal access to education, diversity and social inclusion of children and youth from underprivileged environments and in hard family, social, financial or health situation.

The main goal is to prepare educators, pedagogues and tutors to work in difficult environments and with groups of special educational needs, as well as to promote innovative methods of working with difficult children and youth and fighting against the discrimination of groups that are not complying with traditional system of care and education.

Regular, universal pedagogical education is not enough to work with so called difficult youth or with those with special educational needs. Groups spending most of their times on streets or in intervention and care institutions, as well as the groups of children and youth with special needs, excluded from traditional schooling systems require innovative methods of education often not related to the current didactic canon of formal education.

Therefore the project aims for expertise development of people that work with children and youth from groups threatened by social and educational exclusion, as well as for the increase of their awareness of discrimination and a strong influences of prejudices.

Throughout the two two-week training courses the participants - teachers, pedagogues and youth workers will increase their knowledge on innovative methods of working with difficult children and develop their didactic skills that facilitate the inclusion of underprivileged children into the education system and into the school community. It will be also an opportunity to work on the development of own pedagogical tools that will be useful in their work with difficult children and youth.

Another product of the project will be creating a guide to good pedagogical practice.

After the project, the participants will be able to implement new standards of working with difficult children and youth on the local community level. The institutions that they work with will gain professional pedagogues with improved working tools and innovative methods to use in everyday work. Further- more they will be able to work with the local community, identify discriminative behavior and prevent its development.

As a support of their work there will be an accessibility to the results of the intellectual work, available to the use of all teachers, pedagogues and youth workers from the countries engaged in the project. As both of the organizations are functioning as the departments of same international organization United Way there will be a possibility of sharing it between youth workers from other countries. That will work in favour of promoting innovative methods of working with underprivileged children and youth.

COORDINATOR: Fundacja United Way Polska Pokrzywnicka 3a 04-320 Warsaw, Poland www.unitedway.pl

CONTACT: Aleksandra Iwaneczko

PARTNERS: United Way Romania, RO

GRANT AMOUNT: 40 939 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 6 months STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP231

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Effective strategies for enhancing basic skills

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment SP232 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017265

TITLE: COOPERATION FOR SOCIAL AND CIVIC COMPETENCES’ INNOVATIVE EDUCATION

DESCRIPTION: The project “Cooperation for social and civic competences’ innovative education rose from the initiative of Fundation of Support for NGOs UMBRELLA (PL), Czech Council of Children and Youth (CZ) and Lithuanian Youth Center (LT).

The project idea was born out of a need to improve the methods of educational youth work in order to engage young people in local community activities, active civic and democratic participation such as volunteering, membership in NGO’s, youth councils as well as using Internet as a way to civic involvement. To answer those needs, we have established a partnership composed of non-profit organizations and public institution with different experiences and expertise in youth education sector in order to provide youth educators with knowledge, methodology and attitudes to make their work in described area more efficient. Precisely due to the efficiency of the project, we plan to involve young people as experts in solving problems that affect them and their peers.

The project has following objectives: §§ to promote empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people §§ to support young people to put their ideas into practice with a view to tackling challenges and problems identified within their communities §§ to internationalise youth work, professionalise those who work with youth and to develop their competences §§ to promote stronger coherence between different EU and national transparency and recognition tools, so as to ensure that skills and qualifications can be recognised across borders.

To achieve this goal partnership will develop, test and approve Social and civic competences’ innovative educational pathway, which will consist of three parts: 1) raising the level of skills that will be useful/helpful for youth to their social involvement/participation (such as self-confidence, leadership, understanding the codes of conduct and manners generally accepted in different societies and environments, ability to communicate constructively in different environments, to show tolerance, express and understand different viewpoints, to negotiate with the ability to create confidence, to feel empathy, how to be capable of coping with stress and frustration and expressing them in a constructive way, attitude of collaboration, assertiveness and integrity, overcome prejudices and to compromise), 2) motivation, support and encouraging young people to engage into initiatives groups, non-governmental organizations, volunteering, youth councils (on different levels: district, municipal, region etc.) and other bodies to act socially for the local communities; how to identify, diagnose or just name challenges and problems of their social environment, how to put their entrepreneurial ideas into social practice (ex. presentation of project methodology), 3) motivation, support and encouraging young people to use interaction via the Internet and its services (on emphasis on social media) to their social involvement/participation, to use the potential offered by this form of civic involvement for mobilizing the interest and commitment of their peers and to involve a much broader constituency of youth, including unorganised ones.

Crucial in the pathway will be emphasis on work with young NEETs (young people not in employment, education or training) or young people with fewer opportunities and combat social exclusion.

Workshops will result in involvement of youth into social activities for local communities.

For the entire period of project implementation, partnership will realize crosss-sectorial activities (management, monitoring and evaluation, communication, dissemination, reporting).

To work out the Intellectual output of the project, partnership will work by method “Step-by-step: STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP233

1. Realize “state of art research 2. Design and develop Pathway 3. Realize pilot testing among youth 4. Improve the output 5. Disseminate and exploit result

At least 9 professionals will be involved in project’s activities and realize 18 mobilities (to hold three international meetings realized in the framework of the project.).

Training activities which are planned to be realized: §§ Three short-term joint staff training events (for 15 professional each) in every partnership organization to exchange practices on how to work with young people §§ Three blended mobilities for youth (for 15 learners each) to involved them as experts in creation of the Intellectual output

The expected success of the project is wide exploitation of the project result by target groups: 1) Young people 2) Implementors of educational activities for youth: educators/animators/coachers/trainers and youth workers from youth organisations, other organisations working with youth (cultural, educational, etc), youth councils, etc. (all entities interested in youth non-formal education in the field of civic and social competences), participating organisations and relevant stakeholders.

COORDINATOR: Legnicka 65 54-206 Wrocław, Poland WWW.FUNDACJA-UMBRELLA.ORG.PL, WWW.SEKTOR3.WROCLAW.PL

CONTACT: Beata Partyka

PARTNERS: CESKA RADA DETI A MLADEZE, CZ; Lietuvos jaunimo centras, LT

GRANT AMOUNT: 113 490 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Teaching and Training SP234 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017512

TITLE: INTEGRACJA PRZEZ INSPIRACJE. POZAFORMALNE METODY EDUKACJI NARZĘDZIEM WYRÓWNYWANIA SZANS MŁODZIEŻY ZAGROŻONEJ WYKLUCZENIEM SPOŁECZNYM.

DESCRIPTION: The battle against unemployment and social exclusion of youths is one of the major challenges modern Europe has been facing. Assumptions of the Europe 2020 strategy clearly indicate the priority step aimed at improvement of the situation of young people, which is te reduction of early school leaving.

Research shows that there are several factors affecting the premature leaving from the education system: poverty, lack of employment, low cultural and social capital, lack of educational aspirations in an environment of growing residence as well as limited access to institutions that are a potential source of the support.

In addition to schools, institutions which are directly or indirectly involved in the process of equalization of opportunities for young people facing the risk of social exclusion are public aid institutions. Lack of the modern standards of work, institutional barriers and limited access of the personnel to the courses of professional qualifications result in an inadequacy of support offered by the mentioned above institutions to the present needs. As a result, support for families facing the risk of the social exclusion is reduced only to the financial assistance. The experience of organizations, involved in the partnership, indicates that an opportunity to increase the effectiveness of public aid institutions in the context of combating social exclusion of young people is the use of non-formal education methods. Learning through practice and experience is one of the most important tool in fostering young peoples sense of self-awareness, motivation and responsibility for their own career and educational choices.

The aim of the project is to increase the level of social integration of young people faced with the risk of the social exclusion through the widespread application of methods of non-formal education in public aid institutions.

The specific objectives of the project are: 1. Increase the professional competence of the professionals in the field of use of non-formal education methods in working with young people faced with the risk of the social exclusion. 2. Preparation of a new form of environmental support addressed to young people at the risk of the social exclusion by adapting the methods and techniques used in non-formal education to the conditions and practices of public aid institutions.

The project is addressed to representatives of public institutions working to support individuals and families excluded or facing the risk of the social exclusion (social workers, family assistants)

Implementation of the objectives will be possible through a partnership of three organizations from three different countries, the European Union members(Poland, Spain and Germany), experienced in effectively combating unemployment and social exclusion, as well as in the use of non-formal education methods.

Achieving it will be possible by a consistent production of the following Intelectual Outputs: 1. Online educational platform Integration by Inspiration - an interactive educational tool aimed at the target group of the project and others interested in the subject of the project. The platform will contain workshops programms and plans of action as well as individual interviews. They will be using a variety of non-formal methods focused mainly on: motivation for self-development, continuation of an education, career counseling, youths’ talents and passions discovering. 2. Report coming from the focus groups Determinants of an effective support for socially excluded youths consisiting of an analysis of the target group’s needs and the expectations in the context of the use of non-formal education methods in order to prevent social exclusion of young people. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP235

3. E - book: Integration by Inspiration - non-formal educational methods in working with young people faced with the risk of the social exclusion. Manual methods, tools and techniques that could be applied in a daily practice by representatives of the target groups.

An important activity within the project would be training of a target groups representatives - 45 participants (15 participants from each partner country) in the practical application of manufactured tools and participation of the target group in the process of testing and evaluation.

The plan of the distribution of the project’s results expects its impact not only on the representatives of the target group but also to other stakeholders having a potential and real impact to the situation of the youths: local, regional and national (in each of the partner countries) social policy makers, education experts, and, in general, personnel who is working with youth. With the compilation of the described impacts, the project will result in the wider use of non-formal education in the process of social integration of young people and in the long term would help to reduce the level of unemployment and social exclusion of young people in general.

COORDINATOR: Fundacja In Posterum Strzegomska 7 53-611 Wrocław, Poland www.inposterum.pl

CONTACT: Marta Banaś

PARTNERS: DECROLY,SL, ES; RegioVision GmbH Schwerin, DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 189 745 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 2: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment SP236 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017584

TITLE: EUROPEJSKI PROGRAM PRZEDSIĘBIORCZOŚCI NA RZECZ WSPIERANIA NEETS

DESCRIPTION: Partner organisations from Poland , Germany and Italy have been cooperating for the past three months to define the mutual understanding of European entrepreneurship and exchange their experience on the situation of the young people (aged 16- 30) on the local, national and European market. Having defined together the major elements of the term “European entrepreneurship the partners are now planning to create the comprehensive “European Entrepreneurship Programme, implement and test its effectiveness on the chosen group of the youth form the partner countries. All the partners involved perceive building entrepreneurial skill as extremely vital in shaping the potential of the youth, especially taking into account the fact that the majority of the young people involved come from underprivileged environments (geographically or socially) and they are not supported enough in terms of entrepreneurial skills. Building and reinforcing those skills will have a positive effect on their further learning and career paths. In the long term it could contribute to building the European economic youth potential.

The programme will be based on the innovative working method –Madia Lab which will enable to successfully activate young people and shape their entrepreneurial life attitude which is defined and understood by all the partners as: §§ openness to mobility on the national and international level, §§ overcoming mental barriers and certain behavior patterns, §§ flexibility and openness to change, §§ the ability to set clear goals and maintain the internal motivation, §§ team work and intercultural communication skills, understanding and accepting different team roles, the ability to work in virtual teams.

The aims of the project: §§ creating the comprehensive workshop based on “European Entrepreneurship Programme the aim of which will be to build and reinforce entrepreneurial skills among the youth, especially the NEETs group, §§ further building the partnership capacity through cooperation and mutual work on the programme to activate the youth §§ preparing interactive and traditional tools to diagnose and build the above defined entrepreneurial skills which will be implemented and reviewed during the workshop §§ promoting the mobility of the youth and the idea of international networking and cooperation §§ sharing the experience and working on good practice hot work with the youth §§ Creating and maintaining online platforms to enable virtual cooperation, experience sharing, material evaluation by the experts and the youth, virtual working environment.

The target group:

30 young people aged 16-30 being unemployed from all the partner countries (approx. 10 participants per country), in particular those belong to NEET group or under the threat of being in the group. The target group also involves: the representatives of the partner countries, 8 chosen experts from all the partner countries involved in the project. Additionally the representatives of local communities of the participants among whom the results and developed methods and products will be disseminated.

Overall: 300 people

The results: §§ further building and reinforcing mutual partnership of the organizations involved, §§ promoting the idea of partnership through active dissemination stage: project and product promotion STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP237

§§ broadening the knowledge on how to work and support the youth §§ experience sharing §§ empowering the youth through adapting a expert/partner approach and involving them in the product production stage §§ activating the youth groups in the countries involved §§ enabling approx. 25 people the chance to work and collaborate in the international team also in virtual environment §§ implementing and testing workshop based on “European Entrepreneurship Programme §§ designing online and traditional tools to be used during the workshop and further work with the youth §§ creating an online platform and working environment §§ promoting and sending the developed workshop programme and tool to minimum 40 organizations working with the youth in the partner countries §§ sharing the developed programme and tools on the partner websites and other free of charge EU websites, min. 15 websites.

Working on European Entrepreneurship Programme will have long term beneficial effects on the work of other youth organizations which could implement the developed method, programme and tools as well as will be vital in every day work of the organizations involved. In the case of Poland the programme will be the part of the long term strategy of the company.

COORDINATOR: Euro-Forum Agnieszka Gudków, Marek Gudków Spolka Jawna Graniczna 4/7,8 20-010 Lublin, Poland www.euro-forum.lulblin.pl

CONTACT: Agata Domańska-Greszata

PARTNERS: Bildungsnetzwerk Magdeburg gGmbH, DE; PRISM - PROMOZIONE INTERNAZIONALE SICILIA - MONDO, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 99 350 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP238 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-PL01-KA205-017670

TITLE: DLA MŁODZIEŻY I Z MŁODZIEŻĄ ODKRYWAMY ŚWIAT.

DESCRIPTION: The project comprises activities directed to both young people and adults working with teenagers. On the one hand, it allows the professional development of educators, teenager supporters, on the other hand the development of competencies of young persons supported by professionals. At least 40 persons will be direct recipients of the project activities and at least 400 persons will be indirect recipients. The aim of this project is in fact achieving professional skills by adults working with teenagers through the exchange of experience with people from a partner country, working out new methodological and substantive solutions, learning coaching and mentoring and using new methods of work with young people as well as developing competencies of teenagers in organizing their own lives, finding effective ways to achieve goals, developing openness to change, innovative and group interaction skills, seeking opportunities of self-development, leisure activities, learning about new areas of activity. It also includes mutual learning of young people and adults, which fits in the European strategy for learning throughout life (Lifelong Learning). This is important because young people taking part in the project and benefiting from the support of adults are persons from educationally challenging environments with reduced self-esteem and low motivation. A diverse target group will also include people with intellectual disabilities and other special educational and developmental needs. Also young people who due to financial situation and socio-economic conditions have less opportunities for development and participation in such events will be recipients of the project activities. The standard working methods do not always bring fully expected results. The project involves drawing up a program of workshops for persons working with teenagers, the participation of these persons in workshops to prepare them for the role of a coach, mentor, individual support to young people (developing individual programs of work) and youth meetings carried out on the basis of the ideas used in partner countries. The implementation of the project, due to its being double-layered, is an example of innovation and novelty.

International exchange of experience and development of competence of adults working with teenagers will help to effectively support young people in enterprise development, discovering their passions, strengthening self-esteem and motivation. A professional coach will become a sort of a guide supporting a young person in the implementation of scheduled tasks. It will be a practical training conducted under the supervision of an experienced teacher. International cooperation will be, particularly for young people, an opportunity to become acquainted with the partner country, its culture and customs. It will create possibility to support young people. All participants will also develop language skills and the ability to use modern ICT. For students participating in the project it is a unique opportunity for self-development, growth of self-esteem and getting to know another country. The material situation of their parents rarely allows it. The project creates this unique opportunity and brings benefits in the long term. The results of the project, including an innovative method of developing creativity and initiative of young people, will be used by tutors working with teenagers. Direct participants in the project will continue to share knowledge and experience with their colleagues. Professional staff equipped with new knowledge and skills will give rise to new initiatives. The project results will continue to be published on the website of the leader and the partner of the project. The projects results will continue to be disseminated. Whenever it will be possible and the financial resources will allow it and as the need arises organizations will be able to organize coaching workshops for interested persons, including those from outside the organization. Organizations will continue to work with young people and will develop skills of adult staff conducting classes. Transfer of knowledge and skills will cover both staff and teenagers under their supervision.

The project will, therefore, have a long-term and multi-faceted impact.

COORDINATOR: Górczewska 200 C m.359 01-460 Warszawa, Poland

CONTACT: Milena Piatek

PARTNERS: ECOLE DE PAGES, FR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP239

GRANT AMOUNT: 151 340 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 28 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Addressing low achievement in basic skills through more effective teaching methods

TOPIC 1: Disabilities - special needs

TOPIC 2: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP240 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-PT02-KA205-002395

TITLE: EUROPEAN CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

DESCRIPTION: With the economic crisis in Portugal, youth unemployment in more skilled fields is increasing in a way that requires an urgent intervention. The line of our young graduates in the unemployment services is too big to be ignored. Representing the locals´ interest Câmara Municipal decided to find partners that in a strict collaboration could work together to help a group of 24 graduated young people looking for the first job or unemployed to be (re)integrated in the world of work. Centro Tecnológico working together with Clube de Empresários represent the world of work locally. Escola Inglesa, having the international contacts found the international partners and assured the efficiency to coordinate the international communication. Aim- ing to improve youth skills and job opportunities this project continues the work of 2 local projects in industrial tourism and creative industries.

The methodology of the whole project will be dominated by initiative, innovation and creative thinking and driven by cooperative working, teamwork and active engagement. Facilitators and mentors will help the progress in the path.

Young people will be engaged in entrepreneurial activities focused on the creation of ideas, planning and marketing to develop emergent successful entrepreneurs or responsible workers designing products, services, IP, artefacts that can be marketed and monetised. There will be activities to develop business plans to meet goals in a variety of areas, including finance, marketing, production, sales and personnel. The workshops and training programmes will help to develop the necessary skills, the mentors will support the work and the experience in developing personal projects will be the opportunity to assess their capacity to be successful.

During all the project the participants will have an active engagement in showing the community and the international partners their progress. They will be responsible to show their own projects, create a manual for young entrepreneurs and put all that in practice in business simulations where they will create business plans to put in practice in the real world of work.

The progress obtained with the international training opportunities and the exchange of good practices experienced will be shared with the community in events where it is expected they will be invited to make part of some local projects in municipal positions and private companies.

With this active participation, integrated in a group of mentors and facilitators that will lead the process, the result can only be the real improvement of competences that will make it much easier for them to find a job or create their own business. In the long term this will be a good contribution to increase the local and national economy.

The local mentors will continue to help when necessary with a supportive attitude but demanding responsibility and autonomy.

The dissemination of the project through the municipal webpage created along the project and the participation in different seminars and workshops where the different partners will participate as well as the use of media will offer others the possibility to use this project a s a good practice to follow.

COORDINATOR: Município de São João da Madeira Avenida da Liberdade, Forum Municipal 3700-956 São João da Madeira São João da Madeira, Portugal http://www.cm-sjm.pt

CONTACT: Nelson Costa STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP241

PARTNERS: CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DE CALCADO DE PORTUGAL, PT; Escola Inglesa, Escola de Línguas Lda, PT; Evropská rozvojová agentura, s.r.o., CZ; UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS LBG, UK; Twin Training International Ltd, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 106 782 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability SP242 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-PT02-KA205-002410

TITLE: EMPOWERING YOUTH POTENTIAL

DESCRIPTION: Youth unemployment is the most significant problem that is faced by young people in Europe. With a focus on improving equity and inclusion, transversal skills, and entrepreneurship education, Empowering Youth Potential aims to increase the entrepreneurial spirit and skills of participants to enhance faster growth, social inclusion and European networking. The project also aims to help youth transition from education to labour market. Empowering their professional skills with non-formal educational tools. Growing their ability to face workplace issues, teamwork problems, to solve unexpected difficulties.

Target Groups:

Unemployed young people, recent graduates, students, youth leaders, young people with fewer opportunities.

Main activities 1. Identifying a set of learning material and methods about entrepreneurial skills and mindsets;

Youth Entrepreneurship Bootcamps: Young people from various cultures and nationalities (from partner’s countries) will be invited to participate in the Youth Entrepreneurship Boot Camp. The consortium will give special attention to select unemployed young people or with less opportunities. Youth Entrepreneurship 1. Bootcamps will be focused on the development of youth entrepreneurial spirit, with the aim of developing transversal skills; transfer know - how and experience of mentors and successful entrepreneurs, including social entrepreneurship. 2 Boot camps would be organized in Italy and Spain, during five days each for about 8 young people per participating country. Young people will have the opportunity to make study visits in the participating countries to start-ups and small businesses, to participate in workshops and discussions with experts.

The Bootcamp on Youth Entrepreneurship is an innovative education model that enables the participants to learn in an applied setting and an intensive period of 5 days. It creates a strong network of peers, one of the most important for the continuity and success of new entrepreneurs factors. 2. Virtual Kit - The project will develop an informal Virtual Kit which will directly emanate from the participation at the Youth Entrepreneurship Boot CampsThe Virtual Kit will include success stories, accessible materials for capacity development, networking opportunities. The Virtual Kit will be a real tool that will give the opportunity for Young People to exchange skills and improve their entrepreneurial capacity in a collective way. It will be value open source, constructive, participatory and revolutionary approach on technology which will enhance the cooperation and support the capacity and the development of youth. Will increase the interest of young people in self-employment. 3. Final Conference- co-organized by a group of young entrepreneurs to motivate young people to raise their interest in acquiring entrepreneurial skills. 4. Competence assessment (to be done online) of all participants in the boot camps before and after the activity, in order to assess the upgrade of competences thanks to the activity. The competence assessment tool can be used also after the project and is a very important mean to make young people aware of their competences and how these competences upgrade thanks to international mobility activities, intercultural activities, entrepreneurship activities etc.

The tool can be only in English (so that young people will have to use their foreign language competence (thus improving it) or translated in all the partnership languages.

Beside of competence assessment (that is a self assessment) , at the end of each workcamp the youthpass will be issued.

Consortium: 1 non-profit association working with mentoring programs: “I Am the BestTalent Mentor- ing Non-Profit Public Benefit Corporation (NGO) –( HU); 2 Foundations working actively with youth and STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP243

with young people with fewer opportunities, Fundação da Juvendude (PT), Fundación Esplai (ES); and 1 no-profit research, training and career counselling.

COORDINATOR: Fundação da Juventude Rua das Flores, 69 4050-265 Porto, Portugal www.fjuventude.pt

CONTACT: Paula Cardoso

PARTNERS: “Legjobb vagyok” Tehetsegmentoralo Kozhasznu Nonprofit Kft., HU; Fundación Acción Social Educación y Tiempo Libre ESPLAI, ES; Eurocultura, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 96 541 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 16 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Employability SP244 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-RO01-KA205-015310

TITLE: YES FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL YOUTH NGOS, YES FOR MILLENNIALS CHANGERS

DESCRIPTION: The project YES for Entrepreneurial Youth NGOs, YES for Millennials Changers is implemented by 3 organizations from Romania, Spain and Germany. It has a duration of 14 months. The consortium consists of ACE-ES Romania, Cesur and bbw gGmbH.

Within the current organizational structures and environments, youth organizations find an increasingly difficult to raise funds. Therefore, in this time of social and economic crisis social enterpreneurship could be strongly seen as a viable mechanism for NGOs’ sustainability and also a powerful tool for inspiring, educating and supporting new generations to act as active and responsible citizens. The percentage of NEETs in Romania, in Spain and all over the Europe is very high. The new youth generation – so called Millennials – The Generation Y (Engaged, Optimistic, and Charitable) requires creative and entrepreneurial ways of involvement as active citizens. The European Commission stressed the fact that the youth organisations are one of the main providers of non-formal and informal learning leading to an entrepreneurial mindset and skills. In this regard, it is an urgent need to strengthening the support for youth organisations in providing guidance, mentoring and quality training. But to do so for their beneficiaries the youth NGOs also need trained human resources, work tools, focused action plans and professional volunteers to sustain them. A youth NGO needs to become a “professional actor capable to attract the best resources, to produce significant changes, to create value through social business/social economy, to include more beneficiaries, to expand the area of intervention and to develop new services and projects.

The general aim of the project is to stimulate transnational exchange of good practices and relevant experiences in developing modern and challenging action-based learning contexts for professional people of the youth NGOs (with a special focus on youth workers) based on social enterpreneurship so that they could stimulate development of their organisations and their target groups on economically sustainable basis. The project focuses on 3 specific objectives:

O1 – Enhancing the professional development of at least 30 experts of youth NGOs from Romania, Spain and Germany (with a special focus on youth workers) through combined training approach in social entrepreneurship (practical workshops and elearning modules).

O2 – Promoting a proactive and innovative non-formal way of learning/working with young volunteers of an entrepreneurial youth NGO called LIVE Laboratory and elaborating a methodology for this Lab.

O3 - Strengthening the cooperation between youth organisations and public authorities through a transnational online network in order to foster social entrepreneurship initiatives.

Project methodology is a participatory one based on: §§ creative tools and methods so that activities are implemented with participants rather than for them; §§ a culture of transnational cooperation and knowledge among different types of participants. There a variety of activities grouped into 3 components consisting of: paractical workshops; collaborative online group; developing 8 e-learning modules to expand social enterpreneurship knowledge and practical experiences of the youth workers/experts from youth NGOs; developing an implementation methodology of LIVE Lab as a new way of working with volunteers for the prosperity of the organization as a whole; setting up a transnational online network of cooperation composed of a large mix of youth organizations, public authorities, professionals, for learning and acting together in terms of fostering social enterpreneurship within the youth NGOs.

The main expected results are the following:

Youth workers and other experts of youth NGOs are getting new know-how, professional skills and awareness on social entrepreneurship so that they could promote and use the take-up of practical entrepreneurial experiences in education, training and youth work. It will be promoted LIVE Laboratory - a proactive and innovative non-formal way of learning/working with young volunteers in the spirit of an entrepreneurial STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP245

youth NGO. A long lasting transnational online network is created from different type of organizations (mainly youth organisations and public authorities) in order to foster social entrepreneurship initiatives.

The long term benefits of the project are: the participants become resource persons and they support cas- cading of knowledge in their orgnizations and their local communities; participating organizations transfer each other information, good practices and know-how and foster a more dynamic and committed environment inside them; the stakeholders will contribute to a better understanding and recognition of the role played by youth NGOs, Millenials and social entrepreneurship for a brighter social and economic future.

COORDINATOR: Aleea Valea Viilor nr. 2 062018 Bucharest, Romania www.ace-economiesociala.ro

CONTACT: Viorica Ghinea

PARTNERS: CENTRO SUPERIOR DE FORMACION EUROPA SUR, ES; Bildungswerk der Bayerischen Wirtschaft gGmbH, DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 43 395 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 14 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 2: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Employability SP246 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-RO01-KA205-015354

TITLE: CREATIVE APPROACH TO KEY COMPETENCE BUILDING FOR MARGINALIZED YOUNG ADULTS

DESCRIPTION: A dynamic economy with an emphasis on lifelong learning must be underpinned by a dynamic education sector and while tackling early school-leaving is one of the priority objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy addressing the skill deficits and building the key competences of the young unemployed already outside the education system is a key objective of ET 2020. Young Europeans without high-value skill-sets developed as part of an educational progression pathway will become increasingly marginalized and will struggle to realise their full potential in social, personal, employment and economic terms. Countries that fail to address these issues will lose competitiveness. This is not a single-country scenario; it is a pan-Eu- ropean certainty.

While second-chance education is a relatively new addition to the educational landscape the compensa- tion measures provided by these programs to many low-skilled young adults are essential to mitigate the individual, social and economic impacts of educational under-achievement wrought by early school-leaving. Building key competences of young Europeans to live and work as responsible, tolerant, respectful and innovative citizens in the digital age is now of profound importance. For many professionals working in formal and in-formal adult education environments developing these key competences is a core part of their daily activity. Working in less structured environments, these professionals can make coherent use of experiential learning, intuitive learning and embedded-learning techniques to stimulate learners and support their development. The versatility and willingness of professionals working in this sector to adopt different formal and informal teaching and learning techniques is central to their continued success.

Youth work and adult education are often regarded as the poor relations when it comes to investment in continuous professional development training. Practitioners comprise a diverse rank and file representative of the assortment of environments where youth development training and adult education is delivered. From formal education providers to local community development organisations; from the work place to the family home; from fully qualified professionals to volunteers; the range and diversity of provision permeates all aspects and segments of modern society. If the Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth is to be successful youth work and adult education will have to play a major role in supporting those on the margins towards greater social inclusion and building key competences for a changing world. While modern training programmes for new emerging education professionals include new teaching and learning techniques the majority of educators in Europe are already in-service. Facilitat- ing the integration of existing education professionals into new learning environments is now imperative.

The aim of CRE8IVE is to support innovation in education for youth-at-risk by supporting the CPD of youth workers and adult education staff working in this area. CRE8IVE will encourage youth workers and adult educators to harness the potential of these creative tools to support the re-integration of disadvantaged youth to formal education or employment and their progression as valued members of European society. The new course-ware will support educators to make full use of each of these creative areas and validate the pedagogic veracity of the proposed approach. CRE8IVE responds to the challenge of ensuring that youth with a non-traditional educational history can benefit from innovative pedagogic interventions to acquire the key competences for active citizenship and personal development.

The European framework for key competences for lifelong learning has been used in many EU countries as a reference point for reforming national education and training systems. It has contributed to the move towards a more competence-based teaching and learning approach. Additional efforts are needed to support the acquisition of the transversal key competences - digital competence, learning to learn competences, social and civic competences, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, and cultural awareness - and there is an on-going need to update the skills and competences of teachers throughout the education landscape. In addition to the CPD course-ware partners will also provide educators with a toolkit comprising a range of bespoke embedded-learning and enquiry-based learning curriculum resources to support the acquisition of social and civic competence, digital competence, cultural awareness and expression, literacy, numeracy, entrepreneurship and critical thinking. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP247

COORDINATOR: AESD 1 Decembrie 1918 nr.12 910040 Calarasi, Romania www.aesd.ro

CONTACT: Gabriel Dobrescu

PARTNERS: MEATH COMMUNITY RURAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP LIMITED, IE; INNOVENTUM OY, FI; BULGARIAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY SDRUZHENIE, BG; Speha Fresia, IT; INSTITUTO DE SOLDADURA E QUALIDADE, PT; UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE, EL; CENTRE FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY LTD- CARDET, CY

GRANT AMOUNT: 205 496 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 2: Addressing low achievement in basic skills through more effective teaching methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment SP248 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-RO01-KA205-015405

TITLE: SOCIAL ENTREPRISES CALLING YOUNG PEOPLE FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS OF COMMUNITIES

DESCRIPTION: European strategy for the period 2014-2020 provides two basic directions for the development of Europe:

-to identify methods to promote entrepreneurship through mobility programs for young professionals (Initiative Youth in motion);

-to develop and implement programmes aiming at promoting social innovation among the most vulnerable groups, particularly by making available to communities deprived of some forms of education and training and innovative opportunities for employment, to combat discrimination (for example, persons with disabilities) and develop a new agenda for the integration of emigrants, which would help them to maximum use their potential (the initiative a European platform against poverty).

The specific objectives of the project are: 1. developing knowledge, skills and competences in the field of social entrepreneurship, an open attitude towards the experential learning to 120 young people and youth workers. Starting from these two directions in the partner communities, it was indentified a percentage of 27% of young people who want to actively integrate in the community life, a large proportion of 68% young people who have a job, and most local governments that have a strategy for exploiting the potential of the young and innovative creador.

For these reasons, the development of knowledge and skills in the field of social entrepreneurship in youth becomes an equal opportunity: the finding of solutions to the social problems of local comunities and selfyouth development for a better integration on the labour market through the development of social enterprises.

The aim of the project is: give youth and youth workers the opportunity to develop and implement projects of social entrepreneurship through experiential learning.

The project objectives will be achieved by carrying out the following activities:

1.achievement of a logo and motto for the project 2. promoting social responsibility and initiative of the 120 young people through non-formal methods at the level of communities and decision makers; 3. involvement of 14 local entities to work with those 120 young people, in the identification and resolution of social problems within the communities; 4. development and implementation of one social entrepreneurship projects among the various categories of young people and the local community, 5. increasing with 10% of youth involvement in the life of the community through examples of good practice in the european space.

The target group of the project consists of 120 young people aged between 17-24, in 6 partner organizations from Romania, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Greece, 120 young people, 21 of them are young with limited opportunities in terms of economic opportunities.

The project objectives will be achieved by carrying out the following activities:

-development of a logo and motto of the project

-execution and management of a project platform §§ collaborative meetings on-line and directly between youth from different corners of Europe STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP249

-local workshops to identify social problems of the community, for the identification of entrepreneurial solutions to problems of high priority for the community,

-to develop a business plan for the social enterprise, a social enterprise

-to identify sources of funding

-a good practice guide for a successful social entrepreneurial

-carrying out an analysis/study of impact of the project implementation

-2 editing spots to promote the socio-economic effects of the promotional campaigns of the platform project and hatchery of social enterprises,

-to promote the International Conference of Social Entrepreneurship, §§ fundraising for the project of social entrepreneurship, §§ campaigns for the dissemination of good practice to community members through caravans, Cafe, asset guide platform on social entrepreneur organisation

-carrying out International Conferences of Social Entrepreneurship

-organization and maintenance of a consultancy service, of social entrepreneurship themes in the social incubator

-accomplishment of 5 blended exchanges youth and one training course in Netherlands.

For the above mentioned activities there will be integrated non-formal methods such as discussion, brainstorming, street theatre, workshops in different work environments (in schools, in social enterprises) in informal learning contexts as well as documentation on the Internet, specialized book study. It will emphasize the experiential learning and virtual simulation.

The most important results of the project will be: §§ open access to project platform translated into 7 foreign languages: English, Romanian, Italian, Span- ish, Portuguese, Dutch,Greek. The Platform will contain all the materials carried out during project implementation and it will be maintained after its completion.

-the Social Entrepreneurs Guide and social entreprises.

COORDINATOR: Asociatia Impact 2020 str. Slt.Radu Teohari, nr.100A 615200 Tirgu Neamt, Romania www.impact2020.ro

CONTACT: Elena Genoveva Irimia

PARTNERS: SocialDNA, NL; APHOI KOUMANAKOU & SIA EE, EL; ADAMASTOR - ASSOCIACAO CULTURAL, PT; ASOCIACION MALAGUENA DE EDUCACION Y FORMACION EUROPEA (A.M.E.F.E.), ES; Associazione di Promozione Sociale Futuro Digitale, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 131 780 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people. SP250 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; International Cooperation; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP251

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001214

TITLE: DEVELOPING WORKING TOOLS AND METHODS HOW TO REACH YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 13-22 IN DISADVANTAGED SOCIO- ECONOMIC AREAS.

DESCRIPTION: Come join us!

Developing working tools and methods how to reach young people aged 13-22 in disadvantaged socio-economic areas.

The overall project idea is to develop methods and communication tools how to reach young people who the partner organisations normally don’t reach.

In Europe one of five main aims for EU 2020 is to strengthen social inclusion, equality and active citizenship.

The aim with the project is to foster the inclusion and employment of young people with fewer opportunities. A common challenge for the partners is to reach those young people who are beyond our organisations space. Young people who might be out of work, education and social context.

The project will focus on Non-formal learning methods and will meet the specific objectives to promote participation for young people, active citizenship and social inclusion and solidarity in a democratic life.

The project has five project partners from the UK, France, Germany, Finland and Sweden. The partnership will together bring experiences, activities and exchange skills and knowledge to increase and strengthening training paths of educators and youth workers.

Target groups:

Persons working with young people aged 13-22 in the socio-economics disadvantaged areas: Youth workers and teachers.

Beneficiaries: Young people aged 13-22 living in the socio-economics disadvantaged areas.

Activities:

The project will have four transnational meetings, one transnational training and three local practical workshops. Between each activity there will be evaluations and follow up. There will be two Intellectual outputs: “Research, analysis and studies of the young people aged 13-22 (O1) and “Website with on-line Guideline with methods and manuals for youth workers and teachers to use and a virtual collaboration (O2). There will be five parallel Multiplier events in each partner country.

Expected results:

When the project is to end we have increased the numbers of young people in the vulnerable social-economic areas that take part in our organizations activities, have better communication tools and a wide range of new methods in non-formal based education. Also an on-line guide with methods and working tools for youth workers and teachers is produced. This online guide will have open access for all.

Long-term benefits: Young people with fewer opportunities are taking a more active role in the local society, participating in local activities and are active in NGOs, education and health supporting activates.

After this project the partnership will apply for a KA 1 Mobility Youth Exchange and a KA 1 Mobility job shadowing for youth workers and teachers. SP252 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

COORDINATOR: Kulturskolan Stockholm Askebykroken 13 163 08 Spånga Stockholm, Sweden www.stockholm.se

CONTACT: Eva Darell

PARTNERS: Keski-Uudenmaan koulutuskuntayhtymä, FI; Stadt Bochum, DE; Ash Wales, UK; Maison de l’Europe Bordeaux - Aquitaine, FR

GRANT AMOUNT: 158 603 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP253

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001236

TITLE: PROJECT INSTRUMENTS FOR ERASMUS +

DESCRIPTION: The project answers to the changes in the Erasmus+ programme in which is now possible to apply for strategic partnership projects and for KA1 projects that can be built by combining different types of international activities. This increased flexibility of the programme created the need for better structured project management instruments for the succesful implementation of the new types of projects.

Project instruments for Erasmus+ (PIE+) aims to tackle the new project management challenges by developing a series of intellectual outputs (excel templates and work procedures) that will facilitate the project implementation, monitoring and reporting process.

Fourteen persons will be directly involved in the implementation of the project and the development of the intellectual outputs while the project will have 196 direct beneficiaries and 84 indirect beneficiaries representing a minimum of 35 organizations/institutions working with Erasmus+. The direct and indirect beneficiaries estimated above are practitioners working or interested to work with the management of Erasmus+ financed projects.

The project activities are grouped in transnational project meetings for the implementation of the project and the development of the intellectual outputs, two international training courses during which the participants will explore in depth the use of the developed intellectual outputs and local multiplier events organized in each partner country.

As a project management methodology we will focus on a frontloaded work approach with regular progress check points for the monitoring and delivery of the expected results.

The expected results are grouped in three categories:

A Intellectual outputs: 1. a manual that will include the next:

a. template for project monitoring

b. template for budget monitoring

c. template for risk management

d. template for internal reporting

e. template and example of design of procedure that should be established in the project management of the EU funded projects: visibility, dissemination, reimbursements, bank transfers, communication among partners

f. mapping of the most commonly used free software that can contribute in the project management process (google drive, dropbox, box) 2. Training Course design; 3. multiplier events design; 4. a website from where the templates can be downloaded; 5. youtube clips with the description of the instruments.

B Two training courses on the topic of project management instruments

C Seven local multiplier events SP254 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

Aditionally we expect the project to have an impact upon the participants and the organizations benefiting directly or indirectly from the project by strenghtening their project management capacity and thus giving them the possibility to deliver better results and to have a wider impact upon their target group by increasing the level of the work done by organizations. This increase wold be a direct reflection of investing in the continuous education and profesional development of their human resources.

The projects concept was developed based on the needs identified by the partners and having in mind the wide spread of the intellectual outputs developed in the project. The project will be implemented between November 2015 and June 2017 while the intellectual outputs developed in the project will continue to be available free of charge until the end of the Erasmus+ programme.

COORDINATOR: Granhäcksvägen 3B 44555 Surte, Sweden

CONTACT: Andreea Maris

PARTNERS: Asociatia pentru Consolidarea Societatii Civile - Valea Jiului (ACSCVJ), RO; ASSOCIATION OF ACTIVE YOUTHS OF FLORINA, EL; Confédération des MJC de France, FR; ASSOCIAZIONE DI PROMOZIONE SOCIALE JOINT, IT; ASOCIACION JUVENIL INTERCAMBIA, ES; SYNTHESIS CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LTD, CY

GRANT AMOUNT: 133 268 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 20 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Increasing the efficiency of public expenditure and the investment in education, training and youth

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

TOPIC 1: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): International Cooperation; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP255

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001247

TITLE: BEYOND TOKENISM: EFFECTIVE MODELS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN AN ADULT ORGANISATION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH

DESCRIPTION: The projects goal is to come up with the most efficient way of of organising children and youth within an adult organisation for their rights.The partners will dvelop a model of meaningful participation of children and youth and lobby it towards the target organisations. To achieve the aim, the partner organisations will work to straighten the cooperation between child and youth groups volunteering and working in national Save the Children organisations in Europe, not only in the partner countries but also other countries with rising youth involvement in the charity.

Currently, children and youth in Save the Children are organised in various ways - some are independent youth organisations, others are informal groups of volunteers; some are topic-oriented youth NGOs who have a partnership with their national Save the Children organisation; others are individual young volunteers who donate their time to the organisation. We think that by combining these different realities we can learn from each other, find the most efficient way of organising and thus improve our work on the national level. Furthermore, by creating an international platform, we will be able join efforts into making fearless and stimulating environments for children regardless of borders.

COORDINATOR: Rädda Barnens Ungdomsförbund (Save the Children Youth Sweden) Gammelgårdsvägen 38 112 64 Stockholm, Sweden www.rbuf.se

CONTACT: Dejan Bojanic

PARTNERS: Red Barnet Ungdom, DK; Press, NO; Barnaheill - Save the Children á Íslandi, IS

GRANT AMOUNT: 44 476 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): International Cooperation; Youth Empowerment SP256 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-SE02-KA205-001262

TITLE: THINK TWICE - YOUTH, ENVIRONMENT AND DRUGS IN THE EU

DESCRIPTION: The project is a partnership between Swedish NGOs Smart Youth, the Institute for Security and Develop- ment Policy (ISDP), RNS (National Association for a tobacco free society), the Royal Botanical Garden in Endinburgh (Shared Res and Les Eco-liés. So date, similar project were successfully carried out in Sweden and in Scotland; but no project put in common synergy at the EU level to train a network of youth aware about destructions caused by drugs.

The project aims to inform and raise awareness on the environmental consequences of illegal drugs production, develop youth knowledge and commitment on the issue, train young ambassadors to become change makers and European expert citizens.

Young people participating to this project will learn, with the support of partner organizations, that drugs have an impact on environment. The project will raise awareness and knowledge, and stainability will be ensured through peer to peer education.

The expected long term impacts are that youth will have new arguments against drug abuse, and on consequences of drug production.

COORDINATOR: Smart Youth Hallvägen 27 121 62 Johanneshov, Sweden www.smartungdom.se

CONTACT: Lovisa Gabrielsson Gradén

PARTNERS: Institute for Security and Development Policy, SE; ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH, UK; Riksförbundet Narkotikafritt Samhälle, SE; Les Eco-Liés, FR

GRANT AMOUNT: 95 425 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Environment and climate change

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Education for Sustainable Development STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP257

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-SI02-KA205-013022

TITLE: EUROPEAN HUB MODEL FOR SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS

DESCRIPTION: One of the global impacts of the recent economic crisis is the current alarmingly high rate of unemployment, which has created a particularly fragile situation for todays young generation. Because partners believes that fostering young people entrepreneurial mind-sets and related knowledge, skills and competences represents an answer to these challenges and has great potential for creating jobs and reducing unemployment.

In aiming to promote youth entrepreneurship, with special focus on social entrepreneurship, the partners set the following OBJECTIVES:

→ To foster cooperation and exchange of experiences and good practices in the field of social entrepreneurship and youth employability;

→ To contribute to the development of the quality of support systems and the capabilities of those who work with unemployed young people and young people who are classified as ‘Not in Education, Employ- ment or Training’ (NEET);

→ To develop a HUB MODEL KIT, which will be used by youth NGOs and other organisations engaged in youth employment and social entrepreneurship;

→ To introduce new approaches in youth work and strengthen cooperation on how to help youth organisations become stronger, more sustainable, and better able to serve young peoples’ needs;

→ To improve young people level of social entrepreneurial skills and competences, necessary for their active participation in the labour market.

Based on defined projects objectives the partners will adopt the following methodology to achieve the expected results: non-formal learning, active learning, ICT based education, researches and cross-sectoral working and will implement activities (webinars, educational workshops, communication activities, multiplier events, etc.) that will impact a large number of direct and indirect beneficiaries (young people, NEETs, youth workers, youth NGOs, experts, general public, etc.).

The most important project output that will help tackling the issue of youth unemployment will be the developed HUB MODEL KIT trough which partners will on one hand deliver a ready to go approach that the youth organizations can incorporate in their activities, in full or in parts and on the other hand it will also educate other organizations, like public institutions and business on the role and potential that youth organizations have in tackling the problem of youth unemployment trough effective information and educational activities that develop and support the skills needed to become a successful social entrepreneur.

In order to achieve the project objectives and to produce high quality results, a cross-sectorial consortium of diverse range of international partners with different experiences, profiles and expertise was set up:

→ PiNA (Slovenia) as a Youth NGO and non-formal education provider;

→ National Management School (Bulgaria) as a vocational education provider;

→ Drosostalida (Greece) as a social enterprise;

→ Bridging To The Future (UK) as an incubator for social enterprises and SMEs.

COORDINATOR: PINA GREGORCICEVA ULICA 6 6000 KOPER, Slovenia www.pina.si SP258 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTACT: Urška Vezovnik

PARTNERS: National Management School, BG; BRIDGING TO THE FUTURE LTD, UK; Drosostalida, EL

GRANT AMOUNT: 88 191 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP259

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-SI02-KA205-013070

TITLE: POST-YU TRILATERAL BOTTOM UP LEARNING - EMPOWERING YOUTH IN THE REGION

DESCRIPTION: The Post-YU Trilateral Bottom Up Learning (PYTBUL) is a strategic partnership project in the field of youth primarily aimed for developing new, innovative and complementary tools and models for empowering youth in the region and fostering youth self-employability. Three partner organizations, Zavod Bob from Slovenia, Volonterski centar Istra from Croatia and Impact Hub Belgrade from Serbia, have gathered forces and created a project plan to address the important issues concerning youth. The project duration is 16 months - from September 2015 till December 2016.

The project aims are based on the worsening situation on the labour market in the countries of the participating organizations where youth are rapidly getting excluded. They are constantly pushed to the edge of social security and exploited as poorly paid labor. The government structures seem to be unable to propose relevant solutions while the youth have the necessary resources to find solutions for themselves. It was demonstrated in numerous occasions through the activity in the youth sector. However, the efforts of the youth and the impacts of the youth sector remain unrecognized which is reflected in the amount of funds for youth activities, lack of interest for the systemization of jobs in the youth sector, lack of recognition of informally acquired competencies, which is the dominant way of obtaining them in the youth sector etc.

The youth, youth workers and senior professionals from the partner organizations will cooperate in designing tools and models for improving competencies for youth employment and self-employment, they will exchange experience and good practice examples in the international events and present the results of their project work in the final multiplier event. The international events will be hosted by each of the partner organizations: Impact Hub Belgrade in Serbia in April 2016, Volonterski centar Istra in Croatia in September 2016 and Zavod Bob in Slovenia in November 2016. The final multiplier event will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia in December 2016.

The Knowledge Exchange Base, a web platform, will serve as the main communication tool, addressing different publics/target groups. It will serve as a board for pinning various topic clouds: youth employability, personal success stories, legislation, knowledge exchange etc.

The bottom up approach dictates methodology that will enable young people to actively participate in all project stages: project planning, implementation and evaluation. The competencies, acquired and/ or developed in the process, contribute to their (self)employability which makes the PYTBUL project an example of good practice by itself.

In their local activities the participating organizations will provide activities for their local youth and the youth workers (i.e. multipliers) to enable their active participation in the process of the design of the mentioned outputs. Besides the activities for youth the emphasis will be put on addressing policy makers and other relevant stakeholders with the intention to improve the position of youth and the youth sector in the region. In this regard the “Declaration on value of youth work is an important document that will be created in the project, containing comparative analysis of legislations regarding youth sector in the three participating countries, examples of good practices, the assessment of the impact that the youth work activities have on developing competencies for youth self(employment) and policy recommendations.

The project environment will result in new or enhanced local/ national collaborations and cross-borders partnering with organizations with different focuses/expertise. This trilateral has a potential to grow into a network of youth organization from across the post-YU region...

COORDINATOR: Zavod BOB Kvedrova cesta 3 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia www.zavod-bob.si

CONTACT: Metka Bahlen Okoli SP260 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: IMPACT HUB Belgrade, RS; Volonterski centar Istra, HR

GRANT AMOUNT: 69 200 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 16 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

CLUSTER(S): International Cooperation; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP261

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-SK02-KA205-000608

TITLE: CLOSER

DESCRIPTION: Solidarity, tolerance and social inclusion are the fundamental values of the European Union, social inclusion is a significant factor of development and sustainability. Social exclusion is a problem for both individuals and the society, having impact on many areas of their lives.

Social inclusion of young people with vulnerable backgrounds in Europe and its neighbouring regions is included in EU strategies and politics. EC emphasizes the importance of non-formal education, support of young people in the risk social exclusion and significance of youth work in this area. The renewed framework for European cooperation in the youth field (2010-2018) stresses the need to support and recognize youth work, and focus on the training, recognition of skills and mobility of youth workers and leaders, and innovative solutions in youth work.

The overall goal of the project is to contribute to building tolerant, inclusive and solidary communities in 5 partner countries (4 EU member states and Georgia). The project partnership will implement activities: 1. To raise quality of youth work in social inclusion and strengthen capacities of youth workers for active combating social exclusion by respecting values and principles of European youth work for inclusion 2. To contribute to building a more inclusive society and raising awareness of social inclusion in young people and broad public.

Specific objectives of the project are: §§ To explore the needs of youth workers with socially excluded groups in order to better reflect their training needs, §§ To empower youth workers in the area of social inclusion and work with disadvantaged groups, §§ To improve the management capacity of partner organizations in fundraising, campaigning, public relations, negotiating, marketing, event organizing; to exchange experience, lessons learned, and good practices; §§ To create an online platform as a reference tool of materials, documents, projects, trainings on social inclusion, §§ To create common identity and tools (leaflets, information materials) of the campaign to be used by all partners, §§ To plan and implement the Week of Social Inclusion campaign in all partner countries, while involving local communities and especially young people to be more inclusive and solidary with people of different origin, belief, age, those disadvantaged (socially, economically) and disabled.

The partnership is composed of strong organizations from 4 EU Members states (Slovakia, Spain, Italy and France) and Georgia, a country of Eastern partnership. The partners work in the area of youth empowerment and development, some of them have experience in organizing campaigns.

The partnership will produce a set of tangible results, mainly: §§ a report on training needs of youth workers dealing with young people in danger of social exclusion/ marginalized groups, §§ a training curriculum developed, §§ a group of multipliers in social inclusion of young people trained and involved in local activities, §§ a web-site created as a source of materials on social inclusion of youth, §§ Compendium on best practices in Social Inclusion published, §§ a Week of Social inclusion implemented in all partner countries. SP262 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

The project will have impact on those directly involved in the project activities, and also on young people and broad public in the partner countries through their involvement in the awareness-raising campaign. The project will also lay foundations for the tradition of the Weeks of Social Inclusion to be organized as an annual event in the partner countries.

COORDINATOR: CID J. Poničana 3 841 08 Bratislava, Slovakia www.cidsk.eu

CONTACT: Alena Štefániková

PARTNERS: ASSOCIACIÓ PER A LA CREACIÓ D’ESTUDIS I PROJECTES SOCIALS, ES; Giosef Enna, IT; EUROCIRCLE, FR; Gori Municipality Development Agency, GE; Associazione Giosef - Giovani Senza Frontiere, IT; Shida Kartlis Regionuli Ganvitarebis Tsentri, GE

GRANT AMOUNT: 139 604 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Inclusion and Tolerance STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP263

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-TR01-KA205-022935

TITLE: GLOBAL INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP MODULE

DESCRIPTION: Joblessness and underemployment among youth are two of the most challenging economic and social problems that policymakers face in developing countries. One of the primary reasons of the young unemployment and failure to satisfy the expectations of the newly graduate professionals in the European scale where Turkey takes places within is insufficient cross-cutting capabilities based on ICT such as e-leadership skills. This leads to failing to satisfy the capabilities of employment of qualified graduate and young workforce, in return. For the most countries, lower educated people experience worse employment conditions and have been most hard-hit by the crisis. Significant percentage rates are generated in Turkey (21), Italy (25.2), Greece (47,6) and Portugal (42.3), where between one in five and one in four 18-24 year-olds are neither in employment nor in education and training.

Past developments have shown that ICT-related occupations are much more resistant to crises than most other jobs. The market absorbs more than the annual output of ICT graduates from educational institutions. Consequently, today, investing in e-skills entails even greater opportunities and fewer risks. European Commission’s Publication “e-Leadership Skills for Competitiveness and Innovation (2013), the job market demand rises by 227,000 e-leaders to a total of 915,000 people annually Europe-wide, including Turkey. There is a huge opportunity for job creation and growth which Europe should not miss. Yet, economies cannot meet the adequate qualified supply.

Global Innovative Leadership Module (GILM) project believes that one of solutions for the current young unemployment passes through the university or development and training on the ICT based capabilities after graduation. The growing importance of ICT for both business operations and innovation is an opportunity for professionals and youngsters who are e-skilled. These competencies are critical for fostering both jobs created by existing companies through innovation and growth as well as self-created jobs by entrepreneurs (including social entrepreneurs) who leverage technology to create new products, services and business especially for young people.

From this point of view, it is aimed to enable youth in e-leadership on the purpose of decreasing the young unemployment in the direction of the certain vocational and personal needs of the young, to enable them to know their sufficiencies and improving their capacities. It is also aimed to learn using ICT based tools and methods for the purpose of job creation/employability alongwith the taking an active lidership role in changing progress.

Within the scope of project 6 partner (university, institue, company, sivil society organization) from 4 countries will take joint action to develop new education module which can be used in formal and nonformal educational institutions. The module will prepared by using non-formal education method focusing on youth. It also will be a digital online platform involving e-courses, training modules, ICT based tools etc. The project will have been taking place for two years and it will comprise transnational meetings, dissemination activitiy, training courses, intellectual outputs etc.

COORDINATOR: BAHUN Ciragan Cad Osmanpasa Mektebisokak 4-6 34353 Besiktas Istanbul, Turkey www.bahcesehir.edu.tr

CONTACT: Ali Osman Pektaş

PARTNERS: INSTITOUTO ANAPTIXIS EPICHEIRIMATIKOTITAS ASTIKI ETAIREIA, EL; INTERACTIVE MEDIA KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER, EL; Associazione di Promozione Sociale Futuro Digitale, IT; Edugep, PT; KALKINMA VE INOVASYON OFISI DERNEGI, TR

GRANT AMOUNT: 202 652 EUR SP264 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

PRIORITY 3: Effective strategies for enhancing basic skills

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Employability; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP265

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-TR01-KA205-023646

TITLE: 360 DEGREES ENTREPRENEURSHIP

DESCRIPTION: The economic changes, technologies, globalization and society development have a big impact on the labour market. Nowadays the “job for life does not exist anymore as it was 50 years ago. In turn it influences on the youth unemployment. At this stage entrepreneurship and in particular social entrepreneurship can become an effective way to confront the problem. It is how young people can get needed experience, become responsible and create their own jobs. NGOs can help young people to develop employability skills and involve them into entrepreneurship. At the same time NGOs also can benefit a lot from learning social entrepreneurship as they also face different problems regarding sustainability. But there are not many NGOs which are competent in this topic.

The project 360 Degrees Entrepreneurship aims to develop youth workers skills on entrepreneurship and in particular social entrepreneurship, creativity, financial management, strategic planning, employability and entrepreneurial skills in order to overcome the youth unemployment and to make NGOs sustainable. They will have the opportunity to not only learn these skills, but also to implement them in starting up their business, collaborate with other startups and be mentored through the business incubator model.

The main objectives of the project are: 1) To develop creative thinking, innovation, employability (soft) skills, financial management, strategic planning and entrepreneurial skills of youth workers. 2) To share knowledge on the establishment and sustainability of business incubators as a sustainable measure of supporting entrepreneurship on a long term basis. 2) To create a training module on how to develop, validate and implement social entrepreneurial projects and enterprises. 3) To work with and train mentors in how they can support young people in developing entrepreneurial paths. 4) To explore practical ways of supporting young people and NGO set up social enterprises, taking into consideration legal, financial, management and social requirements. 5) To create new tools and methods designed to develop entrepreneurial skills among young people. 6) To provide young people with a platform where they can exchange experience and expertise in the field of social entrepreneurship. 7) To develop solidarity, promote tolerance and foster mutual understanding between generations and cultures by creating a common platform for development that includes a wide variety of generations and cultures

The final result of the project will be the business incubator, fully set up to support new businesses from idea to reality. The training methods will be based on non-formal education as well as methods and tools chosen/developed specifically for this topic. The project will consist of 3 main parts. 1. Trainings and meetings which focus on discussing and developing the theoretical side of social entrepreneurship. 2. Implementation of the businesses, setting up the business incubator, implementing training for trainers and creating training modules. 3. Gathering the results of the project, showcasing the different developing businesses, sharing best practices and making the business incubator sustainable.

COORDINATOR: IKU E5 KARAYOLU UZERI SIRINEVLER 34191 ISTANBUL, Turkey http://www.iku.edu.tr/TR/30475-2-0-1-605-4/Geomatik-Uygulama-ve-Arastirma-Merkezi

CONTACT: Vural YILMAZ SP266 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: GEMS, Educacion en Andalucia, ES; Global Ideations, TR; EUROKALLISKIVID MTU, EE; Worldview Impact Limited, UK; Nucleo Educativo per la formazione Europea al Lavoro Internazionale, IT; ASOCIACION INTERNACIONAL DE PARQUES TECNOLOGICOS IASP, ES; ASSOCIACAO PARQUE DE CIENCIA E TECNOLOGIA DE ALMADA/SETUBAL-MADAN PARQUE, PT; TURKIYE BILISIM VAKFI , TR

GRANT AMOUNT: 301 694 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 36 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP267

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-UK01-KA205-013994

TITLE: YOUTH ENTERPRISE THROUGH ARTS

DESCRIPTION: The importance of developing entrepreneurial skills in young people is well established as both a means to economic growth, as well as to enabling young people to achieve the goals they set out for themselves. With the emergence of innovative social enterprise models, now more than ever entrepreneurship programmes can empower young people to generate positive impact at individual and community level.

However, while enterprise centres and VET institutions struggle to engage with young people, tens of thousands participate voluntarily in youth group activities, especially in the creative, performing and digital arts, presenting a clear opportunity to widen the impact of entrepreneurship education. The problem? The majority of youth workers, lack the knowledge, skills and confidence to teach entrepreneurship.

YEA has been carefully structured to find new ways to integrate high quality entrepreneurship education into existing youth services and structures by training youth workers. To achieve this we will:

a. Establish 4 Youth Entrepreneurship through Arts REGIONAL ALLIANCES, bringing together key youth, enterprise, and social policy stakeholders to explore best practice in integrating entrepreneurship education into creative arts youth work, devising individual and collective commitments to action in a YEA ACTION PLAN;

b. Create, publish and promote the “Youth Entrepreneurship through Arts Tool kit to encourage the creation of further Alliances across Europe.

c. Develop and publish a course curriculum and learning materials to train youth workers to effectively engage the young people they work with in entrepreneurship education.

d. Test, publish and strongly promote the course, to facilitate its inclusion in mainstream youth work provision.

YEA will be delivered by six organizations from UK, Ireland, France and Malta with a strong cross-sector focus. 1. Dungannon Enterprise Centre, the principal supplier of entrepreneurship education and training in South Tyrone, Northern Ireland. 2. RIDC a hub organization working for community development and responsible for youth work services in Roscommon, Ireland. 3. Beam Creative Network, a youth work organization engaging over 100,000 young people in arts and drama programme, exploring issues such as diversity, cultural identity and conflict resolution. 4. Momentum, an accredited enterprise training centre with a specialization in online and blended learning. 5. Musique de Nuit Diffusion a cultural centre in Bordeaux working with disadvantaged youth. 6. Vismednet, a Maltese youth work organization whose programmes emphasise the validation of informal and nonformal learning.

YEA represents a new generation of project that treats entrepreneurship as a transversal skill and a mind set which empowers young people to recognise and solve problems, create value and design sustainable initiatives. Such an approach can be used in any field the young people chooses to apply it to, creating innovation in private or public sectors, at individual or community level.

As a result of our project: §§ hundreds of young people (18 – 30 yr olds) will strengthen their entrepreneurial mindset and acquire concrete entrepreneurial skills, manifested in the development of a proposal for a cultural project or creative initiative which is innovative, sustainable and ready to attract funding. SP268 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

§§ Enterprise providers will find new ways of engaging with hard-to-reach young people, often from disadvantaged backgrounds. §§ Youth work and Creative Arts organizations will acquire key skills to integrate entrepreneurship mindset and skills as part of their services. §§ Communities will experience increase in social and knowledge capital, with young people more empowered as leaders of change in general, especially those who go on to successfully implement their cultural project. §§ Stakeholders in the region will understand and actively support integrated approach to ensuring high quality entrepreneurship education for more and more young people.

COORDINATOR: Dungannon Enterprise Centre 2 Coalisland Road BT71 7BH Dungannon, United Kingdom www.dungannonenterprise.com

CONTACT: Alanna Collins

PARTNERS: Roscommon Integrated Development Co. Ltd t/a Roscommon LEADER Partnership, IE; VisMedNet Association, MT; MOMENTUM MARKETING SERVICES LIMITED, IE; Musiques de nuit diffusion, FR; Bardic Educational Arts and Media Limited, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 269 590 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP269

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-UK01-KA205-014040

TITLE: YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS TEACHING INITIATIVE FOR YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS

DESCRIPTION: The project promotes the idea of self employment to young people as a viable route to employment and creates learning opportunities that enable them to explore this option further. For those that want to progress, it provides a new approach and a new pedagogy for entrepreneurship training using teams of Young Ambassadors, 20 in total in the pilot, who are themselves successful young entrepreneurs to act as role models, deliver workshops and peer support through a young entrepreneur network.

The project outputs include all the materials and resources that other organisations need to replicate the model which are stored on a content rich website together with a training video. The materials include a Training the Trainer pack for training the Young Ambassadors in workshop design, presentation skills, coaching and mentoring skills as well as an innovative curriculum and and methodology for entrepreneurship education. There are a set of detailed entrepreneurship training modules complete with indicative content, trainer notes and a menu of activities. This is supported by a large databank of web based multimedia materials so that the programme can be delivered on line as well as face-to-face.

The incentive for this project was that outside the formal education system, existing structures for supporting young entrepreneurs are not working. The popular ‘one-stop-shop’ model presupposes that someone already has a business idea and focuses on how this can be taken to market. Young people need much earlier intervention to help them think creatively and generate the ideas. Also there is a problem of scale and the standard formal instruments (such as bank-generated business plans etc) do not meet the needs of, for example, the 16 yr old who wants to start a window cleaning round. Nor do the existing agencies actually provide real entrepreneurship skills training or help young people set up alternative business models such as social enterprises.

There is no specific demographic targeted by the project but because all four partners are based in areas of high social deprivation, high unemployment, low educational achievement and an average of 25% of the population with household incomes below the official poverty line, many of the participants will be suffering from multiple disadvantage.

A focus of the training for aspiring entrepreneurs is the embedding of communication, numeracy and IT skills into the technical training they receive in the workshops. The topics are also very different including using story-telling as a business tool, creating radio programmes about their business, using video workshops, creating digital histories and so on.

Another output is the creation of a suite of Mozilla Open badges for Young Entrepreneurs and a map of the entrepreneur competences they acquire against the Youthpass competences - which will together provide the accreditation and certification framework.

400 young people will participate in the project and 20 other agencies and youth organisations will participate in events to enable them to roll out the model to their own organisations.

Impacts are measured using standard impact indicators drawn from ‘Effects and Impact

of Entrepreneurship Programmes in Higher Education’ (European Commission DG Enterprise and Industry 2012). Although this is not a higher education project, it nevertheless has the same aim - to increase the numbers of young entrepreneurs. This report provides base-line data in 4 key dimensions against which the impact of enterprise education can be measured, Adopting the same measurement scales and data collection tools also allow comparisons to be made between the impact of this project against the impact of university entrepreneurship programmes.

The most important targets for dissemination are policy makers and policy influencers and the medium term impacts will be a change in policy and a corresponding change in the nature of support available to young entrepreneurs which better matches their needs. If this can be effected, long term benefits will be SP270 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

an increase in the number of new entrepreneurs, improved viability of their businesses and a corresponding improvement in the regional economies.

COORDINATOR: PON LLANOVER HOUSE LLANOVER ROAD CF37 4DY PONTYPRIDD, United Kingdom www.pontydysgu.org

CONTACT: Jen Hughes

PARTNERS: GLOVO, EL; ASOCIACION DE EMPRESARIOS JOVENES DE VALENCIA, ES; ECLEE - European Center for Leadership and Entrepreneurship Education, FR

GRANT AMOUNT: 343 955 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 36 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Teaching and Training; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP271

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-2-UK01-KA205-014061

TITLE: RESOURCES FOR INCLUSION, DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY

DESCRIPTION: The EU has developed a clear mandate to encourage social inclusion as set out in the EU Youth strategy, the Erasmus+ Inclusion and Diversity Strategy and the Europe 2020 Strategy including the EU2020 Euro- pean Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion.

Equality of opportunity, inclusion and diversity is also seen as key principles that many youth workers adhere to. As a result of such strategic, policy and professional direction for equality, inclusion and diversity to be a clear focus of practice, there is a need for educators, trainers and practitioners to continue exploring effective ways to develop and enhance their knowledge, skills and experience in order to meet the challenges that such a drive for these agendas reveals.

This project aims to provide a means for youth work educators, trainers and practitioners to develop both products and processes that will support further the development of youth work practice that is inclusive, diverse and which promotes equality of opportunity.

The primary objectives are to produce a network of partners and thus a community of practice across the partners involved in the project in order to develop knowledge and skills related to develop quality youth work practice. Such a community will then develop a toolbox of resources that includes: §§ Good practice examples across the partners §§ Specific resources for youth work practitioners to use §§ A university education module to be used with youth practitioners §§ Training outlines that can be used by training providers §§ Learning that organisations and individuals have developed through the process

Through this project further learning is expected to occur across the partners which is also of great importance such as intercultural competence, EU citizenship, professional linkages, mobility of youth workers and the development of specific skills.

The primary target for the RIDE outputs are university staff and students in youth work, youth work training organisations and learners, and youth work practitioners. Representing these groups, approximately 500 individuals will participate directly in activities of the project. It is conservatively estimated that a further 10,000 will benefit indirectly.

The following activities will take place: §§ A needs analysis report that will assess the relevant issues of inclusivity, diversity and equality §§ A principles and approaches report which will explore the rationale in each partner county as to why those involved in youth work should adopt an approach which is inclusive, diverse and equal §§ A good practice directory will be developed with links to examples of good practice linked to work that is inclusive, diverse and based on equality of opportunity so that projects developing such an approach can discuss common issues §§ A practice resource will be developed which contains links to current resources available to youth practitioners and further resources produced so that youth practitioners will feel further equipped to tackle challenges that prevent approaches based on inclusion, diversity and equality §§ A resource for educators and trainers will be developed that supports work for youth work students and current practitioners. Part of this resource will be links to existing resources, a new university based module, trainer resources and captured learner journeys to inspire continual professional development

The approach will be participative involving partners and relevant practitioners and organisations in order to define the issues, develop a rationale and suitable resources that will further support them. SP272 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

The results will be a community of practice which will have developed a toolbox of resources to support youth work that is inclusive, diverse and equal. The impact will be an increase in confidence of youth workers to tackle situations which are challenging, and further understanding the importance of practicing in such a way and will extensively use the resources to support their work. Furthermore, the fact that educator and trainers will have resources aims to ensure that more youth workers and equipped with the knowledge and skills that they require. Supported by the learning journeys continual professional practice will be stressed so that ultimately the quality of youth work will rise.

As a result of the case studies and directories developed, it is expected that this will support further youth work mobility and the sharing of good practice.

The resulting resources will demonstrate that it is possible for projects to develop across the EU and will further encourage understanding of EU citizenship, the Erasmus plus programme and develop further applications for funding across the nations.

The long term benefit is that the aspiration that the EU has to create an inclusive, diverse society based on equality of opportunity will be developed further as their will be greater networks, resources and training to help make such goals an achievable reality.

COORDINATOR: UOG THE PARK GL50 2RH CHELTENHAM, United Kingdom www.glos.ac.uk

CONTACT: Steve Bullock

PARTNERS: AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY, TR; MREZA MLADIH HRVATSKE UDRUG, HR; CESIE, IT; TRNAVSKA UNIVERZITA V TRNAVE, SK

GRANT AMOUNT: 246 579 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Inclusion and Tolerance STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP273

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-AT02-KA205-001337

TITLE: YOUTH IDEAS INTO ACTION

DESCRIPTION: During the last years, there has been an increase in the number of young people with fewer opportunities in Europe. According to Eurostat (ilc_peps01, 13-8-2015), the percentage of young people aged between 16 and 24 years old at risk of social exclusion in the EU-28 increased from 29,4% in 2009 to 31,6% in 2013. Fostering the inclusion and employability of young people with fewer opportunities (including NEETs), is a priority at European level (youth specific priority of the Erasmus+, priority of the EU inclusion and diversity strategy in the field of youth, priority of the EU Youth Strategy and the European youth policies). Providing social entrepreneurship education to young people with fewer opportunities is a very effective way of contributing to their social inclusion and employability. However, young people with fewer opportunities have different needs when it comes to social entrepreneurship education than other young people. Therefore, there is the need to improve the competences and capacities of youth workers across Europe so they can provide high-quality social entrepreneurial experiences to young people with fewer opportunities. In order to respond to these needs, three organisations from the sector of youth work and a private company specialised in developing non-formal learning methods to provide social entrepreneurship education to people from disadvantaged groups, have joined their forces to produce the first Toolkit for youth workers to provide non-formal social entrepreneurship education to young people with fewer opportunities in Europe. The toolkit will include a set of innovative non-formal learning methods (exercises, simulations, group dynamics, contrasting cases, role-playing…), as well as supporting tools and materials for the implementation of these methods such as videos, presentations, images, graphics, charts, on-line applications, etc. In order to ensure that the toolkit is customised to the needs of the target group and end beneficiaries, the partners will test the toolkit with the target group: youth workers, and the end beneficiaries: young people with fewer opportunities. 6 youth workers and 36 young people from 3 countries will participate in the testing of the toolkit. The feedback from the testing activities will be used to improve the toolkit before its final publication in five languages. Beyond the partners, the toolkit have the potential to be exploited by a wide range of organisations and individuals from the fields of education, training, youth work and social inclusion across Europe. Thanks to its deployment in five languages as OER (Open Educational Resource), anyone will be allowed to, not only use it for free, but also to modify it and adapt it to other target groups. Therefore, the toolkit will serve as the impulse for future innovations and developments in the fields of education, training, youth work and social inclusion across Europe. As a result, the project will be a stepping stone towards a fully inclusive European society where every young person has access to high quality education and employment.

COORDINATOR: RENNWEG 8 INNSBRUCK, Austria www.sportunion-tirol.at

CONTACT: Christian Lettner

PARTNERS: Media Partners SRL, RO; Nëus Jëuni Gherdëina, IT; Plataforma Andaluza de Voluntariado, ES

GRANT AMOUNT: 94 802 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Inclusion - equity SP274 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP275

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-AT02-KA205-001360

TITLE: ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP PAYS OFF: EUROPEAN COOPERATION ON A RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR VOLUNTEERING AND ACTIVE YOUNG PEOPLE

DESCRIPTION: With the project Active citizenship pays off: European cooperation on a recognition system for volunteering and active young people the project partners aha - Tipps und Infos für Junge Leute/Austria, Young Scot/Scotland and Amt der Vorarlberger Landesregierung - Office for Future-Related Issues/Austria would like to promote active participation and volunteering among young people. The project provides 600000 young people in Scotland and 80000 in Vorarlberg with the opportunities to volunteer or to recognize and reward their volunteering. By implementing this project the partners respond to an identified need for recognition of voluntary work and of the competences acquired while volunteering. The project partners expertise about recognition systems for voluntary work of young people will be shared and a system will be developed which allows young people to earn points for active participation in various activities/ organisations and to receive recognition such as meaningful products and special experience opportunities. Additionally the project partners, together with different stakeholders, will develop a Social CV which lists type and scope of the young peoples voluntary activities and documents the acquired skills and competences. This Social CV increases the young peoples employability and helps companies to hire committed young people. In the course of the project two tools will be developed (Rewards System Manual, Open Source Software) that facilitate the transfer of the recognition system and the Social CV to other European organisations and regions. The target groups will be involved in the project from the start, Art of Hosting methods will be used for most of the processes.The project partners are active in the fields of youth information / Youth card and civic engagement / volunteering. They set up the project on the following target groups and expect the following impact:- Young people between 13 and 30 engage increasingly in society and thereby expand their personal and social competences and have better opportunities for their future education and career.- Organisations and institutions where young people can get involved voluntarily more easily find committed young people.- Companies can use the Social CV as a tool that documents skills and competences acquired in voluntary activities in informal and non-formal contexts.- Society / stakeholders from the fields of volunteering, business, youth work, administration etc. perceive young people as active citizens.

COORDINATOR: POSTSTRASSE 1 6850 DORNBIRN, Austria www.aha.or.at

CONTACT: Nicole Manser

PARTNERS: Amt der Vorarlberger Landesregierung, AT; Young Scot Enterprise, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 59 757 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Improving the Quality of Education / Training Systems; Youth Empowerment SP276 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-BE03-KA205-013507

TITLE: JUGENDARBEIT ZWISCHEN WIESEN UND FELDERN - ENTWICKLUNG UND ERPROBUNG EINES FÜR DEN DEUTSCHSPRACHIGEN EUROPÄISCHEN RAUMES ANWENDBAREN FORTBILDUNGSMANUALS FÜR ANGEHENDE UND JUNGE JUGENDARBEITERINNEN DES LÄNDLICHEN RAUMES AUS BILATERALER PERSPEKTIVE

DESCRIPTION: The media cooperative Steinfurt (Mediencooperative Steinfurt e. V.) and the task force of the youth council in the German-speaking Community assigned with the enhancement of open youth work (Ar- beitsgruppe Offene Jugendarbeit des Rates der deutschsprachigen Jugend) develop together a training programme for the positioning, distinction, and visibility of open youth work in a rural environment.This training programme is composed of several modules which are separately tested and evaluated as proto- type projects during transnational meetings between youth workers. Based on the results, these modules are going to be developed for a practical use in trainings and published in a “training manual for beginners and young youth workers in a rural environment. The manual is going to be introduced to representatives from both higher education and politics during two multiplier events. Afterwards, it will be possible to give presentations in higher education organisations as well as in organisations supporting open youth work. After completion of the project, the manual will be available for the public and can be used for the instruction of youth workers active in the open youth work in a rural environment.

COORDINATOR: RDJ HUTTE 79/16 4700 Eupen, Belgium www.rdj.be

CONTACT: Catherine Weisshaupt

PARTNERS: Mediencooperative Steinfurt e.V, DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 126 552 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Rural development and urbanisation

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Education for Sustainable Development; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP277

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-BE04-KA205-001731

TITLE: SENSECUBE BRUSSELS

DESCRIPTION: The mission of MakeSense is to help social entrepreneurs to solve their challenges and develop their projects. MakeSense mobilizes young volunteers all over the world to organize creativity workshops for these social entrepreneurs. In 4 years, MakeSense has gathered 30 000 young people to help 800 social entrepreneurs. We use methodologies that we co-created based on design-thinking methodologies and collective intelligence. Eveything is open-source for the volunteers to be able to help social entrepreneurs within their own territory, on every continents, and the online plateform connects everyone together. To go further in the accompaniement of the social entrepreneurs the parisian community launched Sen- seCube Paris 2 years ago.Active since 3 years in Belgium, members of the belgian community decided to launch SenseCube Brussels to accompany the projectholders on a longer term. The SenseCube is more than a simple incubator. The start-ups benefit also from:- an international community of early-adopters, allowing to replicate and scale-up faster- a network of contacts, experts and partners in more than 100 cities on the 5 continents- a real expertise in the creation and animation of communitiesThe objectives of SenseCube Brussels after 1 year are:- double the community of young people involved in the movement- make emerge a real involvement of youth within the social entrepreneurship ecosystem- generate at least 75% of incomes through our side activities- strengthen our partnerships

COORDINATOR: 63 rue Jourdan 1060 Saint Gilles, Belgium https://belgium.makesense.org

CONTACT: Celine Bouton

PARTNERS: Sensecube, FR

GRANT AMOUNT: 11 300 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Teaching and Training SP278 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-BE04-KA205-001738

TITLE: ENSEMBLE EN EUROPE

DESCRIPTION: Together in Europe is an artistic and educational cooperation project between three cultural organizations active in the audiovisual field: Diogène (MILLENIUM Festival) in Belgium, MEDIAWAVE Foundation (MEDI- AWAVE Festival) in Hungary and MITRA 2000 in Bulgaria.Aware of the migratory crisis in Europe and the difficulty for young people from different cultures to live together, communicate and consider a common destiny in Europe, the three partners have developed a project that brings together three strands of activities: watching documentary films, training for audio-visual tools and the creation of documentary content. The objective of this project is to fight the rise in intolerance, to promote multiculturalism in Europe and to give young people new ways of expression in line with their reality.In order to do this, a transnational program, implemented between January and December 2016, will include training activities such as the Youth EuropeanJury , the Young MILLENIUM Reporters, the Web-Docs Meetings and trinational workshops in which projections and debates will be organized supervised by trained mediators.The project is aimed at young Belgian, Hungarian and Bulgarian people, curious, awaiting quality content on these themes, wishing to train in new techniques of the documentary cinema, young people facing discrimination, with migrant background or/and minority groups as well as facilitators, trainers and managers of structures working in the field of youth and integration.The project methodology involves non-formal education and skills transfer. It will be established by documentary and web-documentaries filmmakers as well as specialists (teachers, journalists, etc.).The project purpose is the design two main tools:- A MILLENIUM Collection of 10 documentary films on the theme of migration and of living together to be exploited- An online dissemination Platform, kind of living e-library of the projectAt the end of the project the films in the Collection will be used by the partners of the three carriers of the project and their network as part of awareness campaigns. The Platform will provide educational content, videos of all project trainings and hints for educational use of the films of the Collection.

COORDINATOR: DIOGENE ASBL RUE DE LA VANNE 2 1050 BRUXELLES, Belgium http://www.festivalmillenium.org

CONTACT: Zlatina ROUSSEVA

PARTNERS: ASSOCIATION MITRA 2000, BG; International Visual Art Foundation, HU

GRANT AMOUNT: 75 520 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 10 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; New Technologies and Digital Competences STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP279

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-BE05-KA205-001784

TITLE: I R I S

DESCRIPTION: J.The IRIS -Project came to exist out of the desire of Tabora vzw and its partners to set an international network for exchange and cooperation in order to strengthen, broaden and deepen their knowledge of, insight in and application of methodologies that allow them to empower, educate and activate their youngsters in a more effective way so that they can discover, develop and deploy their skills in daily life. Based on networks of previous cooperation during international workshops and projects, Tabora vzw has spread their wings to the corners of Europe to find professional and motivated organizations with the same mission, with alternative methods to reach that common target. In Belgium we have Leerwerk- plaats Garage and Erdena vzw as our partners. In Bulgaria we have Caritas-Sofia as our partner, who will work with ethnic minorities and other unterprivileged youngsters. They organise a training Dream Catchers. In Estonia we find Estonia’s Leaders Union as our partner, who can show us the experience of training for education for early school leavers at the University of Tallinn. In Macedonia we have Women’s Forum as our partner, who will add the gender aspect to our narrative of letting youngsters to develop and use their skills. In Latvia we will work together with the Technical University of Riga and in a 2-days meeting we will about Project-based-Learning and Developing functional creativityIn total we have a number of 7 participant organizations and in total around 360 people will cooperate during the project. All these organizations have in common that they aim to empower youngsters to use and DEVELOP their CORE-TALENTS and their SKILLS, and we all have our own methods and approaches to do this. Therefore we see this IRIS-project as a way of introducing each other to our methodologies and try to transfer the good practices. Besides that we will introduce new methodologies that are closely linked to our practices during workshops. In total we will have 2 international meetings, during which we will show each other our good practices and discuss how we can improve and transfer them. We will organise also 4 meetings for Belgian participants. The project-coordinator will attend the national workshop with young people in Bulgaria, where use is made of the methodology dream catching. And at the end of the project a big challence is to realise a book of the good practices, the new insights, the possibilities, and the experience of the youngsters involved in the IRIS-project. The expected impact of the project will be that the participants can improve their methodologies and further professionalize their organizations. One important methodology that will be implemented is the project-based learning to learn 21st Century Skills, taking into account gender differences, the specific needs of youngsters (with fewer opportunities) learning and multiple intelligences. By using this scientific and modern perspective in our training, our youngsters will have a better opportunity to reach their targets and develop and USE THEIR SKILLS !

COORDINATOR: Tabora vzw Lepelstraat 123 9140 Temse, Belgium www.tabora.be

CONTACT: Marie-Jeanne Sente

PARTNERS: Leerwerkplaats Garage vzw., BE; Estonian Leader Union, EE; Erdena vzw, BE; Women’s Forum, MK; Caritas Sofia, BG; RIGAS TEHNISKA UNIVERSITATE, LV

GRANT AMOUNT: 84 340 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation SP280 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 1: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP281

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-BE05-KA205-001815

TITLE: HOW STORYTELLING CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.

DESCRIPTION: This partnership between YOUNG DOGS and KIDSCAM seeks an in-depth exchange of knowledge and skills in the field of image literacy and the development of innovative, educational and artistic practices that we can apply, in this context, to our work with children and young people. The activities of both organizations focus on stimulating the curiosity of children and young people to what lives around and in them, reinforcing the possibilities and increasing their skills of expression through the use of visual language and to encourage them to communicate their vision to allow them to feel like an active and empowered participant in the current (digitized) society. YOUNG DOGS is a German organization that brings together young people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds to work on film projects, helps them to scrutinize actuality/reality, and coaches them to produce live-action documentaries. KIDSCAM is an animation studio that works with children and young people in the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium and helps them to tell their story through animated films using the stop motion technique, both in the context of education and leisure.Both organizations seek the collaboration: - to broaden their target audience: KIDSCAM works mainly with children and has been investing in the development of an offer for young people for several years. Furthermore, we want to reach more participants from socially vulnerable environments, especially concerning free time. So far, YOUNG DOGS has only worked with young people (aged 14 to 20) in their free time. Very often, they reach socially vulnerable young people. YOUNG DOGS wants to look at the possibilities of working with young children in the context of education.- exchange of methodologies, application of each others methods with different target groups (children and young people), working together to evaluate the development of new methodologies using our experience (YOUNG DOGS works on documentaries that are closely linked to reality as it occurs - objectivity. KIDSCAM works with animation linked to fiction, fantasy, subjectivity). The mix of both genres opens the door to more expressive possibilities, which will enable young people to experiment more and provide more options to shape their story.- broaden and strengthen their international network: this makes the organization stronger, broadens horizons, and paves the way for more international and inter-cultural projects in the future. This results in a more European mindset. - collaboration in the distribution of the films that are produced. To ensure the films of the young filmmakers are watched sufficiently and their stories listened to, investment is required to build a strong network and good communication. To do this, we want to share, consult and collaborate between the two teams by coaching each other while we are producing the films as part of this partnership.During the partnership we are planning: Project Meetings in which we want to reflect on the above issues and share thoughts and experiences, develop new ideas, discuss applications, draw conclusions and process the data in a useful report. However, we do not want to simply work at the theoretical level. It is important that we gain experiential learning from one another, expose ourselves to the methodologies, and work together in groups in the workplace. The development of children and young people is, and will remain, our priority. Afterwards, we will reflect, evaluate and conclude at the organizational level. Thats why observation training is linked to one Project Meeting and we have chosen to set up an Exchange Project for young people within the Strategic Partnership called, Beyond Boundaries. Finally, at the end of the partnership, a lot of time and energy will be put into developing an appropriate format for the resulting methodology, possible applications, and collaboration as good practice in order to communicate with youth work organizations (especially those who work with vulnerable young people), the socio-cultural and artistic field, and education at the local, national and international level. In that context we are planning presentations, with our intention being to spread the films that have been produced in the context of collaboration through digital means, together with an explanation of the process used to make them and the conclusions regarding the methodology used. We believe that intensive collaboration in the workplace and regular meetings will be necessary for the success of the project and to provide the organizations with a chance to truly grow and strengthen as well as being able to coach more children and young people to develop a broader awareness of society and to communicate their vision.

COORDINATOR: KIDSCAM vzw St Romboutskerkhof 2 2800 Mechelen, Belgium www.kidscam.be

CONTACT: Els Dethier SP282 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: Bezirksarbeitsgemeinschaft kulturpädagogische Dienste Ruhrgebiet/westl. Westfalen e.V., DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 16 475 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP283

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-BE05-KA205-001822

TITLE: YOUTH E-PERSPECTIVES ON MIGRATION

DESCRIPTION: Context/background:This strategic partnership is a response to the current refugee crisis in Europe and the fact that young people need up-to-date digital and media literacy skills to be able to use digital technologies to address the social issues around them. It is based on the long-standing experience of the participating organisations in developing trainings in digital skills for young people, and in particular for their digital inclusion. The idea came from the realisation that young people should be empowered to be active players in current societal developments, in particular the current refugee crisis, and that digital technologies can help them understand the issues, engage and look for solutions.Objectives:The project will create an easy-to-apply training methodology “Find-Tell-Act to introduce young people to the possibilities of digital media to tell a story, make sense of events, raise awareness and provoke change. This methodology will be based on the previous experience of the partners in providing trainings in digital literacy, and will be composed of three thematic workshops: digital photography, digital storytelling and digital journalism. The methodology will be contextualised to the topic of migration and refugees, but will be adaptable to other topics, as well. The methodology will be accompanied with guidelines for other organisations, which would like to apply it, providing them with good practices and tips on how to reach disadvantaged youth and engage them in the training, how to adapt it to other topics and engage other stakeholders.Number and profile of participants:The target group of the project is youth from socially or economically disadvantaged background. Direct participants of the project will be 8 youth workers from the partner organisations, who will contribute to the development of the methodology, and 25 young people, who will participate in blended learning mobility. Another 60 young people are expected to participate in local peer-to-peer info days that young people will organise for their peers once they complete the training, to showcase their work and pass on their experience. At least 50 e-facilitators (educators in telecentres) working with youth will participate in the final multiplier event.Description of activities and methodology:The project has 3 phases. During the 1st phase, partners will develop the training methodology based on the three workshops outlined above and will establish the online platform. In parallel, they will develop a handbook for youth engagement, which will help them to reach and attract youth. They will select the young people for the training and organise an orientation day for the preselected to introduce them to the topic “Migration and the EU refugee crisis.Phase 2 is the blended training, where the methodology will be tested with 25 young people. The training will consist of 1,5 months preparatory online learning; 6-days of face-to-face training and another 1,5 month of follow up online training (C1). Upon completion of the training, young people with support & mentoring from the partner organisations at the local level will organise peer-to-peer info events for other young people in their neighbourhood or city, where they will demonstrate what they have learned and created (O4).In the final stage of the project, partners’ experiences from the trainings will feed into refining and fine-tuning of the methodology (O2) and development of the Guidelines for its implementation (O5).Results and impact:The main expected results of the project are increased digital skills of the young people and their understanding of migration and the refugee crisis and its different consequences. The project will increase their knowledge on using digital media, equipping them with new skills, which will help them to express themselves and address the problems around them in a critical and constructive way. These skills will also be useful in employment, and possibly motivate them to get further training in digital skills by giving them a “taste of the numerous possibilities that ICT offers. They will also improve their analytic, personal and intercultural skills, since for most of them this will be the first international experience. Additionally, the youth workers and partner organisations involved will increase their capacity and will have at their disposal a comprehensive methodology for conducting similar training in the future.

COORDINATOR: Telecentre-Europe RUE DU MERIDIEN 30 1210 BRUXELLES, Belgium http://www.telecentre-europe.org

CONTACT: Peter Palvolgyi

PARTNERS: Telecentar, HR; Associacio per a Joves Teb, ES; Media Actie Kuregem Stad, BE SP284 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

GRANT AMOUNT: 84 375 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 14 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP285

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022681

TITLE: YOUTH SHORT MOVIES LEARNING APP

DESCRIPTION: The YOUMOVI project will combine the efforts of relevant organizations from 5 European countries (BG, UK, CZ, HU and IT) to create a 24-hour accessible free on-line learning application (YOUMOVI app). The aim of the project is to increase the level of youth workers digital and professional skills, related to using on-line resources to inspire young people for active citizenship and participation in the society. Short movies have a significant place in todays youth culture, as they grab the young person’s attention and are powerful means of communicating ideas in a user-friendly and comprehensive way. The YOUMOVI app will equip youth workers with an innovative resource to apply in their key task - to improve the overall awareness of young people on the topic of: “Active Citizenship and Participation. The YOUMOVI project is directly linked to one of the key youth-specific Erasmus+ priorities, i.e.: promoting quality of youth work. The projects duration is 18 months and the main activities are grouped into 6 work packages, covering all main processes such as management, preparation, development, testing and dissemination.The main project AIMS are:- to raise awareness among young people as to the active citizenship and active participation in society;- to equip youth workers with the right set of competences in order to be able to develop and sustain active citizenship mindset among young people;- to increase digital integration in youth work. The main project OBJECTIVES are: - to conduct a in-depth research on how to integrate short movies and mobile learning apps use in youth work at national level;- to develop and test a youth short movies mobile learning app;- to conduct an extensive international dissemination campaign to promote and ensure sustainability of the YOUMOVI results and impact.The main results and impact levels can be grouped as follows:* For the project target group (youth workers): raised awareness as to the benefits of audiovisual resources in handling complex challenges on personal and professional level; improved knowledge on active citizenship and participation topics; improved knowledge using mobile app technology for learning; improved skills for working with digital devices. * For the project partners: increased volume of transnational cooperation and exchange of good practices; raised awareness and improved skills in multicultural communication; improved skills in international project work; improved base of organisational know-how in the field of youth work and learning app development and application. * For other stakeholders: increased visibility of youth workers and their importance for handling complex challenges young people face; intensified dialogue on national level on pressing challenges like youth workers professional development; increased evidence base for policy making in the field of youth.

COORDINATOR: FORMAT SFF FOUNDATION 17 A YANTRA ET. 1, AP. 2 1504 SOFIA, Bulgaria

CONTACT: Galina Tagamlitzka

PARTNERS: Fly in the Eye Animation Ltd, UK; ASSOCIAZIONE SEDICICORTO, IT; London Borough of Redbridge, UK; LUZANKY - stredisko volneho casu Brno, prispevkova organizace, CZ; Haz a Reten Kulturalis Egyesulet, HU

GRANT AMOUNT: 137 463 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy SP286 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Open and distance learning

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Inclusion and Tolerance; New Technologies and Digital Competences STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP287

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022709

TITLE: CIVIC EDUCATION - A TOOL FOR ACTIVE SOCIETY

DESCRIPTION: The project is focused on enhancing of efficiency of civic education through the best using of the available educational resources with free access, innovative pedagogical methods combined with continuously enhancing opportunities, created by the technological progress. This will help the system for civic education and main stakeholders in it. The innovative educational products and methods will enhance the quality and efficiency of youth workers and also they will stimulate raising of the level of civic erudition of the group of young people with active civil activeness. Multilinguism of developed educational products, gathering of different resources with free access from the different counties of the partners and usage of new and modern IT decisions is a good basement for international and paneuropean impact of the results. In the frame of the project it will be created four intellectual products with great public significance for the development of the civic education: videoblog: “European civic education, mobile application “CIVICEDU, Virtual game E-CIVIC. For the development of the innovative educational products, we plan to be hold a content analysis of the civic educational resources with free access, published in internet, text, audio and video formats. The study will be implemented with the coordination of National youth forum and the partners will organize and undertake the same thing in their countries. On a common working meeting it will be hold a discussion, evaluation and defining of the compendium of resources, which will be included in the mobile products. The technological development of the innovative products will be assigned to experts, included in the teams for any of the products. The developed applications will be implemented in the educational activity of the Civic education academy of NYF. It will be organized special educational courses for youth workers in the sphere of civic education for their introducing in the opportunities of the already developed products. The dissemination of the results of the project will be done under the form of informational-advocacy campaign, which will end with a conference.The partners will have the opportunity to get to know in detail with all of the opportunities of the newly created educational instruments. That will contribute for their easy and fast implementation in the concrete activities and practices of these organizations. Using in the best way the possibilities of the new innovative educational products, they will have the engagement to share their experience with other similar organizations and on that way to broaden the impact of the results of the project. Every partner organization will be like methodology center for enhancing of the impact in the respective country. The first target group – the youth workers in the sphere of civic education will widen its potential and opportunities for working with bigger group young people, using the new instruments for distance learning through internet and mobile app, they will have the chance to be in contact with more young people and on that way to raise their capacity. The group of active people will receive the biggest part of the advantages of the project. Through the new educational products, they will be able to raise their social activity and to defend actively their civil positions in front of bigger circle of young people and stakeholders for the respective issue.

COORDINATOR: NYF Bulgaria UL VASIL LEVSKI 35 1142 SOFIA, Bulgaria www.nmf.bg

CONTACT: Aleksandar Ivanov

PARTNERS: CONSELHO NACIONAL DE JUVENTUDE ASSOCIACAO, PT; Consejo de la Juventud de España, ES; NGO Mladezhki glas - Plovdiv, BG; FORUM NAZIONALE DEI GIOVANI ASSOCIAZIONE, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 88 125 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels SP288 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP289

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022764

TITLE: ИНИЦИАТИВНИ И КРЕАТИВНИ МЛАДИ ХОРА - ЗАЕДНО В СЪВРЕМЕННА ЕВРОПА

DESCRIPTION: 1. Context: The name of our project is: “Enterprising and creative young people - together in modern Europe. We consider the topic to be relevant and significant because of the elaborate and fast changing technological progress, the intense dynamics of the labour market, the rising unemployment rate among young people not only in our country but in Europe as a whole. According to a recent report released by Eurostat the youth unemployment rate is extremely high. A currently pressing issue is the one of youth unemployment, aggravated by the refugee crisis. This respectively imposes higher demands on young people. They need to develop qualities like flexibility and adaptability and realize the need to gain profound knowledge and improve their competencies. By getting involved into this project work and benefiting from the experience of their peers from the other European countries, the young people will learn how to be more active and creative, take the initiative, take well- measured risk in order to accomplish their goals and ideas at the labour market. The main idea of the project is to provide opportunities for young people from different European countries (Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, The Czech Republic, The UK) to exchange experience and knowledge, to meet face-to-face and online, to acquire key competencies, discuss current issues and talk over aspects of their future development.2. Target groups – The project aims to reach a wide range of target groups which for the purpose fall into the following categories:Direct target groups: 90 young people between the ages of 14 and 29: 40 high school students, 10 university students, 15 underprivileged and 15 unemployed young people.Indirect target groups:Representatives of the local authorities – Regional and District administration, The Labour Department, the Career Center at the Regional Inspectorate of Education in PazardzhikTeachers, parents and representatives of the civil societyLocal youth organizations and the Youth Center in Pazardzhik3. Objectives: Identifying the needs of the target groups we have decided on the following project objectives:a/ Raising up young people’s motivation and resourcefulness so that they can achieve a better realization and career development.b/ Exchange of ideas and good educational practices with colleagues from other countries, members of The European Union, which will lead to a higher level of initiative and creativity among young people. These good practices and acquired competencies will be promoted in other schools, in the region, in the country and in other countries through new communication technologies and by personal acquaintances.c/ Work- ing in a pleasant for the young people e-environment in which they will exchange online resources and materials – MOODLE, Website project and other modular WEB2.0 programmes.d/ Adopting ideas and new approaches from other educational systems, applying and promoting them among young people from our country and abroad, among students and parents and the local community.4. Expected results:The project will raise up young people’s motivation for active and rational use of the contemporary information technologies to adopt an entrepreneurial attitude by presenting them with an opportunity to learn in the educational platforms, like MOODLE and WEB 2.0, and to improve their skills in the field of ICT. The young people involved in the project will develop skills to communicate constructively in different community circles, to work in a team, to be tolerant, to take a risk, to accept different viewpoints, to solve problems, to cope with stress and negative emotions, to be able to make a difference between their private and professional life.After the completion of the project the young people will be able to make a better career choice.There will be an increased interest among the local authorities to give their support to young entrepreneurs and create a regional youth network.5. Methodology: Exchange of good practices – sharing experience, educational activities, organized by highly qualified educators, including all participants from the target groups in all activities of the project, which means learning through action, empathy and support on the part of the participants in the project and the parties concerned, which guarantees the accomplishment of the expected results, related to its transparency, coordination and effectiveness. There will be a constant monitoring and control.6. Expected impactNew methods and approaches will be adopted and local and regional youth networks will be set up.The young people will acquire key competencies, they will be able to apply new creative resources and ideas to their work and this will raise up their motivation to develop new skills and broaden their mind by learning about the educational models of other European countries.There will be an exchange of ideas between young people from the European Union.

COORDINATOR: UN pri MG”K. Velichkov” Pazardjik N1, San Stefano str. 4400 Pazardzhik, Bulgaria SP290 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTACT: Nina Mollova

PARTNERS: VsI Zmogiskuju istekliu stebesenos ir pletros biuras, LT; ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE STRAUSS, IT; PCDT, UK; EDUCAnet -stredni skola a zakladni skola Ceske Budejovice, s.r.o., CZ

GRANT AMOUNT: 93 076 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP291

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-BG01-KA205-022771

TITLE: INNOVATE AND IDEATE FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

DESCRIPTION: Social entrepreneurs are taken to satisfy social needs or resolve social problems through sustainable systems which will be established and brought off. Today, this new wave of social entrepreneurship utilizes a bottom-up approach rather than top-down affecting government politics and the society. Young people should be made cognizant of the fact that social entrepreneurs are individuals or teams having innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems and such that they should be ambitious and tenacious enough to tackle major social events and provide new ideas for broad-scale modification. The whole consortium is aware of the great importance to Young Students so they to become engaged in social economy as the entrepreneurs of the near future. To accomplish our intention, the partnership aims to develop the capacities of youth volunteers, workers, leaders and social entrepreneurs.In this project, the quality of Youth works will be improved and therefore will contribute to the dissemination of youth works. The skills and knowledge of youth and youth workers, including women and the disadvantaged will be developed with creative and innovative applications for social entrepreneurship. With cross-border cooperation in the field of social entrepreneurship, the proactive and solution-oriented approach of the youth will be enhanced.It is aimed in the Project that the capacities of youth workers and young people will be developed in a sustainable way through activities in cooperation with the partners from Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Slovenia and Greece in the frame of Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnership for the Youth. Furthermore, as planned in the project, partners from the above mentioned countries will cooperate to contribute to the development of youth workers and young people on social entrepreneurship through the following training activities with non-formal learning techniques: Training Program Development activities, Facilitator on Social Entrepreneurship Training (FTP-SE) Program, and Ideation Camps.Objectives to be carried out throughout the project are as follow:• to understand the first step on being an entrepreneur: the want to be spirit and want to contribute to help• to develop innovative and social entrepreneurial culture among young people• to explore the understanding the meaning, important actions and work of Social En- trepreneurship in partner countries• to create a space for sharing knowledge and exchanging experiences and good practices in the field of Social Entrepreneurial learning among players in three fields: non-formal education, formal education and training.• to offer innovative methodology to develop a sustainable FTP- SE programme specific for Youth• to develop the capacities of Youth Workers to enable them to become facilitators for ideation camps.• to encourage Youth actions, non-formal learning and volunteering• to build the capacities of the departments of partner Universities, NGOs and Companies which take part in youth actions and that of other youth organizations that work with the members of the partnership• to enable Young people to participate to the active job markets through developing Social Entrepreneurship

COORDINATOR: NAMCB HAN KUBRAT BLVD 328 1359 SOFIA, Bulgaria [email protected]/www.namcb-org.bg

CONTACT: Elena Koparanova

PARTNERS: GEA College - Fakulteta za podjetnistvo, SI; ULUSLARARASI ANTALYA UNIVERSITESI, TR; Ibox Create S.L., ES; CENTRO PER LO SVILUPPO CREATIVO DANILO DOLCI, IT; PANEPISTIMIO THESSALIAS, EL

GRANT AMOUNT: 125 718 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people. SP292 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP293

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-CY02-KA205-000599

TITLE: EMPOWERING AND ACTIVATING THE YOUNG GENERATION THOUGH THE LEARNING OF EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

DESCRIPTION: Context/background: Our project, EAGLES, aims to tackle the youth unemployment problem by developing important employability skills to young job seekers in combination with positive emotions, psychological resilience, optimism and self–esteem. This will be achieved through the development of a very innovative and practical training package which will be utilised by Youth Workers, who will be trained by the EAGLES team and will then act as multipliers of this knowledge. Emphasis will be placed on transferring positive emotions and thoughts to young job seekers. Positive Psychology is the scientific study of optimal human functioning that seeks to discover and promote factors that allow individuals, communities and societies to thrive and flourish (Seligman et al., 2006) Extensive research shows that positive emotions can broaden thoughts and actions and enrich physical, mental, psychological and social resources (Fredrickson, 2013). However, it has been scientifically proved that young people and especially young job seekers lack the ability to activate their positive characteristics and they end up with limited employability skills and inadequate positive emotions to achieve their goal. This is due to the disappointment they often feel when they get rejected by many employers during recruitment process, feeling inadequate and unworthy. EAGLES aims to enhance young job seekers’ employability and entrepreneurial skills, utilising horizontally the principles of positive psychology intervention. Project Objectives:• To develop, test and publish an innovative educational tool for Young Job Seekers (age group: 18-30 yrs old), combining positive psychology approach with current employability/entrepreneurial educational tools. • The educational tool will be provided to 40 Youth Workers (people supporting young people) who will be responsible for transferring this knowledge to young job seekers in their country. Most importantly, the educational tool will further enhance the quality and professionalism of youth workers’ effort to help young people to acquire transversal and life competences and to foster young people’s personal development, enhancing also their employability skills and entrepreneurial spirit. • The educational tool will include practical exercises and activities that job seekers will be able to apply at any stage of their life along with the support of a coach/ mentor. One or two experts from our consortium in each country will be trained to take on this role.Number and profile of participants: 5 expert organisations from 4 EU countries (with high levels of unemployment rates): CY, GR, IT, IE. 40 Youth Workers (10 in each country) will take part in our pilot testing programmes. It is expected that through our dissemination and training activities and our media campaign (including traditional and new media) more than 26,000 people will be informed about our project at EU level. Main activities/methodology: 1) State of the art and needs analysis: Our aim is to identify the most important employability skills needed nowadays in the workplace. 2) Construction of educational training package + manual - Prepare the first version of the EAGLES programme.3) This will be pilot tested in 4 EU countries (CY, GR, IT, IE), having 10 youth workers participating in each country 4) All participants will give feedback about the quality of the training programme, through the use of a questionnaire. Also the trainers and the External Advisory Board members will give their suggestions for further improvement.5) The EAGLES Programme will be provided in face-to-face and through an online platform6) A media campaign will be implemented, with many dissemination activities across Europe, directly reaching our main target groups. Results and impact envisaged: • Offer a new training course to be used across EU by youth organisations, career counselors, universities etc. • By training Youth Workers (Coaches) in four EU countries this will contribute in transferring transnational knowledge and skills to a number of young job seekers and provide support and guidance to them. It will assist Youth Organisations to enhance their practices and methods based on the Positive Psychology perspective.• The proposed educational tool (combining Positive Psy- chology and Employability skills) will enhance the quality and professionalism of youth workers’ effort to help young job seekers to acquire much needed skills and competences.• The predicted impact of this project on young population will be enormous due to the persistent young unemployment rate. This ver- satile educational tool will assist young job seekers to develop necessary skills needed in the workplace nowadays.• Serve as a best practice example and a training model for Strategic Partnerships and other EU initiatives within the employability skills area.

COORDINATOR: GrantXpert Mykinon Str., Flat 201 6 2433 Nicosia, Cyprus www.grantxpert.eu SP294 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTACT: Vassilia Hadjichristodoulou

PARTNERS: Profexcel.Net Ltd, IE; N.Charalambous Institute of Development Ltd, CY; PANTEIO PANEPISTIMIO KOINONIKON KAIPOLITIKON EPISTIMON, EL; CESIE, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 149 902 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 14 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP295

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-CZ01-KA205-022712

TITLE: WHO ELSE? - STUDENT LOCAL INITIATIVES

DESCRIPTION: More than four in ten Europeans consider that their voice counts in the EU (42%, +13 percentage points since autumn 2013). The proportion of EU citizens who say that their voice does not count has fallen sharply, from two - thirds (66%), down to just above half (52%). The proportion of people, in CZ, POL and SK in terms of this is even higher than EU average – less people think, that their voice counts. The purpose of the project is to support civic engagement of the young people, as a crucial target group, by showing them effective ways, how to be more actively engaged.Therefore overall goal of the Who Else? - Student Local Initiatives project is to support civic engagement of youth from three countries in the EU. The specific goals are a) is to provide young people with learning opportunities, build their capacity to become engaged in local initiatives, b) to train teachers to be able to support their students, motivate them to plan, organize and evaluate their student initiates. The project will support 15 students in the age of 15-21, equally distributed in the partner countries CZ, SVK and EST as well as 15 teachers. Each of the students will become a peer leader and will build a core team for a local student initiative, which will tackle local issues focused on youth related matters but also topics which touch upon the lives of the whole community. This will be established by a needs assessment which the team will organize.Before they are able to this the project will provide them with skills and increase their capacities in project management, structural dialogue between youth and councilmen, fundraising, problem solving, etc. The same goes for the teachers, as they will function as a support and facilitate and mentor the student local initiatives. There will be five day meeting for 15 teachers, five from each country, where we will use the Who Else? methodology for supporting active citizenship of youth in and outside of schools and on how to integrate project education into the classroom curricula. Students will meet twice for a five day meeting so that they can increase their capacity to organize the local student initiatives by learning project management, team building, fundraising, PR and processes in the local communal politics. The meetings will be structured with workshops, discussions with experts and work in groups so that it is as practical as possible. The face to face workshops will be combined with webinars and Facebook communication so that students can stay in touch during the project as well.The project will train 15 students who will become local student initiative leaders, 15 teachers who will mentor the team of the initiative and function as their support. 15 local initiatives will be established, influencing lives in 15 communities, as much 180 students will be involved in organizing activities and events with the core teams of the initiatives and another up to 3000 people will be involved indirectly during the events and due to the results of the student initiatives.The impacts will include: Teachers will be empowered in supporting student local initiatives and have knowledge to integrate project education into the curriculum or the framework educational programs. Student peer leaders will have the competences to organize new local initiatives further into their adult life and gain a long term capacity to function as local leaders and organizers. More teacher-parent interaction will happen. The longer term benefits will include: Local communities will benefit from the initiatives the students will have organized. There will be greater participation of young people in the local council’s decision making process. Young people learn processes of policy making, at least on the local level. Based on the type of initiative the students may influence policies on the regional level as well. They will feel empowered for future active participation in civic issues, by practicing these processes through organization of the local student initiatives.

COORDINATOR: People in Need Šafaříkova 24 120 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic www.peopleinneed.cz

CONTACT: Jana Boková Toužimská

PARTNERS: Clovek v ohrozeni, SK; MONDO MTU - NGO MONDO, EE

GRANT AMOUNT: 59 900 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months SP296 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP297

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013135

TITLE: SKILLS#EU - LEARNING MOBILITY - OPENING EUROPEAN MINDS

DESCRIPTION: With the Europe 2020 Strategy of the European Commission, one frequently noted critique on the Euro- pean project is that from a citizen perspective it appears to be elitist and lacking popular support. Some perceive the activities and organizations around the “Brussels bubble promoting the European idea for young people to be equally elitist, addressing and reaching only an already well-informed part of young people that are politically interested. However, the European project as such is too relevant to not be a point of interest for the great majority of young people not reached by those activities. One of these not reached groups are, among others, young trainees in VET. Although a great number of young trainees are able to participate in the VET learning mobility programme of Erasmus+, this experience does not necessarily activate them as citizens who are forming an active part of the European society. The project idea of Skills#EU starts here by using the existing enthusiasm of the trainees to equip them with the skills necessary to activate their European citizenship. The project is innovative because it connects mobility of young people in vocational training abroad with the goals of the Youth in Action programme, a new challenge across the sector (VET <-> Youth) . The program ERASMUS + provides opportunities for young people to gain essential skills for their personal and professional development. Young Europeans shall become infected by the European idea. Once the young people take part in mobility experiences as part of their formal training, we will use this chance to raise their awareness as active European citizens and inform them about the possibilities to actively get involved in European activities.Although the mobilities are embedded in a formal context, the focus is not only placed on professional / technical credits acquired abroad but on actors as persons. This includes both the young people from different countries of origin, but also the trainers of receiving organisations in the host countries. In particular, these mentors play a key role on our project. They are the multipliers who regularly provide guidance to young Europeans. They support young people to consider cultural differences in daily life but also raise awareness of European issues. Although it is difficult to measure and validate (ECVET), exactly this process of consciousness raising and personal development of young people represents the long term and sustainable value of this project.The overall aim of Skills#EU is to develop and pilot a blended-learning training programme for young trainees that accompanies them before, during and after their mobility experience and equips them with the means to activate their full EU citizenship, to develop key competences, and to fulfil their educational potential in the field of social and civic competences, cultural awareness and expression. Before developing the training-programme, project partners perform a study among trainees and trainers. This is ensuring that the skills conveyed during the trainings do not only activate the trainees as European citizens, but, at the same time is equiping them with verifiable European skills and competences. This makes them develop a European perspective both in their professional and personal life and is preparing them for the challenges of a European labour market. After the study is completed, discussed among the project partners and reflected, the training concept is elaborated and piloted in the project partners organisations. Trainers and trainees are profiting from a sophisticated blended learning concept combining online and offline elements. All project material as well as guidlines referring to the respective methodologies are found on the Peers#EU web-portal which is hosting the blended learning processes, is providing trainees with additional relevant information about their stay abroad, and is connecting trainees among each other and is so helping them to develop a social environment before, during, and after their stay abroad.Finally, the long term goal is to establish the Skills#EU training concept as part of the common preparation and guidance of participants in VET learning mobilities before, during and after their stay abroad. Since VET mobility projects are carried out all over Europe the results can be applied to a broad range of trainees and their sending organizations as well as hosting organizations and their trainers.

COORDINATOR: IHK-Projektgesellschaft mbH Puschkinstrasse 12b 15236 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany www.ihk-projekt.de

CONTACT: Hartmut Schäfer SP298 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: Foyle International Ltd., UK; Auxilium pro Regionibus Europae in Rebus Culturalibus, AT; ALFMED, FR; EUROSOC DIGITAL GGMBH, DE; Hermes Corporation Ltd, MT

GRANT AMOUNT: 249 260 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

PRIORITY 3: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP299

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013137

TITLE: TALK WITH ME - VOLUNTARY LANGUAGE MENTORS FOR REFUGEES

DESCRIPTION: Due to the international crisis and wars, more and more refugees are seeking asylum in Europe. Lots of refugees, especially of families from Syria and a lot of unaccompanied minors, are trying to get into Eu- rope from the Western Balkans. So suddenly border countries like Bulgaria (BG) and Romania (RO) - being among the poorest countries within the EU - have to deal a rising number of refugees in general, but also with unaccompanied minors and school-aged children. The figures for these atypical host countries are still lower than the EU’s most popular destinations, including Sweden, France, and Germany (DE), but both countries are ill prepared for the impact of suddenly becoming a host country for refugees, caring for unaccompanied minors and refugee children in schools. They have no experience in managing large number of refugees and have no tradition of refugee work. In contrary DE has a broad experience in dealing and working with refugees since the 70ies, in absolute numbers it is receiving the highest number of refugees within the EU. Especially volunteers and non profit organisations play a vital role in refugee work: they support refugees in the field of housing, food and clothing, but also provide learning opportunities and leisure time activities for the refugees. For RO and BG volunteering and refugee work are new developments and therefore they can benefit from the experience of a German NPO. So this is the reason, why this strategic partnership involves volunteer organisations from Germany, Bulgaria and Romania.The partners decided to concentrate on one problem most of the refugees in their country face: not being able to understand and speak the language of their host country. While a lot of refugees learned English or French back home or during their flight, usually German, Bulgarian and Romanian are not studied. There- fore most of the refugees arriving in DE, RO and BG do not speak the language. But only if refugees are able to communicate and to understand the language of their host country, they can express themselves directly without depending on translation services of others. Mastering the new language will empower the refugees, will improve their problem solving competences (e.g. in the asylum procedure process), their self-sufficiency (e.g. finding, keeping, and advancing in jobs) and their general well-being (e.g. active participation within the community, finding friends, involvement in social activities). It will also help them to understand the cultural differences and requirements of their host country. So failing communication is an essential problem, and makes refugee work even more difficult. And this is where volunteers can help: teaching refugees their own language. The German organisation GLL has developed a good practice model for addressing this problem: it has set up a successful volunteer language mentor programme for kids and refugees: trained volunteers help refugees on a 1:1, face-to-face basis to learn the language, being able to communicate and understanding the culture of their new home. Additionally GLL has developed some easy to understand and use learning and teaching material for the volunteer mentors. The goal of this partnership is to transfer this successful volunteer programme and the learning material to BG and RO and to adapt the program to the needs, culture, circumstances in these two countries and through the huge expertise of the two involved volunteer organisations. Additionally partners want to adapt this program to attract young volunteers becoming language mentors for refugee children. and - with the support of young refugees and volunteers from all 3 countries improve the existing teaching material, to fit the needs of the young volunteers as non-professional teachers and young mentees. Mentors and mentees will do a joint photo project for producing useful picture cards.BG and RO will pilot test the volunteer language mentors for programme in their countries. Together all three partners will improve the training and support of the volunteers working with refugees and produce a freely available manual in English, German, Bulgarian & Romanian for training of young language mentors, information letters and sessions for refugees (parents, youth), and intercultural training of the young volunteers and refugees. The final product will be a physical tool box with teaching and learning material (e.g. picture cards, simple grammar book, exercises, games etc.), which can be used in the refugee work across Europe. The overall aim of this project is to enhance the European dimension of supporting volunteers in refugee work and to improve the integration of refugees in the different European countries by giving them the opportunity to learn the language of their receiving country. We hope that our “European model of a volunteer language mentoring programme is useful for other NGOs and helps them to deal with the growing numbers of refugees in Europe.

COORDINATOR: Gemeinsam leben und lernen in Europa Leopoldstraße 9 94032 Passau, Germany www.gemeinsam-in-europa.de SP300 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTACT: Perdita Wingerter

PARTNERS: Tulip Foundation, BG; Centrul de Voluntariat Cluj-Napoca, RO

GRANT AMOUNT: 55 700 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 3: Effective strategies for enhancing basic skills

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Teaching and learning of foreign languages

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP301

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013236

TITLE: YOUTH FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS ETHICS

DESCRIPTION: Due to high youth unemployment in the EU and the negative economic and social impacts of it, promoting youth entrepreneurship has gained priority on the political agendas. However, regardless of huge efforts by national and European policy makers, very few young people - in 2013 only 6,5% between 15 and 29 - actually start their own businesses. Thus, the overall objective is to promote youth entrepreneurship at EU level by providing young people with non-formal learning opportunities helping them - to explore and develop their entrepreneurial initiative,- to develop and improve their leadership skills and - to acquire knowledge about business ethics and to reflect the ethical dimensions of leadership in business in the context of a highly competitive Social Market Economy (Lisbon Treaty).Usually, these competences are not at all or only to a small extent and rather superficially part of the curricula of universities or business or other professional schools. They are also hardly part of trainee or on the job training programs in companies. And it is difficult to teach these competences theoretically, they rather need innovative methods. Therefore, the proposed strategic partnership was formed by 9 partners from 5 EU Members States (Germany, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Belgium) comprising business associations, small and mediums sized (social) businesses, research centers and civil society organizations as well as associations of students and young professionals, institutions granting scholarships and other foundations and universities and business and other professional schools.The aim is to jointly put in place an innovative program of non-formal education that should be complementary to both university studies, trainee programs and further training activities of young people at the beginning of their professional career. Such a program should be designed to prepare and encourage young people to develop a spirit of entrepreneurship and at the same time a spirit of responsible citizenship and integrate both - based on to their ethical values and on the concept of the Social Market Economy - into a new way of ethical leadership in the world of business. This can lead to engaged commitment in the field of social business, in their own start-ups or in the management of a family business or in a larger corporation.The project comprises three different strands of activities. Active involvement of young people and youth leadership are key principles of implementation. The first strand relates to the themes “Business Ethics and “Social Market Economy, as a reflex to the consequences of the financial and economic crisis which hit the younger generations particularly hard. Young Europeans will work together to write themselves the Youth Code of Business Ethics (Intellectual Output 1) and the Youth Lexicon on Social Market Economy (Intellectual Output 2). In addition, they will do this reflection and dialogue with experienced members of business associations and professors from the various universities which are part of the Strategic Partnership.The second strand comprises analytical activities regarding youth entrepreneurship education and training in the partner countries. The partners will conduct two surveys in their national contexts involving a) universities and business and other professional schools (Intellectual Output 3) and b) companies (Intellectual Output 4) with the aim to enquire to what extent existing teaching and training programs focus on business ethics, entrepreneurial and other leadership skills as well as on the concept of Social Market Economy.The third strand relates to the joint development of the Innovative Training Concept for Youth Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics (Intellec- tual Output 5) which is the key intellectual output.All intellectual outputs will be available in English and translated in all partner languages.Enhancing young people’s practical entrepreneurial skills, creativity and communicative competencies will increase their opportunities to fully participate in all spheres of society and economy on an equal basis and empower and qualify them to take the lead in shaping future European societies and to become agents for a truly “Social Market Economy.Activities will also contribute to increasingly mainstream entrepreneurship related content in non-formal and formal education facilitating changes in the attitude of young people towards self-employment and entrepreneurship viewed as a viable option for employment and income generation. As a consequence, the number of sustainable and social youth enterprises and opportunities for self-employment will rise in the EU making a positive contribution to socio-economic development and inclusive growth. In addition, transnational collaboration of business associations will foster mobility of young people and thus make Europe a more dynamic society and labor market.

COORDINATOR: Bund Katholischer Unternehmer Georgstr. 18 50676 Köln-Innenstadt, Germany www.bku.de SP302 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTACT: Martin Wilde

PARTNERS: UCID - Unione Cristiana Imprenditori e Dirigenti, IT; Napra Forgó Rehabilitációs Szolgáltató Nonprofit Közhasznú Kft., HU; CONFORM Consulenza Formazione e Management S.C.A.R.L, IT; ADIC, BE; Center for Corporate Citizenship e.V., DE; Zdruzenje krscanskih poslovnezev Slovenije, SI; Socialna akademija - zavod za izobrazevanje, raziskovanje in kulturo, SI; Keresztény Ertekmegorzo Egyesület, HU

GRANT AMOUNT: 399 099 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 32 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Ethics, religion and philosophy (incl. Inter-religious dialogue)

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP303

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013293

TITLE: YOU AND ME - A YOUTH FILM PROJECT FOR A NEW EUROPEAN NARRATIVE

DESCRIPTION: The recent debate over the future of the European economic policy has turned the European Union against itself. The mainstream narrative has lately been dominated by an ideological battle between Northern Europe, guided by Germany, and Southern Europe, represented by Greece and Spains anti-establishment forces Syriza and Podemos.With “You and Me, nine young Europeans aged 18-25 have the chance to grab a camera and tell their own stories beyond stereotypes and media spin. Three groups, each one composed of one German, one Greek and one Spaniard, will meet in Berlin and get to know each other during the 1st transnational project meeting where they will learn the basics of filmmaking and post-production, and to shoot documentary interviews. They will be supported by a project team, composed of the four youth contact persons of the organisations involved running the project.The nine youngsters will then travel in groups of three mixed nationalities respectively through the rural areas of Brandenburg (Germany), Attica (Greece), and Aragón (Spain), where the risk of youths marginalisation and social exclusion is high. In every country, they will meet and interview four young people in the same age group, and investigate their relationship with the European Union, how they relate to Brussels and to politics, their everyday challenges, goals and dreams. There, they will be accompanied by the contact person of the respective country, a local social worker and a professional filmmaker.Next to the youth project coordinators these nine young people will have an active role in the project coordination, through the implementation of non-formal and innovative education techniques such as silent brainstorming, pro-action café and visual thinking. The main outcome will thus be a documentary film made by and for young Europeans providing a fresh image of European youth and an alternative narrative for the European project.As a result, the young Germans, Greeks and Spaniards will develop a sense of empowerment in the frame of the European project, increase their cross-cultural awareness, reduce the impact of stereotypes and prejudices, develop an informed and critical understanding of mainstream media and become able to use their creativity and their newly acquired filmmaking skills to break down barriers between people from different cultures and backgrounds.On a long-term basis, the youth involved in the project will act as disseminators in their own environment, offering a different perspective to other young people in the rural areas in which they live. In fact, through their activity they create an international network and encourage future education or work in other EU countries in areas that, due to geographical obstacles, are often excluded or have limited access to transnational mobilityMoreover, the project can help the young Germans, Greeks and Spaniards inter- viewers and interviewees perceive Europe not as an abstract entity operating far away from their own environment, but rather as a structure having a meaningful and positive role in their daily lives, and it can restore their confidence in the European integration process.Finally, on a broader scale, You and Me can encourage the inclusion of young people, whose vulnerability was increased by the economic and political crisis, and draw special attention to rural youth, a segment of the population at risk of marginalisation and social exclusion.To conclude, it will hopefully provide the international audience with an alternative narrative for the European project, beyond stereotypes and media spin, and with a fresh image of European youth.

COORDINATOR: Citizens For Europe Am Dachsbau 58 13503 Berlin, Germany www.citizensforeurope.org

CONTACT: Chiara Zannoni

PARTNERS: Asociación Fondo Natural, ES; Bridging Europe, EL; EUROPEAN ALTERNATIVES BERLIN E V, DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 33 925 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people. SP304 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Rural development and urbanisation

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Education for Sustainable Development STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP305

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013380

TITLE: EUROPEAN FOOD FUSION

DESCRIPTION: European Food Fusion is a Strategic partnership project aimed to connect 5 partner organizations (active in the youth work areas of humanitarian work, youth volunteering and finding solutions for food waste problem) from Germany, Belgium, Hungary, United Kingdom and Slovenia. This project will be a true fusion of the experiences of partner organizations, using each organisations experience and expertise to create a food revolution in the areas of partner activity. The project would allow participants from the partner organisations involved, to educate themselves and their target groups in a variety of ways how to create innovative activities to involve youth in solving social problems of local communities. The participants would learn and share their good practices/experience through training activities on organising European Food Fusion humanitarian events, cooking, distributing food, etc. This Initiative would support the participants in their personal and professional development (knowledge, skills and attitudes). The project will start on 1st of February 2016 and end on 31th of January 2018.According to UN Report (year 2011), over 1/3 of the worlds food for human consumption is being wasted every year. At the same time, worldwide 842 million people are experiencing hunger. Poverty and food insecurity are extremely prevalent in many European cities, making the case for food waste reduction and proper redistribution all the more important. These alarming statistics made us think about how to get actively involved into creating innovative practical solutions for burning problem of food waste. The project deals with the growing global problem of poverty and food-crisis, which is officially stressed by the “Food group in European Parliament, so we think that this partnership is parallel with their objectives and offers added value in finding the high-quality solutions achievable locally and globally.The objectives of the project are:- to build the capacity of local organisations in each partner country and to deliver projects designed to create a social movement against food waste, - creating a European network of organisations active in youth work, humanitarian work, youth volunteering and healthy lifestyles,- to strengthen the international project capacities of the participating organizations, participating youth workers and volunteers from partner organizations who need to improve their skills and competencies,- to increase the quality of cooperation between civil society and national/regional authorities to promote the development of innovative educational and training systems and their integration in actions of local and regional activity. - to raise public awareness of the great amount of food that is being wasted,- improvement and professionalisation of youth work and key competences/skills of participating youth workers (managerial skills, communication skills, getting new experience at inter-cultural learning, develop practical ICT skills etc.)- to perform a study of existing ICT platforms related to food surplus redistribution and draw best-practices and critical success factors from them.- creation of a methodology to enable youth to develop entrepreneurial solutions to reduce food waste or redistribute food surplus.- Creation of an ICT platform in order to redistribute food surplus form supermarkets, hospitality services, farmers, wholesalemarkets and markets to youth and social organizations. The momentum created by the project will be given long-term sustainability through the new ICT platform on food waste.After the launch of the Intellectual output - Website and Training activities, the partner organisations will hold 5 open-air multiplier public events European Food Fusion in their respective countries aiming to inform the general public, local municipality and interested stakeholders on the food waste problem. On these events general public and stakeholders will be introduced into ideas of active citizenship and volunteering and Intellectual Input and other results of the project will be presented. On each event local organisation will prepare and distribute 1.000 free hot healthy meals (cooked from food that would have been wasted) for socially underprivileged groups. At this events a pilote testing of Rescued Food System Mobile Application will be done. A Training on event management in London will be held, where participating youth workers will receive documents which will professionalize their competences/skills (Youthpass, Europass mobility document).In final months of the project, each organisation will hold a local dissemination event where they will present the project and its results. On this events local stakeholders (youth NGOs and other educational organizations, interested stakeholders, local municipality) and media will be invited for purpose of further dissemination of the project.

COORDINATOR: VEDISCHER TEMPEL UND KUHSCHUTZ e.V. ZIELBERG 20 94118 JANDELSBRUNN, Germany WWW.SIMHACHALAM.DE

CONTACT: Danijel Zeljak SP306 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: Food For All, UK; Páratlan Ajándék Alapítvány, HU; Food Surplus Entrepreneurs Network asbl, BE; Humanitarno drustvo FFL Global, SI

GRANT AMOUNT: 41 750 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Health and wellbeing

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Health and Medicine; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP307

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013415

TITLE: ENTWICKLUNG VON STANDARDS IN DER ZUWANDERUNGSBEGLEITUNG JUNGER EU-MIGRANT(INN)EN VOR UND WÄHREND IHRER BERUFSAUSBILDUNG IN EINEM ANDEREN EU-LAND

DESCRIPTION: Due to the high youth unemployment in their countries of origin and the lack of perspective, an increasing number of young people emigrate from Southern Europe to Germany in order to start a vocational education. In July 2015, youth unemployment rate was 48,6 % in Spain (within the European Union, only Greece had a higher rate: 51, 8 %) and 40,5 % in Italy. In contrast to that, the youth unemployment rate was only 7 % in Germany (which is the lowest within the European Union).At the same time, there are several branches in Germany, which cant find qualified trainees. This is especially true for the craft sector, the elderly care and the hotel business. As a result, German enterprises are recruiting young people from these countries for vocational education in Germany. In 2013, the German Ministry of Labour established a program (called MobiPro-EU) to support young people from EU countries who come to Germany for vocational education. Due to the high demand for training places in Germany, the financial resources for the period 2013-2018 were increased from 139 Million Euro to 560 Million Euro. The projects contain the preparation and assistance of the young people in their countries of origin as well as their assistance before and during their vocational education in Germany (i.e. language teaching, socio-pedagogical assistance). German enterprises, which employ young people from Southern European countries, emphasize that they are highly motivated. Yet, about 20 % of those who are supported within the framework of MobiPro-EU, abandon their vocational education in an early stadium. This is also the practical experience of lN VIA and vij (associations of social youth work), which assist the young people during their vocational training in Germany. A lot of young people, who come to Germany for vocational training, do have wrong expectations, there is also a lack of language skills. Enterprises, which employ young people from South- ern European countries, are requesting the associations of social work to support them in the assistance of the young people.This shows that the existing services for the preparation and assistance of those young people are not sufficient.Therefore, the aim of the project is, to optimize/ enhance both the preparation and assistance of young people in their countries of origin as well as in Germany, so the young people are able to complete their vocational training in Germany. In order to reach this goal, young people from Spain and Italy will be interviewed at different locations. The purpose of this survey is to get a full understanding of the reasons for quitting their vocational training and the problems they have during the vocational training in Germany. The survey results will be the basis for the development of a guideline for the optimal preparation and assistance of young people who come to Germany for vocational training (both in their countries of origin and in Germany).The guideline will contain examples of Best-practice as well as an service provision to support German enterprises which employ young people from Southern Europe and recommendations to the ministries regarding the structuring of public promotion programs. Besides that, it will be worked out, how the existing Au-pair-program can be used to prepare young people for a vocational training in Germany. For that reason, young people from Spain and Italy, who work/ worked as Au-pair in Germany, will be interviewed regarding their experiences and needs in case they want to do a vocational training in Germany afterwards. The survey results will be the basis for the development of a guideline, which contains concepts regarding the structuring of an Au-pair-program which is able to prepare young people for vocational training in Germany. Furthermore, the guideline contains recommendations to the relevant ministries. In addition to that, information leaflets for young people in their countries of origin will be developed within the project. They will inform about the situation in Germany (educational system, vocational training, information centres, health insurance, public authorities, habi- tation and language assistance).The materials which are developed within the project will be translated into the languages of the participating organisations and English. They will be printed and presented in a closing event to the professional public, relevant ministries and representatives of enterprises. The project partners will disseminate the materials among their networks in the different countries (e.g. enterprises, associations of social youth work, (language) schools, youth organisations, Au-pair agencies).There will be several multi-day transnational project meetings during the project for coordination and exchange (e.g. for the development of the guidelines). Local experts will be invited to the meetings. SP308 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

COORDINATOR: IN VIA Deutschland e.V. Karlstraße 40 79104 Freiburg, Germany www.invia-deutschland.de

CONTACT: Stephan Schmieglitz

PARTNERS: Verein für Internationale Jugendarbeit, DE; ASSOCIAZIONE INCO INTERCULTURALITA& COMUNICAZIONE, IT; Centro de Lenguas e Intercambio Cultural, ES; MoverLab di Bettina Borger, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 169 765 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP309

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013440

TITLE: SOCIAL WORK WITH GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE - AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTRIBUTION TO YOUNGSTER’S CITIZENSHIP BUILDING

DESCRIPTION: This project aims in the context of a strategic partnership to develop an innovative approach from the existing educational concepts Development Education and Awareness Raising/Global Learning (DEAR/ GL), and social work. This approach is supposed to facilitate youngsters, particularly those with less (educational) opportunities, to regard themselves as active members of their society and to orientate themselves in a globalized world. They should acquire competences over the course of the project, which help them to act global and local responsible in the sense of a democratic, multi-cultural and sustainable society.Socio-economic effects at the local level as wealth inequalities and lack of social mobility and global transformations that are commonly identified as globalization, challenge youngsters, but also offer new opportunities. Orientation in a world with strong interdependencies and the opportunity to participate in social and political processes often decide whether these opportunities can be accepted or the challenges are seen as a threat. Social work as a profession and practice-oriented scientific discipline accompanies social change and promotes social cohesion. Due to the above-mentioned changes in society, social work is increasingly confronted with global impacts and begins to open itself up to global issues in many ways. DEAR/GL can be considered as an educational response to globalization processes. It seeks to open up new horizons of understanding and comprehension and provides orientation in the context of global interdependencies. By DEAR/GL, far-reaching processes and the effects of participation are tangible and can be experienced. Over the course of the project a common approach of both pedagogical approaches, a Glocal Citizenship Building, is supposed to be conceptualised, implemented and evaluated. The project will pursue two objectives for two target groups:- The project is supposed to reinforce skills of youngsters with less opportunity to give them opportunities to participate in social processes. This will help to improve their ability to orientate themselves in the globalized world and to act responsibly in the glocal sense. Their ability to reflect on their own opinions and desires is fostered by strengthening their positive self-perception in the sense of glocal-citizenship-building.- The project is supposed to foster DEAR/GL as an important educational concept for global contexts and to demonstrate its contribution to corporate social responsibility. We propose this project as a European strategic partnership because we want to take into account the global aspects in project design and through the project, we want to enable a transnational knowledge and skills transfer. Target group of this partnership are DEAR/GL - stakeholders, public administrations, formal and non-formal educators and universities.The project is supposed to be implemented from January 1st 2016 until December 31st 2017 and divided into 3 phases in which the following activities are realized.Phase 1 – “Conception“ (January 2016 – August 2016)- Identification and exploitation of suitable cooperation partners from formal and non-formal education. - Discussion of objectives, outcomes and indicators as well as exchange of concepts and methods between the regional actors.- Definition of the conceptual framework in the first transnational workshop.- Development of regional pilot projects.Phase 2 – “Implementation“ (September 2016 – June 2017)- Implementation of one or more regional pilot projects with the approach of the Glocal-Citizenship-Building for youngsters with opportunities- Documentation and evaluation of pilot projects for capitalization.- Exchange and discussion of intermediary results in the 2nd transnational workshopPhase 3: – “Evaluation, Capital- ization and Dissemination“ (July 2017 – December 2017)- Completion of the evaluation and documentation.- Framing of the handout and webpage on 3rd transnational workshop- Evaluation of the results and preparation of a handout to disseminate best practice examples and the results for usage of other stakeholders.- 4th transnational workshop with project conclusion and discussion of the results- Dissem- ination of the results within a transnational multiplier event.The following results are expected during the project and on its completion:Exchange of concepts, methods and skills at European level between the project partners. Partnerships at European level as well as synergies were created or reinforced.Phase 1:- At European and regional level new partnerships have emerged, in which the pedagogical approach of Glocal-Citizenship-Building was worked out.Phase 2:- At regional level, pilot projects have been implemented, evaluated and documented by the stakeholders.Phase 3:- The results of the implementation have been disseminated to third parties stakeholders through a handout, websites and a transnational multipliers event. SP310 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

COORDINATOR: Kochstr. 1A 07745 Jena, Germany www.ewnt.org

CONTACT: Tim Strähnz

PARTNERS: Marche Solidali - coordinamento delle organizzazioni di cooperazione e solidarietà internazionale delle Marche, IT; Association Groupe d’Appui et de Solidarité, FR; REGIONE MARCHE, IT; REGION NORD-PAS-DE-CALAIS ET PICARDIE, FR; Thüringer Staatskanzlei, DE; CENTRE SOCIAL ET CULTUREL DE BOHAIN, FR

GRANT AMOUNT: 138 788 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

TOPIC 1: Environment and climate change

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Education for Sustainable Development; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP311

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013453

TITLE: CITYTOOLBOX

DESCRIPTION: Due to the financial crisis of most of the european countries and the following austerity measures many big scale development projects in cities have come to a halt. In reaction, the past years have seen an increasing number of initiatives, projects and organizations, that tackle urban problems and challenges in a bottom-up manner. These actions are making use of the city’s diversity, they promote sustainable smart cities, they create new forms of entrepreneurship, they create new public spaces. They stand for a new idea of active citizenship. These activities have been the breeding ground for a new market of small scale businesses in the urban field, that will grow and become more important in the future of cities in Europe.The educational system for young people willing to work in the ‚urban arena‘ has not yet adapted to the current developments. Architects, Urban Planners, Designers, Urban Sociologists, Human Geogra- phers, but also young people coming from the crafts, are not prepared for engaging in the city, due to a lack of practical knowledge, which would allow them to directly target issues themselves in initiatives, working-groups, small self-initiated businesses, etc.. Instead, they learn how to plan a city top-down, to analyze and target issues from the office-desk, and not from the field, and to plan housing and public spaces without involvement of stakeholders (such as potential users, local administrations, local protagonists). As a result of the disparity between education and the potential of becoming a self-employed protagonist in the city created a youth unemployment in the abovementioned sectors adding to the overall figures of youth unemployment in Europe.The importance of the city for Europe’s future and the gap between education and the employment opportunities in the urban field are the reasons behind establishing a network of partners from 6 european cities, that offers learning opportunities for youth to become active, self-employed protagonists in the ‘urban arena’.The CityToolBox Network (CTB) aspires to close the gap and to allow future professionals in the urban field to gather practical knowledge in the field of citizen-driven activities to connect them among each other, to broaden their awareness for challenges in the city, and most of all to empower them to become agents of change themselves. In the frame of strategic partnerships we will develop an educational program for youth based on an OER - learning platform called CityToolBox. The platform supports ICT-based teaching and training and will present ‘Best Practices’ in the field of self-initiated urban change. The practises are coming from each partner organisation and are ongoing projects, that have already been implemented and tested in each partner’s local context. The ‘best practices’ are going to be documented, described and abstracted to the quality of a manual: so the local method of changing an urban situation becomes a ‘tool’ that can potentially be applied by others in other contexts. These ‘tools’ are documented in various forms appropriate to attract and motivate youths to apply and test them in their own local urban environment. CTB changes the way youth conceive their role in the ‘urban arena’. It will take them out of the ‘waiting queue’ for an uncertain labor market in the urban field, and will offer them tools to become pro-active citizens.

COORDINATOR: KUNSTREPUBLIK E.V. SIEMENSSTRASSE 27 10551 BERLIN, Germany www.kunstrepublik.de

CONTACT: Dennis Lindenau

PARTNERS: Hisa! drustvo za ljudi in prostore so.p., SI; Associação de Antigos Alunos da Universidade de Aveiro, PT; MJESTIMICE, HR; PLACE IDENTITY GR- CLUSTERS, EL; Fundacja Teren Otwarty, PL

GRANT AMOUNT: 124 540 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 25 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people. SP312 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP313

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-DE04-KA205-013455

TITLE: FORTRESS EUROPE 2.0 - FILM FESTIVAL

DESCRIPTION: The project takes the current issue of migration in Europe as its stepping stone. The organizations involved met at the 17th Nordic Conference of Migration in Copenhagen and discussed the need for approaches to the subject focusing on the role of art to empower migrant youth in Europe and beyond. Through fictional and artistic film production and screening we see a potential for creation of empathy as an alternative to documentarist or solely political showcasing of migrants keeping those groups reduced to their migrant-identities. The project will result in a film festival and is a collaboration of two organizations each from Denmark and Germany with a team leader, each consisting of five members. The profile of the danish organisation is formed on the academic backgrounds of arts, visual anthropology, European Studies and Political Science. All members have practical experience with project-management, centered around arts and cultural project in relation to refugees and migrant youth, youth participation and film festivals. The profile of the german organization is formed on the academic backgrounds of film, visual communication, migration, human rights, and urban sociology. All members have practical experience from active involvement in civil society over years in youth work, cultural and arts projects or social entrepreneurship. The activities of the project are imbedded in three parts; preparation, implementation and evaluation. In the preparational phase the members will collaborate on an “open call, film-viewings, guest speaker invitations, selection and programming and categorizations of the films selected. Another key activity is the scouting and involvement of volunteers and specialized professionals, the latter to form an advisory board for the festival members. Due to the projects transnational scope this will happen through the web-based management tool “Basecamp and through transnational meetings. The implementation of the festival will consist of filmscreenings, panel discussions, guest speakers and Q&A sessions related to the films. Volunteers partly with refugee backgrounds are to be involved in the implementation of the festival to empower and offer a platform for civic involvement. To examine the sustainability of the festival both an internal and external evaluation will be conducted as well as future steps to secure fundings for a second edition. We expect the implementation of the film festival as a result of the transnational collaboration in close supervision from the an advisory board. Furthermore the production of artistic/ fiction films from the Global South should be the result of the “open call. We envisage the impact of the festival to be an increased empathy towards refugees as well as and understanding of the complexity of the issue of migration. Furthermore we hope to empower and enforce intercultural and organizational skills among the volunteers. Through careful evaluation and supervision during the process of the making we expect the two organizations to improve skills as to be able to hold a second edition of the festival.

COORDINATOR: Rodenbergstraße 51 10439 Berlin, Germany

CONTACT: Nadja Gehrmann

PARTNERS: Fortress Europe 2.0 (DK), DK

GRANT AMOUNT: 8 875 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 8 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; International Cooperation SP314 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-EE01-KA205-016952

TITLE: DEVELOPING STRATEGIC COOPERATION IN HISTORY AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION AND YOUTH WORK IN ESTONIA

DESCRIPTION: The main goal of the Developing Strategic Cooperation in History and Human Rights Education and Youth Work in Estonia (HHRE-YW-EST) project is to improve history and human rights knowledge, skills and attitudes in the field of youth work. The project will build connections between national and international formal and non-formal history, human rights and youth work education providers, as well as provide youth leaders and trainers in Estonia the history and human rights educational tools, knowledge and skills relevant to their work.The main activities in the project are developing integrated history, human rights and youth work educational programmes and innovative learning tools, methods and materials; organizing thematic conferences, discussions, seminars and training courses; and carrying out awareness raising activities. The main target groups of these activities are present and future youth workers, trainers, educators and youth leaders in Estonia. The project will include around 1400 actively involved participants. The project activities are carried out on international, national and local levels, the bulk of the activities focus on involving target groups at the local level. A trans-national approach is necessary for the exchange of feedback, knowledge, experience and best practises, for building stronger relationships and for a stronger multiplying effect.The project partners are the Unitas Foundation (EST), a foundation dedicated to raising awareness of Europe’s totalitarian history and human rights; Tallinn University (EST), as the primary higher education provider in Estonia that provides pedagogical education in youth work and history, as well as media and communications education; Georg Eckert Institute (GER) as an internationally renown text book and educational media research institute; Education Development Centre (LAT) as the leading non-profit nongovernmental organization in Latvia in the field of teachers’ professional development; and EUROCLIO (European Association of History Educators, NL) as a far-reaching network of 44 member Associations and 15 associated members from 52 countries.As a result of the project, an interdisciplinary student programme and online platform are developed, which combine history and human rights education methods and materials. The online platform as the key interface between various educational activities and tools can be used in different educational settings (formal, non-formal and informal; general and higher education). A textbook on human rights in youth work will be developed, to serve as a high quality resource for practising and training youth workers in Estonia, providing necessary information, methods and tools for implementing and understanding human rights in the context of youth work and of Estonian history and society. As a result of the project, existing partnerships are stengthened and new connections are made across different sectors, contributing to the development of high quality youth work. The project will influence youth and educational policy makers, who will take into account the implications of local and regional socio-cultural and historical factors and the paradigm of human rights in the shaping of Estonian youth and educational policy. The resources and tools that are developed during the project are translated into multiple languages, reaching outside the Estonian national borders and engaging wider communities across the globe through various online and offline channels. The project activities engage a wider audience and raise awareness of history and human rights issues through international dissemination.

COORDINATOR: Sihtasutus Unitas Roseni 7 10111 Tallinn, Estonia www.unitasfoundation.org

CONTACT: Sandra Vokk

PARTNERS: GEORG ECKERT INSTITUT FUR INTERNATIONALE SCHULBUCHFORSCHUNG, DE; EUROCLIO-DE EUROPESE VERENIGING VOOR GESCHIEDENISONDERWIJSGEVENDEN, NL; TALLINN UNIVERSITY, EE; Education Development Center, LV

GRANT AMOUNT: 99 575 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP315

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Teaching and Training SP316 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-EE01-KA205-016982

TITLE: CHILDREN AT RISK: (NON-FORMAL) EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, EFFICIENCY

DESCRIPTION: The project CARE3: Children at risk: (Non-formal) Education, Experience, Efficiency is focused on:- building up community-based networks, which operates effectively and problems concerning youth are solved efficiently;- increase youth work quality by creating effective cooperation in community and international level and by professional development of specialists from both experience of other and specific training; - spotlight the importance and use of non-formal and informal learning;- increase social inclusion of children at riskIn order to build up effectively functioning network project partners have chosen one common goal – to increase social inclusion and social skills of youth at risk, since well-developed social skills are positively linked to behavior, academic performance and relationships (Jones & Bouffard, 2012) and allow large number of youth to increase their inclusion and possibilities for being happy member of community.Project will be implemented in partnership of 5 organizations from four countries – Estonia, Latvia, Norway and Poland. In addition to official partners (Jõgeva Elementary School, Jõgeva Town Government, Hordaland Police District, Radom Technical School and Valmiera Viesturs Secondary School), there are several associate partners involved from every country (Regional Police Headquarters of Radom, Arka Youth Centre Assosiation and Youth Clubs of Radom, Valmiera Youth Centre Vinda, Vidzeme Regional police department of State police Vamieras district, Estonian Police and Border Guard Board, South Pre- fecture, Slåtthaug Ungdomsskole (Basic school in Bergen, ages 13-16 years) Skranevannet Skole (Basic School in Bergen, ages 13-16 years) MOBY-stiftelsen (Foundation in Bergen aimed at creating positive youth environment in Ytrebygda municipality), Norwegian Narcotics Officer Association etc.)Main activities Project will be implemented through four activity packages.As a result of AP1 “Management and co-ordination 12 local and 4 international project meetings will be held, in order to ensure proper management, activities coordination and budget control. As a result of AP2 “Increasing the knowledge and professional competence of involved specialists co-vision group leader training and trainings on how to be a social skills trainer are conducted; specialists are participating in 3 international joint teaching/training/ study events; best practices and new knowledge are exchanged and integrated into specialists every-day work and introduced to wider spectrum of specialists in local seminars/ workshops. Under AP3 “Pilot actions targeted to youth 3 combined study trips for children at risk are organized (altogether to 60 children); fun and interactive workshops on social skills have been conducted by participating specialists; minimum 2 local events in every country per year; altogether 8 events targeted to children at risk is organized by/or in cooperation with local youth centers (to min. 200 youth). As a result of AP3 development of children´ social skills have been supported and children have given opportunity to gain practical experiences, skills on how to act in situations and cope with feelings through playful methods. As a result of AP4 “Elaboration of materials/intellectual outputs 1 web-site/ blog free of charge to exchange best practices, participate in forum discussions, and present project outcomes have been created. 1 social skills curriculum that can be used in schools as separate lesson (in 3 languages: ENG, EST, LAT) and 1 board game (table game) to support and develop social skills of students through entertaining format have been elaborated. 6 short film clip(s) from youth to youth on prevention and social skills or promotional clips about non-formal learning activities in youth centres/schools have been crated. 1 short film clip of project activities and results have been made by project team. Immediate impact for participating specialists (youth workers, social pedagogues, psychologists, youth police, etc.) will consist of obtaining new knowledge and novel skills (from learning/training/teaching(experience exchange activities) that can be used immediately in every day work providing more professional service to children involved. Having more every-day contacts on local level will have impact in strengthening local networks of youth workers. Activities will have also immediate impact to participating children who will be able to communicate better within the community and their families as their social skills are strengthened and new positive experiences, friends and contacts obtained. All that will lead to immediate increase in social inclusion and improved positive image of children and also improved relationships with teachers and peers. Better knowledge English language as result of foreign language communication in international events will expand their possibilities for communication outside of their immediate contact circle.

COORDINATOR: Rohu 10 48307 Jõgeva, Estonia jpk.edu.ee STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP317

CONTACT: Kertu Säinas

PARTNERS: Valmiera Viesturs Secondary school, LV; Jõgeva Linnavalitsus, EE; Zespol Szkol Technicznych, PL; Police in Norway, NO

GRANT AMOUNT: 131 996 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; International Cooperation; Youth Empowerment SP318 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-ES02-KA205-006835

TITLE: YOUNGO

DESCRIPTION: European youth faces the challenge of employability. Some 4.7 million young Europeans are unemployed according to the latest Eurostat estimates that at the last publication June 30, 2015, the countries with the highest youth unemployment rate are: Spain (53.2%), Greece (52.4%), Croatia (45.5%), Italy (42.7%), Cyprus (36%) and Portugal (34.7%). The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned of the dan- gerous mix of high unemployment, increased inactivity and precarious work facing youth in developed countries.The complex socio-economic reality makes access to the labor market of young people and hinders their quality of life and their families, reducing their welfare, and conditioning their personal and social development. The situation of European economic crisis particularly affects young people in their transition from the education system to the, according to the World Youth Report of the United Nations (2012) labor market.One of the objectives set by the EU 2020 strategy is to generate more and better levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion. Is to secure employment for 75% of people between 24 and 64; it also wants to ensure the investment of 3% of GDP in the EU in R & D and innovation. Moreover, in this situation the European framework poses Other instruments for employment growth tools as recognizing entrepreneurship as strategies for improving access to self-employment for young people. Investment in growth is also cited as one of the proposals is to foster the INNOVATIVE INSTRUMENTS. Since the official proposal of European Cooperation in the field of youth is looking to invest in this area, and train young people through their empowerment and potential to contribute to social development; also it is given prominence to promote innovative ideas and exchange of best practices; promote non-formal learning as support for innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.The main motivation for wanting to make the association YOUNGO project is to promote and implement creative initiatives and youth-led projects that promote employment and self-employment, while generating added value and benefit from your nearest social environment from the acquisition of new skills and employability skills.REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIC TO RESPOND TO THE PROJECT• Generate ideas from the creativity that positively affect youth closer reality.• Promoting employment and self-employment through the creation, promotion and implementation of initiatives and creative projects.• Training young people in a creative methodology to enable them to replicate and apply this training in their countries of origin.• Develop new partnerships with young people and entities involved in the change.• Generate greater social impact multiplying assets change.• Facilitate the sharing of concerns, desires and proposals of different entities to social changes that favor the social and labor integration of European youth• develop solidarity and promote tolerance among young people through facilitation methodologies that generate empathy, solidarity and cooperation• To give visibility to the social capabilities of entities related to the youth sector, encouraging their creativity, skills and providing opportunities for debate and to create positive change• Zoom ICTs as key tools in the processes of social change.

COORDINATOR: JOVESOLIDES CALLE SILLA 10 46980 PATERNA, Spain www.jovesolides.org

CONTACT: Boutaina El Hadri

PARTNERS: Asociatia Centrul European pentru Integrare Socioprofesionala ACTA, RO; INSTITOUTO ANAPTIXIS EPICHEIRIMATIKOTITAS ASTIKI ETAIREIA, EL; SOCIALINIU INOVACIJU FONDAS, LT; National Management School, BG; SLOVENSKA TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V BRATISLAVE, SK; Eurocultura, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 96 760 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 17 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP319

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Youth Empowerment SP320 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-ES02-KA205-006862

TITLE: WERE SUPER

DESCRIPTION: One of the most affected groups by the recent economic crisis is youth, 30% of them are at risk of social exclusion. The current situation is so dramatic for impoverished youth that they have to be supported by their parents and grandparents. They are unemployed (or have a precarious employment), and they are unable to create their own family. The European youth unemployment rate is more than double that adult rate. More than 7.5 million of young people (they are in the age group between 15 and 24) are not in education system, they havent a job and they are not seeking one. In some countries, such as Spain or Greece, these unemployment rates are much worse and reach levels above 50% of the young population. This situation has required the creation of many associations, especially those who works with fewer opportunities groups. They has taken responsibility to improve the social environment and quality of life of young people who are faring worse.These new entities have made a effort to fill the gaps of the welfare system, but often these associations are disoriented and they cant alleviate the basic needs of youth in all its areas and also claim for their rights.This its a job that does not appear in the news or in the media, but is necessary for society to know that there are heroes who implement many initiatives to change and add value to their municipalities. Initiatives managed by young people that sometimes, either through ignorance or lack of experience, are disoriented and do not know well how to manage projects and implement their projects.Were super is an initiative that seeks to value all that work done by young people and for young people through the creation of a European network to boost and strengthen the community impact of all associations that work in their regions. This project seeks to help them in any way necessary to enable them to have a profound impact on their young beneficiaries.For that reason, Were super aims to create a high-quality intellectual outcome endorsed and promoted by many local and regional governments: INTEGRAL SYSTEM FOR PROMOTION OF YOUTH ASSOCIATIONISM.This result will include:1. An innovative Web Application that enables economic, social and employment impact calculation of social entities in their region. This program standardize the criteria to measure their impact, obtained from rigorous study by educational and governmental authorities to help the public authorities better assess the return of aid given to the third sector.2. Platform Were super for the promotion and visibility of the associations and their projects across Europe. This platform will provide ICT and innovative tools that promote transparency and quality management processes and results of social entities.3. European guidelines and multimedia resources for the management of association, implementation of projects and know more about the taxation of youth associations.In addition to this intellectual result, this project will also enhance the visibility and communication of social associations, creating networks of multidisciplinary work and relations between entities, promotional organizations and technical experts promoting new projects of high quality and with greater social impact.For that, the new network will include 6 prestigious European organizations as Fundació Horta Sud (Spain), Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Nova Gradiška (Croatia), Asociatia of Culture Tineret if Educatie Speranta Ramniceana (Romania), AKTO - Human Rights and Democracy (Portugal), Enlights Projects (UK) and Gia Evropaiki Diktio Politotita ke Taftotita (Cyprus). For 18 months they will held three international meetings and will prepare materials with collaboration of local governments, universities and hundreds of associations cooperating in the field of youth, that will ensure the impact, visibility and dissemination of results. It should be noted the support of the Directorate General of Participation of the Generalitat Valenciana and the Generalitat Jove-IVAJ. They will provide a real impact to the project.It is necessary for society to know that there are many initiatives to change and add value to their municipalities. To do that, a large multiplier event will be made at the end of the project. It will serve to publicize the results, but above all to enhance the visibility of all beneficiary organizations and to promote their dialogue with public authorities.In “Were Super young people never get down, we know that our dreams are possible, we can improve our society and build the future. We have to promote the enthusiasm, good mood and solidarity.There are too many amazing people who can say: Im Super.

COORDINATOR: Caixa d’estalvis 4 46900 Torrent, Spain www.fhortasud.org

CONTACT: Julio Huerta Balastegui STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP321

PARTNERS: Udruga gluhih i nagluhih Nova Gradiska, HR; AKTO - ASSOCIACAO PARA A PROMOCAO DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS E DEMOCRACIA, PT; Enlight Projects, UK; Network for European Citizenship and Identity, CY; ASOCIATIEI DE TINERET CULTURA SI EDUCATIE SPERANTA RAMNICEANA, RO

GRANT AMOUNT: 59 643 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Increasing the efficiency of public expenditure and the investment in education, training and youth

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Social dialogue

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Inclusion and Tolerance SP322 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007096

TITLE: MENMOSINE

DESCRIPTION: Mnemosyne is a strategicpartership in the field of youth, from Erasmus Plus Program. In these project we participate 6 association, Asociación Juvenil del Valle del Guadalhorce, from Spain, as coordinator association. Associazione Agrado, Italy. Asociatia of Tineri din Ardeal, Romania. Toros University, Turkey, Straßen- kunst - Verein für innovative Jugendarbeit, Austria and Hellenic Youth Participation, Greece.Mnemosyne´s main objective is to encourage creative-formative tissue culture, our territoriesis to promoute the youth participation . Through non-formal education activities that promote interest in participation, artistic and creative abilities of young people. And involve entities from our territory to create synergies between them and the young participants that generate the spark needed to get it.In the myth of Mnemosyne (the Greek goddess of memory, mother of the nine muses or arts), we find an etymological link between the different arts and memory, through which we understand as forms of knowledge specific to one culture or time , they are linked to the creative process through which memory and identity of that community develops. Demonstrating how the creative process is established as a form of exploration and a way to learn about ourselves because we are part of that culture. Taking as reference the myth Mnemosyne methodology proposed training that develops from the individual learning needs, to the collective. To result in an individual artistic expression (work) in which knowledge of the international group that has developed is reflected.Through an online training course which involved 60 young people, 10 from each country represented, youth work the three lesson plans Memory, Identity, Languages and Mapping, as a training tool using a Moodle platform that allows interaction between working´s groups intercultural, heterogeneous and interdisciplinary . The training has four phases for teaching unit, 1st reflection, 2nd teamwork , 3rd execution of works and 4th self-assessment.The objectives of this training are to promote the capacities of participants in learning to learn, increase their creative and artistic skills. In an education that promotes the values of equality, entrepreneurship, sustainability and inclusion. Once each teaching unit is finish, there is an event to present the results of training in a partner institution, which through various dynamics present the results of Mnemosyne and give information to the audience about the possibilities of Erasmus Plus present.To support young people in their educational process will be formed, a trainer of each entity in the methodology Mnemosyne proposes, a training course to be held in Malaga in April 2016 and which enables the trainers experience before beginning online training, the Mnemosyne methodology, so that this experience may agree with the basis to implement the training, taking into account the needs and particularities of an intercultural and interdisciplinary group.Didactic Magazine Mnemosyne is the results obtained during the formation , an educational magazine that features training on the report through the three teaching units (as well as online training) Identity, Languages and Mapping, which includes a methodological guide will get the learner facilitates the use of the magazine and guide in the learning process, proposals for training and evaluation exercises. In addition to photographs and links to the results of the participants of the online training that serves as a reference that enrich the training.The magazine will be presented at an event multiplication simultaneously in each country during the event all events are connected by streaming connection.To carry out these activities, the participants entities will work in network using different computer systems to coordinate the activities of implementation, monitoring, evaluation and sustainability.

COORDINATOR: Asoc J del VG Acción Naranja C/ DEHESA, 80 29560 PIZARRA, Spain

CONTACT: María de los Remedios Ortiz Badia

PARTNERS: TOROS UNIVERSITY, TR; ASOCIATIA DE TINERI DIN ARDEAL, RO; Hellenic Youth Participation, EL; ASSOCIAZIONE AGRADO, IT; Credibil, AT

GRANT AMOUNT: 77 047 EUR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP323

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment SP324 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007151

TITLE: DEVELOPING LOCALLY, CHANGING GLOBALY

DESCRIPTION: Europia is the future, it is the Europe that could be if youth assumes their key role in the society building through on their ideals and their citizenship.However this procedure can not be demanded, we can not require to young people to assume the main role on the future. It’s necessary they discover their strength by themselves developing their competences to get it. Europia is that educational procedure. It is a high impact program, but also dynamic and funny, to allow users to develop their own competencies through a tool close to young people: their mobil.“Develloping locally, changing globally will be a strategic partnership between six European entities (Fundación Viento del Pueblo - Spain, Librotondo Coop ONLUS - Italy, Formatus - Portugal, Anazitites theatrou ngo-Greece, Dil ve kultur toplulugu - Turkey, Asociatia Tineri Parteneri pentru Dezvoltarea Societii Civile- Romania) that will work in a coordinated manner and all together to promote an active citizenship in youth during 19 months through a virtual and presential way. This initiative will have two transnational meetings (Valencia and Thessaloniki) and a big multiplier event that will allow an international dissemination of the results.This partnership proposes a highly innovative project because it will create an accurate educational itinerary to form in entities management, implementation of projects and the achievement of results with European impact through a video game: EUROPIA.This game will be made by the work of each partner. They are entities of great experience in complementary fields. Their work will form young people to make projects in the five emancipation ways (young, job, education, sociability and culture).In this way it will be made:- THE EUROPIAN GAME: It will be a combinative game of action and adventure. The player will implement a virtual and social entrepreneurship project to change their own city in the game. The player will learn all necessary procedures to create an association. He/she will manage the new association (taxes, management, administration...), he/she must seek partners to support their projects, they should seek partners to support their projects, talk to the authorities to seek their support and carry out their own project.- EUROPIA GUIDE FOR ENTI- TIES MANAGEMENT: A guide to form the players how to play the game, and also will include a series of manuals for the management of specific entities (management, taxation, make projects, take funds...) and propose some ways to change Europe.- GUIDE FOR YOUNG EMANCIPATION to encourage replication of this project and contribute to settling a European solidarity network between young people in order to enhance their emancipatory capacity. A guide to use non-formal and informal (the most appropriate for the profile of the participants) to promote the acquisition of skills education, employability and ultimately the full emancipation of young people with fewer opportunities.EUROPIA and other results will have a fundamental objective: ensuring a high impact on the participants to enable them to ensure the future and to develop their own communities.Through a dynamic and participative methodology, this project will produce a high impact at international level, more than 200.000 indirect beneficiaries through the public campaigns, teach more than 100.000 young people by a game to create their own projects to change their community. From a dynamic and participatory methodology, this project will allow a major international impact, it will have more than 200,000 indirect beneficiaries through public campaigns, it will teach over 100,000 young people to implement projects to change their immediate environment and 400 direct beneficiaries through the guides. The work of the partnership responsibles and the young volunteers of each participating countries will produce many tangible results and will develop high-quality labor training.In the long term this network will seek to consolidate the strategic partnership and encourage the exchange of young people and projects (new projects through the ERASMUS PLUS KA1 , etc.), in order to encourage European citizenship, living new experiences, learn several languages ensuring the development of these young people with the greatest chance of success.

COORDINATOR: Fundacion Viento del Pueblo C/ Peris Mencheta nº3 bj 46020 Valencia, Spain www.vientodelpueblo.org

CONTACT: Víctor García Ortuño STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP325

PARTNERS: Librotondo società cooperativa sociale ONLUS, IT; Anazitites Theatrou, EL; ASOCIATIA TINERI PARTENERI PENTRU DEZVOLTAREA SOCIETATII CIVILE, RO; Dil ve Kultur Toplulugu, TR; Formatus - Associação Para Formação Individual e Integração Profissional, PT

GRANT AMOUNT: 49 030 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 15 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Employability; Youth Empowerment SP326 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007222

TITLE: CREACTICVITY AND ECONOLABS IN TRASNATIONAL PROJECTS

DESCRIPTION: The project The CreacTICvity Econolabs in transnational projects seeks to innovate and improve protocols in transnational work capabilities of young people and their empowerment through the use of Tics and activities of the collaborative economy. We aim to create a common space where young people from Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Czech Republic, learn to develop their personal skills in a transnational environmentThe project for a year, has ambitous experimental objectives, since we seek to create a common online space where young Europeans can share skills and knowledge, empowering this way their capacities and improving the use of ICT in the transnational youth fieldsTo achieve the goals we set, we will develope a serie of activities which, combined together, would cover the complexity in youth field work:-Development of a skills Bank by Each organization , so that young people have to reflect and offer to others their own skills, promoting the exchange of them in their own context. To start it up, a professional in Social Economy will move to each partner association, so that the professionals in each country will know the process in depth.-Creation and start up of the web Youthskillexchange.com where we will promote transnational exchange of skills among young people, by means of videoconferencing, online workshops on Creativity and Social Economy between the young and employees of the participating organizationsThrough it, young people can hang explanatory videos, we will be able to hang the workshops we develop and above all, transnational skills may be exchanged (whether a class of english, Portuguese, Czech or Spanish, or a course in cuisine or dance class) Once tested and developed all the dynamics and the project process, this resource may be used by any association or young interested in exchanging knowledge through it.-There will be monthly workshops on creativity and social economy in each country, in which will also take part, on line, other young from the rest of countries.-Development of a 5 days seminar in Castro-Urdales where professionals of non-formal education of the 4 countries will know innovative processes in the daily work of Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Social Economomy with Young-We will finally make a guide to collect our methodological proposal in order to promote and enhance the transnational networks, the use of ICTs and the collaborative economy for working with young

COORDINATOR: Venancio Bosco 16, 6º B 39700 Castro-Urdiales, Spain www.asesoramientojuvenil.com

CONTACT: Imanol Sellán Grandío

PARTNERS: HODINA H OS, CZ; ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DO MONTIJO -Associação para a Formação Profissional e Desenvolvimento do Montijo, PT; Terra dei Colori, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 32 025 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 2: Open and distance learning

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; New Technologies and Digital Competences; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP327

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007265

TITLE: SPORTS FOR ALL

DESCRIPTION: According to the EC communication “A renewed open method of coordination to address youth challenges and opportunities, Europes future depends on its youth. Yet, life chances of many young people are blighted. This is even truer for young disabled people which are caught in a vicious circle, marked by lower education levels, unemployment, and subsequently, further exclusion from society. Indeed, youngsters with disabilities are confronted with regular discrimination and barriers in different contexts: according to Eurostat, in 2011, the proportion of people aged 18-24 in the EU who left the education and training system with a lower secondary education level at most, was of around 25% among disabled people, compared with 12.4 % among those without difficulty, while the Europe 2020 strategy calls for efforts to reduce this general figure to less than 10 % by 2020. Therefore, the project aims at creating an adapted non-formal learning environment for disabled youngsters, focusing on allowing their integration in sports activities. In fact, the access to sport is an important component of an inclusive society as it helps to build team spirit and to strengthen ties between youngsters. The project will focus on building the capacities of youth workers to allow them to acquire the necessary competences to integrate disabled youngsters in sport youth activities.The project aims at:*Increasing the participation of disabled youngsters in sports activities and generating spillover effects to increase their participation in other informal learning activities;*Increasing the active involvement of disabled youngsters in social community life, encouraging them to become active citizens; *Improving the social competences of disabled youngsters, therefore increasing their motivation for learning, thus their education level;*Setting up good practices to be implemented in formal learning as well;*Raising awareness on the added value for the whole society to integrate disabled people.This will be done by:(1) Carrying out a baseline assessment of the current situation as far as the involvement of disabled youngsters in sports activities is concerned in selected EU countries;(2) Carrying out a study on the competences needed by youth workers to integrate disabled youngsters in sports activities;(3) Creating a training content which will be available online for all youth workers on how to involve disabled youngsters in sports activities;(4) Carrying out a dissemination campaign to encourage the take- up of the training and the implementation of activities involving youngsters with disabilities;(5) Creating peer-learning methods to allow newly involved stakeholders (4) having implemented to learn from each other’s experiences.360 participarnts will be involved in the exploitation of the project, including 60 youth workers to undertake the training and take part in the peer-leaning actvities, 150 disabled youngsters and 150 fit youngsters to take part in adapted activities organised by youth workers. The work will be articulated around 5 Work Packages:WP1 – Project ManagementWP2 – Baseline AssessmentWP3 – Youth Workers’ capacity buildingWP4 – Exploitation and peer-learningWP5 – DisseminationThe project will particularly result in:*The involvement of 30 youth organisations in the take-up of the developed training and in the implementation of sport activities including youngsters;*A cohesive network of organisations working together through peer-learning methods to actively enhance the inclusion of disabled youngsters in sport activities;*The integration of innovative training materials and learning methods among relevant stakeholders;*Adequate information and guidance about present training modules for youth workers about sport activities adapted for young disabled people;*The development of a wider EU awareness of the needs to develop innovative approaches to create an adapted learning environment for youngsters with disabilities;*The increase of the number of organisations that support a holistic and systemic approach to sport and disability to prevent social discrimination;*Knowledge in EU youth organisations about how they can implement strategies which will promote knowledge and new skills for youth workers about disability;*Young people with disabilities themselves will gain confidence and feel better equipped through access to social and sport adapted activities.On the long term, the project will increase the quality of youth work in Europe by bringing together leading organisations in the field of disabled inclusion thanks innovative peer-learning methods which will also allow more integrated use of ICTs and OERS in youth systems. It will also raise awareness about the positive outcomes of systematically allowing the inclusion of disabled when organising sport activities with youngsters.

COORDINATOR: Club de Buceo Escafandra Calle Ana Benítez, 74 35014 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

CONTACT: Julio Triana Martínez SP328 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DO MONTIJO -Associação para a Formação Profissional e Desenvolvimento do Montijo, PT; Nem Adom Fel Alapitvany, HU

GRANT AMOUNT: 77 539 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Disabilities - special needs

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP329

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-ES02-KA205-007279

TITLE: MODERNISING YOUTH SERVICE TEAMS FOR INNOVATION AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED PRACTICE

DESCRIPTION: Youth organisations and youth services in Europe are currently facing unprecedented challenges. One the one hand, they have been forced to make deep cuts in their service budgets, staff and range of provision. At the same time, they are required to deliver more services to support increasing numbers of youth who are presenting with increasingly complex, multi-faceted problems. In order to face these challenges, youth organisations will need to modernise, and find innovative ways of working. Yet there are a number of formidable barriers to successful modernisation and change. These include: the lack of an ‘evaluation culture’ in the field; poor adaptation to client needs and ‘lifeworlds’; poor use of ICTs and low digital competences; low sustainability; poor organisational learning; poor management and financial skills. Underlying these problems is an issue common to most organisations. When faced with the need for re-structuring, most organisations adopt defensive positions and resistance strategies – often unconsciously – in order to avoid the anxieties of change. Against this background, MYSTIK’s main aim is help youth organisations become smarter, more agile and more innovative. Its main objectives are to: identify both the barriers to and success factors in organisational innovation; apply these understandings to develop an Organisational Innovation Programme to help youth organisations and services modernise; apply the results of the evaluation in a replication and sustainability strategy that will support scaling up, scaling out and transferability of the programme and tools to the wider EU youth sector.The partnership is composed of ? partners from ? EU member states. The partners expertise and experience cover a strong background in youth work; expertise in research methods and practices; expertise in platform and tools design; specialist expertise in competence mapping and assessment and organisational design and change management; EU project Management and evaluation and impacts assessment expert. The partners include education and research institutions, youth organisations, civil society and social economy partners and networks. The partnership is multi-disciplinary, combining technical developers, scientists, social scientists, education specialists, domain specialists, researchers and evaluators .The methodology used in the project combines three key elements: i) Research Valorisation: this creates the building blocks for the smart and agile youth service ii) development of OII competence framework and assessment tools iii) Adaptive systems: this aims to support youth organisations to develop as collaborative learning organisations. The activities carried out to implement this methodology combine seven inter-connected activities which lead to the intellectual outputs of the project. Three of these are ‘horizontal’: Evaluation; Dissemination & Replication and Project Management, which feed into all activities. The four remaining ‘core’ activities connect together to develop the MYSTIK Organisational Innovation Programme. They cover Research Valorisation; development of the OII competence framework and assessment tool; development of the Organisational Innovation Programme; piloting of the assessment tool and learning programme. The key expected results of the project are: least 20 youth organisations and services will directly take part in the piloting activities; a further 100 youth organisations and services will engage in the MYSTIK programme, and half of these will complete an initial OII competence assessment; 60% of youth organisations participating in the piloting programme will show an increase in their OII competences; 60% of youth organisations participating in the piloting programme will report an improvement in their innovation capacity; 50% of youth organisations participating in the piloting programme will report improved effectiveness of their service delivery; 50% of youth organisations participating in the piloting programme will report improved quality of services; 50% of youth organisations participating in the piloting programme will report that a beneficial outcome for their clients.In the long term the project is expected to contribute to increasing the quality of youth work in Europe and beyond; supporting youth systems that are better aligned to the needs of and opportunities offered by the labour market, and closer links to business and the community; supporting a more strategic and integrated use of ICTs and open educational resources (OER) by youth systems. MYSTIK aims to contribute to supporting the achievement of EU2020 targets, in particular reducing the level of early school leaving to 10%; attaining a 75% employment level; reducing the numbers of NEETs in Europe, through helping youth organisations and services to become more efficient, more effective and better targeted to client needs.

COORDINATOR: UNIR CALLE GRAN VIA REY JUAN CARLOS I 41 26002 LOGRONO, Spain www.unir.net SP330 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTACT: Daniel Burgos

PARTNERS: ASOCIACIÓN INSTITUTO EUROPEO DE ESTUDIOS PARA LA FORMACIÓN Y EL DESARROLLO, ES; ARCOLA RESEARCH LLP, UK; BORGORETE, IT; LIFELONG LEARNING PLATFORM, BE; Hellenic Management Association, EL

GRANT AMOUNT: 174 334 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Making the knowledge triangle work

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP331

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010611

TITLE: TEDDIPEUROPE

DESCRIPTION: The project gathers a set of centres welcoming minors with an intellectual disability (in French under the syndroms called TED and DIP). Our approach applies in the first place to socio- educational educators (youth workers) of our specialized institutions and as a result to our intellectual disabled teenagers. Each partner in Spain, France, Italy, Czech Republic, has its own guidance experience with intellectual disabled teenagers in relation to a formative, normative, regulatory, family and cultural context. The project’s aim is to share resources, ideas and inspiration from different contexts and national methods in order to have the capacity to give to the child, teenager, suffering from an intellectual disability the status of European citizen and to support the institutions involved in their effort to opening up and to train their Youth workers.The main objectives are:- To enrich the professional practices of our socio-educational staff, working with young people with an intellectual disability through the sharing and the exchange of good practices in taking over young suffering from DIP and TED (Pervasive Development Disorder and Profound Intel- lectual Disability)- To promote the quality and the internationalisation of innovative services, pedagogies and practice of youth work by integrating in the project Transational meetings and short mobility, educational workshops between youth workers and teenagers- To reinforce the feeling of belonging, connection with the European citizenship, our goal is to help building Europe for and with vulnerable children. The citizenship provides a feeling of belonging to a community. Our ERASMUS+ project will allow us to check if the European citizen child has the same opportunities, rights and duties in different member countries (France, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic). It will allow us to see how to improve the representation that our youth workers have of our public in Europe and how we will work with our teenagers afterwards on this issue.How? :- By transnational meetings in order to exchange good practices of Youth Care Service towards the child, the family and youth activities - By the analysis, in reference to each national context, of the different stages of the Youth Care service for TED and DIP, of the normative context led by national government (kids can go to a specialized school or normal school, assistance by association for outside activities, medical coverage … ) - By the creation of a document regrouping experiences and methods put in common to work out a transferable good practice guide for Youth workers of different centres but also usable by specialized youth workers training centers.- By exchanges including Educators and children short Mobility to participate in exchanges, experiments and educational workshops on our professional practices. In our view it is important to know how our partners organize the Youth Care services for TED and DIP (with or without an Autism Spectrum Disorders). Starting from our respective national context and practices, we can possibly improve and implement new ways of doing it- By the creation of an educational video reviewing experiences and workshops set up during short Mobility, activities sand exchanges done with the TED DIP, the staff, the families of other centres, youth workers- By integrating into our institution strategy these best practices and open-up (website and brochure)

COORDINATOR: Association Joseph Sauvy 23, rue François Broussais 66100 Perpignan, France www.association-sauvy.fr

CONTACT: NATHALIE MAUREL

PARTNERS: Eppas o.s., CZ; ALFMED, FR; association Image Mémoire Corps, FR; CESIE, IT; Centre d’educació especial Les aigües, ES

GRANT AMOUNT: 277 160 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 25 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers SP332 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 1: Disabilities - special needs

TOPIC 2: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP333

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010661

TITLE: ROMA CINEMA YOUTH PROJECT

DESCRIPTION: ContextIn 2015, the situation of European Roma communities continues to be critical. Socio-economic strategies will produce limited impact as long as root causes of exclusion: stereotypes and racism are not addressed more assertively, drawing on the power of culture and putting the communities themselves into a position to promote positive self-image, drawing on the rich history of Roma contributions to Euro- pean culture. PartnersThe Roma Cinema Youth Project gathers 3 organisations working in very different complementary ways on Roma youth empowerment:- Somany (FR)- Romawood (KS)- Phiren Amenca European Network (HR)They identified 3 main problems to be addressed:1/Initiatives from organization tackling the production of collective’s narratives about Roma Culture and identities remain scattered, and often based on stereotypes both negative or positive/exotic as well as produce by non-Roma.2/ Many projects youth project are blending Culture with non-formal education but are either -carried out by non-formal education sector using art only as a “tool with rather poor artistic outcome and thus potential of dissemination-carried out by cultural workers / artist lacking pedagogical methods 3/Films, and videos and online new media are a very powerful medium to empower, shape representation and challenging imaginaries. There is today a challenge in developing creative and digital competence of youth workers, educators, trainers, and teachers Objectives of the project *Increase the number of quality transformative spaces, events and screen related projects of all kinds using the power of films/video blended with non-formal education for combating stereotypes and racism against Roma.* Increase the quality of educational programmes designed around those spaces contributing to empowerment, participation of Roma youth and intercultural dialogue, design new tools and methods*Create a supportive trans sector network on this theme to enhance cooperation & cross-fertilization *Challenge the media and cinema’s role in creating (and maintaining) the exotic image of the Roma c and reach out to media, policy maker and other multipliers/ stakeholders’ attention about it.*Put Roma youth in a position to produce, curate and promote audio-visual content showing the diversity and plurality of their own identities and cultureThe strategic partnership has, as a starting point, the unique expertise and resource of the Rolling Film Festival, a festival in Kosovo running since 2009 and broadcasting films made by & about Roma. Along its fourth editions, Rolling Film Festival build up a list of 150 films what became today the richest film database of Film Made by & about Roma in the world.Innovation to be transfer from Romawood Kosovo• A film database of 150 films on various thematic • Know-how on festival / screening organizing especially regarding audience development and outreach strategy involving local Roma communities and “non-audience• Exper- tise on how to design meaningful film programmes for various typed audience and especially in context educational context • Expertise on how to design film workshop with Roma & non-Roma YouthTo achieve RCYP objectives, we trans-nationally combine-the unique experiences and ressources of Romawood with RFF-the power of Phiren Amencas network & expertise on human rights education -the cross-fertilization and cross sector approach of Somany culture / educationTargeted persons directly benefiting from the activities= 325-Roma and non Roma-youth- workers from education/training/ youth sector-Cultural sector workers-Political representative/ decision makers-MediaActivities :3 transnational cooperation meetings1 staff training activity1 intellectual output 2 dissemination eventsSummary of the eToolkit: “Roma youth on screens: a etoolkit challenging Antigypsyism through cinema & Non-formal Education1/ A detailed film eCatalogue featuring 100 films made by & about Roma2/ How to organize a screening: basics and tips 3/ Roma Audience outreach strategies: examples of good practices 4/ Pedagogical sheet/teaching aids for 10 films combining film resources with description new non formal education activities5/ New / innovative Curriculum of the training course for staff/ youth trainer working on this topic Impact 1/ For Roma youth: benefit from quality trainings, empowerment, self-confidence & price2/ Workers from education field and their organisations: -improve quality of projects, training, and tools and methods-develop capacity in cross-sector cooperation -new tools and methods to blend cultural and educational activities/ creative and digital competences3/ Media, political representative and a decision makers :-be more aware about the need of addressing more assertively held stereotypes about Roma drawing on the power of culture-To question their responsibility in maintaining stereotypes against Roma communities

COORDINATOR: Somany 84 Rue de Marseille 69007 Lyon, France SP334 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTACT: Charlotte BOHL

PARTNERS: RGDTS ROMA PARBESZED AZ ONKENTES SZOLGALAT ALTAL NONPROFIT KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TAR- SASAG, HU; Romawood, XK

GRANT AMOUNT: 57 927 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Romas and/or other minorities

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Inclusion and Tolerance STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP335

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010701

TITLE: PRACTICE

DESCRIPTION: The PRACTICE project represents an extension to the innovation transfer behind the video game tool Skillpass-game, which is dedicated to identifying cross-disciplinary skills for and by young people with difficulties. In the same vein, this project envisages developing an auto-evaluation application, a kind of outcome to the process of promoting assets pre-identified by the young person during their edutainment experience with Skillpass. The PRACTICE project will also create a pedagogical skills promotion repertoire for youth professionals, as well as imagining scenarios with various uses (according to uses, practices, target audiences and objectives), and a version of Skillpass-game adapted to early school leavers, with a view to facilitating dissemination of the device, extensive in other user contexts (secondary school, university, for early school leavers), and other countries (Luxembourg). All these new or additional tools will be the object of a strengthened distribution plan, which will allow us to help targeted professionals integrate them into their practices in the whole europe.The partnership established for this project includes 5 countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain and France) and 6 partners that represent the fields involved in our results’ dissemination (integration, youth, disability, mobility, education, fight against early school leaving…).

COORDINATOR: La Grappe 75 rue Léon Gambetta 59000 Lille, France http://id6tm.org

CONTACT: Pascal Chaumette

PARTNERS: Tempo Libero Società Cooperativa Sociale ONLUS, IT; 4MOTION ASBL, LU; FUNDACION INTRAS, ES; Mission Locale d’Anderlecht pour l’Emploi, la Formation et le Développement local, BE; GIP FCIP Expérience, FR

GRANT AMOUNT: 245 295 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Inclusion and Tolerance; Improving the Quality of Education / Training Systems SP336 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010722

TITLE: EUROPEAN VOLUNTEER INCLUSION PROGRAM

DESCRIPTION: Our project is in direct line with the European priorities for the promotion of voluntary missions, and as a lever for the professional insertion of young jobseekers age 17 to 30 years in Europe. EuroVIP brings an answer to the insufficient formal recognition of the skills and knowledge acquired in informal and non-formal environments, through a tool that complements the existing methodologies. EuroVIP aims to strengthen the link between the economic and the associative world, by placing the company as the central actor in the professional insertion of volunteers searching for a job. Our project, EuroVIP aspires to reinforce the link between the associative/voluntary with the economic and professional world by offering to the companies a central role and a strong responsibility in the professional insertion of the young volunteers and jobseekers. The objectives of our project are : 1. To favor the professional insertion and the employability of the youth by the recognition of their skills and knowledge acquired during their voluntary missions. The objective is to help them to valorize the skills and knowledge acquired in formal, informal and non-formal environments and to define their professional project for their job search. 2. To strengthen the capacities of the organizations working with volunteers by the provision of a tool that helps the organizations to guide the professional and personal orientation of volunteers, as well as to certify their formal, informal and non-formal knowledge and skills acquired all along the lives of the volunteers, including the voluntary missions. 3. To promote to the private sector the voluntary missions and the skills and knowledge acquired by the young volunteers in their missions, and to favor their implication in the accompaniment of youth towards their first and/or a stable employment. 4. To create working synergies in the promotion of voluntary missions in Europe and the recognition of competences acquired by the young volunteers at the European Union level. The proposed action aims to establish a coordinated work in the co-construction of the tool, the cooperation and the exchange of good practices between all the implicated actors. To effectively perform this project, 5 partners (FACE, Pour la Solidarité, VOLUM, Wisamar and Volunteering Matters) from 5 different countries (France, Belgium, Romania, Germany and England) shared the implementation of the following activities: - The adaptation of the ProfilPASS : the portfolio for the recognition and valorisation of competences of young volunteers. - The transfer of the ProfilPASS portfolio to the organisations working with volunteers. - The creation of a guide directed to the companies to allow the recognition and the adaptation of the volunteer’s informal and non-formal skills and knowledge in their HR recruitment process. - The construction of a good practices guide, based on the experience of each partner organization and the project, for the effective professional insertion of young volunteers. - The evaluation and dissemination of the project results through the organization of different national and European events, and a final European seminar.The project results are: - The profil- PASS portfolio adapted to the need and specifities of the volontaries. The porfolio will be available in four European languages. - 180 young volunteers accompanied in their professional insertion- 30 mobilized companies engaged with voluntary missions and the professional insertion of the youth. The expected impact is a better acknowledgement and recognition of the voluntary missions in the recruitment process, the integration of this recognition methodology by the organizations working with volunteers, to improve the efficacy of the voluntary accompaniment tools, and finally, to enhance the attractiveness of the voluntary missions for the youth.

COORDINATOR: 361 AV DU PRESIDENT WILSON 93200 SAINT DENIS, France www.fondationface.org

CONTACT: Camille Guezennec

PARTNERS: POUR LA SOLIDARITE ASBL, BE; Federatia VOLUM, RO; VOLUNTEERING MATTERS, UK; wisamar Bildungsgesellschaft gemeinnuetzige GmbH, DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 250 980 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP337

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

TOPIC 1: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Improving the Quality of Education / Training Systems; Youth Empowerment SP338 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-FR02-KA205-010740

TITLE: COMP-PASS

DESCRIPTION: In Europe, a current trend can be identified among NEETs, it concerns the rejection and the immurement at different levels of the society. Young people feel excluded from the society where their situation is not taken into account; young people reject a society that does not try to get them involved.The Eurofound report « NEETs Young people not in employment, education or trainin : Characteristics, costs and policy responses in Europe » underlines the civic apathy and the lack of involvement of the young people, analyzing this trend as a social risk.This study underlines the danger of this massive exclusion of the young people and the rejection of the institutions and the society. In parallel, they get attracted to extremism, such as political extremism (extreme right-wing in various European countries), as well as religious extremism.The European model and project is called into question. Including the basis such as democracy, freedom of expression, the right to be different or the freedom of conscience.The answers to these issues and risks of NEETs (risks for themselves and for the society) should go further than just promoting the search of a job or the return to studies.Com-Pass aims at giving an innovative input to this issue by developing a social and civic approach, with 3 steps:- to understand the NEETs’ path and get the NEETs involved in the society through the storytelling digital approach ;- to develop an educational approach so that NEETs can have a conscience about themselves and get confidence, within their environment and the society. The REAL-E method is based on the criteria of Repère-Equilibre-Adaptation-Limites-Echanges (Landmark-Bal- ance-Adaptation-Limits-Exchanges);- to determine and highlight the skills and competences of the people involved in the project through an e-portfolio platform , based on the soft competences of the people – the comp-pass platform.This final objective of this 3-steps process is to get the young people motivated to get back to employment, training or any other kind of re-socialisation project (such a volunteering). This project is implemented by 7 partners, all of them with a lot of experience in the youth work and in non-formal educational methods.During 24 months, the 7 partners of the project develop 2 different trainings (one about storytelling and the second one about REAL-E), they make the experimentation of this method with 10 NEETs per partner, so 70 young people in total.As such, 14 facilitators of the partners will be trained to use the educational tools developed, through 2 short-term trainings.While the project deals with NEETs and the development of youth workers’ competences, the partnership will work on the comp-pass platform. This unique tool will allow:- to get a sense of belonging and to help the young to get confidence about themselves;- to develop learning by doing activities through the development of IT competences;- to make a presentation of themselves through an innovative and creative tool (CV of the future);- to create CV with hyperlinks making the link with the e-portfolio profile;- to include references and recommendations (multimedia, scanned documents, video/audio);- to make accessible any important and useful information for employers, training centres, hosting organisations;- to help the tutoring of the young people, through coaching/follow up.This 3 project outputs will be free to use through various networks: partners’ websites, project website, European networks of dissemination, amongst others.The outputs of the Comp-pass project, developed for social and youth workers will be disseminated to a wide range of people and organisations during and at the end of the 24 months of the project, using our resources and networks .The impact and benefits at mid and long-term is the capacity of youth workers to help the NEETs and to help them be part of the society.

COORDINATOR: PISTES SOLIDAIRES 3 RUE DE LIVRON 64000 PAU, France www.pistes-solidaires.fr

CONTACT: Mathieu DECQ

PARTNERS: REPLAY Network, IT; SDRUDZENIE ZNAM I MOGA, BG; Kulturno izobrazevalno drustvo PiNA, SI; ASOCIACION CAZALLA-INTERCULTURAL, ES; Cemea del Mezzogiorno, IT; FEKETE SEREG IFJUSAGI EGYESULET, HU; Associação Mais Cidadania, PT STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP339

GRANT AMOUNT: 225 912 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Adult educators’ competences

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training SP340 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001223

TITLE: DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF YOUTH MEDIATOR - A NON- FORMAL QUALIFICATION IN YOUTH FIELD IN LINE WITH NEW EUROPEAN COMMON COMPETENCE STANDARDS

DESCRIPTION: Mediation is one of a variety to solve a conflict in a peaceful way based on the voluntary participation of the parties. It’s a procedure in which an intermediary without adjudicatory powers (the mediator) systematically facilitates communication between the parties with the aim of enabling the parties themselves to take responsibility for resolving their dispute.Derived from the Anglo-Saxon system mediation takes more and more places among peaceful conflict resolution in Hungary and surrounding countries thanks to the success of its usage in the last 15 years. There are more and more researches about the positive impact of the introduction of youth mediation and the need for these programs, however, is still in its infancy period and has not been introduces commonly and there’s no specialized mediator trainings yet in youth field. The current strategic partnership program for youth has the purpose to develop and test “Youth Mediator - non-formal qualification in the youth field according to new European common competence standards.During the program the involved partners will set up a non-formal training program for “Youth Mediator that allows youth workers and youth to learn necessary skills in order to mediate in youth conflicts. Best practices should be transferred from each member country considering different cultural environment and legislation on mediation and training programs, in order to execute an effective and successful program that can be implemented in long term and could reach positive effect on youth.During the compilation of training the requirements will be discussed as well, and a final draft of the application program “Youth Mediator will be handled in all participant countries to the state training organization, aiming to be authorized in the participant countries; in Hungary by the National Institute of Vocational and Adult Education and the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry as a new non-formal qualification in the official training list. The program emphasize the mobility, thus young people and youth workers from Spain and Italy would visit Hungary in order to meet and discuss, share their experiences and help to prepare a successful youth mediation program.The participants firstly testing the new non-formal qualification in Hungary will be 12 youth and 9 youth workers from all partner countries. After the first pilot testing a second line pilot testing will be organized whereby the participant youth workers test and adapt it with 3 further young people in their own institution in each country (12 further young people). Main project activities are-O1: Action plan for the process to be activated in youth mediation field -Report on preparatory research-Analysis and adaptation of relevant experiences and good practices-Creation of key actor, stakeholder maps-Defining strategies, activities and tools-O2: Design of new non-formal qualification Youth Mediator-competence standard in terms of activities and tasks, knowledge, skills and competences, learning outcomes units-Memorandum of Understanding for Youth Mediator-O3: European common curriculum for new non-formal qualification Youth Mediator - beta version-O4: Publication: Youth Mediator program in practice (pilot testing mobility)-Design of joint mediation courses for the application of the already defined competence and training standards-Learning Agreements-Transnational joint training event aimed to organise effective application of the new curriculum-Youthpass-Publication about the results and experiences-O5: Final European common curriculum for new non-formal qualification Youth Mediator-Second line pilot testing: participant youth workers test their acquired knowledge and practise with 3 further young people-Overall report (taking into account each countrys experiences and remarks) in order to collect, accumulate, methodize, analyze and evaluate the experiences and in case of errors to correct it-final curriculum-O6: Policy Recommendations-Set of policy recommendations for results transferring to public and private territorial and sectoral decision-makers-Multiplier events: In- fodays and Focus groups, Information packages: targeted written materials (document folder), focusing on intellectual outputs and related activities, to be diffused to stakeholders-Project quality plan and 6 Quality reports-Project website Overall, development and introduction of Youth Mediator program and the participation of youth workers and youth coordinated internationally would happen in order to reduce tension in youth and youth workers, to have less conflict and to develop the existing disputes resolution using peaceful mediation and constructive problem solving. The application program thereby affects the lives of all youth and youth workers’ emotional and mental well-being who are involved in the project and who will be trained as “Youth Mediator and all people who will use it in the future. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP341

COORDINATOR: LAURUS Fejleszto Intezet Kft. Varosmajor street 90. fszt. 1. 1122 Budapest, Hungary www.lfi.hu

CONTACT: Bernadett Gulácsi

PARTNERS: Aris Formazione e Ricerca, IT; Beled Ifjúságáért Egyesület, HU; AFS Magyarország Nemzetközi Csereprogram Alapítvány, HU; European Consulting Education, s.l., ES

GRANT AMOUNT: 66 925 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Improving the Quality of Education / Training Systems; Youth Empowerment SP342 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001245

TITLE: LAWRIDER

DESCRIPTION: The LAWrider an international youth initiative based on the proposition of highschool students is realised in the partnership of Asociata VOX NOVUM from Romania, Koordinacija Udruga Mladih Siska (SKWHAT) from Croatia and Creative Elephant Studio Kft. from Hungary with the continuous cooperation of young people and other associations between 01/02/2016 - 31/03/2017, during 14 months. The direct target group of the project is highschool students who are creating a 10-piece-long skatchfilm serie (each episodes are 10-15 min long) dealing with human rights issues. They are realising 10 lesson plans as well dealing with the different subjects presented in the different episodes. Both the films and the lesson plans are going to be spread all around Europe in offline and online ways to every age class. We also consider teachers, youth workers and human rights associations as our target group. They are taking serious part in the follow up of the project, they are spreading, mantaining and developing the results. Young participants are receiving all the practical knowledge and mentoring they need in their self-development process within safe frames. As further outcome in LAWrider the partner organisations are starting 1-1 weekly-based drama and film workshop (all together 6 workshops) in Romania, Croatia and Hungary so young people involved in the project or newcomers can have a long-term possibility to learn, continue and create in a community.

COORDINATOR: Creative Elephant Studio Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság Űrhajós utca 12/B 6723 Szeged, Hungary www.elephantstudio.hu

CONTACT: Gábor Balla

PARTNERS: Koordinacija udruga mladih Siska, HR; Asociatia Vox Novum, RO

GRANT AMOUNT: 19 750 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 14 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Creativity and culture

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP343

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001299

TITLE: HAGYOMÁNYOS SZAKMÁKKAL A JÖVŐNKÉRT

DESCRIPTION: The holder of the project is Mocorgók az Egészségért és Környezetért association. In the international project the partner organization is the Slovenian Turistično društvo Dolina – Turisztikai egyesület Völgy- ifalu Association. The project is located in Lenti (HU) and Lendava (SLO), the target group is the youth population of the Municipality of Lendava and Lenti sub-region (18 municipalities). The project duration is 13 months.12 disadvantaged young Slovenian and Hungarian youth international initiative implements aimed at reducing youth unemployment. In Lendava and Lenti region a very high number of young people going abroad and emigration to the cities. The cause is the lack of jobs and recreational activities. Another problem in the area of Lendava and Lenti to the traditional craft professions fewer cultivated, there is a further move, so more and more craft profession will disappear from the region. Therefore, our aim, within the framework of the project, the more young people know the local crafts, local products, this potential, thus widening our horizons and have the opportunity later on a craft profession by learning self-employment, the provision and thus the area to stay in the future. As well as local products, increase the development of local tourism.Activities pursued:- Preparation (designing detailed programs and competence assessment questionnaire)- 5 Workshop: The pre-planned workshops in Lenti and Lendava area of active people who describe their activities, talk about their profession within the framework, as well as an interactive session for young people trying out the particular activity (Basket weaving, pottery, Hetési homespun maker, organic farming and traditional meat processing, egg painting, etc.).- Coach meetings per month (social sensitivity development group sessions)- Workshop in Lendava: opportunities in the Erasmus+ program, learning about the program, volunteers presentation.- Lendava and Lenti area arti- sans presenting short films and publications- 4-day entrepreneurial training of youth participation- Inter- national Traditional Value day in Lendava and Lenti - Establishment of an informal international group of Slovenian and Hungarian youth- Workshop in Lendava: Brainstorming , project maintenance of the project plan- Evaluation (competence assessment questionnaire, processing results).- widely disseminate the findings of the program.In particular, with project we want to achieve the survival of traditional trades, as well as to reduce migration of young people in the area and to grow their proportion of entrepreneurship. During the project, the young people will learn about the area, making it easier to develop the attachment to the homeland for them.Long-term impact as we hope that the traditional professions already mentioned the number of the conduct of local products will increase, which will attract more tourists to the area, thereby in Lendava and Lenti area, which also increases the number of jobs.

COORDINATOR: Mocorgók az Egészségért és a Környezetért Egyesület Mihályfai u. 28. 8960 Lenti, Hungary http://mocorgok.hu

CONTACT: Andrea Konkoly

PARTNERS: Turisticno drustvo Dolina Turisztikai egyesület Völgyifalu, SI

GRANT AMOUNT: 9 750 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 13 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting young people’s social inclusion and well-being

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability SP344 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-HU02-KA205-001323

TITLE: LEARNING ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP THROUGH URBAN BEEKEEPING - LETS LEARN DEEP AND FLAVORFUL DEMOCRACY FROM BEES

DESCRIPTION: We; Messzelátó (HU), Trial&Error(G), Vertigem (PT), PIC(ES) created our working group to utilize and share our knowledge that we gained in different fields of interests. All partners in this strategic learning partnership are deeply interested in our chosen common topic: democracy/active citizenship education and environmental education through urban beekeeping.Our goal in our strategic partnership is to use urban beekeeping as tool of deeper understanding of active citizenship and practicing participatory democracy. Not only would we use urban beekeeping as an environmental educational activity, we also want to create youth program and our local beekeeper learning groups on understanding sharpening a cohesive local community, to build an active network of volunteers, members, supporters, collaborators. In the collaborative, local youth groups in every country will be involved youth with fewer opportunities special attantion for youth with cultural difference, unemployed.This type of community activity re-establishes the connection between young people and healthy food production, contributes to a sense of involvement and inclusion, re-engage people at risk into our community, and increases citizen responsibility by giving them a sense that they do have the power to make changes in their city.The exchange of experience on learning possibilities in this context is of vital importance . As an educational tool, urban beekeeping is accessible to all ages, all cultures, all genders, all income levels, all abilities. For a learner the results are tangible and applicable to everyday life. The participating countries are Germany, Spain, Portugal and Hungary. By arranging a joint staff training and 3 online conferences each partner has an opportunity to share their field of expertise with other partners and a selection of learners, by showing examples, holding workshops, arranging lectures or any combination of activities which feel most appropriate. The outcomes of the project will be 4 partner organisation will be more professional in operating youth/volunteer programs, creating special educational materials and better in international cooperations. Youth participating in this project will become more active citizens. Their entrepreneur skills, communication and leadersihp skills will improve along with their knowledge on environmeltal topics such as beekeeping. As well as the setting up of several local public community events/studies on democracy status of countries and educational materilas next to the urban beehives with the help of the collaborative youth learner groups.

COORDINATOR: Messzelátó Egyesület Dembinszky utca 4. 1071 Budapest, Hungary www.messzelato.hu

CONTACT: Tünde Udvarnoki

PARTNERS: associació Punt d’Interacció de Collserola, ES; Kulturlabor Trial&Error e.V., DE; Vertigem-Associação Promoção Património, PT

GRANT AMOUNT: 38 730 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 19 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Environment and climate change STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP345

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Education for Sustainable Development SP346 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016671

TITLE: ACTING OUT 100

DESCRIPTION: Irelands 2016 centenary commemoration of the Easter Rising and Finlands centenary of independence in 2017 will be the most significant commemorative years for this generation of Finnish and Irish young people. It will provide opportunities to better understand the past, experience the jubilees together and set the course for these nations future successes as European countries.Fifteen young people from each country, aged 13-18, supported by a coach and a drama facilitator from each country, will explore themes based on their shared cultural experiences: in spite of hard times, the people have for a hundred years engaged in the building of their country and making decisions together.This is a two year trans-national youth initiative. Thirty mixed gender teenagers from rural youth theatre organisations in Ireland and Finland will use drama to create plays that tackle issues around independence and the creation of a republic. With the support of four coaches/facilitators they will examine European citizenship themes and reflect their ideas in trans-national collaborative performances looking at nationalism through the lens of interculturalism.Through using a drama methodology the young people will increase their basic and transversal skills and attend weekly youth theatre workshops, devise and perform plays for the public and use the Internet to collaborate with each other and deepen their conversation about project themes and ideas. They will have two trans-national meetings and together create an intercultural performance based on themes generated by exploring their history of the past 100 years from the perspective of being together in Europe.The impact will be the promotion, empowerment and active participation of young people that is visible on a local and regional platform. The long term benefits will be to upskill young people in social, civic, IT and entrepreneurial skills so that they can work towards creating more International theatre for a possible Limerick City of Culture 2020. (bid current)

COORDINATOR: County Limerick Youth theatre Honeyfitz Theatre Bruff Limerick, Ireland www.loughgur.com

CONTACT: FIONA QUINN

PARTNERS: Loimaan Seudun Teatteriyhdistys ry, FI

GRANT AMOUNT: 43 840 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP347

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016690

TITLE: FIGHT THE BEAST DONT BECOME OBESE

DESCRIPTION: Fight the beast dont become obese is a strategic partnership between Ireland, Malta and Latvia - three countries that the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently estimated to become the fattest countries in Europe by 2030 if no urgent action regarding the obesity crisis is taken. According to a comprehensive global study of obesity published in 2014 it was stated that Irelands population has overweight and obesity levels in excess of the European level. On the other side, Maltese kids and youth are amongst the most overweight in the world with obesity levels reaching frightening proportions. But obesity is not just a unique problem to Malta or Ireland. The European statistics shows that Latvian women rank third in the European obesity rate. The partners acknowledged that obesity is a serious public health issue and this project can be a good start for young people to stop ignoring serious consequences of the obesity and have a closer look at foods that they consume. The project will address two major factors/needs necessary to start fighting the obesity crisis . Firstly, the need of understanding food labels and nutritional values of foods and secondly the need of cooking skills using organic/local and healthy products.People involved in the project are young disadvantaged people who left school early and now as a result are facing educational difficulties and social obstacles and are finding difficult to engage with their local communities. Lack of social skills, law self -esteem and no confidence prevent them from becoming valuable members of society. The project will address their needs and will equip them with new experiences skills necessary for starting making changes in their lives. Hopefully it will start with making healthy food choices but later it will encourage them to make positive changes in their communities. In order to achieve the best outcomes the project activities and tasks are very practical, interactive and group based. The methodology used will involved brainstorming, discussions, visits to local farms and hands-on experience, cooking, teamworking, problem solving and decision making. Being aware of our target groups educational barriers an integrated literacy approach and aContent and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) method will be used.The partners involved in the project were carefully selected based on their experience of working with young disadvantaged people. Blanchardstown Community Training Centre (Ireland) provides training, work experience and support to meet the needs of early school leavers and help them to achieve their full potential. Baltic Regional Fund (Latvia) provides support for youth at risk, early school leavers, unemployed people and migrants to equip them with necessary tools to become valuable members of the Latvian society. Active Youth (Malta) provides platform for young people where they can express themselves and become aware of their full potential. This is done through a non -formal learning methods. All three organisations are very experienced at working with young disadvantaged people and aware of their needs.On completion of this project young people will be able to read and understand nutritional values of foods and will be aware of what foods are high in fats, saturated fats, sugar and salt. They will also be able to prepare basic healthy meals using organic ingredients sourced from the local farms. By using their cooking skills they will be able to see a difference between home made food and pre-packed, ready to eat food. Their learning, practical experiences and knowledge will be presented in a cook book created during the project. It will consist a guideline on reading and understanding food labels, information about local/organic farms and a collection of healthy and simple recipes prepared by young people. It is anticipated that the cook book will be a great way to start a food revolution at the local level. Young people directly and indirectly involved in the project will become local healthy food promoters. With their new skills, experiences and knowledge they will promote a healthy eating but also will raise awareness of harmful and serious consequences of he obesity crisis. It is hoped that this will start reversing the raising trend in obesity.

COORDINATOR: Blanchardstown Community Training Centre 107-108 Coolmine Industrial Estate Dublin 15, Ireland www.blanchardstownctc.ie

CONTACT: Anna Peplinska

PARTNERS: Baltic Regional fund, LV; AGENZIJA ZGHAZAGH, MT

GRANT AMOUNT: 51 539 EUR SP348 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: Health and wellbeing

TOPIC 3: Healthy lifestyle, active ageing

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Health and Medicine STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP349

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016697

TITLE: YOUNG COMMUNITY MEDIATORS

DESCRIPTION: The Europe 2020 goals for a more inclusive Europe with higher social integration and cohesion are more important then ever in light of increasing societal tension linked to the economic crisis, increasing multi-ethnicity and immigration, cuts in public services etc. Young people are particularly affected and the number of antisocial behaviour complaints reflecting incidents involving young people and relating to drugs/alcohol, harassment, property damage, noise etc. is on the increase. This conflict has a high cost: antisocial and conflictive behaviour impedes the development of the young people involved and affects the wellbeing, education, social and economic progress of other young people and society as a whole. To- day, municipal authorities are compelled to seek new ways of decreasing conflict and promoting social inclusion, especially among disadvantaged youth. Youth peer-to-peer community mediation is an effective strategy but is still in its infancy in Ireland, UK and Spain, and is virtually unknown in Romania, Slovenia. If its benefits are to be made available to young people, all those actors entrusted with youth services, must undergo a shift in skills training and vision.Young Community Mediators seeks to do just that: bring together youth workers, public authorities and wider stakeholders in an innovative, cross sector Regional Alliance to:a) Create, publish and promote the “Young Community Mediators Toolkit to encourage the creation of Regional Alliances for peer-to-peer mediation across Europe;b) identify the skills, opportunities and best practices by which young people can be empowered as peer-to-peer mediators in their communities, devising individual and collective commitments to action in five regional action plans; c) Develop, test and optimise an innovative training curriculum and multimedia online course to train youth workers to impart mediation skills to young people in creative and dynamic ways. Young Community Mediators will be delivered by five organizations from the public, private and non-profit sector each with a strong track record in youth work, social inclusion and citizenship, and education. The project will be lead by ROSCOM- MON LEADER PARTNERSHIP (RLP), a high profile hub organization working with dozens of regional and national partners. They are joined by Fundación Nuestra Señora Aparecida (Spain), East Belfast Enterprise (UK), Amicii Petru Poni College (Romania) and SPES Association for Cultural Relations (Slovenia.) YCM represents a new generation of youth education projects because of its ability to reach disadvantaged youth and encourage them to become proactively involved in community around them, combating disengagement and isolation on part of both mediators and those who benefit from the mediation. The project positions youth mediation as a new route to increased citizenship and has the advantage of empowering young people to take up a leadership positions among other young people, acquiring useful transversal skills in the process such as problem solving, value creation, negotiation and self esteem.As a result of our project: - hundreds of young people (16 – 30 yr olds), the majority from disadvantaged backgrounds, will acquire knowledge and skills to settle disputes peacefully in schools and neighbourhoods, widening their own confidence, responsibility and skills ultimately useful for employers, and contributing to the wellbeing of those around them. - youth workers and youth work organizations will adopt new strategies to incorporate new skills teaching, thus enhancing the relevance and quality of their work for problems facing youth in daily lives in today’s society- those responsible for youth public policy will find new ways of engaging with hard-to-reach young people, often from disadvantaged backgrounds. - Schools, neighbourhoods and communities will experience increase in wellbeing as more disputes are settled peacefully and less escalate into antisocial or violent acts; with resulting increase in cohesion and potential for future positive change as young people envisage greater role in society. - Stakeholders in the region will understand and actively support integrated approach to ensuring high quality youth work and informal skills training for more and more young people.

COORDINATOR: Roscommon LEADER Partnership Unit 12, Tower B, Roscommon West Business Park, Golf Links Road, Roscommon Town Co. Roscommon Roscommon Town, Ireland www.rosleaderpartnership.ie

CONTACT: Martina Earley

PARTNERS: Drustvo SPES, SI; Fundacion Nuestras Señora Bien Aparecida, ES; AMICII COLEGIULUI PETRU PONI, RO; East Belfast Enterprise Ltd, UK SP350 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

GRANT AMOUNT: 128 622 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Social dialogue

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP351

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016708

TITLE: YOUTH WORK - MUSIC AND CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

DESCRIPTION: The aim of this project is to identify, design and test a best practice approach to engage and retain young people aged 16 to 25 in youth services using music as a medium. The project will look at achieving this by analysing existing methods and procedures that are used by each of the project partners’ youth music projects and programmes. These youth music projects and programmes will include lead partner Youth Work Irelands Irish Youth Music Awards, Samfés, National confederation of youth clubs in Iceland (Iceland) Stuck Together project , the Five nations partners UK Youth, Youth Action Northern Ireland, Youth CYMRU and Youth Scotlands Big Music Project and Lithuanian Children & Youth Center practice in youth work looking at education through non formal methods. Each partner will take on one area to specialise in based on their own knowledge. These will include:Employment - UK – (Four nations) - EmployabilityEnter- prise - Iceland - Enterprise – business sideEducation – IrelandYouth Work Practice – Lithuania focussing on non – formal methods leading to competences oriented to their employability or making decisions on their professional studies.The project will produce an online toolkit/site for how to support young people’s growth at the end of the project by focussing on desktop research, information sharing from existing information within each organisation and transnational meetings.This online toolkit/site will use an interactive content management system to create a space for rentention and disemention of material and policy after the project has completed. It will have active users who will be champion certain updates on the site similar to an online publication or blog as well as having an internal backend where users can link together on further projects and discuss current policy and initiatives. The site will work off an ACL which stands for Access Control List, it will allow the project partners to manage the users of the site, and different groups. This will create extensive control on who can see what and who can edit or manage what. This online toolkit/site will be able to embed and host existing information available and will act as a very crucial hub and online community for youth workers, volunteers and policy makers within Europe and further afield. This project will tie into the “EU Youth Strategy (2010 - 2018) policy cooperation framework of the EU by adhering to its main objectivesTo provide more and equal opportunities for young people in education and in the labour marketTo encourage young people to be active citizens and participate in societyAs youth clubs and projects provide a safe space for young people to develop new skills we believe this is the perfect space to develop a programme which will support the growth of these young people into cultural entrepreneurs.In a report by EY commissioned by Gesac entitled “Creating growth - Measuring cultural and creative markets in the EU published in December 2014 we can see the importance of supporting and developing young peoples skills and expertise within the creative and music industries that exist. As stated in the report these industries contribute to revenues of €535.9b with the creative and cultural industries (CCIs) contribute to 4.2% of Europe’s GDP. The sector is its third-largest employer, after construction and food and beverage service activities, such as bars and restaurants.The project will have a significant impact on a European level by creating a pan European youth focussed programme which will further contribute to empowerment of young people to express themselves as well as further upskilling them to explore third level education thus leading them to further contribute to the growth of the music and cultural industries that exist across Europe. The project will use a have some clearly defined intellectual outputs which will be produced under a creative commons license (Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Internation- al) this will mean that the material produced from the project can be shared (copied and redistributed in any medium or format) and can be adapted (Including remixing, transformation and can be built upon for any purpose even commercially). As part of this the licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. A part of the license there must be appropriate attribution — users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. This may be done in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

COORDINATOR: Youth Work Ireland 20 Lower Dominick Street Dublin 1 Dublin, Ireland www.youthworkireland.ie

CONTACT: Barry Lennon SP352 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: Lietuvos vaiku ir jaunimo centras, LT; Welsh Association of Youth Clubs, Youth Cymru, UK; Samfés, samtök félagsmiðstöðva á Íslandi, IS; Youth Scotland, UK; YouthAction Northern Ireland, UK; UK Youth, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 144 342 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 27 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Increasing attainment levels

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP353

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016713

TITLE: VIRTUAL YOUTH WORK

DESCRIPTION: This is a new and innovative project which is based on the need to enhance the youth work skills of young people and youth workers in a multi-media context. The world of multimedia changes rapidly. Youth workers need to understand and capture this environment to ensure relevance and ongoing enhancement of the young people they work with. In turn, young people need to be supported to use their skills in this virtual world of communication to enhance and not isolate - to develop associations with each other both virtually and also in real time. This project will bring three groups of young people together within a moderated online progressive gaming environment to develop technical and collaboration skills as well as encouraging engagement with and an understanding of the communities in which they live. Participants will work together to locate, design and construct the town, researching and negotiating the various considerations and dilemmas inherent in such a project. The work will be undertaken within their country teams and in collaboration with the teams in the other two countries. Participants will base the designs on replicating buildings in their own towns, thus encouraging them to get out and learn about their own built environment. They will also be encouraged to research the housing of vulnerable groups, refugees, travellers, disabled people and the homeless within our communities. The project will then expand in year three creating a multiplier effect across the partner countries as 3 new groups are introduced to the concept and encouraged to create their own versions of youth town bringing the project directly to another 30 participants and 6 youth workers, in each country. Towards the final stages of the project, once the platform and the methodology has been established, each participant will be encouraged to invite 10 of their friends to visit youth town and to learn about the project, this will directly access 300 people in each country. The final conference will be an opportunity to launch the methodology to youth work organisations and other relevant stakeholders. A community of youth work practitioners will be encouraged through the project website as will interaction between a growing number of young players on the games platform and the social media.The training methodology will be:Based on non-formal education principles Encourage self-directed learning Include reflection Rely on peer-to-peer learning and sharing Incorporate experiential learningDirect accredited training programme through LIT RATIONALEThis project addresses the fact that increasingly young people are spending significant amounts of their time playing online games and investing much of their creativity, their personal and collective identities in computer gameMcGonigal points out that, “every single day, gamers worldwide spend a collective 30 million hours working on world of warcraft (the largest global MMORPG) McGonigal (2011;60). Statistics for Minecraft, while not available would be consistent with this scale. According to Ceclie Peasce this intensive, prolonged, interaction can generate a strong sense of community and collective identity which she describes as a ’CoLiberation’, Pearce (2006). This ability to play with, and assist friends in such a casual and accessible manner builds the social connections of players and, according to McGonigal (2011:87), helps address the decline in social capita within “real world communities.This project will seek to address the prolonged and sometimes obsessive exposure by young people to unmoderated negative behaviour in games by designing a game based on youth work values and approaches. This project seeks to address the decline in civic engagement by young people and seeks to implement the recommendations of recent European Commission JRC research on the use of games for social inclusionTrasnational Rationale, The transnational element in this project strengthens its appeal and benefits to young people and enhances its potential as a youth work tool across the EU

COORDINATOR: Tipperary Regional Youth Service Croke Street 0 Thurles, Ireland www.trys.ie

CONTACT: donal kelly

PARTNERS: LIMERICK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, IE; ASSOCIATION OF ACTIVE YOUTHS OF FLORINA, EL; Momentum World Community Interest Company, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 302 602 EUR SP354 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTRACT DURATION: 30 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Increasing attainment levels

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP355

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-IE01-KA205-016716

TITLE: LIMITED UTOPIAS

DESCRIPTION: Limited Utopias is a 10 month long transnational youth initiative developed by Makeshift Ensemble (IRL) and Postmodernsquare (FIN), members of the Firestarter Network. It will consist of the development of a site-specific collaborative theatre play exploring multiple perspectives on European core values and the mapping of the process of creation of this play: resulting in the development of a toolkit - including an online resource and co-working space – and a guide for best practices for international collaboration for young people. This project is a response to the current debate around migration, core European values and social responsibility as well as the particular context of the 1916 centenary in Ireland. It was based on an idea that was initiated during the “Wonderous Stories, and it’s perfect as it is youth exchange (Small House Productions, NL), becoming a practical response to a lack of resources available for young people to access opportunities on a European level both in the youth context and within the particular context of the arts.The aims and objectives of Limited Utopias are to create a collaborative theatre play that can be presented in a professional context, involve different communities in the creative process, learn and exchange skills and methods in theatre making and producing and to develop and extend resources necessary for European collaboration to other young people.The project is initiated by a core group of eight young people from our two organisations but through the sharing of resources and the collaborative process it will have an impact on the young artists of Cork and Rovaniemi, the international and migrant community of Cork as well as a wider community of young people interested in transnational opportunities.Makeshift Ensemble and Postmodernsquare are both members of the Firestarter Network and while they have a background in theatre and film respectively we share an interest and commitment to socially engaged practice and use of documentary approach. We also share a sense of responsibility toward creating opportunities for ourselves and other young people working or interested in the arts.The activities of the project are primarily in support of the main results which are a theatre performance presented in the professional context of the Cork Midsummer Festival and a toolkit -including an online resource and co-working space – and a guide for best practices for international collaboration for young people. After an initial six week research and development period the core group will spend 11 days in Cork meeting with the local migrant community and together exploring the different themes through video and theatre. This process will form the basis of the theatre play. This will be followed by a three and a half month period where the production will be develop further with the young artists working remotely using the online co-working space. The toolkit will also begin to be developed in this period. In order to support this remote process, evaluate and plan the dissemination of the results we will have a project meeting in Cork in April. This will be followed by a second residency in Cork and the presentation of the finished performance as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival. The following period will see the finalisation of the toolkit, dissemination, evaluation and a final project meeting to evaluate and plan future follow-up activities and a public event to launch the toolkit in Helsinki, Finland.The primary methodology used will consist of games, practical theatre workshops, a public performance and public conversation, round table discussions, film making and production, one on one mentoring, online collaboration, skype meetings, interviews, short field trips (visit examples of good practice in both Ireland and Finland), monthly project management meetings and evaluation, as well as small group discussions and a weekly meeting for the participants to reflect on their learning and evaluate their process in smaller groups.The practical outcomes of the initiative will be a public performance and a toolkit developed about our findings about best practice and collaboration on a European level for young people. Another result will be the learning of the participants who will broaden their horizons about theatre practice, possibilities of collaboration and producing, learn new theatre skills and processes, broaden their professional network, share experiences and learn about other cultures and practices, gain the ability to plan and execute projects in the local community and develop facilitation skills. Importantly the training will have a significant impact on the local community on the future local and international projects of the partners and the Firestarter Network and very importantly on the resources available to young people to work in an international context. On a longer term this learning and impact will change of perception of the way of enga

COORDINATOR: Makeshift Ensemble 14 Friar Street Cork, Ireland www.makeshiftensemble.com SP356 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTACT: Eszter Nemethi

PARTNERS: Postmodernsquare, FI

GRANT AMOUNT: 25 950 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 8 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 3: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; International Cooperation STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP357

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001601

TITLE: E-SUPPORT YOUR MOBILITY PREPARATION

DESCRIPTION: The experience of international mobilities offered by Youth organisations in Europe are, when well prepared, a real added value to foster European Identity. They promote a sense of tolerance towards diverse cultural and religious background as well as provide young people with soft skills to manage projects in an international setting. Those skills are particularly needed nowadays to foster employability as young people are always more and more requested to work in an interconnected environment. However, Youth Organisations in Europe are failing to use the distance learning tools that could allow them to better reach and tailored the preparation of young people before and after their mobility experience. This project aims to use IT and e-learning modules to offer tailored solution to better support the preparation of participants for international gatherings and projects, thus maximising their learning outcomes and positive impacts of such events.The project objectives are:Raising the quality of youth mobility in Europe through the development of 3 training modules that contribute to the preparation of young people for mobility ( M1-Intercultural Learning, M2-Project management, M3-Self debriefing tool)Strengthening the use of e-learning as a complementary training tools by youth organisations in Europe.Four Partners from France, Iceland, the UK and Belgium will contribute to the development of this project thanks to diverse skills, experiences and role in the project. The first objective will be achieved through the development of 3 e-learning modules that will tackle the topics of mobility, intercultural learning and project management issues. The 3 modules will be designed and adapted to the need of the partners to the project. A testing phase is foreseen by the partners organisations, and in particular, quality evaluation of the impact of the tool will be realised during the European event Roverway 2016 and during youth exchanage activities developed by CISV.7 000 young people in Europe will be directly targeted during the implementation of the project with a final target to more than 50000 young people from all over Europe.The second objective will be achieved through a specific dissemination event, which will aim to promote the three outputs of the project, and inform the stakeholders about the way they can employ e-learning in their educational proposal and use the existing modules as a base for that. The planning team of the project will try to ensure, upon request, proper support of other stakeholders on their own development of training strategy, including distance learning as complementary tool. In a long terms perspective, it is expect that the project will impact the national and European level through:- a better recognition of the impact of mobility actions as a way to develop soft skills and competences for life needed for raising employability of young people. This will be achieved through the work that will be done on assessing these skills via the e-learning modules;- continue to support the use of distance learning in education. The evaluation of the testing of the tool in a large scale will contribute indeed to provide theoretical analyses based on the impact of the tools on learners. This contributes to feed education research on this educative tools and methodologies.

COORDINATOR: Skátamót ehf Hraunbæ 123 110 Reykjavik, Iceland www.worldscoutmoot.is

CONTACT: Jon Ingvar Bragason

PARTNERS: ASBL - BUREAU EUROPEEN DU SCOUTISME, BE; Association Roverway 2016, FR; CISV International, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 68 459 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 21 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 2: High quality learning opportunities

TOPIC 1: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation SP358 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Open and distance learning

CLUSTER(S): International Cooperation; Teaching and Training; New Technologies and Digital Competences STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP359

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001606

TITLE: FAIL FORWARD - DEVELOPMENT OF FAIL-RESILIENCE WORKSHOPS AND THE MOVEMENT

DESCRIPTION: The times that people could stop learning when they left the formal education system are over. In today’s society people and especially young people have to learn during and for the rest of their life in all areas of life meaning both personally and professionally. Very often people who do or did not well in school (the formal education system) feel they cannot learn or don’t have the learning skills they need to learn what they would like or need to. They don’t know what their talents and passions are, what their life mission is, what learning goals they want to set for themselves let alone how to achieve those goals. They let the failing in the formal system limit their passion for learning and their ability to move through the failing. This shows how strong the impact of failing to make the mark is on people. It pushes people back in their comfort zone and tells them to stay there because learning is not for them. Because of this coping mechanism towards failing, society misses out on a lot of learning potential and talents. More and more research shows that people who are able to see failing and making mistakes as part of a learning and moving forward are more successful in learning and in life in general. One of the conclusions of the previous strategic partnership on Failing forward was that if people have so called fail-resilience, meaning the ability to deal with failing in a constructive way without denying it hurts or being pushed back in their safe comfort zone, they tend to go more for what they really want out of life and for developing their talents instead of playing small and staying comfortable. During the trainings we observed how big the impact of permission to fail and knowing that you are surrounded by a community of people who are failing forward is especially on young people. This strenghtens us, the partners in this partnership, in the conviction that there is a need for tools and workshops that support the development of fail-resilience for young people. Building resilience is like going to the gym, the more you train the muscle the stronger it gets. This means that if the supporters of learning we plan to work with start early young people will grow up developing this skill and get stronger at it as they move through life. This will contribute to the climate of life long learning and to using all the potential we have in society. During this 18 month long project on fail forward and building fail resilience we want to train educators (youth workers, trainers, coaches ect) in how to support the learners they work with in developing their fail resilience. An essential part of fail resilience is being part of a community of practice where you can admit that failing is not fun and hurts and get support from peers who are also out there taking risks and playing big. So next to developing tools and workshops on fail resilience and how to train it we also want to invest in further developing the fail forward movement as a community of practice and support. The objectives of this partnership are:- develop tools and workshops for educators working with young people on fail resilience and how to train it that can be used both in the international trainings and in the local context of the 4 partner organisations - develop and implement an international learning activity to develop tools and workshops to train fail-resilience. The participants of this learning activity will be educators willing to develop tools and workshops, test them during the training and further implement them in the local context they work in to build the capacity of both the partner organisations and the fail forward movement.- further develop and facilitate the fail forward-movement as a community of fail forward practice and support for everyone who wants to train their fail-resilience- build the capacity of the partner organisations by 1) translating the concept of fail-resilience (one of the outcomes of previous partnership) in concrete tools and workshops that are usable in different learning contexts locally and European and 2)developing and facilitating the fail forward movement as a community of practice and support that can grow and continue to exist beyond this partnership- share the outcomes and (intellectual) output (02) of this partnership with both the wider community of educators the partner organisations have direct access to and the general public and society by 1) offering the tools and workshops to all educators we work with in our local and international context and 2) using the website and facebookpages of both the partners and the fail forward movement to share the resources developed within the partnership with people who believe failing is part of learning and moving forward.

COORDINATOR: Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður Skagfirdingabraut 17-21 550 Saudarkrokur, Iceland www.skagafjordur.is

CONTACT: Thorvaldur Grondal SP360 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: Molde kommune, NO; Inspirational Network, UK; Take Initiative vzw, BE

GRANT AMOUNT: 59 401 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP361

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001609

TITLE: REITIR BÓK

DESCRIPTION: Reitir - tools for transformation is a bookwork that addresses the methodologies and results of Reitir past four years. REITIR has annually invited a number of people from around the world to Siglufjörður to participate in an experimental approach to the traditional art workshop. REITIR invites young professionals from all around the world with all sorts of expertise to the northern part of Iceland to collaborate on innovative works that address the town of Siglufjörður, in one way or another. The book promotes the methods used and communicates the knowledge that has been created through Reitir the past years. It will be published online as a free ebook as well as a printed paperback.

COORDINATOR: Reitir Freyjulundur Akureyri, Iceland www.reitir.com

CONTACT: Arnar Ómarsson

PARTNERS: Haack_Marteinsson, DK

GRANT AMOUNT: 23 295 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability SP362 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-IS02-KA205-001611

TITLE: STORY OF MY HEART

DESCRIPTION: Story of my heart is a transnational filmmaking project between creative, young filmmakers in Iceland and Lithuania.The objective of the project is the production of the short film Story of My Heart by Jasmin Rexhepi, a young, Icelandic Kosovo Albanian that came to Iceland as a political refugee himself. The film tells the story of a young mother who is forced to flee pregnant to northern Iceland, where she gives birth to her son, Jazz. Through intense visuals and sound, the film tells the story of their struggles and life as Jazz grows older and is diagnosed with a deadly decease. The film brings an important message with the refugee problems we face in the world today.On the other hand the projects objective is to document the process of the filmmaking and the collaboration of the two countries and their young filmmakers - a collaboration that was established with a filmmaking seminar for young filmmakers, Scanorama Shortcut in Iceland and Lithuania in 2015. The group in Iceland and Lithuania will aim to make the film as professionally as our knowledge goes and our diverse background and passion for filmmaking, and with network already starting to establish we are confident about taking on the project and execute it on transnational ground as it fits best and will serve its educational purpose best that way with wider reach. In the project young adults will be given the opportunity to work on their filmmaking skills and honing their talent, which they might otherwise find difficult since it is always hard to get funding for a starting projects. We hope that the co-operation between the countries will be beneficial to both partners. Each company brings different people with different set of skills to the table who can then learn from each other. We also hope that this partnership will lead to a continuing collaboration on a larger project in the future.One of the emphasis of the project is gender equality and there will be put effort into keeping gender ratio as close to 50 / 50 as possible. The two groups will be lead by the film production companies New Age Icelandic Films, who will provide main support and management of the project, and Lithuanian VsI Sviestas, who will provide minor support and management and also technical supervision in post-production. Both companies with recorded filmmaking successes as well as being run by young, talented and aspiring filmmakers. This is an Icelandic-Lithuanian co-production where the script is written in Iceland, pre-production is handled jointly by both participant companies, the film will be shot on location in Northern Iceland over a period of one week with Kosovar and Icelandic actors and a mix of Icelandic and Lithuanian crew and post-production will be done to a large extent in Lithuania. The participans list :Ásþór Aron Þorgríms- son, Iceland, Producer, - Representative for the Icelandic groupUnnsteinn Garðarsson, Iceland, Line Pro- ducer, - Contact personBirnir Jón Sigurðsson, Iceland, Camera department and photographyÍris Stefanía Skúladóttir, Iceland, directorJasmin Rexhepi, Iceland / Kosovo, scriptwriter / production departmentAnna Sæunn Ólafsdóttir, Iceland, Production departmentÓskar Kristinn Vignisson, Iceland, Production of docu- mentaryRuta Buciunaite, Lithuania, Producer - Representative of the Lithuanian groupMarija Fridinovaite, Lithuania, Production department - Contact personMikas Žukauskas, Lithuania, director of documentary (No attached CV but info on this link:http://www.lfc.lt/en/Page=PersonList&ID=7598&PersonType=Di- rector&C=%C5%BD )Marius Pocevičius, Lithuania, assistant directorLina Simutytė, Lithuania, assistant scriptwriter and scriptwriter of documentary, productionŽivilė Zablackaitė, Lithuania, project manager

COORDINATOR: New Age Icelandic Films Asparfelli 6 111 Reykjavik, Iceland www.naif.is

CONTACT: Unnsteinn Gardarsson

PARTNERS: VsI Sviestas, LT

GRANT AMOUNT: 30 160 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: High quality learning opportunities STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP363

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Employability SP364 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-IT03-KA205-006677

TITLE: RAP E PARKOUR: LARTE DI STRADA PER FAVORIRE LINCLUSIONE SOCIALE E CULTURALE DEI GIOVANI

DESCRIPTION: The RAPKOUR project aims at sustaining an initiative towards young people and trainers operating in the youth associations through the integration of 2 artistic and sportive disciplines such as rap and parkour, that were born and developed “in the street, according to their own rules, not always certifiable. Rap and parkour are often marginalized and practiced by restricted group of persons (sometimes people with disadvantages at economic, social, cultural, ethnic and urban level), although they have a very wide audience worldwide, especially among youngs. The risk is that these activities could help the spreading of negative values and non-educative behaviors: the line between art, exhibition and vandalism is thin.The RAPKOUR project challenge is to create a bridge between creativity of young people and the local communities in order to create a training and learning path to strengthen the valorization and sharing of urban spaces, creativity, sportive and physical activity. The project wants to promote the activities connected with rap and parkour in correct and legal pathways, able to bring positive values, encouraging the artistic expression and the participation, developing social and civic competences. The main goals of the RAPKOUR project are the delivery and experimentation of a blended methodology through distance and in-presence activities, theoretical and practical in order to make traceurs (people who practices parkour) and rappers, from different countries, interacting together.Trainers operating in youth associations and over 15 young people will be involved in the RAPKOUR project. As for the teachers involved in the experimentation phase, they will be people engaged in teaching music, dance, acting, sports trainers, vocational trainers. 12 of them, four from each country involved, will participate in the training phase. The project is based on three main steps: the needs analysis; the production of the training materials; the delivery of an training pathways for educators operating in the youth associations and later for young people. The needs analysis aims at identifying the best practices and methodologies currently applied in the processes of social and cultural integration. The Curriculum will define the objectives of the training path both for trainers and young people. After the research phase, partners will proceed to deliver the training materials; to select participants and finally to deliver the training pathway. At the end of the course the young people will be asked to produce their own works.After the experimentation phase, partners will produce the documentary TRACKS, which will have the aim of promoting and describing the activities carried out by participants during the project and to bring out their creativity, the urban heritage and the relationship between the performances and the urban landscape.Therefore, the project will provide young people a greater awareness of their potential, the possibility of redemption and the spirit of initiative, encouraging their participation in the exploitation of the places in the city, taking advantage of their creativity to generate inclusive messages and practices. If rap stimulates musical knowledge and cultural creativity and imagination, parkour aims at increasing the awareness of the importance of practicing a physical activities, health and outdoor activities to contrast disadvantages.The trainers will acquire new skills in teaching subjects such as rap and parkour which spread positive values and face the social, cultural and urban exclusion. Young people will be able to stimulate and use their creativity through the practice of rap and parkour in order to spread positive messages and to promote the places of the city where they express their own creations. The achievement of the project objectives will benefit local institutions, always struggling against the monetary costs due to urban vandalism. Finally RAPKOUR will lead to a mutual respect between rappers, traceurs and citizens.In order to ensure the sustainability of the project, RAPKOUR project will design and deliver a web platform, a sort of advanced forum where street arts practitioners will find a place to exchange, share and co-create rhymes, video, the shared composition artistic expressions. The platform wants to be a social network linked to rap and parkour that is not just a way to share, but a place where working transnationally.

COORDINATOR: Millimetri di Andrea Anconetani Via De Gasperi 82 60125 Ancona, Italy www.millimetri.it

CONTACT: Andrea Anconetani

PARTNERS: Traditions et Guerison, FR; AlbiAsta, PT STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP365

GRANT AMOUNT: 193 055 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Health and wellbeing

TOPIC 3: Inclusion - equity

CLUSTER(S): Health and Medicine; Inclusion and Tolerance SP366 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-IT03-KA205-006975

TITLE: VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTHS EMPOWERMENT

DESCRIPTION: The Visually impaired youths empowerment /V.I.E.W./ is a project with a duration of 24 months, targeting young people with visual impairment to become youth workers and trainers/motivators of other young people with fewer opportunities. The consortium consists of 2 social enterprise organizations DialogMu- seum Frankfurt and International Council for Cultural Centers (I3C) in BG, an institute for the v.i. in Palermo (applicant) and the union of the blind in Cagliari, training and arts organisations in Sardinia (Isogea) and Sicily (MusicArte), Royal charity enterprise using drama for training of visually impaired youths (UCAN Productions in Wales) and the school for v.i. children in Sofia, BG. The bouquet of partner organizations pocesses specific knowledge and expertise in the field of social inclusion, peer learning, theatre training, youth empowerment applying different methods to combat youth unemployment and social exclusion of young people with fewer opportunities.The key objective of the project is to encourage young people’s active participation in society in general, by designing, testing and implementing tailor-made training sessions and workshops for young people with fewer opportunities from different cultural and social backgrounds, led and moderated by visually impaired youth workers. A methodology, outlining the whole process of training visually impaired young people, who wish to become youth workers will be developed. It will be then complemented by a separate manual (in Braille, large print, digital and audio) to serve as guidelines for blind youth workers to train young people with fewer opportunities. Thus, project partners will create a sophisticated product to address the two main target groups’ needs (blind young people to become youth workers and trainers/motivators of young people with fewer opportunities).The project foresees the following specific interrelated objectives:- develop an innovative training program V.I.E.W., combining the bread-related community building approach, the dialogue in the dark approach and the theatre training VISION program;- develop two manuals - for applying the V.I.E.W. program - one for the staff (youth workers) of NGOs and educational organisations, interested to provide support to youths with fewer opportunities - and another one for the visually impaired youth workers themselves, enabling them to train and motivate other youths with fewer opportunities;- conduct one joint staff training event in Bulgaria;- conduct 1 training of young people with visual impairments to become V.I.E.W. trainers (in Palermo);- organise 5 v.i. youth workers led workshops for youths with fewer opportunities - one in each partner region - for testing the skills acquired through the V.I.E.W. training program.- organise 5 multiplier events in the partner regions, led by V.I.E.W. trainers.Within the project the following tangible results will be produced:1. Training program V.I.E.W.;2. Manual for youth workers to train visually impaired young people as V.I.E.W. trainers;3. Manual for visually impaired youth workers.The developed methodology is expected to:- increase employability opportunities of young people with visual impairments;- support the development of young people centered youth work;- educate a sense of tolerance among young people;- foster active participation in the society of young people;- develop career management skills among young people with fewer opportunities.The project long term results will be to raise the awareness of the society towards the challenges of young visually impaired people. A network of V.I.E.W. supporters will be developed at local and national level to further apply and disseminate the V.I.E.W. methodology.

COORDINATOR: Istituto dei Ciechi Florio Salamone Via Angiò, 27 90142 Palermo, Italy http://www.istciechipalermo.it

CONTACT: Carmela Patti

PARTNERS: UCAN Productions, UK; Unione Italiana dei Ciechi e degli Ipovedenti ONLUS Consiglio Regionale per la Sardegna, IT; Sredno Obshtoobrazovatelno Uchilishte “Lui Brail”, BG; International council for cultural centers, BG; Dialogmuseum gGmbH, DE; Isogea, IT; Music’Arte, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 199 362 EUR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP367

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Disabilities - special needs

TOPIC 2: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP368 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-IT03-KA205-007030

TITLE: PEOPLE, PLACES, PARTNERSHIPS: FROM YOUTH INITIATIVES TO COMMUNITY HUBS

DESCRIPTION: The project “People, Places, Partnerships responds to the context of youth employment crisis and a resulting period of uncertainty and insecurity for many young people in Europe. It offers a model of youth empowerment which is linked to entrepreneurship (3P Model) and can be utilised and used in many communities in Europe. The model is developed and tested by the Consortium of Partners from eight European countries and evaluated by the project’s target group – young people, youth workers, municipalities and local stakeholders. The result is a set of tools for implementation of the model, including the Guidebook of the 3P Model with lessons learned and the easy-to-use online sharing and learning platform which will sustain after termination of the project. Young people with fewer opportunities are the main target group of the project. It is expected that they learn how to think and act as entrepreneurs; plan, implement and sustain their projects and design them as community-oriented services. Through analysing the needs and resources of their community and fostering partnerships with local stakeholders, young people are enabled to turn existing youth structures, such as youth clubs or centres, into sustainable Community Hubs, places for community dialogue, learning and service provision. A supportive training programme is designed by the Consortium of Partners and enables young people to strengthen their project management, communication and leadership skills, as well as increase their employability potential. The long-term goal of the project is that more youth initiatives are offered as services to the community, and youth centres and clubs become youth-led Community Hubs where young people take ownership of their ideas, actions and results. The project methodology is based on a set of collaborative tools and outputs (Community Maps, Community Visions, Sustainability Plans). The political dimension involves policy work with municipalities on sustaining Community Hubs. International meetings are crucial elements in the development of this model and this project. They will include partners’ meetings to steer the process, the training of youth workers to deliver the training programme, and an international youth exchange, both online and face-to-face.

COORDINATOR: CISV corso Chieri 121/6 10132 Torino, Italy www.cisvto.org

CONTACT: Roberto Varone

PARTNERS: INTERNATIONALE AKADEMIE FUR INNOVATIVE PADAGOGIK PSYCHOLOGIE UND OKONOMIE GGMBH (INA), DE; Ajuntament de Lliçà de Vall - Casal de Joves El Kaliu, ES; Fundatia Comunitara Bacau, RO; Associazione di Promozione Sociale YEPP Italia, IT; Hellenic Youth Participation, EL; Association for better life, SK; Solna Youth Center, SE; Romano jasnica, spolek, CZ

GRANT AMOUNT: 201 955 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP369

TOPIC 2: Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment; Employability SP370 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-LU02-KA205-000209

TITLE: POTENTIAL4LIFE

DESCRIPTION: Everyone responds to tasks differently. Do you need to experiment in order to understand? Do you plan everything you do in advance? What does safety mean to you? How about creativity? Or progress? If you are aware of your own cognitive processes, you have what is called metacognitive ability. It has been proven that school students who develop metacognitive abilities share a greater chance of success in school and in the rest of their life. They are able to identify what makes learning meaningful for them. resulting in a profound sense of empowerment and an improved engagement with their studies. However, this is not fully recognised in the cultural mainstream, and formal educational systems demand that students fit in with only one idea of successful working. Inner diversity - the way one learns, communicates and processes information - can therefore be a trigger for exclusion from education. Students who do not fit the model can find it hard to derive meaning from their experience and feel that education is simply not for them. They may disengage intellectually or emotionally from their studies and from planning their futures, or they may drop out of school entirely. This of course has a great impact on self-confidence and their ability to succeed in the rest of their lives.Our objective is to improve educational outcomes for secondary school age students by helping them to reflect on their individual learning styles. Our project will offer them tangible strategies to adapt better to the formal education system. To this end, we envisage this potential Erasmus+ project as the pilot process among school communities, targeting students aged 12 to 16, to develop a unique and attractive set of pedagogical activities and materials on the theme of inner diversity.We would like to pilot a programme of activities targeting school students aged 12-16, offering opportunities to students aged 16-18 to facilitate, so as to educate them about the principles of inner diversity and how they can use them to: (a) recognise and describe their own way of learning; (b) notice similar or different patterns in others; (c) develop strategies to better participate in learning environments, including resilience, self-determination and self-regulation. We will work in conjunction with partner educational NGOs who already have strong connections to schools in their local area. AMO Reliance supports young people in Belgium experiencing difficulties in their personal and educational life. Ofensiva Tinerilor EPTO has a long history of developing and facilitating non-formal educational programmes around the themes of diversity and personal development. Our aim will be to develop the programme with members of these organisations, in consultation with an advisory group of non-formal educational experts, experts in the field of cognitive diversity, teachers from the respective formal educational systems, and school students. Local NGOs will then facilitate workshops in schools directly, as well as training older students to continue the programme by training their peers. Through our work in 4 secondary schools, we will reach 75 teachers and staff as well as 225 students in our first year. We will explore different possibilities of interaction, combining the classic workshop structure developed in conjunction with EPTO with games making use of digital media. By the end of an academic year’s piloting, strengthened by an action-research process, we will have a full-blown training programme, shaped by the young people it aims to support. We would like to see students reporting an increase in self-confidence. We also hope to see teachers and other school actors reporting a deeper understanding of differences in student learning, as well as deeper confidence in developing strategies to address them. The project is sustainable: schools will retain access to the materials we will develop, and the peer education element means they can repeat the trainings for generations of students, and introduce them to new schools without us. The students reached will be helped to understand better how they function, how they learn, and what their strengths are. They will be reassured that there really is a place for them in school, as in society.

COORDINATOR: 10, Rue du Commerce 4067 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg www.4motion.lu

CONTACT: Gary Diderich

PARTNERS: STICHTING UNIVERSAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION, NL; aide à la jeunesse, BE; EUROPEAN PEER TRAINING ORGANISATION, BE; INSTITUT EUROPEEN D’EDUCATION ET DE POLITIQUE SOCIALE, FR; OFENSIVA TINERILOR ASOCIATIA, RO STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP371

GRANT AMOUNT: 130 229 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

TOPIC 2: Health and wellbeing

TOPIC 3: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Health and Medicine SP372 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-LV02-KA205-000921

TITLE: YOUNG ANIMAL ADVOCATES - TRAINING FOR YOUNG TRAINERS IN THE MEDIATION OF AGRICULTURAL ISSUES AND ETHICAL CONSUMPTION PATTERNS

DESCRIPTION: In general, children and youth care very deeply about the well-being of animals and develop a strong relationship towards them. At the same time young people witness animal welfare issues in agriculture and entertainment industries. This is where the interest of young activists and the European Commission meet for the EU Strategy for Protection and Welfare of animals 2012 – 2015 also sees animal welfare severely compromised in the EU and consumer information and education one of the most effective means to alleviate the issue. However, such information dissemination targeting youth is largely lacking in Eastern European countries or taken over by non-governmental organisations like this project’s consortium.Therefore four youth organisations from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland active in the field of youth participation for animal welfare, agricultural transparency, sustainable food production and consumer rights will combine their expertise to develop and carry out a European project. The objective of the project is to develop the skills and competences of youth participating as volunteers in animal protection organizations. This will be achieved by creating 48-page digital manual Becoming Active for Animals and organizing a blended training event for 44 young animal protection volunteers to gain new skills and knowledge necessary for active participation in the shaping of national policies regarding animal welfare and agricultural transparency. By developing a European level, different language versions (En- glish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Polish) are used, contents are designed inter-culturally sensitive and a systematic pan-European evaluation of the measures of the project is carried out. This project does not only promote the participation of the youth in public discourse and political decisions but also strengthens the capacity for effectiveness and efficiency within the partner organizations alike. It allows the uptake of the project results by other NGOs and youth institutions providing a facilitated transfer into their own national context. For documentation and interaction purposes an ICT-based communication infrastructure will be installed and maintained. The project comprises project management, two transnational meetings, blended 3 day online training based on contents of the project product - digital manual - and a 5 day presence training event for 44 participants. At least 5 presentations from the training event will be documented on high quality video and published online afterwards. The development of a digital manual, project web presence and file-sharing database as well as dissemination activities are all covered by the project management costs for reasons of efficiency. For the partner organisations the proposed project promises a unique, inter-cultural knowledge exchange, the exploitation of synergy effects and significant improvement in their youth work. Staff from the participating organizations will implement and run at least two meetings collecting the heads of all partners to share their experience in youth work and communicate best practice examples in a peer learning format. These activities will take place at venues of two partnering countries. To the partner organisations the enhancement of their information offers in a European context signifies the usage of synergy effects with very much alike organisations, the testing of their instruments for a target audience abroad and consequently the disclosure of a new, intercultural target audience, an internationalization of their expertise and research, a mutual enrichment by their diverse cultural and educational approaches, an exchange of best practices and a shared infrastructure. Other thematically related youth organisations and NGOs throughout Europe can use the projects results freely under the creative commons licence. Including the proposed project products into their own project portfolio allows for strengthened educational offer themselves. Knowledge actively gained through the project will then be disseminated through the organizations national information channels, engaging in public relations and youth work nation-wide and exploiting the multiplier effect.

COORDINATOR: Eduarda Smilga 52-4 LV-1002 Riga, Latvia www.dzivniekubriviba.lv

CONTACT: Katrina Krigere STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP373

PARTNERS: Loomade Nimel Toetusselts MTÜ, EE; Stowarzyszenie Otwarte Klatki, PL; VsI “Tusti narvai”, LT

GRANT AMOUNT: 36 825 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 7 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): International Cooperation; Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment SP374 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-MK01-KA205-021422

TITLE: YOUTHOCRACY - EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR PROMOTION AND INTRODUCTION OF GOOD PRACTICES ABOUT YOUTH WORK, VOLUNTEERISM AND ACTIVISM THROUGH NON FORMAL EDUCATION.

DESCRIPTION: The idea about ,,Youthocracy began during a training seminar in May 2014, when some of the current partners met, and later on discussed the possibilities for collaboration. later on, the representatives from the applicant organization met the Italian partners during an Erazmus+ meeting and discussed their entry into the project. At the moment, it was identified a need to support young people with training and networking activities with focus on promoting youth development, non formal education through a variety of creative approaches and methods as well as research and share of best practices among the partners, as well share of those practices with home based organizations in Macedonia, Austria and Italy.Youthocracy has a mission to create and share best practices and methods for empowerment, engagement an activation for youth, through establishment of a network/web of European youth organizations that all work by using innovative, but different methods and approaches. The desired objectives are:- Stimulate and create coordinating body of 3 European youth organizations that will work together on creation, promotion and introduction of practices on topics such as: youth involvement in community development, experiences and best practices & provide training and non formal education to youth. (as a follow up there will be efforts made in order to enlarge the network, thus promote various methods and approaches of youth work and best practices even more).- Promotion and introduction of innovative methods and approaches related to non formal education for youth, through usage of theater, music, art, environment, social and economic issues and topics.- Strengthen the capacity and increase the knowledge of youth workers across Europe - through creation of a web platform on which organizations from Macedonia, Austria and Italy will be invited to share their best practices related to youth work (guest organizations - minimum 15, meaning 5 per country + 3 coordinating ones).The project strives towards achievement of sustainable change in support of youth development through additional non formal education for young people and networking opportunities for youth workers. The activities that will be realized through the project consist of:- creation and providing of training programs, -networking, -share of experiences and resources, -public policy efforts and work together to improve the quality of youth services and promote youth development principles across a broad range of communities, etc.The need for realization of ,,Youthocracy envisions communities filled with youth amd youth workers who can achieve personal and academic success, but also social success and contribution; be connected to adults and their community; have a positive vision of their future and grow up to be healthy, productive and civic-minded adults. Through the realization of the project 3 youth organizations across Europe will work together in order to discuss and share best practices and experiences from their past, present and future planned youth work, as well as to work on creation of 3 different training courses for youth based upon different kind of methods and approaches (environment, art, music, theater, activism, volunterism, etc.). After the project ends, these training courses will be applied through the Erazmus+ programme, KA1.The target group of the project consists of:- Di- rectly involved: youth workers and youth organizations, local authorities (municipalities from the targeted 3 countries which will have their own contribution to the process) , and additionally 15 organizations, 5 per country that will be invited by every partner/coordinator organization.- Follow up involved: youth organizations and youth workers from the targeted 3 countries - spreading of the network, dissemination of the platform, and realization of additional activities (expected, additional 5-7 more organizations per country- Follow up involved (2): youth organizations and youth workers across all of Europe, through dissemination of the platform to other networks, mailing lists, social networks, etc. - Follow up involved (3): additional municipalities, representatives from local authorities, etc.The project strives towards achievement of sustainable change in support of youth development through additional non formal education for young people and networking opportunities for youth workers. Through its realization there will be a better understanding of non formal education, recognition of youth workers skills and qualifications across Europe. Sharing is caring, so lets share our knowledge and our positive and negative experience in order to find the best suitable way to transfer knowledge to the young population. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP375

COORDINATOR: Eco Logic Blvd. Mitropolit T. Gologanov 72/1/2 1000 Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia www.ecologic.mk

CONTACT: Nikola Neshkoski

PARTNERS: Amici del Centro socio culturale San Francesco, IT; Marktgemeinde Lauterach OJA Lauterach, AT

GRANT AMOUNT: 19 945 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 10 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Open and distance learning

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment; New Technologies and Digital Competences SP376 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-MT01-KA205-015040

TITLE: ISLANDERS - CAPITALISING ON TOURISM TO INCREASE THE EMPLOYABILITY OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH FEWER OPPORTUNITIES

DESCRIPTION: This project under KA2; Strategic Partnerships will bring together young people from four islands; Malta, Azores (Portugal), Cagliari (Italy) and Crete (Greece). Apart from the fact that we are all islands, therefore also disadvantaged due to the double insularity, with a small population we also share a common concern; the growing percentage of young people who are NEETs. Although we will be using the same methods to target the NEETs within our society we will be focusing on different target groups. Malta will focus on young people with social and economical difficulties that have spent most of their years in an institution and may not have the same access to education, training and employment. The Azores, Crete and Cagliari will focus on youth unemployability due to the recent soaring percentage rate in this area. This project will take place over a period of two years starting from January 2016 and will target 40 young people that are NEETs.In order to equip the young people in these islands with competences that will make them more employable we will be providing them with skills related to the tourism sector. This is an important sector for all four islands since it provides a big share of the national GDP and thus it might be easier to find employment in this area or utilise the skills obtained to further their studies. Through this project , the young people will also receive entrepreneurial skills with the ultimate aim of making this project self-sustainable. It is also for this reason that the Institute of Tourism Studies have been roped in as partners in this project since they can provide professional training to the young people.This project will consist of two main phases divided into smaller phases to create more manageable and tangible tasks . In the first phase, the young people will receive skills and training related to the tourism sector, how to be entrepreneurial and how to manage an enterprise successfully including project management, customer handling and marketing. Part of their training will also consist in learning a second language or if it is the case a third one. The young people will also receive training on how to use social media, how to build a website and make use of other promotional material which will not only increase their digital competence but will also serve to kick start the process for the second phase of the project. Thus, this project will involve specialised training from ITS staff, the NGOs will recruit youth workers who will be in direct contact with the young people and will also include a web developer that will aide the project achieve the target sets as intellectual outputs. Phase 1 will finish with the young people in each country coming together and explore what activities they can pursue in the tourism sector which are attractive for tourists and which once the project is over they can be sustainable and remunerable. In the second phase the young people will be putting in practice the new skills and knowledge received and hence the young people will advertise their services, receive bookings and once the tourists arrive in the country organize, manage and oversee the activities. This project will also include three transnational project meetings that will contribute to the preparation, implementation and evaluation phase of the project. In order to be able to implement the project, the young people will be meeting in Malta for a training. All the information gathered through this project and the promotion of the project itself will then be uploaded on a dedicated website. A press conference will conclude this project in which Prisms will be inviting the media, participants, residential institutions in Malta, MHRA and other NGOs to share methods used and also present outcomes. The impact of this project will primarily be on the young people participating since they will increase their chance of employability through the new skills and knowledge received. The project aims also to be self-sustainable once the funding period is over since the young people can continue running the tourist services and can start operating as a social enterprise.

COORDINATOR: PRISMS Malta 39, Alexander Street HMR 1524 Hamrun, Malta www.prismsmalta.com

CONTACT: Clive Bonnici STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP377

PARTNERS: ASSOCIACAO JUVENIL DA ILHA TERCEIRA, PT; PERIFERIAKI DIEFTHINSI PROTOVATHMIAS KAI DEFTEROVATHMIAS EKPAIDEFSIS KRITIS, EL; Institute of Tourism Studies, MT; TDM 2000, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 130 240 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Employability SP378 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-NL02-KA205-001127

TITLE: CHANGING THE GAME BY CHANGING ITS PLAYERS

DESCRIPTION: The strategic partnership “Changing the Game by Changing its Players focusses on young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and embraces sport as a tool for social change. The aim of the project is to contribute towards the development of solutions for issues related to e.g. youth unemployment and living in unsafe communities that young people deal with internationally. The underlying assumption is that young people need a safe, inclusive and enabling environment to realize their full potential (and be the future drivers of positive change within their communities). Herein the project specifically focusses on central role of community sport coaches. The general objective of the project is to create a safe, inclusive and enabling environment for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds through high-quality training of community sport coaches, focusing on sport as a tool to manage conflict, acquire lifeskills and facilitate entrepreneurship. More specifically the objective is to develop an internationally recognised standard for community sport coaches, sport for community building, youth development & entrepreneurship, and the development of a strategic partnership wherein a variety of organisations participate and jointly work together initiating new tools and techniques that community sport coaches can use in their current and future work. Characteristic is the holistic approach, with the community sport coach positioned at the centre. It is the community sport coach that works on a daily basis with disadvantaged youth. Additionally, they possess a unique tool – sport – ‘that can unite people in a way that little else does’. However, thus far, many community sport coaches are not yet able to make use of the full potential that sport has (as a tool). As a result of the project internationally recognised and relevant curriculum will be developed and community coaches will receive high-quality training (including practical tools and techniques) about the instrumental role sport can play within their communities. The strategic partnership is formed by a variety of experts ISA, Oikos, Unify Solutions, University of Bedfordshire. Through different workshop and training settings the strategic partnership develops a curriculum for community sport coaches focusing on three themes: a) Sport & Life skills, b) Sport & Conflict management, c) Sport & Entrepreneurship. Curriculum will be developed both for the training of community sport leaders as well for the training of youth. Based on the developed curriculum three different trainings will be organized for 20 community sport coaches. Wherein each training will focus on a different theme. During the final phase of the project several multiplier events will be organised to disseminate the developed expertise and present the new curriculum. The most important result of the project is the development of curriculum that community sport coaches can use when organising structural activities for disadvantaged youth. Though a holistic approach the community sport coach should be better able to create a safe, inclusive and enabling environment wherein young people from disadvantaged youth can develop themselves optimally.

COORDINATOR: International Sports Alliance Marathonloop 1 5235 AA ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands www.isa-youth.org

CONTACT: Ward Karssemeijer

PARTNERS: UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE, UK; Unify Solutions, UK; Stichting Oikos, NL

GRANT AMOUNT: 220 840 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP379

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment; Employability SP380 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-NL02-KA205-001150

TITLE: THE BEST OF BOTH WORLD, YOUTH WORK IN A BRITSH AND A DUTCH CITY

DESCRIPTION: Experiences on working with diaspora youth of youth work in Amsterdam Zuidoost and London Lews- iam will be combined in an innovative way of youth work with this youth, published in a methodology publication. In an exchange programme of youth workers from London and Amsterdam, professionals will exchange best practices and present and discuss these topics on a joint conference. Results will be described in a methodology publication distributed among youth workers in both countries and others who are interested from different European countries. The project furthermore functions as a starting point of a European network of youth work organisations involved in youth work with diaspora youth.

COORDINATOR: Swazoom H. Freezerstraat 119b 1100 AE Amsterdam, Netherlands www.swazoom.eu

CONTACT: John Lachman

PARTNERS: SHARE THINK AND ACT COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 86 700 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP381

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-NL02-KA205-001161

TITLE: CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS THROUGH E-COMMERCE

DESCRIPTION: Creating Opportunities for Young Entrepreneurs through E-Commerce (COOYEC) is a large scale project focusing on creating employment possibilities (including self-employment) for youth with fewer opportunities: from deprived neighborhoodswith migrant backgrounds. The project will be executed in 3 countries, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands.Context/backgroundThe economic crisis, the lack of formal qualifications and the issue of work-related discrimination inspires more and more young people to leave the labour market and opt for self-employment through entrepreneurship. With this Strategic Partnership, we strive to reach target groups of young people that currently arent participating in projects fighting youth unemployment, using the experience & networks the various international partners have & represent. Most young entrepreneurs focus on local activities because they lack the knowledge of online business and e-commerce and therefore miss out on the opportunities that the Internet offers. In the coming years they will continue to lag behind in these fields, not fulfilling their potential. Every year, new online concepts and services are introduced. Youth organizations want to step in & offer courses on e-commerce, but find their own knowledge & skills relating to online business insufficientAims/objectivesThis project aims to develop a sustainable methodology, toolkit and online platform for international youth-workers, in providing transnational trainings in online entrepreneurship to youth with a bi-cultural background. The focus will be on transnational entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial opportunities offered by the bi-cultural background of the participating youth and youth workers. Besides, the partner organizations involved have been instrumental in offering courses in entrepreneurship to migrant youth with ambitions to improve their employability and position on the labour market. By cooperating in this enduring trajec- tory, the partners strive to develop methods and trainings for youth workers with a focus on including and expanding the unique and specific skills a bi-cultural background offers. The project also features the supra-national development of a comprehensive manual and toolkit for youth workers with a focus on cooperation across borders, aimed to train young entrepreneurs with a bi-cultural background. All partners contribute a (modest) investment to help fund the best projects and the realization of the pilot. Participants/target groupsWe will reach at least 800 young people, part of the secondary target-group of youth living in deprived neighborhoods, with the trainings that will be delivered by the trainers we trained in C3 (an average of 40 per trainer, over the years, starting after the delivery of the final digital manual and training method). However, we will reach much more young people (and youth workers) indirectly through the website and manual that we will promote in each of the participating countries. Our primary target group consists of youth workers/educators that are active in multi-cultural urban communities, ie. representatives of partner organizations who have been involved in the organizationss past e-commerce, entrepreneurship and ICT-activities/projects. The members of these communities, predominantly youth from migrant backgrounds, are our secondary target group.Our program consists of 8 phases:Phase 1: Goal: The development of a methodology tailored to the particular features and opportunities of e-commerce, based on the research of partners & shared best practices. Assessing needs & objectives of target groups.• Assessing, establishing and meeting of our primary target groups• Building partnerships and discussing project strategies• Sharing best practices and brilliant failures • Agreeing on time schedule and task division Phase 2: Goal: development of the training program, based on the methodology and outcomes of phase 1.• Training of trainers (primary target group)• Pilot given to unemployed youth (secondary target group) by the trainers trained.Phase 3: Goal: Improving methodology of our training, by evaluating & reflecting on the pilot. Getting input for manual (digital course method, with instruction videos exercises; created by using creative commons/open source principles) .• Evaluation and reflection with partner-organizations, trainers & participants in order to develop the final manual.Phase 4: Goal: Finalizing methodology, training, manual for future implementation.• Development of final training & manual using all information and evaluations done in previous phases.Phase 5: Goal: Dissemination of the project results, presentation of the training & manual to international peers.• International multiplyer event/conference introducing publication/website&manual.• Implementing results into training of 20 trainers.Phase 6:Goal: Final evaluation, making the project sustainable, working on future cooperation.

COORDINATOR: DW-RS producties Meer en Vaart 290 1068 LE Amsterdam, Netherlands www.dw-rs.nl SP382 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTACT: Arjen Barel

PARTNERS: STICHTING MAROC NL, NL; PAJ vzw, BE; 106,5 Rundfunkgesellschaft gGmbH, DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 143 768 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Employability; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP383

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-NO02-KA205-000615

TITLE: 360° PARTICIPATION MODEL

DESCRIPTION: Youth participation is still is a challenge across Europe. Participation often happens in cultural, leisure spheres or school environment. Aiming to develop stronger civic society, assisting young people in integration processes, youth participation and consultation in decision making processes has to be strengthened through creating platforms for youth to contribute to solving issues of society and communities. This project will create Online tools, manuals and recommendation how municipalities (local governmental bodies and institutions) can involve young people in to decision making process. This project will create new ways that decision makers would not only consult with youth, but that the ideas of youth would get priority status and provide young people with power, legitimacy and tools to monitor that their ideas are being implemented. With this project we want to shift youth participation from the concept of tokenism to active participation in advocating youth needs. The project will provide overview of local realities from Norway, UK and Lithuania in the field of participatory decision making. Project will provide tailored tools which are suiting for different realities, recommendations will be created how these tools could be used in different environments involving other social groups (senior citizens, young parents, unemployed, migrant background, disabled and etc.).This project will help civil servants, youth workers, community workers, NGO members to develop cooperation competence. Municipalities will get tolls for efficient cross-sectoral and cross-departmental cooperation. The Online tool will serve as mean to assure efficient youth participation and will allow to supervise the situation in the community and inform about needed changes and improvements. The Online tool will become a way how to consult with youth on important issues, decision makers will be able to shape the future of their communities with help of youth. This tools in the future can be used to involve other groups of citizens.This project will develop predictable models and guidelines in addition to the specific tools how to involve youth in political decision making. Project partners have needed experience to develop the tools. The partners have bee developing academic theories, Structured dialogue processes, organizing participatory research and local consultation processes. The result of this project will help the strengthen the existing structures sufficiently link to decision making process. Mar- ginalized and excluded groups ex. youth with low socio-economic background will gain opportunity to provide input to decision making process. Project aims to:1. Share expertise in cross-sectoral cooperation and youth participation processes in project countries.2. Create tools how to make youth participation a part of political decision making process.3. Develop guideline for comprehensive participation (360 degrees model).4. Develop a tools to enable and supervise cross-sectoral, cross-departmental cooperation.5. Create space to share and gather good practice within existing cooperation structures and various methods and tools used in participatory processes in project countries.6. Develop an Online tool which could be used to strengthen youth participation in the decision making process. The tool will be based on participatory processes ex. 360 participation and Structured dialogue.The beneficiaries of the project are: young people with various backgrounds, youth workers and policy makers at the local level, other social groups.

COORDINATOR: Medvirkningsagentene Nordre Bruserød Vei 11 3157 Barkåker, Norway www.medvirkningsagent.no

CONTACT: Pål Isdahl Solberg

PARTNERS: Politikos tyrimu ir analizes institutas, LT; YOUTH WORK EUROPE, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 121 982.50 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Increasing the efficiency of public expenditure and the investment in education, training and youth

PRIORITY 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people. SP384 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Inclusion and Tolerance STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP385

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022787

TITLE: FIRST ADR KIT

DESCRIPTION: ‘First ADR Kit’ strategic partnership is a cross-sector cooperation between organisations active in the fields of intercultural communication, conflict management, active citizenship and youth participation, aimed at creating new educational methods of teaching Alternative Dispute Resolution (mediation, negotiation, conciliation, dispute boards) with the use non-formal education tools. The main objectives of the project are: -To raise awareness on the topic of Alternative Dispute Resolution and its use in conflict management both in private and public sector; -To create a group of highly qualified youth trainers specialised in teaching ADR with NFE methods; -To develop new educational methods based on the knowledge and experience in the fields of ADR and NFE (simulation games, practical workshops, role plays); -To provide series of intensive trainings for young leaders on the topics of multiculturalism, dialogue, active citizenship, participation, conflict resolution, ADR; -To create new tools for implementation of intercultural dialogue and ADR in youth work (handbook on educational methods, workshops’ scenarios, web portal (ICT and OER); -To improve the communication and social skills of young professionals and youth leaders entering the labour market and thus increasing their sense of entrepreneurship; -To contribute towards building more respectful, trustworthy and partner-oriented atmosphere in the business, public and private sectors; -To encourage conciliatory and interest-based approach in business and private relations. Project is dedicated to three target groups. First is a team of 20 youth trainers who will participate in intense training on the topic of Alternative Dispute Resolution delivered by professional mediators and conflict managers. They will afterwards combine this knowledge with non-formal education tools and prepare a whole new set of teaching methods. Second group consists of 150 - 200 youth leaders and young professionals who will participate and evaluate the training courses developed and delivered by the youth trainers. The third target group includes partner organisations, professional ADR institutions, educational institutions, stakeholders active on the labour market, other interested individuals (at least 250 representatives). They will participate in dissemination activities and will be invited to an open discussion on the topic of importance of implementation of ADR into regular educational activities and its validation on the labour market. ‘First ADR Kit’ will include the following activities: Research on ADR service and education; Preparation of ICT web portal ADR training for youth trainers; Preparation of new workshop scenarios combining ADR with NFE (including two games scenarios); Series of trainings for youth; Conferences and dissemination activities. All activities will be conducted with the use of Non-Formal Education. Special focus will be given to simulation games and practical workshops in order to fully experience the use and challenges connected with conflict management. The project will result with several ‘hard’ outcomes, such us: methodological handbook, workshop scenarios, simulation games, online webpage with elements of ICT. It will also result in higher competences of young people with regard to conflict resolutions, their increased sense of initiative and entrepreneurship due to better understanding of the mechanisms ruling disputes, willingness to use professional ADR services and to pursue further training in this field, more reliable and relation-friendly atmosphere in the business sector, bigger awareness on the importance of providing ADR education already on the early stage of education/professional career. In a long term the project might initiate the first in Europe network of youth organisations specialised in ADR. It will also help improve the quality and sustainability of relations in public and private sectors, encourage more open and conciliatory approach in everyday communication and enable much more active participation of youth in their communities.

COORDINATOR: STRIM Pawlikowskiego 5/5 31-127 Kraków, Poland www.strim.org.pl

CONTACT: Marzena Ples

PARTNERS: NGO Youth Club Active, EE; Vicolocorto, IT; CONSILIUM DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING LTD, UK; Narviksenteret, NO

GRANT AMOUNT: 131 116 EUR SP386 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: High quality learning opportunities

TOPIC 1: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP387

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022881

TITLE: EUROPEJSKA AKADEMIA ANIMATORÓW WOLONTARIATU PRZYJAŹŃ NIE ZNA GRANIC

DESCRIPTION: The most important result of the project is to activate and encourage young people to make aid efforts in order to help their peers from the Third World countries. Secondly, the project is to establish a group of volunteers among the young. And, last but not least, it involves building a social-educational Internet platform, which in turn will make it possible to develop the project, in spite of the distance separating the groups.Our young participants (secondary-school students and first-year university students) are going to be recruited both in Poland and Lithuania, among the groups constantly cooperating with the partners. Our goal is that a large group of young people from the Podkarpackie Region will join the project, and so the young people from the Vilnius Region. The most important phase is to develop and carry out an aid programme in cooperation with the enrolled secondary school (English-speaking) from one of the South African countries – young African people will be able to judge and evaluate the ideas of their peers from the European Union.The volunteer animators, chosen among the engaged young people involved in the project, are going to be trained in the two countries – Poland and Lithuania. Next, they are going to meet at the conference, held to evaluate the programme. Also, during the above mentioned conference, our volunteer animators are going to meet experts in the realm of voluntary work among the young.On the one hand, the social-educational Internet platform, which is going to be multilingual, will offer a possibility to acquire and improve their knowledge and abilities regarding aid efforts in the Third World countries. On the other hand, the platform is going to help implement certain projects, integrating volunteers and making it possible for them to get to know one another.To sum up, conducting the programme is to build a foundation for the organisation and preparation of the development of aid voluntary work among young people in Poland and Lithuania at first, and then in other European Union countries.

COORDINATOR: Fundacja im. Księdza Kardynała Adama Kozłowieckiego „SERCE BEZ GRANIC” / Cardinal Adam Kozłowiecki Foundation “HEART WITHOUT BORDERS” Huta Komorowska 32A 36-110 Majdan Królewski Majdan Królewski, Poland www.cardinalekozlowiecki.pl

CONTACT: Zofia Sumara

PARTNERS: Lietuvos lenku mokyklu mokytoju draugija “Macierz szkolna”, LT

GRANT AMOUNT: 48 412 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 9 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 2: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

TOPIC 3: Teaching and learning of foreign languages

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training SP388 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022914

TITLE: CLUBBING EUROPE - STRENGTHENING ACTIVE EUROPEAN CLUBS AND CREATING NEW ONES

DESCRIPTION: The main goal of the project is to promote European education by empowering the existing, active Eu- ropean clubs in Latvia, Poland and Portugal and to set up new European clubs in France and Germany, where such concept has not been developed yet.European clubs are informal groups of teachers and students interested in European Union, learning about different countries and cultures in Europe and international cooperation. Clubs are voluntary extra-curricular activities schools offer to their students. Three partners in this project have been working with European clubs so far and see the need for strengthening the activities of the networks – enabling meetings of European clubs members and trainings for developing new skills and encouraging international and intercultural exchange. Each partner has established partnership with one active European club in their country for the purpose of this project – this European clubs will take part in all project activities. They will participate in the blended bilateral mobility, involving a coaching process to help set up a new European clubs in France or Germany and conduct a series of activities in partnership with the new clubs. There are already established initial partnerships with teachers interested in introducing a concept of European clubs in their regions: Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, Ile-de-France and Poitou-Charentes in France.Throughout the project partners will collect already existing materials published about European clubs and collect good-practice examples to create a Manual “EURO- PEAN CLUB – how to set it up and keep it active, which will be free for download for all interested youth workers, young people or educational institutions.There are three main direct target groups of the project: NGOs which cooperate with schools and want to improve their activities promoting civic; youth workers - school teachers leading European clubs in particular and teachers or youth workers willing to set up a new European club in their community; young people from 15-19 years of age who are actively involved in European clubs activities or are interested to learn more about the European Union. Young people in all stages will have an active role as partners, which will help develop their entrepreneurial competence by suggesting, making up, planning, implementing, promoting and evaluating activities within European clubs. Non-formal learning methods will be at the core of all project activities. A lot of focus will be put to group building activities, variety of group and individual working tasks, active participation of all participants using role-play, games, workshop sessions and intercultural exchange in the working process of all activities.The primary impact we expect is improved European education in participating countries and increased European awareness amongst project participants. We aim to raise the level of activity of the young people and youth workers, members of European clubs involved in the project. We will connect three national networks of European clubs. Some of the clubs will attend national meetings and choose their representatives for transnational activities. Three most active European clubs will create a partnership with a new European clubs from France or Germany and organize a string of activities through on whole school-year. The effects of such partnership will be later shared within European club networks. At least three teachers in secondary schools in Germany and France will get first-hand support from an experienced colleague, who will help them set up a new European clubs in their schools and who will help them motivate the members in their activities through bilateral partnership. The results of a year-long partnership will be shared with other educational institutions in the respective to encourage the creation of more European clubs in the future.

COORDINATOR: PFRS AL UJAZDOWSKIE 37 5 00540 WARSZAWA, Poland http://www.schuman.pl

CONTACT: Maja Selan

PARTNERS: ASSOCIATION JEAN MONNET, FR; Klubs Maja - jaunatne vienotai Eiropai, LV; TERA-MAISON DE L’EUROPE DE LA CHARENTE, FR; Associação Educativa Nacional de Inclusão e Inovação nas Escolas- AENIE, PT; Europahaus Marienberg, DE

GRANT AMOUNT: 136 580 EUR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP389

CONTRACT DURATION: 21 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Teaching and Training SP390 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022937

TITLE: WAKE-UP! INTENSYFIKACJA EDUKACJI POZAFORMALNEJ MŁODZIEŻY W GMINIE ŁOBEZ POPRZEZ STRATEGICZNE PARTNERSTWA MIĘDZYNARODOWE

DESCRIPTION: The project titled Wake up! Intensification of non-formal youth education in Lobez commune with the help of international partnerships strategics will be implemented in Łobez Commune, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the Polish-German border region. The area is characterized by high level of unemployment, as well as economic, cultural, educational and social negligence. Enormous stagnation has caused migration of young people to big cities in search of an alternative; they seek educational and professional opportunities. Non-formal education and its importance for the development of youth is a term which is unknown here, also for several non-profit entities existing in the area. It is necessary to establish and strengthen networking of these organizations for one common objective, for development of young people of the region. The projects objective is to improve quality of education, training and work with the youth, by means of enrichment of education process with non-formal learning methods and entrepreneurship, developed for the needs of inhabitants of the Łobez Commune region in international partnership. The objective is to be achieved through transfer of knowledge and experience of the partnerorganizations from the three countries; through a number of actions leading to creation of a strategy for development of non-formal education for the needs of the Commune; preparation of a compendium of methods and tools that can be used in work and instructions activating an accelerator youth entrepreneurship in rural areas. The implementers aspiration is to prepare the production documents (intellectual results) to enable their further transfer and implementation in any other rural area facing similar problems. This guidelines, along with development of stable cooperation between key subjects in the region and adequate dissemination will ensure long-term benefits. Thanks to the direct involvement of youth in creation of results through short mixed (physical and virtual) mobilities of an international character, the project activities lead to development of their key competencies, among others: language and digital skills, as well s entrepreneurship. Activating methods will be used, among others: talks with the natives in order to establish a history of the site (an inter-generational aspect), setting the tourist trail, using (under thesupervision of a specialist) resources of offices and archives. As far as the aspect of entrepreneurship is concerned, the young people will visit an existing Polish-German pupils company. All of these activities will be monitored by two expert institutions from Poland and Germany (Bonhoeffer Haus and Schloss Trebnitz). Their extensive experience in activities accomplished in the borderarea within the frames of the Polish-German Youth Cooperation has resulted in gaining the status of the so-called formative institution. Some participants living in Łobez Commune belongs to a group at risk of social exclusion andearlier dropping out of the educational system. All participants (aprox. 40 people) will be in the age about 13-16 years (junior high school). Their German colleagues will be mostly recruited from the group of emigrants with a polish roots. International cooperation of the participating organizations will also bring benefits to these organizations through their internationalization andprofessionalization. Implementation of the project´s aims will have a strong influence on the policy of the commune in the subject of education of young people, filling up the gap of existing offer with non-formal education. Many entities of the commune willexperience this impact, some of them will turn into the members of local, regional and international networks. Łobez commune will get a chance to become a model area for a youth participation.

COORDINATOR: Bonin 31 70-535 Bonin, Poland www.fundacjabonin.org

CONTACT: Wiesława Piećko

PARTNERS: agitPolska Polnisch-Deutsche Initiative für Kulturkooperation e.V., DE; Schloß Trebnitz Bildungs- und Begegnungszentrum e.V., DE; Richter, NL; Fundacja Miedzynarodowe Centrum Studiow i Spotkan im. Dietricha Bonhoeffera, PL

GRANT AMOUNT: 162 000 EUR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP391

CONTRACT DURATION: 21 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment; Employability SP392 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-PL01-KA205-022945

TITLE: DZIURAWA SKARPETA NA EMIGRACJI

COORDINATOR: Human Instytut Matki Teresy z Kalkuty 3/111 19-300 Ełk, Poland

CONTACT: Michał Łebski

PARTNERS: You Press Partnerships, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 36 480 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 20 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 2: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP393

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-PL01-KA205-023235

TITLE: TRY: TRANSITION YOUTH - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND LOCAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP (TRANSNATIONAL YOUTH INITIATIVE)

DESCRIPTION: The project „TRY: TRansition Youth - sustainable development and local entrepreneurship is a transnational youth initiative undertaken by the 4YOUth Foundation for Supporting Youth Initiatives in cooperation with MasFranch and Palma Nana cooperatives from Spain and Italy. The main aim of the project is a preparation of youth groups from our small towns for being engaged in local society activities, and a practical training of local entrepreneurship based on the rules of sustainable development. The TRY project is also supposed to create the sense of responsibility connected with the environment among the youths. Moreover, it should bring about the local and international solidarity in the domain of sustainable development. We are going to employ the methods of nonformal education which will allow the participants to acquire specific experiences, tools and practical knowledge in the field of responsible business, public participation, sustainable development, healthy lifestyle and physical activity. The project will allow youth NGO members from the partner countries to learn new lifestyles and alternative ways to run business activities which use local resources and cultural richness of our regions. The results of the project will include a creation of the social urban garden in each of the partner countries. The gardens are going to constitute a common space for the local community activities and they will be the main result sustained after the project. The project will include 27 participants and 6 supporting team members (coordinators and coaches). There will be fewer opportunities participants – mainly caused by economical, social im- pediments, and cultural differences.The project will consist of one international preparatory meeting and three 7-day international training meetings. The activities will include outdoor workshops, visiting local entrepreneurs and interviewing local experts, ecological and social activists. These meetings will teach us the rules of permaculture, the sustainable spatial planning, the rules of participatory democracy, and creating and cultivating gardens. Additionally, we will have meetings regarding healthy nutrition and the functioning of food cooperatives, bioconstruction as well as mediatory workshops. Thanks to our project we will activate our local communities, the cooperation between citizens, NGOs and local governments will tighten, and our towns will come closer to the functioning model of Transition Towns.

COORDINATOR: 4YOUth Foundation for Supporting Youth Initiatives Sobieskiego 4 05-822 Milanówek, Poland www.4youth.pl

CONTACT: Katarzyna Klimowicz

PARTNERS: Palma Nana soc. coop., IT; Mas Franch S.C.C.L., ES

GRANT AMOUNT: 54 860 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 9 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: Environment and climate change

TOPIC 2: Health and wellbeing

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Education for Sustainable Development; Health and Medicine; Employability SP394 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-PT02-KA205-002787

TITLE: PRACTICE@BUSINESS: TRANSFERRING, APPLYING AND DISSEMINATING PRACTICE ENTERPRISE METHODOLOGY IN PORTUGAL

DESCRIPTION: The project Practice@Business was born from a consortium between the Portuguese organization OI- KOS, the EUROPEN (coordinator of the International and European networks of Practice Enterprises) and the Fundació Inform (representative of one of the central national offices of these networks), in order to transfer the Practice Enterprise methodology to Portugal, and to create, evaluate and disseminate a new pedagogical model based on this methodology adapted to the countrys reality and, in particular, to working with young NEET (young people not in employment, education or training).The need for this intervention was felt when, under a project to train young NEET for employment, the applicant became aware of the existence and the success of this methodology, but was confronted with its total inapplica- bility in the country. Taking as target groups, the technicians who work with young people in Portugal and the young Portuguese people, it is expected that, at the end of the project: a) The Practice Enterprises methodology has been transferred to the Portuguese organization OIKOS, which, not only will use it in future projects directed to young people, especially to young NEET, with obvious benefits for them, but also aspires to create a national central office of Practice Enterprises to support the establishment of new Practice Enterprises by other Portuguese organizations; b) A new pedagogical model based on this methodology and adapted to the Portuguese reality and the specific training of young NEET has been created, tested and evaluated, through the setting up of an Practice Enterprise with a pilot group of 15 young people NEET, with clear benefits in their employability, and with impact in the knowledge gathered about the potential of application of the methodology; c) The methodology Practice Enterprises and the new pedagogical model adapted to the Portuguese reality have been disseminated, reaching 1050 Tech- nicians / organizations working with young people in Portugal, through the preparation, presentation and online dissemination of a Guide to the implementation of Practice Enterprises methodology with young people in Portugal , with impact in the future mobilization of these technicians to transfer this methodology to their own organizations and to use it with the young people with whom they work. This project is divided into three phases (each of them pursuing a specific goal that contributes to the overall purpose of the intervention) that integrate different activities: PHASE 1: Aims to transfer the Practice Enterprises methodology to the Portuguese context, by dislocating the associated teaching tools and training human resources for its use and dissemination. Integrates the activities:A1: Capacity building training for the application and dissemination of the methodology Practice Enterprises, addressed to 3 Portuguese Tech- nicians working with young people;A2: Transfer of the pedagogical resources necessary for the application of Practice Enterprises methodology to 1 Portuguese organization. PHASE 2: Aims to create, test and evaluate a new pedagogical model based on this methodology adapted to the Portuguese reality and to the specific work of empowering young NEET for employability. Integrates the activities: A3: Construction of 1 pedagogical plan adapted to train soft skills with Portuguese young NEET using the methodology Practice Enterprises;A4: Test of 1 pedagogical plan to train soft skills with young NEET in a pilot group of 15 young people, through the setting up of a Practice Enterprise; A5: Transactional meeting to evaluate the creation and the application to the Portuguese reality of the new pedagogical model. PHASE 3: It aims to inform Portuguese educators working with young people, particularly with young NEET, about the Practice Enterprises methodology and the new pedagogical model based in this methodology which was created under the project. Integrates the activities:A6: Preparation of 1 Guide to the application of the Practice Enterprises methodology with young people in Portugal, directed to organizations and technicians who work with young people;A7: Transnational meeting to validate the Guide to the application of the Practice Enterprises methodology with young people in Portugal;A8: Organization of 1 event to present the Guide to the application of the Practice Enterprises methodology with young people in Portugal, directed to organizations and technicians who work with young people, involving 50 technicians;A9: Online dissemination of the Guide to the implementation of the Practice Enterprises methodology with young people in Portugal, directed to organizations and technicians who work young people.

COORDINATOR: Oikos - Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Rua Visconde Moreira de Rey 37 2790-447 Linda-a-Pastora, Portugal www.oikos.pt STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP395

CONTACT: Ana Teixeira

PARTNERS: EUROPEN-PEN INTERNATIONAL EV, DE; Fundacio Inform - Institut per a la formació de joves vers l’admionistració d’empreses, ES

GRANT AMOUNT: 127 165 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 28 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Teaching and Training SP396 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-RO01-KA205-022891

TITLE: SKILL MATCHING ASSISTANCE AND REPORTING TOOL

DESCRIPTION: The empowerment of youth is an important aspect in the European educational strategy. The project SMART Skill Matching Assistance and Reporting Tool is a way to focus this and create skill awareness. The SMART consortium intends to create a tool that matches skills of youths with skill requirements for jobs. Unlike other matching tools it takes into account informal skills and doesnt focus onl qualifications. It doesnt ask youths to rate their own skills (which is difficult with limited experience and leads to bad results) but takes them through skill tests instead. Groups that benefit from the tool are youths, especially those who dont do well in the educational systems and who have a chance of proving their skills in the skill tests, as well as employers who will be able to find employees who have just the right skills for the job. Career counsellors also benefit from using the system because it can provide them with a detailed skills profile of job seekers that will be highly useful when analysing their personal development and their options.SMART focuses on the career orientation processes of young people that are disadvantaged or have to face any obstacles, and aims to bring them into employment. Therefore, the consortium partners will conduct research and cooperate with practicioners to create a generic job skill model and a matching concept that matches the skill and interest profiles of young people with occupational profiles or even reported job offers. In contrast to recent approaches, SMART focuses on generic skills that are required for various jobs and on young peoples interests as well without relying on their qualifications. The partners will develop a web-based tool based on the conducted research and the developed models and concepts. Within this tool, young people will run skill tests to create a profile that will then be matched with occupational profiles. Both the personal profiles and the occupational profiles are based on the same aspects and dimensions. The tool will be made user friendly and easy to use, and it can be used by young people, youth workers or career counsellors. Thus, SMART is scientifically sound and practical orientated.In SMART collaborate experienced partners. Universities, youth organisations and a technical partner will bring in the expertise to run a project that considers many perspectives and needs. The chair of Business, Human Resource Education and Evaluation Research of the University of Paderborn is highly experienced in the field of career orientation, the development of competency models and evaluation in general. Professor Jindal-Snape from the University of Dundee is an expert when it comes to disadvantaged learners and the design of transitional systems. She is internationally recognized. Both Universities will be responsible for safeguarding high scientific standards. Ingenious Knowledge is an expert when it comes to innovative IT solutions. They are experienced in designing tools like SMART (see BEDARF) and in developing Serious Games, too. YEU Cyprus and Pro Educatione have contact to our target group. They are working with young people or youth organisations and they have big networks. They will review the theoretical concepts based on their practical expertise, and thus, they ensure the practical orientation within the project. By conducting qualitative research with employers and bringing the findings together with a literature review, a generic job skill model will be created. This generic job skill model will be the basis for the matching concept which aims to provide tasks for the skill assessment of the learners. Both of them will then be embedded into a web-tool that matches the youth profiles with occupational profiles. In order to use the tool adequately and to improve its quality, a handbook will be designed and test-implementations and evaluations will be conducted. Once, the tool is developed, young people, employers and youth workers will benefit from the consortiums work. They will have a tool that gives them detailed and diversified orientation in an easy way.Due to the advanced technological architecture SMART will be a highly modern tool that will also be highly efficient due to the scientifically sound concepts at its core. The consortium firmly believes that it can support informal education in the youth sector better than any other tool by making the acquired skills visible in profiles. With a good integration in career counseling processes and a good dissemination in youth work the tool can be established, especially if employers understand its advantages and actively use it. If the developed tool only sees minimal use at the end of the project as a way of creating skill profiles for youths it will still be extremely useful. However, if the consortium man- ages to establish it as a job matching tool it will most likely be only the first step towards a new way of looking at job skills that can have a huge impact.

COORDINATOR: Szek 147 530203 Miercurea Ciuc, Romania www.proeducatione.ro STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP397

CONTACT: Istvan Peter Balla

PARTNERS: UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, UK; Ingenious Knowledge GmbH, DE; UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN, DE; Neolea gia Antallagi kai Katanoisi, CY

GRANT AMOUNT: 126 084 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

PRIORITY 3: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Improving the Quality of Education / Training Systems SP398 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-RO01-KA205-022930

TITLE: LEVERAGING SPORT TO TACKLE GENDER INEQUALITIES

DESCRIPTION: Equality between men and women is a fundamental principle of the European Union. The Europe 2020 strategy brings out gender equality as a lever of economic growth, employment, social cohesion and sustainable development. To reduce efficiently gender inequalities, it is necessary to work on social representations at the earliest age by tackling stereotypes between girls and boys. The European Parliament resolution of 2012/2116(INI) insists that gender roles are shaped and imposed through a variety of social influences, including in education.As the special advisor to General Secretary United Nations Ad- olf Ogi says, Sport is one of the best school for life, teaching to youngsters techniques and values they will need to become citizens. Without a doubt, sport is one of the best tool to improve gender equality with the youth.The EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism, Youth and Sport, Androulla Vassiliou underlines, At the same time sport should be promoted as a tool to improve gender equality in society, as it has the potential to educate people for leadership, contribute to the skills needed for a role or profession and prevents gender based violence.*The Committee of Ministers to member States recommends on gender main-streaming in sport to encourage, enable and support, by using specific training and tools, physical education and sports teachers, trainers, coaches and instructors to promote equality between girls and boys in sport, and manage problem situations caused by gender differences and inter-cultural issues pertaining to the access to and the practice of sport, physical activity and physical education (CM/Rec(2015)2). The training project Leveraging sport to tackle gender inequalities aims to train and sensitize youth and sport instructors and futures youth and sport instructors to gender equality by professionalising them to how deliver a non stereotyped sport activity. To support and make youth and sport organisations aware, especially directors and directors of pedagogy, of the significance to include a gender equality approach in their intern policies. To educate and make young people aware of the gender diversity in sports practices. The project contributes to reduce inequalities between men and women, boys and girls and to give both the same chances in working life by tackling gender stereotypes with unique European training tools.Understanding the problem at European level can enrich each national context by the experiences and good practices from all partner countries. Indeed gender equality maturities are different by countries. As family, labour, womens employment policies and cultural representations are different.Target groups:- Youth and sport instructors- Training organisations for youth and sport instructors (initial and continuing education)- Youth and sport organisations (sport clubs, out-of-school clubs, day camps, schools,...)- Young people (7 to 12 years)Structure of the project:- Designing of an E-learning Training on gender equality in sports activities for youth and sport instructors. This digital training module is used by youth and sport education training centres. Thanks to its digital form, it can be included easily in existing trainings.- Creation of a Trainers Guide of the E-learning Training. This Guide provides educational methods and facilitation techniques. - Development of an Awareness Guide on gender equality effects in sports activities for youth and sport organisations. This Guide supports them how to include a gender equality approach in their practices.- Creation of an Educational Cartoon for young people on gender diversity in sports activities. It contributes to open up the scope of possibilities in sports activities and more, among young people.- Developing an EQF Definition of the Egalitarian Youth and Sport Instructor.The project partners:- Charline Jambert (France): Consultant in gender equality - www.niplusnimoins.fr- CIAPE (Italy): Training centre in lifelong learning - www.ciape.it- Fastrak Consulting (United Kingdom): Learning Technologist - www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk- Institutul National de Cercetare pentru Sport (Romania): National Institute for Sport Research - www.sportscience.ro- GUIMEL (France)*Gender Equality in Sport - Proposal for Strategic Actions 2014-2020 Report

COORDINATOR: INCS BLD BASARABIA 41A SECTOR 2 0022104 BUCURESTI, Romania www.sportscience.ro

CONTACT: Dan Boboc

PARTNERS: CHARLINE JAMBERT, FR; CIAPE - CENTRO ITALIANO PER L’APPRENDIMENTO PERMANENTE, IT; Fastrak Consulting Ltd, UK; GUIMEL, FR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP399

GRANT AMOUNT: 177 562 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications

TOPIC 1: Gender equality / equal opportunities

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP400 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-RO01-KA205-022949

TITLE: VIRTUAL REALITY FOR STEM ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING

DESCRIPTION: STEM sector and ICT industry are demonstrating great growth and the interest of youth people to study STEM, their entrepreneurship skills and spirit has become of strategic importance for the economy and the society of all countries. Demand for STEM professionals is expected to grow by 13% till 2025, while the average growth forecast for all occupations is expected to be around 3%. In addition to the STEM sector development, youth entrepreneurship is vital for creating employment and sustainable growth and has become a priority in the EU policy agenda as a tool to combat unemployment and social exclusion as well as stimulating innovation among young people. However, in spite of the growth of the EU STEM sector, the percentage of youth who decide to study STEM is alarming low. Moreover, In spite of the increasing recognition of entrepreneurship as a source of job creation, empowerment and economic dynamism, there have been no systematic attempts to look at it from a youth angle, towards STEM sector. So, the scope of VR4STEM project is twofold. First, it aims to respond to the need of attracting young people in STEM education, mainly by offering modern and attractive learning technologies, such as the virtual reality, and second to assist them gain entrepreneurship skills, build strong entrepreneurship background and spirit and meet the growing needs of STEM sector. VR4STEM will utilize innovative educational ICT, like virtual reality, to enhance the efficiency and the attractiveness of STEM entrepreneurship education, attract youth interest and enhance their entrepreneurship skills and competencies. First, several courses for STEM entrepreneurship will be designed and developed, covering the innovative and special characteristics of entrepreneurship in the STEM domain, and promote opportunities for youth entrepreneurship in STEM and ICT industry. Second, an 3D virtual world environment will be developed with innovative educational infrastructure, offering immerse and efficient learning opportunities, engaging the learners in various educational activities and learning scenarios and offering an attractive, entertaining and efficient way to learn STEM entrepreneurship domain.The partnership consists of 5partners and includes public and private actors with relevant and complementary experience and skills that secure the success and the high quality of the implementation and the results of the project. UPB, a long-term leading organization in the field of coordinating youth training in various fields and also in STEM, will coordinate the project and has experience in project management. UPAT has expertise in Virtual Reality and intelligent educational systems and will lead the development of the 3D Virtual World (VW) educational environment. NewEdu possesses valuable knowledge and experience in entrepreneurship training and will be the main content provider. eTS has great experience in developing educational infrastructure in 3D virtual environments. CTI will take over the task of piloting the educational environment, the courses and training activities and will lead the dissemination plan.The project has three phases: Design, Implementation and Evaluation. Design will take place during the first eight months with main objectives to identify the needs in Entrepre- neurship Training for young people interested in STEM domain and then design a suitable curriculum for addressing them by utilizing state of the art technologies. Implementation of the STEM Entrepreneurship courses will take place next, with an aim to prepare the learning material and integrate it in a 3D VW educational environment that will be developed. The final phase regards testing extensively the developed educational environment through various pilot learning activities, evaluating it and using the results to improve and finalize it.The main results are:-Requirements analysis report on STEM Entrepreneurship Training and State of the Art reports on the use of Virtual Reality in Education and especially for youth training-A curriculum for STEM Entrepreneurship Training based on the Analysis and taking into account the about state of the art reports and capabilities of Virtual Worlds-Open Learning materials (texts, presentations,multimedia,3D objects) for courses-Project website and Content Repository, hosting all the learning materials-The 3D VW educational environment is the main output of this project, hosting all the STEM Entrepreneurship learning materials as well as the learning scenarios-User’s Guide for using the 3D VW-Plan, Report and Evaluation of The Piloting activities carried out to ensure the quality of the 3D VW, the learning materials and activitiesThe project will modernize and enhance the performance and effectiveness of youth entrepreneurship education in the field of STEM and also can reinforce the effective and attractiveness of Europe’s youth education with the utilization of innovative educational technologies.

COORDINATOR: UPB SPLAIUL INDEPENDENTEI 313 060042 BUCURESTI, Romania http://www.upb.ro STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP401

CONTACT: Dorina Popovici

PARTNERS: INSTITOUTO TECHNOLOGIAS YPOLOGISTONKAI EKDOSEON DIOFANTOS, EL; E-Training Solutions UG, DE; New Edu,n.o, SK; UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS, EL

GRANT AMOUNT: 143 046 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Enhancing digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels

PRIORITY 3: Supporting the implementation of reforms in line with the 2011 EU Modernisation Agenda’s priority areas

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Teaching and Training; Employability SP402 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-SE02-KA205-001293

TITLE: NEW TOOLS FOR NEW TARGETS: A CHALLENGE FOR YOUTH WORKERS

DESCRIPTION: The project aims to respond to two key priorities: promoting high-quality of youth work and strengthening education and training paths of youth workers. The selected priorities match the project framework by the following points of view.The project is going to design, implement and disseminate a ludic and educational kit (The NET NET kit) composed by a board game and supporting tools (a cartoon video, a video tutorial and a mini-guide) focused on EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy (equal opportunities for all, discrimination, social exclusion, participation, political rights): a highly flexible and customizable kit, suitable for re-processing and subsequent integrations to be used by youth workers with a wide range of targets (youngsters, people with fewer opportunities, NEETs, drop out students, persons of recent immigration, refugees,adults, senior).The NET NET kit is going to help youth workers in their role as a multi-target providers of non-formal learning opportunities by which they will be able to empower themselves, their social awareness, their citizenship, with the aim to share with “multicolored targets an amusing learning process and to explore, as in a learning fun travel, some of the crucial topics of Europe today: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy topics.The kit implementation will be improved by the partnership with the support of a multicultural youth worker team composed by youth workers representing, at its best, European multiculturalism and diversityand selected in each partners country: Sweden,Turkey, Italy and Spain. Starting from these core objectives, the project profile widens its horizon looking at the worl around with the aim to promote a learning by playing/making learning fun methodology able to get positive results with people of all ages and backgrounds, in particular people with fewer opportunity; to experience an alliance between youth workers centers, schools, adult and senior centers, public bodies, private companies, etc. on the focused issues and finally to experience and promote an innovative cross sectorial partnership (two youth centers, one private company, one research insitute) able to reinforce the dialogue among highly different, but complementary entities. In addition the multicultural and multi sectoral partners profile will let the project to involve actively a wide range of stakeholders. The NET NET kit is going to be released as an OER: the do-it-yourself kit, containing suggestions, templates, instructions, will make potential users able to build by themselves a customized version of the game. This action is considered to be crucial in order to get long term benefits and let the project results to be heavily promoted among youth workers and their stakeholders. The project activities will take place over 24 months, in four countries, from north to south Europe: from Sweden to Turkey, passing through Italy and Spain. The partnership has been build as a melting team made by complementary competences and expertises, background and missions in order to achieve a common goal: the willing to contribute to the mainstreaming of the idea that diversity, expressed as EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy, creativity and culture and equal opportunities for all, is a win-win development factor. The partecipants to the project, during its whole cycle, are about 350 including also people with fewer opportunities and special needs. The participants will actively take part to the testing phase, to a series of labs in youth centers (involving at leats 100 youth workers) and to the multiplier events: a medium to valorize in a widespread and multi-target network the importance of the high quality of youth work. The multiplier events are expected to host about 200 people including youth workers, teachers, trainers, decision makers, and all the main project stakeholders (local and regional political decision makers, public bodies, NGOs, youth centers, adult and senior centers, people engaged in educational processes, Associations, refugee centers).The project is divided in phases, some of them transversal to the project whole cycle (project management, evaluation and dissemination): the NET NET milestones are the transnational meetings, one in each partner country: Sweden, Italy, Turkey and Spain; the intellectual output implementation and the connected 4 multiplier events, one in each partner country. The multiplier events will valorize in a widespread and multi-target network the importance of the high quality of youth work.

COORDINATOR: IFALL Ängelhomsvägen 3B 28633 Örkelljunga, Sweden www.ifall.se

CONTACT: Charlotte Elisha Burgess STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP403

PARTNERS: FAAL, TR; Bluebook s.r.l., IT; ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE LA INDUSTRIA DEL JUGUETE, CONEXAS Y AFINES, ES

GRANT AMOUNT: 94 120 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

TOPIC 1: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

TOPIC 2: Creativity and culture

TOPIC 3: Inclusion - equity

CLUSTER(S): Youth Empowerment; Inclusion and Tolerance SP404 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-SE02-KA205-001295

TITLE: INTERCITY YOUTH

DESCRIPTION: The project addresses the lack of a common ground for youth work and of a clear picture of what consti- tutes quality in youth work. At the same time it intends, as an overall aim, to build a firm organisational platform where this common ground and view on what is qualitative youth work could be turned into practical quality development through peer learning and exchange of methods and best practices – In- terCity Youth – the European Network of Local Departments for Youth Work. The main objectives of the project are a) to develop common indicators on participation, non-formal learning and gender equality and inclusion of marginalized groups of youth published in a booklet b) to create a web-based library of methods and best practices linked to the indicators c) to establish a structure for “peer cities/youth centres for continuous cooperation on both quality development and international projects. The project also aims at strengthening relations and cooperation between local departments for youth work and youth organizations as well as other organizations in other parts of the youth field on local, national and European level by, as a first step, inviting them to function as reference groups to the project.The activities of the project will mainly consist of work groups with representatives from the different partner organisations that will together create the sets of indicators and give examples of methods and best practices that can be used to see to what degree actual youth work meets the indicators. The approach and methodology of these groups will based on the report from the European expert group on youth work quality systems, Quality Youth Work – a common framework for the further development of youth work, published by the European Commission.The foreseen results of the project are sets of common indicators and ways to work with them that are used for common quality development within a strong European network of local departments for youth work, ICY.These results will in turn have profound impact on both the development of quality and the ability for almost 400 ICY member departments to prove and articulate the role and contribution of youth work to the personal and social development of young people. It will also lead to that local youth work, through ICY, can speak with a common vice in relation to European authorities and organisations.The long term benefits of these is a better and more accurate recognition of youth work, hence leading to more adequate financing and a stronger position in relation to other actors in the youth sector.

COORDINATOR: KEKS stödförening c/o KulturUngdom, Gamlestadsvägen 2-4, hus B15 40251 Göteborg, Sweden

CONTACT: Jonas Agdur

PARTNERS: Stadtjugendamt München, DE; Lahden kaupunki, FI; Community Enterprise of Thessaloniki Municipality - Thessaloniki European Youth Capital 2014, EL; Gemeente ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL; COMUNE DI CINISELLO BALSAMO, IT; Vereniging Vlaamse jeugddiensten, BE; Obshtina Stara Zagora, BG

GRANT AMOUNT: 200 820 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 30 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

TOPIC 1: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP405

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): International Cooperation; Youth Empowerment SP406 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-SE02-KA205-001349

TITLE: RESCUED FOOD FOR STREET MEALS

DESCRIPTION: Rescued Food for Street Meals is a Strategic partnership project aimed to connect 5 partner organizations (active in the youth work areas of humanitarian work, youth volunteering and finding solutions for food waste problem) from Sweden, Belgium, Hungary, United Kingdom and Slovenia. This project will be a true fusion of the experiences of partner organizations, using each organisations experience and expertise to create a food revolution in the areas of partner activity. The project would allow participants from the partner organisations involved, to educate themselves and their target groups in a variety of ways how to create innovative activities to involve youth in solving social problems of local communities. The participants would learn and share their good practices/experience through training activities on organising Rescued Food for Street Meals humanitarian events, cooking, distributing food, etc. This Initiative would support the participants in their personal and professional development (knowledge, skills and attitudes). The project will start on 1st of February 2016 and end on 31th of January 2018.According to UN Report (year 2011), over 1/3 of the worlds food for human consumption is being wasted every year. At the same time, worldwide 842 million people are experiencing hunger. Poverty and food insecurity are extremely prevalent in many European cities, making the case for food waste reduction and proper redistribution all the more important. These alarming statistics made us think about how to get actively involved into creating innovative practical solutions for burning problem of food waste. The project deals with the growing global problem of poverty and food-crisis, which is officially stressed by the “Food group in European Parliament, so we think that this partnership is parallel with their objectives and offers added value in finding the high-quality solutions achievable locally and globally.The objectives of the project are:- to build the capacity of local organisations in each partner country and to deliver projects designed to create a social movement against food waste, - creating a European network of organisations active in youth work, humanitarian work, youth volunteering and healthy lifestyles,- to strengthen the international project capacities of the participating organizations, participating youth workers and volunteers from partner organizations who need to improve their skills and competencies,- to increase the quality of cooperation between civil society and national/regional authorities to promote the development of innovative educational and training systems and their integration in actions of local and regional activity. - to raise public awareness of the great amount of food that is being wasted,- improvement and professionalisation of youth work and key competences/skills of participating youth workers (managerial skills, communication skills, getting new experience at inter-cultural learning, develop practical ICT skills etc.)- to perform a study of existing ICT platforms related to food surplus redistribution and draw best-practices and critical success factors from them.- creation of a methodology to enable youth to develop entrepreneurial solutions to reduce food waste or redistribute food surplus.- Creation of an ICT platform in order to redistribute food surplus form supermarkets, hospitality services, farmers, wholesalemarkets and markets to youth and social organizations. The momentum created by the project will be given long-term sustainability through the new ICT platform on food waste.After the launch of the Intellectual output - Website and Training activities, the partner organisations will hold 5 open-air multiplier public events Rescued Food for Street Meals in their respective countries aiming to inform the general public, local municipality and interested stakeholders on the food waste problem. On these events general public and stakeholders will be introduced into ideas of active citizenship and volunteering and Intellectual Input and other results of the project will be presented. On each event local organisation will prepare and distribute 1.000 free hot healthy meals (cooked from food that would have been wasted) for socially underprivileged groups. At this events a pilote testing of Rescued Food System Mobile Application will be done. A Training on event management in London will be held, where participating youth workers will receive documents which will professionalize their competences/skills (Youthpass, Europass mobility document).In final months of the project, each organisation will hold a local dissemination event where they will present the project and its results. On this events local stakeholders (youth NGOs and other educational organizations, interested stakeholders, local municipality) and media will be invited for purpose of further dissemination of the project.

COORDINATOR: Almvik 1 15395 Järna, Sweden www.almviksgard.se STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP407

CONTACT: Jonas Henrikson

PARTNERS: Humanitarno drustvo FFL Global, SI; Páratlan Ajándék Alapítvány, HU; Food Surplus Entrepreneurs Network asbl, BE; Food For All, UK

GRANT AMOUNT: 50 400 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: Health and wellbeing

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; Health and Medicine; Youth Empowerment SP408 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-SI02-KA205-013260

TITLE: MLADINA USTVARJA: PARTNERSTVO ZA RAZVOJ IZOBRAŽEVANJA ZA SOCIALNO PODJETNIŠTVO

DESCRIPTION: The EU and its member states, including Slovenia, are increasingly recognizing the role of social entrepreneurship in creating a more inclusive society, generating social innovation and tackling social problems (such as youth unemployment). Slovenia has implemented a policy to promote social entrepreneurship, but a supportive environment, as in most other countries, is rather weak and fragmented, especially in the field of social entrepreneurship education. Therefore, the consortium (coordinator Youth Council of Slove- nia, UL, Croatian Youth Network and CDCD) identified central needs in this field as follows: (1) the need for more systematic and continuous social entrepreneurship education in Slovenia and other EU countries and (2) the need for a comprehensive educational module for youth trainers to teach social entrepreneurship, that will allow them to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to implement quality trainings on social entrepreneurship for young people.On the basis of identified needs, the central objectives of the project are:- To establish a partnership in the field of social entrepreneurship education among project partners and stakeholders (experts) from Slovenia and other EU countries;- To use established partnership for the production of knowledge and expertise for the purpose of development of social entrepreneurship education;- To develop the concept of educational module for youth trainers to teach/train on social entrepreneurship;- To develop a (proposal of) strategy proposal for the systematisation and securing continuous social entrepreneurship education in Slovenia, which will also serve as a reference point for partner countries and in other EU Member States.For the purpose of the realization of the project aims and objectives, the consortium decided that the project will be divided into two intertwined pillars:Pillar A - practical pillar; under which the activities and the events will lead to the creation of the concept of educational module for youth trainers to teach/train on social entrepreneurship.Pillar B - strategic / policy pillar within which the activities and the events leading to the preparation of the strategy proposal for the systematisation of social entrepreneurship education.Within the A-pillar we will first conduct two analyses: (1) Identifica- tion and analysis of the competencies and skills required for social entrepreneurship, and (2) Examples of best practice cases of social entrepreneurship education in selected EU countries. These analysis, as well as insights and new knowledge gained from the study visit in Croatia will form a knowledge base for the organization and implementation of the event Expert Forum I, which will bring together stakeholders for the purpose of developing a comprehensive educational module. On this basis and on the basis of expert discussion on the final project conference the final version of the module will be prepared.Within the Pillar B an in-depth analysis of the systematization of social entrepreneurship education in partner countries and selected EU member states will be carried out. The analysis and knowledge gained through the study visit to Croatia will serve as a knowledge base for the organization and implementation of the event Expert Forum II. The latter will enable key stakeholders and experts to develop fundamental elements of the strategy proposal for the systematisation of social entrepreneurship education. On this basis and on the basis of expert discussion on the final conference of the project the final version of the strategy will be prepared.Target groups of the project that will be directly addressed are: stakeholders in the field of youth, education and employment. Moreover, individuals in the field of education for social will also be directly addressed. Target groups that will be indirectly addressed through the project are young people, the interested public and the wider public, mainly for the purpose to raise their awareness on the importance of social entrepreneurship.The impact of the project will be multiple. Established partnership between the project partners and relevant stakeholders will contribute to the popularization of social entrepreneurship among youth and in society at large, while partnership will also contribute to the systematization of social entrepreneurship education in project partner countries. By implementing the strategy proposal, the long-term impact could be established awareness on the importance of social entrepreneurship and more systematic implementation of social entrepreneurship education. Youth trainers will be equipped with necessary skills to implement quality trainings on social entrepreneurship for young people. The project will have a significant impact also on the European level, as the proposed strategy could serve as a template for systematization of social entrepreneurship education not only in project partner countries but also in other EU countries.

COORDINATOR: MSS DUNAJSKA CESTA 5 1000 LJUBLJANA, Slovenia www.mss.si STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP409

CONTACT: Manja Zorko

PARTNERS: UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI, SI; Asociatia Centrul pentru Dezvoltare Comunitara Durabila, RO; MREZA MLADIH HRVATSKE UDRUG, HR

GRANT AMOUNT: 74 555 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 25 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Youth Empowerment SP410 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-SI02-KA205-013302

TITLE: SET UP

DESCRIPTION: The Purpose of the project is to develop supportive environment and two experiential learning programs (one local, one international), that will activate youth to realize their potential, to recognize and take advantage of the opportunities of their local communities and successfully enter labor market. The project is a transfer of good practice from Romanian partner organization to Slovenia and a joint program development, which will be used in intercultural environment. Partner organizations will develop two experiential programs and empower themselves for achieving higher standards and more efficient work with youth through exchange of experiences. Project goals are:• To create program »From idea to product« (Experien- tial learning program for socially excluded and long term unemployed youth. Participation in the program will equip them with new knowledge, skills and experiences, which they lack and need to successfully, integrate in the business world).• Program and content of international training course »Set up your social enterprise«, which will enable youth in multicultural environment to gain entrepreneurial skills and be more active in the environment they live in. • »Pospeševalnik« - platform, which will enable youth, who are already entrepreneurs or are starting their independent entrepreneurial path, to promote their products through setting up sales corner, window displays, online and promotion in local and regional media.• So- cial enterprise created by young people taking active part in the project. Target group (40 young people from seven municipalities will be involved) are:-young people, who are socially excluded and unemployed for several years-young entrepreneurs or young people, who are just starting their entrepreneurial path- young people, who are interested in social entrepreneurship- young people who already have experiences from social entrepreneurship and want to experience role of mentorMethodology of informal education will be used to implement project activities and to reach desired project results. The methodology will base on interaction and on active participation of all involved in the project (work in small groups, open discussions, debates, different creative techniques for searching ideas, mutual presentations, researching, simulations …), learning through experiences and peer to peer active exchange of knowledge and information sharing (cooperative learning). Most of the youth activities will base on experiential learning, self-initiative and entrepreneurial spirit of youth.

COORDINATOR: Ulica skladateljev Ipavcev 17 3230 Šentjur, Slovenia www.ra-kozjansko.si

CONTACT: Lara Žmaher

PARTNERS: Asociatia SUPER TINERI (ASIRYS), RO

GRANT AMOUNT: 51 420 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 13 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Teaching and Training STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP411

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-SK02-KA205-000660

TITLE: MLADÍ PROTI RASIZMU

DESCRIPTION: Our goal is to organize a series of cultural and educational activities for young people, featuring mainly a documentary movie that we will shoot especially for this occasion. The goal of this series of events will be to fight racism amongst young people. We are planning to organize at least two events in Slovakia, and one in France.The documentary, along with other activities for young people (such as a short theatre performance, a debate, articles in the media or even a press conference if needed) will attack racism and prejudice. The subject of our movie will be the refugees, a subject that has been and still is presented in the media on a regular basis. Our movie wants to fight against the stereotypes that some people might have.The project will be realized by a group of young activists and amateur documentary makers in Slo- vakia, in cooperation with the art group KLAB based in France. (together, around 10 people). A group of volunteers will contribute to the movie making process. All members are less than 30 years old and this is going to be their first chance to create a European project with an artistic and educational value.The target group of our project will be young people as well: From young people, to young people - together, lets fight racism.The movie will be realized in Slovakia and in France, in case there is a co-funding, it might be filmed in other countries as well.Our goal will be to project the movie in schools, youth clubs and organizations in Slovakia and in France, followed by a debate, a conference, or a short theatre performance, so that the young people can discuss it. It will be shared on social media in Europe. We would like to reach several thousands of young Europeans and bring them the stories of refugees (mainly women and children). We are convinced that this is the only way to influence their perception of otherness and make sure to avoid racism and extremism in tomorrows Europe.

COORDINATOR: Grosslingova 37 811 09 Bratislava, Slovakia

CONTACT: Sára Činčurová

PARTNERS: KLAB, FR

GRANT AMOUNT: 11 300 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Fostering access to continuing VET, including groups at risk

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Social dialogue

TOPIC 2: Inclusion - equity

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Youth Empowerment SP412 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-SK02-KA205-000698

TITLE: PRÍPRAVA ŠTUDENTOV A ICH PREPOJENIE S PRAXOU

DESCRIPTION: The project Practical student training is a partnership of Cesta Uspesnych (The way of the successful) z.s. and Akvitiva Zvysuje uspech (Activity towards success) n.o. The project helps university students and young people gain practical experiences and develop their personal growth, which they are missing out on at universities. It also supports a website, which helps train these skills. Both organisations represent the biggest student organisations in their respective countries with nation-wide influence.During the project, we plan to organize 80 guest speaker events for experienced entrepreneurs, managers, personal coaches and experts on personal development (at least 75% of these will be streamed among other universities in Czech and Slovak republic), 200 daily training videos which will introduce practical information about soft skills. Further more, we plan to use the website to connect students with companies in Czech republic, so that they can use their newly gained skills (small corporate projects, writing theses, corporate internships etc.). All activities lead to systematic development of practical work skills of the focus group and their application in practice.Both partners have experience working with youth on the nation-wide level. AZU has 8 branches, CU has 4 branches at other university cities. The added value of this partnership is the improvement of current activities both organisations and consolidation of the complex services for the focus group. They will gain better skills for their first careers and improve their situation at the labour market.The main benefit for the organizers is to gain experience with managing international projects. Thanks to this opportunity, both partners will be able to create larger and more ambitious projects on European level.

COORDINATOR: Letná 9 042 00 Košice, Slovakia http://no.azu.sk/

CONTACT: Marek Lavčák

PARTNERS: Cesta uspesnych, z.s., CZ

GRANT AMOUNT: 57 452 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: ICT - new technologies - digital competences

TOPIC 2: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): New Technologies and Digital Competences; International Cooperation; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP413

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-SK02-KA205-000714

TITLE: WAY TO LIVE

DESCRIPTION: Way to live is a project of three informal groups of young people from Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Aims through the implementation of small-scale LARP for young people and youth workers in smaller and more isolated villages Trencin, Zlín and South Moravia present LARP as an interesting and fun way to spend free time while effective method of non-formal education. It will also to those who approached this activity, to provide methodological support. This project builds on project outcomes and results of these groups projects supported by the European Union through the Erasmus+ (Play the life - the game live / Way to go)

COORDINATOR: Falco Mníchova Lehota 6 913 21 Trenčianska Turná, Slovakia

CONTACT: Peter Burian

PARTNERS: BOTA, CZ; Trumfy, CZ

GRANT AMOUNT: 27 200 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 18 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 2: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment; Employability SP414 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024137

TITLE: SIGN LANGUAGE SPEAKING TOUR GUIDES

DESCRIPTION: When Turkey Disability Survey and Turkey Employment Agency’s data are examined together, the maximum of %15 of hearing impaired individuals are capable to work and only 5% of them are employed. It can be said that, 95% of hearing impaired individuals are unemployed. The target audience of our Project is hearing impaired individuals between the ages of 18-30 who don’t have any business.The basic desire of the hearing impaired individuals is to find a respectable place in society by producing as every healthy human. To participate in their social life, depends to sustain independent living. The most important way to ensure this is employment. If hearing impaired individuals work, produce and gain, they participate in social life and get happy. Unemployment is a huge problem. The most important aim for the hearing impaired should be to remove this issue from the agenda of them. Our main reason for making this Project is to prepare a new certification program for hearing impaired individuals in order to provide employment. With this study, we will educate hearing impaired tour guides who use sign language and we will offer different job opportunities to hearing impaired people by creating a new model of vocational training. A training program is not available in this area. If appropriate educational areas are created, numerous hearing impaired people may be employed in this sector. Well trained persons with disabilities will have more opportunities to have a job. This study is a first and completely original work to open a new field of employment for hearing impaired citizens in our country. At first, the participants that we trained will work with professional tour guides as assistants. There isn’t a certificate program for hearing impaired individuals for being tour guides with cockades in our country. This certificate program will be created within our project. Project Partners:Doncaster Deaf Trust (England)Fundación Pública Andaluza el Legado Andalusí (Spain)Istituto Statale Sordi (Italy)Asociatia Tedy Bear (Romania)Turkish National Federation of the DeafChamber of the Guides of İzmir (İZRO)Buca AcademyThroughout the process, we aim to convert the certificate program that we have prepared as a tour guide of a Deaf Faculty in a university. After compilation of our project, the results that we aim to achieve can be summarized below.• Developing the Tour Guide Certificate Program for hearing disabled.• Creating a new employment area for hearing impaired people.• To provide guidence for domestic and foreign hearing impaired individuals.• To create a workforce that can adapt to evolving technology and can struggle with the competitive market technology by giving better quality of vocational training. • Giving importance to sign language training in vocational education area.• Understanding different applications resulting from intercultural recognition.• Partic- ipants will have the opportunity learn the mother tongue and sign language of the country they visited also can explain their language and develop their foreign language.The methodology of our project can be summarized as a route map consisting of 5 steps.a. Preparation of Projectb. Conceptual Designc. Ap- plicationd. Continuous assessment and evaluatione. Dissemination and SustainabilityOur project is a 24 months study and the operating plan adopted by all of our partners are as follows. Preparation Of General Meeting (Turkey)Preparation Of General Meeting (Spain)General Preparation MeetingSelection Of Youth Hearing Impaired PartıcipantsPreparation Of Lesson PlansBasic Turkish Sign Language EducationEnglish Language TeachingVocational Training Courses-Section 1Vocational Training Courses-Section 2 Prepara- tion Of International Sign Language (ISL) EducationISL Training Preparation Of Evaluation Meeting and Tourism TrainingEvaluation MeetingTourism TrainingPreparations Of Vocational Training Application In Field (Aegean Region)Vocational Training Application In Field (Aegean Region)Preparations Of Vocational Training Application In Field (Abroad)Vocational Training Application In Field (Abroad )Collection Of As- sessment Results, Finalization And Reporting The Study Intellectual Outputs - Preparation Of Vocational Education Certificate Program.Fulfillment of the first meeting, the distribution of tasks.Determination of Vocational and Applied Education, Foreign Language and ISL training.Determination of Norms of Na- tional Occupational Standards Determination of Qualification LevelPreparation of Intellectual Outputs BookPreparation Of Final meetings Preparation of Multiplier EventsFinal Meeting in Izmir/TurkeyMultiplier Events/ İstanbul ConferenceMultiplier Events/Ankara ConferencePreparation of the Project Booklet and Final ReportPublishing Project Booklet

COORDINATOR: Mavi Pencere Buca Koop Mh. 220/70 Sk. No:15/A 35390 Buca, Turkey

CONTACT: Nursel Aksoy STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP415

PARTNERS: Doncaster Deaf Trust, UK; ASOCIATIA TEDY BEAR, RO; IZMIR TURIST REHBERLERI ODASI, TR; Buca Akademi Dersanesi, TR; Turkish National Federation of the Deaf, TR; Istituto Statale Sordi, IT; Fundación Pública Andaluza el Legado Andalusí, ES

GRANT AMOUNT: 142 725 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners

PRIORITY 3: Addressing low achievement in basic skills through more effective teaching methods

TOPIC 1: Disabilities - special needs

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 3: Teaching and learning of foreign languages

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Teaching and Training SP416 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024506

TITLE: TRAINING OF YOUTH FOR PREPAREDNESS AGAINST MARINE INDUCED HAZARDS

DESCRIPTION: TROYO aims to combine scientific excellence of professionals in Coastal Engineering field with enunciable skills in marine hazards for youth to endeavor a better understanding of marine hazards and their effects of human life and manmade coastal structures and prepare guidelines and online tools for safety and preparedness. Raising awareness and preparedness against marine hazards are crucial for coastal communities in order to avoid inevitable damages. Hence, communities should be trained and educated about marine hazards, mitigation tools, and disaster management.The main objective is training of younger by young on preparedness against marine events and protection of coastal utilization and environment. In this respect, TROYO is organized to train youth on the marine hazards through innovative and scientific tools and methods. Youth to be trained by trainers, experts and professionals shall be from any disciplines even not necessarily from coastal or civil engineering fields. The training program will enhance knowledge and awareness of selected young people in the marine hazards and acquire new methods of preparedness against marine hazards and transfer of acquired knowledge directly to younger through training.THE MAIN TOPICS OF THE PROJECT• Training youth to train youth by considering that they are coming from different disciplines• Case studies – What have been done and results and what should have been done• Incorporation of Experiences of Partners, preparedness methods of partners• Technics for professional scientific simplicityTROYO activities are divided into four Work Packages (WPs): Work Package 1: Training Ma- terials for Youth on Marine Hazards Work Package 2: Training of Youth by Experts Work Package 3: Training of Younger by Trained Youth Work Package 4: Training of Younger by Trained Youth Work packages starts with transfer of scientific knowledge and experience with innovative methods into enunciable knowledge, converting enunciable knowledge of marine hazards into training materials for youth and general public, training selected youth from universities, and facilitating selected youth from universities to train selected people from younger generation.

COORDINATOR: METU DUMLUPINAR BULVARI 1 06800 ANKARA, Turkey http://www.metu.edu.tr

CONTACT: Ahmet Cevdet Yalçıner

PARTNERS: INSTITUTO PORTUGUES DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA IP, PT; UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA, ES; SPECIAL RESEARCH BUREAU FOR AUTOMATION OF MARINE RESEARCHES FAR EAST BRANCH RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, RU; Ecco Musavirlik Mimarlik Muhendislik Taahhut Ticaret Ltd Sti, TR

GRANT AMOUNT: 230 246 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 32 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 2: High quality learning opportunities

PRIORITY 3: Addressing low achievement in basic skills through more effective teaching methods

TOPIC 1: Environment and climate change

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): Education for Sustainable Development; Youth Empowerment; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP417

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024571

TITLE: DEVELOPING AN INNOVATIVE PLATFORM TO IMPACT MILLIONS OF REFUGEES WITH SOCIAL CIRCUS!

DESCRIPTION: In the summer of 2015, Europe experienced the highest influx of refugees and displaced population since the Second World War. Over four million people have fled Syria. The vast majority of them reside now in camps in the neighboring countries, including Turkey. Many refugee camps are crowded and un- dersupplied, subjecting people to bad conditions and youth to a severe lack of education. The risk is that a generation of displaced youth will be growing up without an education.In this context, Developing an innovative platform to impact millions of refugees with social circus! aims to offer alternative sources of non formal education to refugee and displaced youth in and around Europe with social circus. Our proposal is to develop a cross-sectoral international network and platform to engage a large number of people and organisms in social circus activities with refugee and displaced youth all over Europe. Our project will involve over 250 participants from social circus schools staff and other partner organisations to young social circus trainers and students from refugee or displaced communities. Their work will impact over 37000 refugee or displaced youth through circus shows and performances. And our overall project will engage and reach over 100000 people interested in social circus and refugee issues in and around Europe.Our activities include 9 trainings about management and planning ; social circus training methods ; social media, identity building and public relations ; team identity building ; engaging volunteers ; products development & marketing for social circus ; big scale social circus events organisation and management by young volunteers. They also include 400 social circus workshops, 24 youth circus shows, a mobile pho- to exhibition, 2 fundraising concerts and 2 youth circus festivals.The results of our project involve training material and practical info to implement social circus activities, methods, processes and network to multiply social circus activities and impact ; a web portal to engage stakeholders into social circus projects ; a social network and communication platform for refugee and displaced youth practicing social circus and a mobile application to connect social circus actors in Europe and the world.

COORDINATOR: HER YERDE SANAT DERNEGI Gul mah. Mimarbasi Serkis Elyas Lole Kultur ve Sanat Sok 47100 Mardin, Turkey www.heryerdesanat.org

CONTACT: Pınar Martins

PARTNERS: Die Stelzer - Pruchniewitz & Hauck GbR, DE; Afghan Educational Children Circus, AF; Nomadways, FR; GOETHE-INSTITUT EV, DE; Mobile Mini Circus for Children, DK; Art eye, PL

GRANT AMOUNT: 228 490 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 30 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening quality through mobility and cross-border cooperation

PRIORITY 3: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

TOPIC 1: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 2: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

CLUSTER(S): International Cooperation; Teaching and Training SP418 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024834

TITLE: EMOTION TO MOTION EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT TO FOSTER YOUTH EMPLOYABILITY

DESCRIPTION: Emotional intelligence can greatly impact youth work life and career, so it’s important to understand exactly what it is and why it is so important. Every workplace is comprised of people with different strengths, personalities and emotions, which can greatly affect the way they work. Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage youth emotions as well as the emotions of others. Emotional Intel- ligence is a wide range of skills that youth of all ages can develop and improve. These skills are critical for emotional well-being and life success including Intrapersonal Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Adaptability, Stress Management and General Mood. These skills are divided into sub-skills that address such things as Problem Solving, Happiness, Flexibility and other critical emotional and social competencies. The right academic background, professional experience and certifications are obviously necessary to land a higher position. Emotional intelligence, however, can be the key to further success, particularly when moving into management positions. Employers say emotionally intelligent managers rate higher in job satisfaction and lower in levels of turnover. If youth career plans include a leadership position, emotional intelligence can help you develop teams who are happier and more productive in their work, and more likely to stay in their positions. It’s clear that emotional intelligence can be an asset to youth professional life. The business world is always changing and emotions are becoming a much more important aspect of working relationships. Having emotional intelligence increases youth chances of being more accepted on teams and considered for leadership positions. It can also set you apart from the competition when seeking a new position or promotion.Employers are looking for candidates who know how to listen and communicate well – both important aspects of emotional intelligence. They also prefer youth who are adaptable to changing work environments, not rigid and inflexible. Other attributes employers seek in youth during the hiring process include self-management, the ability to work in teams and strong leadership potential. All of these competencies are intertwined in emotional intelligence. The main aim of this project is to improve the quality of youth and wellbeing at their work place through the promotion of emotional intelligence (emotional self-regulation / self-awareness and self-motivation ). In this project will provide a web based learning environment for those who might not have an access to professional development program for youth. To achieve this aim, this project will construct a Web based learning environment to share the content of educational material. The Web 2.0 learning environment will contain training material on Emotional Intelligence (EI) and it will be addressed to promote EI for youth. One of the main outcome of the project will be to improve the professional qualification of youth through the promotion of a series of inter and intra personal competences, resulting from the use of Emotional Intelligence thus fostering a higher flexibility of youth as employees or employers that will allow them to quickly adapt to the changes that can occur at a work place. This will also improve the quality of life and the wellbeing of youth. The project will increase the motivation and satisfaction of youth, as they will be able to manage their work in an emotionally intelligent way; improving the quality of service (faster problem solving, personalized attention, social acceptance).

COORDINATOR: Istanbul Valiligi Bankalar Cad. Erguvan Sok. Karakoy, Beyoglu 34421 Istanbul, Turkey www.istanbulab.gov.tr

CONTACT: Volkan ATA

PARTNERS: INSTITOUTO ANAPTIXIS EPICHEIRIMATIKOTITAS ASTIKI ETAIREIA, EL; Global Egitim Kultur ve Iletisim Dernegi, TR; XXI INVESLAN, S.L., ES; Stichting Europäisches Bildungswerk, NL; STEP Institut, zavod za psihologijo dela in podjetnistvo, SI; INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING OF PERSONNEL IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, BG; Istanbul Medeniyet University, TR

GRANT AMOUNT: 226 083 EUR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP419

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Effective strategies for enhancing basic skills

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 2: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

TOPIC 3: Open and distance learning

CLUSTER(S): Employability; Youth Empowerment; New Technologies and Digital Competences SP420 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-TR01-KA205-024900

TITLE: BIOMIMICRY FOR ENTREPRENEURS

DESCRIPTION: “Biomimicry for Entrepreneurs aims at reaching current and future entrepreneurs and also business ecosystem in Europe with an alternative and inspiring perspective on entrepreneurship. ‘Bio’ means life. ‘Mimicry’ means to stimulate. Biomimicry is learning from nature and then emulating its forms, processes, and ecosystems in order to create more sustainable designs and address design challenges in creative ways. Also brings collaboration, rapidly renewability, sustainability inside. In the context of this project, the challenge we will address is how to be better entrepreneurs. The quality, quantity and speed of solutions that will address these challenges and risks will shape the future. Raising better entrepreneurs will increase the chances of our species to continue its existence more gracefully on this planet. And also helps economically and socially development of countries. Nature is the greatest entrepreneur of all times – it creates continuously, takes risks, fails, and regenerates. The cycle of life on Earth is a cycle of entrepreneurship. Turning to nature and asking questions such as “what kind of an entrepreneur is nature? and “what makes nature a good entrepreneur? will reveal valuable insights that will help entrepreneurs pursue their endeavors towards designing a more sustainable future. Combining biomimicry knowledge with entrepreneurship education is realistic and effective way for creating future generation ideas, start- ups, designs, products, business models and specialized economies.

COORDINATOR: TUKCEV 606. SOKAK 13/A ANKARA, Turkey www.tukcev.org.tr

CONTACT: Güldem Ulutürk

PARTNERS: Mostar Friedensprojekt e.V., DE; Biomimicry Iberia Association, ES; TOBB EKONOMI VE TEKNOLOJI UNIVERSITESI, TR; Stichting biomimicryNL, NL; ISTANBUL SEHIR UNIVERSITESI, TR; Trenddesk, Inc., US; MENTOR MEDYA LTD. STI., TR

GRANT AMOUNT: 199 385 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods

PRIORITY 2: Promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

PRIORITY 3: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

TOPIC 1: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

TOPIC 2: Open and distance learning

TOPIC 3: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

CLUSTER(S): International Cooperation; New Technologies and Digital Competences; Employability STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP421

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-UK01-KA205-022861

TITLE: DEVELOPING AND COMMUNICATING THE IMPACT OF YOUTH WORK ACROSS EUROPE

DESCRIPTION: This is a unique project which simultaneously both develops and communicates the impact of youth work across 5 European countries (United Kingdom [lead partner], France, Italy, Finland, Estonia). It is the first project of its type to do this. It utilizes a recently devised method for this process - Transformative Evalu- ation (TE) - which in the UK context has been shown to both significantly develop youth workers ability to demonstrate impact, re-engage youth workers in the evaluation process and develop high quality youth work. It focuses on story generation and starts with the voice of young people. This is enhanced through a process of peer and stake holder discussions to establish definitely the impact of youth work in that context. The context for this project is the Europe-wide call for youth work to better establish its outcomes and impact (EC, Strategy for Youth, 2009; EC, 2014, Working with Young People; EC, 2015, Quality Youth Work). The outcomes of the project ( national partner country reports, E-book and briefing papers will be used to address this directly.The aims of this project are:1.To establish a European network to identify, develop and communicate the impact of youth work across 5 European countries. The objectives of the project are:2. To embed the innovative, highly effective, robust and sustainable method of evaluating youth work - Transformative Evaluation (TE) - developed in one national context (UK) in youth work organizations across 5 European partner countries. 3. Demonstrate new knowledge and evidence across Europe of the impact of youth work to inform local regional, national and European Policy.These aims will be met by the following objectives:(i) Training youth workers in the Transformative Evaluation (TE) method and then implementing 3 cycles of the process in 3 youth work organizations, in each of the 5 partner countries, over a one year period.(ii) Youth workers from these organizations supported by the coordinators will train other youth workers across their organization, and in other youth work organizations and settings, thereby developing a new community of practice.(iii) Create a sustainable on-line training resource in TE to enable youth workers across Europe settings to be better able to evaluate their practice, and identify the impact of their work.(iv) identifying, comparing and contrasting the impact of youth work on young people and upon their wider communities across the 15 youth work settings in 5 European contexts.(v) Identifying what works, the processes which brought about these outcomes and how they were achieved. (vi) Com- municate and disseminate this new knowledge via reports, policy briefings and an open access e-book(vii) Produce recommendations for policy makers / funders.(viii) Disseminate outputs through an International Conference.The project will have 5 phases1) Training in TE2) Embedding TE in youth work organizations3) Identification of the Impact of Youth Work 4) Establishment of a new Community of Practice & Production of a web based multi lingual resource 5) Dissemination through Reports, E-book and international conference The project is lead by Dr Jon Ord (University of St Mark & St John) Associate Professor in youth work and there are 4 other universities, of HUMAK, Toulouse, Bari, Tallin coordinating the work in their native countries. There also 15 partner youth work organizations, 3 from each of the 5 countries. Many of these are from deprived regions such as Cornwall, in the UK and Puglia in Italy. The project will be expanded as youth workers share and train other youth workers through peer to peer training to significantly extend the reach of the project, creating a Community of Practice.The results will be:- A significant demonstration of the impact of youth work across Europe. - The establishment of a community of Practice of youth workers trained in to demonstrate the impact of their work (TE)- The project has a sustainable paradigm as it is designed to grow and develop after it has been completed through the production of the Multi lingual Web based resource, the E-book and the community of practice that has been developed. The project involves Southern, Western and Northern Europe as well as a Baltic state. Each coordinating partner, in each country is a leading organization in their national context. The project has key figures involved in it, including the ex-director of the Directorate of Youth & Sport at the European Commission, from Finland. Each partner brings a different context and a diverse range of youth work experience and expertise and the outcomes and outputs of the project will be fascinating, as this will be the first project of its type to compare and contrast youth work approaches and collate both the most significant changes for young people through their engagement in open access youth work, and the youth work processes which brought them about.

COORDINATOR: THE UNIVERSITY OF ST MARK & ST JOHN DERRIFORD ROAD PL6 8BH PLYMOUTH, United Kingdom www.marjon.ac.uk SP422 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

CONTACT: Jon Ord

PARTNERS: GET SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA, IT; UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BARI ALDO MORO, IT; Sandei, IT; DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL, UK; Estonian Association of Youth Workers, EE; UNIVERSITE DE TOULOUSE II - LE MIRAIL , FR; South East Youth Forum, UK; Opere Pugliesi di Utilità Sociale, IT; MAISON DES JEUNES ET DE LA CULTURE D’ONET LE CHATEAU, FR; TALLINN UNIVERSITY, EE; HELSINGIN KAUPUNKI, FI; SUOMEN HUMANISTINEN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY HUMAK, FI; Eesti Avatud Noortekeskuste Ühendus, EE; Eesti Noorsootöö Keskus, EE; Young People Cornwall, UK; Pelastakaa Lapset ry, FI; Les Eco-Liés, FR; ACCUEIL-ENTRAIDE JEUNES (ACCENT JEUNES), FR

GRANT AMOUNT: 302 630 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 31 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting high-quality of youth work.

PRIORITY 2: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers

PRIORITY 3: Increasing the efficiency of public expenditure and the investment in education, training and youth

TOPIC 1: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

TOPIC 2: Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

TOPIC 3: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

CLUSTER(S): Teaching and Training; Youth Empowerment STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth SP423

PROJECT NUMBER: 2015-3-UK01-KA205-023003

TITLE: EMPLOYABLE YOUNG PEOPLE - EYP PROGRAMME

DESCRIPTION: Being disengaged from the labour market in younger years can have negative long-term social consequences, not only for the young person but also for the society. It causes problems in the community in the form of nuisance and crime; leads to long-term costs in increased criminality, welfare dependency, housing and a wide range of social and economic factors. The economic cost of not integrating NEETs is estimated at over €150 billion, or 1.2% of GDP, in 2011 figures. The economic cost is not the only one. Young people not in employment, education or training are at higher risk of being socially and politically alienated. They have a lower level of level of interest and engagement in politics and lower levels of trust.“Short-term programmes largely concerned with generic skills, CVs and ‘employability’ cannot give NEET people a labour market advantage (Wolf, 2011). That is why we are proposing the EYP programme to provide a new way to deliver youth work and to support the personal&professional development of NEETs aged 16-24, while actively engaging local stakeholders to facilitate their social/work insertion. The EYP programme aims to improve self-esteem, interpersonal skills, behaviour and attitude, and to overcome practical barriers, then to signpost participants to appropriate VET providers that meet their needs for further training. The project is also aimed at people working with NEET, to support them to extend the reach of support to engage young people who are most distant from the labour market.Objectives:• To develop a model to support NEET improve self-confidence, self-esteem, interpersonal skills, behaviour and attitude; • To create a strong support network made up of companies, public institutions, social services, VET providers that can support the partners during the project activities; • To engage disadvantaged young people of the targeted areas/community, to participate in the programme activities and the transnational exchange. • To disseminate the partial and complete outcomes of the Project to a wider audience in the EU, and define channels of sustainability based on the support already obtained at implementation phase and built during the networking activities.The EYP programme will have the following phases:1. SHARE - Create a stable local network. Let it set and share objectives and strategies to support young people. Form local groups with NEETs. Organise the personal development camp (CAMP1). 2 MEA- SURE - Measure companies’ sustainability with the free LICET test and possibility to absorb participants (in the long term). Assess NEETS and create personalised competence balance, organise camp for ability development (communication, time management, English lessons, active citizenship, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, etc.) and other activities with the community to foster inclusion and participation. CAMP22. COMMUNICATE - Companies report on the results of the measurement and the partners offer tips and information on how to actively involve disadvantaged people in social/work life. Organise a camp for work preparation (CV writing, mock interviews, safety in a work environment, work in team, etc.) and other follow up activities. CAMP3 3. GROW - signpost NEETs to specific training, and support job insertion (CAMP4). Organise the international camp for selected youth.Results and impact envisaged:- Increased confidence and self-esteem of NEET participants;- Improved interpersonal skills of NEET;- Reduced risk behaviour of NEET;- Enhanced social inclusion of NEET; - Reduced rate of NEET and higher number of young people enrolled on a VET course;- Improved competences and ability of youth workers to engage with young people who are NEET; - Communities and employers have a greater involvement in the social and work insertion of NEET;- EYP Methodology document to help youth workers working with young people who are NEET to implement the EYP camps;- Support materials for youth workers;- EYP Toolkit for the assessment and recognition of achievement of goals by NEETs.DisseminationThe results of the project will be disseminated via a range of channels such as project website, social media, multiplier events, Erasmus+ Valor, etc. Partners will also engage own networks in the dissemination of project outputs, thus contributing to their replication and multiplication.

COORDINATOR: West Lothian Chamber of Commerce Alba Centre, THE ALBA CAMPUS, ROSEBANK EH54 7EG Livingston, United Kingdom www.wlchamber.com

CONTACT: Roger Horam SP424 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF youth

PARTNERS: Bakirkoy Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi, TR; Asociatia idei si proiecte pentru tineri activi, RO; EYROPAIKO INSTITOYTO TOPIKHS ANAPTYKSHS, EL; FUNDACION UNIVERSIDAD EMPRESA DE LA REGION DE MURCIA, ES; Aregai Terre di benessere, IT

GRANT AMOUNT: 170 449 EUR

CONTRACT DURATION: 24 months

PRIORITY 1 OR MAIN: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.

PRIORITY 2: Effective strategies for enhancing basic skills

PRIORITY 3: Fostering access to continuing VET, including groups at risk

TOPIC 1: Access for disadvantaged

TOPIC 2: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

TOPIC 3: Inclusion - equity

CLUSTER(S): Inclusion and Tolerance; Employability

Erasmus+ strategic partnerships in the field of youth

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