Erasmus+ Projects

The aim of this project was to engage EU citizens on the stigmatization of immigrants with a view to encourage civic participation, promote tolerance and understanding. Foster European citizenship and improve conditions for civic and democratic participation at EU level. The Citizens Are United, is a follow up to 2019 successfully implemented project; The Citizens are United quote where the issue of stigma was first raised by the TCNs themselves during implementation. Participants were met over two days when they were discuss about several issues that were an impediment to the integration of TCNs and make recommendations that will be compiled into a guidebook for policymakers.

The project aims to bring together youth workers from 12 countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Malta, North Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, UK) in order to find practical and sustainable solutions for women discrimination. The central aim of the project is:  Creating and developing networks and partnerships between the 12 partners in order to promote the principles of equal opportunities and the elimination of discriminatory barriers based on gender.

The project aims to increase capacity building of consortium in entrepreneurship and innovation topic, transfer know-how and address key issues of interest for young people nowadays. To boost inclusion of youth with fewer opportunities through providing them skills and competencies in social innovation & entrepreneurship education, is the main goal the project seeks to achieve.

The aim of this project was to engage EU citizens on the stigmatization of immigrants with a view to encourage civic participation, promote tolerance and understanding. Foster European citizenship and improve conditions for civic and democratic participation at EU level. The Citizens Are United, is a follow up to 2019 successfully implemented project; The Citizens are United quote where the issue of stigma was first raised by the TCNs themselves during implementation. Participants were met over two days when they were discuss about several issues that were an impediment to the integration of TCNs and make recommendations that will be compiled into a guidebook for policymakers.

Seminar, planned for March 2019, will be dedicated to exploring meaning of terms key to youth entrepreneurship and developing both businesses and social cohesion in rural areas. Participants will explore key documents, policies and strategies (on all levels, from local and regional to European), exchange good practices and discuss with local stakeholders specifics of work and issues local communities face in multi-ethnic community at non-EU and EU borderland (Coka is located in Serbia on Serbian-Hungarian border, with very close distance to other EU countries – Croatia and Romania). We will also meet members of local parliament and government of the autonomous region of Vojvodina.

The aim of this project was to engage EU citizens on the stigmatization of immigrants with a view to encourage civic participation, promote tolerance and understanding. Foster European citizenship and improve conditions for civic and democratic participation at EU level. The Citizens Are United, is a follow up to 2019 successfully implemented project; The Citizens are United quote where the issue of stigma was first raised by the TCNs themselves during implementation. Participants were met over two days when they were discuss about several issues that were an impediment to the integration of TCNs and make recommendations that will be compiled into a guidebook for policymakers.

The project “Youth Work for Youth Employability” is the training course which aim is to boost youth workers` capacity to foster youth employability and entrepreneurship. This training course will empower the participants with competencies to help themselves and young people they work with to gain employability skills useful for the labour market and life.

We organize this seminar to perceive volunteering as a driving force to promote and build peace and provide the whole group with tools, ideas and inspiration to improve the support given to young volunteers willing to take further steps in building peaceful, inclusive and sustainable societies. The idea behind the proposal is to help voluntary based NGOs to play a more decisive role in helping young people to become active peace builders while they are volunteering and exchange ideas to understand volunteering as a powerful source to develop specific competences useful to promote and build peace.

ECHO is an international project in the field of arts, culture and heritage, that aims to enhance cultural production and reinforce the European sense of belonging by connecting contemporary artistic creation with Dark Cultural Heritage of local communities in Europe. The project will: promote local dark heritage through artistic co-creations aiming at enhancing a European sense of belonging and facilitate cultural and artistic exchange between new, old and future EU member states

The International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) is a non-governmental organization focused on advocacy, knowledge-building and technical assistance projects in various areas of social development carried out at the country level and internationally. Created in 1928 in Paris to address complexities and challenges of social work, the ICSW has evolved through the years to embrace the major issues of social development, becoming a global organization committed to improving human well-being. Establishing common ground on issues of international significance, and acting with partners ICSW represents national and local organizations in more than 70 countries throughout the world working through its nine regional networks.

„Design Your Job II“ is a project supported by European Union through ERASMUS+ program. The project goal is to develop and test specific IT program needed on the labour market that can be used on systematic level for re-training / prequalification of unemployed people. Project is implemented by Center for Youth and Social Development „RES POLIS“ from Novi Sad – Serbia together with its partners. The project offers the opportunity for ALL young people in respective participating countries that fit into the eligibility criteria outlined below to enhance their employability skills regardless of their prior formal education or professional experience.

We developed this project that has the aim of increasing the capacity building of the partner organisations in the field of Volunteer Engagement with focus on aligning the youth worker’s communication competences to the new online trends used by young volunteers. The objects for this projects are: developing creative and innovative online communication competences specific to volunteer engagement work, among 30 youth workers from 9 countries, in 10 months; enhance the effective use of innovative social media and creative art methods such as graphic facilitation and creative writing as tools for online communication with young volunteers, in at least 1 learning activity for each partner organization, in 4 months and support the exchange of experience and good practices in the field of volunteer engagement, among the 30 youth workers from the 10 partner organizations, in 10 months.

The main aim of the project „Navigators on Creative Seas” is to develop, by August 2019 the creative and innovative potential of 132 youth workers through 1 non-formal training course with 32 participants who will share their newly acquired know-how with other 100 local youth workers through a new curricula on creativity and design thinking and 1 e-learning instrument: a free MOOC about creativity. Our common understanding is that creativity in youth work is a social process, where the solutions are found in networking, cooperation between multicultural groups and teams with complementary competences and skills. Creativity is not just an economic engine or one of the 3 most desired skill by employers, but also a way to tackle social, political and cultural challenges and initiate changes.

Our YE START WORKS was created because we have noticed this particular learning gap in young unemployed people in the field of the skills and knowledge in the field of self-presentation, communication, formalities like CV or cover letters or how to even find a job and other beneficial opportunities like for instance volunteering. The formal school systems in our countries usually don’t involve those practical skills into the curricula. In addition, we have noticed, that the philosophy of volunteering is still not wide-spread among youngsters as well.

The project aims to increase capacity building of consortium in entrepreneurship and innovation topic, transfer know-how and address key issues of interest for young people nowadays. To boost inclusion of youth with fewer opportunities through providing them skills and competencies in social innovation & entrepreneurship education, is the main goal the project seeks to achieve.

A strong connection between a sustainable lifestyle and health benefits was established that arises from cleaner and less polluted environment. The idea for this project was drafted among young participants during „Be Healthy, Stay Active“ Youth Ex-change project. The students developed the concept by choosing topics for the workshops and type of activities they would be implementing.

The objectives of this EVS are: to help children and young people reconnect with nature in an urban environment through gardening; to offer children and young people experiential education about sustainability in a practical way (learning by doing) through gardening; to teach children and young people knowledge and skills they can later apply on their own and share with others and to facilitate intercultural interaction, exchange, and learning between volunteers, children, and teachers.

The tasks of this evs are assisting an art gallery in the center of Funchal, Madeira, organisation of guided tours around tourist art objects in Funchal, organisation of artistic workshops.

MoMint is an 8-day training course which aims to introduce and explore principles of “Mindfulness” and to experiment with practical and fun tools and techniques that can be readily used in daily life, creative work and in the other situations and places too. MoMint is created with support of the Erasmus+. Mindfulness develops the skill to bring one’s attention to the present moment on purpose and serves to strengthen one’s capacity for stress resistance, kindness and compassion both in personal and professional life. Science-based methods allow participants in training to experience visceral, ‘in the moment’ practices within an overtly reflective and supportive environment.

Training Course, planned for May 2019, will concentrate on equipping youth workers, trainers and volunteers from partner organisation with tools necessary to foster youth entrepreneurship, social activism, sustainable development, and respect for European values. Participants will learn existing tools and resources, exchange good practices, and work on a toolbox, containing innovative methods of youth work created by them as a result of the project.

Youth Exchange „Green photo lab“ will be based on non-formal education techniques through which we want let participants understand importance of protection of environment and stimulate their creativity in order to come with creative and effective ways to solve environmental problems together with raising of responsibility towards environmental issues in a global way, pointing out that also this can be reason for migration and on the other hand to promote photography as a powerful tool to raise awareness of any issue they might face in their lives or professional development. Project create possibility for participants from 6 countries (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Finland, FYROM, Portugal, Norway) and will be implemented in two Slovak towns (Nitra & Banská Štiavnica) in May 2019. Youth Exchange will end with public exhibition including local community and policy makers.

The project main aim is to widen the perspectives of youth workers and youth leaders on religion and inter-religious dialogue in a human rights context through analyzing concepts, realities and ways for developing them through youth work, and in such way to raise youth awareness about such important issues of nowadays as religious diversity of people or nations and tolerance between them in common Europe. This seminar will initiate the dialogue among youth workers and youth leaders about different religions around European and neighboring countries and how to ensure the religious tolerance among different nationalities. Elaboration of activities against intolerance, racism and discrimination is an important step towards the development of the united and civilized European and world society. The organizations working with youth must be involved into combating intolerance, discrimination, violence, terrorism in cooperation and collaboration together for the peaceful world in the future.

The aim of the project is to give European citizens the opportunity to be protagonists in the creation of a more committed Europe, through the mutual work of people from different cultures and social contexts, on themes of great interest for civil society, EU and institutions, and all partners need to promote EU values and the benefit of the EU, observe the election processes in the partner countries and the EU in general and research what are the problems for having low voting turnout in the past years, and propose solutions to the problems, engage youngsters from the partner organizations to become active citizens, promote volunteering and active citizenship, deepen the knowledge of youth about the EU institutions and policies, to understand the democratic processes and motivate them to develop a stronger feeling of being a European Citizen.

This program aims to help young people to travel to a new culture, new people, speak a new language and cross own mind set up to help out other people. This in turn help the volunteers to their personal growth and job opportunities. The program promotes intercultural learning experience, encouraging social integration and widening the perspective of the young people to employability. Through a creative program the young and older volunteers step into solidarity and stimulate their creative and innovative thinking through sports and recreative outdoor activities for children (4-16 years).

FREE IN DEED FID will offer to vulnerable Christian/Faith youths the opportunity to learn about the issue of human trafficking and raise awareness about it here in Malta for 1 week and in their countries with the knowledge built through this experience. CCIF is going to empower 50 performing arts youths from 6 youth groups to combat human trafficking. FID aims to use Christian/faith based views of freedom, justice

and worship as key to them being promoters and advocators of human trafficking. The activities will be built round the topics that affect them daily. A deliberate and ambitious move was taken in this project we almost failed as it was almost impossible to get interested faith organisation willing to take part as such we will use our experience to address their concern and interests.

The project aims to increase capacity building of consortium in entrepreneurship and innovation topic, transfer know-how and address key issues of interest for young people nowadays. To boost inclusion of youth with fewer opportunities through providing them skills and competencies in social innovation & entrepreneurship education, is the main goal the project seeks to achieve.

Key topics and highlights of this projects are: inclusion of youth with fewer opportunities; raising awareness about the importance of youngsters in todays’ society; media literacy and critical thinking; practicing theatre methods and cultural awareness

The FirstAid4Youth is a long-term project related to first premedical aid. The project will equip 48 youth workers (2 participants per partner) (in 4 phases) with advanced tools, skills, and expertise in the field of in-depth first aid, creating an safe and efficient platform to exchange of experiences (super- vised by 2 experienced medical workers and 2 psychodrama practitioners) with the scope of providing mental comfort to the casualty of the accident. The project aims to create a base and network of cooperation within the framework of effective, and tested in practice pre-medical skills in youth groups.

By implementing an idea that deals with the subject of refugees, migrants, discrimination, lack of tolerance or xenophobia, not only will they develop knowledge and skills to respond appropriately, they will become more open, empathetic, or respectful to other cultures or religions, but also broaden their knowledge related to the native and European cultural heritage, which are often overlooked, simplified or forgotten. A project that will present first sequels of the greatest literary heroes from their regions / states. Secondly, they will create a theatrical performance, which will aim to create a common European literary history (embedded in the21st century), based on literary characters from their regions, and then to signal the problem and try to solve it.

In this project young people will better understand the importance and different ways of participating in the decision-making processes on the local and national level. To combat disinterest with political processes among youth, in this project the participants will learn more about different types of political-economy setups in different parts of Europe. The activities will take place in Orahovica.

This program aims to help young people to travel to a new culture, new people, speak a new language and cross own mind set up to help out other people. This in turn help the volunteers to their personal growth and job opportunities. The program promotes intercultural learning experience, encouraging social integration and widening the perspective of the young people to employability. Through a creative program the young and older volunteers step into solidarity and stimulate their creative and innovative thinking through sports and recreative outdoor activities for children (4-16 years).

ECO World will be a youth exchange involving 48 participants (including 6 group leaders) from 6 different european countries (Romania, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal and The Republic of North Macedonia) which will aim on focusing on raising awareness mainly inside the local communities regarding issues such as good practices for environmental protection, measures to stop harming the environment around those local communities and concrete actions to promote those practices. Using non-formal education tools, participants will be actively involved during the 10 days of activities undertaken in the small town of Boldesti-Scaieni, and in the areas surrounding it. Protecting the environment is an important issue and should be a concern for all of us. We will also promote the concept of European Citizenship, as an important notion which promotes good practices and a good way of life, living in harmony with those around us and with the environment. Being a European citizen means respecting those around you and getting actively involved in all the problems which society faces.

Association Co-Efficient (Együttható Egyesület) was founded by social professionals and enthusiastic young volunteers in 2010 to promote non-formal learning, innovative community services and a new way of thinking in youth and social work. We have a youth office in Budapest and an afterschool „Impactpoint” (HatásPont Tanoda) in Gyöngyös, 80 km from Budapest. The after school was founded in 2014 and offers afternoon activities for around 30 students with a disadvantaged background. This is where this EVS project will take place.

“United through education”; is a project that will be based on the development / creation among youth workers: awareness of a concept of culture and its dimensions, approaches used in non-formal education, problem / conflict solutions in an intercultural context and development of competence in facilitating the learning process (facilitation) activity based on a methodology taken from non-formal education.

The project aims to create a base and network of cooperation within the framework of effective, and tested in practice pre-medical skills in youth groups.

With this project we want to learn about food culture and local farming. We will also plan and implement an event to local families, in this event we will cook and share food for everyone. We will learn different things about other countries culture and practices. Principally every day we learn different cooking skills, new recipes and also social skills. We don’t know much about each other countries but we are excited to learn about the every day life in Macedonia as well as about the habits and the culture. We also want learn how food comes to plate for example from the farms. We also want the Macedonians learn about Finnish culture as well as about our habits.

To develop indoor and outdoor games for youth on topics of sustainability and environmental resilience.

We aim to develop neighboring surroundings by expressing solidarity. Promoting education, volunteering opportunities. Volunteering will help you learn new skills and competences necessary for current labor market. Promoting the learning of non formal education, skills, attitudes and values essential for personal development and application in society. Creating and supporting an individual development plan . During winter school breaks, volunteer supervise, manage and create workshops for kids. Volunteer will learn how to manage large crowds using animation or public speaking. Work closely with youth to build up trust and shoe encouragement.

As today we are all aware that economic crisis is over and that today there is a lot of job opportunities on the job market and a lot of vacancies but now we are dealing with another problem, young people who should be involved in the job market are not well prepared for it. They finished their schools and universities in which they gain the knowledge, only of them also the skills, needed in specific field, but noon of them got knowledge and skills which are needed to be actively involved in the job market. While in countries which are involved in this project young people are getting a lot of theoretical knowledge through formal education, there is lack of practical skills which young people need, especially young people who are going to apply for the first job after the formal education and especially young people with fewer opportunities for who is even harder to involve themselves in the job market and start to look for a job. Besides all this formal knowledge, we encountered a problem which is that young people don’t know how to apply for the job, how to present themselves to future employers, how to assess their key competences and write cv and a motivation letter. This is knowledge which is needed in today society and which is not provided to young people in all the countries which are involved in this project.

The project is designed as a process of non-formal learning and peer education using participants’ own experiences in the fields of ECS, youth work and international cooperation.

The youth exchangе will follow similar methodology based on the use and study of classical ancient drama as a tool for identification of problems and discovering space for solidarity and reflection on contemporary European problems. Starting from Sophocle’s Antigone, participants will be introduced to various theatre and improvisation techniques, body movements and a series of non-formal learning activities, in order to get acquainted with the culture of tolerance and non-discrimination.

The volunteering activity will take place in one of Zagreb’s neighborhoods (Savica), Croatia in autumn 2019 and winter 2020 bringing together in each round 10 young people from countries present in APV. In the period of these two months, the international youngsters will create and deliver workshops for local school children with an aim to introduce their culture and countries. Each volunteer will be paired up with a local elderly person who will be supporting the volunteer in planning and delivering their activities.

“R.R.R. – Raising Radio Reaction” is an Erasmus+ funded Training course gathering 26 youth workers and youngsters from Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, North Macedonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland and Slovakia. The project aims to provide the participants with the skills needed to be able to establish and manage on their own budget web based radio channels using the methods of non-formal education. The organisations and their youth workers will be empowered with knowledge how to help young people to create their own “brand” business that is not mediated by the “world” of adults, but absolutely free of editorial lines, special interests and other impositions, getting able to influence society.

The project is a follow up to the project Religion≠Hate youth exchange on the relationship between religion and LGBTQ rights. During the implementation of this project we realized how difficult it is to find youth workers who can support struggling LGBTQ youth. Religion can play a negative role in the lives of LGBTQ youth in three ways:

1. some LGBTQ youth are also religious and they struggle to make peace between their faith and their sexuality/gender identity
2. some LGBTQ youth have religious parents and family, which put strains on their relationships with those closest to them
3. because of mostly negative treatment LGBTQ youth are getting from some religious organisations, some LGBTQ youth have developed deeply anti-religious sentiment which leads to them discriminating against people of faith, including LGBTQ youth of faith.

Main aim of this project is promoting equality and non-discrimination between young people. No-one is born with prejudice but rather has the potential to develop it over time. It is crucial to foster the values of equality and non-discrimination. Among children and youth, this must be done from an early age through formal and non-formal education. Non-formal education plays a key role in fostering the development of key transversal competences, the especially relevant ones being self-reflection, empathy and mutual respect. 

Social media facilitates the rapid spread of ideas online. The proliferation of such platforms has created an entirely new frontier in thinking about new innovative methods to be active in a proficient way. Young people in the EU make daily use of the internet. The use of social networks and technology within young people in Europe increased in the past years until reaching an average of 6 hours per day, meaning they spend 1/4 of their day on it. Such amount of time has an impact on the brain functioning and on its development.

Mass media is a powerful force in forming our perception of reality. The recent technological developments have brought profound changes to the way we access and consume information from the various media platforms. Today, most people if not everyone connected to the Internet can post information, pictures, videos and comments which can go viral. This means that they can potentially reach millions of people around the world and influence their attitude to a given issue. The digital revolution can empower but this power comes with great responsibility. In various parts of Europe and neighboring countries young people face different challenges related to media literacy, i.e. exposure to media bias, hate speech, cyber-bullying, grassroots xenophobia propagated by media and social networks.

Aims of the course

1. To increase youth workers’ skills so they can empower youth by boosting their personal development.
2. To increase the competences of youth workers in the field of social entrepreneurship so they

can help youngsters channel their potential in social entrepreneurship.

The project will be implemented on the topic Violence. As known, Violence is becoming wide spread everywhere. It is not a problem of a city or country, it is a problem of the world. All the stake holders and people should take some steps. We believe that our group will handle the Violence Problem in a different point of view. We will work with the participants coming from different parts of Europe. We will share the best practices to prevent Violence. We will raise awareness in the society.

Social exclusion is a major problem of our time. Social indifference and apathy regarding different social groups and social conflicts, lack of social activity, and methods for improving the situation of socially marginalized groups represent a problem in multicultural communities of Europe. Social exclusion is often a symptom of poverty, conflict and insecurity. The successful social inclusion of marginalized group in multicultural societies of Europe depends largely on how many opportunities for social participation they are given. Members of minority groups are prone to different treatment in the countries and societies in which they live. This discrimination may be directly based on an individual’s perceived membership of a minority group, without consideration of that individual’s personal achievement. Acquiring alternative and effective instruments for dealing with these issues is necessary and represents a priority.

We are aware or we should become aware that branding and namely the video presence of our initiative is the second thing we have to build (after our website). Nowadays technology allow us to create video productions without expensive equipment. Smartphones, laptops and other low cost gadgets can offer high quality video productions.

Our training course arises to respond to the need to train youth workers in the area of sustainable development. It has the objective of co-creating a more collaborative, just democratic and sustainable social and environmental model. We want to promote a form of direct social innovation from a rural and agrarian nucleus, to encourage a transformative learning where participants can learn and then replicate good practices based on transformative education.

The main objectives of this EVS are Promote a better understanding of concepts such as Peace Culture, volunteering, conflict transformation, nonformal learning and intercultural learning at local, regional and international level.  Encourage networking among NGOs, youth workers and young leaders from different countries, while supporting the creation of sustainable and long-term partnerships, with special focus in the South Mediterranean countries and foster the international mobility and active participation of young people in NFL, ICL, and Peace youth-led initiatives.

Activities of Syncro are focused on youth support, education
and personal development. The purpose of activities is to empower people to develop skills, attitudes, and knowledge for responsible and quality life, to become active citizens and to take an active role in their lives and in the lives in
their communities. Including, implementation of the international personal development training, youth exchanges, experiential learning in the outdoors, teaching various technical skills, coaching, group moderation, Among other things. Syncro has focused also on the local youth activities, and providing support for young people in Zagreb and wider in implementing their ideas in the community.

The overall aim of the project is to create a learning space and practice for employability and personal development tools, methods and practices to be used by those working with young people (in any capacity: formal, non-formal, vocational, etc.) so as to support them in pursuing diverse career prospects.

The main aim of the seminar is to gather youth workers to discuss and exchange the experience in youth work and Erasmus + programme and its impact to the personal, socio-educational and professional development of young people and European society nowadays. During this seminar different non-formal educational methods will be used: discussions, presentations, round table discussions, games, team work, practical exercises, intercultural evening, study visits in order to contribute non-formal learning process.

The overall objective of the project is to create a sustainable community with all its diversity, to develop rural areas and to improve the quality of life of local people. The volunteer will have several different tasks, such as educate local people how to treat their waste in a eco-friendly way , organize events, promote active way of living (hiking, cycling…) and European values.

Our project will explore Youth employment, social entrepreneurship, startups, managerial and leadership skills. To increase competencies of youth leaders/workers who are working with youngsters with fewer opportunities or socially excluded providing different tools for empowerment in a way to fight against youth unemployment.

The aim of this project is fight against general genders roles and assumptions to еmpowеr young pеoplе of аll gеndеrs and promote gеndеr еquаlity аt thе Еuropеаn lеvеl. We will incrеаsе thе аwаrеnеss of gеndеr issuеs in youth work by using holistic leаrning аnd theаtre of the oppressed.

Our project chаllenge rаcism, religious intolerаnce аnd islаmophobiа, sexism, homophobiа, disаblism аnd аll forms of intolerаnce thаt cаn аnd is shаred on-line. Presenting counter-nаrrаtives thаt fights the prevаlence аnd tаcit аcceptаnce of hаte speech we hope to turn internet in a place where the Humans rights are not violated anymore.

This TC will promote active citizenship through improvisation methods and to develop the personal competencies which are related to entrepreneurship skills through the drama methods. The aim of this project is a professional development in the field of innovative methods and tools for youth education.

CITY BOUND EPHESUS is an Erasmus+ Youth Mobility project. Its overall aim is to raise the level of key competences of young people whose potential employment field is tourism. The main activities of the project are promoting intercultural dialogue, respect and understanding among young people and to create positive awareness on cultural diversity, to examine the evolution of Alternative Tourism in Europe and to identify the role of Youth Tourism in this field, to analyze media literacy of young people in the tourism field and the popular tendencies, to share experience and knowledge of the use of digital competences and Information and Communication Technologies in the field of tourism, to create an Online Product presenting Kusadasi region from Ephesus Ancient City to Dilek Peninsula National Park.

„EVS for all” is a 30 month strategic EVS project through which we will: raise knowledge and consciousness about EVS and volunteering in general, raise consciousness about the value and importance of volunteering, raise knowledge about certificates of competences gained through volunteering, organize workshops for youth and different sectors (schools, universities, NGOs) all around Croatia and a seminar in autumn 2018 with EVS partners from Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Macedonia, Czech R. Armenia and Finland

This EVS project means to adopt an active life style in the most trendy way that is beneficial for youth as well as the environment they live in. The volunteers will be the example for the whole community as they will create events and implement various activities. In 2 months we will upgrade the life of the youth in 4 neighbourhoods by stable events, actions and activities while the Final event – the Youth festival is the best way to brand our City to support our aims.

This project is an excellent opportunity to learn about structure of a street festival and take a part in different organizational aspects connected with event management, media, communications and public relations, graphical design, digital media, photography and filmmaking, scenography and technical support of cultural events. By active involvement in different aspects of the festival you will have a chance to develop different competencies and skills that might be useful in your future work – digital skills, communication, team work, time management and planning, cultural awareness, creativity etc.

The goals from this EVS that we want to reach are  to connect the local community with international youth, to inspire other participants for healthy and active lifestyle, to release the creativity of the participants and to encourage volunteers in active citizenship in their countries.

This training course is designed for Youth Educators who willing to develop the personal focus on entrepreneurship and leadershi in work with youth in own community. The programme itself will touch the following topics: Entrepreneurship as a unity of competence, self-assessment of Entrepreneurship competence of youth, core values: communication and trust, a particular attention will be paid on creativity (design thinking and self-presentation&storytelling). Participants will get practical aspects ofentrepreneurship education and methods to use in work with young people.

IYOUME offers youth that opportunity through non formal learning activities tailor made around the issue of human trafficking. CCIF and the partnership is going to empower youth to combat human trafficking through innovative tools and give them a platform to test the acquired skills and competences.

The overall aim of the project is to create a learning space and practice for employability and personal development tools, methods and practices to be used by those working with young people (in any capacity: formal, non-formal, vocational, etc.) so as to support them in pursing diverse career prospects.

This seminar is envisaged as a space for developing future partnerships among those involved. These will be based on the ideas already developed within the project lifetime.

There is no shame admitting that you don’t feel all right – physically, but also, sometimes even more importantly, mentally. We express our positive emotions but are trying to hide the negative one. Why ignore them, when our mental health is very important for our happy life? We all know the pressure in school, at work or at home. Sometimes we would just love to escape and stop thinking about the stress

constantly surrounding us. In our organization, we have realized, that it is really hard to find a way how to truly relax and let the stress to go away. Each of us is different thus there is no one recipe how to leave our minds rest. Let’s join us in the Czech Republic on our youth exchange and hopefully we can find a way how to grow our mental health together!

This program aims to help young people to travel to a new culture, new people, speak a new language and cross own mind set up to help out other people. This in turn help the volunteers to their personal growth and job opportunities. The program promotes intercultural learning experience, encouraging social integration and widening the perspective of the young people to employability. Through a creative program the young and older volunteers step into solidarity and stimulate their creative and innovative thinking through sports and recreative outdoor activities for children (4-16 years).

Our activities will be to raise awareness about culture living and social and educational activities aim The main activities will be :sport activities, intercultural evenings, attending historical and cultural landmarks in the context of the project, interactive games, discussions on important topics, debates, music games for self-expression, creative activities for gaining new knowledge and skills in the field of art- drawing, modelling, exhibition with the participant’s works of art, etc. This will demonstrate the unifying power of the meeting with different traditions, the good team work and the activity of the youth in discussing European policies. Together, working in teams, we will search for solution to the aforementioned issues in a non- traditional way.

IYOUME offers youth that opportunity through non formal learning activities tailor made around the issue of human trafficking. CCIF and the partnership is going to empower youth to combat human trafficking through innovative tools and give them a platform to test the acquired skills and competences.

Основната идеја на оваа иницијатива е да се популаризира концептот за обновување и зачувување на животната средина, да се разбуди чувството на поврзаност и меѓузависност помеѓу човекот и животната средина и свесноста за моќта на индивидуалното влијание врз природната околина. Крајната цел е да се испрати еко порака, заклучоци и мотивација за преземање на активна улога во заштитата и зачувувањето на природата, практикување на здрав начин на живот во хармонија и љубов со природата, а притоа почитувајќи го човекот, родовата еднаквост и

маргинализираните групи.

The 2 week short-term EVS project ECOCENTRIC will take place at permacultural farm in Lovinac, region of Lika in Croatia. It consists of 2 weeks hands-on experience in permaculture: soil, water, plants and food. There will be hands-on work at the garden, construction and in the woods, but also sitting next to the fire and telling stories. There will be washing dishes tasks as well as laying at the beach.

The mission of this project is to create healthy eating and regular exercise habits among young people. Young people will learn how to eat healthy and how to workout in their homes and in parks and streets – without needing to pay for a gym membership.

ECHO is an international pilot project in the field of culture, heritage and arts that aims to enhance cultural production and reinforce the European sense of belonging by connecting contemporary artistic creation with Dark Cultural Heritage of local communities in Europe. Photography, video, painting and crafts are the means to be used to reveal the tangible and intangible local heritage.

This program aims to help young people to travel to a new culture, new people, speak a new language and cross own mind set up to help out other people. This in turn help the volunteers to their personal growth and job opportunities. The program promotes intercultural learning experience, encouraging social integration and widening the perspective of the young people to employability. Through a creative program the young and older volunteers step into solidarity and stimulate their creative and innovative thinking through sports and recreative outdoor activities for children (4-16 years).

The youth exchange, “Shoot Shoot Social” is focused on video production and creating effective videos to be used on social media.

The objective of this training course are to meet and learn more about the partner organizations and their experiences in EVS, to analyse the basic needs of a better partnership and create a long-lasting partnership among the partner organizations for higher quality partnership in EVS, to reflect the roles of each actors in EVS projects (Sending, Coordinating and Recieving), to increase the quality of EVS activities through sharing already existing practices and developing new ones for better experiences, to share and create new approaches to support volunteers during predeparture: esp. Motivation Letter and CVs, to focus on Youthpass-Key Competences, to find out the components of a good Activity Agreement and analysing good and bad practices, to learn more about the possible activities of each organization, to have a better understading of the possible problems and hardships of EVS and create new approaches to overcome them, to create an interactive platform to keep in touch after the Project dates and to write new sending and hosting projects for the 2017- R3 Deadline and next deadlines.

The project “The Path From Science Fiction to Reality” has as its main source of motivation literature and artistic works that promote scientific research, especially from science fiction field. Mankind has always represented the views that were addressed by open imagination and facilitated scientific progress, both for positive or negative purposes. We want to show to the participants that from science fiction to reality is a long journey in time and that, above everything scientific progress must be balanced with ethics and values to be put into promoting social welfare and solving the problems facing society.

Actions, goals and results have been planned in three stages – planning, implementation of mobility and dissemination of effects. The project also aims to help people working with youth from environments excluded in gaining experience and exchanging good practices. The main objective of the project is to promote youth activity and grasp youth initiatives, residents of favored areas and involve young people in social activities. It also focuses on stimulating civic activity and knowledge about other European countries, discovering other cultures and developing solidarity, promoting tolerance and mutual understanding among young people. The project’s activities and objectives interlock with the main priorities Erasmus program.

„EVS for all” is a 30 month strategic EVS project through which we will: raise knowledge and consciousness about EVS and volunteering in general, raise consciousness about the value and importance of volunteering, raise knowledge about certificates of competences gained through volunteering, organize workshops for youth and different sectors (schools, universities, NGOs) all around Croatia and a seminar in autumn 2018 with EVS partners from Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Macedonia, Czech R. Armenia and Finland

The aim of the project is to mobilize and encourage the young people of Zagreb to actively

engage in sustainable development and sustainability. This will be the third Sustainability Quest EVS

we have hosted. The main emphasis will be organizing the month-long “Sustainability Challenge” during which we will motivate the young people to adopt more sustainable habits for a month in the hope that they will continue them for longer.

The project “Ambassadors of Diversity” funded by the European Solidarity Corps is still looking for 3 international volunteers for long-term volunteering services in youth centres in Estonia. Youth centres are professional youth work environments providing open space, free access and non-formal education to all young people aged 7-26 and also enable diverse opportunities for volunteers. Volunteering vacancies are open to young people aged 18-30 currently residing in Portugal, Poland, Macedonia or Greece.

The project aims to achieve a useful, virtuous and ethical growth path for young European volunteers from different backgrounds and cultures; we will thus be able to value practical work as an element of change in society; be active in those areas on the margins, launching a clear message to young people: “By acting concretely, micro and macro problems can be solved.”

The youth exchange “Socemplyable!” is focused on social media and how to use them to catch new job opportunities and increase employability.

Through this TC youth workers will learn how better to reach and motivate LGBTI youth to join their activities. Also, they will learn new methods of explaining complicated issues connected to gender and sexuality to heterosexual youth as well. Also, through this TC youth workers will learn how to mix straight and LGBTI youth in their activities. This will have a positive impact on both groups of youth – LGBTI youth will become more confident and will be more open about their sexuality and gender identity, while the heterosexual youth will become more tolerant, understanding and accepting of LGBTI people.

The project “YouThink Eco-Citizenship” is a Youth Exchange founded on the themes Citizenship and Sustainable development. It serves as a springboard to better intercultural comprehension and cooperation where the common interest in sustainable living becomes a fundamental means to support the European rapprochement. This project has the following objectives:teach participants the concepts of sustainable development through non-formal education, promote the learning of foreign languages, especially English and French, confront the young participants to cultural differences, promote youth engagement in active European citizenship.

The aim of the project is to help young people who have fewer opportunities to find jobs on the local labour market to get access to the international labour market using the means of Internet and modern informational technologies. The objectives are to learn about global job opportunities (including their future tendencies) for young people and the scope of skills they require; to share experience in training and support of young people aimed at their personal and professional development; to share experience in development and usage of online youth services (counselling, online webinars, workshops, e-learning); to develop, test and launch an online course for young people aimed at their development and helping them to find their places in the online job market; to train an international group of youth workers to become coaches and mentors for young people in their self-realization and future career; to support organisations working with young people and provide them with the innovative tools aimed at youth development; to promote international cooperation and capacity building in the field of youth work; promote transnational non-formal learning mobility and exchange of experiences between Programme and Partner Countries.

This program aims to help young people to travel to a new culture, new people, speak a new language and cross own mind set up to help out other people. This in turn help the volunteers to their personal growth and job opportunities. The program promotes intercultural learning experience, encouraging social integration and widening the perspective of the young people to employability. Through a creative program the young and older volunteers step into solidarity and stimulate their creative and innovative thinking through sports and recreative outdoor activities for children (4-16 years).

The main activity of this project will be held in the center of Osijek, from 31.10.-09.11.2018. Nongovernmental organization Interaktiva will host six people from partner organizations from seven countries of Europe: Lithuania, Spain, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Macedonia and Croatia, Forty two young people, mostly at the end of formal education, unemployed young people and young people with fewer opportunities, will learn in an intercultural environment on informal way, from each other’s and gain competences how to write good CV, how to write good motivational letter, how to prepare for job interview, how to talk with future employer, how to express themselves in person and via other chanels of communication, how to pay attention to nonverbal communication and how to convey the knowledge gained on this project in your environment. Beside that, participants will have chance to learn how to make bussiness plan and open their own startup bussiness. We believe that this project will help young people to be more competitive in the labour market regardless of the industry branch they want to work on. The methods by which this project will be supported are interesting, diverse and educational and will be held in a pleasant and friendly atmosphere.

Main responsibilities of the volunteers will be related to the organization of series of events, called SurvivalBG (www.survivalbg.info) throughout the 12 months of service. The events will be one of a kind in Sofia – similar to the famous TEDx, but related to personal experience, lifestyle and all types of interesting stories of foreigners living in the city. The events will be held in a non-formal environment. They will assist the 42 Foundation team in the process of pre-selection and communication with speakers, they will select the stories and also take care of the logistics of the events, the information campaign, including preparation of info materials, spreading of info materials, web site maintenance, assistance during the events, interaction with the audience, etc.  Additionally to this main project, the volunteers will assist our team in the process of preparation of other similar activities. Plus, they will have to develop and execute their own projects.

The goals from this EVS that we want to reach are  to connect the local community with international youth, to inspire other participants for healthy and active lifestyle, to release the creativity of the participants and to encourage volunteers in active citizenship in their countries.

„Ideas Ark” main aim is to improve, by the beginning of 2019 the entrepreneurial competences and the methods of 36 youth workers through a training course and by launching an online networks with 300 members who share their know-how in entrepreneurial education, creativity, and start—ups ecosystems. During the project „IDEAS ARK”, 9 NGOs focus on developing the competences of their youth workers and the capacity to deliver high-quality entrepreneurial learning to young people.

Improvisation and drama are universal tools that can easily be re-framed in the context of various target groups, denominations and are based on non-verbal communication, “body expression” that provides the opportunity to adapt them to new groups with which we start working – mainly migrants and refugees, to their full social inclusion and reduce the degree of radical behavior among young people. The main aim of the project is to develop effective tools for working with young people with fewer opportunities and people demonstrating the “potential” of radicalization among our target groups and local communities, mainly young people

During the 7 working days of the project the participants shared their knowledge about Human Rights and LGBT rights, shared their experiences on the topic of peace and the situation of LGBT communities in their countries, learned about the basics of photography and cinematography, how to work with a digital camera, and how to use editing programs. After the first days of sharing and learning from each other’s experiences, the participants worked in groups to shoot and edit short films, implementing what they had learned. The main results of the project are the 5 short films created by the participants on the topics of: violence, daily life, religion, history and acceptance.

YOUth on Board is a training course designed for people directly working with youth (youth workers, project coordinators, leaders of youth groups and mentors) from the EU, non-EU countries participating in the Program and the Eastern Partnership countries.

The main goal of the project is – Creating and developing networks and partnerships between the 12 partners in order to generate projects having as main theme the promotion of the principles of equal opportunities and the elimination of discriminatory barriers based on gender and belonging to minority groups.

„EVS for all” is a 30 month strategic EVS project through which we will: raise knowledge and consciousness about EVS and volunteering in general, raise consciousness about the value and importance of volunteering, raise knowledge about certificates of competences gained through volunteering, organize workshops for youth and different sectors (schools, universities, NGOs) all around Croatia and a seminar in autumn 2018 with EVS partners from Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Macedonia, Czech R. Armenia and Finland

The objective of this project are directly connected with objectives of Erasmus+ programme, especially with objectives of KA1 where exactly unemployment of young people is detected as one of the biggest issues and where accent is on development of skills needed for active involvement on job market, not only on local and national level but also on European level. What is also important is that this project is additional level on our formal education in which we gained knowledge and skills, but not this concrete skills which are needed for active job seekers and active involvement on job market.

The project builds on the identified need to increase capacity for understanding, using and adapting tools and methods for successful inclusion projects and activities, at the following levels: The aim of the project is to support the quality and effectiveness of inclusion projects and activities in the youth field. The specific objectives are: developing 33 YW’s competences to create a common understanding of those who may be considered as young people with fewer opportunities, especially within the framework of the Erasmus Plus programme in 8 months; increase capacity and commitment of 33 YWs towards using methods and instruments for generating quality, long-term personal, youth, stakeholders and partner organizations’ engagement in inclusion projects and activities in 8 months; strengthen the collaboration at the regional level among regarding the design and implementation of quality inclusion projects and activities for youth with fewer opportunities in 8 months.

In this project we want to equip young people with innovative ideas in the field of youth. We also will focus in cultural diversity in a way to help young people across Europe to develop their respect for themselves. This YE will demonstrate the unifying power of the meeting with different traditions, the good teamwork and the activity of the youth in discussing European policies. Together, working in teams, we will search for a solution to the aforementioned issues in a non-traditional way.

The aim of this project is to awake the awareness of young people about fundamental human rights providing basic knowledge of human rights, protection and prevention of discrimination and encourage the youngsters to become active citizens who would promote human rights in their daily life and build a better society in their communities. 

The Training course will gather 27 participants to work on conflict resolution using Theater of the Oppressed as a tool. “Rainbow” is related to the rainbow flag, an identification of the LGBTIQ movement worldwide. The training will not focus on international youth project management, but we also are going to inform youth workers and motivate them to get involved in discussion and action.

This project will promote and develop entrepreneurship among young people, it is undoubtedly a very important issue nowadays. Including subjects related to Social Economy that is not introduced often and can bring positive results. 

The aim of this project is fight against general genders roles and assumptions to еmpowеr young pеoplе of аll gеndеrs and promote gеndеr еquаlity аt thе Еuropеаn lеvеl. We will incrеаsе thе аwаrеnеss of gеndеr issuеs in youth work by using holistic leаrning аnd theаtre of the oppressed.

Our project chаllenge rаcism, religious intolerаnce аnd islаmophobiа, sexism, homophobiа, disаblism аnd аll forms of intolerаnce thаt cаn аnd is shаred on-line. Presenting counter-nаrrаtives thаt fights the prevаlence аnd tаcit аcceptаnce of hаte speech we hope to turn internet in a place where the Humans rights are not violated anymore.

Our Project is a kind of youth Project which brings closer youth people who are citizens of European Union countries and candidate countries for the European Union. If we make a general explanation regarding the matter of our Project, participants will be informed by common methods of learning related European Union’s structure and functioning which also includes cultural richness that has been provided by Union’s multicultural societies structure’s.

The project aims at mobilizing European youth in exploring a new culture and interacting with a community where they play a key role and become a part of the local social life. Main focus will be to design a cycling path and eventually creating a cycling event around the village inviting people to visit and participate. Emphasis will be given to the cultural aspects of the experience as participants will implement activities such as a photo exhibition and interact with local youth

Our Project is a kind of youth Project which brings closer youth people who are citizens of European Union countries and candidate countries for the European Union. If we make a general explanation regarding the matter of our Project, participants will be informed by common methods of learning related European Union’s structure and functioning which also includes cultural richness that has been provided by Union’s multicultural societies structure’s.

This is an introductory course to graphical facilitation and is addressed to beginners and no prior knowledge in drawing and animation is required. We will guide participants through every step.Objectives of the project are to develop practical skill and competence on how to apply digital graphical facilitation techniques and methods in youth work activities, increasing the capacity of organizing training, events and other youth activities using digital graphical facilitation methods and techniques.

The aim of the project is to improve competencies and knowledge of youth workers about the labour market in order to help young NEET to better develop their employability skills. The objectives are to
improve the level of knowledge, skills and attitudes of youth workers in the area of employability, soft skills and еntrepreneurship, to strengthen the links between youth workers and the labour market through deepening of knowledge concerning the recruitment requirements of employers, to develop a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship of youth workers and to improve employability and career perspectives of the youth people and youth workers.

The main objective of our project is to offer rural youth the opportunity to become active citizens in the community and able to cope with a job interview at any level. Some of the main objectives of our project are to develop communication skills in English, to increase confidence and self-esteem, and to teach the 42 young people to use the theater as a method of activating the other young people in their local communities

The “Sustainability Quest” is a short term EVS project oriented to mobilizing and motivating young people of Zagreb to actively engage in the concept of sustainable development and give their personal contribution. The main focus of the voluntary service will be the organization of two events:  “Sustainability Challenge” is a 1-month long challenge aimed at actively encouraging sustainability among local youth.  “Days of Sustainable Development for Youth” (DORM) is a 3-day event organised in the local community target at young people, teachers, decision makers and NGO workers.

Our project, which contains unique beauties created by multicultural environments, consists of fighting against obesity and instilling the importance of sport and healthy nutrition. With this project, people living in this region will consider obesity as a problem which needs international cooperation and they will recognize how much it is important to take precautions about obesity.

In a nonformal environment, we plan to directly influence participants with experiencing and reflecting on stress management activities. During 10 days participants will develop habits based on the concept of mindfulness. We will especially emphasize their experience among applied drama, theatre of oppressed, yoga activities and morning meditation sessions.

With the project “Catch the Spark” we aim to motivate volunteers, local youth and community members to catch the spark of enthusiasm to get involved and participate no matter the circumstances, and become encouraged to develop new skills and habits that could help to be better prepared for joining labour market and transform one’s life, community and, eventually, the World.

YOUth can HELP is a project where 25 participants from 5 countries (GE, PL, IT, ES, MC) would meet in Berlin to learn from each other how to help to another person in emergency situations. Participants would increase their knowledge about other culture and they would create international bonds which would help them to break the stereotypes and learn more about the other’s countries.

The aim of our project is to provide an intercultural dialogue in Szeged, Hungary, between twenty artists, youth workers and the ones who work on the frontiers of art.We observe the task of contemporary art and its role in social responsibility, the possibilities of art tools in youth work and how an artist or an art group can profit from a youth exchange.

Youth would like to get closer to the daily experience of pre-medical first aid, based on the creation of social activity (taking the initiative “into their hands”). Project will be also a great opportunity to develop cooperation with their peers from abroad, exchange their ideas, thoughts, strengthen the relationship between the personal and intercultural understanding, learning process and create / enhance their daily habits, as well as develop interpersonal skills, especially in the field of exchange of international experiences with their peers.

The activity will involve 75 young people from 15 European countries on age between 18-30 who are working and are active in the areas of journalism, new media, blogging, video blogging, photography, art criticism, and cultural studies. The project activities refer to two-week long educational program for the participants in the Large Scale EVS project, led by established professionals in media coverage of the international cultural event in the field of audiovisual art.

Youth would like to get closer to the daily experience of pre-medical first aid, based on the creation of social activity (taking the initiative “into their hands”). Project will be also a great opportunity to develop cooperation with their peers from abroad, exchange their ideas, thoughts, strengthen the relationship between the personal and intercultural understanding, learning process and create / enhance their daily habits, as well as develop interpersonal skills, especially in the field of exchange of international experiences with their peers.

Trying to understand the media and its role in society is a bit like trying to capture fog in a box. The project is covering the actual topic of media literacy in today’s “post-truth” era. The era of disinformation, uncertainty in the sources of information, the era of hoaxes. The era in which the loudest voice of shocking information without source, the voice of emotion using our deepest fears often matters more than the quiet, calm voice of facts, statistics, fact checked quotes and logic. Are you “media literate”? What does it even mean? Can We believe everything in the news?

The activity will involve 75 young people from 15 European countries on age between 18-30 who are working and are active in the areas of journalism, new media, blogging, video blogging, photography, art criticism, and cultural studies. The project activities refer to two-week long educational program for the participants in the Large Scale EVS project, led by established professionals in media coverage of the international cultural event in the field of audiovisual art.

In the view of current European migration crisis, intolerance and racial discrimination in Europe has drastically increased. In Europe that is becoming overwhelmed with refugee crisis, in the world beaten and tired of wars, where it seems we don’t have strength to be tolerant and embracing, young people from all parts of Europe need to be reminded of a different perspective, and they will spread this perspective, that humanity in us will triumph, that by our positive input we will fight discrimination, we will fight stereotypes and we will fight violence.

The objectives of the project are creating inclusion, tolerance and intercultural understanding, promotion, recognition and development of non-formal education and ERASMUS+ opportunities, promotion of volunteering as a valuable learning experience, requalification of public spaces in the neighborhood.

The “Green Fingers – Little School Gardeners” is a short term EVS project oriented to mobilizing and motivating young people, by proposing to bring to the city of Zagreb 12 volunteers and engage them in maintaining 3 urban school gardens together with around 1200 children and teachers.

IN THE PALACE is a festival that presents contemporary film art from Bulgaria, Europe and the whole world and provides an exceptionally favorable environment and platform of expression for both young film artists and established professionals. The volunteers will be engaged in a wide range of activities related to the promotion of the events, preparation of the venues, communication via different social media platforms, welcoming and assisting the guests and participants, preparation of press releases, and creation of audiovisual materials about the events and the volunteering experience.

The objectives of the project are creating inclusion, tolerance and intercultural understanding, promotion, recognition and development of non-formal education and ERASMUS+ opportunities, promotion of volunteering as a valuable learning experience, requalification of public spaces in the neighborhood.

The main goal of the project is to identify and promote the importance of tradition and mythology at a national and regional level among participating countries. The motivation behind the project concept was inspired by the role mythology and cultural traditions played along the centuries in inspiring the social, political and artistic scene, influencing people and cultures around the world.

This exchange aims to identify the common causes of intolerance and analyze persisting cases of non-tolerance on the basis of culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation and race against various minorities, formulate good practices in order to reduce it, as well as strategies, which could help increase tolerance towards minorities in the participating countries and beyond

The aims of the project are to increase awareness about Healthy Lifestyle in the frame of Global Responsibility among youth workers, empower youth workers with tools, methods and ways to understand Healthy Lifestyle and Global Responsibility and act as multipliers on these issues, create a shift in youth minds from personal to Global Responsibility, create a platform for youth workers who work in the field of health and Healthy Lifestyle, to exchange ideas and share teaching methods, develop a guidebook for youth workers about Healthy Lifestyle in the frame of Global Responsibility, which will contain knowledge, tools, resources and material.

The aim of the CME “EVS POWER” is to enhance the cooperation between organizations from Programme countries within Key Action 1 of the Erasmus + Programme Mobility projects for young people and youth workers for more active and successful work in EVS programme.

Based on Erasmus+ priorities, goals of the EU 2020 framework and community needs, the objectives of the project are raising awareness and knowledge among young people about their options on the labour market, teaching them how to highlight their skills in different types of CV’s and how to write a motivational letter, supporting young people in developing their skills, and strengthening young people’s resilience.

The need for the project surged after immense fires on the island of Madeira in August 2016 where vast territories were burned down and more than 1 000 people relocated. The volunteers from Macedonia will help with reforestation of the island, and Portuguese EVSers will learn from the experience of SFERA in firefighters training and preparation. The volunteers in both countries will organized informational campaigns for the general community on prevention of natural disasters.

Nowadays Europe is facing xenophobic, nationalistic, radical, populist movements, which are challenging the idea of liberal democracy itself. Our main goal is, to provide, instead of the radicalism mentioned above, the alternative of the democratically conscious civil involvement, which is coming from the mutual respect and understanding of each other, based on our shared responsibility as European citizens.

The aim of the project is to improve knowledge and skills of participants about culture, youth leisure time, healthy lifestyle, to give them opportunity to get the actual information about these competences and get to know winter activities through non formal activities and creating 5 stories about “Wonders of Winter”.

During the 9 days of the project using variety of non-formal education methods, participants will increase knowledge and understanding about International Labor Standards on employment promotion, discrimination while applying to an open position or during the work. Labor, health and social rights among young people and how to react in case of abusing their rights.

Nowadays Europe is facing xenophobic, nationalistic, radical, populist movements, which are challenging the idea of liberal democracy itself. Our main goal is, to provide, instead of the radicalism mentioned above, the alternative of the democratically conscious civil involvement, which is coming from the mutual respect and understanding of each other, based on our shared responsibility as European citizens.

ART for START is the seminar on best practices of using artistic techniques and tools for inclusion of people from ethnical minorities, deprived categories and with disabilities.

The event will empower youth workers and youth leaders through sharing tools and practices of inclusion of people from different ethnical groups, people in need, deprived urban areas and with disabilities. The emphasis is made on the creative arts methods which the participants of the seminar will share with each other.

Hence, there is a visible need to empower and create sustainable employment and economy for these group of marginalized young people. The project provided a way forward with regard to one of the promising strategies for the social emancipation, empowerment and inclusion of young people with economic and social challenges. The project exposed different groups to entrepreneurial and business opportunities; such as social entrepreneurship, internet based entrepreneurship, setting up self-employed businesses, buying and selling opportunities The project showcased the importance of developing ideas to business opportunities through the encouragement of entrepreneurial activities among youth workers, trainers etc… with fewer opportunities, making them independent, build their self-confidence and esteem, take them of welfare packages and invariably contribute to the economy of their respective countries on the long run

“Greening our Future” attempted to provide a platform and exposure to youth, whereby they could appreciate the environmental, socioeconomic and life-support values of the nature. The project aimed at bringing youth workers of diverse regions from Europe and beyond. Youth with diverse socio-economic and geographical backgrounds, in order to understand and interact on various environmental issues. As an outcome, the team was able to design, develop, and organize campaigns for raising the awareness of environmental, natural, and sustainable development issues. This project brought 32 participants from 11 countries: Netherlands, Bulgaria, FYROM, Albania, Azerbaijan, Italy, Latvia, Serbia, Jordan, Palestine, Romania, Spain.

This project was designed to raise awareness and promote different ways of protecting environment among 32 youngsters coming from bigger towns – in the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Macedonia – with the population more than 20 000 in interactive and modern way. How many youngsters are familiarized with the ecological problems? How many of them knows how to tackle them? Do still have youngsters from bigger towns connection with the nature? Everything begins from the nature. How we are behaving to the nature, it can reflect also behaving to each other. The tolerance, solidarity is missing in nowadays society. In nature, everybody has the same rights. Nature catastrophe does not choose if it will be targeted to the refugees, black, whites, or migrants.

There is a saying that “One picture is truly worth a 1000 word, pictures help to convey realms of data efficiently”. Our project´s main objectives were to develop for the participant’s practical knowledge, competences and abilities on how to apply visual facilitation techniques and methods in youth work activities. Participants understood why people have different learning needs and why graphic facilitation is an accessible tool for everybody. They were able to develop a visual vocabulary and gave meaning and formed their ideas. They used mind mapping to talk, brainstorm, analyze, dialogue, reach conclusion, find solutions.

Project was to connect social entrepreneurship with improvisation in the various of non-formal methodology where participants were able to improve their social entrepreneurship skills with use of theatre improvisation techniques. Participants learned about the entrepreneurship, improvisation, creative thinking, and solving problems techniques.

During 10 days of the project using variety of non­formal education methods, participants improved their skills and competencies in order to get employment they want. This project helped participants how to do job search, how to apply to jobs, how to prepare for an interview, receive professional advice, knowing better own skill. The objectives were to increase knowledge and awareness of young people on: what are their options on labour market, what are their skills and what is good employment that will put this skills into value what are the best ways to find and to apply to a job and how to prepare for a job interview; Support young people in developing their skills regarding how to advertise their skills in different types of CV, how to compose a motivational letter, how to adjust their CV to each specific job, how to use verbal, non­verbal and par verbal communication in an interview and to build their career

A team of young people from five different countries created public performance using different dancing styles. This amazing youth exchange took place from 10th to the 20th of October, 2016 in the best city in Turkey, Marmaris. They were able to create a musical show for active involvement of us in all stages. Divided through national groups we were preparing theoretical input with practical exercise, where they learned the skills for creating public events. They also studied and learned how to feel safe when people are not in their comfort zones.

This project focused on human rights, immigration issues, tried to create awareness among young people. The project was designed in line with the interests and needs of young people by themselves, competencies, activities to develop and share their experiences on the application. İzmir, hosted historical development, dozens of civilizations, and dozens of different religions, ethnic groups and sects and different from each other these cultures, love and tolerance in a pot blends and differences, preserving hundreds of thousands of years together and solidarity life have succeeded in. Just as the people of İzmir did not remain silent to the human tragedy recently experienced brought on humanitarian attitudes.

The goal of this project was to gather young people from different countries and to promote commonality and similarities among them for deeper connections. The main aim of this project was to involve young people into process of inter cultural learning on different music, clothes, tradition, culture and food. With this project, we wanted to fill the void between participating countries and learned more about the similarities and the differences between our cultures. This project explored cultural diversity through material heritage such as folk music, songs, traditional clothes and foods.

The project was implemented with the cooperation of the community of the village of Klirou. Volunteers will be asked to support the village in preparing the spaces of activities (cleaning, setting up, organising houses to host visitors). The festival included dance, music and environmental oriented (this year they are promoting their fig production). During the implication of the project, volunteers had the chance to meet with the locals, young and older, get acquainted with their customs, ,Cyprus culture, food and everyday life. The remaining days after the festival the volunteers aimed support the village in closing the process and support villager in their everyday work (eg. fields, planting trees, building stone walls, collecting fruit, making local products).

The main aim was to help Europe deal with its migrant crisis through a joint effort of youth organizations across Western Balkans, EU and Turkey. The forecast outcome was to give a chance to experienced professionals to exchange opinions (seminar), equipping trainers in tools and competences (Tot), giving young people from 10 countries a first-hand opportunity to learn about migration and to act in their communities, producing relevant resources (Good practice guide and toolbox), and then to use all of the project outputs to disseminate results by local events (to multiply them) and to raise awareness of migration issues in whatever aspect relevant in the 10 consortium countries (for some of them it will be freedom of movement, for others learning about migrant/refugee distinction, for others fighting discrimination or preventing trafficking), thus mainstreaming migration issues in youth work and wider society.

Life Connection introduced a whole universe of active citizenship and democratic participation. we sought to develop basic and transversal skills, such as entrepreneurship, digital competences and multilingualism, through an innovative learner-centered pedological approach and certification method. Life Connection explored rural, social issues from a green economy standpoint and tried to come up with alternative and sustainable solutions and opportunities for employment and engagement in civil society. The long-term aim was to promote a new model of society, in which the environment is conceived and experienced as part of the community universe, and not as an external element that needs to be dominated. During the exchange, the participants were encouraged to explore, highlight and compare the best practices and alternative models existing within their realities, looking beyond purely economic values.

Many organisations in the third sector are failing when it comes the time to promote or disseminate their activities. Very low budgets, voluntary work and, specially, lack of technical skills make that the contents they produce very often doesn’t make the impact it was hoped. Launching a campaign is easy, but creating an efficient, effective and professional campaign with high quality contents requires knowledge, skills and hard work. In one hand, we have this amateur social campaign and in the other exists a lot of examples of viral contents that spread a hate message along the continent. Videos, articles, memes… teaching intolerance against everyone who’s different. Unfortunately, a lot of this contents reach successfully a youth public transmitting them homophobic, xenophobic or sexist ideas. That’s why we wanted to create a “guerrilla” of skilled and motivated youth leaders able to spread efficiently their positive messages and thus fight intolerance. We created “nohate.mp4” as a learning opportunity for 24 youth workers and leaders to improve their communication skills for the benefit of their social projects.

The youth exchange “Manaakitanga” took place from 4-12 September 2016 in Jakartovice, Czech Republic. Our team, Sfera Macedonia, like one of the partner organizations helped in facilitating and organizing the exchange. In this project, like participants understood why migrations exist and that is not a new situation that we can be afraid of. Throughout the workshops we shared, discussed and built different opinions on the transition and welcoming of migrants.

SFERA Macedonia team participated in Training Course “Think Globally, Act Locally” which focused on active participation of young people in democratic and social life. It also included terms such as the value of citizens’ participation in civil society organizations and social movements, student participation in the governance of schools and universities, as well as democratic participation in the family. Unfortunately, young people’s interest in taking responsibility in society has significantly decreased and this poses a lot of threats to democratic life not only in national level but also in the wider world and European level. Society across the world needs influential youth leaders equipped with skills and good knowledge who will raise awareness on the importance of active participation. Today’s young people volunteer more than old people; they are much better educated; and they are less likely to drink excessively or use drugs than previous generations of youth but that does not seem like a recipe for this political and social apathy around the world.

During this TC, participants learned that community events can help reduce individual and family isolation, can make the place where we are living more attractive and empower social connections. One of the productive contribution was supporting community via organizing local events or implementing permanent projects. The effort of organizing events built a stronger community, this local factor contributed to the increasing culture life, made a better neighbourly relationship, raised awareness and attractiveness of the countryside. We wanted to create the space where people can share their ideas of improving life in their rural areas by organizing the local events or permanent projects helping the rural development, the TC Happy Community.

Project DEAL – Developing Entrepreneurial Abilities Laboratory aimed to gather youth workers, your leaders and youngsters with entrepreneurial spirit in order to empower young people and motivate them to find their passion in life and turn it into action. We aimed to create a safe learning environment where young people will be able to learn and experiment with ideas, methods, skills and tools bringing them closer to innovative entrepreneurship. The project aimed to ensure an entrepreneurial approach to solving social and environmental problems and to encourage and support the development of a new generation of social entrepreneurs; to boost entrepreneurial mindsets of young people; to equip youngsters out of the market with new competences and increase the quality of youth work; To raise awareness for the importance of innovation and creativity in the development of their skills; to empower participants to act as multipliers of good practices and disseminate relevant information and skills to involved stakeholders; to explore possibilities for future cooperation among participants and partner organizations; to become inspired social entrepreneur or change-make.

The idea for the project came from the project leader, who faced a physical disorder and has since joined the Slovenian national sitting volleyball team. She thought that youth with special needs did not have the opportunity to be engaged in local sport activities. Therefore, aimed at addressing these issues that many may be facing in different communities. Main objectives of the project were to spread the awareness about EU topics, how to involve different young people, also disadvantaged, in activities. Moreover, the project supported healthy lifestyle and wellbeing for youth by using sport and how to adapt the activities for them.

The new 2015 has begun with profound political imbalances and radical socio-economic transformations in both EU and Mediterranean countries, as the result of difficult democratic transitions, humanitarian emergencies, dramatic increases in cross border migratory flows and the tensions which derive from complex processes of socio-cultural integration, current economic crisis oppressing mainly young people in all EU countries. The ongoing social transformation processes in both EU and Mediterranean partner countries, required an increased capacity of individuals and communities to cooperate and built more just and equitable social structures in a world where interdependence is growing.

This project aim was to tackle the question of immigration as one of the most growing problems within the EU in recent period. Namely, more than 700,000 refugees have risked their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far, this year, facing not only inhuman living conditions but also lack of understanding and help. Recent trends showed that thousands of people were attempting a perilous route through the Western Balkans with the ultimate destination in northern EU countries. Main aim of this project was to include young people with cultural obstacles, as well as young people who were interested in theatre and motivated to help refugees, into process of discussing, sharing experiences and using method of invisible theatre to tackle the problem of immigration. Participants took an active role in every phase of the youth exchange, and they were encouraged to take part in creating workshops and adapting methods that they can use in the future.

Project DEAL – Developing Entrepreneurial Abilities Laboratory aimed to gather youth workers, your leaders and youngsters with entrepreneurial spirit in order to empower young people and motivate them to find their passion in life and turn it into action. We aimed to create a safe learning environment where young people will be able to learn and experiment with ideas, methods, skills and tools bringing them closer to innovative entrepreneurship. The project aimed to ensure an entrepreneurial approach to solving social and environmental problems and to encourage and support the development of a new generation of social entrepreneurs; to boost entrepreneurial mindsets of young people; to equip youngsters out of the market with new competences and increase the quality of youth work; To raise awareness for the importance of innovation and creativity in the development of their skills; to empower participants to act as multipliers of good practices and disseminate relevant information and skills to involved stakeholders; to explore possibilities for future cooperation among participants and partner organizations; to become inspired social entrepreneur or change-make. The second part of the project continued in Florina Greece from 29.08.2016 until 04.09.2016.

Trying to understand the media and its role in society is a bit like trying to capture fog in a box. The media are everywhere and are completely intertwined with our society, our politics, and our lives. Separating out the media from our own belief systems, attitudes, and perceptions is very difficult. One enduring truth about media, though, is that the greatest power of media is its ability to be anywhere in the world and beyond. As we all have become part of truly global society, we rely on the media to provide us the most vital form of currency in the world today: information. Are you “media literate”? What does it even mean? Can We believe everything in the news? They wouldn’t lie in the news, right? What is Hoax? Don’t know? Maybe you shared one. And what about propaganda? There is no such thing anymore, right? Are you interested in the questions above? Do you want to find out more? Or do you want to share your opinion?

The Underdog Project” was based on street based work experience from our organization and foreign partners. It was implemented according to the needs of youth workers who involved excluded youngsters into local societies.
During the meeting, the participants gained a number of new skills and knowledge, but also learned all the specific details among working with quadrupeds, learned how to implement “in practice” (meetings with experts, visits to the animal shelter and section of “Polish Water Security Guards”).

SFERA Macedonia team participated and led some sessions during this project in Turkey. The main aim of the project was to know how to react in violent situations, knowing their rights and how to handle problems. Through flash mobs, meeting with the local citizens, deeply conversation, workshops, we increased awareness to get the meaning of the violent especially domestic violent.

During this seminar, participants met with parliamentary from EU Parliament, The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, NGO and Private Sector Representatives. The topics of meetings focused on European Citizenship, European Democracy and Participation, International Democracy, Youth Role in formalising Democracy, European Youth and Political Participation, Responsibilities of Media, NGOs and Private Sector, and Governance.

A key objective of this project and of Erasmus + programme was to motivate and involve Roma young people in entrepreneurship. Education determines future life chances, and is crucial for finding stable and decently paid employment. Non-formal learning played a very important role in equipping Roma young people with the necessary skills for the competitive labour market. It enabled them to become entrepreneurial thinkers by immersing them in real-life learning ventures where they could take risks, managed the results, and learned from the outcomes. Entrepreneurial skills helped Roma youth adapt well to other non-entrepreneurial careers and improve their lives and communities.

We strongly believe that young people through their capacity to initiative, exploration, creativity and innovation can develop something better, suitable for previous and future generation in cities they live, in order to safe and create new modern heritage for future generations. We had chance to work with each other, during several international projects, where we realized, that we had same vision, passions and desires toward improving life of young people and their involvement in developing our cities.

This exchange taught participants how to actively improve their health and general lifestyle by teaching them the lore of using wild plants i.e. various herbs along with being physically active in the outdoors. During the course, they explored local flora and visited people who produced herbal products in continuation with long family tradition. All activities were leaded by OBC instructors and partners with lots of experience in outdoor activities.

Two-day hiking trip, along in cycling with nature helped participants to feel more connected with nature and saw advantages physical activity in everyday life.

This TC was to promote environmental activities in the vicinity of the nature and the preservation of our environment. Youth involved in the issue and political representatives from countries as diverse as Mediterranean or southern European countries (Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Italy and Macedonia) Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and Eastern European countries (Bulgaria and Romania) shared thoughts, viewpoints, ideas, ways of doing things and definitely a great opportunity to learn all of all and everyone.

Between 11th and 19th of April in Berlin 30. youth workers and youth leaders from Germany, Poland, Macedonia, Slovenia, Italy, Greece, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Turkey met in Abenteuerzentrum in Grunewald to take part in IMPROaction project. Project was to connect entrepreneurship with improvisation, in the various of non-formal methodology participants will improve their entrepreneurship skills with use of improvisation techniques. Participants learned about the entrepreneurship, improvisation, creative thinking, and solving problems techniques.

Not Just Numbers is an international youth capacity-building project aimed at strengthening co-operation and developing capacity of youth organisations in dealing with migration and asylum issues in the EU and Western Balkans. The project was built on a broad needs analysis conducted by members of the project consortium in their communities and responds directly to needs and problems of their target groups – young people, notably those with fewer opportunities. The project was a way to deepen and extend local activities in the fields of migration and asylum awareness conducted by consortium members in their countries. The main problems the project responded to were: low awareness of migration regulations in the EU and South-East Europe, prejudice and discrimination against migrants and asylum seekers and negative portrayal of migrants in the EU and Western Balkan countries. The project created synergies between the fields of youth work, formal education and training, through co-operation with formal educational institutions in campaigning on migration and asylum matters. Specific objectives of the project were: to facilitate exchange of expertise on approaches to migration and asylum education in youth work, to train youth workers in using education tools developed by IOM and UNHCR (starting with the ‘Not Just Numbers’ Toolkit), to develop a youth campaign raising awareness of migration and asylum issues, to promote further trans-national learning mobility and networking between youth organisations in the EU and Western Balkans. The project programme included mobility activities (training of trainers and youth exchange) and capacity-building activities (large-scale youth event and an awareness-raising campaign). The project’s main impact was the development of capacity of partner organisations in addressing migration and asylum issues in youth work, increased skills of youth workers, raising awareness of migration and asylum rights, causes, consequences and impact among 8 young people in the EU and Western Balkans, and increased co-operation of youth organisations in the EU and WB on migration and asylum matters. The project’s outputs included a good practice guide and awareness campaign and disseminated at two levels: locally by consortium members and Europe-wide by the project communications team. Dissemination measures were local events involving young people, youth workers and other relevant stakeholders, in co-operation with local traditional media, as well as online dissemination tools including social media and websites, and offline dissemination of printed materials.

“From Green to Greener” was a youth exchange under the frame of Erasmus+, Key Action 1 – youth mobility. The project was a wake-up alarm for the unhealthy lifestyles (junk food, sedentary, consumerism) and unsustainable tendency, meant to provide green tools for dealing with environmental issues, such as pollution, garbage, waste. 25 participants from 5 European countries gathered in Bitola (Dihovo, Macedonia), focused on non-formal education in the context of environmental education with a combination of different activities and methods. Young persons with the age between 16 and 30 were involved in group activities, opening discussions and creative workshops, including outdoor activities and visits, in order to gain knowledge and abilities in sharing or expressing their views, experiences and opinions related to the project’s theme, and also to connect with nature and its resources for a greener future. Activities were done in a pleasant and interactive atmosphere, where at some points hammers or garbage were working materials. Debates, role games and teamwork were combined through practical sessions like gardening, Recycling, bird house building and others.

Project “Conundrum of Exclusion – Training Course on preventing radicalization of young people”, organised by Serbian NGO Centar za razvojnu politiku i saradnju, were implemented in two stages (Training Courses)

First TC will be from 30/03/2016 – 06/04/2016 and

Second one from 05/06/2016 – 12/06/2016

The main aim of this project was to address one of the most pressing concerns of European societies – the problem of youth radicalization. Young people, often affected by unemployment and other negative consequences of the economic crisis, were becoming increasingly susceptible to radicalization (both online and as a result of peer pressure). On the other hand, the rise of radical terrorists and religious extremists leads to increased social tensions between different groups within societies, with representatives of minorities often wrongly blamed and stygmatised by the representatives of majorities. These problems are visible not only in Western Europe (Belgium, France, the UK) but also in the Balkans (Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia). All of this is taking place within the context of increased introversion among public. People seem to be interested only in their own affairs, separating themselves from others with “walls of indifference”. In our project, we wanted to address these challenges by deconstructing the existing problems, promoting educational solutions and fostering strategic cooperation between youth organizations and public authorities. Through two eight-day training courses hosted in Serbia, we planned to train 64 participants (32 per course) in how to tackle the problem of youth radicalization

After the shocking terroristic attack of religious origin at the “Charlie Hebdo”‘s newspaper and the ongoing immigration flows, Europe got involved in a reflection about its inclusion and integration policies and about its relationship with a community are based on a religious belief and that legitimate with religion its violent actions. The project “God with us? Religious Identities and Youth Participation” wanted to forward an analysis and a reflection about the role of religion in the contemporary society. The young participants discussed the original motivation of their social engagement and their active participation in the society, reflected on the founding values of the European Community today. The project focused on these themes: religious identity, interreligious and intercultural dialogue, relationship between religion and laically reason, responsible participation, active citizenship, conflict management, social inclusion. The partnership for this project included 8 social organizations from Italy, France, Hungary, Macedonia, Ukraine, Romania and Georgia.

The idea of this conference was to help strengthen the role of civil society in combating and preventing crime, to promote cooperation between public institutions and civil society organizations, as well as to stimulate the processes of active democratic participation. The conferences part of the “Waves of legality, waves of citizenship”, was funded by the program “Europe for Citizens” part from the European Commission. The project aimed to help and strengthen the role of civil society in combating and preventing crime, to promote cooperation between public institutions and civil society organizations as well as to stimulate the processes of active democratic participation.

The aim of the “Words Shape Identity” project (KA1, Mobility of Youth Workers) was to raise awareness about an inclusive LGBT terminology and its wider implementation in practical youth work. The aim was achieved using diverse methods of non-formal education, primarily creative writing. 22 youth workers from 11 different countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey) met for a 7-day training course in Ljubljana, Slovenia. They discussed different situations in LGBT communities and inclusive LGBT terminology in a safe and creative environment, where everyone was motivated to express themselves, their role in local, regional, national and European context in creating safe spaces for LGBT youth with inclusive language. The added value of the project was a web page with blogs from the participants in which they shared their knowledge and experience gained during the training course and share it with other youth workers. The latter encouraged others to contribute their own blogs for the mentioned web page, therefore spreading the knowledge and experience even after the project’s completion.

SFERA Macedonia hosted EVS Volunteer from Sumy, Ukraine for 3 months in Bitola. Ukraine was part of Soviet Union and its double language country so the volunteer showed interest to make Russian Course lessons two times in week per 1 Hour. The interest was big especially from the students in high schools because learning more languages is a cultural treasure. The students were satisfied because they learned something new outside English because in Macedonia Russian courses can only be learned in University. Afterwards the volunteer has made a photography exhibition in the Home of Culture in Bitola with photograph’s taken in specific places in Bitola.

• Training course “Beyond the form” to success” addressed the present need throughout whole Europe for competent young leaders and facilitators in civil society who are able to run educational activities for youth based on the values of the European Union and the Council of Europe, through usage of non-formal approach that has proven utmost flexibility beyond the borders of social classes, gender, nationalities and mentalities. TC sought to enable participants to explore and actually understand the concept and factors behind non-formal learning, and thus to competently design, facilitate and debrief existing and novel non-formal learning sessions and opportunities. Furthermore, in order to ensure sustainability, this TC wanted to provide the participants with a coached and structured opportunity to elaborate a professional and personal development plan based on competencies and values

The Project was about Addiction. One of the worst problems for the youth is Addiction. There are different types of addictions in the world and each of them is growing day by day with worse results. For example, drug addiction, alcohol addiction, internet addiction etc. We can find out more and more addiction types. In our project, we wanted to raise awareness in society towards addiction and prove that the youth will play an important role to solve that problem. First of all, we wanted to find out the reasons of addiction and to find the ways to get rid of addiction. Besides, we were working on the roles of the society members to solve the problem.  We organized workshops, lectures, group-works, pair-works and social activities to find solutions to stop and prevent addiction.

The Project was about Addiction. One of the worst problems for the youth is Addiction. There are different types of addictions in the world and each of them is growing day by day with worse results. For example, drug addiction, alcohol addiction, internet addiction etc. We can find out more and more addiction types. In our project, we wanted to raise awareness in society towards addiction and prove that the youth will play an important role to solve that problem. First of all, we wanted to find out the reasons of addiction and to find the ways to get rid of addiction. Besides, we were working on the roles of the society members to solve the problem.  We organized workshops, lectures, group-works, pair-works and social activities to find solutions to stop and prevent addiction.

The overall aim of the project was to enhance the development of new non-formal teaching methods in different field of studies. Objectives of the project were: to increase the competencies of youth workers, trainers, youth leaders from 7 countries in designing and delivering new activities based on the experiential learning model; to enforce the synergies between formal and non-formal education by creating a toolkit with tested experiential tools, available for free for youth workers; to capitalize on the power of experiential learning for the organizational development of the partner organizations.