"The project overall objective was on one hand to conduct a comparative analysis of Youth Issues, Attitudes and Policies in relation with the social innovation processes from the perspective of various world regions, and on the other hand to promote the recognition of Youth Work by building youth workers’ and youth leaders’ capacity to empower young people for using social innovation in finding local answers to complex social and societal challenges in participating communities.Specific objectives were: -To investigate young peoples’ knowledge, opinions, attitudes and tendencies towards social innovation and raise the awarness amongst general public about its importance-To provide YWs an opportunity to engage in a debate on what is within the capacity of youth work when it comes to support of social innovation -To explore the bridges that can be built with other social innovation support structures/programmes and the business sector.-To empower YWs to initiate youth social innovation actions on local level in view of finding local answers to societal challenges in participating communities. -To provide youth with set of competences required to become socially sensible leaders and active citizens-To teach youth social entrepreneurship and the ways which they could be applied-To practice tools in relevant areas of management in order to plan actions for sustainable future development of participants at different levels ( personal and professional level (as entrepreneurs and active civil society members;- organisational level (to ensure local initiatives in the youth field) and at international level (via future joint transnational actions and entrepreneurial projects)-To develop creativity, innovation and teamwork capacity of participants, their sense of initiative, as well as their understanding of how to be good learners-Through sharing of the Change Makers stories in an Online Platform to articulate the purposes and value of youth work to policymakers and wider public by promoting youths’ and youth work achievements in the field of social innovationThe project consisted of a several international and paralel local acitivities of eight partner organization from Croatia, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Kenya, Poland, Peru, Thailand and Tanzania within a period of 22 months. Central activities were two transnational capacity builiding trainings for youth workers in Tanzania and Croatia; 10 mulitiplication seminars in participating countries, 8 job shadowing activities; conducting and publishing a reaserch results, production of one Toolkit and one Guide for Youth Workers and relevant institutions; two practical projects - one Online platform ""Youth Social Innovation Idea Bank"" and one International Market organized in Zadar, Croatia.Beside direct participants, with this activities we wanted to reach wider audience and to inform youth about the concept, methods, and values of youth participation, social innovation in the youth sector, as well as to provide general audience with real life examples of young social innovators in action. Project was imagined as social process in which participants voluntarily trough interactive non-formal methods develop personal, social, and professional profile as well as competences for further learning."

Idea of GO_PRO! Network was positively recognized by United Nation. In the annual World Summit of the Information Society (Zurich 2015) it was nominated to prestige prize, as one of 30 best ICT capacity building initiates. It was also described in WSIS Stocktaking Report 2015 as one of good practises. In Poland the project was nominated to a prize: New Technologies Locally 2015, which is annually granted by Polish – American Cooperation Foundation. It was described as one often best initiatives of 2014. Network was supported also by Reading and Writing Foundation – Public Libraries 2020 initiative, as one of 6 best initiatives involving libraries. Our current project Regional Programming Centers was nomited to WSIS prize (WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY PRIZES 2020) in the capacity building category as one of 20 best ITC initiatives.Within Erasmus+, together with our partners, we wanted to promote this idea furthermore, allowing other Youth to develop their programming skills and fully participate in digital world. Partners all together agreed, that learning to code is important because of:1. The needs of the labour market – programming specialists are one of the most needed professional groups, basic programming skills will be useful for the majority of positions based on the computer work 2. Media education - computer illiterate group are vulnerable to exclusion;3. Innovative economy - creating software and new tools and services are the pillars of the innovation economy.Within the project GO_PRO! we built the capacity of partner organizations and they are able now develop ICT skills and support digital and social inclusion of Youth in local communities. We also wanted to create a special space (non formal education centers) for developing ICT and programmingskills. The basic idea for it - is to use the existing infrastructure, only reconfigure it. To create previous GO_PRO! Centers we cooperated with partner organizations – schools, libraries, NGOs. Well-equipped educational centers can create great conditions for modern programmingeducation, which especially important in developing countries and/or rural areas.Partners got the knowledge, skills and tools to organize interesting IT lessons, what also allowed(during so called Coder Clubs) youth to develop programming skills during their free time, using the equipment under the guidance of a volunteer. Coder Clubs are based on challenges. Each week there was a new problem, new challenge, which Club had to solve together! Youth needed to learn new things about algorithm, build a robot using Lego Mindstorms, and then program it properly. Sometimes the challenges had forced Youth division into smaller groups. They competed with each other to create best solution, this way they were stimulated to gave all their energy and enthusiasm to solve particular problem the best possible way.The project included 2 mobilities for Youth Workers, each of them helped undeniably them to be better teachers/ educators/ animators of ICT competences in their own communities. Each Partner organization received grant for proper equipment, in order to lead innovative and interesting ICTworkshops in their areas. During the Code Week (X of 2017 and 2018) we to organized collaborative awareness rising actions in order to promote network and for self-development purposes. We had in mind, that encouraged/empowered youngsters or children develop so quickly, that volunteers need to be trained constantly to provide quality ICT workshops.The project is extremely innovative but based on an easily replicable model - that we tried to share in detail with partner organizations. Another innovative element is that project activities were specifically designed to develop a new set of entrepreneurial and digital competences which are in today’s digital society crucial for both: employability and active participation of young people in the society.

Idea of GO_PRO! Network was positively recognized by United Nation. In the annual World Summit of the Information Society (Zurich 2015) it was nominated to prestige prize, as one of 30 best ICT capacity building initiates. It was also described in WSIS Stocktaking Report 2015 as one of good practises. In Poland the project was nominated to a prize: New Technologies Locally 2015, which is annually granted by Polish – American Cooperation Foundation. It was described as one of ten best initiatives of 2014. Network was supported also by Reading and Writing Foundation – Public Libraries 2020 initiative, as one of 6 best initiatives involving libraries.Within Erasmus+, together with our partners, we would like to promote this idea furthermore, allowing other Youth to develop their programming skills and fully participate in digital word. Partners together agrred, that learning to code is important because of:1. The needs of the labor market – programming specialists are one of the most needed professional groups, basic programming skills will be useful for the majority of positions based on the computer work2. Media education - computer illiterate group are vulnerable to exclusion;3. Innovative economy - creating software is one of the pillars of the innovation economy.Within the project GO_PRO! we would like build the capacity of partner organizations to develop ICT skills and support digital and social inclusion of Youth in local communities. We would like to create space (non formal education centers) for developing ICT and programming skills. The basic idea is to use the existing infrastructure, only reconfigure it. To create previous GO_PRO! Centers we cooperated with partner organizations – school, libraries, NGOs. Well-equipped educational centers can create great conditions for modern programming education, which especially important in developing countries and/or rural areas.Partners shall organize interesting IT lessons, but also allows (during so called Coder Clubs) youth to develop programming skills during their free time. Coder Clubs are based on challenges. Each week there is a new problem, new challenge, which Club has to solve together! Youth need to learn new thing about algorithm, build a robot using Lego Mindstorms, and then program it properly. Sometimes the challenges forces Youth to divide into smaller groups. They compete with each other to create best solution, this way they are stimulated to give all their energy and enthusiasm to solve particular problem the best possible way.The project will include 2 mobilities for Youth Workers, each of them will help them to be better teacher / educator / animator of ICT competences in their communities. Partner organization will receive grant to buy proper equipment, to lead innovative and interesting ICT workshops in their areas. During the Coders Week (X of 2017 and 2018) we would like to organize collaborative awareness rising actions in order to promote network and import