The Idea for ‘’Forward looking cooperation in Youth Work: a dream getting through’’ as KA2 project under Erasmus + Program, was born from the long-term cooperation between EU and ASEAN NGOs , which are still striving for continuation of collaboration work on actual local and international needs detected. This project is the follow–up idea of the capacity building project EUROASI with the aim to transfer the best practice of the “Youth in Action” program in South East Asia. We have created a project that has had and still has a strong impact at local level, in Indonesia, the Philippines and in EU, which give learning and mobility opportunity to young people and youth worker. We can say that all the work done during EUROASI has impacted the community and marked the way to reach the policy makers both in ASEAN and EU. The project has last 23 months creating a draft of mobility program among for Asean Countries by sharing best practices, methodologies and policies with other Countries which have been already involved in youth programs. The project has involved mainly 5 Countries: Italy (coordinator), Belgium, Indonesia, Philippines and Portugal with the participation of thousand of young people.The project activities, based on methodology of NFE, were developed in 4 main directions: 1) LEARNING: youth workers from 5 partner countries attended 3 different training courses and 1 seminar. The activities were based on methodology of NFE and gave action to basic concepts to foster active participation and strengthening the role of youth for local development. 2) REALIZING: dedicated to the local need analysis, defined by young people during the previous project and realization of the local new ideas, passing through all phases of a project management 3) SUPPORTING young people by creating local info points in Philippines and Indonesia and an online platform of collaboration for youth organizations from Europe and Asia.4) AIMING HIGH creating a “focus group” for discussing, researching and creating a working paper for a youth mobility program in ASEAN and by visiting the European Parliament, Asean Secretariat, European Commission (DG Culture and Youth), and other relevant Institutions that create policies and programs for young people. The organization that took part to the project are:TDM 2000 International - Italy (Coordinator)ARS for Progress of People (Belgium) Great (Indonesia) Red Cross Philippines - Boracay Malay Chapter (Philippines) Synergia (Portugal)

"""Youth in One World - Cooperation Beyond Borders "" is a project that will help young people and their organizations to develop sustainable community development projects. The organizations are from Asia and Europe. The participants will be coming from Germany, Netherland, Malaysia and Indonesia. During the project duration different activties will be implemented on local and on international level in order to build the capacities of the organizations and their communities for active youth participation in community development. The chosen topic to work on with the young people invovled will be cooperation for development, sustainable development and how they can make a difference for developoment in their own community using entrepreneurship and their own initiative. Also the project wants to support the validation and recognition of non-formal learning and education. Young people will be directly affected by this project through two youth exchanges that will take place in Indonesia and Germany and bring together 20 persons for 12 days. At the same time there will be six volunteers for 12 month in the different countries supporting the project. The youth workers will attend a trainings course and get to understand their role in community development. They and the organisational managers will work with the young people throughout the project duration to ensure their local engagement. Therefore the project responsible will meet in the beginning of the project and in the end of the project to ensure a good implementation. The main focus of this project lies on the young people themselves and on their initiative. They will shape this project and they will develop the network further and help establishing its structures. Together they will work on European strategies for youth but also for global challenges as well as cooperation between Europe and Asia. The outcomes of this project will be published in the form of a report. There will also be a video produced with the youngsters promoting their projects. The on going project will be monitored through a blog by the participants involved in the project and other multimedial tools available. After the project duration the results will be used further on the local level and the international level as well and the network will work out future projects together to ensure a sustainable and long term cooperation between the young people."

"Fashion industry is among the biggest contributors to waste on the planet. And, the society and youth are little equipped to deal with the impact of overconsumption of clothes, textiles and the like. Let us portray an everyday situation:We buy it, wear it a few times, get sick of it - or we realize it’s out of fashion and we throw it away, only to begin this cycle all over again.Unfortunately, the affordability and accessibility of fast fashion comes at a high price for the planet and especially for the people who make it. There are roughly 40 million garment workers in the world today, 85% of them women, who are some of the lowest paid workers in the world. Not to mention it’s also a major contributor to greenhouse gases, water, and air pollution, and creates problematic levels of waste. However, the problem lies not in garment. We need to change people's habits, attitude and behaviour towards clothing consumption. Sure, the world reacts to the problem, but still is not even nearly enough. That is why we want to implement ""The Circle of Fashion"" (CoF).CoF aims to take small steps towards better habits, cleaner environment & to stand up for human rights, with more specific objectives being:- to launch, test & develop a training programme about conscious behaviour towards clothing/fashion targeting youth workers & young leaders from EU & partner countries;- to equip youth workers & young leaders with knowledge, key competences & employable tools aimed at reducing the impact of fast fashion;- to foster capacity building and new social initiatives in youth work (related to the topics of conscious consumption / human rights / environment);- to increase transnational cooperation & exchange of good practices in the field between youth workers, NGOs & other stakeholders;- to disseminate the project’s ideas further to the wider public.Why these needs were selected over others:The consortium believes that it’s necessary to get serious about the “fashion problem”. It’s not as small or superficial as it might seem. In fact, it’s impact is on par with plastic overuse.The Circle of Fashion objectives and planned outputs & outcomes completely fit those of the participating organisations and of the European policies in multiple fields. Moreover, it will create synergies and long-term impact by:- improving youth work;- contributing to the well-being of youth & society in general;- raising social awareness about garments overconsumption & solutions for it;- adding to capacities of NGOs & mobility of youth in the developing countries.What is more, since the project is developed in tight cooperation with international partners, it will allow all the involved parties to learn from diverse experiences."

"""Growing Green"" is a partnership between partner organizations in Denmark, Nepal, Myanmar and Vietnam. The project addresses the need of bringing non-formal education in line with the current global challenges and mainstream Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education as a new core element. A UN report shows that there were at least 74 million young people unemployed in 2015. A further report identifies that temperatures in 2015 have been about 1 degree Celsius above the pre-industrial era, an effect caused by a human-induced global warming.With entrepreneurship being promoting as a tool to fight unemployment, the partners have agreed to be essential that this generation of young entrepreneurs are not only educated in creating financially successful enterprises, but also sustainable enterprises that utilise the worlds natural and human resources responsibly.However, from their research, the partners identified that the concept of Sustainable Entrepreneurship, besides of being relatively new, Education is only slowly evolving with academia and within higher education, being hardly present in the non-formal education with youth. The project entails 6 capacity building activities and one mobility of youth workers. Throughout the project, the partners will create a guide in Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education (SEE), train 70 trainers in SEE in the partners' countries, reach about 275 young people and more than 2000 stakeholders. The guide developed will consists of four parts: 1. factsheets upon local and global implications of unsustainable entrepreneurship, 2. at least 10 non-formal methods in Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education, such as simulations and role plays, 3. Examples of sustainable enterprises created by young people and not only, and 4. A further reading list. Overall, the partner organizations will strengthen their capacity to provide Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education, enhance their international network, renew their educational packages and strengthen the recognition of learning activities they provide, while non-formal education will be revitalized and new forms of youth work will be stimulated."

“STAGED! Struggling Against Gender-based Discrimination through Youth Work in EU and Asia” is a Capacity Building project_KA2, designed to answer the needs of empowering women and young girls in Europe and South East Asian countries, identifying and redressing power imbalances and giving them more autonomy to manage their own lives. The project aimed to enhance gender equity and young women empowerment by providing youth workers, peer educators, local organizations and international NGOs, in EU and SEA, with new tools and methods to favour young women participation in projects and international voluntary service activities. In order to achieve it specific objectives were set:•to raise awareness on the need of promoting young women empowerment, equal rights and opportunities for men and women in EU and SEA;•to deepen the different gender role models so to draft and propose new role ones based on equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities;•to exchange good practices in the field of gender equality and women empowerment, among EU and SEA CSOs;•to develop NFE tools and working methods to favour the raising awareness process and the young women participation in EU and SEA;•to provide participants with new competences and know how on project planning and project lifecycle to create an effective set of actions and IVS initiatives in the gender equality framework.The project lasted 20 months and involved: Lunaria–Italy, Concordia–France, Asociatia Universitur–Romania, Charity-Oriented Myanmar–Myanmar, Center For Sustainable Development Studies–Vietnam and Perkumpulan Gerakan Kerelawanan Internasional–Indonesia.The project included a set of different actions conceived to achieve the above mentioned aim, the specific objectives and the needs of local partners detected during the Itinerant Feasibility Visit and the Study Phase. The actions implemented were: Itinerant Feasibility Visit in SEA, ITC course on gender issues and non formal education methods in Vietnam, Youth Meetings in SEA, ITC on project management in Indonesia, Study Phase in SEA, Local actions implementation in SEA, ITC restitution and methods sharing in Italy and Follow up activities in EU and SEA.The consortium designed, developed, tested and assessed a methodological package, including NFE methods, tool kit, short video and graphic facilitation to approach different target groups and to facilitate the gathering, capitalization and transmission of different outcomes.The project involved 1.542 participants, allowed to achieve the following outcomes and results, answering the specific objectives, crossing the horizontal priorities (HP) and the sectorial ones (SP) of the program:•empowerment of youth workers and young people, by developing transversal skills and capacities, complementary to those offered through formal education, including the comprehensive understanding of the gender’s cross-cultural nature in EU and SEA and the development of new working methods (HP 1 – SP 2);•development of the young people and young women skills and competences, particularly for those at risk of early school leaving, by encouraging the validation of NF and its permeability with formal education paths, creating new learning opportunities (HP 5 - SP 1);•enhancement of the young women’s role, as main agents of local development in the gender raising awareness and promotion of human rights (SP 4)•development of new transversal skills and competences for young women in different social spheres, creating new practical entrepreneurial experiences, with a cross-sectorial perspective, in education, training and youth work (HP 2).Deliverables produced: •Hand Book with the description of the NFE methods and activities implemented in the 3 ITCs; •Video presentation, to show the project’s steps and to ensure visibility •Prezi presentation