"Amaro Foro is offering counselling and support for integration into the society of the Sinty and Roma in Berlin, also running the largest social contact point for Roma in Germany which is funded by Berlin local government. It provides advice on employment, education, health, housing and social security issues and support Roma in their affairs with the administration.After the Corona virus problem appeared and all the services moved online we realized that we have a big problem when it's about offering the usual services to our beneficiary because they can't access them trough internet.We had discussions with our partners from Romania, Hungary, Macedonia where our partners face similar situations and we tried to identify a solution for this.This lead the Roma adults to face a much bigger exclusion, their access to public services being much more restricted booth because of economical situations (they don’t afford devices from where to access internet and they don’t afford to pay the internet bill) and because of educational situation (more than 40% of the Roma adults are illiterate – Fundamental Rights Agency data)Being a group with a high percentage of illiteracy we needed to identify an innovative way of teaching how to use internet with as less as possible written information's.Project objectives:With our project we aim to increase the access of Roma adults to public services by developing a tool which to allow them to learn easier how to use internet for this.The project objectives are:1. To develop 2 innovative artistic tolls which to make easier the learning process of the Roma about internet and how to use the internet for daily life activities during this project.2. To increase the ICT knowledge and skills of 80 Roma adults from 4 partners countries during the project3. To increase the knowledge and skills of 20 social workers, health mediators, NGO people and volunteers about how to support adults to develop their internet skills and knowledge during the project4. To capacitate Roma and pro-Roma civil society organizations in working with Roma using modern technologyThe number of participants are 80 adults from four countries whose ages can be divided into two groups, young Roma adults between 18-35 and middle-aged Roma adults between 36-55. Besides, 20 social workers, health mediators, NGO people and volunteers will be included. The participants’ profile: We will have Roma adults who cant easily access internet and cant get social services provided via internet (social services, shopping, banking, school, health services, information and also a social life), and most of them are illiterate which means they don’t know how to write and read. We will have diverse grup of Roma people from ghettos, segregated communities, rural areas, migrant or very traditional Roma and Roma in middle class standards. We will have also 20 social workers, health mediators, NGO people and volunteers from staff of NGOs who work with Roma in order to help them to increase the knowledge of those people to be able to benefit from internet and offer them online support.Activities:1. We will create 2 intellectual outputs (""Basic Digital Skills"" and ""Digital skills for all"") first aiming to teach basic digital skills about how to use internet devices and online communication channels for illiterate people mainly based on illustrations and second one about safe use of internet to access public services and to do daily life activities like shopping, banking, education and other. This one will also use illustrations but also small movies and small text. In order to do that we will work for each guide in 3 stages (making the tool, testing the tool and gathering recommendations and reshaping the final version). For the evaluation we will involve 20 mentors from Romania Germany, Hungary and Macedonia, 5/ country and 80 adults, 20/ country. The mentors will be trained in a 3 days training. The Roma adults will receive each one tablet and will be supported in the learning process by one mentor. To gather suggestions and recommendations we will have two evaluation meetings during the testing phase.The tools which we produce will be wide disseminated at national level in the 4 countries where we tested but also at European and international level with the help of ERGO network The methodology of the project will involve different approaches from research, experts meetings, practical testing in Roma communities of the tools to international dissemination conferences where we will disseminate this project.We expect that the developed tools, based on principles of digital citizenship will help Roma adults and other disadvantaged groups to quickly mitigate knowledge and skill gaps of utilizing the internet as well as define the appropriate and responsible use of technology among the users.Roma adults as digital citizens will promote and poses the following values:respect, educate, and protection of human rights"

Early School Leaving (ESL) is high on the European Agenda. EU2020 aims to reduce the rate of ESL in every member states, below the level of 10%. ESL is on the rise in both Hungary and Romania. Those two countries are amongst those having a larger than average rate of ESL in the EU, despite efforts made by the educational structures. Phenomenon of ESL is occurring more frequent to young people with disadvantaged background, often the members of Roma communities.LEADNFL project was a two-year long strategic partnership funded by Erasmus+ aimed at researching the causes, circumstances and means to prevent early school leaving and also the connection between early school leaving and having children at an early age. The acronym stands for Learned Inactivity – Decreasing the Number of ESL Students in Disadvantaged Communities with the Power of Non-Formal Learning addressing the complex targets of the project.These targets were structured into three phases: the research phase, the methodology development phase and the final phase for dissemination of results. The research phase was conducted in Romania and Hungary involving more than 300 (Hungary: 162, Romania:150) subjects in each country using the snowball method as sampling. Subjects were early school leavers between ages 14-22 all from disadvantaged communities. The research used both qualitative and quantitative methods: survey and focus group discussions. The research concentrated on two communities, achieving representative results were out of the scope of the initiative.One of the key findings of the research was that while amongst all ESL students 29% had children, 45% of those were not planned. Based on the results of the research we can say that among those subjects who already had children 72% named having children, 19% named lack of motivation to study, 15% named frequently being absent from school as the main reason for their early school leaving. It became clear that students starting a family do not have the necessary support from the social/educational system which would allow them to both graduate from school and fulfil their duties as parents.The methodology development phase was conducted through transnational meetings with the attendance of experts in the field of non-formal education. This phase focused on putting together a non-formal education methodology in order to decrease the number of ESL students, which will be made public in a form of a methodology handbook in three languages during October 2017. Beside the dissemination of the results in the coming publication, the three participating partners organise a conference for experts in Budapest – Hungary, Resita – Romania and Brussels – Belgium.

Association Co-Efficient has a wide range of experience/expertise of involvement young people living with disabilities into local and international actions/learning experiences. Inclusion of young people living with disabilities is a main horizontal objective of our daily work, promoting the Independent Living Movement and empowering young people to be more self-sustainable and active citizens along the way. Our experience is that there is little emphasis on involving young people living with disabilities into European mobility schemes; according to data supplied by Hungarian NA a meagre 1,9% of the total number of participants were of special needs in KA105 projects hosted in Hungary in 2019.Young people living with disabilities are often deprived of community activities and less willing to mobilise which affects their social status and environment on the long run. Educational institutions are trying to integrate these young people with limited success, limitations being inflexible pedagogic framework, lack of qualified experts and lack of proper and barrier-free environment. Thus, youth work seems to be an adequate tool for fostering social inclusion and active citizenship of people living with disabilities.However - as available statistical data suggests - accessibility of mobility schemes and youth NGOs in general are limited. Why? What key stakeholders – grassroots, youth services, NGOs, NAs, policy makers, networks and resource centers – should do to improve accessibility? Our project seek to find the answer by conducting an empirical research and formulating policy recommendations.This project would focus on assessing barriers in existing youth work infrastructures – defining barriers as wide as possible. The partnership would work on gathering data, knowledge from professionals working on the field.ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT1.Kick-off in Hungary – start of the project (3 working days + two travel days)2.3 subsequent Transnational meetings- TMs scheduled for major milestones3.IO1 and IO2: research – survey with 50 organizations/country, actively engaged in youth work and mobility schemes, supplemented by 20 deep interviews conducted with professionals. Output: research paper.4.IO3 policy recommendation for decision makers and support structures reflecting on the needs of the organizations5.Dissemination: national conferences organised by each partner to disseminate the results of the research and recommendation.

<< Objectives >>The main aim of the project is to increase the mental wellbeing of marginalized young people who face morediscrimination and exclusion due to post Covid-19 through youth work and the objectives are to increase the capacity of youthworkers about combining their work with wellbeing activities through innovative approaches, to increase the participationand inclusion of marginalized young people and to develop a guideline about how to work with marginalized youth byusing wellbeing activities.<< Implementation >>First activity is the management activities which are about overall project management. The second activity is the trainingof youth workers where we are going to train youth workers with innovative approaches of mental wellbeing, the thirdactivity is valorization of toolkit which the youth workers will prepare the guideline, the forth activity is the local activitieswhich the youth workers will transfer their knowledge to the marginalized young people and the fifth activity isdissemination.<< Results >>We expect to increase the mental wellbeing of marginalized youth and implicitly their inclusion and participation to thesociety. Besides, we expect to upscale the quality of youth work through innovative methods and introduce theimportance of wellbeing in these activities. Thanks to the guideline that we will prepare, we are expecting to reach outmore people who can adapt all these ideas and activities to their own practices and start working on wellbeing more.

•Context/background of the project;The project focused on the role of non-formal adult education in the new refugee situation. The partners are sharing different ways to work with refugees in order to help them to integrate into the society during the time they are arriving until the time they get decision about their status. The overwhelming refugee problem is highly topical in Europe and challenges all the stakeholders in society to contribute. Many institutions have to find new ways to work and also find new partners and networks in the work with the refugees. The project wanted to explore new roles of the non-formal education in promoting participation of the refugees in society. The target group of the project were: refugees, teachers, planners, health workers, representatives of NGOs and public authorities.•Objectives;The partners presented their activities regarding the work for migrants and refugees.Main objective was the exchange of experiences and examples of best practice between the partners.Second main objective: Working on a brochure about innovative ways supporting immigrants and refugees.Third objective: Report on the implementation of a best practice of any other partner in one’s own institution.•Number and profile of participating organisations;The mixture of different institutions - Volkshochschulen in Austria, Germany and Finland, cultural institute in Poland, Development Agency in Bulgaria, Diakonaal Platform in the Netherlands, city office Budapest in Hungary, Roma organisation in Romania - guarantees an interesting mixture and different approaches to the common objective of support for immigrants and refugees.The geographical distribution allows a deeper insigth in the situation of refugees in Europa and the different attitudes towards immigrants depending on the respective country.•Description of undertaken main activities;We organized 5 project meetings in Vienna, Hannover, Sofia, Budapest and Helsinki following the distribution of tasks and the progress of the project work.We agreed on the working plan and supported each other creating different templates for our tasks. The local cooperation with different stakeholders formed the basis for our dissemination work thus informing and distributing our products.It was important for us to reach out to other institutions to get inspired by their activities, and to get a full picture about the activities undertaken to support the work for refugees.•Results and impact attained;Every partner worked on a report about the situation of refugees in his/her country. Following the rhythm of work, we presented these reports during our project meetings. We may say that we really got a serious overview on the situation of refugees in the partner countries: The commonalities and the differences from Bulgaria as the southernmost country to Finland in the North.We produced a collection of best practices including examples from other organisations. So we came up with 23 examples. We began to disseminate this product almost a year ago to other relevant local and national and European stakeholders.We expect a certain impact on the migration work inspiring different institutions to adapt the one or the other best practice example, learning from each other and tightening the relations to local and national stakeholders, NGOs etc.As this is a European exchange project we were ambitious enough to import one of the best practices of the partners in one’s own institution. The result was a report on these implementation activities.•If relevant, longer-term benefits.As the political situation in the EU countries raises concerns and scepticism towards refugees we think it is important to encourage these institutions that work in favour of refugees. We wanted to present positive examples and inspire other institutions by our work.