<< Objectives >>The vision of the project is that young people who have fewer opportunities due to social barriers (especially in the field of sexual orientation, expression and identity) will have more resources, opportunities, capacities and support in coping with mental health problems.<< Implementation >>Psychosocial support trainingMental health discussion and support groupsMental health support groups and individual counselingPeer support in the communityStudy visits and presentation of resultsCreating an online course on supporting loved onesPreparation of manuals on peer support and project results<< Results >>A long-lasting network of organized informal support that takes place between:(1) a young person in need of support, which is neither a formal nor an informal form of support, and a young person who offers support (takes place locally in each of the participating countries),(2) a young person from Slovenia and Latvia (internationally, via online conversations, 1 on 1 or in larger groups)(3) a young person who offers support and a person who can be mentored.

<< Objectives >>The aim of our project is to increase youth workers competencies and confidence in working with people facing Gender-based Discrimination, as well as to empower youth and youth workers. We’ll create a non-formal education methodology focused on the improvement of mental wellbeing of youth and youth workers, their empowerment and inclusion with the use of artistic tools and outdoor activities.<< Implementation >>3 Study visits, that will serve the completion of research on the needs of our target groups and exchange of expertise & good practices between the partner organisationsDevelopment of the methodology & methodology guide based on the research, that will combine artistic, outdoor and non-formal education activitiesTraining Course for youth workers on our methodology3 Local workshops led by the participants of our Training Course<< Results >>Development of an innovative learning methodology focused on the wellbeing of youth facing gender-based discrimination (GbD)Delivering opportunities for youth workers to learn about equality & inclusion and become more confident with addressing the issue of GbDIncreasing the capacities in inclusive youth work, youth empowerment and use of artistic tools & outdoor activities in partner organisations (PO), their communities and networksImprovement of POs’ capacities in international cooperation

<< Background >>Love ACTually 4.0 project addresses and tackles the increasing normalisation of forms of gender based violence (GBV) and sexual violence amongst young people through providing them with attractive popular tools of self-education, such as online game, podcasts, etc.There are increasing trends in negative gender stereotyping, disrespectful attitudes, aggressive and violent behaviours, which are adapted through social “scripts” that are seen, copied and reproduced through mechanisms such as role-modelling in society and the exposure young people especially have to content streaming from both digital and analogue media channels.Studies show that sexual violence amongst young people, both men and women, are on the rise. We all are socialized into a culture that normalizes, and often encourages, male power and aggression. Women’s sexuality is often treated as a product which men have a right to and women are often not seen as those who have their own control over it. During adolescence, attitudes and behaviour are influenced by social sexual “scripts” which determine individuals’ relationships and sexual interactions through dominant discourses that include core cultural beliefs about gender and sex. Forms of sexual violence such as sexual harassment have become a norm which leads to such forms of abuse, being considered as “normal” or as “flirting” and “teasing”.Under current circumstances, we see the urgent need to create remote tools to educate on these sensitive topics. Educating, sensitizing and better understanding of each other's boundaries is the right approach to start working on abolishing inequality and safety and engagement of all genders, minorities and cultures.We deem it necessary for the EU to have its own digital tools as the context of sexual violence and its perception by the EU population is different from existing US-based tools. In the uncertain times of the world pandemic, the EU needs innovative online tools to educate young people and create safer environments.<< Objectives >>We want to create and make accessible online and offline games that address gender stereotypes, inequality in intimate relationships and sexual violence in different backgrounds. Learning through gamification is a powerful tool that encourages social sharing, learner’s engagement and contributes to increasing competencies and influencing change of behaviors. Especially among young people, games are very popular. Through those games which are innovative, young people have the space to vocalise their own experience and make it transferable to their peers and other social environments. They’ll become a key element in creating storylines which will help empower other vulnerable youth, promote engagement and learn about the addressed topics. Love ACTually 4.0 aims to design and develop highly innovative and engaging methods of learning for young people, as advanced experiential learning environments. In order to decrease the number of cases of sexual violence. It increases volume and quality of non-formal learning, as well raises awareness about desired values and status on inclusion. Objectives of the project are: - to demonstrate and develop new effective strategies which will engage young people, educate in a meaningful way, raise awareness of the issues and empower victims to take appropriate action, among them engaging interactive learning environments, awareness raising campaigns and sources of information,- to empower young people to be the creators of the social reality in regard to social interactions, and to influence lives of other young people by young people, and to engage them in the conversation that touches lives of young people,- to provide youth workers and youth-led NGOs with highly innovative tools addressing gender based violence, cyberviolence, establishing relationships, discrimination and violence, which can be used also to other domains of youth-work,- to increase inclusion, equality, respect, positive attitudes to self and society, civil engagement of young people,- to increase literacy in using media and establishing new relationships online that is on the rise due to the pandemic, - to increase the volume of tools that can be used in restrictions of a pandemic, - to support and build resilience in partner organizations in their work with young people,<< Implementation >>The project activities consist of: 7 Transnational Meetings - where partners meet in real life throughout the project duration and in-between the rest of activities. Those meetings enable more in depth understanding of the practical context of each, their work, the country culture and highly contribute to the overall project management, planning, implementation, dissemination and evaluation of on-going the results.National Team Meetings - those take place within each partner, together with their young participants, and youth workers who participate in the different activities of the project. Those consist of focus and working groups, working on the content and context of the project activities and production of the intellectual outputs and overall results of the project.3 International Training Activities - where partners educate each other about the topics, and tools they are not familiar with strengthening their capacities. Those trainings contribute to the creation of the different Intellectual Outputs. The training activities serve as a preparation of the partners for when working nationally with their focus groups on the outputs.6 National Seminars - where we can consult our focus group (of youth) in mother tongues and more in depth in order to develop with them the outputs, peer-to-peer to aim better for the needs of the target group, from youth-to-youth.Multiplier Events - where the main outputs will be launched. Those events, that will take place internationally and within each partner country, help to increase visibility of the project, its aims, outputs, the addresses issues, and of the Erasmus+ program, while they engage the different target groups (youth workers, and other relevant stakeholders) who will benefit from using the outputs in their professional and personal lives and become multipliers themselves in the impact of the project.<< Results >>Love ACTually 4.0 aims to create sustainable and innovative results and outcomes that will be beneficial for everyone involved in the project directly and indirectly.We will create 3 types of games - online game, offline game and board game which will allow young people to experience the problematic situations related to dating and sexual violence from different perspectives and seek for and train the right solutions in them, e.g. to respond appropriately within intimate relationships and sexual encounters. Games will affect attitude and behavioural change, raise awareness amongst key stakeholder groups, in particular young people, and decrease prejudices, gender stereotypes and norms that contribute to the non-toleration of gender-based violence. The overall results of the project are as follows:sensitized and educated partners organizations that are experts on other topics in the field of sexual violence, gender stereotypes and gamification skills. All of those are necessary for creation of the games but it will also reflect in their future youth work.a focus group of trained young people in each partner organization that will provide all inputs for the outputs produced.a versatile and serious game to be played on PCs / mobile phones / tablets. a versatile offline game and board game.a test, validation and demonstration environment to ensure user requirements are central to game performance and to ensure specified performance assessment standards are met.Promotion of the games and multiplication of them in the schools, festivals and other informal environments with the help of the youth. Brochures with all innovative ways of education created and distributed within relevant networks of actors in the field of youth education and prevention.There will be a project website, where all the tangible outputs and non-tangible results will be shared, a best practice brochure, a series of videos, podcasts and social media posts and printed material to promote the games and campaign for awareness on the topics made from youth to youth. Through campaigning throughout the project, as well as the dissemination and multiplier events, the society will be educated on the topics of sexual violence, harassment, cyberviolence, respect, inclusion, youth empowerment, cooperation and European values.The project will result in a wide range of mechanisms which will raise awareness of the effects of sexual violence and violence within intimate relatiosnhips, and establish a vibrant community-of-interest, discussion among youth, NGOs, educational institutions, as well as policy makers.

"<< Objectives >>Activate Youth aims to reduce discrimination of LGBTQIA+ people by creating involvement about, for, and with the LGBTQIA+ youth and allies to increase their active participation in society. We will develop a methodology “activism through non-formal learning”, meaning work together and closely with the partners' consortium, the target groups, the associated partners, and networks on how they can use non-formal learning as a tool for sustainable activism and inclusion.<< Implementation >>The activities of the project include - a research phase with focus groups with the youngsters, 4 Transnational Meetings, Training Course, 3 Youth Exchanges, 4 Study Visits, 8 multiplier events, production of 3 main outputs. Each learning activity is shaped around the project objectives and one activity complements the other making each activity more and more complete.<< Results >>There are going to be produced 3 main intellectual outputs: an online platform that includes network possibility for NGOs and young activists, a Book that includes holistically the developed ""Activism through non-formal learning"" methodology, and videos - a documentary film about the method and project and a DIY videos with the work-forms of the methodology. Activate Youth will succeed in increasing the quality of LGBTQIA+ non-formal education in Europe in its different contexts."

"<< Background >>GIVE Lab- Laboratory against gender-based inequalities and violences in international volunteering<< Objectives >>The aim of the project is to provide youth professionals, learners and young people with tools on the theme of gender, sexist and sexual violence*. These tools will be the result of an innovative and transdisciplinary training course, resulting from the collaboration between the different sectors involved (popular education, social accompaniment, social sciences sector, culture sector).1- Enrich educational resources for the prevention of gender-based, sexist and sexual violence with contributions from different disciplines2- Strengthen the capacities of youth workers who are new to these subjects to create caring spaces for awareness and dialogue 3- Lifting the taboo on gender, sexist and sexual discrimination and offering a place to the question of intimacy as a subject that concerns the Collective4- Promote an innovative pedagogical approach that puts the learner at the center of the learning process and that allows the development of transversal competences of the youth, especially the YWFO<< Implementation >>Seminar (C1) April 2022: We expect the participation of two members from each organization with at least one employee in charge of the follow-up and implementation of the project within the organization. Trainings (C2,3,4,5,6) May 2022: For each of the trainings conducted at the national or bi-national level, we expect 20 participants from the young workers (12 of whom will be YWD) as well as the participation of trainers from the member organizations.Laboratory (C7) January 2023: youth workers from the 10 partner organizations will meet to create their tools within the pedagogical kit<< Results >>R1 - Pedagogical resourcesThe organizations of the consortium will build in April 2022 a seminar to which will be invited specialists in gender, sexist and sexual discrimination issues to update the knowledge of the project partners on these issues. Based on the exchanges that will have taken place, the partners will be able to pool resources in digital form that will be stored on the e-learning platform created by SJ within the framework of the Be The Change strategic partnership, also allowing for a diversity of resource formats (audio, video, interactive media, readings). The idea is to host on this space the first resources created in order to feed the construction of the Youth Workers trainings that will take place in May/June 2022. These resources will be freely accessible to anyone who wants to learn more about gender, sexist and sexual violence. R2 - ""Fighting against gender-based and sexual violence in international volunteering"" educational kitThe Toolkit will be the result of the tool creation lab. It is a toolbox containing- resources to be able to put words (definition work) and better understand what is meant by gender, sexist and sexual violence- pedagogical guides from different approaches (social, artistic, legal) on -how to deal with these issues as a youth worker - how to collect the words of a victim of sexual violence, the points of vigilance, the steps to respect, the behaviors to follow - what behaviors to follow with people who consciously or unconsciously attack, reflections on intervention protocols, apply to the context of hosting and leading young international volunteers and community life...- practical tools adapting the methods of forum theater, dance, podcast, creative writing, educational games, to the context of international volunteeringR3 - Guide for the awareness campaign: this guide aims to empower youth and youth workers to conduct awareness campaigns on gender-based, sexist and sexual violence within their organizations and on their territory"