“From Europe to Asia: capitalizing experience in youth work” is a capacity building project that involves 7 partners (5 EU programme countries and 2 partners countries) and lasted 24 months. Thanks to the project the organizations and countries involved have shared and disseminated best practices of youth work from Europe to the partner countries of Asean countries. During the last 20 years, youth organizations in Europe have grown a lot in terms of capacity thanks to European programmes dedicated to youth. We have shared these benefits and the gained experience supporting the capacity building of our partners from areas where these kind of programmes were not applied yet or weren't applied enough. In this frame the reached objectives are: - Encouragement capacity building and innovation in the field of international youth work;- Promotion of tailored youth policies that recognize the importance of non formal learning and youth mobility for personal and professional development of young;- Encouragement of non formal education and youth mobility programmes as tools to support positive development of society based of active citizenship, inclusion and democratic participation…- Offer of tools to youngsters of our partner countries to get aware of the role they can play in the society- Help the target groups to understand the diversity of organizational cultures and working mentalities within European countries and partner countries encouraging mutual understanding;- Building and/or strength partnerships between youth organizations in EU and partner countries;In addition, EU partners and youth involved had better understand of the key role played by European Youth policies and strategies for their development, becoming more aware of the meaning of being part of Europe.The activities organized (local, international and online) were: researches, collection of data and best practices; trainings on different matters, fundamental for the management of youth organization and to foster cooperation with public and private sector; short and longer accompanying periods during which trainees practice their learning; periods of job shadowing when trainees/youth workers visit experienced European organizations to observe the practitioners in their daily work and periods of EVS for Asian volunteers in European organizations. A series of international meetings has took part in order to plan, monitor and evaluate the project and its activities.The process of learning has been accompanied by different education tools elaborated during the project such as: an e- learning platform, a digital library for sharing relevant materials, different video tutorials. They were used also as dissemination tools supported by other outputs/product as different campaigns to promote international youth mobility at any level and with different stakeholders.The project foresees a structured plan of follow up activities.

<< Objectives >>The main aim of the project is to offer a toolkit for the education and training on democratic basic knowledge for young vulnerable people, who either have a low level of education or suffer from unemployment. With this we want to promote democratic literacy and values. Thus, encouraging them to play an active role in shaping the society. These young people should be sensitised for democracy with the result that they understand that their voices count.<< Implementation >>The overall project activities are the following: Planification, Preparation, Management, Evaluation and Dissemination, to properly implement, monitor, assess and spread the word about the project and its results. Implementation: development of the ABCDemocracy Toolkit and testing with young people and youth workers.<< Results >>ABCDemocracy Tookit is the main result to be developed within the framework of the project, and will include-Video-testimonies of political actors or activists, so they share their experience, idea and vision about democracy, European values and tolerance. -Podcast series supported by written content about basic democratic knowledge and political literacy.-Online Escape Room. Basic democratic knowledge as well as tolerant and pluralistic ideas are promoted in a gamified learning experience.

<< Objectives >>Creating EU Villages aims to bring more opportunities and European values into remote areas which used to be left behind when it comes to youth work. Rural youth will be empowered to create their own youth clubs to gather and run activities, as well as youth-led info desks to support their peers and raise overall participation. Those working with rural youngsters will receive useful tools to successfully reach their target group and their communities will benefit from increased opportunities.<< Implementation >>We will conduct a research among rural youth, youth workers and institutions in order to explore the particular difficulties they face. The outcomes will feed a Guide with concrete guidelines for youngsters on how to create a youth club or info desk and how to manage it, as well as on how to raise their participation.We'll run local seminars, webinars and round-tables, increasing the youngsters' know-how and connections to local stakeholders. Good practices will be shared during final seminar.<< Results >>We expect to gather the voices of rural youth and those working with them, subsequently understanding their struggles and being able to create a comprehensive Guide which will empower many youngsters to create their own info desks and youth clubs and improve youth workers' approach to the needs of rural youth. The implementation of the project will boost rural youth's participation, connection to local stakeholders and NGOs as well as the visibility of the obstacles they face.

" ContextCraft sector is a major player in the economy, through traditions, techniques and culture it has brought and made evolve. It is a dynamic and growing sector, whose contribution to the dynamism of the territories is well established.These Very Small Entreprises link all the countries and carry strong values of transmission, excellence, know-how, short circuits, proximity or even sustainable development ...In recent years, there has been a new attraction for crafts by people with a first professional experience, wishing to give a new meaning to their life and choosing crafts to retrain. However, the craft sector still suffers from a degraded image in the eyes of the general public, which too often considers that the crafts they represent are painful and offer a limited future. This negative image also persists due to a lack of gender mix in many activities. In fact, the volume of women managers only reaches 25%. The vast majority work in services and caring profession (hairdresser, esthetician) or in production activities related to the traditional crafts (jeweler, upholsterer, textile manufacturing, etc.); few of them represent such sectors as mechanics, building.Mixed jobs, professional equality between women and men and female entrepreneurship are therefore priority issues for the craft sector! State of ArtEntrepreneurship experts assume that women start fewer businesses than men because they face more obstacles (financial, time, and even self-confidence). 48% OF WOMEN THINK IT IS MORE DIFFICULT TO BE A MANAGER THAN AN EMPLOYEE AND THAT TO BE SUCCESSFUL, THE CATCHWORD MUST BE ""COMPETE TO WIN, HAVE RELATIONSHIP, HAVE CHARACTER"". Objectives- Study biopsychological criteria influencing entrepreneurs profile- Allow managers to enhance their skills on confidence and self esteem consideration - Encourage collaborative exchanges between managers- Facilitate access to entrepreneurship financing solutions  Impact The project will have a direct impact at a national and European level, benefiting from the participation of the 4 committed countries to the different activities. The project will contribute in particular at:1. Encouraging, developing and optimizing a training offer, based on an innovative approach2. Boosting professional organizations to modernize traditional trades and promote growth3. Convincing Politicians to support the craft sector, its economic and social value and its employment capacity"

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)