After the outbreak of the economic crisis in 2008, EU still struggles with its consequences. It has particularly affected youth, who are still at risk of becoming a ”lost generation” with limited possibilities. Moreover, young people’s discontent in regard to their exclusion from the job market undermines their belief in the capacities of the state as well as the EU in general to satisfy their needs, resulting in growing Euroscepticism and support to extremist political parties. With a lack of responses to these challenges on a state level, various initiatives emerged from the bottom up. Co-working is one of them, a phenomenon that experienced a boom in the last years, bringing a new dimension to self-employment and entrepreneurship. At the core of coworking is the idea of re-establishing community, increasing collaboration between people, increasing their capacities and skills. Such an approach facilitates networking and helps sharing experience, enhances productivity, boosts innovation and creativity. The advantages of co-working is twofold: first, it allows to develop professional work while combining various skills and specialization; second, it facilitates the development of a mentality based on the values of inclusion, belief in the strength of collective actions and solidarity. INCOME investigated the various methods of co-working and how they can be relevant for social inclusion, culture, business incubation and other fields. INCOME was multi-layer initiative aiming to find new opportunities within the concept of co-working by acting within the intersection of culture and economy, brought on by 9 different partners from March 2017 to February 2019. With its eclectic mix of partners - representing both culture organisations, municipalities, NGOs and business incubators - from around Europe, it explored possibilities to achieve job sustainability and opportunities beyond and across traditional formats, borders and methods. Different European dimensions, both theoretical and geographical, were investigated. Putting co-working at the centre of the discussion gives opportunities to map connections between various forms of creative industries, civil society organisations and new types of economies. A critical overview of where and why we are at this moment, including an analysis of how we talk about the issues and what our conceptual understanding is, has been a crucial starting point. Through activities such as transnational meetings, conferences and professional work exchange an array of different approaches were gathered, best practices shared and new ideas were allowed to emerge. INCOME also applied a critical approach to co-working. What kind of social and economical patterns do we reproduce when defining our working environments as co-working spaces? What type of impact on our societies do we strive for when re-designing work as co-working?The project largely depended on accumulating varied types of knowledge and experiences, through professionals visiting each other’s organisations, following their work and activities, taking part in meetings and study visits and getting to know the local situation - job shadowing. This does not only promote sharing of ideas and best practices, but also helps to quickly get insights into each other’s work, allowing to form new networks and relationships and understand how we can make use of the experiences, a good breeding ground for future projects and further exchange. Afterwards, the participants function as “multipliers” through employing new methods in their organisations and spreading the knowledge to their different target groups. At local level, partners have conducted their own local stakeholder meeting or activity, in order to disseminate results as well as to further deepen the knowledge about the topics. Through the INCOME journey partners dove headfirst into the world of co-working. When implementing and spreading the conclusions, these could allow a more dynamic labour market with the contribution of the dimensions of culture, innovation and technology. At the end of this journey made of exchange, research, and inspiration, the project found strategies and actions that can result in successful co-working practices: In short: Be Fully Part of Your Local Community; Give Your Community Specific Added Value; Be Protagonist of the Scientific/Technical World; Learn From Culture and Artistic Methods.The ideas and experiences are gathered in the publication “Exploring collaboration experiences and innovative work spaces in Europe”, where in dept texts and analyses are combined with conclusions and the partner’s own experiences. Within the network of partners, new ideas have already started to form in different constellations. Co-working as a concept will be implemented in many future activities - not only those addressing youth or unemployment, but as a fruitful thought-model and method to develop businesses, communities and culture.

"Overall goal of this project is to build the capacity of partner organizations and their members on participatory action research (PAR) and foster the use PAR methodology in addressing different community issues and take concrete actions that lead to social changes.The project has three main components: 1) Learning about Participatory Action Research - PAR through non-formal Education and exchanging the PAR examples of good practices 2) Practicing by taking concrete PAR methodology and PAR actions in order to bring social changes in local communities3) Establishing local PAR corners as youth resource info incubators The learning component consists of a 2 Training course, Seminars, and local training courses, and the other ones fosters the PAR skills through local implementation of PAR actions and research that leads to local PAR corners.Project ""Youth Empowered to Change the World"" presents a coherent and comprehensive set of appropriate, concrete and practical activities which are designed to meet the identified needs of partner organisations and their target groups and lead to achieving project goals. Project activities are divided in 2 categories; Mobility activities and Capacity Building Activities.Expected outcomes:-PAR corners will be created in each partner countries-Manual – framework for PAR-Trained peer to peer trainers for PAR-Local PAR teams which will be future multipliers Project will involve 6 partners from 6 countries. More than 150 people will pass International trainings where they will gain skills how to lead PAR training and actions.More tan 90 youth will pass local training courses. They will be future multiple for PAR methodology."

PROJECT Raising Environmental Sustainability Through Art (REST_ART)Environmental awareness is to understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of its protection. Aesthetic practices that take up political disruption are not simply raising awareness or communicating messages. This is not politics as propaganda. Instead, aesthetic practices operate through a ‘radical uncanniness’ that realigns, disrupts, and reinvents political engagement as material and sensible events (Rancière, 2004 [2000]). An artwork that is visually memorable, seductive, surprising, and shocking can etch itself in people’s minds in a way the written word can struggle to do.The project aims to present, raise awareness, sensibilize and prevent harmful attitudes against the environment through artwork. Through the scheduled mobilities the project envisions acknowledging Art as a strong influence on issues related to environmental preservation. Artworks are essential tools for ecological activism that alert the population to urgent matters, facilitate understanding messages about sustainability, and help mobilize people to fight for this cause. In addition, the Consortium will implement a comparative approach and photography research to shed light on the plastic waste management of the respective cities of the consortium, as a tool to exercise pressure on the Municipalities through its dissemination and communication.Target Groups•Youth workers, •Youngsters, Young people with fewer opportunities•Youth organizations•General publicMore specifically the project’s objectives concern the:•Introduction of young people and youth workers to environmental awareness •Creation of artworks from single-use of plastics, as a medium to tackle the use of single-use plastics•Adoption of good practices to reduce and manage plastic waste•Comparative research of the engaged countries to address major environmental issues and exercise pressure in the respective Municipalities

The project “YOUth with a Plan” is a capacity building project, including a 7 day youth workers mobility activity for youth workers that have already some experiences within YiA (as participant or as leader) but that want to make the step to develop an own international project with their organisations. YOUth with a Plan will take place in Mostar (BiH), contains 2 activities; one short capacity building meeting with the project team, and the longer activity, the training course itself, taking place the third week in spring 2016 (from Saturday to until Saturday), involving partner organizations from programme and partner countries that will arrive from Belgium, Czech, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Slovenia, Macedonia, BiH, Montenegro, and Serbia. The partnership is consisted with partners that have common experiences, but also with new partners. The project aims to build capacities of youth workers and project managers in youth work and their organisations, to develop quality international youth (work) projects in E+/YiA, that meet the priorities of E+, with the necessary quality preparation, implementation, evaluation and follow-up. We want to enable participants to develop a programme with a high quality of relevance, project design and project content, with articulating a clear learning processes, with impact, also after and beyond the project. As such, we meet a need for the E+ programme, to get successful applications, with projects that deal with the priorities of the programme. We want to build capacities of youth workers and partners for project design, development of programmes, and we want to increase the project writing skills of translating these project ideas and programmes into applications with day-to-day timetables, focussing on the objectives and priorities of the E+/YiA programme. Participants also will build an own project idea into a potential international E+/YiA project with the partners. Follow up is foreseen in the support of the further realization of these projects after this course.

"<< Background >>Climate change and migration present two seemingly separate global challenges. These global themes are inextricably linked and, according to the International Organization for Migration (2018), ""estimates suggest that climate change could be a major cause of displacement between 25 million and 1 billion people over the next 40 years"". In addition to the cause-and-effect relationship between them, climate change and migration prove that these issues are cross-cutting and global and should be addressed as such. Namely, in addition to the contribution of the lion's share to the problem of climate change and migration, the global north also controls the way in which challenges are addressed in ways that often serve to strengthen existing unequal power structures. However, climate change is a challenge that, if left unchecked, will affect the whole world and, as a result, have a major impact on human migration. The beginnings of the consequences of global warming are already clearly felt in the form of more frequent and longer heat waves, stronger droughts and more frequent disasters and floods. Such changes are already bringing about changed conditions for food production, the extinction of animal and plant species, the faster spread of infectious diseases and great economic damage. However, extreme weather can also lead to immediate migratory responses. According to IOM (2008), “the number of natural disasters has more than doubled in the last two decades and more than 20 million people have been displaced by sudden natural disasters related to climate”.As part of the pan-European “ClimateOfChange” campaign, last year Ipsos conducted a survey among young people (aged 15 to 35) in 23 European countries.The results of the survey show that young Europeans see climate change and environmental degradation as the main policy priorities, while on the other hand they generally perceive migration as less worrying. Almost half (46%) of young Europeans consider climate change to be one of the most serious problems facing the world, which ranks them first among those problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic. In second place is “environmental degradation, including for example air pollution, deforestation and animal extinction” (44%). However, only 13% consider ""migration"" to be one of the most serious problems facing the world.The Beyond the tales project is thus a response to the discrepancy in linking climate change and migration among young people, which builds on the results of research that suggests that young people do not currently link climate change and migration to a large extent, but are aware of their connection to the future. In this regard, youth workers often report that they do not feel qualified to address pressing, current and global issues such as climate change and migration, and consequently their support for young people who are already active is weakened.<< Objectives >>Global problems are not isolated, they are interdependent, intertwined, complex, so it is important that their addressing is just that, connected. The general objective of the project is aimed at youth workers in order to provide knowledge and information aimed at acquiring and strengthening competencies and a critical understanding of climate migration. Through the educational-awareness project we want to promote and strengthen the connection and solidarity between youth workers and young people and to spread understanding, solidarity, and encourage activation for a climate and socially just society.An important project goal is also the implementation of a communication plan, through which we will inform the general public about the project contents and encourage public discourse on climate migration, which is currently an overlooked topic. Last but not least, the goal is to increase the organizational capacity of the NGO sector in partner countries through the dissemination of acquired organizational knowledge through the networks of partner organizations. Through project activities, we want to support and promote the new EU initiative ""Climate Education Coalition"" in the fight against climate change.<< Implementation >>The implemented project activities are related to the project results and outcomes, which are described below in the application form.<< Results >>The Strategic Project Partnership will achieve the following project results:a project website (1), which will be the focal point and place where most of the project results will be grouped together, and which will address climate change and migration by linking personal stories and expertise. Content modules will also be available on it.Conducted lectures and workshops that will contribute to capacity building and organizational - development of partner organizations (5)- preparation of infolists (5) with recommendations for strengthening the capacities of organizations in certain content areas and the field of organizational development- Carrying out a qualitative survey (1) in the form of a focus group in each of the partner countries, which will present an in-depth analysis of the needs and work of youth workers in the areas of climate change, (climate) migration and youth activism. A comparative analysis between countries will also be made. So far, no qualitative analysis exists in any of the partner organizations and in the wider sector.- Mapping of available tools, approaches, research and theories (1) in each partner country on global learning, climate change, climate migration, youth activism and related topics- The preparation of content modules (3), which will be designed interactively, will contain professional material presented in a creative way and materials in the field of global learning, climate change and climate migration and social engagement of young people, and which will be updated twice during each training cycle.- training of youth workers and other educators (2), based on non-formal education methods and a combination of online and offline methods (short videos, tasks to be completed by participants, practical work in international pairs, group, field work with young people ) and on which the contents of the modules will be presented. Youth workers will be encouraged to connect the newly acquired knowledge (related to both content and methods for working with young people) in the module with their own local issues, which will make it easier to identify with topics and address them in the future. . We will update the trainings twice based on the feedback obtained from the training participants.- Online meeting of all trainees (4) before and after each of the trainings- Blended training (1)- Conducting a national competition on climate change and migration (1) in each of the partner countries, which will encourage young people from the partner countries to reflect on this topic through the recording of their stories, while increasing the visibility of the project- a booklet with stories Beyond the tales (1), which will contain personal stories and records of young people on climate change and migration. It will be based on interviews conducted by young people under the mentorship of youth workers with young people from associated partner organizations (mostly) from the countries of the global south. The booklet will be an upgrade of Humanitas ’booklet Her stories (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LgHrCdNRHGhRwr71nZBJN6a92MfQYyin/view), which has been recognized as good practice by NA Movit. The booklet will therefore contain a.) Stories based on interviews, b.) Stories selected in national competitions, c.) Links to view events (in QR format) performed by associated partners.- online events of associated partner organizations (3), where the associated partners will prepare a presentation of the thematic content of the project through their eyes in a form of their choice (climate change, migration, youth participation…)- International Conference on Climate Migration (1), with the participation of all partner organizations- Multiplication event in partner countries in the last quarter of the project (3)- Strategic meetings of the partner consortium (5)- Preparation and implementation of a communication plan (1)"