"On 11/11/19, the European Parliament declared a “climate and environmental emergency” in Europe and the world. In the meantime, the Fridays for Future movement has gone global, with 12 million people striking to raise awareness on climate change. Far and wide, young people consider climate change to be the world's most serious issue: 48.8% of millennials chose ""climate change"" as their n. 1 global concern. But despite 89% say they can make a difference in this, more than half (56%) believe that their views are ignored: young people are asking for competencies and for allies to work with towards significant systemic change.Therefore, MAKE A DIFFERENCE! aims to empower young people towards becoming leaders in fostering the sustainable development of their local communities. ICEI, ECOWAVE and INLE SPEAKS can be those allies able to empower vulnerable youth to lead the change towards eco-development and environmental sustainability in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Italy.In line with the call objectives, the project creates opportunities for North-South and South-South collaboration, to exchange, confront and innovate practices, building alongside the capacities of young people youth workers and organizations involved and providing safe places to experiment and promote mutual learning.MAD! is intended as a long-term process entrusted by complementary local and transnational actions that aim to build the capacities of partner organisations to empower disadvantaged youth becoming change-makers at the local, regional and global level, by designing, implementing and disseminating innovative environmental practices aimed at fostering the sustainable development of their communities.The Action wants to (SO1) reinforce the capacities of CSOs working with young people, concerning both youth work practices, environmental practices and social innovation practices, and (SO2) enhance youth decision-making power, (SO3) strengthening at the same time local and global cross-sectoral networks fostering youth-led and eco-led development.The 5-P project approach considers the 5 aspects of the Agenda 2030, avoiding “competition” among these elements, and thus creating spaces for both People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership.Moreover, the proposal will apply ICT and digital communication to promote environmental sustainability and to allow youth to advocate across their region (and beyond). As a vehicle for dialogue, networking and information exchange, ICTs are a means through which youth can voice their needs, concerns and priorities, to policymakers, business and civil society leaders, and members of their communities.Main project activities includes transnational project meetings and youth transnational mobilities (job shadowing and youth exchanges), capacity building, development of new non-formal education material, local information and awareness activities promoted by young people with peer-to-peer ICT tools."

Go Green project is a 24 months project coordinated by YUPI organization in Portugal, in close partnership with Romania, Thailand and Vietnam for a total number of 200 young people and youth workers in the 4 countries involved from Europe and Asia. We want to raise capacity of our organizations to support young people who have activities or starting business which are environmentally and community friendly and re-use resources in the scope of circular economy. We want to strengthen the support in youth work through the development of methodologies and procedures of each organization to better integrate and accompany young people who want to start any activity (volunteering or business) in the environmental sector, by raising their employability and entrepreneur skills aligned with an ecological perspective and in a sustainable way.Our main goal is to create an international network of partners interested in creating a system of training of youth workers that reflects the needs of the involved organizations based on non formal education methodology development, through a training referential on the topic that will be disseminated to external partners. This international network aims at raising the capacity of our organizations and others working in the social sector to be more effective and supportive to their youngsters that are in need of integration in the labor market but have many limitations and concerns due to the environmental degradation of nowadays and their lack of knowledge on how to build an environmental and social fair business.Go Green! is supported by previous experiences of partner organizations, built on past capacity building experiences, and foster more quality, diversity and deeper impact on the capacity of the organizations and social impact in the community.

Education and training are key determinants of success in the labour market. The objective of skills training interventions for youth is to develop or update employment-relevant competencies and skills. This way, youth are more interesting for employers to hire, and are generally better equipped to find and keep a decent job.The main objective is to help young migrants and refugees keep their jobs or develop pathways to employment through matching them with trained mentor that suit their needs. Supported employers to improve their cultural awareness and break down cultural barriers.The project objective is to mobilize youth refugees and migrants themselves, primarily in search of employment opportunities in agriculture, mining and other industries. At the individual level, a refugee - despite having skills and motivation to work - can face multiple challenges in gaining meaningful employment, which can feed disillusionment and a loss of self-esteem. Refugees on temporary and permanent protection visas have, by definition, demonstrated considerable resilience in the face of persecution due to their race, religion, nationality, gender, membership of a particular social group or political opinion. If offered the right opportunities, they can build on their strengths, address their challenges, and be part of the contribution that refugees and others in the past have made to the social, cultural and economic benefits. Being able to secure employment at a level commensurate with their skills and experience is one of the markers that we can use to assess this contribution. The evidence explored here points to persistent disparities for refugees with permanent protection visas, in terms of labor market integration, that are likely to be exacerbated for those with temporary protection visas. Work to improve equality offers a useful way for framing a common purpose to address these disparities for refugees with temporary and permanent protection visas.

"Even though there are numerous European policies that tackle juvenile delinquency, there still is a lack of clear instruments and methodologies targeted specifically at young (ex)offenders & their reintegration. Research shows that re-integration to the society is very difficult for young (ex)offenders. The ""Second Chance"" project focuses on non-discrimination, which is the goal of European policies of Education & Youth. Partners from Lithuania, Vietnam, South Africa and Peru join the forces with an intention to exchange the good practices in young offenders' social integration field & diminish the society's stigma towards these people (since it also poses a barrier to the successful integration).Main AIM: help young people prevent from offending and improve youth work methods of crimes’ prevention and re-integration.OBJECTIVES to reach this aim:-develop YWs’ understanding of youth delinquency;-identify the most common crimes youth are committing in participants’ countries & find ways (NFE methods) to reduce them;-launch, test & develop a training programme on “the prevention of youth re-offending”;-equip YWs with knowledge, key competences & employable tools that would help prevent young offenders from reoffending;-foster capacity building and new social initiatives in the field of youth work related to tackling youth crime;-increase transnational cooperation & exchange of good practices between target groups on the issue;-spread project’s ideas to wider audiences.TARGET GROUPSYouth workers & young leaders who:- work with vulnerable groups (among them young offenders);- face social, economic, geographic or cultural obstacles INDIRECT TARGET GROUP- A wider audience of youth workers & young people;- Young offenders in the partner communities and beyond.ACTIVITIES-Research on youth crime & integration in partner countries;-3 short-term training courses in Vietnam, Peru and South Africa;-Job shadowing to exchange and implement different practices on (ex-)offenders' integration;-E-learning platform for youth workers willing to work with young (ex-)offenders;-""Social Shock"" contest & campaign to break stigmas towards (ex-)offenders;-Public photo exhibition ""On Goodness"" in Vilnius, Lithuania to change the opinion towards people in prison;-Local educational activities with youth at risk / young offenders;-Local and international conferences;-And others.All of this improves the capacity of youth workers to help young (ex)offenders and facilitate the integration processes of the latter."

The project AESOP is centered on the innovative combination of youth work and the valorization of intangible cultural heritage in order to increase the employment of marginalized youth. Included in the framework of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage, AESOP aims to develop the capacities of youth workers to utilize story-telling techniques and local community assets related with oral tradition in order to promote local development. It is recognized that intangible cultural heritage (and especially oral tradition) is a very significant potential source of development which is usually underused and underestimated. In the same time youth unemployment is very high especially among young people that have recently inhabited urban centres. In this framework, the consortium will focus on issues as storytelling, entrepreneurship, theatre techniques, social entrepreneurship, community based tourism, cultural management, marketing of cultural heritage related projects etc. The project is going to organise three capacity building seminars, addressed to youth workers, a guide for youth workers, research for the identification of the relevant cultural heritage assets and a platform where each young person that will participate in the activities will publish its activities. The project will be implemented by 5 partner organisations from 4 countries and 3 continents (Greece, Spain, Brazil, Vietnam) which represent theatre and cultural organisations and organisations active in the field of youth bringing in this way together the two groups.. All activities are based on a variety of non-formal educational methodologies, including seminars, study visits, debates, as well as a certification course on community reporting. Local performances are going also to be organized in each country in cooperation with a story-telling activity which is going to be organized at the end of the project in Brazil. The project is going to develop a number of open educational resources for the youth workers. At the end of the project, it is expected that youth workers and young people are going to develop significantly their skills in relation with the use of intangible cultural heritage as a source of local development and social inclusion for marginalized people.