<< Objectives >>The objectives of this project are to strengthen NGO's who works with young people in the form of developing new learning methods and tools in the field of environmental protection, waste management and sustainable development. Inclusive non-formal learning methods will enable better work with young people in local communities and at European level. The project aims to include young people with various forms of disabilities in these and similar activities promoted by the Erasmus + program.<< Implementation >>Through the project, we will carry out a series of interrelated activities that will affect the full achievement of project results. Activities will include transnational meetings, training for young people, piloting a new innovative training program, creating a digital depository and developing digital learning tools that will directly affect the achievement of project results. Each proposed activity will also include the exchange of good practice between the partners.<< Results >>The project will create: 1. Digital depository for local youth work2. New training manual in the field of environmental protection3. Innovative learning system through e-learning for frontliners4. Strengthen partner organizations for work with young people in the field of protection environment5. Develop inclusive participation methods for young people with disabilities. All results will be publicly available for future work to the EU community of youth workers in form of open resources.

<< Background >>Youth work is facing a crisis, especially in the recent times with the COVID-19 outbreak. Only a few organisations that are dealing with youth work were prepared for this kind of events in the society. Others don’t have knowledge, skills and experience needed to adapt educational work to online surrounding. Many youth workers are facing lack of the skills and knowledge needed to develop educational activity.When consortium was preparing previous application, in the research that we have done by contacting 245 youth work organisations from different networks in which 4 project partners are participating during August 2020, we have identified following issues:46% of youth workers have never developed their own educational activity, but have rather used already existing educational workshops,58% of youth workers think that they don’t have enough knowledge, skills and experience to develop educational workshops,28% of youth workers have been developing educational workshops, out of which 18% think they haven’t fully reached their initially planned learning objectives,62% of organisations don’t have needed knowledge and skills for adapting educational work with youth to online surrounding,From 32% of organisations who have done some kind of educational work with youth by using online surroundings, only 12% were able to develop educational online courses,Only 24% of organisations promote their work and target participants by using digital marketing,52% of organisations would be more than happy to use the online marketing tools in order to engage with higher number of youth to participate in their educational activities, but they state that they are not able to find practical advises and tools on how to use digital marketing in youth work,69% of organisations would use photography as a tool for promoting their activities, but they don’t know how to use it.When we developed and adjusted this project proposal, the consortium contacted the same 245 youth workers with the same questions in order to compare answers and analyse if things changed in the meanwhile. We received 216 answers and the most significant change we noticed is:- Double more (64%) have done some kind of educational work with youth by using online surroundings, but almost the same number of them were able to develop educational online courses. This is showing us that due to “new normal Covid-19 reality”, more and more organizations are forced to implement their regular youth work online, but they are still lacking the same skills, competences and knowledge to develop structured online courses and educational activities.Project intends to merge two different fields – digital online field and field of youth work and non-formal education. These two fields are not seen a lot of times working together in the field of non-formal education in European youth work. Partners have previously researched for needs of developing other projects in field of digital education and have found that there are also other related initiatives in Europe, one of them being “DIG-IT UP” education of youth workers aiming to provide digital learning tools to be used in daily work with young people (supported/hosted by several NAs so far, Italian being one of them). While DIG-IT UP focuses on face-to face education of youth workers, our project goes beyond it and will set quality and sustainable e-learning course on the topics that are covering also general topics of digital youth work (as DIG-IT UP), as well as more specific and complex topics related to digitalisation and gamification of youth work. Thus, our project is both innovative and complementary to the existing DIG-IT UP initiative and has potential to reach more beneficiaries thanks to the e-learning courses.<< Objectives >>Learning in Youth Work of 21st century, as an initiative developed by consortium covering areas of Germany, Balkan region and Scandinavia region, plans to achieve following objectives:- Bring positive and long-lasting effects on participating organisations and sector of youth work by enhancing knowledge management with new innovative resources for development of educational activities within youth work and training models/curricula in order to provide quality youth work educational activities that will address needs of each specific target group.- Support youth workers and educational trainers in acquiring and developing key competences as youth trainers (of other youth workers) in the field of developing and using e-learning materials and online courses in youth work; and marketing strategies and tools for higher involvement and promotion of activities for youth.- Engage into intensive dissemination and exploitation activities of existing and newly produced products and attract more youth organisations and youth workers on using the new innovative tools and approaches, and thus increase quality and quantity of educational youth work activities.Partnership consortium was carefully built in order to use already existing excellent practices and expertise of involved partners for development of new educational activities and materials for the sector of youth work and youth organisations. Each of the partners has specific expertise which will be combined with expertise of other consortium members in order to produce new approaches and methods for combining online and offline educational activities; thus enriching the sector of youth work with new easily transferable skills and knowledge of youth workers. Intensive dissemination of the developed materials and involvement of youth workers across Europe (both EU and non-EU countries) is ensured through partners already established influence in the local communities and regions. YP DE will involve youth workers across Germany and neighbouring countries in the online and offline dissemination of developed materials and approaches. YP SE will involve youth workers across the Scandinavia, and IRCD and Realization will involve youth workers from Balkan region in dissemination and further use (and hopefully further development) of the materials. This transnational cooperation aims to contribute to the higher preparedness and skills of youth workers to respond to the current needs of the society while being able to actively engage young people.<< Implementation >>Main project activities can be categorised into following sections:-Transnational meetings (2 meetings; 1 preparatory and 1 evaluation meeting)-Development of educational materials and online learning courses (3 manuals and 3 online learning courses)-Educational trainings for youth workers, based on the developed educational materials (3 trainings throughout the project implementation)-Follow-up activities and piloting of developed materials in 4 countries / local communities where partner organisations are based-4 national conferences (Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Serbia) in format of 1 day multiplier events; for sharing developed materials and results of activities.Flow of the implementation of project activities, summarised list:-Signing contract of YP DE with German NA -Signing bilateral agreements between applicant and other partners -Preparatory meeting. Tools for administrative and financial, communication and time management monitoring will be agreed. Updating the calendar of the activities. Agreement on the next steps within the project. -Development of R1 -Implementation of LTTA1 -Development of R2 -Follow up activities to be implemented by participants of previous LTTA in their local communities, and by youth workers involved in development of R1-Development of R3-Implementation of LTTA2 -Development of R4-Follow up activities to be implemented by participants of previous LTTA in their local communities, and by youth workers involved in development of R3-Development of R5-Implementation of LTTA3-Development of R6-Follow up activities to be implemented by participants of previous LTTAs in their local communities, and by youth workers involved in development of R5. -National Multipliers events – 1 per partner organisation/country; 4 in total. -Final evaluation project meeting.-Reporting.<< Results >>Intellectual outputs/results: 1) Manual “How to design learning experience” is innovative resource which covers the topic of designing and developing learning experience in a way that is easy to understand and implement with different target groups and for different learning surroundings (online, offline and combined). Manual contains easy to follow steps in order to develop successful educational activity, with practical examples. Manual is primarily developed for youth workers who are directly involved in development and implementation of learning/education activities for youth. 2) Manual “Online and e-learning in youth work” is innovative manual for designing and developing online learning experience in a way that is easy to understand and implement with different target groups. Manual contains easy to follow steps in order to develop successful online/e-learning modules and courses, with practical examples. 3) Manual “Digital marketing and using digital tools in youth work” takes the approach of explaining general misconceptions when it comes to the digital marketing and later on offers theoretical and practical advices how to develop online campaigns and promote youth work activities in order to engage with higher numbers of potential users of the educational services which are offered as part of youth work. Online courses :Online learning courses will take the developed materials, adopt them for online surrounding (developing videos, interactions, games, quizzes) and offer them to wide public, thus reaching more participants due to higher online visibility. 4) Online learning course “How to design learning experience”, based on the same needs and has same goals as manual “How to design learning experience”. 5) Online learning course “Online and e-learning in youth work”, based on the same needs and has same goals as manual “Online and e-learning in youth work”. 6) Online learning course “Digital marketing and using digital tools in youth work”, based on the same needs and has same goals as manual “Online and e-learning in youth work”. All intellectual outputs will serve as quality improvement of knowledge management in youth (work) organisations, as they will allow for easy and quality multiplication of knowledge and practices described and for future education and empowerment of youth workers Intellectual outputs will be produced in English language, and manuals will be translated into Swedish, Croatian, German and Serbian languages; which will increase the user- friendliness of the results. In addition, when it comes to the results, these are some of the expected results with an overview in number of activities/participants/outputs: - Over 40 multipliers (youth workers, volunteers and management staff – 10 from each country) will be using our intellectual outputs in their youth work and testing their effectiveness locally both personal and on organisational level. - 75 youth trainers and coordinators, participants at the LTTAs will be directly empowered for developing quality education of other youth workers for improvement of educational activities and engagement in online educational surrounding. They will further (during and after the project) organise small multiplication trainings in their sending organisations, with each having at least 5-10 additional youth workers participating. This will result in around 300-350 youth work providers empowered and encouraged to use the developed intellectual outputs in their work. - Over 160 local multipliers introduced to the intellectual outputs during the 4 multipliers’ events in the 4 project countries. These multiplier events will be conferences inviting youth workers, youth organisations, youth clubs and key stakeholders in respective country to present project outcomes and engage them in discussion of the perspectives of youth work in the 21st century.

<< Objectives >>Through this project we will build the transnational and cross sectoral working capacities of NGO’s active in youth work in the field of employability, digital content technologies and practices and new learning approaches. We will contribute to the digitalization of the learning process by creating an e-learning platform and enable distance learning. By achieving the project goals, we will contribute to the achievement of the goals of the Erasmus + program.<< Implementation >>All activities we plan to carry out in accordance with non-formal working methods. In addition to transnational meetings, we plan to hold international training for youth workers, develop a new learning program, and digitize the entire process. Activities will be carried out in parallel in all countries involved in this project at the local and international level.<< Results >>The project plans to create a guidebook that would systematize in one place all the obstacles that exist in society and prevent young people from accessing the labor market. The guidebook would contain new methods and approaches for youth workers who work with young people with fewer opportunities. The project will create a digital platform that will enable distance learning for all stakeholders in the field of youth inclusion in the labor market.

This project focused on trying to bring added value to the entrepreneurship education and youth work for entrepreneurship. The project activities enhanced the existing youth work training models and curricula for entrepreneurship with the elements of EL for the new era entrepreneurship. The project has been designed to create a quality - innovative training model for entrepreneurship youth work, covering the existing need for modernisation of EL through youth work, as well as the needed learning tools to support a quality youth work.Project aimed to develop strategic tools and motivate/empower youth workers for enriching youth work activities with quality entrepreneurial education and learning, in order to address change in young mind-sets to inspire a new set of values inclined towards risk taking, venture creation and self-development for new era entrepreneurship.Participants of the project were: -8 staff / project managers and assistants; -12 teachers/trainers/researchers, youth workers and technicians working on the intellectual outputs;-86 participants of the multiplier events; -15 youth trainers - participants of the LTTA; -497 youngsters involved in the e-learning course so far.Project consisted of following activities:A1 – Project ManagementM1 – Kick-off meetingO1 – “Guidebook on Quality Entrepreneurial Learning through Youth Work”O2 – “Curriculum (Training toolkit) on Quality Entrepreneurial Learning through Youth Work for Youth organisations”O3 – “E-learning course Quality Entrepreneurial Learning”E1, E2, E3 – National Open conferences on Quality Entrepreneurial Learning through Youth Work, in Croatia, Sweden and GermanyC1 – LTTA - Training of trainers “Quality Entrepreneurial Learning through Youth Work”E4 – International Open conference on Quality Entrepreneurial Learning through Youth Work, in United KingdomM2 – Final project meetingResults envisioned and attained:-Over 40 multipliers (youth workers, volunteers and management staff – 10 from each partner organisation) using our intellectual outputs / the youth work materials in their work and testing their effectiveness locally both personal and on organisational level-Over 80 local multipliers trained in all 4 countries about the importance of youth work in promoting quality Entrepreneurial Learning in accordance with the new era entrepreneurship-Around 500 (young) people visiting the e-learning platform, using it, testing it and giving feedback about it to the organisers. -15 youth trainers/workers, participants at the LTTA, have been directly empowered for developing quality Entrepreneurial Learning youth work programmes. They have further organised small multiplication trainings in their sending organisations, with each having at least 7-10 additional youth workers/trainers/volunteers participating. This resulted in additional 34 youth work providers / youth trainers empowered and encouraged to use the developed intellectual outputs in their entrepreneurship youth work.The impact envisaged and attained is empowered and encouraged youth trainers and youth workers willing to work on the implementing the innovative entrepreneurial learning in NFE / youth work activities. The potential longer-term benefit is increase of youngsters becoming entrepreneurs and self-employed individuals thanks to the quality implementation of youth work entrepreneurial learning activities for new era entrepreneurship and up-to-date relevant employability skills of youngsters in communities.

"<< Objectives >>We shall strengthen NGO's for digital transformation of inclusive youth work by developing innovative digital solutions that are applicable at local, regional, national, European and international levels. By adopting innovative digital methods of learning, we want to increase the quality of youth work and encourage the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities. With disemination we want to reach a large number of actors and strengthen transnational and crosssectoral action.<< Implementation >>- Develop 4 strategies for the digital transformation of work with young people at the local level- Develop 5 inclusive nonformal training programs for youth workers, through the organization of innovative boot camps- Development of the Virtual Inclusive Center (EduLab, map of digital nomads youth workers, 5 e-learning systems, mobile application, Sharing is caring tool with categories ""green, digital and inclusive"" and Virtual study buddy)<< Results >>- Innovations to increase the quality of inclusive YW, applicable at the local (Strategy) and international level (nonformal inclusive programs, VIC) developed- Marginalized youth empowered to learn in a virtual environment- CSO's strengthened for the digitialization of YW- Transnational and intersectoral cooperation achieved- Contribution in the creation of solutions for the green transition in accordance with the European Green Plan realized."