The project ‘Increasing Quality of Activities Targeting Rural Youth’ involved youth organizations representing Serbia ‘Youth workers alliance Vranje’, North Macedonia ‘NGO Next Generation’, Kosovo ‘NGO OAPA’, Greece ‘ICSD’, Denmark ‘DRAFT Copenhagen’ and Montenegro ‘Mladiinfo Montenegro’. Main goal of the project was to contribute to activating of young people (in age 16 - 30) coming from rural areas, from small cities, villages in participant’s countries. Moreover, through series of mobility, capacity building and dissemination activities the consortium aimed to develop capacities of participants of the activities to respond on the needs and interests of young people in rural areas and to develop their potential through quality activities; to support sharing approaches methods and tools between the countries; to increase participation of young people coming from small cities, villages and remote areas in local, regional, national projects leading to their personal and professional development; to increase involvement of young people coming from small cities, villages and remote areas in decision making process in their communities and countries especially through capacity building activities and to support developing new international projects focus on rural youth. During the project time the participants representing involved organizations had the opportunity to take part in kick off meeting, training course, seminar and study visit. Young people from participating communities had also chance to explore realities of other participating countries by taking part in youth exchange. In way to strengthen the impact of the project the partners also realized series of capacity building and dissemination activities at local level. Besides increased competences of directly involved participants of mobility and capacity building activities, developed capacities of involved organizations in the area of working with rural youth the project enable the organizations to share their practices and experiences, develop new project ideas and moreover to create new partnerships at local level. Key project results are available at the project website, one of the project results: http://ruralrules.online/. The project results includes set of recommendations aiming to provide rural youth new opportunities and to increase their living conditions and project booklet capturing the key lessons learned from the project activities.

Main goal of the project ‘Advocacy for Human Rights: Share to Change’ was to increase competencies of the partners to create and to run effective campaigns and to raise awareness on actual human rights in their communities. The project goal was planned to be meet by reaching following project aims: to develop participants competencies in the field of campaigning for human rights; to equip participants by competencies to effectively use social media tools to run successful campaigns making the difference; to design and realize two mobility activities with aim to raise competencies of youth workers and leaders in the field of human rights campaigning; to create and deliver human rights campaigns targeting young people in the participant’s communities; to support cooperation between Programme and Partner countries of the Western Balkan and to provide the participants an opportunity to increase their knowledge of Erasmus + Programme and work on new projects ideas aiming to develop competencies of other stakeholders in the area of human rights.The project objectives were reached through implementation of mobility and capacity building activities, sharing lessons learned with the actors interested in the advocacy in the field of human rights and raising awareness of local communities on human rights issues. In case of mobility activities the project included one training course and one seminar. Overall, 75 youth workers representing involved countries Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, Estonia, Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey increased their competences in the field of advocacy for human rights. In case of capacity building activities we implemented local activities in forms of campaigns addressing actual issues in participating communities. Moreover, the project resulted in new project proposal prepared with aim to continue the cooperation in the field of human rights and booklet of good practices available for download on the webpage of the project: http://sharetochange.info/

The project ‘Gender Through the Screen’ was implemented by ‘Organization for the Advancement of Alternative Programs’, Kosovo in cooperation with ‘Youth Council Next Generation’, Republic of Macedonia, ‘Youth4Society’, Albania, ’Youth Workers Alliance’ Serbia, ‘Juventas’, Montenegro, ‘ADEL’, Slovakia, ‘Continuous Action’, Estonia and ‘Európai Hallgatók Hálózatának Egyesülete’, Hungary.The 12-months project ‘Gender Through the Screen’ was created with main aim to advocate and report gender issues in the media, while raising awareness of the public on the importance of gender roles as seen and portrayed in the mass media. The capacity of youth organizations was developed through kick off meeting, training courses, youth exchange and seminar implemented in participating countries. Our first activity of this project - kickoff meeting - gave the partners an opportunity to review their roles and update the project plan. Training course based on using non-formal learning method and techniques trained youth workers, staff and activists of partner organisations on how to ethically analyse, and report gender issues in media through promotion of gender equality as a fundamental human right. On Youth exchange the consortium raised the awareness of young people coming from partners countries about gender issues as screened in the media and encourage them to act as advocates of equality while using the various media channels. Fourth activity was a seminar with aim to foster active involvement of youth workers to address gender equality in media, and as a result we created handbook.Besides increased capacities of the participants and partner organizations to ethically analyses, report and advocate gender equality in media, key impact of the project ‘Gender Through the Screen’ is strengthen competencies of the partners to transfer new gained knowledge through their networks e.g. by spreading one of the key results of the project, Handbook - about ethical media conduct in youth work in relating to gender equality’.1. Realized one international meeting, one international training courses, one youth exchange and seminar based on non-formal education and learning by doing approach.;2. Strengthened capacities of 8 organizations and 50 youth workers to effectively use and ethically report gender issues in media.3. Trained 24 youth workers/staff/activists on how to ethically report gender issues in media through promotion of gender equality as a fundamental human right.4. Brought together 32 young people and 8 group leaders to discuss gender issues as portrayed in the media and encourage them to act as advocates of equality while using the various media channels. 5. Gathered together 24 youth workers, ngo activists in a seminar and addressed gender issues and gender equality to media, where they created a handbook about ethical media conduct in youth work in relating to gender equality. 6. Created online web page working as small online platform/resource centre with materials, interviews, videos, pictures reports and materials for gender equality: http://gtts.ka2project.net ;7. Raised knowledge of 8 organizations and participants of international and local activities on Erasmus + Programme and developed 4 project ideas for future international projects;8. Handbook including description of learning activities and articles, published online on SALTO youth website, EU dissemination platform, project web site and printed out, link to the booklet: https://www.salto-youth.net/downloads/toolbox_tool_download-file-1953/Gender_Throughthe_Screen.pdf

Project entitle ‘Stand Up for Human Rights: From Knowledge to Advocacy’ is capacity building activity consisting from two mobility activities: two training courses. The project aims in overall is to develop competencies of the participants and their organizations to raise awareness on human rights, advocate for human rights and contribute to creating social inclusive society where human rights are being respected by various stakeholders. One of the aim of the project is raising competencies of the participants to use online learning, digital tools and visualization for developing competencies and raising awareness on human rights issues thus part of the activities is also based on methodology based on active using digital tools and visualization to create as many possibilities as possible to strengthen participants interests in these tools. Moreover, the project also aims to provide the participants an opportunity to experience way of creating online learning programs and will include elements of online learning that will be implemented during both training courses. Project activities have been implemented in cooperation of 12 partners coming from Programme and Partner countries (Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Turkey). Mobility activities have been implemented by the applicant of the project 'Organization for the Advancement of Alternative Programs' from Kosovo in Pristina (A1) and Prizren (A2).The project had strong impact on various levels. The impact was reached especially launching public raising awareness campaign across participants countries. Making a FB Page, and Youtube channel, as well as creating a web page (http://ka2standup4hr.online/) acting as a small resource portal for youth for Human Rights.