<< Objectives >>To help young refugees regain a sense of routine, security, resilience and friendship after displacement, youth workers from Progress Center, Laja & Permacultura aim at reaching the following project objectives:Objective 1: To CONNECT youth workers and youngsters to innovative tools for their well-being and mental health.Objective 2: To ENGAGE youth workers and youngsters in building resilience together.Objective 3: To EMPOWER youth refugee communities in working for building resilience.<< Implementation >>Participatory Visits in EE, PL and an online workshop to share tools & techniques concerning the core elements of our REBREATHE Framework. -Interactive book creation to transfer the new REBREATHE Framework-Course in Spain to implement and test the REBREATHE Framework to youth workers & young learners-REBREATHE Community to work on building resilience -Dissemination Campaign to share the project results (Conferences, Consultation Period, Internal Workshops, etc.) & reach more people.<< Results >>Forced migration is the beginning of the challenges refugees confront when adjusting to a new country & culture. These challenges have a more long-lasting impact on the mental health of many young refugees. Therefore, we expect youth refugee communities to use the REBREATHE Framework to learn new tools for recovering from traumatic events.This community will enable them to receive emotional support, become more resilient & use their skills and potential to fully integrate into the new country.

The project StartUpcycling responds to two major concerns not only present in many European countries but in countries all over the world: waste and youth unemployment. Its approach is to do research on upcycling measures in the world and give youth access to business opportunities in the field of waste reduction. The project is including a research phase, a training on waste reduction/management, an exchange about innovative measures of upcycling, a development of an eLearning course and a creation of a global network that can offer entrepreneurial support. StartUpcycling lays a special focus on learning from other countries about different waste challenges and on finding out how upcycling could offer a new solution to foster sustainable living and employment opportunities. The results of the global research exchange and the created network of entrepreneurial ideas will be meaningful for many countries in the world dealing with youth unemployment and waste. Therefore, the participants will produce an eBook with the most essential information about waste management and new upcycling ideas. The eBook as well as the newly developed homepage with educational input will be publicly accessible. Furthermore, the development of an eLearning course by the end of the project will enable people from all over the world to gain entrepreneurial skills for sustainable startups. In order to ensure a broad awareness on the topic, all partners will incorporate the methods and approaches derived from the best practice exchange and disseminate the results through their various channels. Furthermore, a social media campaign will raise awareness on new upcycling ideas as well as on business opportunities. Since the partner organizations work directly with disadvantaged youth, the project has high potential to reach many young people who can benefit from the new network and business opportunities. Partners are organizations committed to social impact and youth empowerment from seven different countries (BR, IN, ZA, PL, IT, EL, DE). From each partner, three youth workers and/or ecological educators will participate and get the chance to gain new intercultural competences. They will collaborate nationally in their teams, internationally in the online network and in three international meetings. The meetings are composed of networking opportunities, educational trainings, onsite visits, best practice exchange and the development of intellectual outputs. Throughout the project, the participants will elaborate a global network of upcycling experts and contacts for startup support. Measurable indicators will be:- web-based resource for youth workers- eBook- eLearning course- information material for stakeholders and press/media- social media campaign

<< Background >>Mental health problems affect some 84 million people across the EU (over 1/3 of people in most countries). They can have a wide-ranging devastating effects on people’s lives, even leading to suicide (1 every 40 seconds, globally).Young people, women & disadvantaged groups are considered to be most at risk.The Health at a Glance Europe 2020 report noted that COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent economic crisis have exacerbated the burden of mental ill-health, as habits significantly worsened: social distancing, confinement conditions, lack of physical activities, etc.WHO states that 3 out of 4 people suffering from major depression do not receive adequate treatment and total costs of mental illness treatments are estimated at over 600 billion € in the EU.Mental health awareness is increasing around the world and especially in Europe. Our partnership would like to help prevent this burden and build a solid emotional base for young people.Regarding the needs that we plan to address, we detected in a focus group research, among others, the following needs:PARTNERSHIP:-Need to acquire innovative abilities and resources, and have better trained staff, to care and improve the mental and emotional health of youngsters in the region.-Need to boost awareness raising tools and methods, to foster mental and emotional health care.LAJA:-Need to learn basic tools to support youth’s emotional management.PASOS:-Need to learn the emotional needs and peculiarities of groups of youngsters that suffer different social oppressions.FoK:-Need to learn basic tools and information on how to support youth’s emotional management.YOUTH WORKERS:-Need to increase resources to support youngsters to have better mental health.-Need to improve mechanisms to achieve a better youth’s social inclusion, especially of disadvantaged young groups.YOUTH WORKERS AND YOUNG PEOPLE:-Need to distinguish different kinds of emotions and have practical resources on how to deal with them correctly.-Need to learn tools to handle emotions in everyday life situations (at home, at educational centers, at work, with friends, etc).<< Objectives >>This Partnership for Cooperation for Youth decided to implement this project, in order to achieve the following Project Objectives (PO):-PO1. Improve youth's learning quality, inclusion and wellbeing by including Emotional Management tools in the training process.To achieve this objective, we will carry out 1 training course in Spain.-PO2. Increase involved entities’ knowledge about the Emotional Management work with specific disadvantaged target groups.To achieve this objective, we will carry out 2 participatory visits, one in Hungary and one in Poland.-PO3. Provide basic non-formal education tools on Emotional Management to youngsters and youth workers through the Online Platform.The Online Platform will compile information gathered during the 3 learning activities to create relevant new material. It will include practical exercises.-PO4 Raising awareness of the importance of Emotional Management and contributing to a high quality non-formal youth education, especially targeting its decision makers.-PO5. Supply other European youth workers and youngsters with new, enriched Emotional Management approaches and techniques.To reach this objective, we will carry out a strong dissemination campaign.<< Implementation >>For this project, we have planned 3 Transnational Meetings that will last 2 days each.They will be attended by 2 youth worker Coordinators from each involved entity (a project and a dissemination coordinator), as they play an important role for the correct implementation of the project, as well as for elevating the project’s impact.Three Learning Teaching Training activities are also planned for the correct accomplishment of the Project Objectives:1- An 8-day training course in Spain about Youth’s Emotional Management.The activity’s objective is to transfer the EM tools and approaches to the youth workers and young participants from LAJA, FoK & PASOS. Each involved organization will send 10 participants (2 Online Platform Developers, 4 youth workers and 4 young people).2- Participatory visit in Hungary:The objective of this visit is to provide training on how to adapt and apply the Emotional Management tools and practices to FoK´s target group: young women (who suffer gender discrimination).The organization findings and conclusions will be included in the Online Platform. For this reason, this visit will be attended by the Online Platform developers (2 per entity).3- Participatory visit in Poland:The objective of this visit is to provide training on how to adapt and apply the Emotional Management tools and practices to LAJA´s target group: young people with migrant and intercultural backgrounds.The organization findings and conclusions will be included in the Online Platform. For this reason, this visit will be attended by the Online Platform developers (2 per entity).In the three Learning Teaching Training activities we will invite associated partners from each country, who carry out initiatives in the youth field, to participate in round tables. They will also help with the dissemination of the project.As hosting organizations, each partner will be in charge of the organization of the Learning Teaching Training activity, including all the preparatory activities.In the three Learning Teaching Training activities we will use alternative learning methods, based on non-formal education tools and resources.Finally, we will create an Online Platform that will compile information gathered during the 3 training activities. It will adopt a focus on the disadvantaged groups emotional management and explain key emotional management tools and exercises.<< Results >>To reach the project’s objectives, we set some their specific Goals and expected Results:-We will carry out training activities on techniques and approaches to foster youth’s emotional management.-We will carry out training activities on techniques and approaches to foster disadvantaged youngsters’ Emotional Management.-We will combine the knowledge acquired during the training activities to create relevant new material for the Emotional Management of disadvantaged youth and women, in an Online Platform.-We will consolidate the new knowledge and skills acquired by young participants by applying them, while working with the entities’ beneficiaries and communities.-We will carry out internal workshops to further transfer the new methodology to the rest of the staff, young people and decision makers.-We will carry out a strong dissemination campaign at local/regional/national and international levels and multiplier events to promote the Online Platform.Other various outcomes of the project will impact on the:PARTNERSHIP:-increased staff’s lifelong learning capacities, skills, knowledge and motivation,-reinforced knowledge to help local young people to properly manage their emotions,LAJA-has and implements basic and new knowledge about Emotional Management for youth,PASOS-has and implements new and specific skills for the Emotional Management of young groups suffering different social oppressions,FoK:-has and implements basic and new knowledge about Emotional Management for youth,YOUTH WORKERS:-increased tools and knowledge to improve young people’s mental health, academic-professional paths and life quality,-improved ability to facilitate inclusion processes, especially for disadvantaged youth.YOUTH WORKERS AND YOUNG PEOPLE:-acquired Knowledge about emotional discharge mechanisms and how to manage them, in a healthy way,-have new Emotional Management resources and tools for everyday life situations (family, friends, studies, self-knowledge).

Project supported exchange of good practice between participating cities and search for new ways of work with youth among cities Karviná, Český Těšín, Cieszyn and Jastrzębie-Zdrój. We developed cooperation between youth councils in Poland and Czech republic and foster of the local and regional identity of the young generation through their involvement in youth initiatives and participatory non-formal educational activitiesThe aim of the project to create innovative system of support youth in the cities recognized by local authorities, youth workers and youth was full filled. In the same moment we wanted to generate youth policy strategies and tools that serve young people to use their creativity and talents to achieve their goals and dreams in the Silesia.Project ACTIVITIES:Dialogs and meetings with expertsYouth CampSystem for support youth work and youth innitiativesMeeting youth and local authoritiesOrganizations involved: Petrklíč help, Fundacja Laja and 4 cities - Karviná, Český Těšín, Cieszyn and Jastrzębie-ZdrójTarget Participants: city representative, city councilman, city clerk, Youth, Youth workers, Youth leaders, local leadersNumber of Participants: 100 youth, 40 citi representatives, 25 Youth workersDate and venue: 365 dní (29.9.2015 - 30.9.2017)Methodology: non-formal education, practical workshops, practical expirience, structured dialogue.

<< Objectives >>1) The emergence of an innovative tool for effective and attractive training of police officers in the field of communication with members of national minorities2) Creation of characters in the VR environment, so-called avatars representing members of minorities3) Modernization of police training - virtual reality education4) Training of the Police of the Czech Republic - development of social and intercultural competencies of police officer<< Implementation >>1) Selection of avatars who will represent members of minorities2) Technology development3 The emergence of study materials4) Pilot verification of an innovative tool and study materials for effective and attractive training of police officers<< Results >>1) The emergence of an innovative tool and study materials for effective and attractive training of police officers2) Educational video from the training, which will be used for further education of the police