Erasmus+ project Interception is about strengthening social inclusion through inclusive entrepreneurship. Social excluded youth is under-represented or disadvantaged in entrepreneurship. Increasing entrepreneurship among them, as well as improving the quality of their business start-ups, represents an opportunity to increase their social inclusion. Social excluded youth typically face greater barriers to business creation than the mainstream population. Challenges include a lack of entrepreneurship skills, difficulty in accessing finance for business start-up, difficulties navigating the regulatory framework, a fear of failure and a lack of confidence. The objective of inclusive entrepreneurship is to ensure that all young people have an opportunity to start up and operate in business or self-employment, regardless of their personal characteristics and background.Project Interception encourages inclusive entrepreneurship to give young people an opportunity to be successful in business creation and self-employment. Project wants to give to social excluded youth opportunity that they would believe that also their visions and ideas can be successful and also that those youngsters at least try to be entrepreneur if they have a drive, energy and idea that could be successful. Name of the project Interception is chosen because by the Cambridge dictionary the meaning is “the action of stopping and catching something or someone before that thing or person is able to reach a particular place”. With this project we want to stop youth to reach a point of social exclusion. At the same time the word “Interception” contains two words “Inception” and “ter”. The basis of this project was the project Inception. Meaning of the word “ter“ means “three”. Three symbolically stands for 3 EU countries and 3 non-EU countries in the project as well as connection 3 continents together – Europe, Asia and Australia.

"Mapping professional open youth work (in Europe)The project created a strategic partnership for working on underlying principles and concrete tools for mapping professional open youth work in Europe as of today. It gathered ten partners from nine different countries coming from diverse backgrounds - we managed to have partners from the non-formal and the formal education sector as well as grass root youth work and umbrella organisations. It gave this part of youth work the room for professional debate on the core profile of their work as well as some tools for online discussion and showcasing of professional open youth work. It therefore had two pillars that were closely linked to each other:1) Debate and Description of „Principles of Professional Open Youth Work in Europe“The partnership engaged in a very serious discussion about a common defintion and underlying principles of professional open youth work and worked on a document that would respect the various national and background realities and create a clearer profile of this profession in Europe. The result of this process is a ""Declaration of Principles"" which was published and disseminated in September 2016. Read more about the process and the result here: http://magazine.poywe.org/magazine/logbook-issue-3/mapping-a-profession/2) Online platform for debate, capacity building and dissemination of knowledge about professional open youth work in Europe consisting of:The LOGBOOK Platform that was created within this project aims on the one hand to enable exchange of experience and good practice and on the other hand on show casing what Professional Open Youth Work is and what effects it has in Europe today. For achieving this aim it features several things:a) The LOGBOOK E-Magazine was created and three editions were published during the project duration. It features descriptions of the state of the art of youth work in all participating countries, one hot topic per issue (1. radicalisation of young people and the role of open youth work, 2. professional open youth work and young refugees and 3. youth work as a profession), news and information about training, methods and interviews with young people and youth workers.b) A video channel with short videos that explain professional open youth work from different angles - currently there is 19 interviews with youth workers and experts from 12 countries.c) Debate and exchange of experience - to widen the debate we have also created a space for webinars, where we have discussed the final version of our declaration of principles with interested participants.Apart from this concrete results the project helped to build a stronger network of professional open youth work in Europe that is going to be active and in touch also after the end of this partnership. Several participants of the closing event announced that they will translate the ""Declaration of Principiles in their own languages for making it even more accesible for youth workers in their own country. The LOGBOOK Platform will stay and POYWE plans to keep publishing the E-Magazine, continue uploading video interviews that show what professional open youth work is doing and provide webinars for youth workers."

"Project ""Empowering Youth Participation"" is KA2 strategic partnership which creates opportunities to exchange good practices in the field of youth participation. The project will start on the 1st of July, 2020 and will last for 7 months. The project will be implemented by partners from Norway, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Poland.This project will provide access to quality youth policy implementation methodologies and approaches from Lithuania. Lithuania, in less than three decades of independence, has developed a lot of good practices in the field of civic participation and citizen engagement. The well-developed (and institutionalized in the laws and strategies) youth participation structures and work of the government and NGO's n the field of youth participation makes Lithuania a good example to learn from.Aim of the project: Share the Lithuanian youth policy implementation model at the international level, as the European success story of efficient youth participation.Objectives of the project:1. Introduce participants with Lithuanian systemic approach towards youth participation.2. Analyze challenges and barriers for youth participation in 6 project countries and develop strategies on how to overcome them.3. Understand Lithuanian local and national level youth participation and co-management structures.4. Develop plans on how to empower young people to participate in various fields of the society.5. Create opportunities for young people to participate by using the cross-sectoral approach, evidence-based policy-making and using means of advocacy.Activities of the project:We plan to implement 2 educational activities in the framework of the project. Firstly, a 5 day Study visit ""Youth participation structures in Lithuania"" which will gather 28 participants from 6 project countries. Secondly, a Training course ""Youth participation: policy-making, advocacy and research"". It will be a 6-day training course providing civil servants, youth workers, young politicians, and youth leaders competencies needed to foster youth participation at the local level.The project will create the following results:56 youth workers, civil servants, young politicians and youth leaders will be trained in the frame of this project. After the study visit and the training course, they will be able to foster youth participation by institutionalizing best practices from Lithuania and other partner countries.Best practices on youth participation from Lithuania and other project countries will be described and disseminated among partner network and their local and international networks.Recommendations for using good practices in youth participation will be developed by the project consortium."

ABOUT THE PROJECTThe main aim of the project is to build the capacity of national, regional and local youth councils through developing innovative and collaborative practices between youth organization, young people and decision-making bodies.Specifically, these activities will be based on insights collection methodologies and evidence-based approaches for the policy-making processes.THE OBJECTIVES Specifically, these activities will be based on insights collection methodologies and evidence-based approaches for the policymaking processes.1.To train and prepare local, regional and national youth councils participants from each country involved through the mobility and capacity building project activities in insights collection capacity building.2.To collect valuable insights from youth by researching on representative samples through surveys, data collection and other consultation tools to get to know the real and actual youth needs and issues.3.To develop evidence-based recommendations and to present them to decision-makers through a capacity building seminar and local conferences involving representatives of: youth ministries, youth councils, youth workers, youth research, youth organizations and young people from all backgrounds to facilitate the dialogue with decision-makers.4.To create global and local reports and design know-how toolkits and guides to be presented in the last large-scale youth event to ensure knowledge durability and enable youth councils to run continuously structured dialogues by the end of the project.When it comes to the project activities, the project was implemented at 2 levels, at the international level and national level.1.1.1.1 Training Course in ArmeniaIt was a learning space where participants go beyond and deeper in the topic of structured dialogue, length of the event was hosted by Armenian Progressive Youth, where the EaP countries participated with the objective to align all the participants on the same concept and to prepare them uniformly for the methodology in evidence-based methodology. 1.1.2.1 Fellowship on youth participation in SloveniaFellowship on youth participation was a capacity building activity where we bring together EaP issues and EU expertise. The activity was hosted by the National Youth Council of Slovenia which helped us to develop better approaches and innovative initiatives to communicate with decision makers more effectively. 2.1.1.1 Training course on Insights Collection in LithuaniaThis training course hosted by the Institute for Policy and Research of Lithuania during 10 days, and brought the breakdown of the evidence-based methodology through applicable and reliable tools, knowledge on how to collect the insights and bring representative samples to it.2.1.2.1 Insights Collection LocallyThis particular activity aims to participant countries to execute the insights collection applying the previous agreements and methodology developed in previous activities.2.2.1.1 Seminar on recommendations in RomanianDissemination process where the insights collected brought together to analyse the possible recommendations in a based-evidence frame, taking good case practices from countries that already worked with these characteristics. 3.1.1.1 National EventsIn the local activities each project partner had implemented its own thematic activities taking in consideration their national needs and priorities. 3.2.1.1 Reports gathering from partner organizationsNational reports collection and creation of comparable global report, etc.3.2.1.2 Working group on guide developmentWorking group on the evidence-based recommendation developed by all the participants of the project. 3.2.2.1 Closing conference with global and local reports presentation.

"Project ""From North to South: exchange of Good Practices in Youth Work"" is KA2 exchange of good practice strategic partnership project. This project will last for 7 months and will enable partners Italy, Spain, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia to share good practices in the field of youth work.Aim of the project is:To share Northern and Southern best practices in the field of youth work and provide youth worker with competencies needed for daily youth work.Objectives:1 To show unique features of Northern youth work traditions;2 To share best practices of youth work applied to unprivileged youth (NEETs, ROMA, refugees, young offenders);3 To share the Don Bosco experience and its Preventive System;4 To develop participants competencies based on Lithuanian youth worker certification system;5 Develop an understanding of quality youth work integral with European youth work values (diversity, rule of law, democracy, tolerance and other);6 To create youth work support system for quality international youth work in the partner countries;7 To create space for the cooperation of participants and ensure the quality of future Erasmus + projects;Activities of the project:We plan to implement 2 educational activities in the framework of the project. Firstly, a 5 day Study visit in Italy ""Study visit: youth work in Italy starting from Don Bosco"" which will gather 23 participants from 5 project countries. Secondly, a Training course ""Grass-roots youth work - training on competencies of youth work, forms and methodologies of youth work"" in Lithuania. It will be a 7-day training course providing youth workers, youth leaders and civil servant competencies needed for daily youth work activities."