This project aims at disseminating awareness on the impacts of food choices which greatly affect the environment. This project is imparting knowledge among young people from the partner organizations in Germany, Poland, Kenya and Malawi. It is looking at every day’s food choices as having impacts on the environment yet among many, less attention is given to the growing problem. As the population of the world is growing, so is the demand for food forcing agricultural companies and individual farmers to produce enough through consistent monoculture and other practices that deplete the soil of its nutrients. As a result, the heavy use of pesticides and fertilizers which affect the environment is adopted. Nevertheless, the use of fertilizers only simplify the biochemistry of the soil making the produced food less nutritious. Moreover, plants cured with pesticides seldom yield their own phytochemicals and biologically active compounds that protect them from pests despite their benefit to humans. Large ruminant animals which also produce foods high on the food chain feed on plants grown under the use of fertilizers which finally causes both land and water pollution. Mostly, the land that these animals graze on is vast with great emissions from the converted forestland leading to methane production from their digestion and manure.As such, the partner organizations through this project aim at increasing awareness on food choices impacting the environment. The idea is to inspire stakeholders to better understand the multiple environmental consequences of their food production and choices. It is also about a holistic approach to sustaining the environment while preparing young people to make informed choices as they take active roles in their societies.Further, the project seeks to enhance awareness on food choices, positive behavior change and social mobilization in order to help set a positive view of daily environmental actions. It also wishes to increase youth exposure to various cultures, traditions and beliefs for transformed food choices through international youth exchange programs. This will advance participants' awareness and understanding of other cultures while simultaneously build networks of international contacts that will aid active participation in society and development of a sense of identity and citizenship among the youth. The project also desires to increase access to diversified food choices for enhance environmental rehabilitation through food selection, production and preparation while creating entrepreneurship skills.Finally, the partner organizations look forward to having responsible youth minding their daily food choices while protecting the environment. Although it is unrealistic to expect most of the world’s population to turn into vegetarians overnight, awareness of a positive environmental impact could help transform communities.

Realizing that there is a lack of methods in youth work who could facilitate refugee integration, organisations from Sweden, Kenya, Colombia and Myanmar (refugee origin or host countries) decided to join for the project “Migration to Integration” (MI) .The main AIM of the project: to improve youth work methods on young refugees’ integration and, accordingly, help them integrate.OBJECTIVES to reach it: 1. Raise the qualifications and competencies of youth workers by developing new methods for refugee integration through youth work;2. Exchange good practices between countries on alternative ways of integrating refugees within the local communities;3. Help youth learn how to communicate with refugees and integrate them better through social activities;4. Lower xenophobia, racism and foster multilingualism of the youth;5. Spread the main idea of the project to other NGOs and the general public;6. Foster capacity building and new social initiatives in the field of youth work related to refugees;7. Increase transnational cooperation & exchange of good practices on alternative ways of refugees integration.To achieve these OBJECTIVES, a capacity building programme, targeting youth workers from EU & Partner countries, will be developed, tested & launched. It will include: (1) Analysis of situation of refugee integration in partner countries and creation of a training material for youth workers to improve it;(2) 3 training courses for youth workers on integration of young refugees through youth work;3) 1 youth exchange to test the methods created during the above mentioned training courses;(4) 4 job shadowing activities in the above mentioned countries for youth workers to gain practical knowledge of how to improve inclusion of refugees;(3) Developing open educational resources (including an online platform and e-learning course on refugee integration through youth work), which would allow youth workers to access the educational content developed in the frame of the project at any time(4) Launch of online competition for youth to develop ideas on refugee integration and raise awareness about their situation; 5) Initiative “Friends without borders” to connect young refugees with local youngsters and facilitate refugee adaptation in a new country;(6) Final local conferences to share the results with target audiences in partner countries.All in all, this will surely improve the capacity of youth workers to help integration of refugees through youth work and create further initiatives related to that.

The objective of the project CYRCLE is to encourage cooperation between Europe, Latin America and Africa, promoting youth initiatives in the field of responsible tourism, through the implementation of circular economy principles in the craft sector, as a strategy for sustainable development and economic growth in vulnerable communities. CYRCLE project will incentive to youth-led responsible tourism initiatives in order to contribute to the maintenance and protection of the heritage, cultural and natural assets of the destinations, and allow the young people to contribute to the strengthening of the local economy, to create collaborations between the different parties involved of the local community which can become an alternative recipient of tourism. The project activities will be based on the identification and valorization of local community assets, especially in the field of handicraft, that could be used in order to achieve sustainable tourism that will benefit local communities. In order to promote this objective, CYRCLE project will organize some main activity clusters: a) research on the principles and best practices related with responsible tourism with local youth. This research will also include the identification of important local assets that could be valorized for a tourism related product in each of the local communities, the analysis of circular economy strategies which can be applied to the responsible tourism and the research about the local handicraft sector.b) the enhancement of skills and competencies of youth workers in the field of responsible tourism and youth entrepreneurship within the framework of three international Meetings in Italy, Mexico and Kenya. c) the creation of networks and information for entrepreneurial training, and responsible tourism offer through the youth-led initiatives. It will include the development of material for an eLearning course offered for youth and the creation of innovative CYRCLE platform for the circulation of best-practices, studies, responsible and alternative tourism offers, sharing of experience, circulation of human resources for the local promotion.It is expected that more than 100 youth workers (also with fewer opportunities) from all the partner countries will be involved in the activities both through the participation in the transnational events and the participation in the e-learning course. The project is going to be implemented by a consortium that includes 5 partners from 2 EU (Italy, Greece), 1 Africa (Kenya) and 1 Latin American (Mexico). The project consortium includes NGOs, SMEs, and foundations which have diverse and complementary skills.

THE PROJECTInnovative Coaching makes the Difference takes shape within a difficult economic climate of stagnated growth that affects global employment prospects. Due to recent global gloomy economic climate and job scarcity, young people are the hardest hit with unemployment in comparison with adults. For these reasons, the project tries to compensate this inequality of opportunities through capacity building by means of youth work and youth empowerment, by develop youth workers’ coaching competences through the use of traditional games collected from all project’s countries as non-formal education tools.AIMSThe project seeks to boost the quality of youth work as a constructive response to youth integration, and participation in the labor market, as well as positive identity consolidation by means of personal guidance and work-orientation in order to help young NEETs reach their full potential and successfully enter the labor market in their countries.MAIN ACTIVITIESThe above aim shall be reached through the development of an innovative coaching methods designed with traditional games (Coaching Manual), together with a Competence-mapping tool to provide the base for coaching interventions.The project cycle will include:- Kick-off meeting - Training Course- Testing Workshops- Job Shadowing- Local Seminars- Final ConferencePARTNERSHIPThe Innovative Coaching makes the Differecence consortium brings together 6 partners:3 European countries (Macedonia, Italy, and Bulgaria) and 3 Partner Countries (Kenya, India and Vietnam). The project will be coordinated by EUROPEAN CULTURAL EPICENTER Bitola.IMPACTThe most relevant is the impact on the beneficiaries themselves:- Their transversal skills – specifically coaching and career counselling skills will be improved;- Their information and knowledge on career guidance, job market demand and opportunities will be extended;- Their awareness about the flexibility and versatility of NFL will be improved.Participant organizations will develope their capacity on implementing training programs with youth in rural context using the specific tool of coaching through traditional games as well as important issues such as project implementation, international cooperation, and strategic development.On the whole, we estimate that about 800 young people will directly benefit from the project.

GLOBALAB IN Action! is the follow-up project on 2 previous initiatives with the same title involving 7 partners from Europe and Africa: Lithuania, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. It aims to foster quality improvements in youth work in order to broaden active participation of young people in project partner countries and empower them to take action towards meeting the targets of the SDG agenda.The objectives of the project:1. Strengthen North-South cooperation and create conditions for cooperation and exchange of good practices as well as bringing a global perspective into youth work activities in partner countries;2. Build the capacity of youth workers so that they are able to become the supporters of young people in the action process;3. Transfer and pilot good practices of youth empowerment and the development and implementation of actions and campaigns related to SDGs.The project will directly target 70 youth workers and 175 young people in partner countries and engage them in a set of activities that will help strengthening their role in meeting the target of the SDG agenda. The following activities will be implemented:- Kick-off partner meeting;- International seminar for sharing core principles, strategies, tools and techniques for the development and implementation of quality actions and campaigns that tackle the issues related to the SDG agenda;- International training course for developing the competencies of youth workers in applying different tools and techniques for empowering young people and engaging them into action and/or campaign;- A set of job shadowing activities of the youth workers during which they will have the possibility to test different tools and techniques for the development and implementation of the actions together with young people at the local level;- development of a publication that will summarise and present principles, tools, strategies and techniques of how to mobilize young people and engage them in action/campaigning towards the SDGs;- Local actions where young people in all partner countries will participate in a process of initiating, planning and implementing actions/campaigns related to SDGs at local level;- Youth exchange which will be meant for building the common understanding on global issues and the fundamental values of global citizenship and sharing the outcomes of the local actions implemented by the youngsters. The project will provide the opportunities for youth workers to gain new experience, strengthen their professional competences and commitment towards making young people active contributors to the SDG agenda. Moreover, the project will allow the youngsters in all partner countries to find their own active role in the global society and stimulate their behavioral change.