“HEalth Practices for Own Self-Improvement” (HEPOSI) envisages a cooperation among NGOs from Europe and the Latin American region targeted at addressing the compelling challenge of promoting healthy physical activity and food consumption practices among young people through Non Formal Education (NFE) methods. The general goal achieved by HEPOSI project was to create generally applicable resources grounded on respective knowledge and understanding of the general topic. HEPOSI aims at devising a comprehensive approach grounded on Non Formal Education to empower youth organizations in Europe and Latin America to contrast low engagement in physical activity and improper food consumption habits as determinants of obesity and related health challenges among the European and Latin American youth. The WHO has placed health and physical activities among the crucial determinants of global health, underlining the role of insufficient levels of movement as one of the main factors enhancing death risk worldwide (see WHO Website). Physical activity has been proven to reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases as cancer and diabetes, enjoying therefore a crucial importance not only for the wellbeing of the individuals but also from the perspective of societal health. According to WHO data, more than 80% of the World’s population in insufficiently physically active. The combined effect of insufficient physical activities and improper food consumption patterns has been qualified as a challenge to global health by the WHO. Eurostat data (2014) outline an alarming picture regarding the diffusion of obesity (a critical risk for health and significantly connected with incorrect habits of physical activity and nutrition) among the European youth, with 22,8% of youngsters aged 18-24 overweight in EU 28. The FAO pointed out, in its 2016 Report “The Panorama of Food and Nutrition Security in Latin America and the Caribbean”, the correlation between the general decrease in malnutrition and hunger and the increase in overweight and obesity among the population of Latin America. The available data show that around 5 percent of the inhabitants of the region is either obese or overweight. At the same time, the Report highlights the disproportionate impact obesity/overweight is determining on women as compared with men. Female obesity is 10% higher than male obesity in 20 among Latin America and Caribbean countries.During HEPOSI lifetime has been: • Provided training opportunities for youth workers from Bulgaria, Italy, Paraguay and Peru through Training Course on education in healthy lifestyles, which involved youth operators from partner countries and implemented based on a Format TC jointly developed by the Consortium partners.• Youth exchange on healthy lifestyle for young people has been implemented with great feedback by all participants; • Local awareness-raising campaign on healthy lifestyle has been delivered in the partner countries;The experience has been documented in a “Healthy Sensitive Youth” Manual, outlining the methods employed throughout project learning activities as well as detailing a comprehensive outline of the project and of its achievements.Outputs of the project were:- Manual “Healthy Sensitive Youth”, is outlining the methods employed throughout project learning activities (TC and YE) as well as detailing a comprehensive outline of the project and of its achievements. - Web Platform in multiple languages (http://heposi.eu/). The Web Platform store the contents developed in the project, the details of activities (including the Social Campaign) and digital versions of the Outputs.

PROMETEUS principal aim is to exchange and improve youth working competences and good practices (in particular on international workcamp management) between Concordia France, Lunaria Italy, FPEC Ecuador and BVBP Peru through Mobility activities, youth workers and volunteer exchanges. The project methodology relies mainly on non-formal education, observation, experience sharing and learn by doing principles.PROMETEUS main objectives are:- Harmonize and improve youth work quality in workcamps management- Exchange competences and good practices in the consortium and beyond- Develop professional and personal competences of the participants- Empower local youngsters (in particular these with fewer opportunities)- Strengthen links and cooperation between European and Latin American youth organizations.In order to achieve these results, PROMETEUS is composed by the listed activities:- 2 weeks study visit in Ecuador and Peru- 4 European volunteers supporting the latin american organizations during 9 months- 1 international training course of 7 days in Ecuador on workcamps management- local trainings and workshops for the organization members and local youngsters- 12 Job shadowings mobilities during the international workcamp season- 5 days restitution seminar in France.

"Even though there are numerous European policies that tackle juvenile delinquency, there still is a lack of clear instruments and methodologies targeted specifically at young (ex)offenders & their reintegration. Research shows that re-integration to the society is very difficult for young (ex)offenders. The ""Second Chance"" project focuses on non-discrimination, which is the goal of European policies of Education & Youth. Partners from Lithuania, Vietnam, South Africa and Peru join the forces with an intention to exchange the good practices in young offenders' social integration field & diminish the society's stigma towards these people (since it also poses a barrier to the successful integration).Main AIM: help young people prevent from offending and improve youth work methods of crimes’ prevention and re-integration.OBJECTIVES to reach this aim:-develop YWs’ understanding of youth delinquency;-identify the most common crimes youth are committing in participants’ countries & find ways (NFE methods) to reduce them;-launch, test & develop a training programme on “the prevention of youth re-offending”;-equip YWs with knowledge, key competences & employable tools that would help prevent young offenders from reoffending;-foster capacity building and new social initiatives in the field of youth work related to tackling youth crime;-increase transnational cooperation & exchange of good practices between target groups on the issue;-spread project’s ideas to wider audiences.TARGET GROUPSYouth workers & young leaders who:- work with vulnerable groups (among them young offenders);- face social, economic, geographic or cultural obstacles INDIRECT TARGET GROUP- A wider audience of youth workers & young people;- Young offenders in the partner communities and beyond.ACTIVITIES-Research on youth crime & integration in partner countries;-3 short-term training courses in Vietnam, Peru and South Africa;-Job shadowing to exchange and implement different practices on (ex-)offenders' integration;-E-learning platform for youth workers willing to work with young (ex-)offenders;-""Social Shock"" contest & campaign to break stigmas towards (ex-)offenders;-Public photo exhibition ""On Goodness"" in Vilnius, Lithuania to change the opinion towards people in prison;-Local educational activities with youth at risk / young offenders;-Local and international conferences;-And others.All of this improves the capacity of youth workers to help young (ex)offenders and facilitate the integration processes of the latter."

“Growing in Insight-ability of Mobility” (GIM) is a capacity building project involving 4 partners from Romania, Italy, Argentina and Peru. The specific aim of GIM is to build competences of youth workers in order to empower inclusion, active participation and entrepreneurial skills of fewer opportunities youth, as well as youth who have minor disabilities, from South America and Europe, excluded on behalf of their impairment, social status, financial status or education.Our objectives are (1) fostering empowerment - active participation and sense of entrepreneurship of fewer opportunities youth and (2) promoting social inclusion of this target group aged 18 to 25 years old in their countries through developing comprehensive NFE educational methods and techniques by deploying a complementary set of knowledge, experience and specialised competences embedded in the different partner organisations and regional approaches. In the same time we are bridging involvement of successful entrepreneurs and youth/social workers and the target youth for inspiring entrepreneurial dialogue and action taking amongst NGOs and their beneficiaries. The applicant and Peruvian NGO will involve youth who have minor visual impairment. Youth unemployment: considering the statistics of Eurostat the rates of unemployment among youth in RO are 20,6% and in IT 37,8%. At the other end of the World Peru rates at 16,3% and Argentina 22,1% according to World Bank.Youth at risk of poverty and social exclusion: the situation of poverty among youth is critical around the World, and taking into account OECD report 2016 Argentina rates at 17% and Peru 20%, but the numbers can be higher due to relative statistical data from the authorities. In the European countries Eurostat measured in 2014 the risk at 44% in RO and 35,2% in Italy. Youth with any disability: according to WHO, over a billion people (15% of the World’s population) are estimated to live with some form of disability. According to Eurostat 2014 young people reporting a disability (aged 15-34) not in employment and not in any education rates, with longstanding health problem and basic activity disability RO 75%/ IT 48%, and limitation on the basic activity RO 62%/ IT 40%. According to the World Bank Report on Disabilities in the Latin American Continent in 2010, the percentage of people with disabilities is at 10% of the population across the continent. Our planned results after the implementation of this project are the following: Outputs:- Handbooks - Report on Entrepreneurship Best Practices- Web-platform- Video TutorialsActivities:- Seminar - Format Training Course - Youth Exchange - Job shadowing Methodologies applied to the overall project: - Non Formal Education - Coaching and motivation techniques - Entrepreneurial skills - Theatre methods and movement - Sport activities/body movement for developing motorial skills

“A Path to TranSportAction” (APTSA) is a project involving a total of 5 organizations from Europe (Croatia, Italy, Bulgaria) and Latin America (Brazil and Peru), whose main aim is to enhance the capacity of youth organizations and stakeholders in all partner countries and beyond to use Sport in combination with high-end Non Formal Education methodologies for fostering a gender-inclusive approach to Sport practices, contrasting sexism and gender stereotypes and promoting equality and mutual respect among genders in disadvantaged rural areas in Europe and in Latin America.Gender discrimination and inequality is a well known structural phenomenal of endemic proportion in both the European and the Latin American region. Across the different national and cultural realities composing the Consortium, the development of a concrete gender equality is impeded by persisting barriers and discrimination against young women. The aforementioned barriers are both of material nature (i.e. disadvantages in access to the labour market, lower wages as compared with male peers, lower presence of women among the higher tiers of the business and public sectors) as well as related to the social and existential spheres wherein the diffusion of a still considerable machist mentality determines more or less socially sanctioned forms of stereotyping and prejudice confining young women to established roles and conduits. The most extreme manifestations of such mentality lay at the root of widespread phenomena of verbal/psychological violence and, ultimately, physical aggression against women.The low levels of female participation in the Sport field are an important component of the wider dynamics of gender-based disadvantage. Indeed, the general prejudice considering Sport as an almost exclusive field of male engagement, coupled by the machist self-representations which permeate most Sport sub-culture, represent at the same time a telling effect and a critical self-perpetuating mechanism of gender stereotyping and discrimination. At the same time, Sport represents a powerful educational vehicle through which disadvantaged targets can acquire crucial soft skills, transversal skills and positive attitudes of self-confidence and active participation representing the key component of any grassroots process of empowerment. Through its inner dynamics of peer-interaction and fair competition among people with diverse backgrounds (cultural, ethnic, gender etc.), Sport provides also an invaluable experiential path to promote mutual respect and deconstruct prejudicesThe use of Sport in combination with Non Formal Education methodologies is a long-standing driver of NGO social action to promote empowerment and dialogue processes through a grassroots approach in a variety of contexts.