“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.

Lack of education in NGO sphere and lack of awareness how the work in non-governmental organizations were the prefects to start the Academy of Youth Worker. Academy of Youth Worker was a project for youth workers, youth leaders who want to increase their ability to work with youth i ngo environment. We engaged youth leaders from organizational surroundings aged mostly 18-30. They increased their ability to establish an youth NGO and hel youth to develop it.Thanks to participation in the project they:• developed their entrepreneurship within NGO field• received experience and knowledge about working with youth• gained knowledge about NGO and running NGO• are more socially active elaborated 2 outputs - a comprehensive program of youth workers training with 13 scenarios including sof skills working with youth and practical ones about establishing youth organization; and a handbook - how to establish an NGO in each of partners' countries. All materials are available on project web page - youth academy.net, on Erasmus+ platform and on our webpage in English.Our partnership was composed of Poland, Spain, Bulgaria and Macedonia.

Between youth work and grassroots sport there is a great potential of exchanging practices and synergies in order to involve young people in youth communities and provide experience in developing citizenship skills. The project is aiming to create a structured way of sharing and collecting good practices both in grassroots sport (including school sport) and youth work and make a collection of inclusive practices using sport and physical education that provide learning for inclusion and citizenship. Four organisations (Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy) joined their resources and experience to promote and develop the role of sport in empowering citizenship skills of young people to build more inclusive and democratic communities, by sharing and disseminating the practices of using sport and physical education as a tool for inclusion. The project will mobilize and motivate hundreds practitioners form the fields of sport, education and youth work and will involve 24 practitioners to exchange practices, will collect and document 24 practices of how to use sport and physical activities to improve inclusion of discriminated young people in schools, grassroots sport teams and in youth communities. Four partners and their associated partners - from fields of sport, formal education and youth work - will work together closely throughout this project, through meetings and exchange of practices where new professional relationship and partnership can develop. Four national consultation meeting will strengthen the cooperation among the associated partners on the basis of discussing the developing the role of sport in inclusion. It will create a focus on this issue and the people coming from the three sectors can learn a lot from each other. The four national and one international Toolfair event will provide space for sharing and exchanging these practices among successful practitioners using sport and physical activities for developing skills and competence of young people in creating an inclusive community.An online tool will be created to collect and disseminate these practices, theory and methodology within the partner organisations and make them available in all the participating countries for a wider public of all three domains (online collection of practices and methods). The online tool will be a reference of resources and cooperation for sport, education and youth work with the focus of inclusion of discriminated young people.Furthermore the project would like to provide recommendations to national sport policy administration, European Commission and also to the Council of Europe to show and develop the potential role of sport communities in improving inclusion and combat discrimination. We would like to document new ideas, needs and proposals that could be relevant for policy makers in the field of sport, education and youth work and advocate for widely use the potentials of sport for improving inclusion of discriminated young people in youth communities. Education though sport for inclusion and citizenship has great potentials in physical education of schools, in training coaches and PE teachers, and working with disadvantaged young people where there is nothing else than a football field in the village. In this regard the project could provide further evidence to policy makers for taking measures to develop conditions and competence in the three sectors.

“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.

“Working to Approach Youth Workers as Agents of a Response to Disability” (WAYWARD) is a Capacity Building Youth project involving 7 partner organizations from Europe, Asia and Central America with the overarching am of empowering personal development, overcoming of stereotypes and social inclusion of young people (age 18-25) with mental disability in partner countries through the empowerment of youth workers and NGOs in terms of understanding and methodological toolset based on the ETS (Education Through Sport) methodology.ETS, combining in a positive synergy the inclusive potential of ETS and Sport provides grassroots organizations with a powerful tool to enhance young disabled people’s motivation to participate in society, at the same time countering phenomena of social stigma through positive awareness and providing young people facing mental disability with the transversal backpack of skills for successful integration in all spheres of education, society and, prospectively, labour market.WAYWARD results:1) Training Format enabling operators active in the field of youth to foster motivation, skills and social inclusion potential at the level of mentally disabled young people through ETS.2) Manual, which will serve as a supporting material for youth organizations and operators in their work with the niche target of mentally disabled youngsters.3) Multilingual Web Platform whereby to provide visibility to project activities/materials, opportunities of e-learning to external operators by means of online educational modules as well as disclose future activities to be implemented by project partners at the international and local events.