<< Background >>Civil society and youth work continues to increase every year. In this case, the quality of youth work becomes more important every year. Youth leaders (youth workers) play an important role in terms of active youth work and reaching more young people. Quality and capacity of youth workers play an important role for a qualified youth. Along with civil society and youth work, the need for youth leaders (youth workers) continues to increase every year. As the International Association of All Youth and Sports Clubs, we organize trainings at the national level with the youth leadership training module we have created. Most of the youth leadership training programs do not carry out a specific method. In this context, we want to continue to provide trainings with an international module by developing our module, where we successfully started our 3rd education. In addition, we would like to offer this module free of charge to youth associations operating in the field of youth work.<< Objectives >>Our project will contribute to the training of a qualified youth leader (youth worker) that will be available to every youth organization. We aim to contribute to a qualified youth with a youth leadership training module determined by international standards. In this context, we want to create a training module that will strengthen the infrastructure of every non-governmental organization and increase the quality of youth leaders (youth workers), and we want to achieve a youth worker model open to international collaborations. We want to put forward the youth leadership (youth worker) training module, which is the most important need in the field, and achieve the implementation process in the field. For this study, we firstly conducted national level trainings in our own country. We will carry this training module to the international dimension with our project partners.<< Implementation >>Leadership and Organization Area Leadership Theory and Basic Leadership Skills Managing Group Behavior (Decision making, problem solving, motivation) Group Identity Culture and Team Management A Youth Group Process from Start to Finish Preparation of Events and Training Research and Reporting Skills Assessment and Evaluation Skills Parent-Parent Relationship ManagementPedagogical Skills Area Development Periods and Needs in Youth Basic Communication and Body Language Recognition Techniques and Problems Coping with Stress and Self-discipline Training Planning Preparing a Course / Presentation Plan Effective Presentation Skills Social Event Planning and ManagementWe will determine and manage the contents of the above activities with all our paving project partners, from non-formal education techniques to teaching methods.<< Results >>As the International All Youth and Sports Club Association, we realize a youth leadership training module that can be used by every youth organization with our project. In this context, together with our project partners, we will create our outputs by bringing together field and academic experience. After the project, we will first share the modules of the international youth leadership training program with associations and foundations that are members of the Turkish Youth NGOs platform under our roof. The number of associations and foundations that are members of TGSP is 88. We aim to increase the capacities of our associations that have representative offices and branches at national level. Another concrete output of our project is that we will transfer our youth leadership training program and youth work experience that we have successfully carried out at national level to our partners in Europe, and we will concretize good exemplary practices.

"<< Background >>The European Commission has adopted the Entrepreneurship Action Plan 2020 to promote entrepreneurship. Young generations should consider starting a business as another alternative in their job search. There is no doubt that the development of the green economy and the ""fight against climate change"" should be the ""axis of the economic strategy"" that the European Union establishes as a motion to exit the crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. This is the proposal launched by the new European Alliance for a Green Recovery.Green entrepreneurship and the circular economy provide an effective and alternative solution to tackle youth unemployment while helping to implement Europe's climate goals.<< Objectives >>- The promotion and insertion of unemployed young people with low qualifications into the labour market through green entrepreneurship and the circular economy (waste management).- The increase of entrepreneurship opportunities in the green economy through an innovative training methodology (within the EntreComp framework) to improve the entrepreneurial spirit and entrepreneurial skills of unemployed young people with low qualifications who want to develop their own ideas and businesses in the sector of the green economy.- The implementation of a training course on green entrepreneurship in organizations related to the training of young people. To meet this objective, the contents will be about entrepreneurship related to the environment and the development of companies related to the circular economy.- The improvement of the professional competence of educators and youth workers, through an innovative methodology within the framework of EntreComp, which takes into account the specific competencies and skills that young people must develop on green entrepreneurship. This improvement will allow these educators to be better prepared to transmit knowledge about entrepreneurship and the elaboration of business plans related to green entrepreneurship and the circular economy.The beneficiaries of the project will be unemployed young people with low qualifications, as well as educators and youth workers who will learn about a new training methodology in green entrepreneurship.<< Implementation >>The following Project Results will be developed:- A training guide on business plans in green entrepreneurship for young people: a training guide will be prepared to teach unemployed young people how to prepare a business plan for a company linked to the green and circular economy.- A learning methodology on green entrepreneurship for young people. This Project Result is aimed at educators and youth workers.- A collaborative platform on green entrepreneurship: it will be designed as OER. The content of the course will be linked to entrepreneurship to acquire these skills and thus be able to create a company related to the environment and the circular economy. There will be specific spaces within the platform for three very important actors for our project; youth, youth workers and stakeholders. Independent groups but with the vocation to interact to request and receive/provide information.In addition, three meetings will be held.A learning activity, attended by 28 people in Italy. The Project results and, above all, the management of the collaborative platform will be reviewed.<< Results >>The following Project Results will be developed:- A training guide on business plans in green entrepreneurship for young people: a training guide will be prepared to teach unemployed young people how to prepare a business plan for a company linked to the green and circular economy.- A learning methodology on green entrepreneurship for young people. This Project Result is aimed at educators and youth workers.- A collaborative platform on green entrepreneurship: it will be designed as OER. The content of the course will be linked to entrepreneurship to acquire these skills and thus be able to create a company related to the environment and the circular economy. There will be specific spaces within the platform for three very important actors for our project; youth, youth workers and stakeholders. Independent groups but with the vocation to interact to request and receive/provide information.After the completion of the Project Results, the target group of the same will have information and tools that allow:-Knowledge and sensitization of green entrepreneurship.-Application of the same in the various European economic sectors.-Knowledge of how to found a green company and manage it according to the appropriate economic and sustainable parameters.-Knowledge of the circular economy and its application in economic sectors.In addition, the corresponding teams of each project partner will carry out not only the adequate dissemination of the project and its results (through the project website, by including information/link to the project page on their own websites, on social networks of the Project and in the individual ones of each partner, press releases, workshops, meetings of other projects ...), but will facilitate the necessary procedures to be able to share the results with other actors of the European economic sector: youth workers, NGOs, centre youth, youth departments of city councils, local governments, national governments...- Communication and dissemination plan to be carried out by INNETICA in collaboration with the coordinator and leader of the project.- Continuous updating of the information on the project website to create awareness among the audiences and make all the results available (through links that facilitate the downloads of the Project Results).- Own page of the project on Facebook and presence on other social networks (Twitter, Instagram, YouTube).- Making a video to broadcast it on YouTube and other social networks.- Multilingual project brochure for distribution at strategic events.- Poster or roll-up for its exhibition in said events.- Four newsletters. The objective will be to inform all interested parties about the progress of the project.- Three press releases.- Presentation of the project and project results in local media (newspapers and online news channels, radio, etc.).- e-mail sending to stakeholders with information (newsletters).- Organization of six multiplier events to make a public presentation of the project results.- Reports of the dissemination activities that partners have to carry out every six months.- Organization of other dissemination events to present the project and its results to stakeholders at local, regional and national levels through informational meetings.- Participation in events at the European level.- Creation of a network of project stakeholders.- Presentation of the project and its results on international platforms such as the Salto Youth platform, the Erasmus+ results platform or EPALE.- Project information will also be displayed at the partners' own facilities.- Preparation of the Sustainability Plan with a detailed description of the procedure.In short, the project aims to design a learning methodology and a training course that meets the needs of entrepreneurship in relation to the green economy of young people. To meet this objective, the course content will be developed within the EntreComp framework."

"The new Work Plan for Culture (2019 - 2022) adopted by the European Council on November 27, 2018 sets 5 priorities: (1) the sustainability of the cultural heritage; (2) cohesion and well-being; (3) ecosystem care to support artists, professionals in the cultural and creative field and with European content; (4) gender equality and (5) international cultural relations.All these 5 priorities are implemented in a set of 17 concrete actions.Through the project ""European integration through national traditions"" we aim to support gender equality, multicultural diversity and international cultural relations through:- creating cultural links between the participating countries (Italy, Romaina, Turkey, Portugal);- mutual knowledge of the traditions of each country involved in the project, through theoretical presentations and practical activities;- the integration, through culture, of disadvantaged groups (elderly, people below the poverty line, minorities, immigrants, etc.) from the 4 countries involved.The objectives of our project In-Tra-Dance are as follows: O1: establishment of 4 sets of European folk dances (one for each country involved in the project), consisting of a minimum of 10 participants each; O2: learning, by each national group, of at least two popular dances from the other participating countries; O3: a minimum of 4 traditional art workshops (one for each transnational meeting); O4: organization of at least 4 public events (shows) of traditional dances from each participating country (one show with at least 100 people for each transnational meeting), entitled ""Night of European cultures"".The participants in the project will have the following profile:- adults, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, sex, religious, political or sexual orientation, eager to know other European traditions and customs;- about 30% of the direct beneficiaries of our non-formal activities will be from disadvantaged environments (elderly, people below the poverty line, minorities, immigrants, etc.).In order to ensure gender equality, an equal number of men and women will be taken into account in the selection of participants.In fact, we will have- a preparatory visit to Italy, to organize the project activities;- 4 transnational meetings in: Romania, Turkey, Italy and Portugal. Each country involved in the project will participate with a set of 10 dancers (including an instructor) in transnational meetings from the other countries. During these meetings, participants from the host country will teach guests at least two local folk dances. The rehearsals for dances will take place in the morning, and afternoons will be allocated to traditional art workshops. Each country will prepare workshops specific to the area: - in Romania, there will be the workshop to make popular masks - in Turkey - the workshop of pottery workshop - in Italy - a ceramic painting workshop - in Portugal - ""Gigantone"" workshops (traditional percussion instrument).During the transnational meetings we will have at least one activity in the rural area of each country, in collaboration with the local authorities in the respective communes.At the end of each meeting there will be a traditional dance show for the widest possible audience (""Night of European cultures""). Each national group will have a minimum of 30 minutes of performance. The events will take place in public spaces or in rooms with free and free access for any person, with the involvement of local authorities. The project activities will provide opportunities for institutionalized links between the local authorities in the 4 cities involved, including at the level of twinning between cities.During the transnational meetings there will also be meetings with the officials from the host city in order to continue the activities of the project and after the conclusion of the European funding."

"<< Background >>When we talk about ""transition"" we risk falling into the naivety of being able to transport the current system from one point to another but, as young people all over the world are pointing out and as the pandemic has dramatically highlighted, this is not the case. We believe that young people have the capacity, creativity, and passion to build a Europe that does not live off the rest of the world, spreading inequalities and environmental damage. According to the priority of the ""European Youth Forum"", in which the applicant's project coordinator is a delegate, we seek to empower young people as agents of their own, sustainable future. As it is necessary to identify the root causes of inequalities in order to challenge the status quo, the youth should develop competencies in various sustainability-relevant sectors, developing green sectorial skills strategies and methodologies, as well as have a voice about future-oriented curricula that better meet the needs of individuals and communities. We demand that the voice of youth is properly included in the negotiations and, therefore, it calls for a more democratic and equitable process for localizing Agenda 2030, which both includes young people and also tackles inequalities: ""reinforcing links between policy, research and practice"" becomes in this perspective a fundamental vector to approach a just and fair transition.Those are the beliefs and the motives that brought this idea project to life: to foster open and distance learning aimed to develop key competencies and green skills in localizing the goals and principles of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We believe that young people and youth organizations have several needs to be achieved in the move towards a more sustainable future.For young people:a) to be recognized as rightsholders; b) to see unlocked their potential as agents for change.For youth organizations:c) to be effective catalysts of young people’s efforts; d) to be able to enhance internal training and skills of organizations on sustainability issues.Regarding the needs of young people the project will carry out multi-lateral actions in order to ""give them a seat at the table"" in policy-making processes (a); moreover, the project will provide training materials capable of orienteer young people towards the new professions of sustainability, empowering the ability to influence the political agenda at all levels (b).In this perspective inclusion and diversity are the foundations of every mechanism of meaningful youth participation, therefore the project will make participants with fewer opportunities active parts and protagonists in all phases.Regarding the needs of the partnership, the project will meet the need and the success in transforming isolated initiatives that respond to some principles and goals of the 2030 Agenda into a basis for building a network of cooperation on common local agendas to strengthen young people and youth organizations in this transition era.The general aim of the project is to provide to the partnership a framework through which initiatives and policy areas relevant to them can be linked at the European level to work more effectively. The project address to empower the partnership's organizations in two key areas; -- improving the capacity building to nurture and implement innovative sustainable actions for and with young people (c);- integrating eco-friendly and greener ways of implementing project activities (d).Regarding another specific target group of the project will be local institutions and public bodies it is manifest the criticality of involving local communities in implementation decisions and recommendations from the international level. For these reasons this project, under the priority of reinforcing links between policy research and practices, the project wants to contribute to the localization of the 2030 Agenda with a bottom-up and sociocratic method of participation.<< Objectives >>Over the most recent five years of available data, the EU made progress towards almost all of the 17 sustainable development goals (SDG). Progress in some goals has been faster than in others, and within goals, movement away from the sustainable development objectives also occurred in specific areas. Those valiant efforts are endagered because of the pandemic crisis.We are one with the statement of Von Der Leyen: ""In this year of pandemic - and beyond - this must be Europe's motto, too: I care, we care. This is the most important lesson that I hope we can learn from this crisis. It is a lesson about Europe. We care for the weakest among us. We care for our neighbours. We care for our planet. And we care for future generations."" The context we're living into is the Next Generation EU one, as a temporary instrument designed to help repair the immediate economic and social damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With these funds, Europe wants to be greener, more digital and more resilient to better adapt to current and future challenges.From those premises, the objectives of the project in a trasnational framework are:- contributing to mainstream the principle of sustainable development across policy making in the consortium's countries;- providing innovative youth-led tools on Just and Fair Transition accessible for grassroot organizations;- establishing a transnational alliance between local communities of young people committed to be ""critical agents of change"".<< Implementation >>The first transnational meeting will be held in February 2022 in Tirana, hosted by the National Youth Council of Albania, in the framework of Tirana Youth Capital 2022. So, in addition to management aspects, we will be able to exchange the good and innovative practices in the field of the ""EDU2030"" project among partners and relevant stakeholders: a fundamental first step that together with the national InfoDay Youth in Transition, declined locally by partner organizations, will positively contribute to the realization of the Knots of Transition: A practical guide for grassroots organizations. During the sixth month of the project the LTT activity LIVING (IN) TRANSITION in Fiumicino, Italy hosted by the project coordinator Io, Noi – ODV, will contribute to the full achievement of the project’s objectives by reinforcing and enriching, with a participatory bottom-up approach, the consortium’s vision of a just and fair transition. Specifically, by providing participants, in a proper transnational framework, with concrete tools to become agents of change in their communities the LTT will have a decisive impact in activating results for the following project objective: “establishing a transnational alliance between local communities of young people committed to be critical agents of change”. It is also the activity that will start in a proper manner the co-development of the Youth in Transition MOOC, an open and distance learning educational resource tailored for youth “transitioners” and organizations. Together with all dissemination activities of this core result of the project, we’re going to implement the second National InfoDays Transition in Talking, with a relevant focus on public stakeholders. This event will not only be an opportunity for meeting and discussion between stakeholders from local/national public bodies and institutions but will be relevant as a key to the dissemination of the project to enable future actions in the same community in the vision of active policymakers and agents of change. The collection of results of these activities will also help in designing the Guidelines to localize the 2030 Agenda. With these guidelines in place, the project will promote the multiplier events ROADMAP FOR LOCALIZING THE SDGS: this series of events are organized to reach a wider audience not only the intellectual outputs of the project but and foremost aim to further multiply and engage national, regional and local institutions, strengthening the collaboration already established with other teachers, schools and organizations. In this framework, involved and active parties will become allies in the just and fair transition. The creation of this transnational alliance, that we had started from the first meeting in Tirana, will allow activating locally transformations and transitions, well beyond the empowerment of individual participants, in a flow of participatory processes able to manage and promote the young generations oriented to sustainable development and active and nonviolent transformation of society. The meetings are planned to involve, in addition to the identified target group, youth leaders, and key stakeholders in a series of structured conversations, with the goal to explore, together and by different points of view, the new strategies designed at the European level on the project topics. The “EDU2030: Youth in Transition” final and sustainability meeting will be held in August 2023 in Ermesinde, Portugal, hosted by the youth organization ""Associação Sójovem das Saibreiras"". The meeting will be the occasion to present the final results of the project and to involve participant organizations with the stakeholders, including local authorities, in an open round-table discussion about the follow-up of the project.<< Results >>According to the project objectives the general expected outcomes are to see concrete steps forward in people’s rights, in the communities involved in the project, to participate in the decisions that shape their future; to see youth organizations supported and empowered to represent young people’s voices as critical agents of change; to have contributed to the design of policies that fit the criteria of ensuring a more equal society, in which the needs and rights of all, including marginalized groups and future generations, are met within the means of the planet. In particular, during the project we envision achieving the following outcomes: - boost the activation of new eco-friendly way and green practices inside the partners organizations, thanks to the joint cooperation --> related Project Result ""Knots of Transition: A practical guide for grassroots organizations"";- test and validate training methodologies in the field of sustainability with three actors' profiles through the LTT ""Living (in) Transition""; - involve relevant stakeholders and rightsholders; - develop virtual, open and free of charge training materials --> related Project Result ""Youth in Transition MOOC""; - engage local institutions in a discussion about Just and Fair Transition policies --> related Project Result ""Guidelines to localize the 2030 Agenda"".Project result 1. KNOTS OF TRANSITION: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS: The handbook results will be presented in a pragmatic manner, aimed at the hands-on project team, and are supported by relevant references to examples of best and/or good practice, competence centers, and role models which are being carried out in the european cultural field, as well as by global links to appropriate and useful online resources.Project Result 2. YOUTH IN TRANSITION MOOC: it will be, consistently with the project aims, realized and implemented in different phases marked first by the time and then by the results of studies and research in the field of young people and youth workers by the networking formed by the partnership in conjunction and collaboration. Young people, youth workers and youth leaders involved in the project will continue to carry out actions in their communities and at transnational level supportedby this newly open and distance educational resource. Project Result 3. GUIDELINES TO LOCALIZE THE 2030 AGENDA: this toolkit is addressed at regional and local policy-makers responsible for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, as well as other stakeholders involved in the process. Its goal is to support and guide on how to organize the meaningful participation of young people. It provides a set of principles, methods and concrete tips of how to maximize the meaningful participation of youth in the programming, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the people reached by the Youth in Transition project. Moreover, the project sought to directly involve young people, policy-makers, youth organisations andstakeholders in shaping the main design elements of the toolkit, so as to ensure it is as useful and as close as possible to the real needs and challenges of both young people and the local authorities advocating for a just and fair transition.On its completion we expected the following outcomes: - establish transnational alliances of Just and Fair Transition activators; - keep available an open directory of educational resources and their availability to learners with an already significant amount of trained young people; - disseminating role models in the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by cooperating with civil society stakeholders; - raising awareness of public authorities in the implementation of minimal content of new transition policies."

Green entrepreneurship represents an opportunity for Europe and its citizens. A growing number of people in working age, especially young people are seeking opportunities to engage themselves in a profitable business of their own. The European Commission has adopted several policies and action plans in order to respond to that aspiration. The “Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan” has been adopted in the view of fostering job creation and entrepreneurial activity, as a prerequisite to growth. This plan has been put forward in order to “unleash Europe's entrepreneurial potential, remove existing obstacles and revolutionise the culture of entrepreneurship in the EU”.Furthermore, the “Small Business Act for Europe” reflects the policies on SMEs on the EU level, by setting a certain number of priorities, environment being one of them. Combined with the Commission’s “Circular Economy Action Plan”, these policies tend to turn green entrepreneurship into an alternative and effective solution in tackling youth unemployment and economic inactivity andat the same time in implementing Europe’s climate goals.Therefore, the project aims to enable and educate young people in the age range 18-35 to acquire the necessary skills and tools on how to generate and implement their “green” business idea and on how to create their own SME/Start-up. In the view of the European Commission`s plans to reduce emissions and waste, to preserve the nature and to switch to a greener society and economy many youngsters are pursuing either a career or own business endeavour in the green business area. Unfortunately, most of them are lacking the necessary competences in order to be green entrepreneurs, as the gap between education and the business environment is continuing to grow. The young graduates of today are often in the quest of new types of employability and of different employment relations – predominantly conditioned by horizontal, rather than vertical working dependencies. Those of them who undertake a personal business initiative face two main barriers: the first one is related to funding and the second one isrelated to the lack of enough skills for starting an entrepreneurial activity. With the current project we are willing to address this second issue. Objectives: - To encourage entrepreneurial interest and talent, particularly among young people with green ideas and aspirations;- To foster youth inclusion in the active economy;- To educate youth in the partners’ countries on the basic instruments needed for starting a green business project.Methodology: For achieving the objectives of the project, the following instruments will be used:- Survey and collection of frequently asked questions in all the partner countries;- Taking inspiring examples from young successful green business entrepreneurs and leaders by shooting relevant video interviews; - Identification of good practices;- Elaboration of a curriculum, e-modules and handbook to be managed on an e-learning platform.Activities: The following activities will be conducted:- Identification of good practices for creation of a handbook;- Development of learning methodology and curricula;- Video interviews with successful green entrepreneurs;- Elaboration of Learning materials and tools, based on the survey results- Development of an e-learning platform: An e-learning platform is planned to be created by the project partners, educating young people about the first steps in entrepreneurship and promoting the lack of negative impact on the environment;- Piloting and evaluating the feasibility of the curriculum;- Use of various suitable dissemination channels and means for ensuring sustainability and multiplication of the achieved results.- Green entrepreneurship course for 15 youth workers.Basically, the implementation of the project will implement the results from the needs assessment analysis and will help to create relevant materials for the training. This will include the identified best practices by each partner of the consortium. The video interviews will showcase the success stories of young entrepreneurs and will serve as a role model and inspiration for the target group. Sought results and long-terms benefits: The developed skills, thanks to the current project, will allow young people from the target group to launch new ventures, services, products and technologies, which will address environmental and natural resources issues of our European society. The achievement of the project aims the improvement of the entrepreneurial culture in support to sustainable growth, to the development of green business knowledge and skills, by providing green business training in the partner countries.