This project includes four non-profit organizations that have been working with young people for a long time, supporting youngsters in formal and non-formal education, and promoting volunteering, personal and professional development. The organizations will share examples of good practice and learn how to work with digital media to effectively communicate with young people and manage to conduct needs assessments, how to analyze data and promote the organization and its activities on social media and the Internet in general.In our organizations, we feel that we have to reconsider our nowadays approach on how to address young people, get their attention, and motivate them to benefit from our services. Mladiinfo ČR, Mladiinfo Slovensko, Pewobe, and COSI would like to share good practices in order to:1) To increase the quality of services provided to young people2) To strengthen the human resources capacity of our organizations with volunteers and interns3) To increase the number of beneficiaries of services provided by us in terms of young people between 15-35 years old including youth with fewer opportunities4) Fostering civic engagement of your community by creating a PR action plan and guide for our organizations in order to achieve the upper mentioned objectivesTo achieve the main objectives of this project, the participating organizations need to exchange good practice in:- The means of reaching generation Y and Z through the internet (content on social media, website, campaigns, etc.)- The methodology of analyzing the needs of the various target group of the participating organizations- Tailoring public events and workshops addressing the identified needs for various target groups- Fundraising and building cross-sector partnershipsThe expected results for his project are:- Established strategic partnership for youth work between the partner organizations and space for continued mutual support- Increased cooperation of partner organizations in the field of youth work- 12 employees and at least 8 volunteers in total trained in the field of digital communication, PR, marketing, data analysis, and social media- 4 youth organizations will manage to create an internal PR action plan, that will help them to implement the knowledge and good practice they learned during this project into the everyday functioning of the organization- Increase the quality of services provided by the partner organizations through the ability to carry out quality needs assessments and professionalized work with acquired data- Number of local young volunteers active in each partner organizations will be increased - Number of young people participating in the activities of each organization will be increased, including the increased motivation of these youngsters to participate in volunteering and educational projects- A free online guide in English, Slovak, Czech, Romanian and German language for organizations focusing on the same target group, from which they can learn the basics of how to work with social media, target young people, conduct needs assessments and include more young people in their activities- A website dedicated to this project, containing information about the project, useful contacts and results for free download, available at least 10 years after this project is finished- Each organization will hold at least one Webinar course for youth organizations in their country with a capacity of 10 participants per 1 WebinarThe project helps the organizations not only to learn the trends in social media, PR, and marketing but during this strategic partnership, we will exchange good practices how to firmly implement these new findings and learning points to the everyday functioning of each of our organizations and preserve such functioning in a long run. We will learn how to conduct the right needs assessments, so we improve our future responsiveness to the changes in trends in the communication and interests of young people. We will create a special project website for this project and upload there PDF guides and organize webinars for other organizations.

"According to objectives pursued and needs of the target groups to be addressed, this is the project rationale. I. The project is going to design, implement and disseminate a ludic and educational kit (The ENTER kit) composed by a board game and supporting tools (a cartoon video, a video tutorial and a mini-guide) focused on EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy (equal opportunities for all, discrimination, social exclusion, participation, political rights): a highly flexible and customizable kit, suitable for re-processing and subsequent integrations to be used by youth workers with a wide range of targets (youngsters, people with fewer opportunities, NEETs, drop out students, persons of recent immigration, refugees, adults, senior). The kit and the project are going to implement, test and promote a making learning fun methodology. This kind of methodology has been chosen for its widely demonstrated effectiveness, above all for the positive results it can get with people of all ages in particular with fewer opportunity people (for instance drop out students, NEETs, people who have been out of the education system for a long time, persons of recent immigration, refugees, unaccompanied minors). The target involved are the youth workers and the above mentioned youth workers' target groups. According to this objective, The ENTER kit aims to: -improve the quality of youth work within the participants teams; -offer to youth workers an informal learning tool to help them in their role as a provider of non-formal learning opportunities to different target groups; -actively involve new targets in a debate on the focused issues and in the daily youth work; -increase youth workers and ytheir target groups set of knowledge regarding culture heritage, traditions, habits, other than their own; - increase participatory democracy through promoting the youth participation and active citizenship among new targets groups; -acquire specialized NFE training skills; -elaborate a multi-target, flexible tool adequate to ""special needs"" targets; -offer tailored made learning tools to different target groups. II. The project is going to experience an alliance between local and regional political decision makers, public bodies, NGOs, youth centers, adult and senior centers, teachers, trainers, people engaged in educational processes, associations, refugee centers, on the focused issues. By this point of view the involved targets are the youth workers, together with all the main project stakeholders. The pointed objective responds to the need to widen and professionalize the working context of the youth workers to a wide range of target groups. The pointed objective responds to the need of stakeholders to wide their networks, to improve their curricula, to know European best practices and deeply know the opportunities that Erasmus+ programs offer. III. The project is going to experience and promote an innovative international (EU countries and partner country) cross sectorial partnership (two youth centers, one private company and one research institute) with the aim to reinforce the dialogue among highly different, but complementary entities and to use each partners competences for the benefit of youth workers and all the people they potentially get in touch with. The time frame for the achievement of the objectives is detailed in the project GANTT and in the Implementation box. So it is for the number of people involved. Transnationality The needs, that the project aims to answer to, are common to most of the European countries, even if the way they are tackled is different and there are great differences within the EU. Such a project is ideally ""no boundaries"" and is based on the idea of a multi, positive, amusing diversity: no reason to get it within national boundaries. The transnationality of the project enables to: -look at the project topic by an European, shared, point of view, approaching it from different cultural, economic, legal, political prospective; -share the single country best practices; -use the complementary competences, expertise and experiences of different organizations, that are, in the project are well represented, shared and mixed; -wide the stakeholder network at European level."

"<< Background >>The Project is based on the theme of the social inclusion of young people through the use of art therapy, understood as an educational tool that stimulates the intrinsic potential of the person, helps young people to develop - through creativity - their own life project, and thus they benefit from their self-realization in society. The aim of the project is to develop the ability of partner organizations to work for the social inclusion of young people through art therapy methodologies.The educational approach of art therapy is, in fact, particularly effective in promoting the social inclusion of young people, as it is capable of:- by far the positive individual potentials emerge;- significantly increase self-esteem;- increase the ability to react proactively to stress (resilience);- develop social and relational skills.These are important aspects of social research confirm as decisive for social inclusion(Repper & Perkins, 2003).<< Objectives >>The project will produce several results, among the ""intangible"" results we find:For YOUTH OPERATORS (direct target) who are part of the staff of the partner organizations, and other operators involved in the project activities:-increase of skills on educational and animation practices regarding social inclusion; in particular methodologies and educational paths aimed at the use of art therapy in its various forms, in order to promote social inclusion;- acquisition of knowledge and skills to carry out educational activities at a distance through art therapy, for the social inclusion of young NEETs;- acquisition of knowledge and skills to use art therapy to highlight the needs of young NEETs and to involve them in educational activities;- increasing the capacity for cooperation at European level (for youth workers and staff members of partner organizations).For PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS (direct target) that are part of the project:-improvement of skills on educational and animation practices related to the social inclusion of young NEETs through art therapy;- increasing the capacity for cooperation at European level.For YOUNG PEOPLE (indirect target) who will participate in the training activities organized after each meeting, the expected results concern:- development of personal skills (self-awareness, ability to express and relate, self-esteem);-improvement of the ability of young people to act proactively in their family and social context;- improvement of key skills, depending on the applied art therapy approaches (ability to use ICT tools, civic and social skills, cultural expression skills, etc.);- increase in the social inclusion of young participants, as a result of the skills and abilities developed.For OTHER ORGANIZATIONS (indirect target) of the third sector and educational institutions aimed at young people (reached by dissemination activities):- raising awareness of the importance of art therapy and education to promote social inclusion;-increase of skills on educational and animation practices related to social inclusion;- raising awareness on the European dimension of the phenomenon of social exclusion of young people and the responses to this problem.<< Implementation >>RESULTS AND TRAINING ACTIVITIESAmong the tangible results of the project we find:- 3 meetings in partner countries for the exchange of good practices on art therapy and education with young people, with specific attention to NEETs; each meeting will have a specific focus;- 2 remote preparatory meetings for training activities;- after each training activity meeting, the partner organizations will experience the methodologies learned by carrying out training and animation activities with young people (total 20 workshops).DISSEMINATIONThe project will carry out various dissemination activities (among the tangible results of the project) in order to disseminate the results of the project, to increase knowledge of the phenomenon of young NEETs in Europe and the importance of art therapy methodologies.<< Results >>Four results will be produced, namely:-R1 Collection of educational methodologies based on art therapy methods, for the social inclusion of NEETs;-R2 Creation of educational methodologies (Toolkit);-R3 Training module on educational methodologies based on art therapy approaches;-R4 Video tutorials on art therapy methodologies for the social inclusion of NEETs. The videos will be uploaded to the StoryAp portal (Stories for Active Participation- www.storyap.eu), the result of a European project in the youth sector."

<< Objectives >>Social entrepreneurship is often perceived as a mechanism to address unfair situations contributing to exclusion, marginalisation or suffering within segments of society. Our proposal ‘Youth in Entrepreneurship: Socially We Change through Abundant Notions’ will up-skill youth, providing them market-ready skills in social entrepreneurship to support European communities become sustainable, resourceful and competitive. We will train 40 beneficiaries and engage at least 230 stakeholders in events.<< Implementation >>We will implement (i) two training activities:a. Basics on YES (Youth, Entrepreneurship, Social): 20 beneficiariesb. Market-ready Social Entrepreneurs: 20 beneficiaries(ii) one virtual panel discussion to exploit the resultsa. Social Entrepreneurship as a Career Option: 30 attendees(iii) five local physical outreach activities to exploit and communicate the results (40 attendees each)a. Polandb. Greecec. Maltad. Lithuaniae. Romania<< Results >>We will create the following deliverables:(i) Compilation of Best Practices: Notions for Social Entrepreneurship (M6)(ii) Creation of Social Entrepreneurship Environmental Handbook (SEEH) (M21)We expect to target marginalised youth and youth in NEET in five European countries to impart them knowledge on social entrepreneurship through this project.