The Researchers' Night 2014/2015 in Bosnia and Herzegovina – RiNG-14-15, will unite research communities from Republika Srpska and Federation of BiH, jointly promote scientific careers and enhance public recognition of researchers' work with the message "Researchers are amongst us" by engaging interactive communication with the public at large in whole BiH. RiNG 2014 will direct edutainment activities under slogan "Sign for Science", creating campaign with focus on "traffic signs" and developing real life roadmap on how to find science, how to investigate, and how to reach the innovations. The implementation of Night activities is based on idea to create sort of "science traffic school" in open area, creating traffic sign and traffic controllers that would direct participants to specific areas. RiNG 2015: "Chain Reaction" and celebration of 10th anniversary of EU Researchers' Nights. Promotion campaign will largely rely on European dimension and will be coordinated with other Researchers' Nights in EU and Western Balkan region. Specific activities will be organized in several cities in BiH, thus becoming "national" research promotion event in this country: - Edutainment parks with hands-on experiments, directly engaging general public into communication with researchers; - High school competitions for the best science projects; - Science coffee and talks to scientists, labelled as "RiNG ME"; - Various competitions, games and quizzes, especially directed to younger audience; - "Stand Up Science" lectures, presentations; - Large EU area: EU corners with policy and gender issues advisory, as well exhibition of EU-funded projects in BiH; - Thematic activities at supporting universities, research centres and museums; - Science Movie Night and Science Party. RiNG-14-15 quantitative targets per year are: - Number of people to be reached through awareness raising campaign in BiH: 300.000; - Expected number of direct attendees to organized events in whole BiH: 15.000.

"<< Background >>Political awareness begins with an interest in concrete issues and a debate about values. In addition, the mere knowledge of how democratic processes work and where and how one can start with one's political agenda is another prerequisite for democratic action. The ""See the Signs"" project aims to address both of these facets.For young people in particular, the idea of Europe is no longer readily recognizable. Peace and global networking seem to be taken for granted. At the same time, however, nationalism and the threat to democracy are on the rise in parts of European society, both in the online space and in other everyday contexts. Young people in particular are confronted with problematic content and conditions that disregard human rights. Through the close networking of the Youth Agency with the reporting office ""respect! against Hatespeech on the Internet"" and the counseling network ""kompetent vor Ort. Gegen Rechtsextremismus"" (""competent on the ground. Against right-wing extremism"") of the Baden-Württemberg Youth Foundation, it has insights into daily ""trends"" reported by committed young people on hate speech, racism, conspiracy narratives and fake news.In the project ""See the Signs"" we, four organizations with a special interest in democratic values, global learning and European awareness, want to counter. Through a networked concept around a transnational, hybrid exhibition, we want to enable young people to creatively express their views on the threats to democracy in their everyday lives, in their countries.Instead of making these experiences and perceptions, which are often personal and traumatizing for young people, appear as a situation that is perceived as unbearable, they are made visible in the form of a hybrid exhibition with an accompanying concept.<< Objectives >>The exhibition is made up of display boards with graphics and text on the one hand, and videos using the digital storytelling method on the other - the young people thus have their say directly and can creatively reinforce the emotional aspect, which words alone are often unable to express, through the use of images and sound. According to research in the partner countries and beyond, this form of visualizing young people's views on this aspect of the threat to peaceful coexistence in Europe, which is currently growing menacingly in importance, is not yet available. Another special feature: the exhibition elements as well as the accompanying pedagogical material are conceived, developed and produced in parallel for a realization of an exhibition in presence as well as for an exhibition in the online space on the video conference platform Gather.town.A peer concept for the qualification of committed young people as ""Exhibition Guides See the Signs online/offline"" with accompanying materials as well as an exhibition manual round off the concept in order to ensure the use and multiplication of the exhibition content and methodology after the end of the project. We want to raise awareness of democracy as an endangered achievement among youth work professionals and young people in our networks and create occasions for debate by making it visible. At the same time, we want to encourage young people to bring their own topics into the public discourse through this innovative form of exhibition. Especially for young people from underrepresented and marginalized groups, this form holds a great opportunity to move out of the ""invisible"" space and empowers them to name grievances and formulate demands. This takes place in a safe, pedagogically supportive framework - which is particularly necessary when dealing with discrimination-sensitive topics that come into the public eye in this exhibition.<< Implementation >>In order to achieve our overall result - a hybrid, transnational exhibition on the threat to democracy from the perspective of young people - several steps with different approaches and focuses are necessary. The guiding theme is the view of young people on the problem, which leads to the different exhibition objects. At the same time, committed young people in the partner countries are to be empowered to act as peers. It is planned that a core group of 10-25 professional youth workers and engaged young people from each participating country with close ties to the network of one of our organisations, is implemented as a permanent project working group participating in the working process and reflecting the activities throughout the project. The core project working group is expected to take part as participants in the international training acitivities as well as acting as multiplicators on their national levels. Some of them would be qualified as exhibition guides for the vernissage at the transfer conference near the end of the project.At the project meetings, a steering group with two representatives from each of the partner organisations agrees on the course of the project, discusses adjustments if necessary and makes project-relevant decisions within the framework of the approval. The kick-off meeting in May 2022 will take place in Germany.The Workshop Method Training in Italy in July 2022 marks the start of the project. Here, the Core Project working group with 18 participating young people and 8 youth work professionals from the organisations and their close networks will meet for the first time. In addition to basic team building, the participants will be introduced to the content of the project and will be involved and qualified as actors in the conception and creation of the results to be produced.Parallel to this training, a project meeting of the steering group will take place at the same location. On the last day of the training, the two groups will meet to establish a common basis for a cooperative project.Building on the training, the partner organisations start working in national working groups to develop the content for the upcoming exhibition elements. These national processes build on many years of experience of all partners in the field of participatory youth work and on their distinctive youth work networking structures. During the project, there is a link back to the partner organisations via the Core Project Working Group and the Steering Group.<< Results >>Results:A transnational exhibition about endangered democracy from the point view of creative young people will be conceived, set up and realised in the form of a hybrid vernissage and an ongoing permanent exhibition.A virtual exhibition space on the video communication platform gather.town with a total of 15 rooms that can be used by 100 people at a time will be designed, produced and published with all emerging project results integrated as interactive elements within this virtual space.20 digital storytelling videos in the project languages plus in English (total of 100 single versions) will be designed, produced and published as part of the exhibition.20 exhibition boards in the project languages plus in English (total of 100 single versions) will be designed, produced and published as part of the exhibition.One Training conception and accompanying materials for a qualification of young peers to become hybrid exhibition guides ""See the signs"" will be developed, produced and published online.One Conception of Digital storytelling (DST) trainings and production of accompanying materials for a qualification of project partners and young peers to become multipliers of the digital storytelling method will be developed, produced and published online.8 online tutorials on the use, control and special features of the virtual exhibition space on gather.town will be designed, produced and used as self-learning instruments online for the youth working professionals training young exhibition guides.Outcome:For the partner organisations and close network partners of the Core Project Working Group:Strengthening methodological competence and expertise: -deepened knowledge through theoretical teaching and practical application of Digital Storytelling.- deepened knowledge through theoretical teaching and practical application in the use of the interactive video communication platform Gather.town- associated strengthening of digital competences in general- deepening of existing knowledge and methods in the field of ""global learning- deepening knowledge of current political challenges and obstacles in democracy work in the partner countriesFor young people and youth workers visiting the exhibition (at the opening and on follow-up dates):Strengthening political awareness through:- new insights into the threats to democracy from the perspective of young people- Knowledge about differences in threats to democracy between the participating partner countries- Expanding one's own possibilities of expression of democratic issues through artistic realisationStrengthening digital competences through the use of the interactive online exhibition on Gather.town"

European Researchers' Night in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2016-2017 (RiNG-16-17) will jointly represent research and innovation landscape from Republika Srpska and Federation of BiH, promote scientific careers and enhance public recognition of researchers' work with the message "Researchers are amongst us" by engaging interactive communication with the public at large in whole BiH. RiNG-16-17 slogan is “research and innovation – two sides of the same coin”. The event is based on “discovery of unknown” and “building better tomorrow” concepts, and will be organized in collaboration with 2-days StartupDNA conference. RiNG-16-17 is a Researchers’ Night of national character, involving coordinated actions in six cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and incorporates cross-border aspect by involving researchers and research-driven business from the Balkan region as participants in RiNG activities. Promotion campaign will largely rely on European dimension and will be coordinated with other Researchers' Nights in EU and Western Balkan region. Specific activities will be organized in several cities in BiH, thus becoming "national" research promotion event in this country: - Edutainment parks with hands-on experiments, directly engaging general public into communication with researchers; - High school competitions for the best science projects; - Science coffee and talks to scientists, labeled as "RiNG.ME"; - Various competitions, games and quizzes, especially directed to younger audience; - "Stand Up Science" lectures, presentations; - Large EU area: EU corners with policy and gender issues advisory, as well exhibition of EU-funded projects in BiH; - Thematic activities at supporting universities, research centres and museums; - Science Movie Night and Science Party. RiNG-16-17 quantitative targets per event/year are: - Number of people to be reached through awareness raising campaign in BiH: 350.000; - Expected number of direct attendees to organized events in whole BiH: 15.000.

Schools for Future Youth (SFYOUTH) is a cross-field strategic partnership to develop methods and support for improved youth participation in European school education. This proposal is a response to the need across the EU to increase educational attainment and active civic participation by European youth. It will support EU schools to meet this need by increasing their capacity to use youth participation through global citizenship.SFYOUTH is delivered by 5 organisations who run support programmes for teachers and schools to use youth participation and global citizenship. They are Oxfam GB (UK), Oxfam Italia (Italy), PAH (Poland), CARDET (Cyprus) and the Institute of Education (UK).It is based on the partners experience that when delivered effectively, these approaches help schools by:- Creating more engaging curriculum and using learner centred pedagogies: using real life global issues to inspire, and informal youth/adult methods to inform pedagogy, e.g. Future Workshops - Engaging and motivating youth: global issues interest youth (e.g. Think Global/MORI 2008), and being active change agents motivates youth- Developing transversal skills and competencies: YPGC supports skills (e.g. critical thinking, communication) and personal development (e.g. confidence, self esteem)- Increasing civic engagement: YPGC inspires youth actions for social justice locally and globally, and supports peer leadershipThe project methodology is to use the current experience of partners promoting two programmes in particular: Future Workshops (by Oxfam Italy) and Youth Ambassadors (by Oxfam GB). The project will widen and deepen youth participation through global citizenship by supporting teachers to apply these informal youth methodologies to core parts of the formal curriculum. It will also support youth to apply these methodologies more effectively by themselves in informal and formal education. It will also support school systems to better recognise and support teachers and young people to do this. Therefore the project objectives are:OBJ1: To develop innovative support for European teachers to use these approaches effectively through their core teaching OBJ2: To develop innovative support for European youth to use these approaches to support social actions through their formal and informal educationOBJ3: To influence school systems across Europe to increase opportunities for teachers and young people to use these approaches in schoolTo achieve this, SFYOUTH will work with 4 hub schools in the UK, Italy, Poland and Cyprus to develop 6 high quality intellectual outputs that are innovative and relevant for target audiences in project countries and across the EU. These include innovative online support tools for teachers and youth to use these approaches, an online sharing portal, and academic reports and policy recommendations into their effectiveness at improving educational outcomes and civic participation. The resulting outcomes will be- Teachers using these approaches for new and engaging curriculum and pedagogical methods - Young people using better quality processes for youth engagement in school, inspiring greater motivation and interest in civic participation- Increased sharing of these approaches by and young people online- Increased motivation to embed these approaches by key stakeholders in the school system, including education ministries- Increased confidence of project staff to support teachers and young people using these approaches in new waysThis will lead to the following direct impacts with 176 teachers and 4400 youth:- Improvements in teachers practice, youth motivation, transversal skills and civic engagement in project schools - Increased sharing of these approaches by staff/teachers/young people in project schools - Improved scale of support for YPGC offered by our partner organizationsThrough our dissemination activities, this will also lead to the following indirect impacts with 10,000 teachers and 250,000 youth:- Greater use of YPGC by schools, and subsequent improvements in teachers practice, youth motivation, transversal skills and civic engagement across the EU- Greater support for YPGC across the school system in our own countries and across the EU- Wider use of these approaches in these and other fields across the EUThe project will improve in the capacity of the applicants to support schools with such approaches, achieving educational improvements and improved civic participation. They will be integrated into their ongoing work programmes. Additionally, the open, online outputs will be made available to a wide range of organisations across the EU to embed and use. Furthermore, through working with hub schools locally and creating a shared online network, the project expects schools networks to use and adopt these methods themselves across the EU, leading to high levels of sustainability post project.