<< Objectives >>The general aim of the UnsEU project is to contribute to a deeper understanding of the rural citizens of the values, the history, and the diversity of the European Union. Reflecting on the identity of European citizenship by involving people from different rural areas of Europe in European learning activities, could help the citizens to better understand the Union policy-making process and encourage opportunities for societal engagement and participation at European level.<< Implementation >>The UnsEU project activities will help to bring the rural people closer to the European idea and bridge the intercultural, intergenerational and social divides they suffer. The rural citizens will be involved in thematic workshops, public debates, online seminars, video competitions, multiplier events and the creation of a UnsEU paper to be delivered to the EU institutions. The follow-up activities will ensure continued active citizenship of the rural world.<< Results >>In the UnsEU project, rural people from different parts of Europe can discuss, debate and plan their common European idea. Citizens from 3 countries will meet in Strasbourg to visit the EU institutions and learn about various thematic focal points of the debate on the future of the European Union. The project directly reaches 300 rural citizens and approximately 3000 indirectly. All participants involved will expand their EU knowledge, experience and personal perspectives.

The Commission proposes a new framework for cooperation on youth over the period 2019-2027, to bring the EU closer to young people and to help address issues of concern to them. In this relation, needs analyses confirm that vulnerable young people face additional obstacles in the integration process, such as discrimination, lack of networking, mismatching job needs and qualifications, community-related commitments. In order to improve their social inclusion, they need support and guidance through their integration process, they need to be informed of their rights and obligations in the host society, they must be empowered, they should have access to trainings and be able to take full advantage of their skills.In this context the current project aims to apply a comprehensive approach providing networking opportunities, practical and transversal skills, and exchange of methodologies for the empowerment of young people in disadvantaged situation, assisting and facilitating their inclusion into the EU societies. The Youth Power project will be based on the practices that using the civics and culture, and especially the benefits of group coaching, could help to bring people from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds together and can contribute to the integration and inclusion of disadvantaged young people and therefore to the community cohesion. Youth Power aims to:- Support disadvantaged young people by providing non-formal education on leadership skills and empowerment, as a way of preventing social exclusion;- Empower and strengthen the role of youth workers/mentors/coaches, exchanging best practices on empowerment pedagogical approaches, making them able to deal with diversity in non-formal learning environment;- Build close cooperation between civil society, youth and local authorities to ensure the active participation of all members of the learning community in empowerment of the youth at risk of exclusion;- Involve the wider community in the promotion of EU strategies for LLL (life-long learning) and social inclusion of disadvantaged young learners.Main target groups will be the youth education providers (social workers, trainers, coaches, mentors, etc.) working with vulnerable young learners, and the disadvantaged young people in 4 EU countries themselves, where their social inclusion was identified as a challenge by the partners' experts.The consortium brings together 4 organisations from Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany and Spain, each of them with specific expertise in the youth education field. The transnational cooperation between public & private sectors is strengthen through the involvement of associated partners, where public institutions will ensure sustainability of the Youth Power outputs.The project duration is 18 months, calculated in order to implement correctly the planned action and achieve the project objectives. Main activities will be the development of Training Programme “Culture, Civics & Group Coaching for Disadvantaged Youth Empowerment” for youth educators in 5 languages; blended mobility where 24 young participants and youth workers from the partners' countries will exchange knowledge and jointly work to develop the planned training units; pilot tests with 120 vulnerable young people in 4 EU Member States; local/regional dissemination events, where total of 120 representatives of thetarget groups are expected to assist; creation of Youth Power cross-border cooperation Network, website & project social page, expected to reach around 4000 indirect beneficiaries.The methodological approach taken by Youth Power is based on common decision making, adopting the initiative of regular exchange of practices, aiming to ensure that all consortium members are involved in the project’s progress, being aware of specific strengths of particular partners. The working methodology establishes an organic approach where the local and transnational activities are in constant interexchange and nourish each other at the various stages of the project, while dissemination ensures its success and sustainability. By building a common training programme, addressing the needs of the target groups in 4 countries, provided in 5 languages, with the use of art, civics and group coaching, along with a training component on transversal skills, the Youth Power project answers the needs of disadvantaged youth integration, while countering for gender equality and civic awareness at European level.At long-term will be achieved improved independence, self-esteem and self-confidence of the vulnerable young people through empowerment sessions and civic engagement; better relationship between disadvantaged youth and the host EU societies; promotion of new tools in the youth education field for social inclusión of vulnerable learners; transfer of knowledge and best practices between youth educators in the partner countries and the rest of the EU, thanks to the planned Youth Power follow-up activities.