“Social Media AbUse” (SMAU) Project is based on the observation carried out by the youth organizations across Europe, that points out that the use of Technologies of Information and Communication (TIC) by young people often exceeds the constructive limits. It has been noticed that there is the need to carry out a project that addresses the issues of the use and misuse of TIC and social networks, in which the educators often feel as they are not competent enough and they do not have the proper tools and knowledge to prevent and intervene. Whilst some intervention projects take place in a formal-educational context, there is a lack of such projects in a non-formal-educational field. SMAU project aims to provide young people and youth workers with the proper competence to detect and to intervene in the process of the misuse of social media.SMAU Project is an innovative proposal to achieve the objectives of strategic associations in the context of youth related with training of youth professionals, innovation, TIC and REA use, as well as the priorities for 2014.The project brought together nine partners from four countries: Spain, France, Slovenia and Germany, two from each country and the coordinator (from Spain). The partners are organizations with competence and experience in the field of youth professionals training and social intervention in youth, with prior European paths and experience in the field of TIC. However, the project started with seven partners as the German partners withdrew.The project aims at two groups: youth workers and young people aged 15 to 25. It has been based in the principles of non-formal education that allow active participation and adaptation of the actions to the participants’ realities.The project aimed not only at the participants who are directly involved in its activities, but also – through the dissemination of the results and the outputs - at the largest number possible of people, both youth workers and young people aged 15 to 25 and other interested parties, such as families, public institutions, youth centers, associations etc. both at a local, regional, national and international level.The goals this project achieved are:-Increasing young people’s awareness of the misuse of social media and TIC;-Involving young people with fewer opportunities, through the participation in the project of the partners and professionals who daily work with young people, who have educational difficulties, ethnic minorities members, immigrant population descendants or whose families have socio-economic problems;-Defining and recognizing, at European level, the different forms of misuse of social media and TIC;-Promoting proper forms of use of social media and TIC;-Providing young people with tools to recognize and fight against the misuse of social media and TIC, through the open educational resources created;-Improving professionals’ competences in the field of youth to intervene in case of misuses of the networks.To do so, the following elements were developed:-Teamwork among the partners to define the context and the contents;-Development of a research among young people and teams of educators in order to get to know the use of social networks and of the existing profiles. The results were gathered in the three participating countries;-Development of workshops targeted at young people in the three countries to work on topics of awareness and stances;-Creation of a “dissemination kit” made up of 5 infographics, the original in English and then translated into the languages of the project;-Dissemination of contents through the Internet, social networks and articles.The Project developed through three international meetings (in Madrid, Bordeaux and Litija), sessions (workshops) carried out in the three countries and the International Seminar in Madrid. The final output published was a guide about good practices for prevention containing the infographics in the four languages of the project (Spanish, English, French and Slovenian).SMAU allowed us to bring more than 720 children, 160 educators to the topic of cyberbullying. 17 people participated in the seminar.

The fragmentation of society, individualism, the rise of racism and social inequalities call for educational responses that foster social cohesion, individual commitment and access to education for all. Voluntary commitment in its collective dimension helps to meet this imperative of social cohesion. This commitment needs to be fully recognized by public authorities, and accompanied by trained professionnals.Today we are witnessing a change in the public concerned by volunteering, and a change in the nature of projects. Projects are increasingly focused on the social dimension, supervised by socio-cultural or social volunteers.In the partner countries, many initiatives focus mainly on volunteers, to enhance their experience, appreciate their skills and accompany them in their life paths. If the evaluation of this experience cannot be limited to a measure of impacts on the individuals, professionals have very few tools for a more global evaluation and lack arguments to promote an inclusive approach to volunteering.Within our structures, professionals and volunteers working with vulnerable groups need increased skills in partnership development, communication, evaluation, practice assessment, and the production of tools to formalise the effects of the volunteering experience and report on the benefits of voluntary action.Within the framework of the VoSoTros project (VOlunteering creates SOcial TRansformations), 8 European associations from France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Romania, Poland and Slovakia are making their field of action available and pooling their skills, issues and methodologies to meet these needs.We would like to study and illustrate what volunteering is transforming in our territories, among our publics (minorities, people in precarious situations, exiled people, socially excluded people) and in our organisations, in order to argue its capacity to strengthen the links between people and between structures (social inclusion, social cohesion, citizenship).The aim is to promote the experience of volunteering as a vehicle for social inclusion and integration.The objectives of this exchange of practices project are to :➢ To discover the social context and the public welcomed in each partner's home by giving the floor to each associated partner.➢ To identify the effects produced by the volunteer projects with regard to the expected results.➢ To enable supervisors to distance themselves from their practices.➢ Formalize a set of specifications for an evaluation process for social volunteering projects.The activities planned over two years are1) 6 study visits in 6 partner countries in order to discover the context, the partners involved in the projects involving volunteers, and the methods used by each. Two people from each organisation are planned for each visit (16 in total). They are project officers and field professionals, educators, youth workers, facilitators, mediators).2) 2 forums for the exchange of practices on evaluation methodologies in order to strengthen the partners' skills, bringing together the 16 participants, accompanied by a member of the steering committee of each association (24 people in total).The expected results are :- a formalization of the training contents necessary for the evaluation process,- a typology of the changes brought about by the implementation of volunteer projects, making it possible to establish evaluation criteria and training proposals for the staff of the structures,- a list of proposals encouraging organizations to carry out and disseminate the evaluation of volunteering and the transformations it generates in their environment- an argument to present volunteering as a vector for social inclusion.The project will thus allow a better understanding of volunteering, its effects on the territory, and a reinforcement of the skills of the professionals supervising it. As a result, there will be a greater awareness of the status of volunteer, a better reception and support of the people welcomed, in a process of responding to their needs and their socialisation. By bringing together different actors (institutions, educational structures, volunteers and beneficiaries of social actions) around a common work, the project aims to create a dynamic of local actors and to promote the recognition of volunteering in the field of social intervention.This will ultimately lay the foundations for a strategic partnership to develop and share innovative practices and strengthen the links between the European partners.