In EU-28, the media literacy field is dominated by NGOs, providing resources (leaflets, videos, curriculum, websites, etc.) for youth, and developing competencies like critical thinking and media use (Council of Europe, 2016). Most of the projects treat young people only as consumers/receivers, who only need to be trained to “protect” themselves from propaganda, fake news, hate speech, etc. In this context, MILagers partners concluded that they need to take the media literacy to the “next level”, level based on the following needs: - the need of supporting young people to develop MIL competencies, in a holistic way, perceiving them as consumers that engage with media & information providers, and most importantly as content creators, expressing opinions, and participating in the public arena;- the need to uncover and use the potential of youth organizations and youth workers, outside of media literacy field, to support young people to develop MIL competencies and actively participate in the public arena;- the need to create cross-sectorial partnerships to support young people to develop MIL competencies by exposing them to real life situations and work tasks given by diverse stakeholders;- the need to support young people to put their social initiatives into practice, through facilitation processes that address their concrete ideas of civic, social, political participation.MILagers project aims to engage, connect and empower young people, by enhancing their media and information literacy (MIL) competencies through cross-sectorial and innovative open educational tools. The project goal is to improve youth work in the field of media literacy, supporting youth organizations to:-support young people to develop MIL competencies in a holistic way, through an app based game with real working tasks provided by stakeholders, such as media companies, creative agencies, universities/schools, public agencies, youth organizations, etc.;-strengthen young people’s sense of initiative, helping them to put in practice their ideas for solving social problems, through design thinking facilitation techniques adapted to the youth sector; - support young people to express their opinions through powerful storytelling techniques and influence policy-makers, decision makers, CSOs and other relevant stakeholders. The project will also enhance the youth organizations’ communication and media capacity, and their capacity for designing, redesigning and co-designing user-centered services for young people, through innovative and NGO-suited design thinking and storytelling tools.The main target groups of the project are the youth workers (at least 144) and youth organizations, and young people (200) interested to develop MIL competencies with the following purposes, as described in UNESCO MIL framework (2013): problem solving (for social initiatives), intentional learning (for personal and professional development), and for actively participating in democratic societies. We will address these needs, through innovative educational tools (UNESCO eight MIL competencies framework based): - a MIL app based game, built on real life situations and real work tasks, for young people; - design thinking journeys for youth workers to facilitate young people’s social initiatives from idea to practice; - a storytelling handbook for young activists, supporting youth workers to teach young people to build - powerful messages and stories in the public arena, by using the latest tools and technologies; - design thinking and storytelling training toolkit for youth organizations to enhance their communication and media capacity and their capacity for designing/re-designing services for young people, allowing for youth co-creation and ownership.MILagers project brings valuable results for young people, partner organizations, and other youth workers and youth organizations, as well as for other relevant stakeholders interested in the field of media and information literacy competencies for young people. MILagers will support young people to develop MIL competencies in a holistic way by using the eight-competencies UNESCO MIL framework that will constitute the base of all the intellectual outputs developed within the project. Also, young people will strengthen their sense of initiative and also they will be learn to better express their opinions for influencing policy-makers, decision makers, CSOs and other relevant stakeholders. Youth workers from partner organizations, but also from other youth organizations will develop their competencies and improve their work for supporting young people to develop MIL skills, and for enhancing their sense of initiative and for expressing their opinions in the public arena. The new knowledge and skills they acquire in these two fields enhance their communication and media capacity, but also their potential for designing, redesigning and co-design services for young people.

Bridges to ENpower aims to improve the quality of youth work in Ukraine, in the field of entrepreneurship education for young people, and to foster cooperation and exchanges between youth organizations from Ukraine, Poland, Romania and Norway.The aim of the project is reached through the following specific objectives:- Professionalize youth workers from Ukraine in delivering workshops on entrepreneurship education;- Enhance the the capacity of youth organizations from Ukraine to provide mentorship programs for young people, in order to increase their interest, knowledge, and competencies related to entrepreneurship, and to foster their employability;- Professionalize youth workers from Ukraine in establishing sustainable and efficient cross-sectorial partnerships on the labour market (with companies, SMEs, universities and students associations);- Foster cooperation between the partner organizations from Ukraine, Poland, Romania and Norway, through common work on developing open educational resources, and through the internationalization of partners’ expertise.The activities from our project launched, tested and implemented youth work practices, methods & tools and training modules, more precisely:- non-formal learning methods and OERs (a training toolkit for youth workers and a training were developed and directly delivered to 29 youth workers) on entrepreneurship, volunteering, media & communication, and career counselling. The toolkit and the training deliver entrepreneurship education by developing several competencies area for youth, based on practical activities related to volunteering, media and communication, opening and running a business, and career counselling.- new forms of practical training schemes - a mentorship program was designed so that will allow for young people to develop professional skills and competencies in a real working environment, and also learn from their mentors practical information on how to open and run a business.Moreover, the project enhanced Ukrainian youth organizations’ capacity for innovation and internationalization. Through the new methods and tools developed the organizations provided new services to young people, enhance their collaboration with the private sector and increase their sustainability.Nevertheless, the project encourages cooperation, networking and exchanges of practices among youth organizations from Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and Norway. A workshop and a regional conference for 50 relevant stakeholders was organized in Ukraine on themes, such as youth, entrepreneurship education for youth, youth employment, youth organizations-private partnerships, in order to disseminate the project's open education resources.

YourKITE project developed digital media and communication skills of young people, and promoted volunteering and professional orientation in order to ease the youth’s access to the labor market. At the same time, the project promoted entrepreneurship among youth as a way out of unemployment, by developing entrepreneurship knowledge and skills of young people. YourKITE project provided an integrative approach to train and capacitate young people to become skillful entrepreneurs and employees. The project aimed to develop the skills and competences of young people through the following activities:- the creation, for partners use and for other youth organizations and NGOs, of the yourKITE toolkit - a manual for young trainers to conduct workshops on media & communication, entrepreneurship, volunteering and career counseling practices, that can be used to enhance youth employability;- the development and improvement of skills and knowledge of partners' staff, through joint staff short-term learning activities and sharing of good practices among partners, on the topics of media & communication, entrepreneurship, volunteering and career counseling;- 18 young trainers were trained to use the toolkit in a transnational training, developing their knowledge and skills on the topics mentioned above, but also on how to conduct workshops for youth; then, they reached 466 young people (14-17 years old) conducted workshops in their community and help the young people to develop skills and knowledge on media & communication, entrepreneurship, volunteering, while planning better their future career;- the creation of online training courses on the same topics, for which 113 people enrolled; the online training courses will be further used by partners and other stakeholders in their current or future projects;- the creation of the online platform - yourKITE.org, that provide open access to all the educational tools developed in the project, and to other valuable resources for youth workers, NGOs, youth organizations for enhancing young people's employability by developing essential skills needed on the labor market;- the insight report of the project developed to support other NGOs to organize similar projects, for youth, and and in the international context.The yourKITE toolkit for young trainers, on media and communication, entrepreneurship, volunteering and career counseling, together with the online training courses will be kept online, and these will be integrated in the partners’ regular services provided to young people. Thus, all the partners commit to use the intellectual outputs in their further projects/activities, to provide for free these to their stakeholders or new partners, and to annually train young people/volunteers using the teaching materials created.The project was implemented by:***Norsensus Mediaforum (Norway) with relevant expertise on media and communication, digital skills development, visual storytelling, marketing, visual communication, design, and on working with youth, especially coming for disadvantaged groups, such as migrants;***Fundatia Danis (Romania) with relevant expertise on entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial skills, social entrepreneurship, career orientation for youth, on organizing training courses and workshops for youth, and on providing internships for young people;***FRW, then followed by FAIR (Poland) with relevant expertise on working with youth, including disadvantaged groups, on developing workshops for children and young people, on volunteering activities and on developing life skills through volunteering activities;***FRSI (Poland) with relevant expertise on developing digital skills of young people, on working with youth and young adults, on providing career orientation and career counseling, and on organizing webinars and online training courses.Stakeholders: 59 Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and international youth organizations, entrepreneurship centers, high schools, universities, and other NGOs were targeted during the project, mainly through the dissemination activities, through joint staff training courses, where they were invited as relevant stakeholders to provide specific support to the partners, but also through feedback activities, when they were involved in providing their inputs for the yourKITE toolkit, and for the online training course and the yourKITE platform.

SEntrA project aims to promote social entrepreneurship among young people by offering a set of non-formal learning tools supporting youth workers and organizations to actively enhance youth social entrepreneurship. Specific objectives:• Develop research-based knowledge on the social entrepreneurship landscape mainly but not exclusively in the five European countries involved (CY, GR, RO, NO, IE), with a particular focus on youth entrepreneurship and with regard to current policies,key trends,legislation & development issues (based upon the UN Sustainable Development Goals).• Develop a manual in alignment with the EntrComp Framework of the EC that will describe the framework of the relevant skills & competencies, as well as the methodologies,way of thinking and environment required to support youth acceleration in social entrepreneurship• Design a training toolkit as an educational tool that can be used by youth workers & youth organizations to prepare young people to develop social enterprises (aiming at reaching concrete Sustainable Development Goals)• Develop an online learning platform providing free access to young people, youth workers/organizations and decision-makers/stakeholders to learning resources & project outputs • Offer valuable transnational training to youth workers in an existing accelerator that may be transferred in other EU countries.• Create a dedicated Vlog that will feature video stories and will promote success stories from the participating countries about social economy, social entrepreneurship and social enterprises to inspire the target audience• Propose valuable public policy for boosting social entrepreneurship among young people. The specific policy brief will be disseminated and promoted among decision-makers The project will increase awareness among young people, youth workers and youth organisations on the potential of social entrepreneurship, and will cultivate and nurture the social entrepreneurship concept among all target groups.The participants that will be directly involved in the project are 145 Youth workers, 100 young people from partner countries and 100 relevant stakeholders such as youth organizations, social entrepreneurship promoters, NGOs, public authorities,social enterprise incubators, universities etc.The project that lasts 2 years (24 months) involves the following partners from five different European countries:P1. ARIS – A Really Inspiring Space-CYP2.Fundatia Danis-ROP3.Norsensus Media Forum-NOP4.Asset Technology-GRP5. Letterkenny Institute of TechnologyOutputsIO1-Researching the landscape on youth social entrepreneurshipIO2-Framework for youth acceleration in social entrepreneurshipIO3-Training Toolkit to support young people to design social enterprisesIO4-Vlog/Social collaborative and learning platformIO5-Policy Brief/Youth Accelerator GuideAll partners participate in every output.Multiplier eventsThe first round of events target youth organisations/youth workers/trainers and stakeholders involved in social economy acceleration (enterprise incubators etc.). They will be organised within the first six months of the project in order to engage in the concept,present theresearch results (I01),achieve their active involvement, and take decisions for the next steps of the project development.The second group of events will occur towards the end of the project to disseminate the outcomes and promote the results at national level. The events target youth organisations and youth workers/trainers and stakeholders, will act as multipliers and achieve the wide use of the project outputs and results.Transnational trainingThe project includes one training activity, which will take place at the established Accelerator ARIS in Cyprus in (month 19) and will involve 25 youth workers from all five countries. The activity aims to educate and train youth workers/organisations in regards to establishing and running a youth social entrepreneurship accelerator programme. Training the youth workers is especially important, as they are the ones who will share their knowledge and expertise with young people and social enterprise stakeholders in their own country thus multiplying the impact of the project.The project is expected to have a significant and multi-faceted, positive influence on the partner organizations through the exchange of knowledge & experiences, the strengthening of their capacity and enhancement of their offering; on youth workers/organizations by improving their skills and competencies through non-formal learning; on young people & aspiring social entrepreneurs by offering a set of sustainable,useful tools and developing an enabling environment for the creation of new social enterprises; and finally social enterprise stakeholders by obtaining research-based knowledge on the social entrepreneurship landscape in Europe, providing a practical youth accelerator guide and a policy brief addressed to decision-makers.

In 2019 VšĮ EDUKACINIAI PROJEKTAI (Lithuania) performed the research in 3 Šiauliai city schools (all in all 228 respondents) and Zaffiria (Italy) collected 195 questionnaires in the schools from Emilia-Romagna region. The results are disturbing – neither parents nor teachers know what children are doing online, about 67% of respondents do not know whom to contact when cyberbullying, hate speech is observed, ¼ almost every day communicate with strangers online, 1/3 notice hate groups and aggressive speech. Based on EU Kids online report, in Lithuania, Romania and Norway children use more internet, thus, are more exposed to different risks. In the same report it is also claimed that still there is a shortage of tools, training for children, parents, teachers to combat cyberbullying, hate speech on the internet. A complex issue requires a complex approach.The project “Cooperation to Combat Cyber-bullying and Hate Speech in (Pre-)Primary Schools” (VOICE) is focusing on the challenges of the digital world – cyberbullying and hate speech online – and proposes a different approach of work – listening to the opinion of children and promoting co-education where schools as well as parents are involved in solving these issues.The consortium involves 5 partners from 5 European countries: VšĮ EDUKACINIAI PROJEKTAI (Lithuania), Zaffiria (Italy), Norsensus Mediaforum (Norway), VI One Consultancy (the Netherlands), Bucovina Institute (Romania) and more than 8 associated schools involved in (pre)primary education.The project has set up the following objectives:•To find ways of collaboration, create a space for dialogue between teachers, parents and children that can facilitate the resolution of harmful or dangerous situations online by activating the positive resources of the communities and external stakeholders involved;•To listen to the point of view of children and enable them as EU citizens to debate and reflect on the project topics;•Experimenting with participatory tools and methodologies that enhance media production and participatory word taking for a new relationship with the media and technologies and for new alliances;•Production of guidelines, methodology that can accompany European stakeholders in activating the active participation of people in education and childcare policies;The outputs anticipated in the project:1. Documentary (IO1) with interviews with children explaining their point of view on cyberbullying and hate speech; 2. Cartoon (IO2) to raise awareness of the phenomenon thanks to children creativity;3. Interactive Notebook (IO3) with activities and games to be carried out in the family and at school to stimulate co-education.4. Toolkit for teachers (IO4) who wish to set up a co-educational relationship with families of children in the class: it will contain methodological notes, work ideas but also concrete and sustainable activities, as well as materials to be downloaded to facilitate meaningful educational experiences.With the outputs we are contributing to open pedagogies in education, innovative methods and tools for teaching, training and encouraging the development of the professional competences of staff involved in early childhood education as well as promoting EU values.The activities throughout the period of 3 years are organized in a way so that to achieve the project objectives and create the anticipated outputs. There will be 4 transnational meetings, 1 LTTA and 5 MEs in partners countries to have the outputs disseminated on the European scale.The project is contributing to a new approach promotion:•hearing the voice of children, letting them to become the heroes and experts on the project topics, making input to the creation of the documentary and cartoon; •promoting the need for co-education – the work on prevention, information, proper reaction should be done not only at schools, but also in families;•the work on “difficult” issues should be done already from early age (starting from (pre)primary schools).Teachers (150), trainers (25), families (300), children (500) of primary schools through the project activities, workshops will be involved in the co-development, co-creation and testing of the outputs.The project outputs in 6 languages will be shared with teachers, parents, school management, policy/ decisions makers via created multilingual project website, School Education Gateway, eTwinning and Erasmus+ Results Platforms.