The Idea for ‘’Forward looking cooperation in Youth Work: a dream getting through’’ as KA2 project under Erasmus + Program, was born from the long-term cooperation between EU and ASEAN NGOs , which are still striving for continuation of collaboration work on actual local and international needs detected. This project is the follow–up idea of the capacity building project EUROASI with the aim to transfer the best practice of the “Youth in Action” program in South East Asia. We have created a project that has had and still has a strong impact at local level, in Indonesia, the Philippines and in EU, which give learning and mobility opportunity to young people and youth worker. We can say that all the work done during EUROASI has impacted the community and marked the way to reach the policy makers both in ASEAN and EU. The project has last 23 months creating a draft of mobility program among for Asean Countries by sharing best practices, methodologies and policies with other Countries which have been already involved in youth programs. The project has involved mainly 5 Countries: Italy (coordinator), Belgium, Indonesia, Philippines and Portugal with the participation of thousand of young people.The project activities, based on methodology of NFE, were developed in 4 main directions: 1) LEARNING: youth workers from 5 partner countries attended 3 different training courses and 1 seminar. The activities were based on methodology of NFE and gave action to basic concepts to foster active participation and strengthening the role of youth for local development. 2) REALIZING: dedicated to the local need analysis, defined by young people during the previous project and realization of the local new ideas, passing through all phases of a project management 3) SUPPORTING young people by creating local info points in Philippines and Indonesia and an online platform of collaboration for youth organizations from Europe and Asia.4) AIMING HIGH creating a “focus group” for discussing, researching and creating a working paper for a youth mobility program in ASEAN and by visiting the European Parliament, Asean Secretariat, European Commission (DG Culture and Youth), and other relevant Institutions that create policies and programs for young people. The organization that took part to the project are:TDM 2000 International - Italy (Coordinator)ARS for Progress of People (Belgium) Great (Indonesia) Red Cross Philippines - Boracay Malay Chapter (Philippines) Synergia (Portugal)

“Young people in Europe spend an increasing amount of their time, consuming digital media and technology…These can provide a place for young people to learn, to share their experiences, to exchange their views, to have fun with their friends and to actively participate in society” (Developing digital youth work - Policy recommendations, training needs and good practice examples for youth workers and decision-makers : expert group set up under the European Union Work Plan for Youth for 2016-2018)Enabling youth participation with digital tools is mentioned as one of innovative practices in youth work in the Publication of the European Commission quoted above. Digital tools can be used to support the already existing structures and processes of youth participation or to incentivize e-participation in online environments or a combination of both that can be complementary. Although some work has already been done in exploring digital youth work in Europe and e-participation in general, there is still not enough systematised information about digital tools for youth participation in decision-making processes in particular.Therefore DYPALL Network and its partners have decided to implement this 18 months long project with the following objectives:• To identify and promote digital tools for engaging youth in decision-making processes at local level;• To reflect about key concepts of digital and e-participation and their applicability to youth participation in decision making processes in the local governance; • To build capacities of youth workers to foster digital participation of young people at local level;• To develop an online database and a publication that will collect best practices of digital and e-participation tools for youth engagement in decision-making processes in the local governance and serve as a resource tool for youth workers, organisations and municipalities.Throughout the project, we will be working on researching and collecting best practice examples of digital tools that enable youth participation in decision-making processes at the local level. These tools will be gathered from all around Europe, not limited only to the countries that partner organisations are coming from, in order to ensure diversity and quality of the results. They will then be published in an online database and also turned into a Publication of the Study on Digital Participation Tools for Youth Engagement in Local Governance.

"Youth Participation Matters, a long-term project implemented by DYPALL Network and its partners ARS for Progress of People (Belgium), CID (North Macedonia), Europe4Youth (Poland) and FRG Campania (Italy), brought together various non-governmental organisations, local authority representatives, researchers, youth workers, youth leaders and young people to explore and share various models of youth participaiton in decision-making processes at the local level in Europe. The main goals of the project consisted of: - Identifying and promoting projects and models of structures and mechanisms that allow sustainable and quality youth participation in decision-making processes at the local level; - Mapping and promoting innovative practices of youth participation in decision-making processes at the local level; - Developing competencies related to youth workers, in order to better foster participation of young people at the local level; - Encouraging dialogue between youth organisations, civil society and local authorities’ officers; - Training youth organizations, youth workers and local authorities on how to develop quality democracy projects, as well as models for youth participation in decision making at the local level; - Theorizing about key concepts of youth participation in decision-making processes (such as advocacy, policymaking, partnership, participative and representative democracy) and to develop a common understanding of such definitions; - The development of a publication, that consist of the collection of best practices of youth participation projects and that highlights quality indicators for such; - Contributing to the mainstreaming youth participation practices that promote democracy at the local level, and at the European level The activities implemented in order to achieve the objectives mentioned were: 1) Seminar - ""Models of youth participation at the local level in Europe"" 2) Training course on the development of participatory based projects 3) Conference - ""Youth Participation Matters"" In parallel to the project activities, the project partners conducted the Study on models, instruments, initiatives and toold of youth participation at the local level in their respective countries, culminating in the final publication of the Study."

The project of partnership between 6 organizations from Poland Portugal, Belgium, Romania, Slovenia and Macedonia consists in collecting and exchange of best practices of municipalities to make their cities youth friendly. In the project partners are reaching out to municipalities in their regions and countries to examine various dimensions of youth friendliness. Partners will collect detailed knowledge, hands-on examples, implementation methods and strategies of those municipalities to support those various dimensions of youth friendliness. Collected best practices we plan to exchange during 1 learning mobility (for youth workers and municipality representatives) and put together in a publication to be delivered to a network of municipalities in our countries. At the end of the project we plan to put together various criteria for municipalities of how they can become more youth friendly.The project will impact concrete municipalities engaged in the process, as well as partners and networks. Ina longer run we plan to continue a mission of supporting municipalities in transition to youth friendly cities. Aims of the project thereby are:1) To collect best practices of friendly youth cities implementation in various dimensions, e.g infrastructure, youth participation and co-management, education and youth opportunities, youth rights protection. health and information, as inspirations and incentives for youth policy making at a local level,2) To bring together youth workers, young people and decision-makers from our municipalities to initiate debate stimulating political decision making in the field of youth friendly cities.3) To stimulate urban development with the special focus on youth and enagage young people into urban planning.The project is directed to municipalities, youth workers and civil society actors from our regions (min. 20 actors), as well as young people - final beneficiary of youth friendly cities. assessed impact will embrace minimum 200 public officers and municipality employers and over 20 000 young people living in targeted municipalities. The project structure will consist of 2 transnational project meetings and 1 training course for staff on implementation methods of collected best practices, as well as research at a national level identifying best practices. The product of this project will be a publication collecting all best practices together with recommendations on their implementation.

"The ""InterArts - Youth Communities for Social Inclusion"" project aims at empowering young people to fight against discrimination and social exclusion through the use of artistic activities. By deploying an innovative non-formal methodology based on a set of art-related disciplines (i.e. dance, theatre, music, street-art, photography, literature, cinema, painting & sculpture), InterArts will produce practical knowledge to reduce social exclusion and improve the level of key competences and skills of young people living in marginalised conditions.InterArts will gather 8 EU organisations with longstanding expertise in the field of youth, culture and social inclusion. These 8 organisations will work for the creation of a multifaceted methodology that will be run in each involved territory. The methodological activities are essentially conceived to enable young people living in marginalised condition to play an active role in the fight against social exclusion, launching with arts a strong message against racism, bullying and discrimination. InterArts will help participants to build a culture of peace against racism, discrimination and violence. Furthermore, InterArts wants to create a virtual space in which local stakeholders can discuss and compare trends, initiatives and policies carried out all around Europe, aiming at building up a new framework for reflection and improvement of social-based initiatives through the use of art.More specifically, the 8 partners will contribute to the achievement of three specific objectives:- Identifying and mapping European areas where young population in marginalised condition is more widespread, trying to understand main aspects, possible reasons and causes;- Developing an innovative non-formal methodology focused on the role of art for improving social inclusion of young population;- Creating a stable network of stakeholders (cultural institutions, youth NGOs, associations and local authorities) aimed at tackling social exclusion of young people by means of a continuous and integrated strategy at EU level.Each of these objectives will be strongly connected to the the accomplishment of the following expected results:- Finalisation of a comprehensive analysis on young people conditions in terms of social inclusion and community integration;- Publication of an Interactive Map on young people providing information on statistics and data concerning youth social inclusion;- Realisation of a complete review of good practices and lessons learned on the topic of art for social inclusion- Development of an innovative non-formal methodology aimed at involving young people living in marginalised conditions through the use of art; - Experimentation of the methodology through an 8 months-length training course. The whole module will give room to 8 art-related disciplines: theatre, dance, photography, street art, music, cinema, painting&sculpture, literature. All the partners will be required to engage with young people in needs and ask them to reflect on their condition through the use of art.- Official creation of a network gathering cultural institutions, art schools, cultural associations (music schools, conservatories, theatrical companies, etc.), youth NGOs and public institutions that will set up a common strategy for tackling social exclusion through an integrated framework of initiatives and policies;- Creation of an online open forum where stakeholders and beneficiaries may exchange opinions and experiences on the topic of “art for social inclusion”, as well as promoting initiatives and launching surveys."