"Youth unemployment rates in the EU, in particular in Spain speak for themselves, more than 55%. For those youngster under 25 years old, the unemployment rate in the eurozone in November 2014 stood at 24.2%. In the whole EU, youth unemployment rose, to 23.6%. Therefore, both at national and EU level, to promote the integration of young people in the labour market, to promote youth entrepreneurship, and to improve their position in the labor market are three of the main priorities that the regional, national and Euroean administrations are currently tackling .Programs like the new Erasmus + helps to achieve these goals by providing to the youth of tools for promote the development of youth initiatives , which are the seeds of future business projects and to enhance the youth entrepreneurship.In this context born the project ""Entrepreneurship and Youth: Sharing creativity and social Initiatives”, a transnational youth initiative framed in the Key Action 2 of the new Erasmus + Program ( Strategic partnership in the field of education , training and youth) . In the Project, 3 European organizations active in the field of youth will launch planned activities , driven and developed by young people, in order to contribute to promoting the participation of young people from different European regions through the implementation of youth projects of social entrepreneurship, which contribute to promoting enterprise skills and attitudes that promote active citizenship and entrepreneurship among youth.Thus, through the project that will begin in September 2014 and will end in December 2015 , three institutions from Spain , Italy and Romania jointly will develop a program of activities , designed by Spanish young people , with the goal of counseling , guidance and support to young people in each country for carry out social entrepreneurship initiatives in their communities. After develop these social initiatives in each country, those young people of all nationalities will have the opportunity to take part in a Learning Activity that will take place in Seville in September 2015 , where in an intercultural environment , they can share their experiences in social entrepreneurship projetcs with other young Europeans. In this Learning Activity the will get knowledges about the new Erasmus + program aspects , NGOs and Social Entrepreneurship management , and the use of ICT in project management activities. They will develop activities to work the European citizenship and intercultural dimension. Through this Learning Activity, the youngsters will realize the European cultural diversity .The methodologies and activities planned for the project, based on the principles of non-formal education will contribute to the educational process of young people by providing knowledge and experiences that are not acquired in the formal education. They will develop their skills through one of the aims of non formal education, ""Learning by doing"".The project's objective is the creation of differents materials and products that could be used by other organisations at European level. These materials will facilitate the development of social entrepreneurship initiatives carried youngsters. These materials are:- ""Guide for Young Social Entrepreneurs"" - ""Guidelines of internal management"" - ""Catalogue of Good Practices"" - Logo, posters and leaflets translated into 4 languages with information of the transnational initiatives. - Blog Project: entrepreneurshipandyouth. Blogspot. - Audiovisual material.Transfer project results to other people and organizations potentially interested is expected. The results of the project will be public and anyone interested in obtaining the products obtained in the Project may download them through the Blog project .Through the development of the Blog and the Facebook Group for the project, is intended to move forward with the participants and other persons or institutions interested in creating a network of transnational cooperation, to enable future collaboration to scale of European organizations dedicated to youth work."

This project is part of Key Action 205 - innovation. With a duration of 24 months and a consortium made up of five organizations from Spain, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria. With a multidisciplinary team able to tackle all the tasks to obtain the expected results.The purpose of this project is to improve the quality of Erasmus + projects, improving the skills of youth workers, providing them with practical and useful tools that enable them to train and act appropriately in emergency situations or incidents that arise during a project. These protocols will be established to act in case of serious injuries, deaths, fires, violence, allergic attacks ... and all those accidents that are not contemplated in the official documents and guides.Objectives--> Improving Erasmus + projects from the point of view of quality, solution of accidents and risk prevention.--> Providing youth workers with the necessary skills to deal with emergency / accident / risky situations in a successful manner, minimizing the consequences. So that young people who participate in these projects have greater guarantees of safety and reliability.Direct target group:--> Youth workers, youth leaders, staff of organizations and responsible for youth organizations and projects. That is, those who have responsibilities and lead youth initiatives within the framework of the program.Indirect target group:--> Young people participating in Erasmus + projects. They will benefit from safer and higher quality projects.ActivitiesTo achieve this project’s goals there are many activities that we will implement. We can classify them in two areas: those corresponding to the Intellectual Output and those corresponding to management and implementation.Intellectual Output:--> Through this project, a web and app platform will be created where information and action protocols will be collected in order to face risky situations that may occur in Erasmus + projects, specifically youth exchanges, training courses and volunteering.--> Multiplier events in each country to disseminate the achieved IO.Management and implementation:--> Development of the Quality Management Plan and quality controls.--> Transnational meetings: in Spain in month 1; in Bulgaria in month 9; In Slovakia in month 16; In Romania in the month 22.--> Dissemination activities where one of the partners;--> Creation and maintenance of the project website and the relevant social network pages;--> Information notes.The results of the project will be the following:--> To inform workers and youth leaders about the degree of action, responsibility, consequences, possible legal risks that derive from an emergency situation or accident.--> Providing tools and resources to youth workers, trainers, facilitators and members of a staff, which are useful and resolutive when it comes to solve emergency situations, accidents or inappropriate behaviors of any person within the activity itself.--> To encourage motivation, information and training of the participants through sharing ideas and good practices to reach common interests and know how to take / apply effective measures in situations of risk.--> Sensitizing youth workers about the difference between organizing and responsibility.--> Improving the quality of Erasmus + mobility projects.--> To increase confidence in the Erasmus + program.--> Providing youth organizations with great support for the clarification of roles, rules, tasks and bureaucracy.These results generate impact at the local, regional, national and international levels. About the organizations that make up the consortium: youth workers and leaders of the activities, young people themselves and the National Agencies and, by extension, the European Commission, all of them will have a tool that they can use to train themselves or to act in cases of emergency, accidents, risks ... and always in order to make the Erasmus + projects safer and more reliable.Long-term impact:We intend to improve the work of the youth workers and consequently the Erasmus + program, generating more confidence and encouraging more young people to participate in Erasmus + projects. We will promote the action protocols. We will also improve the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the field of work with youth and non-formal learning, thanks to the support of a free access kind of learning and severial open educational resources. All the content and the final result will be offered to the community in digital format and as an open resource, so that any European can benefit in this regard.

The project focused on innovative leisure activities for youth. Partner organisations shared their experiences, passed on their knowledge in leisure activities for youth and addressed current issues at youth work area within the two years of strategic partnership. Mutual sharing took place through 5 educational activities (in each country) and outputs of the project (website and methodology). The main aim of the project was mutual sharing of experiences and innovative approaches in leisure activities and youth work. The output of the project was a website which contains „a bank of ideas“. It serves not only to parner organisations but also to public. Another output of the project was a methodology, that systematically summarizes all the important knowledge to which we reached during the project. The whole project was finished with final conference that aimed at sharing of the outputs of the projects and informing of public.

Project title ENERGY EFFICIENT BALED STRAW ECOLOGICAL HOUSEProject type Erasmus+ KA2 Capacity building in the field of Youth (Western Balkan Youth Window)The main idea: The main aim of this long-term project is acquiring knowledge and skills to participants about using ecological materials in construction and architecture, about energy efficiency and cheaper construction and decreasing amount of organic waste in nature. In this long-term project we will teach participants that are working with young people between age of 15 and 30 how to use almost forgotten methods of building energy efficient houses. We will prepare them for new possibilities of creative self employment through starting their own business. There will be also included young people with special needs and disability (to get them more socialized), and to provide them ways of acquiring new skills and on this way to give them professional development training. Participants will be able to transfer their energy efficiency knowledge to their peers and to encourage use of this method of construction through their professional careers. Knowledge acquired through this long-term project participant will use to build ecological house which will be used in local community for education of young people in ecology, energy efficiency and healthy way of life and will be basis for construction of ecological village with renewable energy sources and organic breeding food.Period of implementation of all activities: 1st of August 2016 – 31st of August 2017Activities:1. Activity 1 (Contact making event) will be implemented in one of the EU program countries: workshop about environmentally friendly materials used in construction and EU experience based energy efficiency; 2. Activity 2 (Training course) will be implemented in Šabac, Serbia: workshop about methods of constructing baled straw house, collection and processing of ecological materials, spending time in workcamp in nature, preparing organic food meals, generating ideas for environmentally friendly interior and exterior appearance of the building, construction of baled straw house, decorating and furnishing the building using eco-friendly materials, the celebration marking the finish of workcamp;3. Activity 3 (Evaluation meeting) will be implemented in one of the Western Balkan partner countries: evaluation of the project through the media promotion and the cultural and artistic program of the participating nations.Products: During the first activity we expect to receive electronic anthology essays on the topics to be covered during the workshop. During second activity we expect to obtain ecological house made of natural materials that will serve as a basis for further presentation of ecological principles through the following projects in the surrounding area. During the third activity is expected to get completed documentary on the whole project and a few short videos on basic principles of energy efficiency.

“Youth Citizenship Activators” is a 10-day Mobility of Youth workers-Training course, organized by Omladinska Kulturna Organizacija from 24th of November to 3rd of December 2016 in Belgrade, Serbia that brings together 35 youth workers, young leaders, trainers and young professionals from Serbia, Macedonia, Turkey, Poland, Greece, Portugal, Albania, Czech Republic, Italy and Romania. Being active citizen in social, political and economic life has many advantages and almost always brings positive impact and benefits on people lives. It brings experience, knowledge, skills, contacts, education, mobility and job opportunities and friendships that otherwise we would hardly get in the comfort of our homes. Active participation widens people horizons, enriches lives, increases self-confidence and esteem, opens new doors for personal and professional development and often leads to job offers or increased chances for employment. But, if the benefits are so high, then why youth doesn’t take active participation in societies and practice their citizens’ rights to be active in the political, economic and social processes in their countries and EU? Why European youth show little or no interest and motivation to be engaged in democratic life, why are they losing community ties and there are declined levels of trust in democratic institutions? The answers on these questions are not easy to get, but we’ve asked these crucial questions to ourselves and our partners and found out that youth workers and youth organisations can greatly help in addressing these issues and inspire and enable active youth participation in democratic life by providing training, education, coaching and information through their work and activities. Therefore, project supports the personal and professional development of youth workers and young leaders by training, equipping with competences and empowering them to work on citizenship education, especially in the context of active citizenship and European citizenship. In the same time, the project creates a new generation of Youth Citizenship Activators (educators) who will be able to encourage active youth participation in socio-political democratic life on local, national and European level in order to strengthen youth voice and role in Europe by using different tools for empowerment.Through successful realization of project and fulfilling its aims and objectives, the project on the long run can significantly help to raise the quality of (European) citizenship education and improve active participation of young people, especially those with fewer opportunities in participating countries and European democratic life.Project methodology is based on non-formal, experiential and informal learning methods and intercultural learning that will aim to foster the personal, social and professional development of all participants though it’s inclusive approach to everyone and adaptation according to their needs and expectations.