ABOUT THE PROJECTThe main aim of the project is to build the capacity of national, regional and local youth councils through developing innovative and collaborative practices between youth organization, young people and decision-making bodies.Specifically, these activities will be based on insights collection methodologies and evidence-based approaches for the policy-making processes.THE OBJECTIVES Specifically, these activities will be based on insights collection methodologies and evidence-based approaches for the policymaking processes.1.To train and prepare local, regional and national youth councils participants from each country involved through the mobility and capacity building project activities in insights collection capacity building.2.To collect valuable insights from youth by researching on representative samples through surveys, data collection and other consultation tools to get to know the real and actual youth needs and issues.3.To develop evidence-based recommendations and to present them to decision-makers through a capacity building seminar and local conferences involving representatives of: youth ministries, youth councils, youth workers, youth research, youth organizations and young people from all backgrounds to facilitate the dialogue with decision-makers.4.To create global and local reports and design know-how toolkits and guides to be presented in the last large-scale youth event to ensure knowledge durability and enable youth councils to run continuously structured dialogues by the end of the project.When it comes to the project activities, the project was implemented at 2 levels, at the international level and national level.1.1.1.1 Training Course in ArmeniaIt was a learning space where participants go beyond and deeper in the topic of structured dialogue, length of the event was hosted by Armenian Progressive Youth, where the EaP countries participated with the objective to align all the participants on the same concept and to prepare them uniformly for the methodology in evidence-based methodology. 1.1.2.1 Fellowship on youth participation in SloveniaFellowship on youth participation was a capacity building activity where we bring together EaP issues and EU expertise. The activity was hosted by the National Youth Council of Slovenia which helped us to develop better approaches and innovative initiatives to communicate with decision makers more effectively. 2.1.1.1 Training course on Insights Collection in LithuaniaThis training course hosted by the Institute for Policy and Research of Lithuania during 10 days, and brought the breakdown of the evidence-based methodology through applicable and reliable tools, knowledge on how to collect the insights and bring representative samples to it.2.1.2.1 Insights Collection LocallyThis particular activity aims to participant countries to execute the insights collection applying the previous agreements and methodology developed in previous activities.2.2.1.1 Seminar on recommendations in RomanianDissemination process where the insights collected brought together to analyse the possible recommendations in a based-evidence frame, taking good case practices from countries that already worked with these characteristics. 3.1.1.1 National EventsIn the local activities each project partner had implemented its own thematic activities taking in consideration their national needs and priorities. 3.2.1.1 Reports gathering from partner organizationsNational reports collection and creation of comparable global report, etc.3.2.1.2 Working group on guide developmentWorking group on the evidence-based recommendation developed by all the participants of the project. 3.2.2.1 Closing conference with global and local reports presentation.

This project aims to increase the efficiency of the youth policies through promoting and raising capacities for cross-sectorial cooperation and youth participation in youth policy-making and its implementation on different governmental and non-governmental levels and sectors. The project consists of 5 mobility activities, 2 capacity building activities and local activities between the phases which are not showed in the budget, but it’s a part of the project.First the project invests in professional growth of the youth workers and youth leaders, through training course and fellowship. Fellows from partner organisations and municipalities will shadow job in Sweden and Finland to observe and examine successful youth work and youth policy practices. The project gives space for developing competencies and transferring to the partner organisations through working locally to put knowledge into action and affect the youth policy. We have planned local activities when the municipalities prioritize issues to address, develop strategies, policies, programmes and budget. We believe it’s a good chance to have impact on the decision-making and policy-making. The non-governmental organisations (from EaP) and primarily the fellows involved in this project will take part in government meetings and foster youth participation. The participating organisations will make an analytical research of the political documents produced in the municipalities and make the first intermediate report. These youth workers and youth leaders (fellows) will together organise a youth exchange in cooperation with Gori municipality as a chance to implement good example of youth participation on a local level and developing and supporting youth initiatives. Therefore, a youth exchange builds further on the fellows’ competencies and gives them an opportunity to network with municipalities and directly work with young people who will benefit from this exchange by developing competencies for democratic cultures.The local activities planned in between the capacity building and mobility activities are designed so that there is an exploitation of competences and outreach to young people. The mobility activity – seminar will give chance to the fellows and other representatives from the partner organisations to share the practices from the local actions and evaluate the changes and furthermore shape the plans for the conference and follow-up of the project results The capacity building activities – information and awareness-raising campaigns, conference and handbook for EaP stakeholders in the youth field are planned to enhance the outreach of the fellows and the partner organisations and strengthen the impact on the civil society on local, national, regional and international levels.Since the project has a great focus on public bodies and the fellows will also be the representatives from the public bodies the project resembles a good practice of cross-sectorial cooperation.

This project is developed by FYCA and its European partners. The project aimed to ameliorate the recognition of youth work and non-formal education through the development of certified “International youth studies” curricula and open educational materials for European Higher Education Institutions. The specific objectives were: • Stimulating and strengthening the integration of non-formal education and formal education at universities through the establishment of a certified course on International youth studies.• Creating bridges between formal and non-formal education, youth policy and practice in order to release innovation potential to raise the quality of educational and social service to Europe’s young people, to promote career flexibility and mobility, and to assert the value and utility of evidence-based policy and practice.• Strengthening human potential in the youth field by building a critical mass of qualified youth workers.• Promoting international recognition of the youth work and non-formal education through developing and adopting award criteria that are in line with the formal educational system.Through developed curricula and open educational materials, the project targeted at enhancing the quality of the human resources involved in youth work. It contributes also to the modernization of higher education by designing an integrated course for those involved or willing to involve in youth work.The project consisted of 5 international activities (2 capacity building + 3 mobility).