"""Youth in One World - Cooperation Beyond Borders "" is a project that will help young people and their organizations to develop sustainable community development projects. The organizations are from Asia and Europe. The participants will be coming from Germany, Netherland, Malaysia and Indonesia. During the project duration different activties will be implemented on local and on international level in order to build the capacities of the organizations and their communities for active youth participation in community development. The chosen topic to work on with the young people invovled will be cooperation for development, sustainable development and how they can make a difference for developoment in their own community using entrepreneurship and their own initiative. Also the project wants to support the validation and recognition of non-formal learning and education. Young people will be directly affected by this project through two youth exchanges that will take place in Indonesia and Germany and bring together 20 persons for 12 days. At the same time there will be six volunteers for 12 month in the different countries supporting the project. The youth workers will attend a trainings course and get to understand their role in community development. They and the organisational managers will work with the young people throughout the project duration to ensure their local engagement. Therefore the project responsible will meet in the beginning of the project and in the end of the project to ensure a good implementation. The main focus of this project lies on the young people themselves and on their initiative. They will shape this project and they will develop the network further and help establishing its structures. Together they will work on European strategies for youth but also for global challenges as well as cooperation between Europe and Asia. The outcomes of this project will be published in the form of a report. There will also be a video produced with the youngsters promoting their projects. The on going project will be monitored through a blog by the participants involved in the project and other multimedial tools available. After the project duration the results will be used further on the local level and the international level as well and the network will work out future projects together to ensure a sustainable and long term cooperation between the young people."

"""Experience EuroAsia and Empower aims to equip NGO representatives with tools for environmental education, socio-economic development and youth awareness on know-how, as powerful tools that can help participants and third users energy into positive and entrepreneur activities. By doing so, project beneficiaries are mostly young people coming from fragile economic and social background, remote areas or areas with high level of pollution. Project is mostly focusing NGO representatives working on topic of environment. Project is targeting specific countries of Europe (Portugal, Spain and Macedonia) and Asia (Malyasia) that are able to exchange good practices, knowledge and experiences in developing green economies.Sustainable development requires European responses. Individual actions, whilst beneficial, will not alone be sufficient to address global sustainability issues such as environmental protection. If we are to create a sense of collective responsibility, then learning will have to play a key role. Learning can add value to this by providing collective messages that all learners can engage with. Without such a sense of collective response then small scale individual actions can become increasingly inadequate and result in apathy rather than positive hope.Due to the all mentioned advantages and disadvantages of the mentioned countries and organizations that used to cooperate with each other in different projects, there was recognized strong need for this project. Therefor the project will work directly on improving general understanding on topic such as : building sustainable practices, exchange of knowledge and good practices in environmental protection, role of young people in more responsible resources exploitation and above all, there was recognized high need of starting a network that would be working on mentioned topics in following years.The project will include eight activities including EVS in Malaysia and Macedonia."

The main aims of the project are to create the foundations for a future Youth Exchange Programme in Asia, through:Increasing the capacities of Organisations in Partner Countries in the field of NFL; Offering the Partner Countries to host a YE to promote at a local level;Developing a Website (see above) promoting such opportunitiesTo do so we expect to:- Enhance the management and internationalisation of youth organisations in Partner Countries through Training and Hosting Youth Exchanges; - Develop tools and methods for the socio-professional development of youth workers and trainers; - Promote cooperation, networking and peer-learning activities fostering efficient management, internationalisation and leadership of youth work organisations;- Increase the awareness of importance of NFL opportunities for local youth amongst the partner organisations and in their networks- Provide the partner organizations and staff with the methodologies and practical tools to carry out high quality YEs. These methodologies and practical tools are represented by the integration between the best practises of YEs and the local context in Asian- Create awareness about YE experiences at the local political and institutional level in partner countries.- Offer 84 young people (excluding leaders) the opportunity to participate in a Youth Exchange- Offer 18 youth workers (6 PMs, 6 Facilitators and 6 GLs) increased skills and knowledge to host YEs and of large groups of young people (large meetings, workcamps, etc)- Stimulate the interest of young people to learn about other cultures and traditions- Offer local communities the chance to interact with international youth- Create a website to promote youth exchanges in Asia. It will include video tutorials, guides and tools will be developed for all the different aspects of the implementation of a youth exchange. Activities:A1 - PBA and Training (France. 4 to 16 November 2016- All partners, 3 pax per partner) A2 - Youth Exchange (Italy. 19 to 30 January 2017 - All partners, 6 pax partner)A3 - Study Visit (Malaysia. 20 March to 24 April 2017. SO: Kora, 2 pax)A4 – Youth Exchange (Malaysia. 7 to 16 April 2017. All partners, 5 pax per partner)A5 - Study Visit (Cambodia. 19 May to 24 June 2017. SO: Kora, 2 pax)A6 – Youth Exchange (Cambodia. 6 to 15 June 2017. Asian Partners, 8 pax per partner)A7 – Study Visit (Indonesia. 14 August to 18 September 2017. SO: Kora, 2 pax)A8 - Youth Exchange (Indonesia. 4 to 13 September 2017. Asian partners, 8 pax per partner)A9 – Evaluation Seminar (Hungary. 5 - 12 November 2017. All partners, 3 pax each)A10 - Intellectual Output (Ongoing: August 2016 to December 2017. Expert group)A11 - Monitoring and Reporting (Ongoing: August 2016 to January 2017)PartnersIDC – France – ApplicantAssociazione Kora – ItalyVilagjaro – HungarySOLS 24/4 – MalaysiaCYA – CambodiaG.R.E.A.T. – Indonesia

"""Building Capacities for Youth Participation across Borders"" is a project that will help to build a greater network between young people and the organizations they are volunteering in from 10 different countries from different regions in the world. The participants will be coming from Germany, Poland, Great Britain, Malawi, Ghana, Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. During the project duration different activties will be implemented on local and on international level in order to build the capacities of the organizations and their communities for active youth participation. The chosen topic to work on with the young people invovled will be sustainable development and how they can make a difference for developoment in their own community using entrepreneurship and their own initiative. Also the project wants to support the validation and recognition of non-formal learning and education. Young people will be directly affected by this project through a youth exchange that will take place in Germany in fall 2016 and bring together 60 persons for two weeks. At the same time two EVS will be implemented in Germany as well. The youth workers and organisational managers will work with the young people throughout the project duration to ensure their local engagement. Therefore different activties will bring together these persons in charge in order to discuss the local dimension and develop new youth work methods that will train young people local but connect them globally at the same time with the help of the here established network of young people. The main focus of this project lies on the young people themselves and on their active participation. They will shape this project and they will develop the network further and help establishing its structures. Together they will work on European strategies for youth but also for global challenges as well as cooperation with different regions in the world. The outcomes of this project will be published in the form of a report. There will also be a video produced with the youngsters. The on going project will be monitored through a blog by the participants involved in the project and other multimedial tools available. After the project duration the results will be used further on the local level and the international level as well and the network will work out future projects together to ensure a sustainable and long term cooperation between the young people."