REC is based on the use of experimental filmmaking to empower disadvantaged young people and prevent violence situations from bullying to gender-based violence. Why experimental video? Because it is a powerful, attractive and innovative artistic medium, that can be matched by few, if any, other art forms in terms of communicative potential. Why violence/bullying? Because violence occurs in all countries, there are no exceptions and young disadvantaged people are at greater risk of it. It is estimated that 246 million of children and adolescents experience violence every year (UNESCO, 2016).REC will transfer a program, given its proven success in Spain, to Italy, Germany, Indonesia and Kenya from where 75 young people will become experimental Filmmakers. Our main goals are:- To empower young people and prevent situations of harassment and violence through experimental films creations, which in addition, will give them voice- To equip other organizations with training methods, firstly to prevent violence, but also to improve learning of other topics- To enhance young people’s competences and skills in different fields smoothing their way to employmentTo reach such as important objectives REC will organize a sophisticated 2 year-transfer plan, which will allow partners’ organizations to implement the programme and integrate it into their daily activities. REC project will start with the Inaugural Meeting and the Training of Youth Workers; in this initial training, participants will get in touch with the existing program to be able to adapt it to their target groups’ needs.Since violence is a common issue in all partners' countries and experimental films have one clear goal: do not leave anyone indifferent, we have combined them into a training programme to transfer violence to fiction. During the programme itself, 25 experimental films (5 per country) will be produced, split into the following five film series (sub-topics): - Bullying and power imbalance (INTRAS)- Cyberbullying: hostility without boarders (CJD)- Gender-based violence: controlling and neglecting (CESIE)- Physical violence: Tormented and tormenting others (DEJAVATO)- Indifference, invisibility and isolation (ITF)To support the transfer of knowledge REC project will also include 3 volunteering services in Spain, Italy or Germany and organize an awarness campaign with local Exhibitions and Festivals, a Youth Exchange: “The REC International Experimental Video Fest” in Indonesia and a set of tools to allow that external organizations could also apply the programme: “The REC Filmmakers Guide”, The Documentary Film and the 25 Experimental Films already produced.

The first objective of the “Link 2 Continents” was to strengthen the cooperation between Asia and Europe through a project made of different steps and activities which together created a learning process for all the organizations and persons involved. The aim, which was reached, was to support the organizations and youth workers involved to develop new skills and approach new tools for improving the work with young people. During all the project the focus on the topic of diversity was constant and enriched with different point of views. The participating organizations were from Italy, Slovakia, Spain, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, this proposal was a follow-up of a cooperation project organized in 2013/14 and has created new collaborations and enforced old ones. “Link 2 Continents” has seen the implementation of a Kick-off meeting in Italy in March 2017 followed by a training course in Thailand in May, 12 EVS short term mobility activities between May and September 2017, local workshops with schools and local partners in each country during all the project and on beginning of 2018 6 job shadowing activities for youth workers. The project produced a concrete output called “Scriptamanent – Volunteers share their experience” which gives visibility and dissemination of their volunteering travel on the other side of the continent, and acts as tool for generating new projects and increase young peoples’ participation in youth projects.

"SIMPSON is the project with overall aim to develop the model of empowerment of young people (especially NEETs) though coaching. The specific objectives of the project was strictly connected to the implementation of the overall aim and were the following:Specific objective 1: to improve the expertise of the partnership, to enable them to work with unemployed youth and NEETs more efficientlySpecific objective 2: Support unemployed young people and NEETs, and particularly those in long-term unemployment to build competencies that will give them better chances to be included in the labour market;Specific objective 3: To develop the methodological framework and tools for coaching in EVS.Specific objective 4: Enhance active citizenship on local and global level within a group of traditionally passive (long-term) unemployed young people;Specific objective 5: To contribute to improvements of the system or learning recognition within the Learning mobilityWe were achieving those objectives by creating and testing a coaching model for the EVS activities ""SIMPSON"". There will be an international think tank created to develop the system and tools for coaching the EVS volunteers in 3 stages – before the project, during the activity, and after the return to their home countries. Based on their work the publication with the tools, model and project results were developed.Youth workers from participating organizations and EVS volunteers tested the model after the international TC that was aimed at the development of the competences of youth workers that allowed them, later on, to do the coaching session with young volunteers. Then we implemented 25 EVS mobility from 2 to 6 months( 1 less than it was planned from the beginning), during which the model was tried out. As the last stage, the evaluation meeting was conducted to measure the quality of the model and the general impact of the project and to plan the follow-up.Project was designed for 2 years, and the partnership is composed of 7 organizations from Spain, France, Poland, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand and India."

"The project overall objective was on one hand to conduct a comparative analysis of Youth Issues, Attitudes and Policies in relation with the social innovation processes from the perspective of various world regions, and on the other hand to promote the recognition of Youth Work by building youth workers’ and youth leaders’ capacity to empower young people for using social innovation in finding local answers to complex social and societal challenges in participating communities.Specific objectives were: -To investigate young peoples’ knowledge, opinions, attitudes and tendencies towards social innovation and raise the awarness amongst general public about its importance-To provide YWs an opportunity to engage in a debate on what is within the capacity of youth work when it comes to support of social innovation -To explore the bridges that can be built with other social innovation support structures/programmes and the business sector.-To empower YWs to initiate youth social innovation actions on local level in view of finding local answers to societal challenges in participating communities. -To provide youth with set of competences required to become socially sensible leaders and active citizens-To teach youth social entrepreneurship and the ways which they could be applied-To practice tools in relevant areas of management in order to plan actions for sustainable future development of participants at different levels ( personal and professional level (as entrepreneurs and active civil society members;- organisational level (to ensure local initiatives in the youth field) and at international level (via future joint transnational actions and entrepreneurial projects)-To develop creativity, innovation and teamwork capacity of participants, their sense of initiative, as well as their understanding of how to be good learners-Through sharing of the Change Makers stories in an Online Platform to articulate the purposes and value of youth work to policymakers and wider public by promoting youths’ and youth work achievements in the field of social innovationThe project consisted of a several international and paralel local acitivities of eight partner organization from Croatia, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Kenya, Poland, Peru, Thailand and Tanzania within a period of 22 months. Central activities were two transnational capacity builiding trainings for youth workers in Tanzania and Croatia; 10 mulitiplication seminars in participating countries, 8 job shadowing activities; conducting and publishing a reaserch results, production of one Toolkit and one Guide for Youth Workers and relevant institutions; two practical projects - one Online platform ""Youth Social Innovation Idea Bank"" and one International Market organized in Zadar, Croatia.Beside direct participants, with this activities we wanted to reach wider audience and to inform youth about the concept, methods, and values of youth participation, social innovation in the youth sector, as well as to provide general audience with real life examples of young social innovators in action. Project was imagined as social process in which participants voluntarily trough interactive non-formal methods develop personal, social, and professional profile as well as competences for further learning."

Idea of GO_PRO! Network was positively recognized by United Nation. In the annual World Summit of the Information Society (Zurich 2015) it was nominated to prestige prize, as one of 30 best ICT capacity building initiates. It was also described in WSIS Stocktaking Report 2015 as one of good practises. In Poland the project was nominated to a prize: New Technologies Locally 2015, which is annually granted by Polish – American Cooperation Foundation. It was described as one often best initiatives of 2014. Network was supported also by Reading and Writing Foundation – Public Libraries 2020 initiative, as one of 6 best initiatives involving libraries. Our current project Regional Programming Centers was nomited to WSIS prize (WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY PRIZES 2020) in the capacity building category as one of 20 best ITC initiatives.Within Erasmus+, together with our partners, we wanted to promote this idea furthermore, allowing other Youth to develop their programming skills and fully participate in digital world. Partners all together agreed, that learning to code is important because of:1. The needs of the labour market – programming specialists are one of the most needed professional groups, basic programming skills will be useful for the majority of positions based on the computer work 2. Media education - computer illiterate group are vulnerable to exclusion;3. Innovative economy - creating software and new tools and services are the pillars of the innovation economy.Within the project GO_PRO! we built the capacity of partner organizations and they are able now develop ICT skills and support digital and social inclusion of Youth in local communities. We also wanted to create a special space (non formal education centers) for developing ICT and programmingskills. The basic idea for it - is to use the existing infrastructure, only reconfigure it. To create previous GO_PRO! Centers we cooperated with partner organizations – schools, libraries, NGOs. Well-equipped educational centers can create great conditions for modern programmingeducation, which especially important in developing countries and/or rural areas.Partners got the knowledge, skills and tools to organize interesting IT lessons, what also allowed(during so called Coder Clubs) youth to develop programming skills during their free time, using the equipment under the guidance of a volunteer. Coder Clubs are based on challenges. Each week there was a new problem, new challenge, which Club had to solve together! Youth needed to learn new things about algorithm, build a robot using Lego Mindstorms, and then program it properly. Sometimes the challenges had forced Youth division into smaller groups. They competed with each other to create best solution, this way they were stimulated to gave all their energy and enthusiasm to solve particular problem the best possible way.The project included 2 mobilities for Youth Workers, each of them helped undeniably them to be better teachers/ educators/ animators of ICT competences in their own communities. Each Partner organization received grant for proper equipment, in order to lead innovative and interesting ICTworkshops in their areas. During the Code Week (X of 2017 and 2018) we to organized collaborative awareness rising actions in order to promote network and for self-development purposes. We had in mind, that encouraged/empowered youngsters or children develop so quickly, that volunteers need to be trained constantly to provide quality ICT workshops.The project is extremely innovative but based on an easily replicable model - that we tried to share in detail with partner organizations. Another innovative element is that project activities were specifically designed to develop a new set of entrepreneurial and digital competences which are in today’s digital society crucial for both: employability and active participation of young people in the society.