PROMETEUS principal aim is to exchange and improve youth working competences and good practices (in particular on international workcamp management) between Concordia France, Lunaria Italy, FPEC Ecuador and BVBP Peru through Mobility activities, youth workers and volunteer exchanges. The project methodology relies mainly on non-formal education, observation, experience sharing and learn by doing principles.PROMETEUS main objectives are:- Harmonize and improve youth work quality in workcamps management- Exchange competences and good practices in the consortium and beyond- Develop professional and personal competences of the participants- Empower local youngsters (in particular these with fewer opportunities)- Strengthen links and cooperation between European and Latin American youth organizations.In order to achieve these results, PROMETEUS is composed by the listed activities:- 2 weeks study visit in Ecuador and Peru- 4 European volunteers supporting the latin american organizations during 9 months- 1 international training course of 7 days in Ecuador on workcamps management- local trainings and workshops for the organization members and local youngsters- 12 Job shadowings mobilities during the international workcamp season- 5 days restitution seminar in France.

“STAGED! Struggling Against Gender-based Discrimination through Youth Work in EU and Asia” is a Capacity Building project_KA2, designed to answer the needs of empowering women and young girls in Europe and South East Asian countries, identifying and redressing power imbalances and giving them more autonomy to manage their own lives. The project aimed to enhance gender equity and young women empowerment by providing youth workers, peer educators, local organizations and international NGOs, in EU and SEA, with new tools and methods to favour young women participation in projects and international voluntary service activities. In order to achieve it specific objectives were set:•to raise awareness on the need of promoting young women empowerment, equal rights and opportunities for men and women in EU and SEA;•to deepen the different gender role models so to draft and propose new role ones based on equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities;•to exchange good practices in the field of gender equality and women empowerment, among EU and SEA CSOs;•to develop NFE tools and working methods to favour the raising awareness process and the young women participation in EU and SEA;•to provide participants with new competences and know how on project planning and project lifecycle to create an effective set of actions and IVS initiatives in the gender equality framework.The project lasted 20 months and involved: Lunaria–Italy, Concordia–France, Asociatia Universitur–Romania, Charity-Oriented Myanmar–Myanmar, Center For Sustainable Development Studies–Vietnam and Perkumpulan Gerakan Kerelawanan Internasional–Indonesia.The project included a set of different actions conceived to achieve the above mentioned aim, the specific objectives and the needs of local partners detected during the Itinerant Feasibility Visit and the Study Phase. The actions implemented were: Itinerant Feasibility Visit in SEA, ITC course on gender issues and non formal education methods in Vietnam, Youth Meetings in SEA, ITC on project management in Indonesia, Study Phase in SEA, Local actions implementation in SEA, ITC restitution and methods sharing in Italy and Follow up activities in EU and SEA.The consortium designed, developed, tested and assessed a methodological package, including NFE methods, tool kit, short video and graphic facilitation to approach different target groups and to facilitate the gathering, capitalization and transmission of different outcomes.The project involved 1.542 participants, allowed to achieve the following outcomes and results, answering the specific objectives, crossing the horizontal priorities (HP) and the sectorial ones (SP) of the program:•empowerment of youth workers and young people, by developing transversal skills and capacities, complementary to those offered through formal education, including the comprehensive understanding of the gender’s cross-cultural nature in EU and SEA and the development of new working methods (HP 1 – SP 2);•development of the young people and young women skills and competences, particularly for those at risk of early school leaving, by encouraging the validation of NF and its permeability with formal education paths, creating new learning opportunities (HP 5 - SP 1);•enhancement of the young women’s role, as main agents of local development in the gender raising awareness and promotion of human rights (SP 4)•development of new transversal skills and competences for young women in different social spheres, creating new practical entrepreneurial experiences, with a cross-sectorial perspective, in education, training and youth work (HP 2).Deliverables produced: •Hand Book with the description of the NFE methods and activities implemented in the 3 ITCs; •Video presentation, to show the project’s steps and to ensure visibility •Prezi presentation

"<< Background >>GIVE Lab- Laboratory against gender-based inequalities and violences in international volunteering<< Objectives >>The aim of the project is to provide youth professionals, learners and young people with tools on the theme of gender, sexist and sexual violence*. These tools will be the result of an innovative and transdisciplinary training course, resulting from the collaboration between the different sectors involved (popular education, social accompaniment, social sciences sector, culture sector).1- Enrich educational resources for the prevention of gender-based, sexist and sexual violence with contributions from different disciplines2- Strengthen the capacities of youth workers who are new to these subjects to create caring spaces for awareness and dialogue 3- Lifting the taboo on gender, sexist and sexual discrimination and offering a place to the question of intimacy as a subject that concerns the Collective4- Promote an innovative pedagogical approach that puts the learner at the center of the learning process and that allows the development of transversal competences of the youth, especially the YWFO<< Implementation >>Seminar (C1) April 2022: We expect the participation of two members from each organization with at least one employee in charge of the follow-up and implementation of the project within the organization. Trainings (C2,3,4,5,6) May 2022: For each of the trainings conducted at the national or bi-national level, we expect 20 participants from the young workers (12 of whom will be YWD) as well as the participation of trainers from the member organizations.Laboratory (C7) January 2023: youth workers from the 10 partner organizations will meet to create their tools within the pedagogical kit<< Results >>R1 - Pedagogical resourcesThe organizations of the consortium will build in April 2022 a seminar to which will be invited specialists in gender, sexist and sexual discrimination issues to update the knowledge of the project partners on these issues. Based on the exchanges that will have taken place, the partners will be able to pool resources in digital form that will be stored on the e-learning platform created by SJ within the framework of the Be The Change strategic partnership, also allowing for a diversity of resource formats (audio, video, interactive media, readings). The idea is to host on this space the first resources created in order to feed the construction of the Youth Workers trainings that will take place in May/June 2022. These resources will be freely accessible to anyone who wants to learn more about gender, sexist and sexual violence. R2 - ""Fighting against gender-based and sexual violence in international volunteering"" educational kitThe Toolkit will be the result of the tool creation lab. It is a toolbox containing- resources to be able to put words (definition work) and better understand what is meant by gender, sexist and sexual violence- pedagogical guides from different approaches (social, artistic, legal) on -how to deal with these issues as a youth worker - how to collect the words of a victim of sexual violence, the points of vigilance, the steps to respect, the behaviors to follow - what behaviors to follow with people who consciously or unconsciously attack, reflections on intervention protocols, apply to the context of hosting and leading young international volunteers and community life...- practical tools adapting the methods of forum theater, dance, podcast, creative writing, educational games, to the context of international volunteeringR3 - Guide for the awareness campaign: this guide aims to empower youth and youth workers to conduct awareness campaigns on gender-based, sexist and sexual violence within their organizations and on their territory"

"<< Objectives >>Our cooperation partnership in youth wants to bring a grass-roots contribution to new perspectives for the European Solidarity Corps. It is moved by the initial assumption that the role of the coordinating organisations should be strengthened, enhanced and better recognized in order to multiply the impact of the European Solidarity Corps. it is led by the conviction that the ESC must be more than ever an involvement programme for and by the young people.<< Implementation >>Our project will participate to the capacity building of the coordinating organisations within the ESC, and will demonstrate our assumption and conviction via : - a collection and dissemination of best practices- the design, testing and implementation of a 1-day training for mentors- an action-research on the volunteers' personal project of solidarity- advocacy measures, summed-up in a white paper and promoted via a european conference<< Results >>The achievements of our objectives and activities wil deliver the following outcomes : - a digital ""cook-book"", composed of handy recipes/practical descriptions that sum-up experienced and inspiring know-how. - a training hand-book for a 1 day training for mentors- practical guide, with the outcomes of our experimentation of personal projects of solidarity- a white-paper, based on our project results and that brings as set of recommendations for the future of the European Solidarity Corp"

It is an undeniable fact, shared among a majority of youth organisations, that European Solidarity Corps (ESC) has brought new perspectives for volunteering in Europe. The programme was first announced in 2016 by Jean-Claude Juncker during his State of EU speech, surprising all organisations active in the field of youth. Thanks to its ambitious plan it aims to reach 100000 young people until 2020, while the European institutions have all agreed to continue its implementation further on, with an increased budget allocation for the new Multi-annual Financial Framework. The ESC is built upon the successful implementation of the previously known as European Voluntary Service programme, a flagship programme of the EU for the last 20 years. Even though similarities between the two programmes are evident, there are new elements introduced with its major one being the Volunteering Teams. Volunteering Teams in its core idea involve from 10 to 40 young people for a period of 2 weeks to 2 months supporting a local community through an international volunteering project. Over the last 100 years of its existence, the International Voluntary Service movement has been developing international workcamps as its core activity, which now have been recognised by the EU through the creation of an EU Programme, the European Solidarity Corps and the insertion of the concept of volunteering teams therein. Every year, more than 5000+ local projects are organised with the participation of more than 40000 international volunteers from all over the world. While ESC is an opportunity both for youth organisations and young people, the programme also poses certain threats to already existing forms of youth participation and engagement being developed and implemented by youth organisations. The new programme and procedure through the new platform (PASS) also shake up our ways of working, ensuring good quality of exchanges, volunteers preparation and projects itself.Consequently, the project aims to ensure the sustainability of the international volunteering activities, whether funded by an EU programme or being funded by organisations’ own sources as well as to upscale already existing methods that will lead to increased quality and recognition of youth work and volunteering in Europe. Through a thorough identification of the already existing practices and the methodological analysis, the consortium will be able to present standardised methods and tools for youth workers and volunteering organisations working in the field of international volunteering and mobility. The main objectives of this project include:- identify best practice, successful working methods and tools for the development of volunteering team activities within the IVS movement, and extended,- standardise and upscale existing practice in the field of International Volunteering,- increase the quality of youth work through enhanced methodological planning, preparation, mentoring and follow up of volunteering team activities,- disseminate the project results to other stakeholders implementing volunteering teams,- ensure empowerment, by upscaling the impact of international mobility for the integration of young people with fewer opportunities, migrants and refugees in local and international actions for social change.Based on the experience of the organisations participating in the project, we aim to analyse the current reality, exchange and standardise good practice and be able to multiply the results to other IVS organisations implementing ESC Volunteering Teams. Through this project and the produced outcomes, the partnership aims to improve the quality of the projects offered as well as extend the practice already in place with more than 100 youth/volunteering organisations in Europe.