"The “NEETs in NEED” proposal planed and developed specific innovative actions to prevent and reduce the unemployment rate among NEETs (18-30 years old) through the realization of research, training and evaluation activities focused on life skills and competences.The objectives of the project were:• to foster the cooperation, exchange of knowledge and capacity development in the field of NEETs unemployment and education between partner countries; • to create and reinforce synergies between public institutions and private organizations that work with young people, education institutes and representatives of business and labour market. • to create new tools and methods that promote the acquisition and improvement of new competences of youth workers, trainers and educators in their daily work with NEETs. • to support and facilitate NEETs integration in the labour market, either as employees or as entrepreneurs;• to empower NEETs´ potential and autonomy to contribute to a sustainable development of society and to European values and goals;• to promote entrepreneurship, employment, education and volunteering opportunities with regions outside of Europe;Coherently with the objectives above mentioned, the results achieved are:- the transfer of non-formal education methodologies and tools useful for working with NEETs´ competences and motivation in order to combat the unemployment, education and training drop-out phenomenon;- the experimentation of guidance and mentoring systems with the help of EVS, as a practical entrepreneurship experience;- the experimentation of trainings for youth workers;- the development of models of intervention in working with NEETs;- the creation a network and of a virtual place for resources for those youth organization, institutions working with these young people.The project activities have been developed in 8 partner countries: 4 European (Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal) and 4 non-EU countries (Philippines, India, Ecuador and Mexico). With this proposal we directly involved 8 youth workers in ""Partnership Building and Social Enterprise Integration to Youth Mobility Programs"" Seminar that took place in Philippines, 18 young NEETs in EVS activities in partner countries, 200 young NEETs in workshops and territorial activities, 16 youth workers, trainers and educators from partner countries in ""NEETs in NEEd"" training activities, 4 youth workers in Job-Shadowing activitities in Philippines, Ecuador, Mexico and India. Public entities, social enterprises, politicians, young NEETs and youth workers collaborated during 19 months. More information of the project and it´s results can be found on www.neetsinneed.org. The initial budget of the project was 163.575,00 Euros and the EC co-financed the project with an amount of 150.000,00 Euros."

CONTEXTThe current European context is marked by a strong cultural diversity, which arises as a result of migratory and racial flows that are intensifying at large steps.Often adaptability and resilience problems are visible in young people from ethnic minorities, migrants and refugees, who, together with low socio-emotional competences and adverse social situations, reveal inability to make decisions and/or not (re)recognize their personal abilities. This lack of competences compromises the decision-making process and, as a result, reduces the levels of motivation and perception of the future of these young people.The lack of openness to intercultural dialogue and contact with other ways of being, being and thinking has repercussions on community integration, resulting in low tolerance for difference, lack of understanding of the other and lack of empathy and solidarity.OBJECTIVES-Promote social, personal and emotional inclusion of young people through the development of key competences and emotional and intercultural intelligence;-Empower the youth workers with new key competences, practices, strategies and non-formal methods of youth intervention, boosting their capacity for local operationalization and transnational cooperation in solving common problems;-Consolidate an inclusive and innovative intervention that guides the work with young people in terms of social inclusion and the empowerment of young citizens who are emotionally more stable, aware, active and oriented towards European needs and priorities;-Provide results with potential for scalability and transferability that guide a participatory and inclusive intervention in the work with young people about socio-emotional competences (as will the intellectual outputs).PROFILE1) Young people-16-22 years;-With fewer opportunities, facing (preferably) cultural, social and economic obstacles;-Provence of minorities, migrants and/or refugees;-Motivated to participate in the project and the Erasmus+ Programme;-Motivated to participate in activities that promote the development of socio-emotional competences and emotional and intercultural intelligence;-With the ability to influence peer groups and the community;-With the ability to absorb results and adopt new behaviours.2) Youth Workers-18 years or +;-Experienced and know-how in the youth field;-Knowledge of the social problem and the identified needs;-Experienced and know-how in intervention with young people with fewer opportunities (particularly minorities, migrants and refugees);-Experienced in contexts of intercultural dialogue;-With know-how and/or interest in socio-emotional competences and emotional and intercultural intelligence;-Knowledge of the Erasmus+ Programme and project;-Motivated in developing competences and learning to improve intervention with young people;-Motivated to work with young people with fewer opportunities;-Motivated to involve young people, the community and stakeholders and to produce social changes.ACTIVITIES AND NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTSThe number of participants per activity must be defined by organisations based on their capabilities. The activities with a specific number are identified.1) Phase 1: Planning and Preparation-Internal meetings;-External meetings;-Transnational meeting (TM) 1 (2 yw);-Preparation.2) Phase 2: Implementation-Development of content and materials (DCM);-Intellectual Output (IO) 1;-Virtual cooperation (VC);-Training course (3 yw per organisation + 1 trainer);-IO2;-Local intervention (general reference of 10 participants);-TM 2 (same as the previous one);-TM 3 (same as the previous one);-Blended mobility (4 young people from EUROACCION and ION GHICA a 6 young people from PSIENTÍFICA + 1 team leader per organisation).3) Phase 3: Monitoring and Evaluation-DCM;-Monitoring and evaluation;-TM 4 (same as the previous one).4) Phase 4: Dissemination and Exploitation of Results-DCM;-Disclosure and communication;-Dissemination and exploitation of results;-Multiplier Events;-Booklet.5) Phase 5: Closing-Closing.METHODOLOGYThe project will be developed based on the methodology of non-formal education, with informal and formal education being complementarily used.RESULTS-Booklet;-Methodological Manual (IO1);-Emobox (IO2);-Development of learning and 8 key competences, socio-emotional competences, emotional and intercultural intelligence.IMPACTS-Development and promotion of direct intervention competences with young people with fewer opportunities in terms of emotional intelligence;-Improvement of interventions through the sharing and adaptation of practices of all the organisations involved;-Specific competencies for the continued implementation of national and European projects such as the Erasmus+ Programme;-Society with a greater capacity to value children and their potential for social development.

"According to available materials from the World Anti-Doping Agency WADA, the number of suspicious findings has risen since 2013 from 3528 findings to 4569 findings in 2017. So in just 4 years this number has increased by 1068 findings worldwide. In the member states of the European Union, the number of positive doping findings for 2016 is 592. Unfortunately, newer data are not available. This figure includes only registered sportsmen and not amateur sportsmen where there is no need for registration. It does not sportsmen not faling under the International Olympic Sports Committee. In this case, higher doping abuse is expected. Another major problem is drug abuse for psychological stimulation during stressful situations such as school exams or sudden personal circumstances. In a personal anonymous survey at the biggest fitness center in Pilsen, over 60% of respondents had experience with abusing of banned substances. Over 80% of respondents are or were considering the use of these substances. Two thirds of the respondents were under the age of 23. The aim of this project is to educate young people about this issue, to inform about the risks and side effects of doping abuse. Warn of misuse of anabolic steroids and hormones. It aims to inform about the risks of abuse of drugs and commonly available medicines, to provide information on how to recognize drug addicts in neighborhood and possibly provide help or help to rehabilitate this addict. The project wants to inform about a healthy lifestyle. The project will contribute to democratic participation of youth and will support young people in the active promotion of democratic values, tolerance, democratic decision making, active fighting of racism, discrimination, xenophobia, bullying and active promotion of respect for minorities. Another objective of this project is to educate trainers / educators / youth workers to inform youth about this issue and how to prevent the subsequent use of hazardous substances.LTTA participants, participants of transnational meetings( further ""TMs"") and local participants will be involved in the project. The project also includes 2000 participants of online educational activities and 300 participants of the presence educational activities. They will be selected from youth not only because of their engagement in sports, the level of drug abuse and drug availability. Within five years from the end of the project, educational activities will take place for min. 300 project target group members in all partner countries.There will be 3 LTTAs and 3 TMs meetings focusing on the project objectives described above. The objectives of the project will be achieved by implementing the described assets by youth, professionals in the field of sports, health, professional sportsmen, people with negative doping experience and youth fitness exercisers with appropriate implementation through partial works in LTTA and TMs meetings. In particular, it will be a structured set of free online educational materials containing educational articles, a methodical guide for trainers/educators/youth workers, a recommendation for European NGOs active in the field of sport to raise awareness of the target group to an independent initiative fight against drug abuse and banned substances in adolescents, and learning about healthy lifestyle. The project will have a positive impact on LTTA participants in the form of new knowledge and skills of participants on drug abuse, doping and other hazardous substances in sport or personal life, skills to help young addicts, knowledge to integrate disadvantaged youth into sport and a healthy lifestyle. Participants will develop the ability to communicate in English, interpersonal communication, negative approach to prejudice, racism and xenophobia, use of the European Youthpass and Europass passports. The project will have a positive impact on TMs meetings participants in new IT, professional/science, dissemination and management skills. The project will have an impact on partner organizations by increasing their involvement in international networks of NGOs, developing expertise and skills of co-workers, and developing their project management skills.Europe for you, z.s. will develop a plan for the sustainability of key project outputs. At least 5 years after the end of the project, all processed outputs will be available online free of charge.The project will be useful in the long run by opening up free online education to prevent and combat the abuse of drugs and hazardous substances for European youth, access to education on doping and drug abuse and disadvantaged youth through a methodological guide in English, enhancing quality and involving young people in sport activities by developing recommendations for European NGOs active in the field of sports. During the elaboration of this project proposal we have incorporated all the suggestions of the evaluators from the previous evaluation."

Various censuses in EU-countries reveal that employment in the creative industries (design, cultural heritage, visual and performing arts, print media, television, cinema, new and digital media) has grown rapidly in the last few years. Nonetheless, ethnic minorities are still significantly underrepresented within this sector in Europe today. To address this issue, the two-year-project DIVERSITY IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES focused on actively supporting this underrepresented young creatives in Sweden, Spain and The Netherlands. The partner organisations involved in this project are: SwIdeas (Sweden), Euroaccion Murcia (Spain) and Capture22 (The Netherlands). With regard to the primary target group - young people, aged 18 to 30, who have had higher educational training in the creative industries and who are at an early stage of their careers – the main impact objectives were:• Improved career-oriented capacities and competences linked to their professional profiles (including: portfolio-building, networking/self-promotion skills, sense of entrepreneurship, growth mindset, finding funding).• Greater understanding of the labour market and (potential) career paths (career-building).• Increased employability and opportunities for professional development. • Increased visibility and improved access to professional networks.• Benchmarking tools for diversity management in order to manage the sector's needs on how to promote integration.• Strategic partnerships and exchange of Best-Practices between organisations and stakeholders from partner countries.• Improved interaction between concerned stakeholders and awareness of urgency to secure diversification of workforce within the creative industries on a long-term basis.This project also targeted organisations (non-profits and companies) within the creative and cultural industries with the aim to empower young talents, to understand the business case for wider representation and inclusion. The project included the following modalities:- The project set out to map the creative industries in each partner country and establish a network of participants. The mapping was the first IO of the project which was the main pillar to build the other two IOs of the project. The second IO is the Online Talent Hub: a knowledge resource portal to provide young creative talents resources to improve their capacities (e.g. providing resources to self-learning and non-formal learning). It also will serve on the long-term as exchanging experiences space for virtual mobility and knowledge-transfer between young talents and the industry.- Blended Mobility Programme: • Mobility programme: In each of the two years SwIdeas, Euroaccion and Capture22 selected young talents from each partner country for travel and accommodation for two-month work residencies at cultural institutions,or creative agencies within the partner region. - Multiplier events:• Annual symposiums (in each country) served as multiplier events connecting the local creative industry, policy makers and young talents. Participants addressed how to facilitate greater representation of diversity in creative industries, including, diversity management strategies, talent development and best Practices, while talents got the opportunity to network and showcase their work. The results of the multiplier events were shared on the Online Talent Hub, through video, social media posts and live tweets from the event. In Spain one of the local TV channels covered part live. The project's third IO is a digital publication which presents the results from the mapping research, share information, resources and Best Practices collected during the two-year-project, and presents a set of priorities on the diversity agenda for the creative industry network to focus on.Considering the highly sensitive nature of issues related to integration and inclusion and the resulting sensitivities of governments with regard to local policies, it is in the project’s best interest to place young people from within the participating countries at the forefront of efforts and allow them to drive these initiatives beyond the two years of the project. In addition to the intellectual outputs, the multipliers events and blended mobility programme have contributed effectively to the sustainability of the project and multiplying its outreach. The project will reach out to an extended network of communities of practice, institutions, civil society organisations and young people-serving organisations to actively participate to get engaged and to build on the project’s outputs.Main results and impact:The project has opened new horizons for the young talents who participated in the blended mobility programme leading to further educational opportunities or to further employment opportunities. Furthermore, SwIdeas has bee invited to present the project at the MED forum, where it was nominated as one of the best practices in the Euro-Med region.

The project aims to create innovative educational approach and tools to concretely apply intersectionality in youth work. For “intersectionality” we intend an analytical tool for studying, understanding and responding to the ways in which identity components intersect with other personal characteristics/identities, and how these intersections contribute to unique experiences of oppression and discrimination. The project wants to create the space to transfer intersectional approach to the youth field and youth work, to try and face the modern challenges according to which an holistic analysis of systemic discrimination is necessary to understand and tackle social inequality. In this sense, the presence in the partnership (Giosef Torino-Italy, Euroaccion-Spain, YES-The Netherlands and New Generation-Palestine) of a Palestinian partner is essential, because it brings a unique experience of oppression that enacts a mechanism according to which the national identity becomes completely prevalent and overruns all the other intersections, starting from one’s own self-perception. The specific objectives are:-to foster an innovative and inclusive educational approach based on the concept of intersectionality;-to reinforce the response of education and training systems and youth policies to the main challenges of today's world, such as civic and intercultural competences, intercultural dialogue, democratic values and fundamental rights, social inclusion, non-discrimination;-to develop innovative outputs to be disseminated throughout the Euromed area, in order to guarantee an improved capacity and know-how of the organisations active in youth work;-to promote an intersectional approach in the youth field that contribute in promoting social inclusion of young people, particularly those with fewer opportunities and part of marginalised groups at risk of exclusion;-to foster a participatory approach in Euromed cooperation, enhancing an equal exchange of contributions and competences, in order to avoid the risk of a neo-colonial approach and work on the capacity building in regards to the outreach and inclusion of second generation immigrant young people in Europe.The main result expected is the creation of an innovative educational approach that allows us to work concretely on intersectionality in youth work. For that purpose, the project will create three concrete intellectual outputs:O1-Make it Relevant: Intersectionality in Youth work: a standalone publication gathering theoretical essays and advocacy material related to the topic of intersectionality applied to the youth field, building the theoretical framework in which to move;O2-Tools for Intersectionality: an educational Toolkit with activities and tools to work concretely on intersectionality in youth work;O3-Make it Real: Intersectionality in Youth policy: a list of recommendations to be addressed to policy makers regarding the implementation of intersectional measures and approach in the youth policy field.MARTI foresees a series of activities to facilitate the achievement of the set objectives:- 3 TPM to facilitate cooperation among the partners and monitoring:*Kick-off Meeting in Italy*Monitoring Partners Meeting in Spain*Evaluation Partners Meeting in The Netherlands- 2 Training Courses to train youth workers about the tools created, the intersectional approach and prepare the piloting phase involving young people, through NFE:*B.I.Y.-Bring Intersectionality in Youth work*SIMPLE-Stake Intersectional Methodology: Plan it, Learn it, Enhance it!- 2 rounds of Multiplier Events to disseminate the project results:*E1-E4: Make it Relevant - Intersectionality in youth work*E5-E8: Make it Real - Inclusive youth work in an intersectional world.The consortium has foreseen the involvement of participants with fewer opportunities alongside the project, both in the mobilities and the local phases, thus putting in place specific measures to facilitate their inclusion.The project will support the improvement of youth workers capacity, fostering an inclusive approach in their practice with young people at all levels, in terms of prevention of multiple discrimination, for facilitating identity building and awareness processes. Therefore, young people with fewer opportunities will greatly benefit from this increased level of inclusion. The outputs and the learning outcomes will facilitate the organisations competences to integrate the local and Euromed youth work practice. Moreover the impact on the policy making level will foster inclusive youth policy integrated with youth work impact and recognition.To facilitate the whole process, from preparation to dissemination, the consortium has included four associated partners to support the activities from several perspectives:*ENAR-European Network Against Racism*HREYN-Human Rights Education Youth Network*Municipality of Torino*Region de Murcia - Consejeria de Educacion, Juventud y Deportes.