THE PROJECTInnovative Coaching makes the Difference takes shape within a difficult economic climate of stagnated growth that affects global employment prospects. Due to recent global gloomy economic climate and job scarcity, young people are the hardest hit with unemployment in comparison with adults. For these reasons, the project tries to compensate this inequality of opportunities through capacity building by means of youth work and youth empowerment, by develop youth workers’ coaching competences through the use of traditional games collected from all project’s countries as non-formal education tools.AIMSThe project seeks to boost the quality of youth work as a constructive response to youth integration, and participation in the labor market, as well as positive identity consolidation by means of personal guidance and work-orientation in order to help young NEETs reach their full potential and successfully enter the labor market in their countries.MAIN ACTIVITIESThe above aim shall be reached through the development of an innovative coaching methods designed with traditional games (Coaching Manual), together with a Competence-mapping tool to provide the base for coaching interventions.The project cycle will include:- Kick-off meeting - Training Course- Testing Workshops- Job Shadowing- Local Seminars- Final ConferencePARTNERSHIPThe Innovative Coaching makes the Differecence consortium brings together 6 partners:3 European countries (Macedonia, Italy, and Bulgaria) and 3 Partner Countries (Kenya, India and Vietnam). The project will be coordinated by EUROPEAN CULTURAL EPICENTER Bitola.IMPACTThe most relevant is the impact on the beneficiaries themselves:- Their transversal skills – specifically coaching and career counselling skills will be improved;- Their information and knowledge on career guidance, job market demand and opportunities will be extended;- Their awareness about the flexibility and versatility of NFL will be improved.Participant organizations will develope their capacity on implementing training programs with youth in rural context using the specific tool of coaching through traditional games as well as important issues such as project implementation, international cooperation, and strategic development.On the whole, we estimate that about 800 young people will directly benefit from the project.

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 of ten 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.Within Erasmus+, together with our partners, we would like to promote this idea furthermore, allowing other Youth to develop their programming skills and fully participate in digital word. Partners together agrred, that learning to code is important because of:1. The needs of the labor 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 work2. Media education - computer illiterate group are vulnerable to exclusion;3. Innovative economy - creating software is one of the pillars of the innovation economy.Within the project GO_PRO! we would like build the capacity of partner organizations to develop ICT skills and support digital and social inclusion of Youth in local communities. We would like to create space (non formal education centers) for developing ICT and programming skills. The basic idea is to use the existing infrastructure, only reconfigure it. To create previous GO_PRO! Centers we cooperated with partner organizations – school, libraries, NGOs. Well-equipped educational centers can create great conditions for modern programming education, which especially important in developing countries and/or rural areas.Partners shall organize interesting IT lessons, but also allows (during so called Coder Clubs) youth to develop programming skills during their free time. Coder Clubs are based on challenges. Each week there is a new problem, new challenge, which Club has to solve together! Youth need to learn new thing about algorithm, build a robot using Lego Mindstorms, and then program it properly. Sometimes the challenges forces Youth to divide into smaller groups. They compete with each other to create best solution, this way they are stimulated to give all their energy and enthusiasm to solve particular problem the best possible way.The project will include 2 mobilities for Youth Workers, each of them will help them to be better teacher / educator / animator of ICT competences in their communities. Partner organization will receive grant to buy proper equipment, to lead innovative and interesting ICT workshops in their areas. During the Coders Week (X of 2017 and 2018) we would like to organize collaborative awareness rising actions in order to promote network and import

The project ‘Inclusive Adventure Education: From Theory to Practice’ took place for 12 months (1.7. 2018–30.6. 2019). Project ‘Inclusive Adventure Education: From Theory to Practice’ is response to youth unemployment and youth passivity and it includes three mobility activities (two training courses and one study visit) and capacity building activities in involved countries that will have form of local trainings. Overall goal of the project is to combat youth unemployment through creating more opportunities for youth in education. The project focus on increasing capacities of the partners to use the potential of adventure education and to deliver high quality activities based on adventure education targeting diverse groups of young people, including young people with fewer opportunities. Key results of the project will be series of tutorials and training modules that will be available to anyone in combating youth unemployment through adventure education.

The project idea is to empower youngsters from India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal, the Philippines and Vietnam to become active actors in their local communities and to enrich their skills and abilities in policy making, decision taking, lobbing and advocacy, conflict resolution, active civic participation, strategic planning and management. The project will be implemented in 6 phases: I International trainings: A series of 3 international trainings will be held in Thailand, Greece and Vietnam covering the above-mentioned topics of the project. Each training will be attended by 2 representatives per partner, 2 international trainers and 1 local facilitator.II Job-shadowing: 1 job-shadower per partner will be sent for 3 weeks to Asian or European country where they will exchange knowledge and will experience the process of civic engagement in all level of social life. Each partner will host representatives from one project partner and respectively will send one representative to another partner country. A structured programme including not only meetings but trainings and counseling sessions will be elaborated for each job-shadower depending also on his/ her interest and fields.III Online Learning Platform and webinars: 10 webinars will be scheduled each month for representatives in the international training courses, the national training courses and all other young people and stakeholders who have not had the chance to attend a project training but are interested in the topic. Webinars will allow as many interested stakeholders as possible to benefit from the project activities and the partners’ expertise. IV National trainings and setting the LEAD Youth Councils in each partner country. After taking part in the first 3 phases of the project each partner will organise 3 two-day national trainings for its members to build their capacity on topics of importance for the community development subject to the current project.Each national training will gather 20 local participants. As a result a youth LEAD Council will be established in each partner country. V Local community actions. At least one community action will be planned and implemented by the members LEAD Youth Councils. The community action should have an impact over more than 250 representatives of the local community.VI International LEAD Platform: The event will be held in Bulgaria for 7 days as 2 representatives per partner will attend. The first 3 days the participants will meet and share experience with youngsters from 3 Bulgarian universities (Sofia, Blagoevgrad and Plovdiv). The next 3 days an event will be organised offering to various stakeholders workshops, information sessions, partnership building space and sessions sharing social innovation practices .A press conference will be held. A one-day evaluation meeting with a focus on future cooperation will be organised.

"Climate change is alarming and no longer underestimated: nearly 75% of EU citizens now see climate change as a very serious problem, shows Eurobarometer 2019. At the tail of the problem recognition, the impact of Greta’s movement cannot be underestimated – while the students are already on the streets at “Fridays for future” – we believe it is time for the youth work sector to step together in the race for the Sustainable Green Planet and invest into insetting responsible and sustainable living mindset into non-formal education sector. Being anchor in implementing Union’s Youth policies and having the opportunity to reach young people directly through Erasmus+, youth work must adapt itself to respond loudly to the global challenges in order to be the example young people can refer to.At the same time, taking into account rapidly changing world, teaching sustainable living becomes indivisible from digitalization: (4)EVERGREEN will bridge 2 programme objectives– to support awareness raising on the environmental and climate goals and taking up innovative practices in a digital era. The project main aim thereafter is to contribute to the just and inclusive transition to sustainable living throughout empowering youth work sector across the globe to raise awareness on environmental issues by personal example and digital tools. The specific objectives are:1. To build capacity of consortium and foster networking and cooperation of the youth work sector on global level in terms of environmental-responsible and sustainable living education;2. To provide participating youth workers with knowledge, skills & attitudes necessary for sustainable living education and support their professionalization in the area;3. To build enabling environment for creating together best practices on how youth workers can be themselves ambassadors of sustainable living; 4. To contribute to the Union’s pool of learning recognition tools throughout creation & promotion of the GreenBadges – learning badges system focused on acquainting sustainable living skills and attitudes and promoting these attitudes during Erasmus+ activities: at long term perspective badges can be used in any in-country or learning mobility, as part of ESC TEC;5. To create a catalogue of “planet-friendly” tips that can be incorporated into daily life of youth organizations and young people across the globe; 6. To promote responsible and sustainable living on the personal example of the youth workers and their organizations; 7. To explore potential of the digital tools & gamification in reaching youth via “online challenge”; 8. To practically contribute to the implementation of the European Green Deal, Our planet – Our future initiative, European Youth GoalsTo achieve this we will organize YWMs to support professionalization of the youth workers, they will apply their knowledge to further CBY activities: ""challenge"", creation of User's guide, OER, Greenbadges, local ECO labs and dissemination events."