This project aimed to promote active youth participation in their communities and to build youth workers’ and youth leaders’ capacity to maximize youths potential for social innovation and entrepreneuership in tackling the problems of youth unemployment and for promoting social inclusion, social innovation, gender empowerment and sustainable human development in participating communities. Social entrepreneurship and youth active participation in inovative actions, especially in difficult economic times, have become a form of self-employment for many, allowing people to be self-contained and, at the same time, to make a difference in society.The project consisted of a several international and paralel local acitivities of eight partner organization within a period of 16 months. Central activities were two transnational capacity builiding seminars for youth workers in Vietnam and Croatia; 8 mulitiplication seminars in participating countries, 8 job shadowing activities; production of one Toolkit and of one Manual for Youth Workers and relevant institutions; two practical projects - one YWs amateur documentary DVD and one International Festival: Idea Manifestation - Bringing International Minds Together in Zadar, Croatia. Beside direct participants, with this activities we wanted to reach wider audience and to inform you(th) about the concept, methods, and values of youth participation, social entrepreneurship in the youth sector, as well as provide you(th) with real life examples of young social entrepreneurs in action.Specific goals:- Raising awareness on the role that the young people can play as active Global Citizens - Analyzing how young people in different countries understand and view unemployement issues - Identifying the barriers to active youth participation young people from disadvantaged areas face in their daily lives- To teach youth social entrepreneurship, provide them with a good understanding of the world, encourage critical thinking and self-confidence, while instilling the abilities required to become social sensible leaders and active citizens.- To explore the principles of youth entrepreneurship and the ways which they could be applied- To build up entrepreneurial competences of participants in view of improvement of their capacity for creation of sustainable social initiatives as key elements of the work in the youth field- Promoting the recognition of Youth Work and non-formal learning-To build capacity of youth led organization for sustainability and social innovationProject is 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.

The Commission proposes a new framework for cooperation on youth over the period 2019-2027, to bring the EU closer to young people and to help address issues of concern to them. In this relation, needs analyses confirm that vulnerable young people face additional obstacles in the integration process, such as discrimination, lack of networking, mismatching job needs and qualifications, community-related commitments. In order to improve their social inclusion, they need support and guidance through their integration process, they need to be informed of their rights and obligations in the host society, they must be empowered, they should have access to trainings and be able to take full advantage of their skills.In this context the current project aims to apply a comprehensive approach providing networking opportunities, practical and transversal skills, and exchange of methodologies for the empowerment of young people in disadvantaged situation, assisting and facilitating their inclusion into the EU societies. The Youth Power project will be based on the practices that using the civics and culture, and especially the benefits of group coaching, could help to bring people from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds together and can contribute to the integration and inclusion of disadvantaged young people and therefore to the community cohesion. Youth Power aims to:- Support disadvantaged young people by providing non-formal education on leadership skills and empowerment, as a way of preventing social exclusion;- Empower and strengthen the role of youth workers/mentors/coaches, exchanging best practices on empowerment pedagogical approaches, making them able to deal with diversity in non-formal learning environment;- Build close cooperation between civil society, youth and local authorities to ensure the active participation of all members of the learning community in empowerment of the youth at risk of exclusion;- Involve the wider community in the promotion of EU strategies for LLL (life-long learning) and social inclusion of disadvantaged young learners.Main target groups will be the youth education providers (social workers, trainers, coaches, mentors, etc.) working with vulnerable young learners, and the disadvantaged young people in 4 EU countries themselves, where their social inclusion was identified as a challenge by the partners' experts.The consortium brings together 4 organisations from Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany and Spain, each of them with specific expertise in the youth education field. The transnational cooperation between public & private sectors is strengthen through the involvement of associated partners, where public institutions will ensure sustainability of the Youth Power outputs.The project duration is 18 months, calculated in order to implement correctly the planned action and achieve the project objectives. Main activities will be the development of Training Programme “Culture, Civics & Group Coaching for Disadvantaged Youth Empowerment” for youth educators in 5 languages; blended mobility where 24 young participants and youth workers from the partners' countries will exchange knowledge and jointly work to develop the planned training units; pilot tests with 120 vulnerable young people in 4 EU Member States; local/regional dissemination events, where total of 120 representatives of thetarget groups are expected to assist; creation of Youth Power cross-border cooperation Network, website & project social page, expected to reach around 4000 indirect beneficiaries.The methodological approach taken by Youth Power is based on common decision making, adopting the initiative of regular exchange of practices, aiming to ensure that all consortium members are involved in the project’s progress, being aware of specific strengths of particular partners. The working methodology establishes an organic approach where the local and transnational activities are in constant interexchange and nourish each other at the various stages of the project, while dissemination ensures its success and sustainability. By building a common training programme, addressing the needs of the target groups in 4 countries, provided in 5 languages, with the use of art, civics and group coaching, along with a training component on transversal skills, the Youth Power project answers the needs of disadvantaged youth integration, while countering for gender equality and civic awareness at European level.At long-term will be achieved improved independence, self-esteem and self-confidence of the vulnerable young people through empowerment sessions and civic engagement; better relationship between disadvantaged youth and the host EU societies; promotion of new tools in the youth education field for social inclusión of vulnerable learners; transfer of knowledge and best practices between youth educators in the partner countries and the rest of the EU, thanks to the planned Youth Power follow-up activities.

“Keep your EYES open, Youth entrepreneurship is spreading worldwide” is a Capacity building in the field of YOUTH coordinated by Eurasia net France in cooperation with Open M Vietnam, Virlanie Philippines, EHSB Croatia, and D'avent Romania, with the contribution of volunteers 12 volunteers involved in 7 organisations worldwild (Open M Vietnam, Virlanie Philippines, EHSB Croatia, Mitraniketan India, The European social entrepreneurship and innovative studies institute (ESI) in Lithuania, Friends International Cambodia, COB Greece).Keep your Eyes Open project reached various goals : -to strengthen a transnational and multidimensional network across Europe and Asia-to transfer innovative practices in the social business field link with youth and NGO sector-to foster youth social entrepreneurship and to increase awareness over the topic,The project integrated: -the communication tools created during the former EYES project, -a non-formal education approach and -the youth mobility by itself as a key to self-development and formal access to the social business sector. The project objectives were:- To boost cross-continental cooperation between 5 youth organizations and their local/ national network in Europe and Asia. - To promote an innovative exchanging of experiences and social business models between Vietnam, Romania, Philippines, Croatia and France. - To engage volunteers to send in mission with the international partners, offer a mentoring and a support for their social business projects. - To Increase the local impact of the project in each country involved, through the development of local partnerships and the local events connected to social business. - To enhance the outreach of the online communication tools launched as a result of the project EYES.- To create awareness about entrepreneurship and social businesses opportunities and initiatives among a high number of youth through local events. The project integrated 3 main phases for the youth workers:-7 days: training in France:Workshops on social business ideas and identification of successful and transferable practices in each partner country; Define the missions given to the volunteers; Meet the volunteers; Local visits to get inspiration in social business practices- 10 days: job shadowing:Transfer of good practices and innovative interaction between partners; Support the volunteer and mid-term evaluation of the project. -7 days :The closing seminar in Philippines:Final report of the work done by volunteers and youth workers; Make the video “How to launch my project”; Update the guide of good practices on social entrepreneurship and prepare a final event to spread the good practices and communication material identified/created during the project. And 3 main phases for the volunteers involved:-2 months of preparation in Marseille-6 to 10 months of international volunteering mission-1 month in Marseille: dissemination and skill/ knowledge gained by volunteersTrough theses phases, the consortium managed to take decisions on the expected results of the project, shared many good practices in the field of youth and social entrepreneurship and updated EYES platform with several new elements:- 6 new partners to EYES platform to support and enrich the network- 3 videos of 1 min presenting the project and EYES platform- 5 vidéos of 1 min presenting social entrepreneurship in Vietnam, Cambodia, Lithuania, India, Croatia- 1 Video of 5 min detailing the main steps to launch a social business

Connectivity is a project that focuses on developing a method of sustainable inclusion for unemployed adults through educational outdoor activities. We see the need of such initiative for multiple reasons. Creating an accessible learning frame for disadvantaged groups is a common challenge throughout Europe, especially when it comes to adults. There is a growing interest in working with youth and supporting it through various activities and opportunities, but offering the same to adults seems to be more difficult. One of the main reasons for this is that these adults are less likely to participate in such events, in most cases the participants are people who already take advantage of many learning opportunities. Also, this is the target group that has difficulties in adjusting to the formal educational system, thus losing connection with education in any forms. This often results in social exclusion and borderline behavior (addiction, abuse, depression, etc.). On one hand there are many organizations that focus on this target group and create various activities for support (such as biking, city safari etc.), still, in many cases, these events have no educational value and no long-term impact. On the other hand, even if the organized activities do have an educational purpose, they serve as a one-time experience and they hardly create a difference in the long run. Through this project, we would like to offer a solution to this challenge by improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual fewer opportunity adults so that they enhance their key competencies and have higher chances to enter the labor market. Our idea is to bring together partners who are actively working with this target group and to support them and their staff members in creating a suitable method of inclusion which has a long-term impact not only on the affected individuals but also on the organizations and on the local community. By creating an innovative playground and engaging persons with limited formal education not only in the activities of the organizations but also in the work of these organizations, inclusion will happen on a much bigger scale and will serve as a way to tackle unemployment. The project brings together 7 partners from the Netherlands, Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Portugal and France. Each of these partners works with adults from difficult backgrounds and aims to support their active participation in society through different tools and methods coming from the field of non-formal education.The objectives of the project are the following:- extending and training the competences of our partner organizations when working with fewer opportunity adults (designing activities, creating a sustainable relationship with the target group, offering different learning opportunities within the organization, encouraging the active participation of unemployed adults within society);- improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual fewer opportunity adults so that they enhance their key competencies;- disseminating the project results, inside and outside of the participating countries with the support of the associated organizations during and after the project duration;- ensuring the step-by-step evaluation of the project through transnational meetings, training events, Europasses and learning questionnaires; - creating a sustainable partnership of complimentary parties (with various scopes).In order to reach its goals, the project includes 3 transnational meetings, 4 training events, 3 intellectual outputs (a workbook, a handbook and an online platform) as well as 14 multiplier events. The methodology we apply in Connectivity is process-based and it is in line with Andrew McCoshan’s EPALE Thematic Coordinator.The main results of the project are the following:Intellectual outputs: two guide-books (a workbook and a handbook) tailor-made for adult educators and an interactive online platform.The outcomes regarding the participants are:- acquiring new skills in coaching, mentoring and training (in specific relation with their target group);- developing their competencies in creating and implementing educational outdoor activities;- understanding the interconnections between formal, non-formal education and the labor market.As an outcome the partner organizations will:- equip their staff with new pedagogical materials needed to address their target groups;- improve the partners’ educational output by adding in a new way to work with their target groups;- open up to new ideas coming from other European countries and have a better understanding of collaborative working in a European context;- expand their international profile; - expand their visibility in the partner countries.

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.