<< Objectives >>Through the project of strategic partnership and organizing activities in Poland and Bulgaria, we would like to exchange experiences of other employees of the organizations, their ways, and methods of working with young people through non-formal education, whose main goal is to learn by doing. The participants will not only improve their knowledge about tolerance and anti-discrimination in their own country and in Europe but will also have the opportunity to acquire new hard and soft skills.<< Implementation >>In the project, two meetings will be held - in Poland and Bulgaria. During these meetings, the staff of the organization will exchange experiences during the panel discussion, share their proven methods of working with young people in the field of anti-discrimination. Another 3 meetings with the local community of youth in Poland, Bulgaria, and Germany will have an educational character, during which young people will develop an attitude of tolerance and action against discrimination.<< Results >>- establishment of good and valuable partnerships between participating organizations from Bulgaria, Poland, and Germany,- Exchange of good and best practices used to work within the organization in activities involving people from excluded backgrounds - affected by the climate crisis, inequality related to LGBTIA+ background, as well as people from a refugee background,-- the exchange of good practices and experiences in the field of youth work methods

"""EntrepRURAL socialy"" is a Strategic Partnership in the youth field aimed at promoting the role of Social Entrepreneurship (SE), in combination with Non Formal Education (NFE) and practical learning, as a tool for enhancing social inclusion and employability of disadvantaged sectors of the youth population from rural area. The direct target group of the project are young NEETs (not employed in education, training or in the labour market) aged 18-30 in all partner countries and Europe. The indirect target group is composed of youth operators, NGOs and institutions involved in the youth dimension of non formal learning (youth centers, Sport clubs and associations, informal groups of young people) at the different levels (from the local to the European), in partner countries and beyond. The specific objectives underpinning the implementation and monitoring of the Strategy include the reduction of early leavers from education and training to less than 10% by 2020 as well as promoting the acquisition of entrepreneurial skills/attitudes and of basic and transversal skills at all levels of European societies. An antinomy between set expectations and factual developments emerges from a context analysis of existing challenges, particularly in sensitive portions of the youth population. The inclusion deficit left open by formal educational setups combines with the structural bias of the labour market against low-qualified profiles, determining a concerning proportion of long-term unemployed among the youth. According to European statistics 2018 (Eurostat), 16% of the EU population between 20 and 34 belong to the NEET category. The youth who are neither in employment, nor education highest rate are in Italy (28,9%) and lowest in Sweeden (8%). In 2018, the share of young people in the EU who were NEET's was lowest in cities (15.1 %) and highest in rural areas (18.3 %), with towns and suburbs reporting a NEET rate (17.3 %) that was between these two extremes. In the field of youth, in line with the proposed EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027 project covers following priorities - foster the inclusion and employability of young people with fewer opportunities (including NEETs), ease transition of young people from youth to adulthood, in particular the integration into the labour market; develop their competences, setting quality standards, ethical and professional codes.Project aims at addressing this challenge through cooperation among countries affected by massive youth unemployment phenomena, with a concrete focus on extracting the educational potential of Personal development, Rural Needs’ Analysis, Storytelling and ICT as NFE pathways to foster entrepreneurial empowerment and concrete transition from ideas to action in the field of Social Entrepreneurship among the youth, in combination with NFE. Project methodology will integrate the 4 identified approaches into functionally distinguished components of a comprehensive process of entrepreneurial development:1) Personal development, us a activity which empower young people and become more aware about their opportunities and resources.2) Rural Needs’ Analysis, as an approach for the identification of the grassroots local community needs to be catered by means of Social Entrepreneurship action.3) Storytelling, as an instrument of structuring business ideas, establishing a clear/cut identity of social enterprises and related initiatives/products as well as fostering internal cohesion through the establishment of a defined corporate identity. 4) ICT, as a crucial area of expertise of a social entrepreneur profile and sector of direct entrepreneurial engagement. Steps of project cycle will be: - Sharing and coordinated research on the existing good practices, which will be reported in state-of the-art Reports and filtered into educational Toolkits for testing with the ultimate target group. - Testing and reporting: A Blended Youth Mobility involving representatives of the ultimate target group (NEETs aged 18-30) will test each Toolkit (1 BMYP per toolkit) and develop the related learning outcomes in participants. - Processing: Assessment of testing results for the production of an integrated Format combining the areas of learning addressed in the Toolkits."

"<< Background >>Nowadays, the world is rushing forward without paying attention to aspects related to the future of societies and the environment. In a way, an international movement of various institutions called Fair Trade responds to this problem. We would like to carry out this project in order to:1. Encourage young people to set up their own enterprises that will meet the needs of today's world.2. To increase the awareness of the society about the aspects related to sustainable development, ethical approach to business, conscious, responsible, and sustainable consumption, and the need for changes that the world needs nowadays. 3. to solve the problem of unemployment among young people.4. Increase of satisfaction of young people from the activities.5. Providing young people with knowledge and experience, which they can't get on the labor market by themselves - somehow directing and facilitating their career start.6. Communicate to local communities about fair trade, in which one person does not live at the expense of another, and that consumers pay specific prices that ensure producers are fairly compensated for their labor and an acceptable income for the trade organization;Above all, however, it is important to raise public awareness that people are more important than business.<< Objectives >>We would like to make the communities as aware as possible about the Fair Trade principles of (general objectives): - Respecting and caring for people and the environment, putting people's needs before profit;- Creating means and opportunities for producers to improve their living and working conditions;- Developing mutually beneficial relationships between sellers and buyers;- Paying buyers a price that ensures producers are fairly compensated for their work and an acceptable income for the trade organization;- Increase awareness of the situation of women and men as producers and traders;- Promotion of equal opportunities for women;Specific objectives:- to improve employability, to promote social inclusion, tolerance, respect for diversity, and non-discrimination.- to tackle youth unemployment- to raise awareness of youth in partner countries about the idea of Fair Trade- to promote the idea of entrepreneurial spirit- to generate an innovative way of learning with the application of ICTs methodologies and virtual collaboration- to use online tools throughout the project period in order to share results, offer online training, and develop the partners ICT competencies- to create a set of learning materials as Open Educational Resources (OER);- to foster formal and non-formal learning for young people across Europe- to promote the concept of peer learning between youth workers based on active participation, creativity, and intercultural learning.<< Implementation >>To achieve the planned goals, we believe that the following activities are necessary:1. International meetings:- Kick-off meeting - to develop a project implementation plan, discuss potential risks that may arise in the implementation, discuss project assumptions, time frame, tasks to be performed, and dissemination. All this to properly plan the activities foreseen in the application. - Intermediate meeting - after a few months of joint cooperation, it is necessary to verify the work already done, ""correct the course"" of the project, discuss the next steps, the budget used, and take further materials to create a report. What is more, the dissemination activities so far and plans for the next months will be discussed.- Final meeting - summary of the whole project, where we will verify the assumptions vs. effects, as well as the plan for dissemination after the project implementation.2. Local conferences - to communicate the project ideas and activities within a wider audience consisting of people from varying professional, educational, and cultural backgrounds and from all walks of life. The conference will draw upon ''Fair Trade Our Fair Future'' ideas, best practices, and outcomes but it will be broad in scope; it will be rooted in application-oriented interactive activities with labor market reinsertion and inclusive education methodologies and training practices for youth in the field of entrepreneurship with great emphasis put on the concept of Fair Trade. A very important aspect of the conference will be the presentation of the e-learning course and digital handbook, that corresponds to the needs of young people from partner countries in the terms of Fair Trade.3. Short-term joint staff training events - during the short-term joint staff training event, youth workers are obliged to take an e-learning course (each participant will sign the agreement). At the end of the training event, each youth worker will receive a Youthpass certificate. New trained partners’ youth workers will transfer and implement all the knowledge acquired during the project concerning entrepreneurial ideas, mainly how to set up a company and put great emphasis on the concept of Fair Trade.4. Implement ""Fair Trade Our Fair Future - e-learning platform: - through Internet tools we would like to reach a wide audience, and technology nowadays makes it easier for us. The online learning platform should be simple and intuitive so that also people with lower digital competence can easily acquire the knowledge we provide.5. Create ""Open/online/digital education - E-learning course/modules"" - for the above platform to be fully equipped, it needs relevant content prepared by experts (in our case, these are Youth Workers). The modules have to be complete enough so that after passing the course, the user is fully equipped with the knowledge of the broadly understood concept of Fair Trade and elements related to entrepreneurship and sustainable development.6. Create ""Fair Entrepreneur"" - digital handbook - in order to provide knowledge about the project in a structured way, we would like to create a digital handbook, which will contain all relevant information related to sustainable development, responsible consumption, entrepreneurship, and other aspects referred to in the Fair Trade principles. The Handbook is to be created by theoreticians and practitioners who consider such a mix of knowledge as the best way for people who are just starting their careers or want to change their approach to business.<< Results >>As the project is implemented jointly with Polish and Bulgarian partners - our common goal, which was defined during intensive discussions during the preparation of this application, is primarily:1. Encouraging young people to set up their own enterprises that will meet the needs of the current world.2. to increase the awareness of the society about the aspects related to sustainable development, ethical approach to business, and the need for changes that the world needs nowadays. 3. to solve the problem of unemployment among young people.4. Increase of satisfaction of young people from the activities.5. Providing young people with knowledge and experience, which they can't get on the labor market by themselves - somehow directing and facilitating their career start. Supporting the realization of these goals are the Project's Results that we would like to produce during this undertaking:1. Fair Trade Our Fair Future - e-learning platform - through Internet tools we would like to reach a wide audience, and technology nowadays makes it easier for us. The online learning platform should be simple and intuitive so that also people with lower digital competence can easily acquire the knowledge we provide.2. open/online/digital education - E-learning course/modules - for the above platform to be fully equipped, it needs relevant content prepared by experts (in our case, these are Youth Workers). The modules have to be complete enough so that after passing the course, the user is fully equipped with the knowledge of the broadly understood concept of Fair Trade and elements related to entrepreneurship and sustainable development. 3. Fair Entrepreneur - digital handbook - in order to provide knowledge about the project in a structured way, we would like to create a digital handbook, which will contain all relevant information related to sustainable development, responsible consumption, entrepreneurship, and other aspects referred to in the Fair Trade principles. The Handbook is to be created by theoreticians and practitioners who consider such a mix of knowledge as the best way for people who are just starting their careers or want to change their approach to business."

"<< Background >>The Covid-19 pandemic has affected everyone's lives, but it risks wiping out all the progress made in recent years to promote the social inclusion of people with disabilities. The system of services dedicated to them has not always been able to meet the needs of sociality, rehabilitation and inclusion. Rather than adapting to old and new needs emerged during the current health emergency, many facilities have reduced, or even suspended, outreach services. This decision has affected youth with Down syndrome in every country represented in the Work for Inclusion partnership. The common elements that favor and hinder the social participation of young people with Down Syndrome, as highlighted by the needs analysis carried out by the partnership last October, are:- the difficulty of reaching all people with disabilities, both among those who need more support and those considered to have less severe disabilities, including youth with Down Synrome;- the fragmentation of interventions, forcing families to take on the burden of relations between the various institutions and services;- the mission entrusted to operators and services is limited to ""assist and cure"".The cornerstone of the project is the consideration of the person with Down Syndrome as a worker: for this reason, the partnership has focused on the abilities, interests and talents of the target group. The partnership chose to abandon the paternalistic, subsidy vision that is often attached to disability, to collaborate to lay solid foundations to create a reality that links employment and training with the intention of placing young people with Down Syndrome at the center of their life project, so that they can make the most of their abilities.<< Objectives >>Having established through the needs analysis that what is lacking is not the target group's will to find a job, but the lack of integrated support tailored to their specific needs, and that this trend seems to be the norm not only in partner countries but also in other countries in Europe, the consortium has set the following specific goals:- To promote the independent living of young people with Down syndrome, to better prepare them to find employment and be active citizens.- To improve access to information regarding inclusive employment, both for youth and their families, project staff/employment support specialists, and the general public.We have chosen to emphasize a well-defined priority: social inclusion. The road to complete integration and inclusion of people with Down syndrome is still long, but it is still possible and full of resources and enrichment for everyone. It is necessary to create a united and participatory European and national network of solidarity that can protect and enhance the talents of all young people with Down syndrome.As underlined, the project also aims to promote and enhance the culture of solidarity and work inclusion. The actions will be designed with the awareness that they can represent an opportunity for exchange and growth for both the actors involved (project staff) and the beneficiaries of the interventions. Society, services and the welfare system should respond to the demands for active citizenship and indipendent living that come from people with Down syndrome, as well as from their families and the people working with them: it is time for them to become the active protagonist of their own life project.Every person needs to be and feel useful, to have a recognized role within society. Unjustified differential treatment to the detriment of people with disabilities produces significant shortcomings in terms of equal opportunities, as well as fewer opportunities for independent living: for this reason, Work for Inclusion intends to focus on the talents of young people with Down Syndrome and on improving their professional skills and competencies, with the aim of ensuring real educational, work and social inclusion, thanks to an exchange of good practices at European level and the production of innovative products that respond directly to the needs of the identified target group.<< Implementation >>The overall goal is to increase the number of employed young people with Down syndrome in employment across Europe and to promote their active citizenship, along with the development of key competencies for lifelong learning. To do this, young men and women with Down syndrome will be involved in every stage of the project, from the production of the results (providing feedback and ideas on the development of the scrapbook) to dissemination activities.They will, of course, be the central protagonists of the LTTAs and will form focus groups to provide general feedback when needed.1) Focus groups: this type of activity is planned to receive feedback on the results produced, in order to improve and update them. The number of young people with Down syndrome involved will be 5 per partner organization (except Rusaalka) - in addition to those who will participate in the mobilities. This is a way to involve young people who do not live near the partner organizations but still have an interest in the project's themes, or whose families are wary of the possibility of letting them travel.2) LTTA: young people with Down Syndrome will be the protagonists of four learning mobilities, during which, through non-formal learning and work-based learning, they will improve their skills in the field of job search. Visiting inclusive workplaces in other European countries will also benefit the project staff who will be able to propose new models and techniques of supported employment and/or good practices for inclusive workplaces in their own country, thanks also to the extensive national network of participating organizations.3) Results (ex IOs): the partnership foresees the creation of two innovative products: an Independence Scrapbook, tailored to the learning needs and interests of the target group, which will help young people with Down syndrome outline their life and work path, while stimulating their creativity; and a documentary, which will record the expectations and desires of mobility participants, and will draw attention to good national practices of partner countries, in areas that are often characterized by stigma and negative prejudices (Andalusia in Spain, Calabria in Italy, Bulgaria, the Macedonian region in Greece), but that, precisely for this reason, have over time rolled up their sleeves to make up for lacks and ""empty"" interventions (both from the public and private sector) in a creative and effective way.The heterogeneity of the partnership will ensure the design of activities and products that are attentive to the needs of the target group thanks to a cross-sectoral approach, and will ensure widespread dissemination throughout the territory thanks to a targeted Dissemination plan, at local level (through the direct involvement of young people with Down syndrome), at national level (thanks to the involvement of actors active in the field of support for people with Down syndrome), and at European and possibly worldwide level (thanks to the submission of the documentary in various film festivals focused on the rights of people with disabilities).<< Results >>During the project lifespan, the partnership expects to achieve the following outcomes: 1) Intangible learning outcomes within the partnership and direct participants: project activities will contribute to the capacity building of partner organizations and will be a valuable contribution to the development of the skills and knowledge of staff members, young participants and also employers (as they are expected to participate as guests in mobilities and dissemination activities). LTTAs and dissemination activities, for example, have been organized in a way that maximizes the learning impact of direct participants, strengthen the partnership and relationship between partner organizations and young participants, which we consider critical for the successful creation and implementation of tangible project outcomes. Direct participation and feedback through testing of products by youth with Down syndrome are considered the most important element in the creation of tangible project results (ex IOs). Implementing all the planned activities, by the end of the project, the partnership will have:- exchanged and acquired new knowledge, methods, and increased skills on the topics of the project (both for staff and for young participants with Down syndrome);- received training on the reality of inclusive work in Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and Greece, and the support given to workers with Down syndrome at the local level (in Calabria, Andalusia, Sofia and the Macedonian region), with potential for transfer and adaptation of good practices observed in other local and/or national contexts;- maximized the impact of learning through on-the-job learning, which will also contribute to the empowerment of individuals, pushing young participants to become protagonists of their own life path.2) Tangible results: to facilitate the achievement of the project objectives, the partnership has designed two results (ex IO): the Independence Scrapbook, which will stimulate the creativity of young people with Down syndrome and help them ""design"" a path to independent living, and a documentary, which will be essential to show to potential employers, staff of associations and organizations working with the target group, and also the general public, the needs and capacities of the target group - and how partner countries respond to their need for social and work inclusion, by highlighting good practice examples at the local level. The two tangible results will facilitate the achievement of the project objective also thanks to the fact that the partnership will guarantee open and free use to all: the products will promote the active citizenship of young people with Down syndrome and guarantee (especially the Independence Scrapbook) a linear and transversal development of key competencies for lifelong learning and for an effective and efficient job placement, which actually responds to the talents and aspirations of each individual."

"""TheArThee"" (TAT) will explore the inclusive potential of theatre and performing arts as a methodology to create opportunity, learn new skills, enhance communication and dispel prejudice against young people facing social exclusion. This will be achieved by sharing of best practise and skills exchange from cross sector organisations working in the field of youth empowerment and alternative learning. The project will explore how theatre can be used as a tool to bring elements of society together to empower young people regardless of class, race, gender and perceived disabilities and abilities. The project complements the focus on youth exclusion with additional attention to physical and cognitive impairment. TAT deploys an intervention on the skills-related and emotional dimension of excluded young people's plight through exploring the educational, integrational and creative dimension of devised theatre. Devised theatre is conceived as an original approach to the theatrical production entailing a peer-to-peer process of co-operation between a group of co-creators in the achievement of a final artistic product. The non-hierarchical nature of the co-creation process is designed to give each individual voice a determining role over the final outcome of the process, thereby ensuring the full ownership of the creative process by each individual co-creator. The European Disability Strategy (2010) sets the overall objective of empowering people with disability with a view to enabling their full participation in society, also by positive action aimed at eliminating all kinds of discrimination. With a record number of NEETs following the financial and economic crisis, there have been concerns among policymakers that a whole generation of young people in the EU could remain out of the labour market for years to come. The latest data available for 2017 shows that NEET rates in the EU-28 were 15.5 % for people aged 20–24, 17.7 % for those aged 25–29, and 18.1 % for those aged 30–34; In 2017, the at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion rate for young people aged 16-29 years was 27.7 % in the EU-28, corresponding to about 21.8 million young people; In 2017, an average of 10.6 % of young people (aged 18-24) in the EU-28 were early leavers from education and training (Eurostat 2017).Physically and cognitively impaired young people face the highest challenges within the marginalized element of the youth population. At the European level, only 48,7% of persons with disabilities are employed compared with 72,5% of the non-disabled. For the 15-34 age-group of the disabled population, the EU unemployment rate is 30,7%, 15 percentage points higher than for the corresponding age bracket in the non-disabled population. At the European level, 41.2% of persons aged 30-34 have completed a tertiary or equivalent education against a 29,7% percentage among the corresponding age-band of the disabled population. Objectives/Goals • Reduce social exclusion of disadvantaged youth by creating and piloting a format for educational offer targeted at youth operators and organizations for the development of their capacities in employing devised theatre, co-creation and peer-interaction; • Contribute to the guidance and methodological support to operators in the implementation of co-creation programmes in devised theatre targeted at excluded youths by published materials; • Promote the innovative educational format of devised theatre, co-creation and peer-interaction Target group TAT is addressed to an audience of direct targets and indirect targets • Disadvantaged young people aged 18-25 coming from marginalized urban and rural communities. • Educators/trainers in the youth field providing or interested in developing their understanding of social inclusion • Entities with outreach to the targeted youth categories (NGOs, cultural businesses and associations, Arts centres/groups, Organizations/public agencies providing services for excluded young people). TheArThee will organize a Training Course for youth workers/Trainers from partner organizations aged 21+ interested in developing competences and professional capacities to engage young people facing exclusion (including youngsters with physical/slight cognitive disability) in educational programmes of empowerment through co-creation and interaction with mainstream youth peers based on Devised Theater. TAT will deliver on the following results: 1- Identification of needs and barriers faced by excluded youths in devised theatre and mapping of existing good practices through a transnational research. 2- Format targeted at youth operators and organizations for the development of their capacities in employing devised theatre as the cornerstone of a customized educational offer for the empowerment of excluded youths through co-creation and peerinteraction with mainstream youth in devised theatre. 3- Published materials providing guidance and methodological support to operators."