"""Youth in One World - Cooperation Beyond Borders "" is a project that will help young people and their organizations to develop sustainable community development projects. The organizations are from Asia and Europe. The participants will be coming from Germany, Netherland, Malaysia and Indonesia. During the project duration different activties will be implemented on local and on international level in order to build the capacities of the organizations and their communities for active youth participation in community development. The chosen topic to work on with the young people invovled will be cooperation for development, sustainable development and how they can make a difference for developoment in their own community using entrepreneurship and their own initiative. Also the project wants to support the validation and recognition of non-formal learning and education. Young people will be directly affected by this project through two youth exchanges that will take place in Indonesia and Germany and bring together 20 persons for 12 days. At the same time there will be six volunteers for 12 month in the different countries supporting the project. The youth workers will attend a trainings course and get to understand their role in community development. They and the organisational managers will work with the young people throughout the project duration to ensure their local engagement. Therefore the project responsible will meet in the beginning of the project and in the end of the project to ensure a good implementation. The main focus of this project lies on the young people themselves and on their initiative. They will shape this project and they will develop the network further and help establishing its structures. Together they will work on European strategies for youth but also for global challenges as well as cooperation between Europe and Asia. The outcomes of this project will be published in the form of a report. There will also be a video produced with the youngsters promoting their projects. The on going project will be monitored through a blog by the participants involved in the project and other multimedial tools available. After the project duration the results will be used further on the local level and the international level as well and the network will work out future projects together to ensure a sustainable and long term cooperation between the young people."