INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE ! BEHIND THE REALITY ! BISCEGLIE , ITALIA 01th DECEMBER 09th !CLOSED!
Migration is becoming a serious issue are serious for south Italy, which is one of the main entry points for people travelling to Europe via north Africa. Thought the Mediterranean and Adriatic coast so far this year more than 93,000 mainly sub-Saharan African and Bangladeshi migrants have arrived by boat in southern Italy, a 17 per cent increase when compared to the same period last year, the Italian interior ministry said.
For more than a decade, the Refugees and Asylum Seekers Movements here in Bari and Puglia region ,has been supporting migrants stand up to exploitative employers and appeal effectively for documents that allow them to find legal jobs and houses.
This project is the result of a shared visions and aimed towards bringing a group of youths together in order to take a look at the various reasons that can lead to conflicts ensuing as well as to discuss and brainstorm different solutions to lessen the amount of conflicts that break out. Youth will have a chance to voice their own opinions and take a more active role in society. We will discuss how conflicts on a social, national, regional and international level affect us and how we can come together to counteract the negative effects of such conflicts.
International Training Course BEHIND THE REALITY will gather 30 youth workers,NGO activists and from the following countries: Italy, Malta, Romania, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Belgium, Netherlands, Croatia, Poland and Latvia. Some participants are involved in human rights area. The aim of the project is to to raise awareness about Human rights in spheres of migration and disabilities through making Human rights escape rooms.
ERASMUS + YOUTH MEETING IN ATHENS “GREEN CITIES GREECE ” DECEMBER 2018 !CLOSED!
The project “Green Cities” is a transnational initiative for young people from nine (9) organizations from different countries: Croatia, Egypt, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Spain, Turkey, and United Kingdom. E.K.O will organize and coordinate the project, which will take place in Athens, Greece, in December 2018.
The main aim of the project is to raise young people’s awareness about the degree to which individual and social well-being depends on the quality of the urban environment and the necessity to think and act in an environmentally-conscious way. An efficient approach to achieve this goal is to get young people acquainted with the challenges faced in urban environments and the recent developments and initiatives such as the Resilience Strategy dedicated to enhancing a city’s capacity to adapt to climate change and mitigate modern environmental stresses, enabling sustainable development and inclusive growth. The project was inspired by the “100 Resilient Cities” international initiative, and invites partners who come from cities/countries involved in this initiative. Thus, it offers a great opportunity for knowledge-sharing about existing strategies and ideas-exchanging about solutions contributing to greener cities.
Through a wide range of interactive workshops, seminars and creative activities, based on the methodology and principles of non-formal education, as well as a series of intercultural evenings and city visits, the participants will enhance their interpersonal, critical thinking, and decision-making skills, boost their confidence and participatory approach and learn about the other countries’ history, cultural heritage and habits. It is expected that through this experience the young participants will appreciate that thriving as a person indispensably requires respect and protection of both the natural and the sociocultural environment.
INTERNATIONAL MEETING “TC_EXIT FOR HUMAN RIGHT” IN KYIV UKRAINE 09-18 OF NOVEMBER 2018 !CLOSED!
The project powered by NGO Logos Ukraine and NGO Soeholm 4H Denmark, and the main activity is taking place in Kyiv (Ukraine) 09 -18 of November 2018, where 9 is arriving day and 18 is day of departure. We do expect from each partner 3 youth workers.
We decided that we will gather youth workers and NGO workers on training course where they will learn about how to make escape rooms based on human rights issue. The idea is that participants will learn mechanics and logics of escape room creation and will later apply human rights topics to those. With our training course we aim to raise awareness about Human rights in spheres was children right, migration and life of people with limited abilities.
through making Human rights escape room, as well as understanding how to use escape rooms as a learning tool in order to create similar projects on Human rights back at local communities.
ERASMUS + SEMINAR “UNDER MY SKIN”,LORCA IN SPAIN NOVEMBER !CLOSED!
‘Under my skin’ is a seminar specifically designed to deal with some of the problems that emerge as a result of social and economic crisis. The 6-day seminar is based in Lorca, Spain in November 2018 and participants from throughout Europe are expected to attend. Issues of racism and discrimination are well documented but what is less well known are micro violence and invisible racism that go undetected. ‘Under my skin’ seeks to expose these latent behaviours and attitudes through a variety of different methods and approaches. Using non-formal learning methods, participants will explore a variety of topics related to the project’s aims and objectives.
“WINGS OF YOUTH WORK WO(Y)W” INTERNATIONAL TRAINING IN SLOVENIA TRBOVLJE 11.17 NOVEMBER !OPEN CALL!
Project Wings of Youth Work develops two wings of youth work which are connected in the field of gaining knowledge, experience and competences – training for future youth workers and monitoring, evaluating and recognizing learning effects. There are 7 partners from Italy, Greece, Portugal, Malta,Denmark, Croatia and Norway involved in this project.
On the wings of knowledge gained through this project youth workers will be more competent to work with now-a-days and future generation that step into youth work activities. From each organization one youth worker and one youth leader or volunteer will participate in each activity of the project.
Aim of this project is to research, develop, test and upgrade system of monitoring learning effects and to develop system of trainings for future youth workers and leaders.
Objectives of the project are:
1) To raise the quality of recognizing and recording learning effect by developing new methods for monitoring learning effects.
2) To train youth workers to be able to develop training system in their own organizations for future youth workers and leaders.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “FOSTERING YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS”
SOFIA , BULGARIA 11/11/ – 18/11/2018 !CLOSED!
The educational seminar “Fostering Youth Participation in the European Elections” to be held in Sofia from 11 to 19 November 2018 will meet the need to inform the new European generation how the EU works and the rights and obligations the EU citizenship brings in order to encourage them to vote in the European elections and contribute to boost the turnout.
The political, social, economic and cultural aspects that the course addresses will contribute to shape a vision how to strengthen European democracy and counteract the rise of nationalist and eurosceptic movements who deny the concept of European citizenship and are against further European integration.
Participants will gain practical knowledge how to communicate the EU то the young citizens and build capacity for organization of information events and discussion forums during the election campaign.
The ideas and knowledge generated during the seminar can be used by every participant and be implemented at local level.
The project will involve governmental officials, elected representatives, as well as scholars, journalists, activists of civil society organizations and, most importantly, the participants themselves in a series of debates.
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ERASMUS + INTERNATIONAL MEETING IN FRANCE “YOUTHINK ECO CITIZENSHIP” 20.26 OCTOBER !CLOSED!
Where? La Vancelle (France, nearby Strasbourg)
When? from Saturday October 20th to Friday October 26th 2018
The “YouThink Eco-Citizenship” project is a youth exchange based on the themes of Citizenship and sustainable development. It serves as a springboard for a better understanding and intercultural cooperation where the common interest for a sustainable life becomes fundamental to sustain the sense of citizenship.
General objectives:
This project has the following objectives:
1. Introduce the concepts of sustainable development to the participants through non-formal education
2. Promote the learning of foreign languages, in particular English and French
3. To bring young participants closer to cultural differences
4. Promote the engagement of young people in active European citizenship
“BE YOUR OWN BOSS” TRAINING COURSE IN LIMASSOL, CYPRUS IN OCTOBER 14-24.10 !CLOSED!
The project is a multilateral youth workers’ training which involves nine (9) different partners from Cyprus, Greece, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Italy, Spain) in order to bring together youth workers who a have direct influence on bigger groups of young people and encourage youth to exploit their potential. During the implementation of the project, all partners will gather in Cyprus for a non-formal learning activity that will have an important impact on the creative and entrepreneurial skills tools for youth workers who will empower them to actively transfer knowledge in their everyday lives and work aspirations.
“Be your own boss” has the following specific (local/regional) objectives:
- To train 30 Youth workers in developing their entrepreneurship competence according to areas and competencies described by the EntreComp conceptual model
- To train 30 Youth workers in developing/improving their coaching skills
- To promote tolerance between different nationalities and cultures
- To foster intercultural dialogue and identify the common issues of young people from different countries
- To improve the quality of 9 youth organisations in the way they work with/mentor youngsters
- To disseminate 6 videos to 135 external Youth organisations
- To disseminate educational material (Youth guide) created by participating youth workers and project partners to 40000 representatives of various public and private organisations, young people, youth workers, mentors, career advisors, etc.
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ERASMUS + EXCHANGE “ME & YOU ARE EU” MALTA 10.18-10 !CLOSED!
Our Main Aim for this training course is to empower Youth workers and equip them with all the necessary tools and different methodologies to deliver democratic values in their communities. In fact we are expecting that after this experience, the youth workers will be more motivated to take an active role in educating youths with regards to voting and how to be a more active citizen in their country.
This is the ideal time for such project, as next year there will be the MEP elections so they would be able to test all the tools that will be given
throughout this week in their countries.
Main Objectives
1. to inform young people on the values behind the European union especially democratic values
2. To empower youth workers to reach out to more youths destroying apathy
3. to equip youth leaders and persons working amongst youth with new methodologies
4. to network with different organisations coming from EU and pre-accession countries working on democratic values
5. to strive towards one common objective; that of developing projects related to Europe in the respective communities our partner organisations are present in
6. to create a form of dissemination platform sharing examples of good practices with relation to the EU
7. to facilitate the exchange and intercultural cooperation among young people in order to promote European values of solidarity, tolerance, equality and non-discrimination
8. to develop an intercultural and European dimension of the participants
ERASMUS + INTERNATIONAL TC “PROMOTING MEDIA& LITERACY EDUCATION” ARMENIA NOVEMBER 2018 !CLOSED!
Nowadays technologies and information play significant role in our everyday life. The European Commission emphasizes that “the ability to judge the true merit of media content and make conscious choices – or ‘media literacy’ – becomes ever more essential for active citizenship and democracy”. Therefore development of media literacy in all sections of society should be promoted and monitored.
With this project we would like to provide youth workers with information which they will use later for creating opportunities for people in their communities to grow in more media-literate society that will be able to exercise informed choices, understand the nature of content and services and take advantage of the full range of opportunities offered by new communications technologies.
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MEETING IN CROATIA “LET’S TALK ABOUT YOU AND ME” 01.09-10 !CLOSED!
“Let’s talk about you and me” is approved. Youth Exchange will take place in Slavonski Brod from 01.10.2018 (arrival date) to 09.10.2018 (departure date), and a total of 45 participants from Croatia, Hungary, Greece, Macedonia, Poland, Turkey and Italy will attend the exchange. Although religious identification is seen on a decrease in many western European states, tensions and discrimination based on religious terms still form a common concern. Especially in the light of the refugee crisis and the increasing religious diversification in western European states, the need for projects, which give the chance for a constructive and mutual exchange between faith groups, can be clearly seen.
This project will highlight the importance of respecting religious and cultural differences by inviting participants not only to share their own beliefs but to learn how to understand and respect the beliefs of others by showing participants the positive and negative effects of different religions. Accomodation Participants will be in shared rooms (3, 4, 5, 6) in one room with bathroom . Travel budget is: 180 euro per participant . Project start on 01.10. and it will end on 09.10. (1. and 9 are arrival/departure days).. on 1.10. participants will have dinner, and on 9.10 breakfast
“OUR FIRST STEPS TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP” APV AND YE POLAND 22.30-10 IN GDYNIA !CLOSED!
The theme of the youth exchange project from four different European countries is the development of entrepreneurial competence through implementing the simulation of running a business in the field of green jobs . The participants of the project will be 41 young people from Poland, Italy, Spain and Lithuania at the age of 18-25 years old, active and conscious citizens of civil society, who would like to broaden their knowledge on the above mentioned subject and to be able to educate others in their environment mainly regarding entrepreneurship.
The main goal of the project is to increase participants’ entrepreneurial competence on the labour market by the development of initiative competence and entrepreneurship and creating and running their companies in the field of green jobs.
ERASMUS + INTERNATIONAL MEETING IN ROMANIA ” WORK UP ” 24.09 – 05.10 !CLOSED!
The main objectives of this project will be:
1. Stimulate and promote the skills needed for the participants
2. Promoting entrepreneurship among exchange participants as a way of personal and professional improvement
3. Exploring the intercultural dimension of this youth exchange by joining the exponents of many cultures, languages and customs.
4. Developing communication skills in a foreign language as a means of personal and professional development, the working language of the project being English.
The venue will be in the beatiful city of Calimanesti – Caciulata, at 20 km fom our base city, Ramnicu Valcea. The participants will be hosted in a 3 stars hotel with all the necesary facilities ( restaurant, working room). The participants will benefit from indoor swiming pool.
TRAINING COURSE BICBIC “BRINGING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN BUILDING COMMUNITIES” ARMENIA 3.21-10 !CLOSED!
International training course “Bringing Intercultural Competence in Building Communities” which will take place in Yerevan, Armenia from 13-21 October 2018. The project will bring together 29 youth workers and youth leaders from 8 countries (Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, Czech Republic, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia).
The main aim of this TC is to support, empower and develop the competences of youth workers so that they can act on their local youth communities to create multiplier agents, promoting and encouraging intercultural dialogue in their local communities in order to enhance its openness to the inclusion of migrants and refugees. The main objectives are:
– To reflect on the current European and National realities concerning the flux of migrants and refugees and their inclusion;
– To learn and develop knowledge, competences and tools to work on diversity, intercultural learning and intercultural dialogue;
– To create awareness about the significant influence of culture on persons’ behavior and identity;
– To raise awareness on the cultural differences between different European countries and to what extent this impacts the inclusion/exclusion of migrants and refugees in different societies;
ERAMSUS + TRAINING COURSE IN KRZYŻOWA, POLAND IN SEPTEMBER 2018 SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO YOUTHWORK 15-22.09 !CLOSED!
Project “Systematic Approach to Youthwork” project consist of one activity –a seminar, which will be implemented in Krzyżowa, Poland, from 15th to 22nd of September 2018.
The project is developed by 8 partners from 7 countries (Poland, Croatia, Macedonia, Italy, Lithuania, Greece, Romania) and will gather 28 youth workers, volunteers and local leaders.
The seminar will be run mainly using non-formal education methods, such as discussions, presentations, simulation, games, group work and meetings. Our main aim is to share good practices and learn ways of local cooperation between NGOs, local authorities, education institutions, and other actors.
The expected outcome of the project will be growth of cooperation of youth NGOs with other local actors, resulting in better quality local project and wider impact of implemented activities on target groups.
The main aim of the project is to empower partner organisations to implement more efficient local activities in cooperation with other local actors. We want to achieve this objective by exchange of good practice, obtaining of new skills and competences by participants, and by establishing international cooperation between project partners
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MEETING “BEAT UNEMPLOYMENT” ŘEKA, CZECHIA 07-15 09 !CLOSED!
“Beat unemployment” project is an international project – Youth exchange in the framework of the Erasmus+ programme. It will involve young participants from 5 countries to cooperate on tasks related to entrepreneurship, running a firm, unemployment, job tasks, fair attitude, promotion as well as issues related to tolerance or radicalisation of youth.
Various methods of non-formal education such as workshops, role-play, presentations, discussions, debates, excursion etc. will be used throughout the project. The partner countries will share their responsibilites is organising workshops, energizers etc. according to the plan given in the application. Each country will also organise a National culture evening to present their country and their typical culture, songs, music or meals.
– to improve key competences of young people particularly those coming from disadvantageous groups or facing limited opportunities
– to learn more and exchange ideas about entrepreneurship and job tasks
– to exchange experience, knowledge about unemployment in partner countries
– to improve language skills, extend vocabulary with business English
– to meet partners from new countries
– to exchange our experience from youth projects
– to share opinions, ideas, attitudes about jobs in partner countries
– to learn more about other cultures
– to learm more about writing CVs, job interviews etc. through various workhops
– to learn more about commercials, promotion in firms and companies
– to learn more about dress codes in firms and companies
– to discuss fair attitudes in jobs
– to establish new friendships among the participants of the project
– to discuss the issues of tolerance or radicalism of young people
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MEETING “AREN’T WE ALL MISMATCHED SOCKS?” BISCEGLIE , ITALY 04-12 09 !CLOSED!
The project is the result of a shared visions and aimed towards bringing a group of youths together in order to take a look at the various reasons that can lead to conflicts ensuing as well as to discuss and brainstorm different solutions to lessen the amount of conflicts that break out. Youth will have a chance to voice their own opinions and take a more active role in society. 
We will discuss how conflicts on a social, national, regional and international level affect us and how we can come together to counteract the negative effects of such conflicts. We all know in the animal kingdom, ladybugs eat caterpillars. Alligators attack flamingos. Cats fight dogs. But when these unfriendly duos come together in a cartoon ,colouring book or in a fairy tale maybe, they become best buds. Just because they don’t naturally go together doesn’t mean they can’t be friends or understand and respect each other. These mismatched duos ,teach us to embrace their differences, and those of their peers.
This is the mission behind this project proposal. By gathering young migrants, ngo representatives and young people involved in youth organizations, this exchange aims to share, discuss and elaborate migrants and refugees issues into youth local context. Furthermore one of the major factors resulting in the exclusion of migrants from society is the use of hate speech to create anxiety, concern and resistance. This is a clear reflection of the lack of education/information, which unfortunately may result in a form of brainwashing especially if it is faced by a lot of apathy.
Using non-formal learning we will explore basic concepts of hate speech, violence and the problems concerning migration crisis. We will be aiming to transform participating young people into activists -“No Hate Speech Ambassadors” and “Peace Ambassadors”.
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MEETING “TASTE OF EUROPE” XYLOKASTRO TOWN, GREECE 16-23 09 !CLOSED!
Greek gastronomy has recorded a history of around 4,000 years, with especial characteristics based on pure and unique quality goods produced on Greek land. In fact, it was Archestratos who wrote the first cookbook in history (330 B.C.). In addition, the nutritional culture of the Greeks has traditionally added an extraverted social dimension to the table, combining gustative satisfaction with recreation and communication, and thus maintaining even today some overtones from ancient feasts. 
Our main objective with this youth exchange is to combine our cultural heritage in gastronomy with the modernization/ globalisation with the slogan: “Our heritage : where the past meets the future”.
Our aim is :
– Showcase the regional gastronomy of the participating countries
– Build regional identities by giving visibility to traditional food ways
– Develop awareness on wider food issues for healthy living and sustainability
– Share knowledge and acquaint the partner groups about the regional gastronomy, and typical local products of each country
– To find similarities between our traditions, habits and products
– To think about gastronomy of future in Europe
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE “SHOW UP! ”
KOBULETI GEORGIA 02-08 09 !CLOSED!
In this Training Course we want to bring together youth workers and youngsters volunteering at youth organisations from Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Italy and Ukraine to share best practices and learn from each other about social media strategies, PR measures and the best ways to disseminate project results.In different workshops we will explore which activities and online tools can be used to increase the visibility of youth work. In a practical phase we will develop our own social media strategies, merchandising articles and logos, tailored to the organisations’ needs.
networking of NGOs active in the field of youth on European level between EU member states and partner countriesincreasing the visibility of organisations active in the field of youth
sharing methods of how to spread project outcomes
sharing best practices on social media strategies and PR
developing logos and merchandise products increasing the media and IT skills and the employability of the participants
The project is about sharing best practices and develop new concepts, so the participants are asked to conduct small workshops and share their knowledge in e.g. creating logos, leaflets and posters; successful social media campaigns; producing videos; designing merchandising articles; usage of social media tools, etc.
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING “SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING” UZANA, BULGARIA 04-12 09 !CLOSED!
The project aims at developing the organizational and management capacity of partner organizations, which deal with and deploy social enterprises/youth centers. The focus, on one hand, aims at increasing the organizational capacity to create, develop and successfully manage and promote social entrepreneurship, and on the other hand to set up trained youth workers to work with marginalized and socially excluded young people. The main needs which the current project addresses are concentrated at increasing youth employment and social inclusion. Through this project the participants and the participating organizations will gain skills that could be implemented to specific business and entrepreneurial tools to solve social problems. The participants will also be informed about the opportunities offered for developing of Social enterprises and will increase their motivation for using innovative tools in their work.
Among the main topics which will be addressed are: concepts for developing and managing of social enterprises; strategic planning; human resources and team management; financial management; a spiral of Social innovation; management tools; start-up management; identifying stakeholders; leadership skills and personal qualities of the social entrepreneur; development of social ideas.
The program methods follow the model “Learning through experience” – debates, simulations, energizers; ice-breakers, communication games, acquainting and sharing activities; group debates; coaching sessions, creativity; reflection and self-analysis, open space and others; The activities will be based on the principles of experiential learning and the Kolb’s Cycle.
The expected results on the realization of the project are: to increase the capacity of the participating organizations in the management of social enterprises; increasing the level of key qualities and competences of the people occupying leadership positions or actively working in social enterprises; accumulation of specific business and entrepreneurship tools for solving social problems; sharing experience and setting up trained youth workers to work with marginalized and socially excluded young people; to exchange some experience and good practices between partner organizations ; 
to provide examples for successful businesses and manuals among participants, created by youth social entrepreneurs.
The project will have an effective impact on two levels: on individual level (for youth-workers) and global level (organizations; beneficiaries, stakeholders, local communities and society). The impact on the participants will generally express the increasing of their capacity; competences for work with marginalized and socially excluded young people; The impact of each one of the partner organizations will be to enrich their fields in order to solve social problems among the youngsters in large scale, using social entrepreneurship tools.
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE WEEK “FREELANCE CULTURE FOR TODAY’S YOUTH” TRAKAI , LITHUANIA 25-31 09 !CLOSED!
“Self-Employed” – quite often, we see this kind of job description on social networks profiles.
“Freelancer”. These peoples‘ numbers, working from home (or anywhere else in the world), are growing not only in the west, but are also spreading rapidly in Europe. However, questions about Freelancers and their activities still occur to even highly informed youth. Therefore, they ask “why is it worthwhile to be the boss for myself? How does it work? Where to start?”. For these and other questions we will find the answers during a Youth Exchange Project “Freelance Culture for Today’s Youth” (“FREElance Culture”).
This Youth Exchange will take place for 6 days in a cozy town – Trakai, Lithuania. The project will involve a group of 43 young people andand youth workers from Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Italy, Romania, and Lithuania.
Modern labor market is changing rapidly, therefore our goal is to encourage young people to adapt and pay more attention to individual work – thus opening doors to new labor market expanse. Project “Freelance Culture for Today’s Youth” will motivate the youth to create jobs for themselves. During the Project, participants,with the help of qualified mentors, will develop methods for: creating a freelance worker’s business plan and marketing strategy; increasing self-motivation; keeping positive attitude towards one’s career. 
We will also discuss
and search for ways to cope with major emerging issues faced by Freelancers: loss of social skills, difficulties in communicating in a wider societal context, dwindling of self-confidence, as well as physical fitness and well-being.
We will use various work methods in order to establish the best conditions for learning during this Youth Exchange Project: introduction, cognition, explanation of experience, motivation, stimulation, active learning, assessment (and self-assessment), reflection, discussion, creative solution, group reports, group work, and other practical and theoretical methods.
“EMPOWERING 2 EMPOWER”AN INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE IN SLOVENIA 23-29 08 !CLOSED!
International project “EMPOWERING to EMPOWER” is dedicated to the empowerment of youth workers / leaders to work with unemployed young people and young people from disadvantaged areas. By the planning and preparing the project are 10 partner organizations involved, which are active in 8 different countries (Slovenia, Bulgaria, Italy, Greece, Lithuania, Romania, Turkey and Poland). The project will take place @ area of LAS (Local action group) Haloze, near city Ptuj. Haloze are less developed area with lack of opportunities for young people and deficit of workplaces and cultural activities for young people living here. Location of training will enable higher understanding of identified problems that young people are facing by living in such areas.
Through the implementation of the project we will be interested in specific issues and facts about the reasons for unemployment among young people, what is the state (statistics) of youth unemployability in the case of the participants’ countries where they come from and How they are trying to solve this problem there. By sharing experiences of good practices we want to reduce this problem in future. Through workshops and variety of different methods we will encourage participants to be creative by making additional proposals for the possibility of effective problem solving of uneployment and lack of oportunities among youth comming from problem areas with fewer opportunities. After all, we want, that experiences, proposals and gained competences are transferred to active and effective work within the organizations and beyond in terms of further project cooperations between organizations at the national and international levels. Strengthening the necessary competences for youth workers we will achieve through interactive workshops, which will be prepared and carried out with the help of experienced trainers or experts.
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE “ROAD TO THE FUTURE” SLOVAKIA STARA LUBOVNA 23-31 08 !CLOSED!
Nowdays international migration means migration of people from one country to another. We will focus on three different reasons for migration. Those will be: migration for study, migration for work and involuntary or imposed migration. Involuntary migration means that the authorities force the people to leave. Imposed means people decide to leave because of the hardships of their country (war,famine, discrimination, social inequalities, poor economic prospects etc.). We will also deal with legal and illegal immigration.
Before you come to the exchange we would like you to do some tasks to become familiar with the topic. Later you will be able to share the specifics of your country with others. The first task is to find out how can people migrate to your country for all three causes of migration:
what criteria do they need to meet to be able to immigrate, what are the ways in which your country helps them (financial, legal and other forms of help), how does your country encourage or discourage people from coming, how does it deal with illegal immigrants and what are the weakness of the system. We would also like you to find some statistics about immigrants: how many are there, for what reason, are they there legally, for how long are they staying, how many are seeking asylum and how many get it .
“BACK TO THE FUTURE” ERASMUS+ YOUTH EXCHANGE MEETING 19 – 26 08 TRNVA, SLOVAKIA !CLOSED!
Today, education systems around the world provide formal and obligatory education for 14-18 years on average. Individuals strive to improve themselves professionally in various ways during their education years, which basically equals to a third of their lifetime. Following graduation, however; they come face to face with an environment that is excluded in formal education. Many young individuals encounter scenarios where they struggle to adapt to the business world, unable know-how where to start, limited awareness about opportunuties and also with stress stemming from intense competitiveness and inability to find the right job, resulting in lack of happiness and dissatisfaction. According to Eurostat 2016 data, over 5 million people below 25 are unemployed and the intensive competitiveness causes educated youth to go for jobs in a sector different from their professional training at schools. 
We have worked with 6 different organizations from countries that have some of the highest rates of unemployment in Europe and these organizations are willing to work and share experiences. In light of their contributions, we intend to achieve the following goals with our project:
– To raise awareness for the youth concerning dynamics in professional life which are not included in formal education systems,
– To introduce a new perspective leading to the path of new youth opportunities.
– Technical knowledge regarding EVS, Erasmus+ and learning applying procedures and spread it out.
– To perform interactive activities on key points that young people will need when achieving their goals in shaping their future.
“CMS 4 PROMOTING EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY CORPS” INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE IN SPAIN 6-11 08 !CLOSED!
KA3 is the great unknown of the Erasmus+ program. Few people really know this action and its possibilities, and as it involves policy, people often do not consider applying.
This Contact Making Seminar is a working place for public or private organizations active in the youth field to develop future strategies of cooperation within the KA3, willing to cooperate and focus on youth participation in the making decision process to increase effective local actions.
That is why, thanks to this Contact Making Seminar we would like:
To provide a meeting point for organizations to exchange information about future projects and foster a solid network of good and reliable partners to make KA3 projects with
To discover the possibilities of local involvement and to understand the impact and social change a KA3 project can
have within the local community.
To compare the youth participation in different countries and look for the
To get information needed for applying for and managing KA3 projects of good quality and promote their implementation common themes among the present countries, promoting the importance of youth opinion in the process of decision-making at different levels
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR “LOCALIZER- PROJECTS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY” JULY IN KOPANIEC, POLAND !CLOSED!
As society progresses more towards digital era many young people tend to neglect the physically active lifestyle and benefits it brings. The habit to spend free time in their comfort zone rather than live an active and healthy lifestyle seems like a more simple solution. The objective of this project is to show and prove that an active lifestyle is not a chore or an obligation but a more natural and healthy way of living.
There can be many reasons why young people choose not to lead this kind of life, for example not having the competences and initiative for starting with simple outdoor activities. This can be caused by the youth’s social, educational or financial background. Very often they are not aware of the simplicity and sheer benefits of such activities because of lack of support and encouragement from their family, school and friends. Another obstacle for leading an active lifestyle is the small variety of opportunities for actively spending their free time. Unless young people want to be part of mainstream sports, they face the problem of not being able to find what suits them best. A Youth Exchange project is a perfect tool to give the participants the encouragement that they might otherwise not get from their own communities and to introduce them to the simple and costless alternatives of staying active.
Different countries have different approaches in providing possibilities for outdoor activities. Having the project in Poland will have a big impact on local communities and their development. There is a lot of undiscovered potential in the nature around the populated areas to become an easily accessible environment for young people to be active. But this needs simple commitment and work done to the areas so they can reach their full potential. By working with participants of this project we aim to uncover and tap into the potential of the area.
The activities shall be organised mainly by young people and by all the partners involved in the project. Therefore, your input is more than welcome. As for now, the draft timetable foresees the following activities:
– Workshop on outdoor activities – why is it important, what is good about it. Comparing the different traditions of outdoors in different countries. Workshop on navigation and orientation / scavanger hunt in Kopanec.
– Intercultural landscaping: presenting the countries involved in the project.Hikes around to mark the trails and gather information for the booklet.Discussion on „Leave no trace” approach and other ways of protecting the nature.Workshop about creating outdoor activities in particiapnt’s home countries / communities.
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE “YOUTH FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE” 23-31 07PORTUGAL
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Project is aimed for 36 youngsters who want to gain knowledge about our influence on the environment and the steps we can take to prevent and stop further damage to the nature. This project will tackle issues such as care for nature, sustainable development and our behavior towards the world around us. 
Participants will gain knowledge about consequences of our behavior on the environment, they will be empowered to make steps towards greener and brighter future.
Participants will learn about recycling, sustainable development and steps for promoting eco sustainability.
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MEETING “A RECIPE FOR YOUTH SUCCESS” VALENCIA , SPAIN 07-15 06 !CLOSED!
Young people around the world have been hit especially hard by the financial and economic crisis which started few years ago. Although according to official statistics the crisis has been overcome, the youth unemployment rate is still very high and young people continue to be the group at highest risk of poverty and social exclusion in Europe.
The youth exchange “A Recipe for Youth Success” is a product of our intention to support youngsters in the process of finding a job and to promote their social inclusion. The activities included in the programme will help for the professional orientation of the participants and will increase their positive attitude towards the probability of finding a job .The youth exchange will bring together 30 young people from Spain, Bulgaria, Italy, Croatia and Romania. Number of participants per organization: 5 (4 + 1 group leader)
The participants should be between 18 and 30 years old. There is no age limit for the group leaders. Participants with social, economic or cultural difficulties will have priority.
There are no specific requirements to take part into the Youth Exchange other than motivation and interest in the topics. Although we recommend the selection of participants with at least basic knowledge of English. Gender equality will be achieved by selecting at least two male and two female participants from each country.
INTERNATIONAL MEETING “TALK WITH PUPPETS” 14-22 06LUCENA , SPAIN !CLOSED!
This project aims to create warm atmosphere for refugee children to make the process of their integration easier, to eliminate cultural and linguistic barriers. Puppet theater is one of the effective ways with the help of which children can learn new things, exchange experience, make new friends.
ERASMUS+ is the one of 
the best platforms to implement art projects, addressing different issues in our society. In other words combining two key objectives : art and immigrant issue in one united project we mean to raise awareness about immigrant issues in the frame of puppet theatre. We want to address refugees as complete members of our society using art as a tool to show that everyone has similar rights and that art doesn’t recognize borders between nations moreover society members. We want to show that even after war or other social difficulties life continues and social inclusion could help refugees to overcome daily problems they faced before
ERASMUS + INTERNATIONAL MEETING IN POLAND “SURVIVE OR NOT SURVIVE” 23-31 05 !CLOSED!
The project “Survive or not survive – this is a question” aims at furnishing its participants with the basic and essential survival skills which can be used in difficult conditions. The youth taking part in the project will gain the ability to take their bearings in different situations, to apply the rules of first aid, to organise camps as well as prepare and take part in various strategic games. In effect, the participants will not only become more sensitive to the surrounding nature, but will also become more independent, resourceful and creative. Moreover, they will learn how to cooperate in a team in order to effectively solve problems. In addition, the participation in all sorts of games will teach young people such skills as logical thinking and cleverness.
Owing to the project, the participants will break the stereotypes of small towns and rural areas with all their limitations and restrictions. As a result, the participants’ hometowns will be significantly promoted.
Through involving the local communities of the participants into the project, their cultural awareness and tolerance will improve to a higher extent. When it comes to cultural diversity, all the partners will learn about new traditions, customs and will become more aware European citizens in this way. The project will also activate the youth on a European level gradually creating future active citizens of Europe. Moreover, the participants will improve their communication in English as well as the use of ICT tools.
ERASMUS PLUS EXPERIENCE “EXPLORE THE RURAL, JOIN THE ADVENTURE” 03-09 06 VAMA BUZAULUI, ROMANIA !CLOSED!
Description of the Project: The project is about making use of the environment and adventure education in our work with youngsters. The training program is focused on developing multiple ways of using less offering environments for creating outdoor programs for youngsters that aim at creating learning environments and experiences in the nature and developing youngsters orientation skills and love for nature, in parallel with motivating them to discover the environment around, test their physical abilities and become more active.
At the end of the training course, participants will have a deeper understanding of the principles of experiential/ adventure learning and its applicability in rural environments.
The training course will take place from 3rd to 10th of June 2018 in Vama Buzaului, Romania.
Aims and objectives: The main aim of the project is to empower participants to develop learning experiences based on the resources offered by the environment and on the principles of experiential/adventure learning.
Objectives:
- To offer participants different learning instruments, methods and approaches tailored for rural environment use.
- To help participants understand how principles of experiential/adventure education can be used in their work with youngsters.
- To help participants better analyze and understand the environment, so that they will be more capable of integrate it in the learning programs they develop
Target group: youth workers, trainers, facilitators working with youngsters from rural areas or deprived environments.
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE “HEALTY LIFE FOR YOUTH” ANKARA , TURKEY 06-13/05/2018 !CLOSED!
The need to implement this project came in the context in which young people are surrounded by technology and fast food, things that have them drawn attention from a healthy life based on movement and eating healthy.
The poll released at the European Obesity Day (May 16th 2015) shows that six out of 10 people are overweight or obese, and in 2030, the ratio could reach at nine from 10 people. Almost a quarter of Europeans do not know that obesity may be a cause of heart disease, diabetes and hypertension, fewer than half recognize the link between obesity and stroke, and only 16% are aware of its connection with cancer. Among Europeans young people, statistics show that one in seven young people is overweight or obese.
Thus, the topic of the project is to promote a healthy lifestyle based on proper exercise and nutrition. In this sense, the project objectives are:
1. Increased information on the benefits of a healthy life based on sport and eating healthy among 28 young people aged between 18 and 30 years and 7 leader, Turkey, Poland, Spain, Lithuania, Romania, Italy and Serbia for a period for seven days;
2. Promoting sport and healthy food among 30 young people aged between 18 and 30 years, Turkey, Poland, Spain, Lithuania, Romania, Italy and Serbia for a period of seven days;
3.To achieve these objectives, during the seven days, young people will participate at outdoor activities and at activities of information regarding at the most important aspects of nutrition. Some of the working methods that we use, are: presentation, debate, open discussion, teamwork, case study. All these methods are based on tools for non-formal and informal education that will foster the involvement and active participation of young people.
The anticipated impact on participants is developing the skills of teamwork and improving the information about an active lifestyle. Promoters will benefit from steps to promote visibility and dissemination carried out and the members of the target group will have the opportunity to participate in workshops that will be able to develop teamwork skills and increase the information regarding the healthy lifestyle.
“WHY DON’T YOU GET A JOB?EDUPRENEUR “BAIA MARE, ROMANIA 05-13 MAY 2018 !CLOSED!
Thanks to this project we want to increase the support to our local youth that is not engaged anyhow on the labour market through:
1. Training youth workers from the partner organisations (about 4-5 participants/country, 5-7 countries, 2 mobilities) that will be able to support the youth they are working with in terms of getting a job (mobility 1) or establishing a company (mobility 2)
2. Creating and spreading 2 guides, 1 for opening a business and 1 for getting a job, directly targeted to youth of the partner countries (in particular) and of Europe (in general)
Project’s expected products
1 guide about entrepreneurship for young people
-translated in all the official languages of the project partners
-containing general information for all the countries
-containing specific information for each country (establishing the company, taxes, procedures)
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE “PRO/ACTIVE YOUTH PROJECT” POIANA NEGRII, ROMANIA 03-15 MAY 2018 !CLOSED!
PROActive Youth is an international youth exchange with partners from 6 European countries: Romania,Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Estonia and Lithuania. It will last 8 months, from 1 February 2018 until 30 September 2018, with a period of 11 days of activities, as well as one day for traveling before and one after, between 3 and 15 May 2018, 13 days in total. 
The location
of the activities is the village of Poiana Negrii, close to the mountain resort of Vatra Dornei, Romania. At the activities there will be present a group of 42 youngsters aged between 18 and 30 and 6 group leaders without age limit.
Our purpose is to encourage proactive socio-political engagement of young people, in order to educate well-informed generations
that have an active contribution to Europe’s democratic life and its future. We aim to recruit young people with an active lifestyle, that want to get more involved, contributing to the community through social activities or having political ambitions, as well as young people from less accessible areas,rural environment, having less access to education and information.
11 days of Youth Exchange : We will carry on various activities: getting to know each other, learning, experimenting, expressing,creation and cultural expression, and will use various innovative non-formal learning methods: introspection,games, team building activities, brainstorming, public café, open space, free microphone,graphic facilitation, storytelling, round table, debate, simulation, forum theatre, street animation,quest, street interview, creative workshops, movie, cultural learning. Through them we aim to develop and deepen the participants’ knowledge on the discussed subject and important abilities for their personal development: critical thinking, multilateral analysis, team spirit, art of conviction, leadership,artistic skills, communication capacity, spirit of initiative.
The Objectives:
1. Promote the proactive civic spirit in the communities of the participants though projection of motivational videos created
by the participants during the youth exchange.
2. Stimulate youth active involvement in social life by recruiting of 10 new volunteers for each of our partners, to be done
through shared commitments of both participants and partner organizations.
3. Motivate active participation in local and national elections,as well as in 2019 Euro parliamentary elections, by organizing
local events on this topic in the communities of the participant.
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR: “EUROPE RELOADED” SOFIA , BULGARIA !CLOSED!
RILA MONASTERY
Date: 22 (arrival day) – 29 (departure day) April
Place: Sofia, Bulgaria
Number of participants: 30 (between 18-30 years old)
Objectives:
The international seminar to be held in Sofia will meet the need to infrom young people how the EU works and the rights and obligations the EU citizenship brings in order to provide young people with knowledge and skills for active participation in the democratic life of the union. The political, social, economic and cultural aspects that the seminar addresses will contribute to shape a vision how to strengthen European democracy and reaffirm the concept of active European citizenship.
Methodology:
Panel discussions, working groups, lectures, plenary sessions, simulation games and information market will be some of the methods used to debate these issues.
The rich social program will enable the participants to explore the night life in Sofia, enjoy horse ride in Vitosha mountain and see the Rila Monastery, one of the most significant and picturesque monuments on the Balkans, part of UNESCO book of world heritage
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE “I WANT TO MEET YOU”ZATONIE, POLAND 22- 30/05/2018 !CLOSED!
The youth exchange “I want to meet You” will take place in Zatonie (Poland). It will be attended by young people (aged 16-21) form 5 Programme countries: Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Poland. From each country there will be 32 participants with 1 youth leader per country, who will be responsible for supporting a group. 
Young people have developed an idea for the project because they want to:
– get to know their peers from other countries;
– share with them what they do in their organizations and communities and find out what other young people to in this field too; – get to know other countries and cultures;
– reflect together on what the European Union is for them, what does the european community mean for them;
– learn to work in an international group and work with people from other cultures and countries.
Youth exchange will be conducted in English language.
OPEN YOUR EYE! INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE IN ROMANIA 21-31 MAY 2018 !CLOSED!
The project Open your EYE! (European Youth for Environment) is an youth exchange which aims to promote the new energies and aware the young people regarding their implication in environment protection.
The goals of this project are:
• enriching the knowledge of participants about new energies existing in the four countries
• development of new attitudes of participants toward environment, of identify the problems and finding possible solutions
• promoting experience exchanges and good practices within Erasmus+ programme
The project is initiated by AIDE association located in Ramnicu Valcea, Romania. The mobility will be held in the spa touristic city Calimanesti-Caciulata, situated at 25 km from Ramnicu Valcea. We chose this location because the city is located inside the National Park Cozia. 
For this project the participants will make two materials (powerpoint) before the mobility, a material about the new energies from your community and one about the protected areas in your country. For the first material, the participants will have to talk with the people about the importance of new energies in the community, for the second one the participants can use internet as a source for the material.
The materials will be presented in one of mobility day followed by an open debate about the materials presented.
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE “EUROPEAN CULTURES, THE DANCE AS A MEETING POINT” 30.04/06.05 2018 IN FRANCE !CLOSED!
Youth exchange ”European Culture, the dance as a meeting point” : from Monday April 30th to Sunday May 6th 2018, 30 people from Europe will join to discover European traditionnel dances in La Vancelle (Alsace, France). Participants come from France, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, Lithuania and Romania.
The project “European Cultures, the dance as a meeting point ” is a youth exchange on the theme of the dance. It aims to provide young participants skills in the field of dancing and artistic expression in general. It also aims to promote intercultural understanding between young Europeans, to raise awareness about issues of European citizenship through various activities based on methods of formal and informal training.
Objectives:
The youth exchange has four objectives:
1 . Acquire or enhance participants’ knowledge in the fields of music and dancing ;
2 . Discover the traditions and cultures of the countries involved in the project through traditional dances ;
3 . Strengthen the sense of belonging to a European community together in its diversity ;
4 . Improve the knowledge in foreign languages among the participants , especially the French and English languages;
‘WHY DON’T YOU GET A JOB?JOB HUNTERS
BAIA MARE, ROMANIA 21-29 APRIL 2018 !CLOSED!
Thanks to this project we want to increase the support to our local youth that is not engaged anyhow on the labour market through:
1. Training youth workers from the partner organisations (about 4-5 participants/country, 5-7 countries, 2 mobilities) that will be able to support the youth they are working with in terms of getting a job (mobility 1) or establishing a company (mobility 2)
2. Creating and spreading 2 guides, 1 for opening a business and 1 for getting a job, directly targeted to youth of the partner countries (in particular) and of Europe (in general)
Project’s expected products
1 guide about entrepreneurship for young people
-translated in all the official languages of the project partners
-containing general information for all the countries
-containing specific information for each country (establishing the company, taxes, procedures)
ERASMUS + EXCHANGE < > = “ BREAK INTERCULTURAL BARRIERS” MILICZ , POLAND 22/06. 01/07 !CLOSED!
The project „< > =” is related to overcoming intercultural barriers between people from national minorities and their environment. The participants of the project will be youth between 15 to 19 years old. They will come from 5 countries: Croatia, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Italy. Each group consist of 7 people (+leader). The group makes few people from minorities and few people from national majorities. The experience of multicultural confrontation of both groups will help and develop mutual understandig, openess to otherness, mutual approchement and discovery of diversity richness.
The participants in the project will bring up subjects related to their everyday lifes. They will share their problems and difficulties among each other. They will take actions aiming at attracting people’ attention to the minorities issues and ethnic discrimination by actions as happening and meeting with young people at schools.
Thanks to Armenians coming from Syria we will have the opportunity to have a look at drama of people affected by war conflict.
Project implementation will allow to sustain the participants in their everyday intercultural difficulties management. In future the project will help to integrate more and more multicultural society in Europe.
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE “SOCIAL MEDIA 4 POSITIVE CHANGE” WISŁA,POLAND !CLOSED!
The project will take place in Wisła from 10.04 to 18.04.The main context of our project is fact, that all of participating organizations, as well as youth workers that will participate in the training, see the urgent need to be more able to interact with young people through social media. Our organizations are active in “off line” life, but nowadays it is not enough. In order to reach young people, we need to interact with them in the environment, when they spend a lot of time – online. We believe that it might be a very useful channel to influence their attitudes and behaviours, as well as involve them in issues important in our local communities. In order to do it more successfully, each of organization will send 2 workers / active volunteers to the training “Social Media for Positive Change”.
The objectives of the training are as following:
– To equip youth workers with knowledge and practical skills regarding reaching and influencing young people through social media;
– To reflect on how to involve young peoplevia social media in actions needed and issues important in local communities;
– To provide participants with an opportunity to exchange their experience in this field, discuss their best practices and lessons learnt
from previous activities;
– To discover and explore the potential and opportunities that social media give to our organizations in our activities aim at
youth;
– To establish a network of lboth ike-minded organizations as well as individuals that are interested in using opportunities that social media gives in the field of infuelcning and engaging young people. Gained skills and knowledge will enable our youth workers to be more successful in their actvities in social media, as well as to reach and influence young people more effectively.
We will also “use” participants as multipliers – they will share gained knowledge and skills also with other workers and volunteers in our organziations – it will enable our organizations to be more successful in their activities with youth in the online sphere.
CULINARY-DIPLOMACY 15TH – 25TH MARCH 2018 SLOVAKIA,PRESOV !CLOSED!
Main aim of the exchange is “to promote the use of food and cuisine as an instrument to create intercultural understanding in the hopes of improving interactions and tolerance, to enjoy diversity of the nations and cultures.”
International youth exchange gathering young people with interest in gastronomy, food, diplomacy and getting to know other cultures through their cuisines.Food is a universally vital part of our lives, representing history, traditions, and culture. Each of us relies on food not only to survive, but to comfort ourselves, communicate with others, and connect us to our forebears. The power and connection of food and nationalism leads us to consider the potential of using this link as a tool of intercultural education and understanding. During the youth exchange we will work with the concept, which is here called ‘culinary diplomacy’, as the use of food and cuisine as an instrument to create cross -cultural understanding in the hope of improving interactions and cooperation. 
The art of meeting with young people from different countries and envoys with one’s national cuisine is as old as youth exchanges themselves (mainly through the intercultural evenings), but as a non – formal method in youth work to conduct diplomacy it is still new and relatively untested. During the exchange we will explore, however, its popular ity is spreading and there is potential for greatly expanded use in the future of intercultural education and understanding. During the exchange, we will explore this concept, we will share our cuisines and impact of the food on the cultures and history of the countries. We will have also possibility to try cooking different foods and to share it with the local people from differ ent communities. The main parts of this activity are focused on the food, gastronomy and gastrodiplomacy . Food brings people together. Throughout time, national cuisines have spread organically through migration, trade routes, and globalization.
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Others have been deliberately packaged and delivered to foreign audiences — both by state and non – state actors — as a means of expressing a country’s culture and values.
This form of cultural diplomacy, whether deliberate or unintentional, has been coined “gastrodiplomacy.” Gastrodiplomacy is the practice of sharing a country’s cultural heritage through food. Countries such as South Korea, Peru, Thailand, and Malaysia have recognized the seductive qualities food can have, and are everaging this unique medium of cultural diplomacy to increase trade, economic investment, and tourism, as well as to enhance soft power. Gastrodiplomacy offers foreign publics the opportunity to engage with other cultures through food, often from a distance. This form of edible nation branding is a growing trend in public diplomacy.We want to make a good promotion to the program because we strongly believe that youth mobility is eyes-opening and that it stronger the chances f young people for better life. There will be also a very good media coverage for the festival and therefore also for the project.
YOUTH EXCHANGE WEEK “OLYMPIC SPIRIT FOR PEACEBUILDING ” IN GREECE 14-23/04/2018 !CLOSED!
The ERASMUS + KA1 Project called “Olympic Spirit for Peacebuilding ” has been approved by the Greek National Agency with contract number 2017-2-EL02-KA105-00332 and will be implemented by ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL ECONOMY GROUP (E.K.O.).
The project «Olympic Spirit for Peacebuilding» («OLYMPISM») is a transnational initiative for young people aged 18-30. The participants will come from 8 different countries (Greece, Estonia, Malta, Israel, Italy, Czech Republic, Russia and Turkey). Forty nine (49) young people aged 18-30, plus their group leader will participate in the project, organized and coordinated by E.K.O in Athens Greece.
The goal of the project is to inform and sensitize young people on values linked to the Olympic spirit as a message of peace building. Sports ideals and sportsmanship will be regarded as a tool “at the service of the harmonious human development for the promotion of a peaceful society, which ensures the preservation of human dignity` as it is described in the Olympic Charter.Through the proposed program of workshops and cultural visits in Athens, on the basis of methodologies and principles of nonformal education, young people will elaborate the philosophical values of Olympic ideals and their contribution to humanism, self respect and respect to the others, equity and honorable living. They will discover how the eternal humanitarian values of Olympism can become a powerful tool for civil society to combat phenomena such as hate, violence, racial racism, xenophobia in a world peacebuilding setting. They will promote this philosophy in their respective organizations and social milieus.
When? APV Arrival day 01/03/2018 Departure day 03/03/2018 EXCHANGE: Arrival day 14/04/2018 Departure day 23/04/2018
Where? The APV will be held in Athens, in Crystal City Hotel, a centrally located hotel, next to the metro station “Metaxourghio”
“EMPLOYABILITY BOOT CAMP” KRZYŻOWA, POLAND, FEBRUARY 17 –25, 2018 !CLOSED!
Project“EmployabilityBootCamp” consists of one activity –training course for youth workers and local leaders. The training will be implemented in Krzyżowa, Poland, from 17ththto25th of February2018. 27participants of the project will come from 8 European countries (Latvia, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Lithuania, Poland, and Italy).
The project is designed for youth workers and members of NGOs working with young people on topics of entrepreneurship andemployability. As from our and our partners’ experience career of youth worker is usually build “naturally and by evolution fromvolunteer to project coordinator and manager”, the project is designed as a bridge between need of assistance provided by youthworkers in topics related to employability, providing them with complex knowledge and experience of the process of getting a job.
Participants in the project will come through complete employability path simulated with non-formal education methods, fromassessment of skills, through finding a suitable job offer, creating profiles in professional social media (LinkedIn) and creatingprofessional CV and covering letter, to job interview and negotiating contract and working conditions. At all stages we will learnmethods of non-formal education, which can be then used in partners’ local communities to support young people in the process ofstarting their careers. We will also learn about main EU initiatives and programmes stimulating employability of young people –Youth Guarantee and EURES.
Trainers of the project will be experienced in employability process on various scale, from small family companies to largeinternational corporations, as well as experienced youth workers and trainers with considerable experience in non-formal education,which guarantees practical aspect of the training.
ERASMUS PLUS INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE “ESCAPE FOR REALITY” 18-24-02-2018 !CLOSED!
The project place is As Sinas Vilanova de Arousa
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ERASMUS+ TRAINING COURSE IN CZECH REPUBLIC 6-13 FEBRUARY 2018 „LEAD THE SHIP“ !CLOSED!
Training course „LEAD THE SHIP“will bring together 30 highly motivated participants from the programme countries of Erasmus+.
We are looking forward to implement the project in the city of Olomouc in February 2018. Main objective is to develop the leadership methods and improve techniques in order to successfully lead the group of workers in non profit sphere, where motivation clearly is not driven by money or other corporate sphere success measures, but more likely by values, passion and believes. Therefore, the organisms inside associations often become pulsating and unstable. The success of leader is not measured on the common scale, but is very much influenced by adaptability towards the character and dynamics of the collective. Training aims to provide tools and competences in order to lead the collective towards mutual aims, which is the key aspect for a forming of skills and competences inside the collective. A good leader needs to know how to react in all scenarios that the group is up to face.
EXCHANGE “ART AND CULTURE FOR ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY” IN FRANCE !CLOSED!
Art and Culture for Advancing Gender Equality is an exchange of young people that aims to provide tools for expressing through the art of youth, the dialogue on gender equality.
Where? La Vancelle (France, nearby Strasbourg)
When? Monday February 26 (arrival date) to Sunday March 4
2018 (departure date)
General objectives:
The main objective of the project is to stimulate and promote gender equality for young Europeans from 7 different countries (France, Italy, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Romania, Portugal) in an intercultural and secure environment. The exchange will be the basis for further initiatives and cooperation in the field of creative work and human rights. We would like to collect a balanced group from the point of view of the kind with interest for the cultural sector expression and active citizenship.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR CULTURE”19 – 27/01/2018 BLAGOEVGRAD, BULGARIA !CLOSED!
The seminar will empower partnership to get to know each other, start the process of capacity building, sharing experiences. 
The seminar aims to activate youth workers’ knowledge on the project topic, provide with more expertise on social and cultural entrepreneurship and tools for working with youth with fewer opportunities. The main result of mobility is mobilized potential of the consortium in the field of cultural entrepreneurship and cultural management and initiated process of capacity building.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
Youth unemployment remains one of the biggest problems in EU: over 6 million young people are currently unemployed [Eurostat], all these are youths at higher risk of being socially alienated and those who face obstacles on the way to transfer their capital into social capital of Europe.
“EntreprenEUrship for CultYOUre” (EU4YOU) aims to enable environment for providing such youth with training in the field of social youth entrepreneurship with a special focus on cultural management.
The project will build capacity of youth organizations for improving access to the labour market of their direct target groups. The main aim of the project thus is to foster employability of young people through providing them with training on cultural management that will let them acquire capacities to respond to the needs of today’s rapidly evolving cultural field and apply it to the societal problems that classic government policies fail to respond efficiently.
“EU4YOU” will create environment and tools on cultural management education that will allow fostering entrepreneurial skills and mindsets of those young people who tend to be even more excluded from the labor market or can’t fully explore own potential due to their inner orientation to creativity and arts instead of more demanded labor market fields that provide employment opportunities.
The project is not focused on involving youth with fewer opportunities in mobility activities: the idea is to engage the youth workers who are able to maximize the dissemination potential to the bigger groups of youth with fewer opportunities within the activities held on local level. Thus, the young people with fewer opportunities will be involved in workshops organized by the youth workers in their home countries and dissemination activities planned within the project lifetime.
EXPECTED IMPACT OF THE PROJECT The youth workers participating in mobility activities will enhance their knowledge on social and cultural entrepreneurship, social innovation and learn how to use strategically creative arts for bridging the “Three C” of current-state society – culture, community and commerce. The youth workers will then act as multipliers bringing the knowledge to their local community and contributing to the toolkit content creation. The youth participating in local workshops will gain crucial transversal skills and learn how to apply the principles of project management to their creative ideas in practice, critical thinking and ability to approach societal problems in a multi-disciplinary way extensively using own creativity potential.
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