<< Objectives >>The project 'Rural Youth Cinema' is developing a qualitative methodology that guides young people in making an ethnographic documentaries, from youth activities that starts from ecological and sustainable themes that are urgent in the rural context where the youth work organisations are situated. We share this process using a sustainable digital platform. In this way, through the methodology, we investigate sustainability in art youth work, situated in rural areas.<< Implementation >>In each country, we will implement project activities in the partner's operation. This will be done step-by-step and in parallel. (1) exploring techniques, (2) raw documentaries of the activities, (3) final documentaries (4) viewing documentaries by partners. All project partners come together after each step. This allows for exchange and development as a group. All partners are committed to implementing the project insights and outcomes in the future work of the organisation.<< Results >>-documentaries (with subtitles)-ethnographic documentary tool for youth work-digital platform-blog with process documentation -physical film moments in each project country-Curriculum component for students youth art work (bachelor UCLL)

This project is developed by FYCA and its European partners. The project aimed to ameliorate the recognition of youth work and non-formal education through the development of certified “International youth studies” curricula and open educational materials for European Higher Education Institutions. The specific objectives were: • Stimulating and strengthening the integration of non-formal education and formal education at universities through the establishment of a certified course on International youth studies.• Creating bridges between formal and non-formal education, youth policy and practice in order to release innovation potential to raise the quality of educational and social service to Europe’s young people, to promote career flexibility and mobility, and to assert the value and utility of evidence-based policy and practice.• Strengthening human potential in the youth field by building a critical mass of qualified youth workers.• Promoting international recognition of the youth work and non-formal education through developing and adopting award criteria that are in line with the formal educational system.Through developed curricula and open educational materials, the project targeted at enhancing the quality of the human resources involved in youth work. It contributes also to the modernization of higher education by designing an integrated course for those involved or willing to involve in youth work.The project consisted of 5 international activities (2 capacity building + 3 mobility).

"<< Background >>Today more than ever, Europe needs young people that act as responsible and engaged citizens. Working with and for them, the ACLEV project employed a variety of learning methods and non-formal education activities to empower young people across Europe to be active citizens and engage in strengthening and advancing the European project and its common values.<< Objectives >>The project aimed to achieve the following 4 objectives:a) Raise awareness, encourage critical thinking and inspire enthusiasm about European values and the European project;b) Create connections and a “sense of unity” among young people across Europe;c) Inspire young people to take actions as responsible and engaged European citizens;d) Build and strengthen transnational networks between organisations and youth workers for mutual learning and development.<< Implementation >>The project included the adaptation of the Coloured Glasses (CG) manual, the development of e-modules and a webinar, and 4 Trainings for CG Facilitators in 2018. In 2019, CG workshops were delivered, a ""Breaking Through Walls"" Campaign, 3 Youth Exchanges, local and online outreach activities on Europe Day and the Young Europeans’ Seminar were organised as well as an online Platform for CG Facilitators developed. The project closed with a training for youth leaders and a European Conference.<< Results >>*A CG workshop manual on active citizenship and European values *5 e-modules as background info *Trainings for 98 new CG Facilitators *220 CG Workshops, 4182 participants, 12 countries *A Campaign reaching almost 59k people online and offline *3 Youth Exchanges, 110 young people, 8 countries *3280+ people celebrating Europe Day *A seminar engaging 518 young people around the idea of “Breaking through walls” *Policy Recommendations *An online platform for CG facilitators"

‘Effective Digital Habits for Youth Work’ aims to explore and build the required youth work competences to promote online good practice, a better understanding of digital youth work, a confidence to embrace and engage in the digital world that young people exist and a platform for utilising the digital opportunities for promoting what we do and celebrating our success and outcomes. Ten partner organisations from: The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Lithuania, Germany, Cyprus, Belgium, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, and Ireland will each identify and support a total of 90 participants in the 3 mobilities (induction seminar, training and evaluation seminar) that will be held in The Netherlands and Lithuania. The participants will be leaders and decision makers from partner organisations or associated organisations, youth leaders and youth workers, social workers and volunteers working with young people, those individuals who are maybe struggling to maintain their digital competences as well those who are embracing and following some of the digital developments. Mobility 1: iDigital Seminar - will lay foundations for developing general understanding of youth work and digital realities, digital youth work concept and needs for digital competences and literacy, will introduce Covey’s paradigms and principles and will approach 3 of the first habits for effective digital youth work and will establish cooperation for digital alliances. Mobility 2: Grow Digital Training Course - will deepen competence development and increase capacity of partner organisations to plan and implement digital youth work having the strategic perspective in mind. Participants will continue developing necessary competences and will train on their four other habits for effective digital youth work. The cooperation within digital alliances will continue and will bring practical insights. Mobility 3: Digital Harvest Seminar - will look for practical solutions that digital youth work can offer to address the needs and problems that young people and youth work has in the digital age. This activity will also conclude and capitalise on the learning outcomes, results, and achievements of the previous phases of this project and will allow participants and partner organisations to prepare dissemination content, products and strategies to achieve sustainable impact of this project. There will be practice phases between mobility activities to support practical application of learning from mobilities to youth work realities of partner organisations, young people, local partner networks, and community. We see that competence and habit development can happen only and when participants apply their new learning to practice and then reflect the success and challenges of such application. For ‘What - learning outcomes’ we chose a competence framework developed by the European expert group on digitalisation of youth work. This group identified 7 areas of competences where youth workers need to develop: 1. Digitalisation of society 2. Planning, designing and evaluating digital youth work 3. Information and data literacy 4. Communication 5. Digital creativity 6. Safety 7. Reflection and evaluation The above competence model will be used transversally during all phases of our project. We will provide reflection and self-assessment tools for participants to monitor the development of their digital competences. For ‘How - learning outcomes’ we chose a framework of Covey’s 7 habits for effective leadership which we already employed in previous long-term training programmes for youth workers and youth leaders. These are the areas of competences covered by Covey’s 7 habits: 1. Being proactive 2. Having the end in mind 3. Putting first things first 4. Think win-win 5. Seek first to understand and then to be understood 6. Synergize 7. “Sharpen the saw” Effective Digital Habits for Youth Work will look to grow digitally agile youth workers with a comprehensive portfolio of digital competences ready to realise digital youth work. It will look to support the digital capacities and abilities of the partner organisations ensuring that the digital offer and practice that is experienced by young people builds digital safety, resilience, and learning for today’s world.

MIMY is a comparative interdisciplinary study of migrant integration with the aim of empowering young migrants in vulnerable conditions and supporting integration strategies within the EU. The project brings together 11 disciplines and 12 partners to examine the dynamic, open-ended process of integration at the EU, national and local level by examining 18 case studies within 9 countries. MIMY analyzes integration policies and strategies across macro (EU migration policies), meso (regional economic & social systems) and micro (individual practices) levels by establishing a unified theoretical framework at the intersection of liquid integration, resilience and vulnerability. The innovative, multi-method approach (e.g. policy analyses, quantitative data analysis, delphi study and participatory action research) provides in-depth analyses of: 1) the long-term socio-economic effects of successful and failed integration; 2) factors fostering or hindering integration processes of young migrants (considering the heter