The idea behind the project NIO Far was to foster the cooperation between Europe and Senegal and to promote activities aiming to enhance the quality and recognition of youth work while improving participants' level of competences as a way to favor their active participation in the society as well as to provide a response to social challenges.Within this framework, the project aimed at creating a pool of trainers/multipliers able to use Non Formal Education methodology to promote human rights, social inclusion, anti-discrimination measures and gender equality in relation to different contexts (Italy, Senegal and Spain).To reach this aim the project was made of different phases:1)Preparation phase. During this phase, partners communicated to identify a proper division of tasks, a timeline and to set the instruments for managing the project (i.e. creating a shared folder on google drive, a planning and setting skype call every month). 2)Implementation phase. This phase consisted of:--a long term training course based on a blended methodology (residential and online).The residential part of the training course took place in Sassari (Italy) from the 5th of July to the 12th of July 2018. The venue of the activity was the migrant centre of Platamona, where 50 migrants from different african countries are hosted. The choice of the venue was an added value, since participants could experience the migrants hosting system in Italy and share with the guests their experience. 8 migrants decided to take part to the activity. The training course involved 21 participants from three countries (Italy, Spain and Senegal), project coordinators and facilitators and local volunteers who supported the implementation of the activities. The TC focused on NFE methodology and tools to use it to promote human rights and social inclusion.--Online Training Course: following the activity in Sassari, participants started to follow the online course which gave them the opportunity to go deeper with the topic of human rights and to further plan the National activities they proposed during the Training Course. Implementation of National activities: participants planned and implemented activities in their contexts and the results was:•2 activities in Italy •1 in Spain•1 in SenegalEvaluation phase. A final meeting was organized in Ziguinchor (Senegal) from 28/10 to 2/11, during which, there was an evaluation part referred to National activities and another one to the entire project. A conference was held at the university of Ziguinchor, involving different local stakeholders to talk about human rights status in Senegal and to present the project.Following the meeting, participants organized a joint activity (every group in its country) for the International human rights day (10th December). The entire path allowed participants to:--To experience the Non-Formal Education as a learning and empowering tool and to apply this methodology;--To acquire skills and knowledge about the promotion of Human rights online and offline with a focus on the implications of a lack of inclusion;--To empower youth as active citizens using the new technologies;-- To experience the value of differences and the existence of common values beyond cultural differences;At the end of the project, were produced:•a video on NFE and its use•a video presenting the project•a toolkit on NFE methodology and practical examplesThe methodology used during the entire process was NFE methodology, whose application was also among the main purpose of the learning outcomes of the project. Dissemination activities took place during the entire project, through:•activities organized by participants and meeting with local stakeholders•newspaper,

The project aims to empower young women with entrepreneurial competences which favor their personal and professional growth, enhancing their possibility to contribute to the development of the society.The objectives of the project are in line with the objectives individuated by the Erasmus+ Programme Guide for the capacity building project in the field of youth and in particular: o foster cooperation and exchanges in the field of youth between Italy, Spain, Portugal and Senegal, four countries that even if have different experiences, have found a common need: supporting young women to acquire entrepreneurial competences.o foster the development, testing and launching of programmes of non-formal learning mobility. partners will create and test an educational programme supporting young women to acquire competences and skills to start their own initiatives within organizations they cooperate with or by themselves. The test of the programme through different steps based on the active involvement of the participants, will allow for finalizing it and to share the results online with potential stakeholders. To favor this process, partners have identified a path to create and test an educational programme based on NFE methodology, that foresees 3 main phases.In general the path is composed of:1) Preparation phase, including: a Kick off meeting and online meetings2) Implementation and follow up phase during which there will be: -First phase training course -Online training course -Job shadowing -Local activities -Evaluation meeting3) A closing phase with a final event

The project MEDIACT is centered on the innovative combination of three thematic pillars, namely: 1) peace building and conflict transformation, 2) youth work, 3) media (mass, alternative and social media), as well as their interrelations. In practice, it aims to capacitate youth workers on utilizing media in order to foster peace in their communities and beyond, and tackle issues related to armed violence and conflict. Specifically, through the project’s scope, the consortium will focus on topics as reflective structured dialogue, media literacy, the correlation of violence, extremism, radicalization and propaganda, fake news and information warfare, censorship, hate speech, post-conflict community rapprochement. It will be implemented by seven partner organizations across four continents, who present a multitude of 1) institutional statuses (i.e. a University, a youth council, NGOs, a social enterprise, a platform of organizations, a research network), 2) levels of accessibility to media (and levels of censorship), and 3) regional or national conflict contexts (political violence, post-war reconciliation, gang guerillas, ethnical and geopolitical dispute, xenophobia-driven attacks). Under the partners’ umbrella, there will be a plethora of on-ground collaborators within and across borders, coming from all three thematic pillars including youth-led media, peace forces, the civil society, educational institutes and high-level decision-makers. All activities are based on a variety of non-formal educational methodologies, including seminars, study visits, debates, as well as a certification course on community reporting. The outline of the project extends in 21 months, and is consisted of (a) three Mobility activities for Youth Workers (Europe, Central America, Sub-Saharan Africa), (b) Online activities including OER and ICT-based training (e-learning, webinars, e-Conferences), (c) Local Activities (research focus groups), (d) the dissemination phase (social media campaigns, simulation game, local workshops).A big part of the project concerns the production of new media and innovative intellectual outputs open to the public after its end. Selectively, an e-Learning Platform hosting an e-Learning course and monthly webinars, will be developed and an e-Book will be compiled after 12-month research endeavors, containing good practices, case studies and guidelines for youth workers over the use of media as a tool for peace building and conflict transformation. Also, the partners’ will maintain strong media presence and, as by definition of media, they intend to capitalize on the projects worldwide outreach potential.

Young people aged 15-24 represent 20% of the African population but over 40% of the total unemployed people in Africa. There arises the need to encourage young people in Africa to pursue vocational education, and to better connect the existing vocational education structures with the private sector, and the labour market in general. Therefore, the aim of this project is to upskill VET in African countries (Cape Verde, Senegal, Kenya) in order to increase employability of young people and to connect VET with the rising sectors of the labour market in the private sector. A sector that can be targeted for this initiative is the cultural tourism sector. African countries have a wealth of local assets that can serve as a motivation for cultural, green, and responsible tourists to visit the continent. In this project, we aim to create channels of communication between VET centres and the private sector, to create a joint vocational education curriculum on green, cultural, circular, responsible tourism among the partner countries of Europe and Africa, to strengthen the connection between vocational education and work, by introducing the concept of micro-credentials and to provide opportunities to students for Green Apprenticeships/Mentoring with private sector professionalsThe following steps will be taken in order to achieve the objective: creation of local and international networks, focus groups with the created networks (first local, then international) in order to assess the educational needs associated with employment in the touristic sector, and to create the learning objectives and micro-credentials, development of a joint qualification profile and joint curriculum, organisation of blended courses on the issue, organisation of e-apprenticeships (digital exchange) of students to private institutions from other partner countries and assessment of students, and awarding of micro-credentials in a digital portfolio