"Longterm EVS project ""Zavod O – Kids in Action 2"" has connected and improved cooperation between five daily centers in the wider area of Škofja Loka, Slovenia: MDC Blok (Youth Daily Care Center Blok), PUM (Project learning of Youth), Daily Care Center DCΩ, Daily center Podlbnik (all in Škofja Loka) and Daily Care Center Škrlovec in Kranj. First two are run by an NGO, DC Škrlovec, DCΩ and DC Podlubnik work under the Center for Social Work in Kranj and Škofja Loka, which are governmental institutions.Despite slight organisational differences they all have a common target group, which is children and youth between the age of 6 and 16 years and their families. The fundamental idea of all five Daily Care Centers is based on the desire to offer a program of activities to the generation/ group of young people with different problems, who spend their free time aimlessly and in a disorganized way, in idleness and boredom, who are deprived from normal family life experience.They give children and youth a place, where they feel comfortable and safe, where they can develop their social skills and get quality support considering their behavioral, emotional, learning and other difficulties. The program aims to provide support to learners with specific learning needs and to those with adolescent problems. Support is provided both at the individual level – working with each individual, as well as in cooperation with parents and with the whole family. The program includes group work and activities with adolescents, cooperation between different institutions, educational assistance, advisory work, holiday camps, daily excursions. All these centers are extremely similar to each other,they have similar practice of work and practicaly same target population. That is the reason why we came to the conclusion, that the cooperation between those centers should be streighten by hosting a common EVS project with 5 EVS volunteers from Spain, Germany, Turkey, Russia and Ukraine. Each of them was supposed to be included in the work of each Daily Care center for the period of one year, from september 2015 until september 2016. They would be involved in Daily centres' activities such as holidays activities, camps for youth, school support, leasure activities, administrative tasks. They would help the performing personel with public promotion and they would became acquainted with the theory and practice of preventive work in Slovenia etc. However, funding was approved only three volunteers, so the role of 5 volunteers was for 4 months performed only by three volunteers. At the next deadline we have aplied new project named Kids in Action 2.1, which was approved, so at the begining of 2016 we started to host two more EVS volunteers, which expanded the team of Kids in Action 2 volunteers.Not only the volunteers who were hosted gained from the project, but also local young people involved as activists in our organizations. As they participated in an international team, they learned from one another in a multicultural environment. Through it they gained for such a small town as Škofja Loka, yet very much needed European dimension of viewing the world. At the same time, the Erasmus + program was presented and promoted among local youth, which we tried to motivate to participate at any of the existing programs in the future. In this way, through the examples of good practice, we made significant impact on the increase of mobility of young people. In addition, the project aimed to positively influence and spread the values of the EU among other residents of the local community, many local residents were indirectly involved in the project through collaboration with various organizations and individuals."

"INputs - is a Youth Exchange involving 60 young people + 12 teamleaders from 12 countries (Portugal, Italy, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Spain, Turkey, Greece, Germany, Croatia, Lithuania and Slovakia) and will take place in Beja from 7th to 16 of September 2016. Our work will be investigating the 12 countries good practices on youth sense of initiative and creativity; then we will work on testing and enhancing the participant competences related with sense of initiative and job (creativity, awareness on own limits and values, stress management, problem solving, team-work and cooperation,). These are the main stages:1. Getting to know each other and create team-spirit.2. Cultural acknowledgment and sharing: Examples of youth employment, sense of initiative and creativity in each of the 12 countries: discussion and reflection Experiential Building of social, entrepreneurial, job related competences; Building a frame: Simulations, exercises, games about job competences, communication, democratic processes, inclusion, creativity;3. This exchange will be essentially teaching ""How to present yourself"" through three different ways, giving them three different possibilities to gain and improve their skills: - Communication through media & new technologies: How to use new technologies to present yourself in a representative way to increase chances for employability, especially in different social media platforms;- Plastic & visual art: How to present your competences in a visual way. Presentation of visual art possibilities for employment (ex: different creative ways for making CV to attract attention of employers);- Performance arts: How to express yourself with your body, with music, dance, juggling, theatre etc. and use this as an added value when looking for a job;4. Transferring all the acknowledgements and competences gained in the final event for sharing with the local community ""INputs Action"" (the kind of activity is going to be decided through a common decision as exercise of democracy);5. Evaluation of the exchange and personal evaluation - gained skills; Feedback for the future. Follow up ideas6. Post exchange Evaluation.The Main Objectives are: Let participants discover their own skills, competences, creativity and self-efficacy through presentations, simulations, tasks, games and other non -formal activities; Share successful experiences of youth who developed their creativity and sense of initiative into projects, firms, activities- The value of the good examples; Suggest an active attitude towards the problems and search creative solutions which can support them in tackling obstacles in job market, and/or that can develop an entrepreneurial attitude; Develop and spread non formal and informal education methodologies, and competences:The methods of work will be mostly non-formal, with learning by doing, with a lot of practice, exercise, games, acting, performing, graphic-art activities, dialogic methods (like conversation, discussion, dramatization) and presentations. With using these methods we expected that the participants will acquire or improve the communication skills, the skills of improvisation, self-confidence and self-efficacy, creativity and imagination skills. We will be developing the sense of acceptance and respect towards other cultures, countries and ways to work, developing in this way their attitude and behavior towards others as well as cooperation skills and team work."

Our entity, Arrabal -AID, conducts workshops, courses and programs to facilitate the social inclusion of groups at risk of exclusion (families, psychological care to children, detainees, women, youth , immigrants...) and unemployed citizens in general.Given this context, the participation of a person performing an EVS will be key to the creation and management of social projects. This person will support our work facilitators of society, equal opportunities, social inclusion and solidarity enterprises through the creation, proposal and development projects aimed at social development.All this will serve as a vital and work experience to the volunteer, joining a team that maintains the quality and experience of the organization in the 20 years he has been contributing to society .The project will involve the participation of three volunteers with social concerns currently developing three programs that the institution :Employment of prisoners through job shadowing program that we are developing for 9 years with the Ministry of Interior people. Focused on social and labor integration of this collective . Will perform the following tasks:- Administrative tasks .- Workshops in Computing, dissemination workshops integration program , social skills workshops , etc. .- Accompanying persons inmates to various resources and companies.In terms of methodology, the program has a manual of procedures evaluated and agreed with the other entities that carry out this program. The volunteer program will be introduced in a gradual maner and will be accompanied at all times by a professional entity. The mere presence of the volunteer will make the inmates motivated and aware of the European dimension, there will be feed back as to the situation of prisons in their home country and ours. In addition, inmates of the program beneficiaries will benefit people from contact with a foreign person and have the opportunity to practice and learn another language.Workshops educational support to children at risk of social exclusion through Caixa Pro Children Program Obra Social La Caixa , providing coverage both material and services (counseling, speech therapy, school parents, educational support, summer camps) to families at risk of social exclusion. The tasks performed voluntary :- Workshops with children educational support and values education: support in the planning and development of workshops with the team of monitors (information search, group dynamics) .- Urban Summer Camp- Workshops on the use of computers- Administrative tasks: attendance sheet of students, and incident tracking log.This program also has a manual of procedures will be provided to the volunteer in English.The EVS volunteer will begin its part in reinforcing educational workshops in a group of 8 children with a professional entity, gradually also meet families and situations of these 8 children. As you progress the degree of autonomy and attachment to the organization, participate in similar groups and begin to develop administrative tasks necessary for the program. Voluntary participation in this project will make both children and professionals learn and practice another language, the volunteer will also be motivated to impart her own workshop in her language.Both families and their children, know and understand that European mobility is possible and that their children can access in the future to such programs .Design of social projects and new ideas to be developed by the entity performing the following tasks :- Search and information gathering.- Visits to various resources.- Work in the strategic planning of the organization.- Administrative tasks for the presentation of projects .- Teamwork for the development of ideas and projects.- Workshops for people at risk of social exclusion.- Other tasks that may arise.The volunteer will offer the external point of view, another culture and customs, and to provide a different international, young and enterprising character that we have from Spain. A volunteer with a duration of 12 months, which will help the volunteer to learn to manage and create social projects, while leaving present their point of view, all framed in a vital experience of meeting people, languages, youth activities, and all you want to learn to span to favor groups at risk of exclusion through activities, projects and innovative workshops.

The increase of our dynamism in local administrations will be possible with the participation of young people. Since the beginning of the 1990s, many studies across Europe have been blinded by the involvement of young people in research. Active citizenship and participation of young people throughout Europe have long been the permanent priorities of the Youth in Action program, Erasmus + Youth programs. When we look at the current situation, the participation of young people in local governments in our country does not go beyond participating in the election campaigns of the members they are members of, or making crowded events happen at certain times. Emphasis is placed on diversity of participation when talking about youth participation. In democracies, participation should not be perceived only as voting. There are some indicators that express the responsibilities of young people in the social sense. There are some indicators that express the responsibilities of young people in the social sense. These; as well as having information about the political process and understanding process, techniques of thinking, ability to use information technology, participation in the media, interaction and discussion skills, participation in volunteer activities are indicators. The aim of this project; In Turkey, the young active participation and active citizenship of young people's knowledge of contributions to local governments with the support, skills and create positive change in the attitudes and the importance of youth participation is to reach them personally youth itself by policy makers. In order to achieve this aim, trainings will be organized in the direction of the determined targets, local participation in youth participation, active citizenship, European citizenship and active participation. In addition, a summit program will be held in Ankara with local participants to participate.

"The aim of the E.T.- EVS TANDEM training is to empower EVS sending and receiving organisations to develop their projects in order to strengthen the key competencies of the volunteers to enter the labour market. In order to achieve this, the participants of the training will develop and upgrade their work in the EVS support cycles. The direct improvement of the organisational support system and the development of the EVS projects will result in the better employability of the volunteers, as they gain adequate knowledge, practices and experiences concerning their employment. The participants of the training identify the key activities of the EVS projects that can help the strengthening of the volunteers' entrepreneurial competencies. The organisation management and the development of EVS projects is implemented through several steps. The volunteers' key competences are improved through the empowerment of the organisations and youth workers.The training is organised in Hungary with 6 countries involved (IT, RO, HR, D, TR, HU), each delegating 4 participants from different organisations. All of the partners and the participants have experience with EVS projects, they are sending, receiving and/or coordinating organisations. During the 9-day-long training the ""beginner"" and more experienced EVS organisations work together, form tandem pairs and help each other before, during and after the training. This way successful co-operations can be formed at local, national and international level too.The knowledge gained during the training (good practices, methods, tools and experience) will be shared by the participants at local and international levels too. The participants and their organisations create direct impact on the improvement of youth work. After the training the cooperation between the organisations will become stronger, the knowledge-transfer will be highlighted. The quality of youth work will be improved, the EVS organisations will become more prepared and self-conscious about their work. Several methods, recommendations and tools will be developed to focus on the employability of the volunteers. These tools and methods can be used by the EVS organisations in the EVS cycle (preparation, on-going volunteer support and follow-up activities). This way the EVS projects will improve and their volunteers are better prepared for the labour market. The everyday work of the participating youth workers will be improved, as they exchange new methods and good practices at international level and this will result in the refreshment of the national and international youth work too."