WELCOMERS is a mobility of youth workers that will promote the cultural enrichment of the European citizenship from youth, breaking down stereotypes and social prejudices that exist regarding the migrant and refugee population. The goal is to work from the TRAINING, EXCHANGE, INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE and the promotion of ACTIVE PARTICIPATION on youth, the development of positive messages and proposals that will involve local public administration and youth in more positive and tolerant attitudes towards vulnerable population, based on equality and solidarity among communities.This Exchange leaded by JOVESOLIDES, will take place in Valencia and will link 23 youth workers from 7 organisations coming from the social and youth sector from Estonia, Italy, France, Germany, Cyprus and Spain. The goal is to identify NEW TOOLS AND WORKING METHODS to sensitize youth population in Europe.New realities and social problems we are facing nowadays in Europe need new ways how to face them and new views. This initiative will work in 3 different levels:Social awareness about the reality suffered by migrants and refugeesIdentification of diverse working methods for youth, in the design of local communicative initiatives involving local administration and youth, andEmpowerment of the positive imagen of migration and refuge in social media, combating negative speeches (PROMOTION OF NO HATE SPEECH)The objectives of this training are:Promote the space of training, experiences, creativity and social innovation applied in the generation of POSITIVE MESSAGES in relation to political refugee and migration,Promotion of youth and local administration commitment in favour of a more tolerant, receptive Europe that “Welcomes” those people arriving to Europe for different reasons and facing difficulties, lacks and are needing to be hosted.Promote the solidarity and tolerance on youth in order to increase the understanding among youth from different countries.Give visibility throw social media to positive and constructive messages which are searching for the generation of solidarity in a more receptive Europe. The goal of this exchange is to facilitate the means to youth workers in order to generate a more INTERCULTURAL and INCLUSIVE Europe, from the youngest population.

The Project “Mother in Action” aimed to facilitate the fight against social exclusion and to give pair opportunities to these people in need.“Mothers in Action” is an EVS project that was held in Latiano and Atene. The activities were held from July 2018 to July 2019. The project involved 4 volunteers from Spain and Italy. OBJECTIVES Through the sharing, monitoring, analysis, evaluations, the anecdote of experiences, knowledge and best practices, the project stimulated the volunteers to the tendency of a fully participatory approach. The main objectives reached are:facilitated the social inclusion, promoted solidarity, risen initiative among volunteers who actively worked together with the social workers in the centre “Siderea” and Interali;improved the conditions of living of mothers and children, reach a status of psychophysical wellness and make them express their self being without external judgments.The volunteers cooperated with the social workers of the centre to elaborate an individual programme for each hosts. The volunteer’s service took place on:- all the sites of “Siderea”in Latiano (BR), especially in the headquarters with the socio-cultural team, in a constant contact with the residents of the centre: mothers with children victims of abuse or social and environmental maltreatment, mothers-to-be who have other children, mothers with children who need a psychological and pedagogic support, Italian or foreign mothers with children in disadvantage, molest and/or abuse conditions. - All the sites of Interalia Organization with the support f Local center for female migrants and childrens these centre operates in many sectors and activities in which the volunteers were actively involved are:Textile lab: a workshop held by a professional designer which aims is to learn the art of sewing and embroidery to mothers to teach them a new job but also to make them relaxed, as sewing stimulates meditation and positive aptitude;

Unemployment among young people in the EU has risen very sharply since the breakout of the financial crisis in 2008, reaching unprecedented levels. However, for over a decade the unemployment rate of young people in the EU has remained approximately at double the rate of the overall unemployment in the economy while, at the same time, the use of flexible, fixed-term contracts and alternative forms of employment has been increasing.This has resulted in growing job insecurity and systematic labour market and social exclusion of young people at the very beginning of their professional careers with many of them moving directly from education to unemployment or taking up temporary jobs below their qualifications. The crisis has exacerbated this trend raising the threat of a 'lost generation' in particular in some European countries, as social disadvantages of young unemployed are multi-faceted, including for example higher risk of poverty, precariousness and social exclusion, disaffection, insecurity, higher propensity towards offence and crime, as well as health problems. This concerns both EU citizens as well as third country nationals or second generation migrants. A comprehensive understanding of the long-term consequences of these developments is therefore crucial for successful economic, social and labour market policies that could address in a comprehensive way this problem now and in the future.Objective Our proposal aims to endorse all young people of the European Union and boost creativity and competitiveness. To Contribute to reach all aims of Europa 2020 about SI.The specific Objectives are: 1) To develop entrepreneurial skills of the participants;2) To provide the participants with information on how to develop, validate and implement social entrepreneurial projects and enterprises;3) To Exchange experience, tools and best practices concerning SI;4) To equip the participants with tools and methods on the development of entrepreneurial skills among young people;5) To develop new methods and tools on the topic of social entrepreneurship;6) To provide the participants with information about opportunities of the Erasmus+ Programme and to support the establishment of new partnerships;7) To develop solidarity, promote tolerance and foster mutual understanding between people with different backgrounds through initiating intercultural dialogue between them and common transnational projects. The project consists of 3 main activities:- To organize a Training activity to Develop a Common frame about Social Innovation;- To create a Local Support Group in each project partner’s country in order to co-create and develop a social enterprises’ ideas;- To develop a Catalogue of Best Practices concerning Social innovation The main results of the project will be triggering inspiration in order to create new enterprises (including social enterprises) independently or on the NGOs' base and activities for young people on the topic of social entrepreneurship implemented by project participants in their countries. Promoting social innovation among the local partners’ NGO in order to help them to become sustainable as well as involving bigger number of young people in NGO and social entrepreneurship issues are longer term benefits after the project.Target: Youth, Youth workers, students, young entrepreneurs,.Expected impact:The proposal will contribute to endorse European talents and give them the possibility to understand better and reach their personal goals.The project should promote a decrease of unemployment rate and favorite a new debates at International and National level about new innovative tools to face unemployment and give to young people skills and tools to make them active workers and citizens.In addition the project will help vulnerable groups to overcome their difficulty in order to enter in the labour market.

In this project we wanted to host 3 volunteers from Germany, Finland and Portugal in these organisations of Redon (France) : Social center, MAPAR and Fédération d'Animation Rurale. However we have been able to involve only 2 young people from Finland and Germany, not Portugal. Mapar did not receive any EVS finally but was still coordinating organisation for EVS. Our aim was to involve young European in projects towards various people of the local community, and to create links between these hosting organisations for the benefit of all the actors : the volunteers indeed met more people and different projects in the town, they brought some added value to the missions of their hosting organisations and gave the opportunity to the publics of these organisations to mix with other publics. .Hosting volunteers at the Social center and La fédé permitted to involve the volunteers with the local life and more speciaficaly with the youth and population who are in difficulties. It's really important for the public of the hosting organisations, the “Group of Mutual Support” (persons facing psychical diseases) coming to the Centre Social, the people going to the Insertion workshops of la Fédé or the families of the working-class neighbourhoods of the town, who participate to the activities of the Social Center. As an EVS coordinator and also Youth hostal and Accomodation Organisation (from 16 to 30 years old), MAPAR takes high care about linking its young public with the EVS hosting organisation's since Mapar's youth in in the process of social inclusion. This link helped open the young public to geographic mobility, European Counciousness, voluntering and the possibility to traveling with social objectives. More, Redon is a small town in a rural area, the local community doesn’t have the opportunity to meet many foreign people with such a diversity of origins and cultures, and the presence of volunteers helped to develop the European awareness in the “Pays de Redon”. In our hosting projects, we tried to use as much as possible a participative pedagogy with the volunteers : to give them the opportunity to manage their own projects on an autonomous way (with our support), to make so that they take initiatives, to develop their citizen awareness. Finally, we tried to make improvements every year in our pedagogical way to support the volunteers, so that they can find their place and bring a real « added value » into our community and to the project of each organisation, with their own skills, through the diversity of the publics of our hosting organizations via a collective project run by the volunteers together, and in order to develop their competences in general.

Context/background: The “YouCareOn” action was an ERASMUS+ VET KA 2 Strategic “Partnerships for adult education/ Exchanges of Practices” under the priority “Developing VET business partnerships aimed at promoting work-based learning in all its forms” with the relevant topic “Early School Leaving / combating failure in education”, “Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment”, and “Regional dimension and cooperation”.The relevance of this project is confirmed by national and EU official papers and research, e.g. the EU ESIF Strategy “Europe 2020”, “Jobs, growth and investment”; the ESF “Youth Employment Initiative”.An early, corresponding to the regional demand career guidance for pupils/students under the slogan “Education and career in the region for the region”' has a growing importance across Europe, because qualified staff is an essential prerequisite for any economic development of a region. Guidance and counselling can help to prevent young people from becoming NEETs and unemployed. In this way the interaction between practice, research and policy is reinforced.Project Objectives: The action’s main objective was to exchange specific good practices and experiences in qualification and training gained in the action matter respective to the needs of vocational education and training institutions, schools, administrations as well as labour offices in the participating countries. Number/profile of participants: In total 103 direct beneficiaries and 387 indirect beneficiaries have actively participated in the 12 Learning, Teaching and Training Activities.:- Staff of the project partners, and - Principals/teachers which deal with early vocational guidance. Participating organisations: Six partners in general, two from Germany, Federal Land Brandenburg, Greece, Spain, Latvia and Italy were involved in this action. They represented Regional Development Agencies, a National University, a foundation and a vocational education and training centre. Activities: The project partners realised six Bench Mobility (five days each) in Wildau and Cottbus/DE), Trinec (CZ), Santander (ES), Riga (LV), Athens (GR) and Lecce (IT) as well as six Short-Term Joint Staff Trainings. These Mobility are characterised by visits to representative regional good practices. So, the participants got see by itself on-site solutions how and which way early stage career orientation is organised in the respective partner countries. The exchange of opinions, knowledge and expertise took place most of all in direct personal contacts with these regional stakeholders. At the end, the participants took home in practice gained experiences to use in their own activities. Methodology of the project:The Lead Partner methodology included all activities in project management, implementation, communication, dissemination, internal evaluation and follow-up arrangements.The method “Transfer of contents” was used when the partners shared their good practices about innovative and proven procedures, methods and approaches.The method “Capacity building” and “Common learning and training” was used especially during the Blended Mobility and Short-Term Joint Staff Trainings C1 to C12. Results and impact: There were specific tangible results, e.g. the reached number of direct/indirect beneficiaries; Intangible results of the project were:- Gained new competences and knowledge respective to some of the 8 EU key competences, e.g. Learning to learn, Social and civic competences, Communication in foreign languages in this case in English, Sense of initiative and entrepreneurships- Enhanced capacity to deal with the topic “early professional/career orientation and guidance” under different points of view- Increased opportunities in professional development for young people Potential longer term benefits: The shared recommendation, methods, curricula and expertise will remain after the end of the EU funding at disposition of each direct or indirect participant, and will be integrated into the regional educational qualification systems upon appropriateness. The project’s results will remain available on the internet presences at least for the next three years beyond the project end.