Bridges to ENpower aims to improve the quality of youth work in Ukraine, in the field of entrepreneurship education for young people, and to foster cooperation and exchanges between youth organizations from Ukraine, Poland, Romania and Norway.The aim of the project is reached through the following specific objectives:- Professionalize youth workers from Ukraine in delivering workshops on entrepreneurship education;- Enhance the the capacity of youth organizations from Ukraine to provide mentorship programs for young people, in order to increase their interest, knowledge, and competencies related to entrepreneurship, and to foster their employability;- Professionalize youth workers from Ukraine in establishing sustainable and efficient cross-sectorial partnerships on the labour market (with companies, SMEs, universities and students associations);- Foster cooperation between the partner organizations from Ukraine, Poland, Romania and Norway, through common work on developing open educational resources, and through the internationalization of partners’ expertise.The activities from our project launched, tested and implemented youth work practices, methods & tools and training modules, more precisely:- non-formal learning methods and OERs (a training toolkit for youth workers and a training were developed and directly delivered to 29 youth workers) on entrepreneurship, volunteering, media & communication, and career counselling. The toolkit and the training deliver entrepreneurship education by developing several competencies area for youth, based on practical activities related to volunteering, media and communication, opening and running a business, and career counselling.- new forms of practical training schemes - a mentorship program was designed so that will allow for young people to develop professional skills and competencies in a real working environment, and also learn from their mentors practical information on how to open and run a business.Moreover, the project enhanced Ukrainian youth organizations’ capacity for innovation and internationalization. Through the new methods and tools developed the organizations provided new services to young people, enhance their collaboration with the private sector and increase their sustainability.Nevertheless, the project encourages cooperation, networking and exchanges of practices among youth organizations from Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and Norway. A workshop and a regional conference for 50 relevant stakeholders was organized in Ukraine on themes, such as youth, entrepreneurship education for youth, youth employment, youth organizations-private partnerships, in order to disseminate the project's open education resources.

<< Objectives >>Norsensus Mediaforum (Norway) and Fundatia Danis (Romania) have been working for several years with young people, developing expertise, at local, national and European level, in supporting young people to develop personally and professionally, to be more active in the community, to make their voice heard, but also to start and run their social, business or volunteer initiatives. Based on this experience and on the ongoing interaction with the young people, employers, entrepreneurs and other civil society organizations from our networks, we observed three relevant challenges that the European context brings to young people:Find their place on the challenging and more and more demanding labour market, which asks young people to have higher and higher digital skills level, but also to be more and more adaptable and flexible to the fasting changes from any industry;Make themselves listened and engaged in the community decisions, and connect more for greater impact in the decisions that affect their future;Reinvent their communities, supporting the increasing diversity of these communities and the new social challenges generated by migration, technology, demographic changes, climate change, political and economical insecurities, etc.Through Innovation Express project we aim to make our work better, to support our youth workers to better serve young people in responding to these European challenges. Thus, the project contributes to the professional development of youth workers, who will learn how to use new methods and digital tools and develop new activities and projects for youth, for enhancing young people’s sense of initiative, increasing their employability and social inclusion, and supporting them to better connect and express their opinions in the community. Also at the institutional level, the project aims to support the partner organizations to diversify their funding sources, design and redesign their services for youth using user-centered methods, digitize more of their work, and develop sustainable communication strategies and membership systems.The project aims to professionalize youth workers and contribute to the capacity building for quality youth work of their organizations, having a direct impact on the youth workers’ work with young people for developing their sense of initiative, digital and future work skills, and the capacity for better expressing their opinions and for better inclusion in the community.The specific objectives of the job shadowing activities are:Equip youth workers with competences to support young people to put their social initiatives in practice and reinvent their communities, while gaining a powerful voice in these communities;Equip youth workers with competences and innovative educational methods for supporting young people to better adapt to the fast changing labour market;Support youth workers and their organizations to diversify their funding sources, develop or improve membership systems, better involve their stakeholders and provide more user-centered services for youth;Develop youth workers’ digital competences and equip them with knowledge and skills necessary to use digitized educational tools for young people.The project targets directly the general objectives of Erasmus+ for the mobility of youth workers, investing in the youth workers’ competences, thus the professional development of the youth workers, in the benefit of their organizations and communities. Besides, the project contributes to the increasing capacity of the partner youth organizations, supporting them to better serve young people in responding to the current societal challenges.<< Activities >>The project includes two job shadowing activities in which two youth workers from the partner organizations will be involved with the aim of professional development and organizational growth for innovative youth work. The job shadow activities include learning objectives and specific activities, grouped in the following development areas:- Enhance youth employability and develop digital skills of young people;- Develop young people’s sense of initiative;- Support young people for better inclusion and expression of opinions in the community;- Increase capacity building of the organizations.For each of the identified need or growth direction, the two partners identified methods, tools, expertise and experience from current or previous local or national projects, focused on the above topics, which could be shared and which could inspire the partners’ youth workers involved in the job shadowing activities.<< Impact >>At the end of the project, the youth workers involved in the job shadowing activities:- will be able to support young people to put their social initiatives in practice and reinvent their communities, while gaining a powerful voice in these communities;- will be able to develop and use innovative educational methods for supporting young people to better adapt to the fast changing labour market;- will gain knowledge and the necessary skills to use digitized educational tools for young people;- will be able to support their organizations to diversify its funding sources, develop or improve membership systems, better involve organization’s stakeholders and provide more user-centered services for youth.For the participating organizations of the projects, the following results and impact are expected to be achieved. As both partners’ main target group are young people, this impact will have long term effects on young people who are the beneficiaries of the activities offered by the partner organizations:- the organization will provide better and more innovative services for enhancing young people’s employability, mainly through the development of digital skills of young people, innovative entrepreneurship education methods, such as practice enterprises, to enhance young people's sense of initiative;- more services that support the social inclusion of all young people and that help them to better connect and express their opinions in the community;- new user-centered activities that support young people to put their social initiatives into practice, through facilitation processes that address their concrete ideas of civic, social, political participation; - access to new funding sources, greater stakeholders’ involvement and more innovative and user-centered services for youth.

DIALECT2 capitalizes on a built inter-ethnic/inter-cultural gender-diverse pool of 500 adolescents at risk of poverty and exclusion, and 20 football3 mediators & trainers as part of project’s first phase (2019-2021), aiming to combat youth radicalization combining football3 activities with media and digital literacy.OBJECTIVES- Enhance DIALECT Action Plan, integrating media and digital literacy skills development through community-building football for adolescents. - Develop the capacities of mediators & trainers on addressing adolescents’ respective skills deficiency. - Develop media & digital literacy skills of adolescents, enhancing their resilience to extremist views. - Engage football academies in the exploitation of methodology.ACTIVITIES- Enhancement of DIALECT action plan, based on needs analysis on media &digital literacy.- Blended training of mediators and trainers via an EU curriculum.- Pilot testing of methodology in football field and in-classroom in 4 EU countries.- Application of the acquired skills by adolescents, through local youth-led digital content creation projects, tackling racism in sports.- Impact assessment.- Dissemination and exploitation activities, including a social experiment and exploitation workshops.TYPE AND NUMBER OF PERSONS BENEFITING 160 adolescents 12-18 years old; 20-28 Football3 mediators & trainers; 9-12 football academies; 100 stakeholders in the field of youth and sports at EU level, 6000 of general public.RESULTSEnhanced critical thinking and resilience of adolescents to extremist values.Enhanced capacities of mediators & trainers (sports professionals, coaches, CSOs) on building media and digital literacy skills of adolescents through football3.DELIVERABLES1 Needs assessment report; 1 Enhanced Action plan; 1 Training toolkit / online course; 9 month football3 training sessions; 1 Repository of 8 youth-led projects; 1 Impact assessment report; 1 Social experiment video, 1 EU policy recommendations.

Voice Me with MediaThe project aims to help NGOs, activists, youth workers and youths to develop their skills and capacity for more effective and purposeful communication with wider audience. They are widely known in need of guidance and support in terms of social and economic participation as well as effective use of media and communication tools for purposeful democratic participation.The objective is encouraging the aforementioned individuals to gain new employable skills (digital/media) and participate into the society democratically using media and digital tools, while helping NGOs and activists to develop their media skills and effective campaigning tools through capacity buildings , counseling and training.For this project we have 3 participants from Spain, Hungary and Russia. They have all educational background and experience from different areas of media which they will be able to use and also improve through the project. The main activities of the project is contacting the NGOs and activists as well as individual youth and adult groups who needs some guidance in the field of media and communication to disseminate and communicate their messages and activities.We will provide both training, and counseling and practical support to those in the field of design, social media and media communication strategy and use of media tools for better social participation and effective advocacy campaigning.In Norway the project will help NGOs, the immigrant communities and youth to have higher media literacy and learn using both traditional and social media efficiently while getting more involved in the community. By improving the NGO's capacity we will also be promoting volunteer work in the country. The experience from this project can be shared with other NGOs working within media in Europe or other countries to help them overcome problems related to media illiteracy in their region.

"1 out of 5 young people in EU is still unemployed. In July 2016, over 4.2 million young people from EU, under 25 years old, still did not have a job. One of the causes of this worrying situation is the youth’s lack of some ""soft"" skills, knowledge and attitude necessary for the labour market. This project seeks to develop a proposal under KA2 which marries digital and future / soft skills, and seeks to examine how to best incorporate these vital skills into youth work programmes, and how best to build trainings and supports for youth workers and organisations to best deliver these future skills to young people, thus significantly enhancing the employability and mobility of young people.We will also seek to identify ways and best practices which contribute to the professional development of youth workers to train young people on key digital competences and future skills necessary to accessing the labour market, and help them find their own career path. The project’s priority is to examine current programmes and practices, identify where best practice can be developed and to build a partnership and proposal which creates a weaving of digital and future skills into both mainstream and targeted youth work programmes and services. In addition we will identify opportunities to provide youth workers with trainers knowledge and skills in order to provide workshops a range of digital and future skills topics, to professionally help young people to better integrate on the labor market. In addition the seminal document European Youth Strategy 2012-2018– Investing and empowering Youth (European Commission: 2009) acknowledges that young people are one of the most vulnerable groups in society, especially in the current economic and financial crisis, while at the same time they are a precious resource. This project will seek to build a KA2 project which establishes Best Practice Approach in the integration of digital and future skills into youth work, and youth services, By developing a best practice approach the partners seek to improve the outcomes for young people relating to a number of key policies at national, international and European levels. The key touch-points are; The Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), Erasmus+, Europe 2020, 2008 Council of Europe Youth Policy Agenda 2020,Irish Government 2014 Better Outcomes-Brighter Futures, European Youth Strategy 2010-2018-Investing and Empowering Youth."