<< Background >>Walk On project aimed to build the competences of youth workers, teachers, young people and community youth leaders in the Western Balkans, to address and work with reconciliation, countering hate speech and promoting peace building. The projects succeed to establish a successful practice and with positive regards to establish a network of association in the WB ad EU who are committed into promoting reconciliation sharing know how and fighting hate speech a different level.<< Objectives >>Promote reconciliation among communities with empowering young people and youth leaders with knowledge, skills and attitudes to act as advocates for peacebuilding Strengthen human rights-based narratives in society that effectively counter stereotypes justifying discrimination and hate speech in communities; Produce and promote concrete educational tools about reconciliation and addressing hate among young people, to be used by teachers and other community leaders;<< Implementation >>Implementation of the project was done during the time of pandemic, but through all the challenges, the project was implemented successfully through all its phases. The project outcomes were pursued through the specific project activities which were undertaken by including important stakeholders, training experts, youth workers, teachers and young people through local workshops, trainings, information sessions, media channels, partnership building activities and researches.<< Results >>127 mobility participants learned about peace and reconciliation, hate speech and developed competencies on ICD and follow-up on various project related workshops. 505 Young people, YW participated in the local level from all partners of the consortium where they developed their skills, increased knowledge on the project topic and developed their competencies, learned about the Erasmus plus program as a life-changing program and expand their network of work for further and future collaborations

<< Objectives >>The main aim of this project is to improve the competences of the youth workers about future jobs and qualifications to empower young people in making successful education and career choices.Based on the above aim, the objectives are as follows:-Improving competences of the youth workers to make successful career counseling and guidance of young people.-Introducing the future job trends and requrements.-Presenting the youth workers education opportunities that are in correlation with the future job trends and requirements.-Equipping youth workers with relevant competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes) and capabilities (social, organizational and personal) for the future.-Providing youth workers with tools, methods and approaches for working with youth in area of career and vocational counseling and guidance.-Improving the networking and cooperation among youth organisations-Improving the knowledge and skills of the youth workers for project cycle management.-Improving the skill for planning and designing projects.-Promoting Erasmus+ programme and similar opportunities as a tool for mutual learning and cooperation among youth workers and young people.<< Activities >>The project is divided in 3 parts:- Online platform for preparation, getting familiar with the topic and getting to know each- other- Training course as core activity of the project which will bring 30 youth workers coming from Germany, Serbia, Sweden, Denmark, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Macedonia and Croatia will be implemented in Krusevac, Serbia during 23.06.2019 - 29.09.2019- Follow up of the training course, creation of the manual, implementing the planned projects and dissemination of the results << Impact >>Our project focuses on developing capacities of the youth organizations by improving the competencies of the youth workers to:- Implement career counseling and guidance with the young people;- Share relevant analyzis to the young people about the future trends and required competencies of the job market- Inform the young people how to reach exisiting young programs and opportunities- Develop and implement youth projects and initiatives- Create relevant and reliable networks of partners working in the field of youth work- Know how to use different tools, methods and approaches for working with young people- Know where to find and how to share with young people new relevant information, tools and methods- Be able to help the young people in their community to use their capacities, skills and potentials to become successfull on the job market.We expect to have broader impact, not just to the partner organizations and their young people, but also to the communities and countries where the partner organizations are comming from, even an international common impact.That impact will be achieved also through creation and dissemination of the produced manual to all relevant youth organizations and networks of organization, planning projects during the training and implementing them after it, initiating international strategic partnership projects and initiating improvement of the national and european laws, policies and regulations related to youth and education.

<< Objectives >>Background of the projectSocial conflict is phenomenon of human creation located in relationships. That is people actively involved in creating situations and interactions that they experience as a conflict. These interactions are rooted in people history, experiences, perceptions, interpretations and expressions of their realities. This intern is deeply linked to the people’s common sense or understanding and accumulated experience, which allow them to react or respond to conflict. Social conflict therefore is a socially constructed cultural event. It emerges through interactive process based on a search for and creation of shared meaning. Shared knowledge and a group ability to name the world and their reality are pivotal to its manifestation. In short conflict leads to transforming and renaming of the world and its realities and thus not only is inevitable but necessary force for a dynamic society. If conflict leads to evolution of thought and action and it is positive force and an inevitable force in the world, than what is needed is not mere reduction or conclusions of conflicts but innovative mechanism and interaction to transform conflict into positive force of social change, which non formal educational system can help build, as it is a tool which helps name our world.In order to assure a quality youth educational work the facilitators, leaders and trainers should be equipped with different skills and abilities for detecting and analyzing a conflict in this setting, as well as using different methods for transforming it for the betterment and progress of society. We believe that acquiring alternative and effective instruments for dealing with these issues is necessary and represents a priority for youth workers in order to increase impact of their work and influence social changes in their respective communities.The main goal of the project is to increase knowledge and improve skills in the area of conflict transformation in order to increase the impact of youth work and its contribution to the social change. More specific objectives are:• to increase the abilities of Conflict Analysis and introduce different methods for its execution; • to develop skills in using approaches of Conflict Transformation, with the special emphasis on transforming relationships; • to increase the awareness of non-violent approach in conflict transformation; • to improve the negotiation and mediation skills of the participants;• to improve the communication skills;• to empower the participants to use and adapt conflict transformation methods in youth work • to improve skills in using variety of non-formal education methods; • to stimulate the participants to act as multipliers in their own organization and regions; The training course aims to enable the participants to use different methods for solving various conflicts, problems that they might encounter in their work and to increase the level of quality participation of youth in their communities. The participants themselves will gain new skills in order to implement their project on a higher quality; so they can act their own participation behavior in a more adequate way. Additionally the training course will develop solidarity and promote tolerance among young people, in particular in order to foster social cohesion in the conflicted zones. This training course is aimed at increasing the quality of youth work and work in educational settings, by equipping youth workers with understanding of different approaches to conflict and abilities to handle it properly, while preserving relationships of young people involved. Bearing that in mind, it promotes solidarity and tolerance among young people on many different levels. By approaching conflict in a serious and sustainable way, it allows young people to hear the other side(s), to understand their way of being, values and beliefs that keep them going. Once the conflict between them has been dealt with and relationships transformed, those relationships represent true solidarity, and are going far beyond tolerance – into the zone of respect and appreciation, which in turn fosters social cohesion on the old continent.The project will be based on developing practical skills for youth activists in using various types of methods that are innovative and developing their creative potential and stimulate them in a high level to find solutions for different conflicts in youth work and educational settings and by extension for creating new innovative projects.<< Activities >>This project will be divided in three parts:- Online preparation, selection of participants, getting to know each- other, distribution of roles an tasks to the participants and guiding to the training course.-The main activity is a 8 days (7 training days+ 1 travel day) training course. It will take place at Nicosia, Cyprus between 01 to 08 November 2020. Except for the applicant organization, there are 5 more organizations from Program countries and 5 more from the Partner countries who will participate at the training and improve their competencies for conflict transformation. Total number of participants will be 34.- Follow up of the training course, implementing the planned projects, dissemination of the results, making the evaluation and following and supporting the participants in their future endeavors.Since this project is specifically designed for youth workers that are working with young people that will be our basic criteria for choosing the participants. We will identify and measure the participant experience in working with this target group through the application form which we will send to each interested participant to fill and the selection committee will establish several indicators for selection.We decided to have not synchronized approach for all partners because we have different profile of partners and we believe that this approach will not just be most useful for the partners but also bring diversity of experiences, motivation, approaches and methods to the project which will enable us to reach the project aims more successfully. With this approach we want to motivate new participants to be engaged in international activities which will motivate them to be more active in their work and apply new approaches in their educational activities with young people.<< Impact >>The impact on participants, as direct beneficiaries of the course, is going to be achieved through their active participation in the training course and online learning platform, their extensive learning by doing and a lot of practical experiences in the training course. Team of the training course will be working closely with promoters in charge of sending participants to the course in order to ensure that they have a safe space and opportunities provided to put their knowledge and skills gained in practice and therefore ensure that knowledge does not only remain on the declarative level. The best way to ensure the impact is for the participants to employ their knowledge and skills in their youth work and work in educational settings, which will ensure wider effects of the training course. Participants will also be supported by the team in the follow phase of the course in order to make sure that the knowledge is consolidated and efforts sustained.Partner organisations will: • Have their youth workers /trainers /facilitators trained in approaching and handling conflicts on different levels; • Benefit from the transfer of knowledge and skills from their participants to the work of their organisations; • Have trained staff in transforming conflicts occurring among young beneficiaries of their activities; • Have a base for innovative approaches to conflict transformation; • Have a solid base of partners coming from 11 European countries; • Develop more international projects in the frame of the Erasmus + programme; One of the ways to ensure a sustainable impact on partner organisations is to make sure to employ skills and knowledge of their youth workers into new projects and activities. The other way is to make sure that participants fulfil their multiplying role and perform a transfer of knowledge to their colleagues and the organisation as such. The team of the training will provide a set of materials, which could serve as a handbook, which would make it much easier to multiply the knowledge in the organisation. Young people that participants will be working with will: • Have trained youth workers who are not afraid to approach conflicts and tensions among them;• Will have their conflicts handled in a proper way, instead of having to carry them along;• Will have their relationships, which are subject to conflict, preserved and will benefit from hearing the “other side”. All this is going to be achieved through a coordinated effort of participants, the team and the organisations. As it has been said, partner organisations need to provide activities and projects for young people and support their youth workers/ trainers/ facilitators in working on them; participants need to implement newly gained approaches and methods; while the team needs to support them in this initial process, both through the online platform and individual mentoring and support.

"""Advanced Volunteer Management"" was a 9day training course, which took place from 23rd to 31st of October 2015 in the town of Črnomelj, Slovenia. Training course, organized by Youth centre BIT as applicant and hosting organization gathered 28 youth workers from 23 different organizations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia and Spain. The training was facilitated by 3 experienced trainers from Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia and supported with 3 members of international logistic team. Objectives of the training course were providing participants with competences and tools for implementing effective volunteer management system; raising participants' skills for creating their own local/international short/long-term volunteering programs. With this training course we aimed to increase social skills and personal development of participants and raise awareness of importance and values of volunteering. Training was designed for volunteer coordinators, managers and people who are directly involved with management of volunteers and have some previous experience. With this training we wanted to improve implementation of high quality detailed/advanced volunteer management in participating organizations. The training provided practical work – coaching and development of volunteering initiatives. Trainers and participants shared innovative approaches, methodologies and tools, discussed level of recognition of volunteering in different European countries and planned new initiatives. Also, with new ideas and motivation, we wanted to inspire the youth workers to be good example and pass the positive values to their peers and their very own communities. During this training we created the space for planning future mutual projects and cooperation between youth workers from different countries of Europe and gave strong support to developing international network of youth organizations who will make the positive change both on local and global level."

"Youth for Social and Solidarity Economy is an innovative Erasmus+ project, promoting the good practises in the social and solidarity economy amongst european countries. This project aims at enhancing the mobility of youth workers and youth leaders with previous experience on social economy, future youth leaders, already active or potential social entrepreneurs who are willing to share knowledge, experiences, good practises on the theme. Participantes can further inspire the young people they are working with, to become more active on the field of social economy. Furthermore, the project aims at supporting the participants on developing business models that have the potential to solve social problems ans support vulnerable groups of people. NGO's and Associations have major part in raising the awareness about social entrepreneurship. We wanted to gather people (youth workers, your leaders, youngsters with entrepreneurial spirit) to start to work on the topic of social entrepreneurship. We want to match people with same interest and work together on something concrete - international platform where in future will be provided information about the social entrepreneurship. The aim of the project is: to ensure an entrepreneurial approach to solving social and environmental problems in the countries part of the project and to encourage and support the development of a new generation of social entrepreneurs. The learning objectives of this project are: - To become inspired social entrepreneur or change-maker; - To understand better the term ""social entrepreneurship"" and to raise knowledge and gain new experiences about it; - To start the process of creating social venture through gaining skills and knowledge for writing projects ideas and business plan; - To gain skills and knowledge that will help to the participant to get access to labor market; - To discover or understand better the social and environmental problems in their countries and to get to know the situation in other countries; - To be inspired and motivated to bring changes at home and start to work for improvement. The training will last 6 days, 01 - 06 September 2018, with 27 participants from 8 countries. The venue will be Florina, Greece (Region of Western Macedonia). This project will be based on non-formal education. At the end of the project it is expected to have concrete ideas for social ventures, to create on-line platform (blog) for mapping the social entrepreneurship opportunities in the countries part of this project and to continue the cooperation and networking between the participant. In future we want to gather again and to know how the development of the ideas goes and what the young people need – directly support the early stage development of these social entrepreneurs by providing a range of supports that include financial investment, technical training, peer networking, mentoring or links to other social entrepreneur networks."