The common objective of our project addresses the rendering of a platform for debate and exchange of good practices for the youth and youth workers for the convergence of innovative approaches for tackling unemployment in rural areas and the social involvement of the youth with fewer opportunities via propagating the opportunities offered by social farming based on biodynamic agriculture and informal education. Social farming is a social entrepreneurial model involving youth with disabilities or youth groups - whose members are disadvantaged - in agricultural activities for the realization of activities other than conventional farming. This approach comprises a very serious social and ethical aspect and informal educational methods which could have a strong therapeutic effect on the youth with special needs and open new horizons and learning and employment opportunities to them based on their skills. Within the project we will achieve our specific objectives: - Development and improvement of the living environment and the professional realization of the disadvantaged youth in rural areas with pedagogical and therapeutic effect - Achievement of high quality intercultural dialogue and exchange of experience between partners participating in the project in an untraditional and free environment - Increase of awareness and competences of the youth and youth workers via various informal educational approaches connected with social farming.Following the intensively planned partnership activities, we will develop numerous products in the form of sustainable expected results which could be upgraded in the future and serve as educational instruments to all target groups - youth workers, youth, farmers and social workers – who are the object of our project. - Setting up of a thematic network accumulating information on Social farming not only for the achievement of economic prosperity but also serving as an opportunity for the development of a social unit having strong social effect. - Accumulating electronic content in a digital Manual of best practices and instruments for social inclusion and support of young people with special needs in the field of Social farming - Generating project ideas with multiplier effect. The partner organizations in the project will be:- Associação de Defesa do Património de Mértola from Portugal- Associazione NéA from Italy- YouNet from Italy- Zdruzenie Studio 212 from Macedonia - Symrnes Ogretmen Akademisi from Turkey- INSTITUTO EUROAFRICANO DE JUVENTUD from Spain- People to People Serbia from Serbia- Asociatia Allons-y from Romania- Modern Youth Public Union from Azerbaijan- Hellenic Youth Participation from GreeceThe curriculum we prepared in cooperation with our partners is well-balanced with rich thematic content and numerous interesting and interactive methods of teaching using informal methods. The activities will be held within the period from 23 March, 2015 to 29 March, 2015. All the activities will be held in the town of Plovdiv except for the educational visit to first farm for Social farming and biodynamic agriculture in Bulgaria located in the town of Bachkovo, whose owner is Dimitar Stoyanov. Being the participants in the main direction of development of the project, we have determined several target groups which will be extremely interested in its realization. The first target group are the youth workers, who will receive well-classified educational information on the problems amongst the youth with special needs in rural regions, the great unemployment rate amongst them, and their social exclusion from society. The next target group are the youth with special needs. Their participation will comprise the opportunity to receive additional instruments for information and overcoming the differences, their integration in a more favourable environment. Via therapeutic and healing methods, the youth will be able to comprehend and realize the solidarity, their social significance and responsibility for the surrounding environment. The last group is the farmers working in the field of social farming. They are given the opportunity to enhance their social strategies and will be motivated to disseminate and adopt what they learned in the established European network and will base their social strategies upon the grounds of higher competence and erudition regarding the opportunities of the innovative methods and approaches. One of the included specific objectives is the establishment of a sustainable network of youth workers operating in the social field of biodynamic agriculture. The network will be supported by a website. The electronic instrument will be a multilingual one with salient European dimension via which the interested target groups will be able to reach the youth workers who have attended our intensive training course.

"Intercultural communication is a major component of forming a European citizen. The ability to experience Europe, to exchange experiences and gain access to opportunities generated by the European Union from international projects promoting Participatory Democracy, with youth exchanges, are only possible with the availability that each one has to interconnect with different reallities and experiences.Within the group of young people we work with we have a relevant group of fifty young people (of various organizations involved) that in addition to being disadvantaged young people, face three big problems: low levels of success school, marked by constant reproofs (over 30 have at least two failures), disciplinary problems and school leavers; the fact that they do not manage any foreign language; never had any experience international exchange.""EU Civilizations"" project aims, in addition to combat illiteracy in English in the context of non-formal education, to bring the first experience of intercultural dialogue at these young people with fewer opportunities. At the same time with “learn by doing” we wan to bring them the idea and the model of a participatory and responsible European citizen, developing their social skills of communication and social mobility.So by recreating civilizations structures with non-formal education we will empower more than 40 youngters at the level of communication skills."

"BalsiKa 11: D.I.R.E. will gather 60 participants (aged 16-25) + 14 leaders coming from12 countries* for 11 days (from Thursday 20th till Sunday 30th August 2015) in France (SAVERNE+STRASBOURG). Theme will be interreligious dialog in Europe. Link between participants is to be musicians and want to involve in Balsika Youth orchestra and to want to be open to discussion on that theme. Through questionnaires, posters prepared by participants, pedagogic games and a one day hunting game in Paris, visit council of EU, interreligious gardens, museums, films, discussions, meetings with experts (members of interreligious dialog committee, associations…), artistic activities, language learning, they will speak of their religion, will discover each other's religion. Interreligious dialog is essential for peace and reconciliation, aim of BalsiKa project. Big concert for Millénaire of Strasbourg's Cathedral will give symbolic meaning and huge visibility to project and its conclusions.Durant 11 jours (20-30 août 2015), 60 jeunes de 16-25 ans accompagnés de 14 leaders se réuniront en Alsace (Saverne Strasbourg)) pour un échange jeunes ""BalsiKa 11 D.I.R.E."" sur le thème du dialogue inter-religieux. Les participants viendront de 12 pays différents* avec, comme point commun, de jouer de la musique, de vouloir faire partie du projet BalsiKa et d'accepter ce dialogue interreligieux. A travers des questionnaires, des posters préparés par les jeunes, des jeux pédagogiques et un jeu de piste dans Paris, des films, des discussions , des rencontres avec des experts(comité inter-religieux de la Région Alsace, associations…), visites du Conseil de l'EU, de Musées ou d'expositions, de jardins interreligieux, des activités artistiques communes, des échanges linguistiques, cette rencontre permettra aux jeunes d'échanger sur leurs religions réciproques, cherchera à mettre en place un dialogue inter-religieux, point essentiel dans le but de paix et de réconciliation du projet BalsiKa. Cette étape renforcera la signification profonde du projet BalsiKa. Un concert hautement médiatisé à la Cathédrale dans le cadre du Millénaire en renforcera la symbolique et la visibilité.* FRANCE-DEUTSCHLAND-TURKEY-CROATIA-SERBIA-SLOVENIA-BOSNIAiHERZEGOVINA- ALBANIA-MONTENEGRO-MACEDONIA-GREECE-KOSOVO"

"""Bright Future for Street Working Children"" ; is a project that 22 girls and 14 boys totally 36 young people gathered under a social issue for 7 days from Croatia, Spain, Italy, Romania and Turkey to develop their personal skills, gain competence and obtain teamwork culture. In addition to that 17 of those young people were selected among the people who carries fewer opportunities in terms of economic/educationa/social. As it is known, 5 main targets of Europe 2020 strategy is directly related with education, employment, social exclusion and poverty. It is desired that the young people will be informed in regard to disadvantageousness, Europe citizenship, democracy, social inclusion and the relation between education and employment, and also motivate young people in civic initiatives for social problems. As the host organization, we had activities in a collaboration with the Center of Children Working in Streets and also release academic studies to public which is titled as ""Qualitative Research, Evaluation and Recommendation Report on Children Working in Streets and Children Working in Ankara Streets"". Furthermore we had nominated this Center, which works to stop child labor, to 2014 UN Public Service Awards to gain international recognition. The center is awarded the first place among the 445 projects. In this context we believe that we will gather European young people in a social issue to become a part of solution and carry out some activities with those children. Young people who took part in this project from partner countries started the project with the survey results that had been completed in their hometowns in regard to the children works in streets, afterwards they evaluate those surveys comperatively during the mobility. Participants gathered with those children to have some activites as paiting, music and sports in groups that those activites help the inclusion process.Thanks to the teamworks, the participant young people are become familier with a working environment that they will confront with in future. Construction and the Evaluation Box Activities are an endavour to increase understanding on voting in elections and duties of society. Also it is provided that those young people are familiarised on others authentic cultural values and most importantly became friends."

The project was born from the needs identified by several youth and volunteering organisations of having the opportunity to create new partnerships and belong to a network of youth organisations. Many youth workers in Europe are looking for an occasion to meet other people working in the same field and to share their practice; unfortunately they lack financial resources and time to do so, because youth work is very demanding. Therefore, our organisation, in constant cooperation with our close partners, decided to create this opportunity through a project of international seminar of youth organisations.The 7-day seminar was held in Tournai, in October 2015,was an intercultural exchange between youth workers from different countries, including Mediterranean and East-European countries that allowed them to be more integrated in European projects.The main aim of the project was to share good practices about challenges concerning local and international youth work through voluntary activities. Youth participation and the place of youth organisation in the society was one of the topics of the seminar, with one night devoted to a debate about volunteer work in the context of the rising of extremisms and a lot of workshops devoterd to the importance of youth participation in society through volunteering. Indeed, we approached various topics such as the importance of training for volunteers and youth workers, the best way to include participants with few opportunities,... The participants were given the oppotunity to exchange their experience and competences in youth work, youth exchange, volunteering project, EVS… The geographical diversity of the participants brought a plurality of opinions and constructive debates. The participants took the first steps in creating a collective network of cooperation together, to promote their work practices and build innovative ones, to promote voluntary work and mobility programmes in Europe and to design a common frame of reference regarding volunteering activities and non-formal competences.Various working methods were used during the seminar, and the participants were offered to use the European certificates to assess the different aspects of youth and voluntary work. Sharing experiences was aimed to improve the quality of youth work through the exchange of tools and methods that were proved to be successful in the work with youth. Thanks to this seminar, the participants will change some of their work practices by comparing with other organisations’ practices, picking the one that will have been proven the most successful after the exchange of good practices. The aim was for the participants to be more aware of their power of social change by comparing the youth sectors in different countries. The participants will also benefit from a new network of youth organisations with whom they will start new joint projects.