"The project ""Cross the threshold and play the complexity: emotions for use"" has been held at The House Laboratory Cerquosino, located a few miles from Orvieto, Italy, in a natural protect area.The theme of the project was social inclusion, the analysis of migration routes and the fight against discriminazione.The countries involved are: Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Italy. ACTIVITY 1: from 23rd to the 31st of March 2015: training for 16 participants, social workers of youth centers,education family homes, institutions for foster care.Trainers; 1 Ass. Artemide, Italy, Ass. Universitur Romania 1, 1 Facilitator Ass.Sul Filo e Dintorni, Italy. Support Staff No. 1 Bulgaria CVS 1Ass.Artemide.Participats divided as follows; Bulgaria 3 Macedonia 3 Montenegro1 Serbia 3 Romania2 Local Partner 2 Artemide Applicant 2ACTIVITY ;1: The objective of the training course was to provide young social workers, educators and active citizens, who work with children, adolescents and adults at risk of social exclusion, new tools to approach the issues of social inclusion and intercultural dialogue through innovative methodologies and experience in the field.The participants, who work every day in disadvantaged areas, such as suburbs and small rural towns with difficult mobility and connection with the outside, need new tools and insights on the topic of social exclusion linked to migration processes and the challenges they may determine in social relationships of young Europeans and migrant.The training therefore aimed to: explore the cultural differences and analyze how different countries have dealt with issues of immigration and emigration: analyzing such as gender, male and female, can influence group dynamics and leadership and, consequently, how it can contribute to exclusion with particular attention to the double discrimination of women immigrate.Regarding the gender issue and the transformative power of relationships, we will analyse how the cultural hybridity of identity static and dynamic influence social dynamics, we focus the double discrimination of immigrant women, as foreigners and as wimen.The power dynamics, how people exercise power over others, how it is used consciously and unconsciously in the group and in everyday life; Analyze the conflicts related to loss of roots and territory and we will experience creative methods to manage them in a non-violent way, share and develop new tools i order to facilitate the active participation of local young people and young people from foreign, or from cultural minorities, these tools will be useful later to promote activities in different local contexts and to respect the culture and diversity.Develop different communication styles in order to facilitate discussions and decision making procedures .Develop personal knowledge in concerning discrimination, xenophobia, racism."

"The project ""People have one thing in common: they are all different. An active citizenship simulation ""is an international exchange addressed to young people with disabilities and without.In collaboration with ROMANIA, MONTENEGRO, KOSOVO, MALTA, ITALY, historical partners of our association with whom we have worked in various social sectors; refugees, migrants, Roma minorities, projects against LGBTQ discrimination and gender differences.From these experiences the need to realize this project was born.There are many requests from young people to meet, understand and live together the limits and possibilities in the encounter with disability.This project provided opportunities for young with disabilities and not, living in marginal situations, which do not have the possibility to move safely, to meet in a protected environment to discover the prejudices that dwell in all of us and free us from the stereotypes arising from cultural heritage.Strengthened by the collaboration and the seriousness of the partners, and in adherence with the association's mission, international exchange allowed the new European generations to nourish a more open, broad, and comprehensive awareness.The project has been an active citizenship simulation, this proposal was an idea that has its own optimum realization by young Europeans from different countries and with different abilities, gave them a chance to experiment and live with participation personal paths according to the different skills that are inherent in all of us.The goal was to experiment, in the simulation of active citizenship, the encounter with disability, contact and the search for commonalities and the abatement of stereotypes and fears towards the ""different from us"".The concept of inclusion leads to the recognition of a right as a form of contrast to its opposite: exclusion.The project included 2 activities. The first activity of the project, the APV, took place at the House laboratory Cerquosino on 5/6/7 October 2018 and was attended by the leaders of the groups that will participate in the exchange.On this occasion, the leaders took care of the program of activities prepared with their own participants and find a connection between the various contributions.The partners brought all the proposals and requests of the young participants and evaluated them together. On this occasion the partners shared the problems of the groups that will accompany especially for the particularly delicate situations to take into account, considering the target group.The second activity of the project, the international youth exchange took place at the house laboratory Cerquosino from 22nd to 30th of November 2018, attended by 20 young people with disabilities and not, 5 leaders and 2 accompanying person.The simulated metaphor placed its bases on the concept of a ""neo born clan"" is organized, growing, working, sharing rules, needs, goals and paths.Within the exchange, participants managed both the place of the exchange and the activities to be carried out.The goal was to share from the beginning to enhance the youth resource promoting and strengthening opportunities for autonomy and proper leadership, taking the young man as the subject of planning and actionAnother goal was to develop, according to the model of experimentation, a context of protected residency where people with physical and intellectual disabilities, in collaboration with peers able-bodied, can acquire the necessary skills to the management of daily domestic life, become familiar with the manual, express themselves artistically, with the maximum degree of possible autonomy and possible security.The dimensions of learning and skills were many: Research and experimentation of the rules of shared environments, Work in teams, Manual skills, knowing how to reuse and recycle objects and materials, Enhancing the ability to communicate in a foreign language, Peer education, Concrete participation in the organization, to live together in groups, Personal achievement, Knowledge and information on other cultures, Dealing with conflicts and manage them in a perspective of transformation, Knowing how to promote actions based on the design, Take into account various points of view, bringing them back to a shared synthesis, Anticipate obstacles and make decisions, make choices, Value the relationship with the other, perceived as a resource for growth both individual and social."

<< Objectives >>The project P.E.A.C.E. Promoting European Awareness to Contrast Extremism, is based on the analysis of the current situation in Europe regarding the inclusion of minorities and human rights, often guided by a demagogic use of political rhetoric leading to racist ideas and behaviors. Different forms of populism are sweeping through EU member states mixing euroscepticism, nationalism, xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiments and widening the gap between the perception and reality of migration. The result is the greater diffusion of stereotypes and misconceptions about migrants in the public debate, a breeding ground for anti-migrant rhetoric, hate speech and populist approaches. Populism is a very complex phenomenon that is increasingly affecting the European public debate, thanks to its masterful use of racist political propaganda. Social insecurity, the delegitimization of institutions, the criminalization and identification of migrants and refugees as enemies, are producing a highly polarized and aggressive debate, facilitated by the spread of new technologies. Social media and other Internet tools thus help encourage self-segregation and increase social divisions. In this context, P.E.A.C.E. aimed to raise awareness, among youth workers and the young people involved, on the spread of different forms of populism, which use propaganda and rhetoric to incite racism and xenophobia, promoting anti-racist approaches in Europe. Specifically, P.E.A.C.E. was aimed at young people with the following objectives: raise youth awareness on the daily growth of discrimination and racism Europe and foster sensitization among peers; provide youth workers and peer educators with new methodological tools and approaches to oppose every form of discrimination; share and map good practices and working methods among local, international organizations and NGOs to make more effective the local and global anti-racist action in EU and worldwide.<< Implementation >>P.E.A.C.E. is a pilot project, including four strategic actions: 1 Training Course -TC, 1 Advanced Planning Visit -APV and 2 Youth Exchanges -YEs. During the actions were implemented different activities aimed not only at creating awareness on the previously mentioned issues but also at fostering active participation of young people in the fight against racism. Among the activities: workshops, thematic sessions, work in group, plenary moments, interactive presentations, activities to share the good practices and methods used, sessions to reflect on pedagogical approaches, sessions to test, evaluate and upgrade NFE tools, study visits and final events (Training in Action and Youth 4 P.E.A.C.E. in Action) to allow participants to experiment, own the tools and replicate them once back home. The whole project was based on non-formal education methodologies, based on the learning by doing approach, where the specific learning objectives set in each activity, allows to target the action to the participants needs and to ensure a coherent learning process. Among its main pillars: personal empowerment, competences and skills’ development; participation, horizontality and the fact of being tailor made on the participants' learning needs. The project involved 30 participants in the TC, 8 in the APV and 45 young people in the YEs, therefore 83 total participants. In order to reach young people living in areas at risk of social exclusion and racist discrimination, the consortium defined the profile of the participants firstly including youth workers and activists specifically interested in opposing racism and discrimination. The youth workers and activists involved were chosen among people currently collaborating with the partner organisation directly and also with youth centers in suburban or isolated areas of the major European cities within the countries involved in the project. Moreover, the participants of the YE also included other young people coming from urban, suburban or isolated areas of such cities which generally are not able to participate in an international mobility opportunity and who might have been victims themselves of discriminations or influenced by the aforementioned populist rhetoric.<< Results >>The project P.E.A.C.E. wanted to accomplish a widespread impact on a local, regional and national scale through the dissemination of the results and the circulation of knowledge on the issue, using NFE methodologies. The major result was the capillary multiplication of the mobility and learning experience pursued by the participants in their different backgrounds. More specifically, among the reached results: 1. sharing of the existing good practices, projects and the used tools to promote anti-racism within the consortium members; 2. design a pedagogical approach to apply in the anti-racist activities at local and national level; 3. testing and upgrading of NFE tools that can be used to encourage youth active participation both online and offline; 4. to widespread raise awareness actions on anti-racism among young people and their local communities. The follow up activities consisted in a set of workshops targeted to the TC participants’ colleagues, other activists, young people participating in the YE and other young people going to the youth centres where the Youth workers currently work. The common goal was to enhance the impact of the project activities so as to increase the youth work quality in the field of anti-racism by sharing tools and methods. Therefore, the further dissemination of the project results, using raising awareness workshops on anti-racism, reached not only the direct beneficiaries but also their peers, both online and offline. This mechanism ensured the long term viability of the project and its sustainability on a long term perspective, even in a period characterized by a pandemic outbreak, lockdowns and mobility restrictions.

The project “ Social rights in my hand” is about exploring the concept of Social Rights and usage of social media, multimedia and photography as tools for promoting it to young people. The aim of the project is to raise awareness on social rights among young people, especially for those who are marginalized from the society, such as Roma young people, people with different abilities, young people with social and economical problems and so on. These target groups, because of their lack of education and social inclusion are not enough informed about their social, economic and cultural rights The scope is to analyses the set of problems related to social rights, discussing it together in an interactive way based on non formal education. During the project activities the participants will raise awareness about this topic and they will get the needed tools to bring their knowledge in their local context. We will use different social medias, multimedia, photography as tools for better learning in order to make it more attractive to young people and boost their soft skills.Objectives of the project: - To explore the concept of social rights and understanding of young people with disadvantage about social and economic situation and generate creative solutions- To raise awareness about social rights among young people with disadvantage and find adequate mechanism to fulfill them in daily life- To provide different tools (social media, multimedia and photography) to foster young people skills encouraging them to be agents of change in the society - To promote Erasmus + programme and non formal education approach as a powerful tool for young people engagement in every day life in protection of marginalized youth- To generate solutions for the young people who are excluded and do not have access to their social rightsThe project will make together youth workers & youth leaders form 8 Western Balkan Countries and Program countries (Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Italy, Macedonia, Turkey, and Greece)The project will be built on three main actions:1. Activity 1: Training course for exploring the concept of social rights and how to apply them in our youth work using different social media. The training will be implemented in Durres, Albania on December 2017. Each partner will send 3 participants. 2. Activity 2: Training course for social rights using multimedia and photography. The training will be implemented in Durres, Albania on June 2018. Each partner will send 3participants. 3. Seminar on youth work and social rights. The seminar will be implemented in Struga, Macedonia, on November 2018. Each partner will send 2 participantsIn the last seminar a moving exhibition with photos, videos and other products form other activities will be organized and will move to each partner organization.

The project BREAD AND ROSES- Youth Work to Raise Awareness on Gender Equality is part of the medium term strategy undertaken by Lunaria and other European organizations, aimed at fighting the gender discrimination and at promoting gender equity. Gender-based discrimination is still highly widespread within European countries, regardless of the efforts international bodies and governments are putting in order to give equal opportunities to everybody. Persistent discrimination and gender-based violence, severely limit women and marginalized gender identities’ ability of fully enjoy their fundamental rights and freedoms, leading them to become more vulnerable to social exclusion, poverty, violence and being confined in specific roles and professions. Also hate speech with a sexist background contributes to weaken women freedom of expression and self-esteem, letting women to live in a permanent fear, having damaging consequences from the emotional and physical point of view. For this reason BREAD AND ROSES aims to provide young people, youth workers and European civil society organizations, with tool to identify and analyse gender issues, and develop tools and youth work methodologies to afterwards create new raising awareness actions at local and international level. The project includes four connected actions: a Training Course – TC, an Advanced Planning Visit – APV and two Youth Exchanges – YEs. We expect to involve 31 participants in the TC, 8 of those will be also involved in the APV and in the YEs as group leaders, and 29 and 30 participants in the YEs, including the group leaders. Participants are: youth workers, activists, peer educators and young people both willing to expand their knowledge on the topic and further implement sensitization activities in the field of gender issues and human rights. During the actions, different activities will be realized, such as: laboratories, thematic workshops, work in groups, plenary sessions, interactive presentations, activities to share the good practices, the working methods and the pilot projects in the field of human rights and gender equality, methodological sessions, final events to test the methodologies and make the assessment and upgrading. The project is based on interactive methodologies coming from the non formal education and visual art. Here it's foreseen the involvement of participants in each stage of the process and it's promoted the horizontal exchange of knowledge. This approach ensures the respect of the different learning styles and the flexibility in the learning process, which can be re-adapted during the action itself taking into account feedbacks and comments of participants. We expect to achieve the following results: empowerment of the raising awareness towards the connection between gender issues and human rights; development of interactive tools to fight discrimination and run sensitization activities; development of an educational package to develop at EU level, activities to fight discriminations; development of networking at national and international level among civil society organizations. The different follow up measures aim to multiply the gender equality action in the different local backgrounds and to join not only the direct beneficiaries, but also the indirect ones and new stakeholders, guaranteeing a sustainable long term perspective.