The project Improve Entrepreneurship Skills was design to support future improvements in the field of unemployment and active citizenship in European society. The statistics shows that EU is struggling with 20,3% of unemployment where in some countries this rate is going up to 45% of young people who can not find job. Number of young people who are active in their societies is decreasing. Youth are not involved in political, public, social life, in last European elections only 42% of people gave their votes. Those were two main reason to provide high quality training for youth workers comping from 10 European countries. The aim of the project was to train youth workers who are working with youth mainly with fewer opportunities in NFE methods used to increase employability through increasing the entrepreneurship skills among youth and to promote active citizenship through improvisation theatre. Using innovative methodology of connecting improvisation theatre with entrepreneurship education and promotion of active citizenship. The objectives:>To train Youth workers how to implement high-quality workshop about entrepreneurship and improvisation which will increase youth employability by giving them necessary skills and competence and promote active citizenship. >To promote of diversity and dialogue between cultures and religions by working together in tolerance and respect through all the process of the project to achieve long-term goals of collaboration between NGOs to support European values among the youth in Europe.>To create the TOOLBOX about the methods used and workshops created by participants>To educate PAX how to use ICT tools to make NGOs more visible on international markets along with promoting and disseminating their projects on the international scope.>To increase critical thinking and sense of initiative among young people>To help NGO increase their capacities to create and implement projects on international level.>To promote non-formal education among youth and stakeholders>To promote social inclusion and solidarity between the people24 youth workers coming from France, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Latvia met in La Vancelle between 6th and 16th of October 2017 to develop their competences and skills in entrepreneurship and improvisation theatre to use it later in work with youth to increase their employability and active citizenship. Profile of participants:>active youth worker leader or activist daily working with youth people who are struggling problems of unemployment and/or lack of participation in the society>age limit: 20 with out upper limit>gender: no discrimination based on sex background>motivation to take active part in all workshops during the activity
>willing to improve the quality of their education methods use in work with youth>who wish to improve their competences and become more active citizens in their local and European societyThe TC was designed in complex holistic approach that all activities, workshops atmosphere, challenges together will create the source from which all PAX including participant with fewer opportunities can learn diverse skills, attitudes, knowledge and improve their competences. Main accent was placed firstly into train them in the innovative methodologies to work with youth about unemployment and lack of participation, secondly to let them try to use those methodologies in practice and evaluate them to improve the workshops and to use it with youth with fewer opportunities. This project is going to develop their 8-key competences, skills and attitudes. Sets of activities helped participant in personal and professional development. The activities were mainly based on methods as: learning by doing, improvisation theatre, rum theatre, theatre of oppressed, storytelling, gamification, group discussion, group work, self presentation, group presentations, escape room, peer learning. In the end of the project participants received the Youthpass certificate which presented the competences gained during the project and EuroPASS which were describing their skills, competences, experience and education background. The desire impact on participants of IES: -self-development based on self-reflection and self-evaluation-development of competences how to create and implement the workshops based on NFE to achieve specific objectives-increase and improve the quality of the NFE methods used in work with youth with fewer opportunity who are facing problem of unemployment -increase tolerance, awareness and understanding forward different cultures and countries-develop the competences of working in international team in multicultural environment, -develop the network of international contacts
-develop European identity and active citizenship-increase self esteem and confidence -increase of youth workers initiative forward to bigger projects

"<< Objectives >>Associazione Culturale Pitagora is pleased to introduce the Partnership Building Activity ""Networking for Entrepreneurial Development"" (NED) which will gather a total of 18 youth/social workers from all partner organizations in Sassari, between 24-30 November 2019 (7 working days + 1 travel day) for networking and sharing of knowledge, experience and information delivered through Non Formal Education methods. The proposed PBA directly links to the Erasmus + priority and Europe 2020 strategy when it comes to a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The project will encourage and develop pilot projects coming to foster youth entrepreneurship and facilitate the entry of youth on the labour market. Also, the PBA itself and its outcomes aim to promote European Values and well-being of its people.The past few years have been challenging for the global economy. Instability has been high, economic growth has stagnated, and employment opportunities for youth, in particular, have suffered. Accordingly to International Labor Organization findings, 64 million young people are unemployed and an even higher number are underemployed. Overall, the unemployment rate for young people is two to three times higher than for adults. According to Statista of May 2018 the unemployment rate among youth in the participating countries is 31.9% (Italy), 33.8% (Spain), 20.8% (Portugal), 10.9% (Poland), 17.9% (Slovakia), 16.8% (Romania), 10.7% (Latvia).Achieving an employment rate of 75% among people aged between 20-64 years old is one of the main points on the agenda of Europe 2020. This makes youth employment is part of EU employment policy, within the wider context of the Europe 2020 growth and jobs strategy.In order to promote youth employment and entrepreneurship, the EU and its member countries are acting to encourage entrepreneurship of young people. Youth entrepreneurship is a key tool to develop the human capital necessary for the future, and as youth organizations are representing those young people, we find it very important at this stage to raise awareness and promote entrepreneurship not only among young people but among youth organizations as well.Entrepreneurship and self-employment are pathways for young people to emerge from unemployment. Engagement in the wide variety of personal and social development activities that it offers helps young people to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are frequently said to be needed in the labour market. These include teamwork, communication, leadership, flexibility and responsiveness. They also include creativity and innovation, which involve defining problems, coming up with ways of dealing with them and sticking to a chosen course of action. In this way, entrepreneurship contributes to closing the gap between the competencies acquired by young people and the needs of the labour market. Although its value is recognized at policy levels, non-formal learning is not widely understood, and it is often well down the list of priorities when it comes to funding. This situation needs to be readdressed by a concerted effort from the social partners, and from stakeholders at all levels.<< Activities >>The proposed Partnership Building Activity aims at bringing together youth organizations from 8 EU member countries in order to set cooperation and develop projects coming to promote and educate young people in the entrepreneurship field and to boost their employability. As a consequence, we are looking into addressing the needs of the NEET youth. Set project objectives are:-sharing good practices and developing at least 4 new projects by the participating organizations with the aim to meet the needs of NEET youths to increase their entrepreneurship skills and employability;providing concrete information about the entrepreneurship development (concept, business plan, resources, risk etc).-developing promotional tools and follow up activities in regard to entrepreneurship awareness and employability opportunities targeting the NEET youth in the local communities of the consortium partners-fostering cooperation among program and neighbouring countries, with a focus on rural entrepreneurship-developing and extending the Network of NFE professionals working in the field of promotion of youth entrepreneurship and employability.<< Impact >>As a consequence, we are looking into addressing the needs of the NEET youth. Set project objectives are:-sharing good practices and developing at least 4 new projects by the participating organisations with the aim to meet the needs of NEET youths to increase their entrepreneurship skills and employability;- providing concrete information about the entrepreneurship development (concept, business plan, resources, risk etc).-developing promotional tools and follow up activities in regard to entrepreneurship awareness and employability opportunities targeting the NEET youth in the local communities of the consortium partners-fostering cooperation among program and neighbouring countries, with a focus on rural entrepreneurship-developing and extending the Network of NFE professionals working in the field of promotion of youth entrepreneurship and employability."

The project "Intercultural spirit in rural area" is being implemented at the initiative of the Youth Initiative Centre Rujienas youth groups. This project aims to promote intercultural diaolgu, solidarity and participation of young people. The project aims to promote young peoples participation and involvement in international projects exploring the European tradition of crafts and sports activities. The project duration was 6 months. The project will take place in Latvian, Rujiena from 1 May to 31 October, the 2015th The main themes of the project are: Youth, EU citizenship, EU Awareness and democracy. Young people will learn to use to get to know nature, needlework, intercultural living and learn to represent your country and city. The project will be used for non-formal education methods "Learn to be," "Learn to learn" group work, games, icebrakers, individual and group assessment. The project partners are from the Latvian, Portuguese, Italian, Slovak, Bulgarian. Overall, the project will involve 35 participants, 30 of whom are young people aged 14 to 18 years. Each group will be accompanied by one of the leader.

"The project ""Soft skills for youth workers"" was designed as a training course with the aim to help youth workers, educators, volunteers from partner organisations in their daily work with young people and especially in the development of soft skills in young people with whom they work. Nowadays, youth workers are often the only ones who care about the development of soft skills among the young people they work with. Youth work focuses on the holistic development of young people - developing the knowledge, skills and attitudes of young people. At the same time, most employers consider soft skills to be a very important factor in hiring new employees, but they indicate that formal education does not ensure adequate development of soft skills among young people.The need to which our project ""Soft skills for youth workers"" responded is that employees of partner organizations themselves often need to be trained in various soft skills such as: effective communication, time management, public speaking, creativity, project management, because they do not have the right skills and are not competent enough to transfer these skills to the young people they work with. At the same time, young people for whom the partner organizations carry out activities expect that these activities will also develop their soft skills competences. The project addresses the needs of the participating organisations, their youth workers and the young people they work with.The main aim of the project was to equip youth workers representing partner organisations with soft skills such as: effective communication, time management, public speaking, creativity, project management. We also wanted to inspire them to use these competences for youth work, as well as to design activities for young people that will develop these competences among the young people with whom these youth workers work. We achieved this goal through the following specific objectives: - to define the role of soft skills in youth work - to develop tools on how to effectively teach/develop soft skills - to develop tools to help young people develop their communication skills, time management, public speaking skills, creativity, project management skills - to increase the self-confidence, entrepreneurial and proactive attitude of youth workers - to provide a safe space for participants to talk about their motivation to work with young people, the challenges and emerging problems in this work, and to reflect on possible solutions. The project involved 26 participants from 12 countries: Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Spain, Latvia, Portugal, North Macedonia, Turkey, Hungary, Italy, Greece.. The training took place in Zakopane, Poland between 03 and 09 December 2019. Applied methods of work - non-formal education methods: discussions, simulation games, drama, Open Space Technology, team building, familiarization games, peer education, interactive games, tasks to stimulate creativity, reflections, participants' sharing, reflection groups. The main result of the project was equiping youth workers with methods and tools allowing them to effectively develop soft competences among the young people they work with."

G.A.P. (Gender and Power) was a youth exchange proposed by the Patatrac in partnership with six organizations from Armenia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Portugal and Turkey.The target of the project were young people aged 17 to 20 years, from seven partner countries, which have been involved in a process aimed at the goals of youth participation and European citizenship. The main theme was gender equality.The objectives of the exchange were reflecting and discussing about the cultural barriers of women, their social and economic conditions, on local regulations, stereotypes and prejudices.The target group were young people aged 17 to 20 accompanied by a group leader for each group. They were involved in local activities in the first phase of the project and then during the exchange they worked together to reach the construction of the final products: three video spots inherent three crucial aspects connected to the policy.The methods were non-formal, mainly the methods of peer education, Media Education, simulations and role-playing games, learning by doing, focus groups, interviews and questionnaires.Project activities lasted ten months from October 2015 to July 2016. In the first three months the focus was on the preparatory phase, ended with the preliminary visit (December 2015); the youth exchange has been realized in Italy, in Aversa, in April 2016, while the final months were devoted to the dissemination phase and dissemination of results through the channels of all the partners involved.