Training course “Religius diversity and religious understanding” will take place from the 06nd till 13in December 2015, in Berlin, Germany. The project will involve 32 youth workers who coming from Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, France, Greece, Croatia, Israel, Kosovo, Macedonia, Slovakia, Spain, Serbia, Sweden, Turkey and Germany. NGO „LULE ALBANIA“, from Berlin as hosting organization, will coordinate a 7-days training course. The Training course aims to address the religious diversity and discrimination issues that are becoming increasingly pertinent in European society. Using interactive and participatory methods it will deal effectively with general prejudice and discrimination and seeks to provide adult educators, teachers and volunteers with tools for situations where religious diversity and discrimination are a concern.Main aims of the project:- creation of the respect and curiosity for the religious diversity- contribution to the understanding between cultures and intercultural learning- promotion of the values, skills and anti-discriminative attitude towards the religious diversity in youth workMain objectives of the project:- raising awareness of participants that each individual has specific religious identity- raising understanding among participants for the issues in religious diversity- facilitating the dialogue between the participants representing different cultures and sharing the experiences of different cultures and religions- gaining the skills to observe the current trends for stereotypical thinking about the religions, prejudices against them and discrimination- developing curiosity for the religious diversity in the world and ability to be impressed by them- developing the individual skills and competences and tools to build the multicultural society and society opened for diversity- creating the possibility for participants to come with new ideas for transfer of the new skills to their working realities in international youth workAll that methods used during the training course will create the situation of common learning and exchange and will provide tools to improve the quality if the youth work in home countries of participants. It will help them to acknowledge the topic of religious diversity in their local and international projects, especially there where it might influence inclusion (organisations that work with migrants, minorities, multi-ethnic communities). In this way the seminar will create a great chance for the capacity building as it will offer not only reflection but also tools to approach the topic of diversity in general.

‘Youth takes the Stage: Campaigning for Citizenship’ is an Erasmus+ (Mobility of youth workers) project aimed at developing youth workers’ competences in promoting active citizenship through youth-led campaigns using theatre methods. This project was submitted in February 2016 and received excellent scoring (84 points) but was placed on a reserve list due to lack of funding. We have now further improved it and resubmitting for October 2016 deadline. The project is composed of a series of three eight-day training courses to be held in three European regions: Eastern Europe (Tbilisi, Georgia, March 2017), South-East Europe (Tirana, Albania, May 2017) and the EU (Stroud, United Kingdom, July 2017). The main themes of the project are youth campaigning, active citizenship, creativity and theatre.Throughout all three courses, a non-formal education, participatory learning approach will be used, following principles of acting and being an active citizen, respecting individual knowledge and skills, enabling participants to co-facilitate the learning process, sharing creative ideas and information, using art and theatre to promote active European citizenship.The courses will be run by GTC’s expert team of theatre and youth work professionals and local experts from the UK, Georgia and Albania. All courses will also include site visits to local youth and cultural organisations. The project’s context/and origin are connected with GTC’s involvement in three regions: EU, South-East European countries and Eastern European and Caucasus Countries. We regularly implement projects on art and theatre in youth work in all three regions. Through this project, we would also like to raise awareness of active European citizenship issues among young people. Project will bring together 96 participants across three courses (32 per course). The objectives of the project are:- To train youth workers and youth leaders in using theatre tools and methods in promoting active citizenship through youth campaigning - To develop leadership and facilitation skills of youth workers- To exchange experience and good practice in active citizenship and youth campaigning tools and methods- To develop youth workers’ creativity and artistic skills- To increase the quality of European co-operation between youth organisations both within the Erasmus+ Programme as well as outside of itThis is a long-term, multi-measure project stretched over a year, and as such it will have a long-term impact on all partners in terms of increased capacity to work with theatre tools and to organise youth-led campaigns. It will also increase learners’ understanding of the Erasmus+/Youth Programme and lead to more international co-operation.

Training course “Migration - reality and challenges ” will take place in spring, 2017 in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. Organisation IUVENTA from Serbia is hosting organization, Föreningen Framtidståget from Sweden is applicant and coordinating organisation. Support staff will be consisted of 3 people that will be in charge of providing all the necessary activities such as preparation of workshop rooms, organizing free time activities and outdoor activities, organizing transport, contacting with the hotel etc., during the realization phase. For the organization of the activities there will be a team of 1 local trainer and 2 international trainers. Participants country is: Sweden, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Macedonia, Montenegro, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Kosovo, Albania, Austria, Germany, Hungary and Croatia.Number of participants: 32 participants + 3 trainers + 3 support staff.Main objective of the project is to educate young people about the main topics and prepare them to actively participate in their local communities, countries and on European or regional level. the aims and objectives of the training course are as follows: • To empower reflection on different dimensions of migration and mobility, understanding the theoretical framework of migration trends and new migration in Europe and its global effects• Exchange of experience and good practice in youth work, related to international/local migration and mobility and its influence on young people in Europe• Rising awareness of violent extremism as a cause rather than a consequence of migration and influence of media related to migration• Training youth workers and youth leaders in addressing the challenges and opportunities resulting from migration for young people /society as a whole• Raising the competence of youth workers and youth leaders about the push and pull factors of migration and how to prevent negative effects of migration (such as marginalisation) in society• Understand the EU policies towards migration and mobility and local realities in participating countries and learning good practices, promoting European cooperation between youth organisations and engage youth with immigrant backgrounds in organizations’ activities• Develop new initiatives in the field of migration and mobility for young people within the framework of the Erasmus + ProgrammeAccording to that main expected impact that direct beneficiaries can convey further by empowering them to become actively involved not only in activities of partner organizations, but also in preparation and their own initiatives as well as those agreed at the end of the training course. They will multiply effects of the training course in their communities through different and specified activities foreseen. The training course will use the tools common to the interactive non-formal education process, because they give the best results in working with young people. We will follow all of the important elements of non-formal learning, such as interaction, cooperation rather then competition, using experiences of participants, being flexible in needs of the group, following group dynamics process, holistic approach (using combination of activities which leads through Kolb cycle (experiencing – observing and reflecting – giving theoretical background – linking with reality) and developing participants skills, attitudes and knowledge in different areas) etc.

Youth Empowerment Support to Non-Formal Learning - YES to NFL is a European Project in the same line with Erasmus+ Program General Objective that contribute to the renewed framework for European Cooperation in youth field and the achievement of the Europe 2020 Strategy, including the headline education target. Western Balkan Countries and European Countries (Albania; Kosovo; Serbia; Belgium; Estonia; Italy; Bulgaria and Macedonia) with different backgrounds in NFL will come together and contribute in the promotion and recognition of NFL as an adequate methodology for youth work. Through this project the partner organiations aim to improve youth competencies and skills; to promote a modern education system through NFL; to strengthen the cooperation between all involved stakeholders and to improve intercultural dimensions in the youth field. Local and Transnational Activities will be organized during the lifetime of the project and more than 460 youth will be participating and gaining/improving skills in these activities.The Kick off Meeting will help to prepare the most satisfying and compliable with the current issues in the educational program sphere as well as outline the guidance for the activities and strengthening the partnership between all involved countries. The Study Visit will allow participants to build capacities for developing and implementing projects aiming to increase the recognition of youth work, to explore possible links between recognition of youth work and employability/employment of young people, to share and discuss experiences, examples and possibilities of working towards recognition and to develop partnerships for future actionThe Training Course will help to establish connections in the formal education sector in our respective countries. The representatives of the formal education sector, on the other hand, will broaden their horizons in NFL. They will be able to use non-formal education tools during their work and therefore diversify their pool of methods for working with youth. Training Course participants are also expected later to be involved in the Erasmus+ projects, and not just as part-takers, but as organizers of activities. Furthermore, it is expected that participants will design a module with Non Formal Activities. Participants will be in charge to lead local activities back in their community to validate all the designed activities within the module. Seminar is one important activity which is expected to contribute on finalizing and returning the module in a more professional manner which afterwards will be as a ready-tool for different entities.Attending the foreseen activities will allow participants to build capacities for developing and implementing other new projects aiming to increase the recognition of youth work in European and Western Balkan Countries as well.Planned project activities will start on November 2019 and will end on 31 December 2020.

Challenging traditional leadership – empowering women! is a long term project proposed from 7 partners from EU and WB. It is composed of activities aimed it raising the capacity building of partners and other stakeholders and mobilities that allow young people and youth workers to learn in an inter-cultural learning environment. Activities: 1. Kick Off Meeting of Partners 2. Training of Trainers “From Power over to power to-transformative leadership in a man’s world”3. Local Campaign “iLEAD for Equity”4. Youth Exchange “Youth leaders as change makers”5. Seminar The main aim of the project is to train and empower youth workers, youth leaders and young people advocate for transformational leadership while raising awareness about traditional gender roles with regards to the women empowerment. Our project shall address gender as an equality issue, with positive approach to diminish the negative stereotypes and discrimination related to sex and/or gender and promote equity and collaborative leadership in society. This project focuses on putting the participants in a safe environment where they are given space, time, means and support to self-reflection, self-empowerment and improvement. Our project goes out of the feminism rhetoric, and seeks to approach gender as an equity issue and look closely to the “power over – power to- power with” approaches that go in line very well to traditional leadership and gender discrimination in today’s society. By bringing youth in a position to analyse and critically think on the topics we aim at allowing and supporting them to create their own opining and responsibility for their future actions.OBJECTIVES:- Train youth workers/leaders and young people on how to promote gender equity, fight the gender stereotypes and promote the transformative leadership education for empowered societies.- Challenging and changing existing structures, institutions, practices, customs, norms, values, attitudes, and beliefs where these are barriers to the achievement of women’s rights and the rights of all people, regardless of gender or sexual identity. - Support and improve skills of youth workers by giving them practical and professional skills in leadership styles and values.- Increase the awareness about importance of gendered leadership; - Analyze existing cases and design a structured strategy on how to approach and transform practices through youth work, gender mainstreaming and gender culture;- Foster the participation of youth workers in taking role of advocates and ensure ethical conduct in leadership world.- Promote the Erasmus + as a strong tool for promoting transformative leadership and gender equity.- Create an effective practice that can be used by all the partner promoters and the wider networks.