"The training course ""Volunteering A Tool for Success"" will take place in Stokke/Norway, from 7th to 15th of November. The course will bring together 30 youth workers in their function as project coordinators, mentors of volunteers, volunteer coordinators from Norway, Italy, Estonia, Latvia, Spain & Slovenia.Activities and events of non-governmental organisations are very often based on the voluntary engagement of young people willingto contribute their enthusiasm and time. If well managed, voluntary work is a win-win situation for all parties involved: 1) thevolunteer as s/he earns specific hard and soft skills raising self-confidence and qualification for the labor market, 2) the organisationin which the volunteer dedicates her/ his time as it gains support and extra accomplishments, unmanageable without thecommitment of the volunteers, and 3) the local community in which the volunteer works by benefiting in diverse ways dependingon the specific activities realised by the volunteer.In this context, the training course aims to improve organisational capacities in managing local and international volunteeringprojects by addressing the following objectives:- To conceptualise with the project partners their approaches to volunteering in their work context- To foster organisational and individual competences in planning, implementation, mentoring and evaluating local andinternational volunteering projects- To develop organisational strategies for inclusion of young people in volunteering projects, specifically those with feweropportunities- To develop organisational check lists and procedures for the most essential steps in volunteering projectsAs a result of the course, in the end the participants shall be able to:- motivate, manage and coach international and local young volunteers- set learning objectives and monitoring outcomes together with the volunteers- develop strategies of inclusion of young volunteers with learning difficulties- promote successfully volunteering and active participation in their local community- have developed own check lists for the most essential steps in volunteering projectsAdditionally, around 7 follow-up projects shall be planned during the training course. These follow-up projects could beinternational volunteering projects in the frame of the EVS Programme, but also local volunteering projects addressing communityneeds particularly in view to marginalized youth. Moreover, partnerships between the project partners will be established for anexchange of educational resources such as manuals, handbooks and guidebooks, exchange of educational personnel and sharing ofproject documentations.The training course will be based on methods of non-formal education defined by its learner-centered, flexible and adaptable,inclusive, planned and evaluated approach based on voluntary participation of the learners. The training course will provide spaceto the participants share their experiences in volunteering projects, and facilitate an open exchange of competencies among them.The specific methods that will be applied will range from workshop, debates, exercises to participants-led programme parts andopen space techniques."

"Lifelong learning is a concept that integrates a wide variety of learningformats and is usually seen as education throughout the lifetime. In our vision, new media for lifelong learning (""Media4Life"") is no longer just one aspect of education and training; it must become the guiding principle for learning context in modern digitized society.In 2018 in the EU Member States, the highest rates of adult participation in learning were in Sweden (29.2 %), Finland (28.5 %) and Denmark (23.5 %). In contrast, five Member States had participation rates below 5 %: Romania (0.9 %), Bulgaria (2.5 %), Croatia (2.9 %), Slovakia (4.0 %) and Greece (4.5 %). Regarding Poland – 5.7 %, and only Slovenia is slightly below the average – 11.4 %. Therefore, we see big need in providing more opportunities for adult participation and promoting lifelong learning.Therefore, the main AIM of this project is to equip educators with knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for working with seniors and adult learners through using new media in lifelong learning process in order to react on modern challenges and encourage social change.We have developed a concept of Media4Life in order 1) to make greater use of new media in the lifelong learning process working with adults; 2) to develop adult education using new means 3) to raise the competencies of educators and learners 4) to stimulate intergenerational dialogue. In this way we want to create preconditions for development and adoption of modern solutions in lifelong learning, using new media as a tool for social change.Our main aim will be achieved through concrete „Media4Life” objectives:- to create space for sharing knowledge and exchanging experience, know-how and good practices in the field of adult education; - to enhance educators’ understanding from different countries and working styles about using new media for lifelong learning of seniors and adults;- to strengthen seniors’ role in civil society by creating social dialogue and promoting participation, inclusion, membership and belonging, civic and social competence;- to learn new approaches and to find innovative way of interaction between educators, seniors, seniors’ families and to create easy to use Manual for Intergenerational Dialogue on this base; - to create sustainable international consortium devoted to the planned results and to disseminate learning achievements within different stakeholders on local, national and international level.We will try to create a space to learn and share about analyzing our previous experience and then create a learning environment in which we can practice and test the best way how to include lifelong learning in every part of the project cycle.This project is innovative in several aspects: 1) Theme of the project. There are pretty a lot of researches related to social media for seniors in the context of learning, but the topic of new media still remains open and requires constant flexibility in researching, as these new media are changing and improving constantly. That is why we want to direct our work not to individual tools, but to the methodology of how to use new media for lifelong learning.2) Target groups. In the frame of our project we choose to work with 3 main target group: - Educators; - Seniors; - Seniors' families. Since when educator works with a senior, he/she works not only with this person, but the work extends much further - to the environment of this person. Very often, many limiting beliefs, lack of motivation for learning, lack of self-confidence, problems in the mental and even physical health of seniors come from their families, where seniors do not find support for their learning initiatives, but rather a lack of understanding and support. That is why we want to work simultaneously not only with the seniors, but also with their environment, stimulating intergenerational dialogue between senior and family. 3) Created project's outputs. We described main outputs in the previous block, so there are few more important points to add. We planned that the results would be useful not only in this project, but also be widely used in the future for different organizations, that's why we want to create Guidelines on new media for adult education, Manual for Intergenerational Dialogue between seniors and their families and a project Brochure that will be used by other educators and people interested in adult education. And moreover, a lot of effort we want to direct into the practical local activities in order to maximize the involvement of both seniors and their environment. 4) Scope of activities.Within the framework of the project we came up with innovative combination of activities. Virtually every international activity has increased due to local activity taking place after. Thus, we have strong follow up, quality feedback and project promotion at the same time, which will be able to bring greater impact for the local community and other entities."

The aim of “Freedom of expression: the right or the duty” was to empower youth workers, youth leaders and trainers, equip them with the competences necessary to recognize and act against human right violations, especially hate speech, and provide them with different tools and methods which they can use in the work with young people in their local communities and NGOs. This project was the main activity, 7-days training course, which was implemented in Leicester, from 19-27 March 2018 (including travel days). It gathered in total 24 participants (+4 trainers) from 8 countries: Croatia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Slovenia, Turkey and UK. This project is a follow up of the project “Gender equality starts now” implemented in Croatia in the fall of 2016 under the European cooperative youth network (ECYON) umbrella. Touched by the numerous examples of hate speech (mostly sexist hate speech) that were shown, discussed and analysed during the above mentioned training, participants detected various issues and raised numerous questions that were addressed through this project: what is the role, influence and impact of Internet and especially of social media on young people's lives and radicalization; what is the role of inter cultural learning in combating stereotypes and prejudices; questions of legal frame and legal responsibility when it comes to freedom of expression were also raised; the training allowed us the opportunity to go deeper into these problematic issues. Since there is a thin line between freedom of expression and hate speech, we seized the opportunity to research the role of the youth work and inter cultural learning and non-formal education in general in combating hate speech, especially hate speech Online. We equally explored its influence on radicalization of youth; we also continued promoting and sharing methods and tools that can be used in our work During the training, non-formal and informal learning principles were implemented which means that workshops were based on a diverse range of environments and situations and they were facilitated by experienced trainers who are very well acquainted with the topic of human rights and in particular freedom of expression and hate speech, they were equally conversant with NFE methodology. Project objectives are: • Develop deeper understanding and ability to distinguish between freedom of expression and hate speech • Explore and raise awareness about huge influence of internet, especially social media on young people lives and process of radicalization • Explore and learn more about different institutions protecting human rights, legal frame and cases in which freedom of expression can and should be limited • Raise awareness about underlying narratives behind hate speech that undermine human rights and democratic values and how they function • Explore the role of youth work and non-formal education in combating hate speech Online and promoting tolerance and understanding • Familiarize participants with the Compass, Bookmarks and We can!– manuals for combating hate speech Online through human rights education • Encourage and support cooperation and networking among participants and the partner organizations to combat hate speech Online and to continue promotion and implementation of human rights education, especially within the frame of Erasmus+ program With this project, we were able to have an impact at the local, national and international levels. We were able to fully equip participants to be able to act against hate speech. Moreover, we also equipped them with knowledge, skills and tools which they will be able to transfer to other youth workers and young people in their organizations and local communities. In that way they will multiply gained knowledge, skills and tools and more people will be enabled to act against hate speech, both online and offline, in simple and effective ways. With this training, we will also support capacity building of the partner organizations. By equipping and empowering partner organization’s workers, we want to encourage our partners to become even more active in the field of promotion and protection of human rights, fight against hate speech and prevention of youth radicalization. In the end, we can demonstrate that we have had considerable impact at international level through development of new project ideas under the Erasmus+ which will strengthen international cooperation and assure sustainability of our network.

The last years brought a topic on the public agenda that is a concern for youth work all over Europe. The radicalisation of young people is on the rise, on all levels of the spectrum - left, right or religious. Youth Work therefore plays an important role as the radicalisation of many young people could be successfully prevented if youth work would better know the different mechanisms and motivations behind the different forms of extremism. In order to successfully prevent the radicalisation of young people youth workers need to get to know the different steps, codes and motivation for the process the young person is going through.
During our TC for Youth workers have tackled the following agenda: - Study Visits to prevention programs in the Bremen area
- Terror comes with many faces - Exploring Europe’s history with terrorism
- Current forms of radicalization, special focus on Islamism and right-wing extremism - Religious and Racial theories for extremism
- Youth Workers Role
- Skill-set for recognizing tendencies in young people and how to address them The Trainings Course has been implemented nearby Bremen in November 2018.

"<< Objectives >>This training course was born between the collaboration of Nando Amador, a break dancer consolidated as a dancer, teacher and businessman in the art world, and the Association Juvenil Almenaras, with the main mission of training youth workers from different European countries, to be capable of helping and guiding young people from their communities who want to start their careers in the art world, both in increasing their employability, as well as in supporting and providing tools that help these young people with entrepreneurship. Some of the activities will be virtual tools, business management tools, skills to increase the employability of artists, etc.In this project we will start from the basis of the importance of the artistic movement as a tool for personal and professional development, as a transmitter of culture and values and the central axis of our societies, directing all this intrinsic value towards the possibilities we have of entrepreneurship, employability and added opportunities that young people can find in the arts industry.The general objectives of this project are:- To provide 18 youth workers from 9 different European countries with tools to increase their visibility and employability in the field of art, enabling them to share this knowledge with young artists in their community.- To work with the participants about the main ways of entrepreneurship and wealth creation from the artistic world, which are event management, education, and merchandising, making the most of digital tools at low cost.- To increase the awareness of the real value that art has in society and to make the participants be able to create the value of their creations and other artists.- To develop the capacities of the participants to develop their own personal brand within the art world, in addition to provide them skills to transmit what they have learned from young artists in their community.- Create new entrepreneurship and wealth creation initiatives through art and culture for subsequent calls.<< Implementation >>The Project that we created is a training course (Youth Worker Mobility) in which we will educate participants on how they can promote the concept of entrepreneurship and employability within the art world, both directly (by selling their services as an artist), or indirectly (organizing events, carrying out educational actions, etc.)We are looking for 2 participants per association involved, for a total of 18 participants. We have tried to propose the approach of different artistic practices such as the stage, plastics, more professional, more playful, etc. The Spanish team will have 4 members, 3 participants, and one person belonging to the Almenaras team.Each partner association will be in charge of choosing its participants, 2 per association.The profile of the participants will be:We will look for participants who can contribute some experience, so we will be looking for participants to have some knowledge in one of these fields:- Youth work.- Work in the artistic field.- Entrepreneurship in the artistic and / or cultural field.- That they are at least 21 years old (to ensure that experience).Members will be asked to send one participant of each gender whenever possible. In general terms we will seek to achieve a 50/50, but if it is not possible, we have the limit of gender “imbalance” of 40/60 towards one of the genders.<< Results >>Expected results:- Guides in audio-visual format on how to create an artistic CV and a Portfolio, with key points and examples.- Network of European entities that cooperate in the field of art.- A series of entrepreneurship video-tutorials in different fields of art.- We will hold a meeting with inspiring figures within the Malaga youth entrepreneurial ecosystem in the field of art.- Local event at Rancho Limón based on art.Impact on partner organizations:- They will increase their skills towards the professional development of young artists in their community.- They will increase their abilities to use art-based activities in their activities towards youth and other users.- They will expand their work possibilities internationally, thanks to the creation of a work network in the field of art.- They will increase their management capacities and economic viability thanks to the development of skills and the acquisition of tools to propose lines of entrepreneurship in the fields of event organization, sale of artistic products and merchandising, development of educational projects, etc.Impact on youth work of the partners involved:We seek that youth workers have real tools and successful examples of initiatives carried out in the art sector, thus promoting employability and entrepreneurship for young people who want to dedicate themselves to this area, a sector that already has many difficulties towards young people. To do this, youth workers will learn the keys of how to increase the visibility of artistic cv and portfolios to use virtual tools and social networks and the bases of entrepreneurship in the art sector and related areas (such as event management, development of educational services and the creation of merchandising). Locally:- At least 90 percent of the participants will improve their skills as youth workers in matters of entrepreneurship and innovation in the field of art.- Development of at least one meeting with local agents during the week of activities. - Development of at least one follow-up activity by the Spanish team.At the national level:- With the social networks of the coordination team, we will reach, at least, 20,000 ""viewers"" through the dissemination strategy created from our social networks.- Follow-up activities will be carried out, in addition to the province of Malaga, in the Valencian community.- We will streamline the tools created so that they have an impact at the national level, creating dissemination actions and webinars after the completion of the project.On an international level:- After the project, the partners will keep in touch to continue working together.- 100% of the partner NGOs participate in the dissemination of content and results.- Each partner will establish a line of actions as a follow-up to the project.- Publication of the results on platforms such as Salto-Youth."