<< Objectives >>The project is designed by young people for young people with the main purpose of getting young people more involved in democratic life in their countries and in the EU, to give them a voice to express their concerns and to empower them to be active citizens while understanding and respecting the democratic systems in place in their countries and in the EU.The main objectives of the project is to help young people understand and get involved in:Policy ReformThe EU democratic system and the involvement of youth in policy reformLearning and understanding EU laws and policiesActive Citizenship and EU citizenshipHuman Rights Ways to meet with policy makers and to facilitate policy reform with youth needs in mindEncouraging youth to be more active in democratic life<< Activities >>This project will be on Youth Exchange which will take place in London. The activities foreseen for the youth exchange will include proven non-formal methodologies and will be run by the young participants of the project and managed by the partner organisations.We will have 5 participants from each of 11 countries, including the leader, who will implement the project. The profile of the participants are young people from the partner countries who come from a broad spectrum of each country, who will represent their country and the youth of their country in this project to learn from other youth, share their ideas, knowledge, voice the opinions and work together to understand and make the changes needed in their countries and the EU.An idea to make this a KA3 project was discussed but since there will be no guaranteed involvement of policy makers in this project, we felt a youth exchange would be the best platform for this project. It is hoped that a KA3 project could be a follow up project where we can take results and outcomes to policy makers and ask for their involvement in the KA3 project. << Impact >>If we can measure the impact of this project from the interest and involvement of youth in the partner countries, then we can predict a great impact on the participants and the youth in the partner countries. It is vital that these young people are given the opportunity to work on this project and realise it, so that they can see who they can start an idea and see it through, how their voices can be hear. The process used in this project is democratic, so the learning has already started, we have developed the hope that change is possible, and this project will form the start of turning the hope for a better and more democratic life for young people into a reality.The impact of this project on the participants, the youth involved, the youth in the communities and target groups, will be the creation of a society of young people from all walks of life, active in their communities, active in the democratic process, active in policy reform, active citizens and active EU citizens.The impact will be more young people voting at elections. Young people contributing and working towards policy reform. Young people building their societies and the same young people building the EU of tomorrow.

Perception of the human being is basically what drives people into actions from what they know to what they think it should happen in order to improve daily life.Today young people have a negative picture for the future, this caused either by the influence of parents and the hard problems they face today, or generally society that gives a lot of pressure on the changing world. This perception is built upon the knowledge of what the economical, social and democratic situation is Europe in today. Also perception derives from the personal logic and experiences of the young today. This is because many youngsters leave school either by their choice or not. Other youngsters study without researching the availability of jobs for that field for the years after graduating. Unemployment, is also a fact that young people take for granted today so they give up hope in doing anything more in order to change this. This is their perception. And it has to change for the better and the future.We will look at how youth can prepare for the future and be ready to deal with the future opportunities that might arise. Workshops will be designed to maintain a European dimension as all groups will be made up of at least one person from each country allowing for cultural learning during the workshops as well as retaining gender balance. Workshops are designed around the various subjects allowing the participants to discuss the issues and work together to solve problems and share experiences.Role playing will also be used to allow the participants to get another perspective of different problems. This has proven to be very successful as it allows for the participants to see common problems from the viewer’s point of view rather than the actor. This also allows for innovative ways showing problems.Simulations are also done during the project, allowing people to take on roles which are opposite to their real roles. During the simulations the participants will take on roles to re-enact a real situation based on events and problems in the real world. The participants will work together in their different roles to solve problems and to find solutions to these problems. Important here is that the participants take on random roles which add additional learning tools as they need to think and act as the person they are simulating. Competence in technology an internet will be used for creating materials for the results. Using all the above tools and methodologies the participants learn through informal and non-formal methodologies which are real and based on past experiences. As a result we hope to give our participants and our youth the tools to increase their chances of employment and also prepare them for the education and as a result for the future as also changing the perception of the negative aspects of todays life in a better view about the future.We will help them to take advantage of various EU tools to be able to maximize their learning outcomes and ultimately help youth workers to help youth find employment. The main goal of the project was to help young people overcome the increasing problem of youth unemployment in the EU. We believe that we have achieved our goal in this project, not by being able to predict the future but to give young people the tools to be more prepared for the future in terms of employment and to help them make more informed choices in the fields of education so that they can increase their chances of employment in the future. We learned about the tools available to young people today to help them develop their skills and competences and to allow them to use thee skills to find employment in the emerging fields of employment today and in the future. We believe that this project help, not only the participants, but all the young people in Europe to perceive tomorrow better and focus on being more prepared for the labour markets of today and tomorrow.

Every country is different, unique, and wants to be better than the rest. Every country wants to show that it can do things better than other countries and as a result we see a lot of conflict in the world. In our modern age, we still see wars being fought, we see that in our world today there is a tug of war for power and success. Why don’t we push for peace?This youth exchange was developed by the partner countries, by young people eager to see a unified world built on cooperation and unity. We want to embrace the European model of unity and spread this across the globe allowing young people from all over the world to push for peace.The project examined conflicts in different countries and tried to understand them from the perspective of youth and worked on finding solutions for these conflicts. We were ambassadors of unity working for a unified world which rejects war and conflict and builds bridges of cooperation, understanding and unity.We examined the principals of the EU and tried to establish these principals in all our countries working on ways to replace conflict with cooperation, dispute with resolution and war with peace.When our youth can be the building blocks of a world unified by diversity, then our future generations can live in harmony working together to build a world of equality and prosperity.The youth exchange brought together young people from 13 different countries, bringing with them their ideas, their cultures and their concerns, about their countries and the world. Together we learned to listen to each other, understand the different perspectives and viewpoints of each other, and learned from each other. We pushed our limited to understand stereotypes and more so to understand our duty and responsibility to remedy the stereotypes that exist about our people and our countries. We examined the different religions in the world and put ourselves in these shoes to understand that there is a reason for everything and throwing stones is not the solution for understanding or making things better.The participants of this project were true ambassadors of their countries working together to understand each other and to work together for a world based on peace and the true European ideologies promoting equality and human rights. We worked together to make ourselves better people, promoting peace and equality, and more so our countries and the people of our countries. Each person left this project as an ambassador of peace, unity and equality, promoting this model in their country among their peers and friends, co-workers and even teachers.The project exceeded its objectives by creating 65 young ambassadors for peace and unity who now better understand the principals of peace, and understand the cultures, differences and similarities of 13 different countries. We promoted the European democratic model and embraced it as our own, and promoted international cooperation. We paved the roads for future cooperation through understanding and the common need to grow together, and we hope that the future generations will follow in our footsteps.The profile of the participants is vital for this project and we will select the participants best for the project but at the same time giving priority to those who are disadvantaged.In order to achieve these goals the activities foreseen non-formal and informal methodologies are used to ensure the learning outcomes of the project. A variety of ice breakers and energisers are used to help the particpants familiarise themselves with each other allowing for a more comfortable atmosphere for cooperation and collaboration. Open discussions are used to allow participants to share their views and also to identify common problems in the different countries. Discussions will give the youth more confidence, especially when seeing that youth from other countries are facing the same problems. Debates will allow the youth to express their personal viewpoints of different matters and to justify them through discussions. This will also allow for others to gain knowledge based on the experiences of others.Workshops will be designed to maintain a European dimension as all groups will be made up of at least one person from each country allowing for intercultural learning during the workshops. Workshops are designed around the various subjects allowing the different youth to discuss the issues and work together to solve problems and share experiences.Role playing will also be used to allow the participants to get another perspective of different problems. This has proven to be very successful as it allows for the youth to see common problems from the viewer’s point of view rather than the actor. This also allows for innovative ways of showing problems.Simulations are also done during the project, allowing people to take on roles which are often opposite to their real roles. During the simulations the participants will take on roles to re-enact

In our modern society, young people are encouraged to get university degrees regardless of their dreams or future employment desires. It is as though a person without a degree has no place in the labour market. We see young people gaining degrees but still find themselves behind a long unemployment line after they have completed their university. We don’t want to devalue a university degree, but it is really enough to secure a job? Research and statistics have shown us that it is not enough, young people need to understand and develop their skills in order to meet the demands and needs of the labour market and this youth exchange will focus on exactly that, the development and enhancement of skills, soft skills and combine education in order to make young people more employable. The European Commission has identified the problems with lack of skills of young people and this is one of the main priorities of Erasmus+, in order to create the opportunities for young people to increase skills and employability. The second focus of the project is to help young people identify the labour market, understand it, its needs and how they can play an active role in the labour market. Most young people complain that they have what they need to be employed, and yet the labour market tells them that they don’t have the experience and the skills for the job. So, is there a problem with our education system? Are your schools not preparing young people for the labour market? Is it the duty of the schools to prepare us for the labour market, and if so, for which market?The project focused on identifying skills needed for the different jobs out there and helping young people determine just how skilled they are for the jobs they are applying for and even helping them to identify sources of employment based on their skill sets.We looked at the different fields of education that our young people have chosen and also look at their life skills, their soft skills, their practical skills and other skills they might have and see how we can use these skills to make them more attractive to employers and also give them a more diverse spectrum of employment opportunities. The project also focused on helping young people to develop and enhance these skills in order to make them more employable.This youth exchange focused on the different skills young have or can obtain through various methods allowing them to utilise their strength and enhance the areas of their weaknesses, to give them confidence and faith that their efforts are not lost and that even in difficult times, employment opportunities are out there for those that know how to use what they already have. We explored ourselves, finding our best talents and skills allowing us to face a challenging labour market with the tools and knowledge to become an active part of the labour market and leave youth unemployment behind us, by knowing who we are and what we can do. By matching our skills with the jobs available in the labour markets and working towards our own future. We explored why young people don’t realise their skills and competences and work on developing and enhancing these skills. The objectives of the project were to allow young people to find their skills and competences, to combine these with their education and to increase their employability. To help young people to identify employment opportunities based on their skills and to create better awareness of the labour market needs thus allowing young people to develop their skills to meet these needs.We saw a great change in attitude and understanding of the labour market and the skills required to enhance employability in youth in the participants and the target groups in each of the partner countries. As a direct result of this project we have seen new cooperation between educational institutions and the labour market and the partner organisation increased their abilities to help youth in their communities with skill development and career guidance.

This project was developed by the partners of the project when seeing that a lot of emphasis is given to entrepreneurial skills and assisting young people in gained these skills and competences. We identified a great needs for young people and organisations to obtain these skills and knowledge but as organisations we needed to develop new methods to teach these skills to young people. The combination of experience with young people from 12 countries, especially in identifying the common problems that young people face and the gaps in their knowledge about entrepreneurialism and also taking the experience of other organisations in the business fields the idea was created to develop a training course that would bring together youth workers, trainers and specialist in the field of business to develop new methodologies and activities that can be used in all the partner countries and other countries to help young people develop their entrepreneurial skills and help them start their own business.The objectives of the project is to identify common problems and lack in the knowledge of young people in each of the partner countries regarding business and especially starting their own business and then to develop a variety of training courses and workshops that will help young people gained the needed skills to start their own business.By doing this we will be able to help young people in all the partner countries to gain the needed skills to start their own business and simultaneously help combat unemployment in the EU.The project will address youth unemployment and methods to help young people overcome these problems by creating their own jobs based on their skills and education allowing them to properly measure the risks of starting a business and also evaluating their ability to be self-employed. There is a great need for projects like this within the EU an especially so in countries that have high youth unemployment and we believe the outcomes of the project will positively affect many young people in making the correct choices and assist them in starting their own careers and therefore overcoming unemployment.Taking into account how the EU is a common market, we will explore, through intercultural dialogue, the trends and needs of a unified yet distinct EU. We will see how one market influences the other, and more specifically how culture can influence the success or failure of a business. We will see elements of active citizenship and how these affect our rights as citizens of the EU. We will see how inclusion, or exclusion affects the chances of young people to succeed in a very demanding labour market. We will give focus on EU tools available to young entrepreneurs to give them the push needed to start their own business or to give them the skills and competences to make the right decisions regarding their careers and their future. The idea of the training course is to develop a manual as a final result with tips and guides on how to start a business that can be used by all young people interested in starting their own business.We will exchange good and bad practices from each country and put all the good practices together for formulate workshops and activities so that each of the partner organisations and other organisation can help more young people in these important and desperately needed areas. Vital tools will be used to learn about EU opportunities, this will include EVS, EURES, internships and placements to mention only a few. National incentives will also be reviewed. The objective of the project is to allow youth to discuss problems about youth unemployment and increasing employability. As the group is made up of many young people who are unemployed, the issues and the outcomes are vital to the participants.The profile of the participants is vital for this project and we will select the participants best for the project but at the same time giving priority to those who are disadvantages.In order to achieve these goals the activities foreseen for the project are vital. As the topic is vital to all the participants we anticipate that all the participants will be extremely active in the project offering as much as they can but also taking back as much as possible. Discussions and debates will give the youth a different perspective of the problems and perhaps even new methods of addressing these problems. Experts in business will also be available to the participants with discussions and tips and allowing for the participants to ask them questions.Workshops will be designed to maintain a European dimension as all groups will be made up of at least one person from each country allowing for cultural learning during the workshops. Workshops are designed around the various subjects allowing the different youth to discuss the issues and work together to solve problems and share experiences.Role playing will also be used.