The project took place from 01st of January to 31st of December 2019 in Romania, North Macedonia and Turkey. The project partnership was composed of the project coordinator Kasta Morrely Star Iasi and the project partners Youth Alliance Krusevo and Development Youth & Sports Association. The project aim was to increase participation in sport activities through dance as a practical solution for preventing health problems and raising sport performance.The project preparatory stage included communication within the coordination team, development of local partnerships with representatives of civil society, specialty sport clubs, local authorities, educational sector, mass media; insurance of the services, materials and logistics for the good implementation of the activities.The project benefited by personalized promotional materials for visibility and dissemination, according to Erasmus+ Sport Programme visibility rules. The project activities included:The Health and safety training for dance athletes, hobby and performance categories, had 8 sessions in Romania, 5 sessions in Turkey and 5 sessions in North Macedonia. The participants were involved in complementary sessions of physical activities and information on improving the health care, safety and protection of dance athletes with specific information on a healthy lifestyle, correct breathing, the good health of the bones, predisposed accidents and prevention tips, first aid, proper alimentation, Erasmus+ Sport. The participants received support informational materials and certificates of participation. The specialty sport circuit was organised in Iasi, Skopje and Sivas. Each activity included project management meetings, dance sessions where dance athletes of hobby and performance, from each community were trained by the international team of dance coaches; Dance session with the dance coaches of sharing information and techniques on their dance specialties. Dances approached included dancesport – cha cha, passo doble, Zumba, step Zumba, tango, raggaeton, social dances - salsa and bachatta. The awareness campaign was implemented in online and offline environment. Onsite campaignIt included 3 open sessions of dance in each community in Iasi; Skopje and Sivas. The open sessions were publicly promoted and freely to be joined.The structure of the activity was of practicing different dance choreographies by the dance athletes involved, who together with the young volunteers were inviting other citizens to participate. The activity proved to be a successful method of bringing people together in group and pair dances, in a dynamic atmosphere of promoting sport for the physical and mental wellbeing. The activity included Info points for offering leaflets Sport is health with the benefits of practicing sport and open discussions and questionnaires on increasing the motivation of practicing sport. The sessions included practicing of dance choreographies such as waka waka, minions, toka toka, el meneaito, Macarena, lambada, passo doble, tango, raggaeton, zumba, cha cha, jive, samba, salsa, regaeton, step Zumba and pair dance such Viennese waltz. The awareness campaign was carried in the online environment through the project website www.youcandance.org, social media and mass media promotion.The project included 3 dance demonstrative final events, one in each community. The events included public presentation of the project, Erasmus+ Sport Programme and dance performances interpreted by dance athletes of hobby and performance, with elements learned within the specialty sport circuit and dedicated dance moments for the project. Dance styles presented were dancesport - standard (slow waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, slow fox, quickstep), latin (samba, cha cha, rumba, passo doble, jive), Argentinian tango and modern dance choreographies to promote the benefits of sport for health and the dance as a beneficial sport, especially for those anti-sport.

"<< Objectives >>Ensuring the functionality of the social entrepreneurship sector is a major challenge for contemporary society, an important component that should be developed in Europe mainly to provide groups with fewer opportunities, especially among the younger generation, the necessary framework for active involvement in the social development.Entrepreneurship should be a basic element of education that should be received by anyone since a young age, including financial education. Social entrepreneurship brings financial education together with community education to engage and help disadvantaged groups, care for the community and develop a civic spirit that any nation needs.Through social entrepreneurship, the entrepreneur seeks to bring a change by offering a service or product that aims at an undeveloped segment of the market, one that has a high degree of demand and at the same time, contributes to the integration into the labor market of disadvantaged people (persons with medical problems, with disabilities, without housing etc.)By developing social entrepreneurship among young people, a new responsible generation can be trained, that will always take into account the ethical values of the community and will advocate for a common purpose, that of integrating all people into a quality life in the community.The objectives of the project ""Stepping in the shoes of social entrepreneurship"" were:- To develop 33 youth workers from 11 countries with skills and attitudes of involving young people in the development of social entrepreneurship;- To increase the knowledge of the participants with 2 concrete tools of development in social entrepreneurship that can be used to increase the employability of young people;- To develop the organizational capacity of 11 partners from 11 countries in the field of social entrepreneurship as a way of supporting marginalized young people for integration into the labor market.Covid19 had many affects on long term on the population of the whole world, but also affected the youth projects, youth workers and youth generation in generally. Because of reasons beyond our will, the consequences on long term of COVID made that many projects to be postponed, the partners of the project had to send youth workers to more projects in the same time than it was innitially planned. The change that appeared in achieving the initial objectives of the project was the fact that participated only 29 youth workers from 9 countries. All the 11 partners were informed about the project rerusts and were involved in the dissemination process. The training on the theme of social entrepreneurship was conceived in the context in which from the point of view of social-economic rights the social entrepreneurship responds to the need to ensure access to work and decent living sources, in the conditions in which the unregulated labor market produces lack of jobs, unemployment and multiple forms of precarious work, without the social entrepreneurship replacing the responsibilities of the state towards its citizens, but only by capitalizing the resources of civil society, the economic sphere and the public administration in order to find innovative solutions to the social problems of the community.Moreover, NGOs have the human resources to carry out social projects and to materialize them, they need the financial resources found in the business sector that should be trained as well from the perspective of social entrepreneurship.<< Implementation >>The project “Stepping in the shoes of social entrepreneurship” had as main activity the international training that took place in Iasi – Romania between 23 September – 01 October 2021 with 31 participants from 9 countries.The participants were selected by the partner organizations of the consortium according to the criteria by commonly established: the previous involvement as youth workers in associative environment, the capacity to communicate in English, the motivation to work with youth with fewer opprtunities and on the topic of social entrepreneurship, the interest to develop future activities of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, the opening to be involved in an intercultural environment, the motivation to have new local and European initiatives dedicated to youth. The preparation of the participants was assured by the coordinating organization togheter with the partner from each country represented within the training. The coordinator transmited the needed information and needed preparations to be made as the participants to be eficiently involved in all the training activities, being connected to the needs from the local community, to the specificity of the youth sector, to the partner organization activity, to the strategy of development for the future for each partner etc. This contributed to the activly involvement of all the youth workers in all the training activities. In the preparation stage it was a special attention also for assurring all the conditions as to be respected the Covid restrictions, and the participants to be in a safe and protected environment. Also the partners were taken into the consideration the need that the participants to be vaccinated, passed through the deases or tested. The agenda includes complimentary activities, diverse non-formal methods and each day had a symbolic name according to the informational specific of the day. In the first day it was Stepping in the project and in the local community and included welcome in the local community, project presentation, project team presentation, participants presentation, name games, icebreaking games; expectations, contributions they can bring, fears; presentation of the agenda in detail and administrative discussions; establishing and assuming group rules during the training period; presentation of safety and protection norms of the project location. In the second day, the participants Stepped into entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and the world of Erasmus+: defining entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship; presentation of the Erasmus + Program; presentation Youthpass Certificate the 8 key competences.The training continued with Stepping in the shoes of young people with fewer opportunities and understanding of successful entrepreneurship by defining, discussion and specialty input. One important day was dedicated to Stepping in the Canvas model that included input, discussions and workshops in international team, as at the end of the day participants gained theoretical knowledge and practice in conceiving the The 'Canvas' model.The next day, the participants stepped more deeper in the local culture and social entrepreneurship: practical activity - discussing with a local social entrepreneur and afternoon in the city.In 6th day was about Stepping into social entrepreneurship through examples from Europe and the kick starter method: Books of Europe and a TV show Kick starter simulation for the development of the social enterprise.Day seven was addressed to make Steps towards employing young people with fewer opportunities - SWOT analysis Increasing the employability of young people with fewer opportunities through social entrepreneurship; world café Creating ways to increase the involvement of young people in the development of young people in the social entrepreneurship.The training continued with Stepping towards cooperation with different stakeholders from the community and future activities of the partners: polemic chairs method, dissemination and follow-up plan, networking and partnership, future projects.The last day was about Stepping in the final evaluation and certificates ceremony. According to the evaluation made together with the youth workers that participated, the training had a motivational impact in order to continue to be involved in youth sector and especially through the non governmental perspective, to put in practice the specialty knowledge gained and abilities developed, to develop future projects which to contribute to train a big number of youth through non formal education related what means social inclusion and the importance of social entrepreneurship. The project dissemination was assured by the organizer, partners and all the participants through online means (webpages, social media), through the meeting within the own organization, through external workshops, but also through written and online media.<< Results >>The project created the framework for organizing a international training to train 29 youth workers from 9 countries as resource persons in promoting and initiating future activities on social entrepreneurship topic.Following the active participation in the project sessions, the youth workers developed their competences regarding the way of creating and running an enterprise with social impact, have more knowledge to be able to distinguish between entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and are more gained with terminology specific to this field. The participants had at the cognitive level ideas on how future social entrepreneurs could be trained. Also due to the multicultural environment, they had the opportunity to return to their country with new, original and innovative approaches.The youth workers involved learned new non-formal methods from those applied at the training, understood the efficiency and possible replicability in their future activity. Among the nonformal methods applied can be mentioned: definitions of terminology, conceptual delimitation, workshops, world café, polemic chairs, TV show simulation, Books of Europe, SWOT analysis etc. Participants learned the CANVAS business model and the opportunity to raise funds through kick starter - as two tools that can be used by young people who will be involved in developing social enterprises.The activities of the project created the framework for the participants to develop their personal, social and professional competences as youth workers who bring added value to the youth sector with emphasis on the involvement of young people with fewer opportunities.The project contributed to the development of the organizational capacity of the 9 partners with youth workers trained on social entrepreneurship, with useful non-formal methods, with a well understood European perspective on social entrepreneurship, with models of good social entrepreneurship practices, with ideas and future partnerships in the development of the youth sector.The project had an indirect and long-term impact on the partner communities and at European level, through the youth workers trained as promoters and developers of the project results by direct and indirect means.Developing young people the future is changing, developing the young generation is developing the sustainable future of the community, educating young people in the entrepreneurial spirit and helping disadvantaged people can be reached a society of inclusion and well-being. This is also the long-term perspective of the project, by training the youth workers can be reached as many young people at European level who will be able to involve in the economic and social development of a Europe. The youth workers participating in the project acquired the knowledge, tools and partnerships necessary to promote the importance of social entrepreneurship, training young social entrepreneurs for ensuring equity, inclusion and economy development within the European Union."

The project will aim at promoting creative methodologies of training for youth leaders, youth workers, future trainers, students and volunteers in the field of healthy lifestyles through environment and sport activities considering them as the elements of active citizenship and building socio-cultural bridges. The training course is based on the principle that taking health care through environmnt and sports is instrumental in strengthening and enhancing civic behaviour and a feeling of belonging to a common European community which again leads to a reinforcement and empowerment of democracy in our civil society. The training course will be based on the principles and practise of non-formal education and it will be focused in a way to allow a learner-centred approach taking into account the needs, interests and the experiences of the participants. The project will take place in Reggio Calabria from 4th-11th March 2015 and it will involve 28 young participants coming from Italy, Poland, Georgia, Austria, Romania, Latvia, UK, Sweden, Arzebaijan, Ukraine, Armenia and Macedonia with high profile or interest in healthy lifestyle, environment, sports and non-formal education. The main objectives of the exchange are: 1. Underlining the view of health, environment and sports of local, regional or national cultural identity, thereby placing it at the centre of international exchanges of ideas, opinions and cultural expressions; 2. Exploring how large-scale such events can operate as tools for promoting European identity and youth participation through the use of best practices in the described fields; 3. Encouraging the broadest possible participation of the affiliated members in healthy lifestyles through environment and sport activities within and outside their organisation for a better social cohesion; 4. Encouraging the broadest possible participation of the affiliated members in sports and cultural activities within and outside their organisation.5. Exchange the experiences of the participants and involve local, national and international stakeholders in the dynamics of the project in order to obtain a bigger visibility and result.Participants will be given the opportunity to share, discuss, learn about and develop new ideas within this field. Participants will be strongly encouraged to organise own projects after the training course as well as to transfer what they learned during the course to their respective groups/organisations. The activities will be held outdoors in order to allow a contact between participants and the environment; all the timetable will be based on different settings and places such as city center, mountains and seaside in order to allow young people to play the different techniques and best practices and to provide a basis for any territorial situation and different groups.

"""PRO-PER development"" was a project consisting of one youth workers mobility, the aim of which was to enhance the PERsonal as well as PROfessional competences of youth workers working with unemployed youth by providing them with a concise methodological framework which addresses the lack of motivational, entrepreneurial and wholesomely educational capacities of unemployed young people.The youth workers mobility ensured for a wholesome non-formal learning experience to take place and therefore optimally tackled the identified needs of both the partner organizations as well as the participants who chose to take part in the activities on behalf of their respective organizations.During the youth workers mobility, lasting for 7 days, the participants were given the opportunity of becoming involved in a PERsonal as well as PROfessional developmental process and were equipped with theoretical knowledge as well as methodological skills, all crucial for improving the effectiveness of their work with unemployed youngsters as well as with youngsters in NEET situation. All of them will continuously act as multipliers and ensure that the learning process which has taken place under the auspices of the project will have longterm effects on local/regional as well as national and international youth work.The youth workers mobility has taken place in an international and multicultural environment, with project partners from Portugal, Spain - Catalonia, Spain - Andalusia, France, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Slovenia as the hosting partner. All project partners are already either directly or indirectly, by way of their cooperation with other youth workers, working with unemployed youngsters and each partner sent 2-3 youth workers/leaders who took part in the mobility, with the Slovenian and Romanian partner having one member in each of their teams who was also in the role of co-trainer on the project. The youth workers mobility was alltogether attended by 23 participants.Activity organized under the auspices of organization Zavod Anima Vita took place in December 2015 and also resulted in web-based, booklet-based as well as video-based informational materials, the aim of which is to disseminate the project results and facilitate also benefits for secondary stakeholders, all in accordance with the EU`s strategy for improving the efficient tackling of the problem of youth unemployment."

"<< Objectives >>This application for the PBA Valuing the Youth Workers Expertise to Develop Social Entrepreneurship was designed starting from the interest of the coordinator and partner organizations to find new partners and to develop new ideas of projects on the topic of social entrepreneurship. The coordinator and the partners wanted to develop new activities through which to contribute to raise employment amoug youth, especially those marginalized. The partners are representing communities with a high level of unemployability among youth, which rose even more during Covid time. Also, the partners are willing also to addres to the fact that the authorities don’t offer enough attention to the marginalized groups in order to support them in being included on the labour market. Through the project the partners were interested to: sharing the own knowledge and expertize and gainind new perspectives from the other youth workers, making an exchange of know how related the Erasmus+ youth projects in general and those on the topic of social entrepreneurship in particular, raising the number of active youth workers on the topic of social entrepreneurship, understanding the efficiency of the non formal methodology and how can be developed on long term, identifying ways of valuing the social entrepreneurship for the community developement and inclusion of marginalized groups, developing the competences of writing and managing projects of the youth workers that participated at the Partnership Building Activity, developing the capacity of youth workers to work with young people with fewer opportunities, developing new partnerships for future projects.In December 2019, took place the partners’ evaluation meeting of the project DIVE 3: Zero to One> 1 to N. The project was the third in a series of complementary projects in the field of promoting the skills and abilities of youth workers for the development of social entrepreneurship. The projects Dive in Social Entrepreneurship, Dive deeper into Social Entrepreneurship and DIVE3: Zero to One> 1 to N projects are Erasmus + KA2 projects. The issue raised by 3 partners from the above mentioned projects was whether there are enough projects to valorize the expertise of youth workers to contribute to the formation of the spirit of social entrepreneurship among young people.In 2020, when the pandemic caused by Covid19 also appeared, these 3 partners continued the communication and found that unemployment increased, especially among the young generation. 2020 would have been a year in which a well developed framework of social entrepreneurship could have helped reduce the effects of the pandemic on disadvantaged groups and the community. Thus, the partners brought to attention the need for the development of new projects by partners from different states in order to act unitary and innovative in promoting social entrepreneurship.The project partners have a diversity of activities addressed to young people at local, national and international level, including addressing the needs of different categories of marginalized young people.The project Valuing the Youth Workers Expertise to Develop Social Entrepreneurship aimed to valorize the expertise of youth workers to develop future projects that produce social change in the youth sector to include marginalized groups.The objectives of the project were:• To facilitate the exchange of know-how in the field of social inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities among 30 youth workers in order to increase the quality of future projects;• To increase the knowledge of 30 youth workers for the initiation of future social entrepreneurship projects aimed at the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities• To develop a number of 4 new Erasmus + projects on the topic of social entrepreneurship that will contribute to facilitating the integration on the labor market of marginalized young people.<< Implementation >>The PBA Valuing the Youth Workers Expertise to Develop Social Entrepreneurship was organized between 16 – 25 March 2022 in Iasi, Romania with 30 youth workers participants from 8 countries: Romania, Croatia, Greece, Italy, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal and Turkey. The PBA was based as it was planned on the Open Space methodology that leaded to concieve 4 new ideas of Erasmus+ projects.Within the PBA for each Open Space session it was respected the format proposed through the application as follows: each time were chosen 4 moderators, the participants decided what and how they want to achieve the results, the debriefing included the results and conclusions of the working groups and also were brought ideas for improvements, all results being written in the 4 project applications in work, also each time being taken into consideration the fact that the projects are aimed to be applied in the future by the partners. Thus, the topics addressed were the following:Day I – Introduction, knowing each other, expectations, fears, contributions, understanding Open Space methodologyDay II - Presentation of organizations (e.g. objectives, main activities, staff, contact)Day III - Erasmus+ Presentation, Youthpass and key competencesDay IV - Social entrepreneurship and increasing the employability of disadvantaged young people (e.g. definition, situation, challenges, solutions)Day V - Objectives, activities and efficient methods in developing youth workers competences to organize activities on the social entrepreneurship topic through which to contribute the social inclusion of youth with fewer opportunitiesDay VI – Learning results through the new created projectsDay VII – Impact, dissemination and follow-up in the 4 projectsDay VIII – Finalising the 4 project ideas and presentation through non-formal methods, analysed with the other teamsDay IX - Creation of dissemination plans (e.g. ways to promote the Guide) and co-creation of a common follow-up plan (e.g. future projects)The day X included the final evaluation of the PBA through discussions, completion of questionnaires, writing personalized messages, etc. Participants also gave short interviews about the activities and results of the meeting. At the end of the day in an official ceremony, the participants received the Youthpass Certificates.During the days were implemented energizers at the request of the participants and also many times the energizers were proposed by them. At the end of each day, time for evaluative reflection was given and on the fifth day a more complex intermediate evaluation was carried out, including several informational aspects regarding methods, logistics, accommodation and meals, in order to take additional measures if necessary.The project facilitators being persons with many project approved, offered support and reccomandations in each stage for the good development of the 4 applications of projects.<< Results >>The Parteneship Building Activity Valuing Youth Workers Expertise to Develop Social Entrepreneurship had as impact the development of participants, as youth workers resource persons in their organizations, by identifying new future ways of collaboration for the integration of marginalized young people on the labor market by valuing social entrepreneurship field.Participants have gained more knowledge about the Erasmus+ program and its actions through exchange of know-how and information received directly from youth workers who have managed such projects. The “new” participants in Erasmus + projects became more motivated to apply projects in the future within this program with the theme of social entrepreneurship, and those with a rich experience have discovered specific “tips & tricks”. Through the feedback received from both the participants and the facilitators, the participants improved their competences of writing projects and managing the non-formal methods specific to social entrepreneurship projects and not only.As results, the participants are more aware of the situation of the people with different fewer opportunities and are willing to take action more responsible for the inclusion of marginalized young people knowing methods and having already tested tools that can have results and can be adapted to local specificities. The participants developed strategic thinking, moderation skills, synthesis skills, facilitating learning outcomes, the ability to transfer knowledge and experiences by assuming the coordination of specific meetings through the open space method, the ability to assimilate new information, creativity in proposals of future projects.The participants gained new experiences, new results, new models of good practice, new skills developed, new tools useful for daily activities with young people in order to facilitate access to the labor market. The project has sustainable impact, because the participants are youth workers actively involved in non-governmental organizations, some with experience in projects with the theme of social entrepreneurship, which will contribute to the application of knowledge and skills for future development of local/international youth activities or projects, implicitly developing the activity of the organization.The project had a positive impact on the promoters development of the youth activity, on all 10. The participants transmited within the partner organizations acquired information, the developed partnerships, and the partners already valued and continue to value the competencies developed by applying future projects within new Erasmus+.The partners establish long-term cooperation agreements with the youth workers participating in the PBA, these being an important resource for the partner organizations.All these will have contribution to increase the access on the labor market of the marginalized young people both from the partner communities in the project, as well as in other communities with organizations interested in valorizing the results and tools of the project.By posting online ""The Young person of the Week"" that promoted young people from the 10 countries that have managed to make social changes visible in the community, each community gained a positive visibility at international level.The project had an indirect and long-term impact on the partner communities and at European level, by developing the competencies of the 30 youth workers able to valorize the expertise of the other youth workers with whom they have carried out new projects. From 4 new projects, 2 already were applied and 2 are still on the working process, because one of the project was extended from KA1 to KA2 and will be subbmited at dead-line from the next year. Besided the partners from the project, were also coopted other new partners. The increase of the organizational capacity of the 10 partners implicitly contributes to the development of the communities of origin, the youth workers bringing their contribution by valorizing the received information, using the competences in new activities and projects in their communities, bringing resources, etc.An unexpected but welcome result was the establishment of new companies by two of the youth workers present at the PBA after the participation."