"<< Objectives >>The aim of the youth exchange ""Learn language is fun"" is to bring together 25 young people from 5 countries (Spain, Italy, Croatia, Belgium and Bulgaria) and to encourage them to learn foreign languages as tools for creating prosperous future. The idea is to proof to the participants that learning languages is not so difficult, because there are so many similarities in each group of languages that learning even one can give strong basis for learning the rest. The world where we are living is becoming more and more diverse and being polyglot is clearly a valuable asset. By speaking several languages, young people can be more flexible, competitive and ready for the challenges that bring modern societies. Not only they will be able easy to break the stereotypes for different cultures, but also they will be able to increase the possibility for employment. The objectives of the project are:- To raise awareness about youth unemployment, a common problem in Europe- To encourage youngsters to learn languages - linguistic diversity- To foster mutual understanding between young people from different cultures and differently developed local areas- To develop a sense of belonging to the common European idea and EU citizenship- To contribute to develop the key competences of young participants- To create a team for future projects about this important topic- Raising awareness about Erasmus+ program<< Implementation >>The youth exchange was due to take place in Belgium from April 4th to April 11th, 2020, but it didn't because of Covid19 pandemic.After Italy, Belgium entered into confinement in the middle of March. The sanitary measures, traveling prohibition, and the cancellation of flights made it impossible for the project to materialize. The partners decided all together to cancel the activity, no other choice. We hope that we'll be able to apply again for this project later on.<< Results >>NA"

Project “To live for not to leave!” - Erasmus + KA1 youth exchange. This project took place in Calabria (South of Italy), in the villages of Pentedattilo e Roghudi. All the involved areas from partners which is characterized for structural youth unemployment: latest statistics says that 60% of young between 15 and 24 years are currently unemployed. One of the worst consequences of this phenomenon is the mass exodus of youngsters, which affects particularly the rural areas.Considering that, this project achieved the following goals:improving the level of key competences and skills of young people, with a special focus on the ones coming from disadvantaged rural areas;- Promoting a more effective and democratic participation of youngsters, particularly those who are coming from rural areas, through intercultural dialogue in order to ameliorate social cohesion and solidarity- Fostering the respect for nature and environment by creative actions of social and environmental requalification/regeneration in abandoned areas;Specific objectives:- contribute to the (re)animation of the youth participation, through initiatives of young active citizens, from rural context;to take advantages out of the contact with nature and local territory, in a perspective of ecological, social and sustainable development and wellbeingpromote the exchange of practices among young participants in rural areas, characterized by virtuos experiences of social and productive recovery, protecting cultural heritages of the almost abandoned territoriespromote mobility and youth participation of young people from rural areas, in Erasmus+ framework, boosting them to take into consideration the idea of developing future projects

''Spirit of Volunteering” was implemented in Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Spain, and Portugal with 12 short-term volunteers between June 2019 and February 2022. Due to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the duration of the project was extended up to 36 months from 24 months. The objectives of the project were - To improve young people's ability to perform activities at an international level - To create a European community of pupils, teachers, and parents in the territory of hosting countries and surrounding that will support the idea of social integration and professional development of adolescents - To implement training and experiments about public interest in different problems cooperating with the local authorities - To develop solidarity and promote tolerance among the society in order to stimulate social cohesion in the European Union - To encourage public participation in social life and to strengthen the links between local groups, schools, businesses, and municipal authorities - To stimulate youth involvement in the activities related to personal and social development - To carry out active work for sustainable social development and democratic principles to promote civil society. - To make activities and events to restore and improve the quality of the environment - To improve the welfare of disabled people - their acceptance and socialization in their families, among peers, colleagues, friends, and among the middle part of the community in which they live - To prohibit negative social phenomena spreading in the youth environment, such as crime, aggression, addiction, prostitution, xenophobia, and so on.The dates of the mobilities were as below:Association Focus-European center for development - Bulgaria:02.10.2021 - 29.11.202113.10.2021 - 10.12.202102.10.2021 - 29.11.2021 Suncokret Centre for Community Development - Croatia:15.12.2021 - 14.02.202215.12.2021 - 14.02.2022 ASOCIATIEI DE TINERET CULTURA SI EDUCATIE SPERANTA RAMNICEANA - Romania:26.02.2020 - 15.03.202021.10.2019 - 18.12.2019 ASOCIACION XERACION ASOCIACION CULTURAL - Spain:16.07.2019 - 12.09.201926.10.2019 - 22.12.201926.10.2019 - 23.12.2019 RATO-ASSOCIACAO PARA A DIVULGACAO CULTURAL E CIENTIFICA - Portugal:14.12.2019 - 10.02.202023.02.2020 - 18.03.2020*** Dates do not include travel days which means all flows were finalized as 59 days + 2 travel days.

"The Youth Exchange ""Start thinking, critically!"" will take place in Hidiselu de Sus. The participating countries are: Romania, Bulgaria, Poland and Greece. The project will be attended by 28 young people, 7 from each country. The project will be held in autumn 2018 and will have the theme of media literacy, where young people - through a variety of non-formal activities - will learn about the importance of developing media literacy skills and the importance of critical thinking by acquiring knowledge about the concepts and structure of media, by learning how to deconstruct media messages, by learning about the specifics of each type of media (press, television / radio, advertisements, social media), by developing the skills to create their own media materials and by exercising the skills of critical thinking . The target group of the project are young people aged between 18-30 years who are interested in exploring this topic and to develop themselves on a personal and professional level. The main objective of the project is to increase the level of media literacy of 28 young people from 4 countries, for a period of 9 days in an intercultural environment, through a non-formal learning process. Specific objectives of the project: Raising the level of knowledge of 28 young people from 4 countries, about the structure, basic concepts of the media, deconstruction of messages and media contents. Developing practical skills of critical thinking of 28 young people from 4 countries as an important element of democracy. Improving the skills of 28 young people from 4 countries to create media content. Raising awareness by the 28 young people participating in the project of 100 young people in Oradea about the importance of media literacy and critical thinking. Exploring the possibilities offered by the Erasmus + program among 28 young people from 4 countries. Facilitate the intercultural dialogue of 28 young people from 4 countries to increase tolerance towards each other. We will use non-formal methods such as: interactive presentations, creative workshops, study visit, debate, situation games, case study, media creation, meeting with the local community, intercultural evenings, evaluation sessions. We expect after the project for participants to have a better understanding of the structure and mechanisms of creating and presenting media messages to the public, to develop the skills necessary for critical thinking, to consume and to create media content in a more conscious way. At the same time, we expect our project - through its activities - to raise awareness of the local community (especially young people) and a wider public at European level on the importance of media literacy, encouraging other actors - from the civil sphere but not only - to address this subject through various initiatives, in order to educate the public."

"<< Objectives >>Nowadays youth work plays a very important role for youth development. Youth work encompasses a broad range of activities (social, cultural, educational, sports-related and political) carried out with, by and for young people through nonformal and informal learning. Youth work provides out-of-school education, as well as leisure activities managed by professional or voluntary youth workers and youth leaders. During the Erasmus + project in Malta in 2019 some of partners met together, discussed the necessity of this project, where participants could see, discuss and exchange the good practices of youth work, to share experiences, to learn from each other and in this way to develop youth work in Programme and Partners countries. The main AIM of the project ""Reality of Youth Work"" was to present youth work in Latvia, exchange of experience with partners, improve working methods with youth from different backgrounds and strengthen cooperation of Programme and Partner countries in the field of youth. Project was for youth workers, leaders, municipality representatives from the youth departments from Programme and Partner countries. Partner countries gave the added value for the project as the youth work in Partner countries is less developed and participants learned from the best practices and used it for the development of youth work in their realities.Participants of this study visit also got a chance to build partnerships and plan new joint initiatives. Moreover, there was an opportunity to learn from the local youth initiatives, as well as to share the best practices in terms of successful youth engagement in Europe.Objectives of the study visit were following:•To learn about the reality of youth work in Latvia, Latgale region;•To support understanding of youth work realities of participating countries;•To improve working methods of organizations with youth from different backgrounds;•To learn about youth work in towns and rural area and to compare them;•To foster partnership building between organizations from Programme and Partner countries;•To explore the added value of the European dimension of youth initiatives;•To facilitate the acquisition by participants of communication, teamwork and project management skills of internationalactivities and networking;•To understand the impact and social change a youth center can have within the local community;•To increase the strategic thinking of youth workers in order to create long-term interventions for personal andprofessional development of young people.<< Implementation >>Project was for youth workers, leaders, municipality representatives from the youth departments from Programme and Partner countries. European Association ""World-Our Home"" hosted 29 participants from 12 organizations from - Azerbaijan, Jordan, Spain, Georgia, Israel, Moldova, Germany, Russian Federation, Greece, Croatia, Portugal and Latvia. Partner countries gave the added value for the project as the youth work in Partner countries is less developed and participants could learn from the best practices and use the gained knowledge for the development of youth work in their countries. Participants of this study visit also got a chance to build partnerships and to plan new joint initiatives. Moreover, there was an opportunity to learn from the local youth initiatives, as well as to share the best practices in terms of successful youth engagement in Europe.In Study Visit there were used the following non-formal education methods: the main methods were study visits to the different youth centers, meetings with young people, deputies, youth workers; interactive real-life learning experience; follow-up project development, networking, discussions and understanding of reality of youth work in Latvia, Latgale region; the acquaintance activities - the individual, couple and group tasks, which aim was to let participants to get to know each other closer - the names, interests, occupations, role in the organization, motivation to participate in the project, etc.; the ""ice breakers"" - activities in the groups which were carried out at the beginning of a project to break the ice between participants and create a positive atmosphere in the group; the team building activities which made an attractive way to join the group; brainstorming, during these activities participants generated a lot of ideas on the subject of the project; there were short activities (energizers) to give the energy to participants, especially in the morning, presentations, speeches; the intercultural evening during which every group presented their country and its culture to other national teams; as well as round-table discussions, debates, workshops, evaluations, reflection time.<< Results >>Through this project we wanted to show the participants our work with youth in Latvia and Latgale region. Youth policy in Latvia is quite developed and recognized and we wanted to share our experience and good ideas with partners from Partner and Programme countries. The project had the impact on all the target groups - project participants, partner organizations and young people with whom youth workers/participants involved in the project are working. Study Visit was organized with the aim to give participants the experience, knowledge, tools, examples how to improve the youth work, how to improve their professional and personal skills and at the same time to meet new colleagues from different countries, to learn from the good examples of youth work in Latvia, Latgale region. Project had an immediate impact on all the participants providing them with the international experience, new ideas, knowledge and skills that will help them in arranging and organizing the qualitative youth work at local and international level. Project participants got new ideas for innovations in their work from the study visit, which had impact on the participating organizations for more successful work with young people. Furthermore, all the participants were youth workers who are directly involved into youth work and youth programs in their own countries. In this way all the knowledge and experience gained in the project were shared with youth throughout their work in organizations in their native countries. So the main target groups were young people and their youth workers from European and partner countries.We saw a clear need for more cross border discussions, study visits and peer learning, especially for organizations from Partner countries, on how to work with systematic quality development in youth work. We wanted to make this project for strengthening the trust and building a real partnership at the international, national and regional levels to foster mutual respect, tolerance and understanding and learn from each other as well from our best practices. As a result of the project participants improved their competences, linked to their professional profiles such as youth work, knowledge and skills in Erasmus + programme. Participants saw the good practice in work with youth, working methods in Latvia, Latgale region and in such way every participant got a lot of practical advises and skills by the methods of non-formal education. Youth workers learned how to understand youth with fewer opportunities better and to facilitate them to their personal, social and educational development. They learned from each other and learn from the good practices in youth work. Participants recognized their own strengths and weaknesses in the work with youth. They were able to reach more young people, to understand their needs and to recognize the problems. Participants developed their management skills, creativity, got relevant knowledge, skills, experience, as well as they built a strong partnership among their organizations with the aim to work successfully together in the field of youth and in Erasmus+ programme."