"Project “ORA: Social Entrepreneurship as Tool for Sustainability/OSETS” as overall aim had to realize a long term non formal education process at international level and among organizations (Youth centres/Clubs, youth associations, associations which promote social equality, cultural associations, etc) coming from 7 different European countries (four EU and 3 Western Balkans countries) able to empower the youth work through social entrepreneurship for the young people with which they work, to increase the competences of their youth workers in order to include better target groups in social, cultural and economic life of their communities. During planning and realization of this project we have leaned on a long-term cooperation in youth work developed in the last 4 years among different European partners within the framework of ORA Network (Observe, Rethink, Act). Thanks to our old and new partners during this project we had the opportunity to verify at grassroots level and through international dimension that the transverse skills that are increasingly needed for personal, civic and professional routes from youth to adulthood can be achieved through social entrepreneurship. We have focused on practical knowledge which participants gained and shared through project activities but also in their everyday, local work. In this way we have also empowered the network ORA because we used our own resources where is possible and contacts and educational paths from previous experiences. Having in mind that our partners are youth Centres, youth associations and organisations working with young people which are ""open spaces"" where young people are receiving support and guidance in the process of the personal and professional growth we wanted to ensure that partners can become for them as incubators for different socio – cultural and environmental micro-projects that offer the possibility for young people to discover and experience their potential, abilities, skills, inclinations and ambitions, while actively participating in a responsible way to the life of their community. Priorities of this project were to increase skills of professionals who are working with youth in order to empower their beneficiaries with ideas and basic knowledge how to develop social entrepreneurship. In order to realize this kind of project it was be very important to have contact with institutions who are giving support to development of social entrepreneurship. This was important both for youth organizations and young people in order to answer properly to the increasing demand for more wide support through youth work activities and to the professional needs expressed by several organisations engaged in youth work to raise their capacities to better perform and provide more useful services for economical sustainability of youth organizations and for young people with which they work. The overall aim of the project was to empower youth workers and organizations to use social entrepreneurship as a tool for sustainability of their work with and for young people. In this way partners gained innovative approaches.This meant to give all participants space to express their needs and expectations and together with them make “how to”. In order to achieve set objectives we implemented following activities: •A1 Study visit (Observe phase)•A2 Seminar (Rethink phase)•Recommendation with case studies and online toolkit•Incubator workshops activities•A3 Training course (Act phase)•A4 Conference on social entrepreneurship"

At this project activities applicant organisation which is network of organizations had connected several realities from different European countries and it's the result of an ongoing dynamic educational process called Observe Rethink Act (ORA) launched in 2009 by several organisations. The concept/methodology underpinning ORA is to provide young people with the direct opportunity to Observe their context (both at a local and international level), to Rethink their own role (both as individuals and as members of society) and to Act as responsible citizens to strengthen the community. This project finds its roots in a Seminar realised by ORA Network in January 2016 and it was the direct follow up of a Capacity Building project applied to EACEA and implemented by ORA Network. The overall aim of the project was to realize a long term non-formal educational process at international level and among organisations (Youth Centres/Clubs, youth associations, associations of social promotion, cultural associations, NGOs) coming from 6 different European countries (EU and Western Balkans) able to empower the youth work that the partnership is realising on field with young people coming from disadvantaged backgrounds and/or vulnerable groups in order to generate innovative approaches in their daily activities, to acquire new methodologies and quality activities tools, to increase the competences of their youth/social workers to better include the different target groups in the social, cultural, and economic life of their communities. Through this multi-activity project our organisations was properly answering the demand and need of actions coming from different actors (young people, youth and social workers, youth centres, youth NGOs, Nature Reserves, local communities, etc.) to improve the efficiency and to enrich the quality of the work done at the grassroots level to broaden the opportunities for the social, cultural, environmental and economic inclusion of young people in the community, and to provide more useful services (educational, cultural, social, etc.) for the young people with whom they work. For these reasons, main activities implemented in the project are represented by 5 Job Shadowing nobilities and 1 Seminar. At it had participated 25 people among youth/social workers, peer educators, NGOs staff, volunteers, young artists, youth leaders and trainers including 2 facilitators from Germany and Bosnia Herzegovina. During all phases of the project there had been respected and applied the principles of non formal education (these include the methods of non-formal/ informal learning, ORA - Observe, Rethink, Act, experiential and active pedagogy, mentoring and/or peer support and relationship-based activities): all the methodologies that was used and activities proposed where designed to ensure the direct involvement of partners and participants at any time of the project promoting freedom of expression, exchange and cooperation, interaction and creativity. Most of the activities were based on participative/active learning combining theoretical and practical inputs coming from the team of facilitators or directly by the participants. Furthermore, the methodology used was strongly oriented in terms of intercultural learning paying attention to the cultural diversity represented by the partnership (EU and Western Balkans countries), promoting a good environment, mutual understanding and cooperation among all participants. All partner organizations was involved in all phases of the project by providing human and professional competences and, at the same time, contributing to the development of contents and activities together with the team of facilitators/trainers and the other partners. For these reasons, partners was responsible for part of the preparation (involvement and recruitment of participants, local partnership, preparatory work, travel details, transport and settlement, etc) and during the project activities implementation they was committed to the development of the activities in order to achieve the objectives planned and outcomes and results expected. During the project activities implementation partners had supported the exploitation of the results at local level and were developing common projects for future and current cooperation already.

<< Objectives >>“Mellowproject for newcomers of international youth work II” is the project which combines 3 activities. One APV and two youth exchanges – one in Germany and one in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project is follow up of two projects which are improving methodology and cooperation between partner organizations as well as empower youth for self-organizing of youth culture events and one which was focused at urban youth culture directly. This empowerment of youth through the guided learning process and in cooperation of youth centres is one of the main objectives of the project. This is especially important since young people next to empowerment will also have the support of organizations and other peers for practising youth culture activities which in small communities are marginalizing them.The project gathers four partners who work with youth in urban youth culture field, applicant form Germany, partners from Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina and partner from Serbia. Project participants are active in the different sphere of urban youth culture and youth activism. Other objectives which we will address together are focused on intercultural learning, intercultural cooperation and sharing of different experiences in urban youth culture. It is coming as one of the topics at the project which will enhance international cooperation between participants and partner organization and empower young people. Activities will enrich all participants since they will have the possibility to see what youth culture is in other participating countries and especially in the host countries since the project will take place before Creative August event in Banja Luka (it is offering creative possibilities to the young people coming from difficult background and who families are not in condition to go for vacations outside of the city but stays there during the summer holidays) and in the urban youth culture park, Mellowpark www.mellowpark.de which is offering a lot of possibilities to the young people of hosting district and it visitors. Being hosted in cities like Banja Luka and Berlin are is giving excellent impact on participants since youth urban and street culture is very developed and mostly affirmative accepted. There are places where project activities will take place and where participants will be accommodated as well. Both of the venue places are very big (for hosting countries national standard) and are youth-friendly, are covered with areas for a different urban artistic project and with green areas as well. In the case of the project in Berlin, it Mellowpark is as well one of the biggest parks of this type in Europe.<< Activities >>“Mellowproject for newcomers of international youth work II” is the project which combines 3 activities. One APV and two youth exchanges. APV and second youth exchange will take place in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, APV from 05.06.2019 till 08.06.2019 and Youth Exchange which will take place in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina from 19.09.2019 till 29.09.2019 and Berlin, Germany from 14.06.2019 till 24.6.2019. It gathers four partners who work with youth in urban youth culture field, applicant form Germany, partners from Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina and partner from Serbia. Project will gather 88 participants in total among which 40 participants per youth exchange: 32 participants active in the different sphere of urban youth culture and youth activism and 8 group leaders, one experienced youth workers who are helping young people in recognition of street culture, organizing of culture events for young people and one who is young person from different isolated communities active in youth culture per participating partner. Because of it together to intercultural learning, intercultural cooperation and sharing of different experiences in urban youth culture are coming as one of the topics at the project which will enhance international cooperation between participants and partner organization and empower young people to participate on project, better understand different culture and became more able to self organize events by themselves in cooperation with other subjects in the field of urban youth culture for which they are interested in. << Impact >>The main impact of the project will be visible at the participants, young people who will take part on its activities and also at young group leader who will be empowered and involved more in project management phase. Participants who are coming from multiple fewer opportunities will have a chance to do what they love to practice from the field of urban youth culture, to meet other people who practice the same from there and from other countries and to perform it together. Next to its interculturality, linguistic competences, organized safe and planned learning and networking participants will as well gather many skills related to performance, planning, understanding, youth programme and mobility opportunities which are existing.The project will have strong local impacts since participants of it will be in constant contact with other public events - Creative August and Mellowpark visitors and will share their project experiences with them. During work, moderators will use the non-formal methodology and in second parts of both youth exchanges, where participants will be involved in public event organizing it will be guided learning and learning by doing as one part of it.Also as one of the supported group activity is that groups create an event which is composed by all participants (this event will exist on both YE) and is a practical exercise, how self-organized events can be made possible. We want to make the participants more aware for cultural diversity and to give them the chance to rethink about citizenship and active participation in community and how they can use cooperation and learned lessons in their future work. This type of project work and participation achieved major successes in youth non-formal learning, especially in social skills as well as that it increases the willingness to take responsibility, in support with relevant local and international stakeholders focused at youth, art, street culture, urban life, constant change in the society and needs of youth.Cultural diversity and cultural learning are crucial for this project that’s why we choose partner organizations which on first look doesn't have so much common but culture and practice of youth work in all of them are different in general curricula and yet the same in goal and target group support which does this project focusing on.

"The project of Study Visit ""O.R.A.: sustainability and green jobs"" answered to the needs to acquire knowledge and competences to support opportunities of inclusion, employment and ""green"" entrepreneurship that came out from participants to a previous project when they had the chance to be in contact with some entrepreneurial experiences in the Sangro Valley (Province of Chieti, Italy) characterised by high level of sustainability. The idea, then, was to realise an activity targeted to youth workers and organisation based on the knowledge of good practices adopted in Abruzzo. Dates of the project were 1st August 2014 - 1st January 2015 and the Study Visit was realised from 18th till 25th October 2014. Objectives of the project were:- To know in detail examples of good practices in the Sangro Valley and in Province of Chieti in terms of methodologies, activities and policies realised by companies, co-operatives, institutions and associations on the theme of Sustainable Development as a tool of inclusion, employment and entrepreneurship for young people;- To share among partners and participants elements of knowledge about the different contexts involved on the themes of Sustainable Development, green jobs, youth inclusion and fight against poverty- To analyse the possibilities and methodologies given by educational and multimedia tools to transfer and promote the knowledge and the experiences acquired during the Study Visit in the different contexts of each partner to increase the quality of the work done with young people- To reinforce the relationship among partners with the specific objective to plan and realise future projects under the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme to increase its quality and using the knowledge and competences acquired during the Study Visit. Future projects will represent a concrete opportunity of active involvement and personal and economic development for those young people with which all the partner work.Participants were 30, including 2 facilitators and 3 support staff, from Italy, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, Macedonia, Belgium, Spain and Portugal. Their profile was youth and social workers, educators, youth animators, responsible of associations.The methodology used was the Non Formal Education (learning by doing, peer education, interaction, sharing) and, particularly, the innovative one called ORA (Observe, Rethink Act) developed in the last years by ARCI together with other European partners. The methodology applied guaranteed high level of involvement of all the actors of the project.During the preparatory phase participants collected examples of good practices on the themes of Sustainable Development, youth inclusion and concrete experience of development of ""green jobs"" and ""green entrepreneurship"" and realised a preparation on intercultural aspects as well. During the Study Visit were organised ice-breaker games, team building, presentation of the Erasmus+ Programme and Youthpass certificate, sharing activities on the associative backgrounds and on the preparatory works, 2 ""Show and tell"" sessions, a working session on the theme of the project, field visits and meeting with different local experiences on the themes of Sustainable Development, inclusion and dynamization of young people, promotion of green jobs (each one followed by de-briefing), a working session on how to reproduce and concretely apply the competences and the knowledge acquired, working sessions on the realisation of communication, promotional and information material on the themes of the project, elaboration of common future steps, reflection groups and final evaluations. A dossier on the different visited realities was prepared directly by participants with their notes, data and comments.Project had a high impact on the knowledge and competences on both promoting social inclusion and active participation for those young people coming from condition of exclusion and for the promotion of an alternative, sustainable and innovative approach to entrepreneurship through ""green jobs"". Most of the partners are already applying in their territories activities and methodologies acquires during the study visit adapting them to each context. The planned future steps will realise international activities through Erasmus+ Programme (training, youth exchanges, EVS) reinforcing the partnership and ensuring a qualitative increase of the actions through the direct involvement of the young people with which partner work."

"The KINDERRING BERLIN e.V. wants to organise an international youth exchange with the partner organisations from Belgium, Bonsia and Italy. Title of the Projct is: ""Identity and diversity - youth cultures in Europe"" and is planned to take place in Berlin. The partnership of the partizipating organisations is grown out of a network which already organised several youth exchanges and study vists in the last years. In these projects we already worked on topics and issues like human- and children rights, youth cultures, sustainable developement/ ecology and green jobs.The main goal of the project is to give the chance to the partizipants to discuss and reflect their national and cultural backround and identity and to realise differences and similatitys. To do this we´re using the methodology of youth culture approach. The project wants to enable young people to connect expieriences of different social backrounds, to explore diversity as ressource, to have a more open view on sozial developement and to be able to understand their live into an international context. We want them to learn that they are able to use their special youth culture as a possibility to articulate their needs, desires and expectations towards society. During the project we´ll organise group discussions and seminars and we´ll work in 3 workshops of youth culture contents to this topic. These workshops are: music/Hip Hop, Garffity/Streetart, photgraphie/film. In this workshops the partizipants will use the theoretical inputs of the first days and implement their personal expieriences and backrounds. At the end of the project we´ll present the wokshopresults in a presentation in the local community. (youth house Impuls) Every delegation includes 6 young people in the age of 15 to 24 and we´ll also invite 6 young people from the refugee camps around to take part in the project. The partizipants are partially from difficould sozial backrounds and dont have much experience in social interaction with other cultures and ways of living. In the project we want them to meet new youngsters of their peer group, to discuss about different realitys and be able to reflect theit identity in another way and context. We want them to question prejudices against different cultures, customs, traditions and ways of living. We want them to have the expierience of self-efficacy and enlarge their self confidence in skills and abilitys. As a result of this we hope to enlarge their perspective for personal developement and possibilitys for the future.The youth exchange is planned to take place between 15th of october till 25th of october in the region of Marzahn in Berlin.The youth house Impuls will be our base to work and will be the starting point for the exploration of Berlin. Here the group discussions, the ice braker games, the national evenings, the 3 workshops and the final presentation will take place.The partizipants will sleep in hostels in the neighbourhood of the youth house. The preparatory meeting will take place in the middle of September 2016 to disccuss and plan the inputs and workshops and inform all partners about the framework and circumstances of the exchange and to get to know the working spaces and working materials."