"""Local Youth Policies on Social Entrepreneurship"" was composed of two transnational activities to support the development of competencies of youth workers for supporting youngsters in starting their own business with a particular focus on youth work with young migrants. It contributed to the Erasmus+ objective of ""improving the level of key competences and skills of young people, including those with fewer opportunities..."".The project was divided into 2 key actions:1. The study visit in Lisbon, Portugal between 27th May- 1st June 2019 brought together 27 municipality officers and youth workers from Bulgaria, Croatia, Portugal, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Romania, Turkey, UK and Netherlands;2. The study visit in Tilburg, the Netherlands between the 21st-26th October 2019 Netherlands brought together 28 participants from 10 different countries: UK, Finland, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria, The Netherlands, Croatia, Itlay, Latvia, and Turkey.These Study Visits brought youth workers working with young people with a migrant background in particular and youth with fewer opportunities in general. It provided the opportunity for partners from different countries to meet, exchange experiences, ideas and plan future cooperation regarding developing tools for youth work for the integration of young migrants in the local community and its sustainable growth through entrepreneurship. The events aimed to strengthen the partnerships and ensure the quality of the project. After the study visits, the participants brought their newly gained knowledge and ideas back to their organizations and municipalities. These actions helped them to improve communication with the partners as well as to gain agreement on the main elements of the mid-stage which are undertaking national research into the social eco-system in their respective countries. In between the Study visit in Portugal and the Study visit in the Netherlands, the following actions took place local and national research on the social enterprise eco-system in each partner countries was conducted. The outcomes of the project are: - concrete competencies and methods for youth workers to support youngsters in starting their own business; - new partnership learning activities and mobilities: - a better understanding of the needs of young people with a migrant background and how social enterprise might assist them to create employment; - positive outcomes for young people with fewer opportunities at local and regional levels as the indirect impact of the capacities developed by youth workers in the Study visits; - new contacts and network developed already leading to partnerships with other European and international organisations/agencies - an expanded partnership; - new ideas and possible cooperation of the partners with future applications for further Key Action 1 and Key Action 2 Erasmus + mobility project.s."

"The project ""EntrepreneurYOUTH"" involves 400 people with fewer opportunities and social youth workers from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Ireland, France, UK, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Somalia, Togo, Uganda, Portugal, Cyprus, Italy, Romania, Lithuania and Sweden. By focusing on these countries and specific target group, we will provide opportunities for education and skills training, improvement of access to basic health care services and economic empowerment of individuals, thus creating a ripple impact on their families and communities through long-term sustainable practices.This project sets out to bring a new change to society, through innovative solutions, but also to address the pressing issue of youth unemployment both in Africa and Europe, as well as the lack of social capital and increasing cumulative disparity within the European societies that they reside in.The capacity building events (Meeting in Kenya, training in Germany, International Conference/Forum in Ethiopia, Mobile/Distance learning: e-learning training, National seminars in each partner country and Youth workers Mobility in Austria) will be important opportunities to sparkle inspiration, and bring together the willingness to “be and make” a change with management concepts, knowledge and skills on social entrepreneurship, in order to gain greater access to labour market, enlarge professional competencies, and have the necessary tools to a proper understanding of professional choice, and define each own’s personal entrepreneurial social profile. The non‐formal intercultural settings of the trainings will be enhanced by the Africa-Europe synergies, becoming the added value to find strong motivation and to guide participants to be key actors of sustainable development.This project aims at fostering mutual learning and harmonisation of practices in and beyond Europe, avoiding redundancies and effectively acting on the economic stage, to facilitate excellence both amongst the European Member states and the third world countries through capacity building. The project will open a space of debate through which researchers and research organisations can cooperate and promote transnational non-formal learning mobility between partners.The pivotal element of this cooperation is to empower participants to create a deep connection between social entrepreneurship, individual stability and sustainable development, that will allow them to identify social problems that are causing social misdemeanours in the youth communities in the home countries and within the diaspora, and play an active role in finding solutions that will foster inclusive participation of young people in civic, social and economic aspects in their communities.The project will contribute to increase social responsibility and entrepreneurial skills for community development among youth communities and improve their life conditions and promote their autonomy and active role within their community."

The project You(th)4Europe was a multilateral youth exchange conceived and realized with the efforts of young people from 8 countries : Spain, Croatia, Czech Republic, Turkey, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Romania and Italy. The theme of the project, discussed and chosen by all groups of participants is You(th) 4 Europe. The main aim of the project was to offer young people the opportunity to know more about European Union, EU countries, EU values, EU institutions and what are the institutions doing for young people. And which was realized through the following main objectives: 1. Provide an informal space where young people can learn through the non formal methods the backgrounds of the main European institutions 2. Stimulate the thinking of the youth role in EU and in their local communities 3. Improve digital skills and competences of young people and practical application 4. Discover and become aware of different cultures and realities and foster cultural understanding among young peopleThe 40 young people and their leaders for 9 days were involved in a variety of activities that has as main aim to increase the knowledge on Europe and EU institutions, EU Citizenship, to sensitize young people to the value-problem of a United Europe and to spread among young people the ideal of a United Europe in the service of peace and solidarity between people , by developing in them the civic competence necessary to participate in active and democratic civic life and become agents of social change. In this context, groups of young people and young people with fewer opportunities from 8 different counties ( Italy, Spain, Turkey, Croatia, Czech, Bulgaria, Romania , Slovakia ) met in Italy to learn more about European Union, its bodies and importance, about rights and duties of a citizen of Europe, to increase a foster cooperation and communication between the youth from the five countries. Moreover, the activities were done in teams, that is why the youth had to learn to work together in a culturally diverse teams. At work we used the methods of non-formal education: brainstorming, learning by doing, teamwork, working in small groups, workshop, interactive methods, role SALTO games, simulations, discussions, evaluation and self-esteem, creative activities.

"In this scenario where the NGOs and Cooperative enterprises are growing, the third sector is the new work field for young people with competences in project management, non formal education, international cooperation and community development. ""Treed Life"" was a seminar with experts and young people from different organizations in order to reflect about what is the third sector, what are the needs and which are the tools useful to analyze it and develop it. The main objective was to foster the quality in the youth organizations and during the seminar we discovered how much is strong this need. The Giosef Italy association did this European seminar of 7 days (with travel days) in Enna (Sicily) from 12th of March to 18th of March 2015 named ""Treed Life"" in cooperation with Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Portugal, Spain and Poland involving 6 people from each Country for a total number of 50 people including staff and facilitators. The topics were the needs,the law, and economic tools of the organizations belonging to the third sector, in particular the one working in the youth filed. The aims was to provide tools to analyze it and what means to work in this field and how many different kind of job profiles are in that. We produced a video to disseminate the project and were we can see the process and a final document where we collected the methods used to facilitate the seminar and the output from each activites. The booklet is a collection of good proactices and a very useful instruments for youthworkers and youth organization to develop itselves. We spread these output of the project in order to share as much as possibile the results and to have new tools to develop youth organization and professionalize it. The last day of the seminar was dedicated to project partnership activities and we put the bases for future coperation in particular for strategic partnership to develop the profesionalities of the organizations and for community development."

<< Objectives >>The planned training course is addressing the important need of youth workers involved in activities with youth at risk of social exclusion - the need for new digital youth work methods that can be used online worldwide in crisis times for the benefits of target groups, providing them with a safe space for sharing their experiences and expressing their emotions. This project seeks to address this issue by giving youth workers a chance to go through a variety of methods that are practical and can be implemented when working with different kinds of groups at risk of exclusion while at the same time making use of easy creative tools. The use of digital youth work methodology is very widespread in many countries but unfortunately doesn’t often form part of the curriculum for youth workers in EECA region, that is why the participation of these countries and exchange of best practices in the field between Program and Partner countries are crucial in frames of this project. The specific objectives of E@Home Training course are as follows: -To provide participants with knowledge about digital youth work methods and its possible benefits for youth work, especially in the context of working with young people at risk of exclusion during crisis times and in limited communicational abilities. - To equip youth workers with new skills to promote social inclusion for vulnerable youth in their respective local communities - To create a platform of self-exploration and self-reflection to better understand the needs of vulnerable youth - To create a platform for intercultural communication and inclusive dialogue between the youth of EU and Partner countries - To develop E@Home methodology network together with follow-up projects taking into account the skills and knowledge gained during the project to enhance collaboration between partners - To facilitate after-project partnership between participants and reinforce their international scope and capacities<< Implementation >>The project “E@Home” will consist of a training course for youth workers, which will be held from 13-21.03.2021 in Lviv, Ukraine. Project consortium decided to implement the project in Lviv, Ukraine as project venue is close to the unique youth centers which is worth to visit with experts in digital methodologies. Hosting partner will contribute to the project involving experts from local youth NGOs. Project will gather 28 youth workers and youth leaders (including trainers and support staff) from 4 program (Lithuania, Poland, Turkey, Romania) and 4 EECA partner countries (Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan). The general approach of the method setting is based on the principles of non-formal education. The learners experience will be in the focus of the attention and as described in the respective sections their wishes and needs will be taking duly into consideration. Several of the methods have a background in theatre and art therapy field (visualization and creation of theatre performances) but will be adapted in a way to be used in a youth work context without prior knowledge or technical skills. Main activities will be devoted to experiencing methods, exercises, group work, discussions and reflections regarding application of digital youth work tools contributing to communication challenges and inclusion issues overcoming. Each national team has at least 1 representative from 2 scopes of interests: digital (youth with experience or interest in digital tools, digital communication, online tools), youth work (participants with experience in youth work, experience of work with disadvantaged youth ). We have already agreed with partners' list of participants of each NGO (active members, youth workers) who expressed the interest to take part in the project in the project application stage and contributed to the project activities. Preliminary selected list of participants has the following age structure: about 20% of participants of 18-25 y.o., 50% - from 25 to 30 and 30% from 30 up to 45 y.o.<< Results >>The impact of proposed training course on participants will be their personal and professional development as youth workers, who deal with vulnerable young people. They will gain useful methodology of digital youth work that can be implemented during their future projects aiming at enhancing understanding, inclusion and creating no violent approach in their communities in crisis times and state of limited face-to-face communication. In this sense, they will largely increase their qualifications in using different creative youth work methods in their daily practices with their target groups. With the help of these methods they will improve the life quality of their target groups and will apply new approaches to their involvement in the society. As throughout the whole project they will have an opportunity to exchange opinions and expertise with the fellow participants both from Program and EECA states, the project also expects to increase their knowledge about effective solutions to the discussed problem that are successfully implemented in other countries. Moreover, they will improve their intercultural communication competences, which will allow them to be very active in the future international educational activities.