This project is developed by FYCA and its European partners. The project aimed to ameliorate the recognition of youth work and non-formal education through the development of certified “International youth studies” curricula and open educational materials for European Higher Education Institutions. The specific objectives were: • Stimulating and strengthening the integration of non-formal education and formal education at universities through the establishment of a certified course on International youth studies.• Creating bridges between formal and non-formal education, youth policy and practice in order to release innovation potential to raise the quality of educational and social service to Europe’s young people, to promote career flexibility and mobility, and to assert the value and utility of evidence-based policy and practice.• Strengthening human potential in the youth field by building a critical mass of qualified youth workers.• Promoting international recognition of the youth work and non-formal education through developing and adopting award criteria that are in line with the formal educational system.Through developed curricula and open educational materials, the project targeted at enhancing the quality of the human resources involved in youth work. It contributes also to the modernization of higher education by designing an integrated course for those involved or willing to involve in youth work.The project consisted of 5 international activities (2 capacity building + 3 mobility).

"The ""EVS between East and West - Young Ambassadors of the Future"" was initiated by both the young people from the area of ​​the Kłodzko region, which at the end of 2016 year took part in the ongoing seven days, Polish - Ukrainian youth exchange, as well as by institutions coordinated by the EFM, which are direct project partners. The project was a huge success, paying particular attention to the need to build a common positive relations between EU member states and the countries of the east. Our project will involve 21 young people from 6 European countries, 5 countries neighboring the EU in 6 different polish institutions from Kłodzko region. Volunteers will be involved in activities lasting 6 months. The project will be included volunteers from 5 different countries belonging to the Eastern Partnership - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, and in the host institutions from Poland will be taken new innovative activties to, among others, increase the awareness of young people and local communities in the field of migration and asylum. With the participation of volunteers, we want to help young people to understand current processes taking place in the EU, building self-esteem based on mutual respect, tolerance and respect for human rights regardless of their place of residence, country of origin or religion, enriching them with new experiences and features, so that they become active citizens of Europe - Young Ambassadors of Future"". In addition, we want to make it what it is diversity, and not yield to media manipulation, how to build their own views of what is xenophobia and intolerance and the risks it brings. The main goals of our project we divided into two groups: 1) The overall objectives of the project: - Supporting the international mobility of young people, diversity and intercultural dialogue; - To promote dialogue and build partnerships between Eastern and Western countries; - Supporting young people in acquiring skills in order to increase opportunities for self-development and increase the chance of employment in the European labor market; - Support young people from less-privileged, with fewer opportunities; - Increase the capacity of organizations active in the field of youth work in order to offer activities that better meet the needs of young people in Europe and beyond; - Supporting non-formal learning and cooperation in the field of youth from partner countries neighboring the EU. 2) The specific objectives of the project: - To broaden awareness of young people from the area of ​​the Kłodzko in the field of culture, east, diversity, multiculturalism, immigration issues and policies of the EU and neighboring countries; - Involving 21 young people from Programme Countries and countries neighboring the EU at the age of 18-30 years in the free and conducted in full voluntary activities in Poland; - Provide volunteers actions strongly influence their self-development and to improve their position in the labor market by raising the level of key competences and skills; - Use of experience of the project to improve the quality of youth work among partner organizations - the east and west; - Equal opportunities for young people in becoming active European citizen by providing it with the possibility of contact with peers from other European countries and neighboring EU."

ABOUT THE PROJECTThe main aim of the project is to build the capacity of national, regional and local youth councils through developing innovative and collaborative practices between youth organization, young people and decision-making bodies.Specifically, these activities will be based on insights collection methodologies and evidence-based approaches for the policy-making processes.THE OBJECTIVES Specifically, these activities will be based on insights collection methodologies and evidence-based approaches for the policymaking processes.1.To train and prepare local, regional and national youth councils participants from each country involved through the mobility and capacity building project activities in insights collection capacity building.2.To collect valuable insights from youth by researching on representative samples through surveys, data collection and other consultation tools to get to know the real and actual youth needs and issues.3.To develop evidence-based recommendations and to present them to decision-makers through a capacity building seminar and local conferences involving representatives of: youth ministries, youth councils, youth workers, youth research, youth organizations and young people from all backgrounds to facilitate the dialogue with decision-makers.4.To create global and local reports and design know-how toolkits and guides to be presented in the last large-scale youth event to ensure knowledge durability and enable youth councils to run continuously structured dialogues by the end of the project.When it comes to the project activities, the project was implemented at 2 levels, at the international level and national level.1.1.1.1 Training Course in ArmeniaIt was a learning space where participants go beyond and deeper in the topic of structured dialogue, length of the event was hosted by Armenian Progressive Youth, where the EaP countries participated with the objective to align all the participants on the same concept and to prepare them uniformly for the methodology in evidence-based methodology. 1.1.2.1 Fellowship on youth participation in SloveniaFellowship on youth participation was a capacity building activity where we bring together EaP issues and EU expertise. The activity was hosted by the National Youth Council of Slovenia which helped us to develop better approaches and innovative initiatives to communicate with decision makers more effectively. 2.1.1.1 Training course on Insights Collection in LithuaniaThis training course hosted by the Institute for Policy and Research of Lithuania during 10 days, and brought the breakdown of the evidence-based methodology through applicable and reliable tools, knowledge on how to collect the insights and bring representative samples to it.2.1.2.1 Insights Collection LocallyThis particular activity aims to participant countries to execute the insights collection applying the previous agreements and methodology developed in previous activities.2.2.1.1 Seminar on recommendations in RomanianDissemination process where the insights collected brought together to analyse the possible recommendations in a based-evidence frame, taking good case practices from countries that already worked with these characteristics. 3.1.1.1 National EventsIn the local activities each project partner had implemented its own thematic activities taking in consideration their national needs and priorities. 3.2.1.1 Reports gathering from partner organizationsNational reports collection and creation of comparable global report, etc.3.2.1.2 Working group on guide developmentWorking group on the evidence-based recommendation developed by all the participants of the project. 3.2.2.1 Closing conference with global and local reports presentation.

This project aims to increase the efficiency of the youth policies through promoting and raising capacities for cross-sectorial cooperation and youth participation in youth policy-making and its implementation on different governmental and non-governmental levels and sectors. The project consists of 5 mobility activities, 2 capacity building activities and local activities between the phases which are not showed in the budget, but it’s a part of the project.First the project invests in professional growth of the youth workers and youth leaders, through training course and fellowship. Fellows from partner organisations and municipalities will shadow job in Sweden and Finland to observe and examine successful youth work and youth policy practices. The project gives space for developing competencies and transferring to the partner organisations through working locally to put knowledge into action and affect the youth policy. We have planned local activities when the municipalities prioritize issues to address, develop strategies, policies, programmes and budget. We believe it’s a good chance to have impact on the decision-making and policy-making. The non-governmental organisations (from EaP) and primarily the fellows involved in this project will take part in government meetings and foster youth participation. The participating organisations will make an analytical research of the political documents produced in the municipalities and make the first intermediate report. These youth workers and youth leaders (fellows) will together organise a youth exchange in cooperation with Gori municipality as a chance to implement good example of youth participation on a local level and developing and supporting youth initiatives. Therefore, a youth exchange builds further on the fellows’ competencies and gives them an opportunity to network with municipalities and directly work with young people who will benefit from this exchange by developing competencies for democratic cultures.The local activities planned in between the capacity building and mobility activities are designed so that there is an exploitation of competences and outreach to young people. The mobility activity – seminar will give chance to the fellows and other representatives from the partner organisations to share the practices from the local actions and evaluate the changes and furthermore shape the plans for the conference and follow-up of the project results The capacity building activities – information and awareness-raising campaigns, conference and handbook for EaP stakeholders in the youth field are planned to enhance the outreach of the fellows and the partner organisations and strengthen the impact on the civil society on local, national, regional and international levels.Since the project has a great focus on public bodies and the fellows will also be the representatives from the public bodies the project resembles a good practice of cross-sectorial cooperation.

The project ''Be equal'' is an international project, consisting of two main activities: APV, which have facilitated the project's leaders meeting on organizational issues and helped them to become familiar with all stages of the project starting from the preparation to evaluation. YE, which took place in Kobuleti, Georgia where young people from Greece, Georgia, Italy, Portugal,Moldova and Ukraine have been hosted by “YCG” NGO. The project's participants have discussed upon cultural differences, regional traditions, stereotypes and used this knowledge to implement grassroots initiatives in their societies. Our main target promotion of mutual tolerance, respect and understanding through artistic expression of cultural, religious diversity between youth from different countries have been achieved. During these 10 days, youth from 6 countries have develop the group dynamics of the project. Participants have been trained on the following topics: democratic values and mutual tolerance & understanding; Breaking of prejudices & stereotypes and networking; The project's participants have prepared a flashmob initiative - street theater performance.Through theater, music and artistic expression, traditions and customes of a particular region (Adjaria,Georgia), have been presented. Additionally, the project have raised awareness of beneficiaries - young people - that “cultural differences” and “inter-cultural dialogue” are not abstract concepts but events in which they participate and benefit from and may use them to develop their local communities. By using their own talents, skills and creativity, together they have established a code of conduct and promoted cooperation between EU and Caucasus region. Traditions of the important moments of the family life such as birth, wedding, funeral etc. does exist in every culture; though these traditions may be diferrentiated from region to region. This universal principle to celebrate these important moments of life and to share these feelings with the local society, indicates that humanistic approach is a very important compartment of each culture. The flashmob, have been performed in Batumi. Additionally, participants have created several videos during the project and they have also planned following up activities back in their home countries. The project's main goals were:1. Cross-cultural learning and dialogue between the participants from different countries, with a view to promoting mutual understanding and tolerance;2. To increase youngsters ‘knowledge about different cultures/traditions/customs;3. Development of creativity and involvement of young people in civic life, by promoting democratic education & active citizenship;4. To unite youngsters from different cultural backgrounds and regional entities;5. To promote mutual tolerance and understanding, breaking of stereotypes and prejudices;6. To promote good neighbourly relations between the EU Member and non-EU States and to provide space for friendship and relationship through artistic and cultural expression.Be equal youth exchange, was a turning point for project's beneficiaries, in terms of creativity, artistic expression as well as living into a multicultural environment. European Commission offers a world of opportunities for youngsters, who are interested to make their own lives more meaningful and colorful, by attributing not only positive effects for them. It is proved that there are multilateral actors of the civic society, who will be benefited/empowered, by increasing active participation of youth in civic life.The project managed to raise competence of young people from deprived areas to express their own positive ideas and boosted their creativity through several nterestingperformances/actions.Target group:1. Youngsters aged 18-30 years old representing partner organizations from Greece, Georgia, Italy, Spain, Moldova and Ukraine Group size 30 + 7 participants: 4 participants per country + 1 team leader.• The gender balance between participants has been respected throughout the project;• All project's participants had a competent communication in English;• The project beneficiaries have expressed their own positive ideas and boosted their creativity through several interesting artistic performances/grassroots initiatives/actions.