"<< Objectives >>""Building bridges for youth empowerment"" has as main goal the improvement of the work with the young people and the increase of the impact in the community of the youth centers partners in the project.The project has the following objectives:- promoting the exchange of good practices of the 5 youth centers from Europe partners in the project-connecting people from local communities so that the 5 youth centers included in the project to become open spaces for all categories of young people.<< Implementation >>The project has the following activities:-Design thinking course and community participation for all project partners. The course will be held in Ramnicu Valcea by a trainer with experience in the youth field-Building networks for youth centers. Each Center will organize two community meetings in which young people can connect with key people in the community.-Sharing good practices. Each Center will host the partners for 4 days-Final meeting-Evaluation and Follow up<< Results >>-20% increase in the number of young people with reduced opportunities who attend partner youth centers in the next 2 years- at least 3 youth centers that implement entrepreneurial plans for the sustainability of the centers in the next year after the end of the project-achieving at least one partnership between the 5 youth centers in the next year after the end of the project-improvement by 30% of the work with the young people and the relationship with the community for all the partners"

<< Objectives >>Adventures in Global Education (AIGE) was a 6-day training course aiming to develop youth worker competencies and skills in using outdoor learning approaches to global education and critical thinking. The concept of using outdoors and adventure education was developed in response to the need for delivering global education competencies for youth workers in new and ever more interactive ways. Providing outdoor education methods and tools for youth and community workers as an approach to educating about the environment, equality and poverty emphasize the importance of understanding natural and environmental systems as both a direct, active learning experience. Interacting, and knowing how to interact with nature and the outdoors is a declining skill set. However, it is an important one which not only provides personal and societal health benefits but also contributes to cognitive development, values and principles.The objectives of this project were:1. Equip youth workers with the knowledge and skills to address key global issues through the use of experiential outdoor education approaches2. Examine the meaning and functions of outdoor education as a set of tools for exploring the cognitive development of critical thinking, systems thinking and problem solving3. Explore the narrative provided by the SDGs through outdoor education methods4. Explore the power of using outdoor education as a basis for exploring primary guiding metaphors which inform our understanding of the physical and social world around us.5. Explore outdoors literacy and Edward Wilson’s concept of “Biophilia” – an innate affinity to the natural world - and their relation to active global citizenship<< Implementation >>The main activity of our project was a 6-day training course that explored all objectives associated with the topic. An experiential learning approach was employed with adventure education, nature-based learning, problem-solving and systems thinking all acting as threads through the training course. Through this approach, we explored key global issues through a critical lens that encouraged participants to reflect on the world around them and the power mechanisms that shape it.In total, we welcomed 17 participants onto our course. The participants of this programme were youth workers, global/development educators, teachers, facilitators and young people aspiring to be youth workers who work in youth work organisations which focus on a variety of issues such as active citizenship, the SDGs, and global education. Participants worked in a diversity of settings rural/urban, residential/non-residential and marginalised groups. This diverse range of experience and backgrounds created a supportive and dynamic learning environment. When completing the application form, we were interested in participants who were able to display a motivation to learn how to use outdoor and adventure education as a method to explore global citizenship education.<< Results >>There are many results and impacts worth mentioning in relation to this project. SOme of the key ones can be summarized below;- Participants indicated a number of competences related to the themes of the training course. Some recurring areas were mentioned including: an increased knowledge of GCE, an understanding of how to use experiential learning, deepened knowledge of the pillars of GCE (systems thinking, critical thinking, problem-solving and active citizenship), increased ability and motivation to use outdoor/adventure education to explore global issues).- By taking part in this training as partners, participating organisations now have an increased capacity to engage young people through a wider variety of educational approaches and on a greater variety of topics.- It is envisaged that the young people will also develop key skills related to problem-solving, critical thinking, systems thinking and active global citizenship.- The local community benefitted from a beach clean-up that our participants organised in partnership with a local surfing school and other community members. This gave an opportunity to raise awareness to the local community about the Sustainable Development Goals.

"<< Objectives >>""Developing competences of youth workers through formal and non-formal learning to support youth engagement in civic life"" project idea comes from our experiences, challenges, and struggles from our day to day activity with young people - schools students aged between 6 and 19 years old, but also other young people that remain passive towards various important processes and aspects of life, that lack knowledge about what are human rights, their including, that prefer not to engage in more activity then the one required by school curricula, youth center program, that lack knowledge about how to use media and digital technologies for their development and for becoming aware about them and their role in their life and in society. Youth workers, and by this expression we mean teachers, youth centers staff and NGO's people, all the ones involved in youth work and activities- so, their role is to cope with these issues listed here, to support young people to acquire knowledge and skills, to develop competences in all areas of life that will help them to become active, responsible citizens for their life and for community's benefit. Nowadays there are plenty of opportunities to support youth workers and to equip them with knowledge. Our project team chose Erasmus+ opportunity as it offers the possibility to combine many tools under one ""umbrella"", to put them together and to build a strong and efficient working model that can be applied in practice by a larger community of youth workers. The aim of our Youth Workers Mobility project is to build a community of youth workers coming from various youth field sectors - schools, youth centers, NGOs from four countries, who together will identify what is common and what is different in their activity, will learn about and will develop competencies in such areas and about such topics as non-formal learning and teaching methods, media literacy, critical and analytical thinking among young people, conflict resolution, non-violent communication, shared decision-making strategies, digital teaching platforms - topics that are important to be addressed and managed in order to better support young people in in their learning. Therefore, our objectives are:-to build a network of youth workers from schools, youth centers and NGOs working with and for young people;-to share and learn from experiences of active centers and institutions fro youth work area;-to try new models of cooperation between schools, youth centers and NGOs to support young people's development;-to train youth workers to use non-formal learning methods in their activity with young people;-to support youth workers to develop new skills and competences required by a digital era, competences the need of which became strongly sensed during the crisis situation and the need of distance learning process organization;Actual project provides the space, the tools, the time and the expertise of an international team of trainers to youth workers coming from four countries - Estonia, Poland, Georgia and Ukraine to share their actual experiences and needs, to share their views about the youth work and the challenges, to learn how they can make use of best practices in the field in order to meet their expectations and the expectations and needs of their beneficiaries - young people, school pupils and students, participants in NGOs activities and project. The project aim and objectives will be reached through a series of methods and tools such as workshops, seminar sessions, round tables, offline and online visits to target institutions and stakeholders, non-formal learning and practical activities, and others. << Activities >>The activities meant to realize in practice our expectations in the field of youth and to support youth workers in their activities include two mobility activities and an interemidray practical activity (In Annexes a diagram of the project reflects visually the project structures)Mobility 1. Study Visit ""Youth work in an era of digital, social, cultural, need of youth active participation challenges"" in Estonia. The Study Visit aim is to establish communication between youth workers from the three sectors of youth work relevant for our project - schools, youth centers, NGOs working with youth projects, to identify common needs, issues and challenges in working with young people in a digital era in order to learn how to better address these needs, issues and challenges, using existing formal and non-formal methods and digital platforms, or creating them so that to better support young people to become active and responsible citizens, aware of fundamental values and diversity, with respect of human rights and literate in media environment. Therefore the need to carry out this study visits comes from the need to establish a network of youth workers from various countries to work together on common problems, no matter the country from, to share their concerns and challenges, to share methods they use to cope with these challenges, to learn from other entities active in the same field, to learn from each other and to elaborate a working plan for next period. Practical intermediary activity in each country by national groups. Our participants come from schools, youth centers and NGOs running youth projects. Therefore, they will represent various institutions working with and for young people. The aim of the activities actually they will have to do is to try in practice various methods of rather non-formal learning in the framework of their activities and the activity of their institutions. For this purpose they will have to establish cooperation with their colleagues, which will start already during the study visit, with schools and youth centers and come with activities that use non-formal learning methods and through which they can promote media literacy, raising awareness among young people about fundamental values, discuss human rights and what it means to respect them, etc. An example of such activity will be a course of ""Project writing"" for young people and for other colleagues from their institutions. Or they can agree with school staff on having lessons for young people with the use of games, brainstorming, workshops, other non-formal learning methods on the topics important for this project. Youth Centers can initiate activities where they would invite teachers. Non-formal methods prove to be of great use in this meaning. Participants will write reports where they will present their experience and conclusions. The information will help us to measure the impact of our activities.Mobility 2. Training Course ""Enhancing youth work in a digital era to support young people through formal and non-formal learning"" in Georgia. The mobility is meant to summarize all the learning obtain by the start of the training course, to identify the main difficulties and needs and to focus on providing deeper, relevant knowledge in the youth field. 36 people will be directly involved in the two mobility activities. In addition to them other participants will participate in activities and actions at different stages of our project: teachers from visited schools, youth workers from youth centers and NGOs, members of other stakeholders involved in project activities. << Impact >>The project impact will be reflected at personal, organizational and social levels. The participants in our projects - youth workers, teachers, NGO activists are people dedicated to their work and to offering support to young people on their growth process from all aspects. These are people who need constantly to have the hand on the pulse of young people, to understand what are they going through and to identify and adapt the most appropriate solutions for young people.At the personal and organizational levels the impact is reflected through some of the following: participants will learn about new topics and will experience how certain methods work and what can be done in order to value own activity. They will learn about the struggles and challenges of other colleagues from different sectors.4. Participants will learn and understand how similar processes are taking place in partner countries. The will get a a better knowledge of own field of activity, learning to learn new things. They will practice English language. Also participants will learn to share and to establish cooperation with colleagues from own countries, but also with colleagues from abroad. etc. Concerning the impact on their organizations and their beneficiaries it can be described through the following: schools and youth centers will identify new grounds for cooperation for the benefit of young people. New methods such as non-formal learning, and techniques will be applied in the educational, instruction, activity process. A better communication between youth workers and youth will start, as youth workers will have the opportunity to learn that they can be of support to youth, rather then to only teach some material based on a fixed curricula. Therefore, youth workers will start seeing young people as personalities who can be active if right communication and methods are to be applied. Schools, youth centers, NGOs might want to start cooperation with other relevant for their activities stakeholder in order to increase the number of opportunities for young people. More flexibility of youth work, due to digital and media possibilities. Young people will understand that teachers and other youth workers are their as their coaches, persons to whom they can seek advice and support, guidance rather people they need to obey and accomplish some tasks and homework to get a good grade or to pass the year.The impact at local, regional, national, European and international level can be described as follows: idealistically, youth centers, schools and NGOs will establish a durable network and will elaborate together youth programs that will involve all relevant stakeholders in running activities for young people in order to support them on their learning and developed in the sense described in this project. This is a global view on the expected impact. That level will be reached in long-term. On shorter-term the impact to be expected is:- Young people initiate and run projects, activities, actions according to own views and perceptions, and which are of importance for a better situation in their community, region, country, etc.- Youth workers from other countries get inspired and learn from our participants experiences and start testing the same models in their communities, regions, etc.- Schools curricula from involved countries and youth centers programs start to be more oriented at developing other skills, competencies, knowledge and capacities in youth, except technical knowledge. This takes place in other schools and youth centers, not only in those involved.- Study process becomes more attractive to young people as they feel more support and space for engaging, for feeling free, for getting the knowledge they need and for not being taxed if they do it differently.The actual project can be regarded as a pilot project on this direction of establishing cooperation in a tighter and more concrete meaning between the three sectors involved in youth activities: schools, youth centers and NGOs. Therefore, a greater impact can be achieved if the model will be used by more countries. Therefore, in order to increase these possibilities, we plan to continue the cooperation with the same or with other partners. Currently discussions about continuing the activities are taking place between Estonian and Georgian partners. Both organizations see the need of these changes and are aware that with one project all the needed changes will not be realized. But this is a first step that if correctly done, can be followed and implemented by a larger number of organizations."

<< Objectives >>With the CME we aimed to enhance the quality of cooperation amongst youth organizations working or having a desire to work with game-based learning through providing space for exchanging of best practices in game-based learning, building trust among organization representatives and developing a common cooperation plan among organizations. The contact making event set next objectives to be achieved by the end of the project:- to exchange best practices of youth work based on the experiences of local and international activities of partner organizations using game-based learning; - to promote quality-oriented and need-based international cooperation among youth NGOs;- to foster long term collaboration between EU organizations in the framework of Erasmus+ and future program;- to provide space for developing new quality partnerships between organizations from Programme countries, to increase the capacity of youth organizations to implement quality game-based learning projects;- to provide space for experienced and young youth organizations to establish partnerships;- to develop structures and support measures for quality partnership of youth organizations;<< Implementation >>We have implemented 1 international contact-making event that gathered NGO decision-makers, youth workers, and youth leaders active in the local and international fields. The project included one main activity that took place in Oxforell & Tallinn as a residential contact making event. We had 26 participants – where around half of the participants were ready to share good practices during the CME, and half of the participants were open to learning about new practices to implement in their local youth work. Overall the whole group shared experiences and practices of youth work and those who could provided experience in game based learning (GBL).<< Results >>Apart from the learning outcomes of the CME and increased networking and collaboration possibilities the project resulted in a series of diverse dissemination activities, and future project ideas. The impact of the project was strengthened cooperation among youth organizations equipped with new tools and ideas to implement at the local level which will give an impact on local communities in many different countries.

<< Objectives >>Persons with disabilities constitute a significant portion of the population worldwide, yet they remain one of the most marginalized and vulnerable populations. They are commonly denied their rights to be included in the general school system and the workplace, to live independently in the community, to vote, to participate in sport and cultural activities, to enjoy social protection, to access justice, to choose medical treatment and to enter freely into legal commitments such as buying and selling property. Disability rights are human rights. Everyone deserves to be included and live a full life in their community — accessing the same public spaces, housing opportunities, education, and work as anyone else.The group of partners cooperating in this project works with young people with disability and fewer opportunities as a target group. Their continuous process of cooperation and identifying needs of such target group led to the conclusion that these young people (due to lack of social inclusion, reduced opportunities for education and training and lack of information and community awareness) significantly lack knowledge about their fundamental human rights, which is a prerequisite for achieving their equal status in society. Therefore, they gathered a group of young people with the goal to design and implement a disability human rights education project that will respond to their identified needs.The main goal of this project is to increase the knowledge of the participants about the human rights of people with disabilities as well as about the ways of exercising and advocating such rights, as a prerequisite for their equal inclusion in the community.Project objectives are:To increase the knowledge of participants in the field of human rights of people with disabilities, especially the the right to integrity, freedom of violence, right to education and work, freedom of expression, right to social inclusion, right to participate in political and public lifeTo increase the knowledge of participants of the meaning and content of The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesTo increase the awareness of the need to respect and promote the rights of people with disabilitiesTo increase self-awareness and self-esteem of the participants as well as to enhance their social inclusion To develop intercultural and linguistic competences of participants;To promote Erasmus+ and its Inclusion and Diversity Strategy.<< Implementation >>Main activity of this project is a youth exchange that will be implemented from 5th until 12th of October 2021. In Zagreb, Croatia and will include 68 participants from 4 countries: Croatia, Bulgaria, Poland and Romania.Participants are young people who, as members of target groups of their sending organizations, directly participated in creating this project idea. The partners selected the participants who can benefit the most (by acquiring knowledge, engaging with their peers, accepting and supporting, being able to express their thoughts, etc.) and contributing the most (with their motivation, creative ideas, their willingness to support their peers, their practical skills in sports, etc.) for this project. Taking into account the profile of the groups the project partners work with, it was also necessary to conduct a risk assessment to include participants who can participate in this international project without creating a risk to their physical or mental well-being. Having different categories of project participants will ensure the development of sensitivity and awareness among groups, especially when it comes to the inclusion of young people with disabilities. The partners believe that the two groups they work with should be encouraged to live together, work together and practice joint activities and that they will naturally learn to accept and support each other. Participants in the project are young people from 18 to 30 years old. When designing this project idea, the partners ensured the equal representation of both genders in participants’ group. Each national team is comprised of equal number of participants and includes the following categories of participants: Young people with disabilities from regular target group of project partners, especially young people with Down syndrome, various deformities, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disabilities and autism (35%)Young people with social and economic obstacles, who come from poor families or who are without adequate parental care; young people who are unemployed and at the risk of social exclusion (35%)Young people without disabilities who are regular target groups of partner organizations and who were involved in the preparation of this project based on their motivation, interests and ability to contribute to the social exclusion of their peers with disabilities (30%). These are participants for whom it is important to establish social contact with young people with disabilities in order to develop understanding and tolerance, as well as to establish their communication that will be useful after the project (in their everyday environment).Group leaders are members of staff of their sending organizations who are equipped, by participating both in formal and non-formal programmes, to coordinate and support involvement of young people with disabilities and fewer opportunities.<< Results >>Main project results are skills, knowledge and behaviors that participants are going to develop, while material results are videos promoting human rights of persons with disabilities.It is to be expected that this project will significantly empower participants to express their opinions and advocate for their views and rights in everyday life. The knowledge and experience that participants will gain in this project will enable them on the one hand to more clearly understand the meaning and content of their rights, and on the other hand to perceive the rights of others, especially people with disabilities, with greater care and respect.Thus, people with disabilities will become more willing to identify possible situations of violation of their rights and react to them; openly advocate for the respect and exercise of their rights in the community and propose solutions (infrastructural, at the level of policy-making, at the civil level) that improve their position.Other participants (except people with disabilities) through this project will raise awareness of the importance of respecting and advocating for the rights of their peers with disabilities and will become more motivated to work every day to achieve their equality and integration into society.This project will empower partners to implement future projects promoting the rights of persons with disabilities, as they will gain useful knowledge and experience from national perspectives and exchange examples of good practice that can be transferred from one country to another. It is especially important that the partners will exchange experiences and knowledge about other successful projects and initiatives in the field of promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities and about the available tools and methods that can be applied in working with their target groups.By getting acquainted with and detailed analysis of strategic documents for the rights of persons with disabilities, partners will become more competent to respond to the challenges and problems faced by their target groups and more able to provide them with appropriate professional assistance.By working with colleagues from other organizations that have a range of different knowledge and experiences, the staff of partner organizations will improve their key competencies, especially in the field of working with people with disabilities.Improving knowledge and strengthening organizations and participants in this project will result in:1) at the local and national level - by increasing the number and quality of projects and activities aimed at protecting and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities and effectively responding to their identified needs; increased level of awareness of the local and national environment about the need to respect and advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities; an increased level of awareness of the difficulties and challenges faced by people with disabilities in their daily lives and how individuals and organizations can contribute to addressing them; an increased level of knowledge of local decisions and national regulations proclaiming the rights of persons with disabilities;2 - at EU level - education of individuals and organizations in the field of disability rights at European level will result in a greater understanding and awareness of the importance of strategic documents for people with disabilities and their willingness to respect and promote them in everyday life and work. International cooperation of partner organizations in this project and other relevant stakeholders, as well as the European character of this project, will contribute to the number and quality of future EU projects aimed at education and training in the field of rights of persons with disabilities. Most importantly, this project will significantly affect the sense of belonging of partners, participants and other relevant stakeholders to the European Community and the development of a common European identity.