"LTTC ""United through education"" was a training based on the development / creation among youth workers: awareness of a concept of culture and its dimensions, approaches used in non-formal education, problem / conflict solutions in an intercultural context and development of competence in facilitating the learning process (facilitation) activity based on a methodology taken from non-formal education. During the project participants worked on their skills to facillitate the group and the leraning process.The project was an international training of youth workers, leaders of intercultural facilitation organizations, involving 24 youth workers (3 experienced trainers) from Slovakia, Spain, Malta, Greece, Estonia, Lithuania, Croatia, Macedonia, Poland. All participants during the project provided also workshops in their countries. Participants created workshop outlines, promoted Erasmus+ programme and non-formal education.The long-term project involved three phases: - Mobility of youth workers - training in the context of the facilitation of intercultural groups. It helped us to understand the specificity and importance of culture, its directions, its approach and the complexity of the intercultural environment (as well as its challenges: misunderstandings, conflicts, ""false debates"", tensions). Second, provided participants with the tools they need to work on the issue, through in-depth understanding of the logic of non-formal education, the importance of group dynamics, the diversity of leadership approaches, the exploration of mediation attitudes in intercultural work. - A local phase - in which staff tested and adapted the created methods to excluded youth groups, intercultural communities with whom they work every day. - Mobility, in the context of work on re-evaluation of local action and the quality of methods used in the context of international projects and the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities. We achived the goals during the project: -Creating a portfolio with a record of new, innovative methods useful for intercultural learning, facilitacion and social inclusion -Reaching the awareness of youth workers about the specificity and complexity of the facilitation process during intercultural meetings and training -Strengthening the competences of youth workers in the context of planning and implementation of effective educational activities at the international level -Expression of various dimensions of culture and how they are connected with intercultural learning -Testing and quality evaluation of developed tools on various groups of excluded youth -Creation of a portfolio with a set of training methods and tools in an intercultural environment, with particular emphasis on including discriminated groups"

"Through ""Into the World"" project we addressed the European contrast between the POTENTIAL of young people of current generation being the best educated ever and getting involved in volunteering and the REALITY that shows that 13,7 millions of youth remain out of employment. We aimed at soften the obstacle between the potential and the practice. Previously, youth work has focused in developing the potential, the competences and the capacities of young people. European Commission has put forward dozens of programmes that invest in young people, reinforce their education (formal, non-formal and informal learning), boost their employment and encourage their mobility. Nowadays though, a new need arised; the need TO MAKE THE POTENTIAL A REALITY. This means that we already have competent young people, so we need to start transferring the competences into practice, moving from the place of acquiring to the place of applying, implementing and achieving.Youth workers play a key role in supporting young people to unlock and apply their potential. As described by the EC “Youth work develops the life management and social skills of young people which assists their transition to the labour market”. Practicing youth work ourselves, we know very well that youth work does not only support young people in entering labour market, but also in achieving personal development and social change! In an attempt to move from the place of competences/potential to the place of practice, we focused on 2 steps:3. Youth need to be supported to realize the competences they have and find ways to put them into practice, to apply them in real life for their personal and professional development.4. Youth need to embrace a purpose in life, a direction that will guide them and through which the application of the competences can have a meaning and significance. Embracing a purpose in life is particularly important element, since without a meaningful direction the application of the competences can dangerously fail. In this context, the project “Into the world” has been developed. The project aimed exactly to reach its title: to enhance the competences of the youth workers so that they support youth to exploit their competences for personal, professional and social growth in a meaningful and purposeful way.The objectives of the project were for youth workers1. to gain knowledge related to the transferability of informal and non-formal learning into competences;2. to develop understanding why a purpose in life is important especially for youth;3. to enhance their skills in guiding the youth to apply their competences in meaningful and purposeful way; 4. to increase their motivation in supporting youth to use their competences (professionally and personally);5. to develop a personal follow-up plan to use with the youth they work with.The project had one activity, a training course which took place in Maguri Racatau, Romania and involved 24 youth workers from the following countries: Romania, Cyprus, Italy, France, Czech Republic, Croatia, Latvia, Slovenia, Spain, Malta and Ireland. It took place between 6th - 14th of May 2017. The training was based on the elements of experiential learning, self-directed learning and non-formal education (NFE). Throughout the training course the training team created the spaces for the participants for the experiential phase, for the reflection stage, for generalization and receiving of input and knowledge and for planning the transfer stage. The project had these results: - increased competences of the 24 youth workers directly involved in the project;- video with information and key elements of the project; - articles outlining the importance of transferring the competences into practice and the purpose in life. - workshops lead by the participants in their local communities of the partners regarding the knowledge transfer- workshops lead by the participants in their local communities of the partners with the youth with fewer opportunities."

The unemployment affects youth's life in financial, economical, spiritual and mental ways, not just in our country but other countries as well. Youth unemployment generates huge society strains.Representatives of six different nations participated in the program (42 youngster).With the project, initiated by young people, the aim of the exchange was to help youngsters to set goals, clarify their resources and find new ways to step into their adults life. Thorough the exchange they developed their competences and understand the local realities of they youngsters of Europe.Furthermore our aim was that these young people, using non-formal methods, get acquainted with other languages, cultures. During the project participants acquired competences and attitudes which help them to find a suitable job, become better employees and reach their own aims. With the new methods learned they will use in their lives and multiplicate their knowledge in their community, family and environment.

The Treaty on European Union (known as The Maastricht Treaty) established the institution of Union citizenship by stating that ‘every person holding the nationality of a Member State is a citizen of the Union’. This was amongst the first ever written affirmations that there is European Citizenship, and similar to national citizenship, there are certain responsibilities with being an active citizen. At its' roots the EU has always been about increasing cooperation and creating a solid continent, through particular practices, whereby the principle of democracy is even specified in the Lisbon Treaty. In fact even in Malta, the government published the National Youth Policy(*1), which promotes more active participation especially at a European level. Nowadays we are noticing that in Malta and even countries abroad there is a lot of apathy, whereby youths are taking a step back, feeling helpless. Therefore we took initiative to organise this training course, which will take place in Malta in the moderate weather of September, whereby youth leaders and trainers from 8 different countries will get together to collaborate and share their experience on the importance of democratic values in the European Union. They will later go back home and deliver such with their youth target groups back home. The mixture of partners is quite a diverse one where we have many Mediterranean and Central European Partners, the established EU members of Italy and Greece and one of the most recent arrivals of Romania. There are a number of Eastern European Countries as well as the pre-accession country of Turkey. Each of the partners from these countries tackles different youth groups with which they aim to share and instill the right EU values. The 1 week programme will consist of a series of non-formal education activities and workshops and will give the partners' the opportunity to share their work and their cultures (and sub-cultures). There will be an opportunity to meet and mix with the Maltese community and to learn a bit about our culture and view a small part of the activities taking place in Valletta Capital of Culture 2018. During the final stages of the main activity we will be working on dissemination. A dissemination booklet and a video are being planned for our grand finale. We hope that the youth leaders and trainers will leave Malta with a new set of tools, an energy to continue working with their target groups and a list of good practices they can use back home with their target groups.

"<< Objectives >>We want to implement this project to gain practical knowledge about water management in our countries and exchanging experiences in this field. The project is created to focus on the subject of water and the response to the growing challenge posed by this most valuable resource, without which there is no life - in particular the problem of lack of water, which is also increasingly affecting European countries. During our project, we want to improve our knowledge in this area, taking into account the various specificities of our countries. In addition, thanks to our project, we want to achieve specific goals - develop recommendations for young people on responsible water management, as well as short promotional videos about water, which we will use in the social campaign at the end of the project.<< Implementation >>As part of the project, we plan to implement the following activities:1. Preparation stage of the project in which all national groups will collect information on resources and water policy in their countries, as well as conduct social surveys among our peers aged 18 to 36, devoted to assessing the level of knowledge about water use as well as good internships in this area, which will cover 300 people (50 people from each country).2. Two-day preparatory visit before the main meeting in Poland, which will be attended by 12 participants - two people from each country, including group leaders and one person from the group of people with fewer opportunities. 3.11-day meeting in Poland covering activities carried out for 8 days in Brenna and 3 days in Katowice, in which will take part a group of 36 young people (6 people from each country), within which we will exchange our knowledge and experiences as well as develop a collection of good practices regarding the use of water and other materials that we will use in the social campaign.4. Social campaign ""Flow the knowledge"", under which in our countries we will share good practices and recommendations on water use developed during the project, as well as sensitize the society to problems related to the careless use of water resources.<< Results >>The result of our project will be a collection of good practices and recommendations ""Flow the knowledge"" dedicated to young people, devoted to the responsible use of water resources, and promotional films on the protection of water purity and quality, which we will use in the social campaign ""Flow the knowledge"". As part of it, a website will be created in English, to which we will post the recommendations and videos, and then in our countries we will promote it using social media and stickers with QR codes."