?Game ,set,exchange ? is a youth exchange planned to take place for 9 days between 7-15 may 2015 in Moeciu de Jos ,Romania.The partnership consists of 50 youngsters and group leaders from 9 european countries Croatia,Estonia,France,Greece,Latvia,Slovakia,Spain,Turkey,Romania and includes 7 youngsters with fewer opportunities : 3 deaf youngsters from Romania helped by an interpretor and 4 youngsters from poor isolated villages from Croatia and Spain.The project take place in a context where youngsters become more and more inactive and society is threatened by by increasing of drugs and alcohol consumption with bad effects on health and social relationship.The exchange is a follow up of a strong partnership in Keyplayers network and other projects and was proposed at a project ideas? fair when almost all partners took place.The aim of the project is to promote active life style ,sports and physical activities as alternative to sedentarism and drugs and alcohol addiction.The objectives are connected with identification of risks of use of drugs and alcohol and promotion of active life style and sports as alternatives of spending free time,with expanding youth cooperation in a cultural diversity background.The activities forseen are for preparation,introduction and getting to know eachother,trust and team building,presentation of participants and organizations,introduction of Erasmus + programme and youthpass certificate,cultural visits and a visual campaign in Bran and Brasov,intercultural evenings,workshops in plenneary and groups,daily ,midterm and final reflection-evaluations,dissemination and exploitation of results.Besides there will be transversal activities for visibility,management and monitorizing.The methodology will be based on nonformal education and will consist in games ,presentations,debates,role plays and simulations ,visual campaign.The final results will be flyers,posters,videoclips and a blog of the project.Impact will be felt at the level of participants through development of new competences and assimilation of new tools ,at the level of organization through raising of voluntary spirit and more trained youngsters and at the level of local communities through a higher level of civism and awareness of concrete problems of youngsters concerning drugs and acohol consumption and finding solutions to their needs through sports and active life style.The visual campaign products will be disseminated by all partners and participants and the sustainability will be provided by solidity of partnership ,extension of youth cooperation between youngsters and new initiatives and projects in frame of Erasmus +.

From the 20th to the 29th of July 2015, the Association for the Young person’s Intercommunality (France); Viimsi Municipality (Estonia) and the Hair Redivivus Buzau Association (Romania) will organize a European exchange week that will bring around thirty 16 to 18-year-old teenagers together. This event will take place in a country lodge named « Gîte du Nid Douillet », located in Poncins.These teenagers coming from Estonia; Romania and France will have 10 days to imagine and create a music video about European citizenship.This week will be composed of training sessions; daily life management; working groups revolving around theatre; video and music. We will mainly base these activities on active methods, so that everyone can take ownership of this project and be a real active participant.Here are the objectives we would like to achieve through this project:Priority goal:- Encouraging and focusing debates about Citizenship.- Sharing an « international » reflection (encouraging the emergence of points of view and innovating methods.)- Contributing to the development of a feeling of belonging in the European Union.- Allowing the participants to be more / better « engaged » about citizenship issues, thanks to the fact that they will have felt legitimated in the right of expressing and presenting their comments on social realities.- Encouraging the teenagers’ expression.- Allowing them to discover and build themselves through the meeting with other teenagers / to develop their ability to empathize / to reduce the “mental distances” (ex: actually, Romania is next door! Estonian culture enriches me!) / Encouraging mobility.- Fighting racism and discriminations by the meeting and discovery of other people. Secondary goal:- Allowing the young participants to develop their creativity (as well as their skills) and to discover the use of a media (music video) to deliver a message.- Allowing teenagers to live in community.- Allowing the young people to use and master communication tools (music; theatre; new technologies; and so on).- Cultivating partnerships between European structures and, in a way, contributing to the European construction. (“Europe will not be made all at once, or according to one single plan: rather it will be formed by taking concrete measures which bring about real solidarity”).

"<< Objectives >>This Partnership Building Activity (PBA) aimed to improve cooperation and build strong and resilient partnerships between Civil Society Organisations (CSO) and municipalities from countries in the south and north of Europe whose target group is youth and core work is fostering youth participation in the frame of the new EU Youth Strategy for 2019-2027 and the Erasmus + / European Solidarity Corps programmes. As a newcomer to these projects, this activity was important for Ölands Folkhögskolas, since it provided the means to identify and build cooperation with and between partners from different countries around Europe doing the same work of fostering and devising ways for youth participation at the local level to be more meaningful and impactful by exploring together the possibilities of the two programmes mentioned. Ölands Folkhögskola asked DYPALL Network to act as a support organization in this application since the goal of DYPALL is to provide capacity-building opportunities for its members and partners to improve the work of CSO and municipalities in order to improve youth participation at local level. The aim of this PBA was to improve solidarity at European level, starting between the different partners' coming from different contexts of Europe. After the Euro crisis, the rift between South and North countries grew to levels unknown before. As a direct response to the lack of solidarity towardsrefugees and asylum-seekers and between EU countries, as well as the growth of resentment towards EU institutions, the European Commission created, under the framework of the new EU Youth Strategy, the European Solidarity Corps (ESC). The ESC has, as main goal, the promotion of“solidarity as a value [and] to enhance the engagement of young people and organisations in accessible and high-quality solidarity activities as a means to contribute to strengthening cohesion, solidarity, democracy and citizenship in Europe, while also responding to societal challenges andstrengthening communities”. Clearly reflecting the priorities set in EU Youth Strategy, particularly in the areas of education and training, participation, social inclusion, youth, employment and entrepreneurship and objectives of Erasmus+ Programme, through this first point of connection andtime spent together, we aimed to create a strong base for all the organizations and youth workers present to build cross-countries partnerships in order to make this PBA a ""small step for Youth Organizations, but a giant leap for European Union"".Hence, to establish a sustainable North-South partnership for youth participation at local level, the partners aimed at organising a Partnership-Building Activity (PBA), bringing together 26 youth workers and local youth policy representatives for 4 days to: - Foster networking and international exchanges between youth organisations and municipalities building trust and create space for project building;- Exchange and promote realities and good practices in terms of Youth Work towards empowerem of youngsters and disseminate the partners' methodology and tools of youth participation at local level;- Enlarge the network of partners and set up concrete follow-up projects to mainstream its methodology and enhance spaces of shared decision-making in youth policy development at local level in the region;- Explore the Erasmus + and ESC programmes, emphasizing new key actions, promoting opportunities for further work and helping participants to navigate the programme;- Empower and develop intercultural and other professional and social competencies of youth workers by delivering and exchanging methods of non-formal education in the concerned fields.Projects between North and South countries are rare, as usually organisations tend to cooperate with partners coming from similar contexts and facing the same challenges. Partners from northern countries might shy away from working with organizations from the south of Europe, and vice-versa due to mutual distrust, greater costs or simply lack of familiarity. A PBA set up between North and South countries had hence the potential to be a greater learning experience due to the differences in work methods, habits, experiences, and needs of youth workers, a potential most of the times untapped in Erasmus + activities. We wanted to break this mutual fear and weariness and provide an opportunity for greater learning with partners from different contexts, with different capacities and challenges, as we believe there is a need in Europe and in Youth organisations to build bridges between southern and northern organisations as these will benefit immensely both parts via the exchange of expertise, good practices and experiences and the establishment of long-lasting, highquality project and partnerships.<< Implementation >>We implemented one activity gathering 24 participants from 10 programme countries (Italy, Bulgaria, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Lithuania, Spain, Turkey, Estonia and Denmark) to build strong and sustainable partnerships centred on local participation and the new European Solidarity Corps and Erasmus + programme under the framework of the “EU Youth Strategy: Engaging, Connecting and Empowering young people”. Partners were gathered for 4 working days, from the 4th to the 9th of April 2022, in Portimão, Portugal. The meeting was organized by DYPALL Network and facilitated by experienced and competent trainers. Participants were Youth Workers from both Civil Society Organisations and Local Public Bodies directly involved in the daily work of their organisations wishing to further their competencies in the Erasmus + and European Solidarity Corps under the renewed EU Youth Strategy and with the desire to explore the creation of future.The selection was made based on the participants' motivation and experience.<< Results >>Thanks to the evaluation that we had from the participants, this Partnership Building Activity was improving the quality and the efficacy of youth participation at the local level. The PBA in question was also unique in exploring the most recent developments in EU Youth Policy and bringing together such diverse partners to explore the renewed EU Youth Strategy and think together on the best ways to translate them to each partners' local reality. The planned and reached results are:- increased competencies from partner organisations on the renewed EU Youth Policy and Erasmus+ and ESC;- increased knowledge of diverse realities of Youth Work around Europe;- improved solidarity and network between partner organisations;- creation of fruitful and long-lasting partnerships together;The project briought together partners from all countries in the PBA to explore the EU Youth Policy dimension, to exchange of expertise, experience and good practices of Youth Work at local level in order to improve the work with local youngsters via the exchange of practices and to break stereotypes in order to build fruitful and long-lasting partnerships. Moreover, this PBA was the starting point of three new partnerships and projects ideas, which will be applying in the next deadline of KA2 projects."

Target group and training objectivesOur target group are students being trained to be state registered educators. The studies and work are devided in the fields of child and youthcare as well as remedial education care. At the time of the vocational training period the students are in their 2nd year at the department of the professional training college , respectively in their 3rd year at the department of the professional grammar school (doubble qualification as an educator with with highschool diploma).The training at the professional college takes 3 years.The study topics are as following:1) infant pedagogics (below age 3)2) intergration / inclusion3) youth welfare/ schoolchildren4) residential provision / home60 female and male students have undergone a work placement of four, six or eight weeks abroad in the last two years. All the students could choose an institution of their professional priority. AimsThe aims are the development of cross-cultural key competences during the professional training of educators. Acting and practising strategies in the respective workfields shall be applied and modified according to the concepts of the foreign institutions, that means in particular the different techniques and methods of the various European educational systems. This process aims to strengthen self-competence, social competence, professional and methodical competences of the students. An important effect is the experience of mobility and the acces to European educational institutions and jobs.The aims and concepts are prepared, coached and evaluated in co-operation between Erzbischöfliches Berufskolleg and the partner institutions.ActivitiesDuring the next 2 years about 60 students shall have the opportunity to participate in a 2 -, 4- or 6-weeks stay in one of our partner institutions in Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Malta, Poland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.The preparation develops during the complete schoolyear ( every 2nd week, 2 saturday workshops, 1 weekend workshop in a youth hostel - focussed on adventure /outdoor pursuits) and comprehends the presentation and information about the EU- programme lead by the responsible teachers of the EU-Team including special exercises for sensitizing cross-cultural understanding. Information about the different countries and their educational system is given by the students.ResultsThe benfits of the Europe Mobility are various. The students gain professional competences and by enlarging the awareness of different qualities of different nations, become open minded which then enables them to find jobs abroad. The teachers of our school are involved in networking as they visit our students in their institutions.Thus they gain experience and strengthen their competences for their own work. The public image of the college attracts possible applicants who understand the European idea. Workshops and an annual meeting with our European partners at our college unite students, teachers and foreign collegues.

"This project has involved a multilateral youth exchange that took place from June 30-July 9, 2014, where 25 participants (4 young + 1 monitor / country) from Estonia, Turkey, Italy and Spain made 8 days full of activities related to Recovery and cultural transmission. Initially there was another country that was going to participate in our exchange, Iceland, but could not participate because the resolution of the project was very late and the Icelandic association did not have time to look for all participants, mainly due to the high price of flights . With the implementation of this youth exchange as a host, we pursued the following objectives:1. Young people actively participate in the construction of Europe and responding to the needs expressed by our youth group.2. Expand our training and acquire a body of knowledge in the field of non-formal education.3. Bring the signs of our culture and the essence of our identity to others and, secondly, learn to value the traditions and culture of other countries.4. To foster mutual understanding between young people from different countries, develop solidarity and promote tolerance among young people, in particular in order to foster social cohesion in the European Union and other countries.5. Encourage self-learning and teamwork.6. Improving communication skills of young people, encouraging their formation and subsequent entry into the labor market.7. Encourage the use of new technologies, imagination and creativity as essential resources for future entrepreneurs.8. Introduce the new ERASMUS + program and all the opportunities it offers. All these objectives have been achieved through the activities we have undertaken, for instance:* Several workshops to transmit the traditions and lifestyle of the respective countries, both in the past and today, related, for example, to a day in the life of any member of a family, your work, personal relationships, the main festival of its region, a wedding day, a day of vacation ...: 1. Development of a collage made with old photographs. 2. Editing a video. 3. Silent Theatre (mime).* Living for a few hours with some families of our village ""Family fun day""* Recover proverbs and traditional folktales by interviewing older people found on the street.* Development of comics with a traditional story of each country.* Rehearse traditional dances and folk songs to make a small exhibition with the presence of the hosting families of Family Fun Day.* Train traditional games and participate in the Olympics.* Prepare the photo exhibition with photos of each country and exchange days to be displayed during the Olympics.* Visit to an archaeological site and a local livestock, main industry of our people.* Farewell party and delivery YOUTHPASS.The completion of this exchange has been a reality, mainly thanks to the initiative of a group of young people who , after having participated in other exchanges, decided to move its proposal and they wished another youth exchange would take place in our town. Our City Council did not hesitate at any time and less, after verifying the success of the previous ones and the positive impact that has been, not only for all participants but for other people in Añora.The 25 participants were of similar profiles and interests, despite the fact that they belong to different countries and realitie. Hence the most positive thing that stands out above any other achievement is the good atmosphere of camaraderie and respect among all of them, but from the outset; all this despite the age difference between some of the participants. All youngsters were very responsible, respectful, creative, active, participatory and eager to learn and share. Undoubtedly, the participants were the best of this project. As it has happened with the realization of other exchanges, some of the consequences of having participated directly or indirectly is that the number of young people who have applied for a Erasmus project and who have enrolled in language courses has increased significantly. But perhaps the most important achivement is that it has encouraged the mobility and understanding with children from other countries and promoted respect for other cultures such as Islam (Turkey and Tunisia). Furthermore, it has unveiled the ERASMUS+ program and observe a noticeable interest from our youth by continuing to organize more projects and we are receiving requests from young people who are interested in EVS."