"The ""Be creative! Project: Multiculturalism and identity. Film and theater in united Europe"" consisted of two youth exchanges. the idea of ​​the project was to exchange experiences, broadening their horizons to look at the world of young people. Achieving these goals enabled the workshop theater and film, thanks to the participants plunged their knowledge and gained valuable new experience. In each of the exchanges involved 40 people who willingly share their creativity, skills and artistic talents. The project participants have the opportunity to participate in workshops with actors, created etudes, they got involved in the discussions and activities. The project made the participants learned how to break down the barriers associated with anxiety and stress, before public speeches. Building confidence, build relationships plays a key role at the present time, both for social as well as the unions. Certainly bring benefits to project participants. An extremely important issue was also learning, spreading and building identity in the EU and to encourage them to spread the ideas of tolerance Project participants understand also how many dangers involves the use of the Internet, which in turn can lead to exclusion, Youth got a lot of tips on coping with stress, and overcome their fear of public speaking, which will positively affect interpersonal networking and enable further development."

“Better citizens, better entrepreneurs” is an international training course which has gathered members and NGO representatives coming from 7 youth organizations, representing 7 different program countries - Romania, Cyprus, Latvia, Turkey, Italy, Spain and Croatia. The general topics which the project has addressed are European citizenship, youth entrepreneurship and employability. The main aim of this training course was to promote and foster European Citizenship, youth employability, “good” entrepreneurship and active participation in society through building up competences for creating sustainable social initiatives. In other terms, the project has equipped the participants with essential competences in the field of project management in order to enable them to initiate quality youth projects and in this way foster the employability and entrepreneurial spirit through actions to be undertaken in their local communities. Moreover, principles about the conduction of a business activity and hints about sustainable and innovative entrepreneurial ideas have been treated during the project. Through the supporting learning process, the aim of this training course has been to enhance the personal and professional development of the participants, so that they act as multipliers of the gained knowledge within their organizations and among the youth they work with on a daily basis. The working process has been carried out through non formal education methods and learning by doing methodologies. The learners have been invited to work intensively and to improve their skills related to the diverse topics tackled and also their attitudes towards the EU issues and in general.Active involvement and teamwork, as well as theoretical inputs from the trainers have been essential elements of the training program. The participants have been encouraged to apply further the acquired competences by organizing follow up activities within their respective organizations and among the local youth. Special attention has been paid also in making the learning points of the training course relevant, sustainable and transferable, by giving a large space for reflection, by providing guidance and coaching for future action plans and career development.This training course brought together a group of 21 youth workers, leaders, trainers and civil society activists and gave them the opportunity to learn, share and review various means and methodologies of youth work in the above-mentioned fields. The project has also increased their commitment and awareness about these issues. The training course encouraged participants to disseminate the project results through their actions, but also within their working environment and local communities. Furthermore, we made an effort in enhancing intercultural understanding and cooperation in the field of international youth work by providing opportunities to build strong and sustainable future partnerships, initiatives and projects.

"Project ""Active European Citizens"" is 7 days training course taking place in the district of Sofia, Bulgaria. It will bring together 30 youth workers and young leaders from Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Macedonia, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Germany and Spain with aims to educate youth workers about forms of active participation of young people, active EU citizenship, strategies and legal framework. This project will put special focus on including opportunities offered by EU tools, funds, ant other possibilities for young people. The overall aim of the seminar is to train youth workers, youth leaders, teachers, social workers, etc. on empowering staff and networking related to the activities aiming to rise awareness of young people on local, national and EU level about active participation. As result of the project participants will create strategies and recommendations for communication with young people in different local communities (e.g. unemployed youth, youth of minority groups, rural youth, youth in big cities, etc) which will be available for use not only by partner organisation, but also by other European youth organizations dealing or interested in dealing with similar issues. Methodology used during project will be series of European youth non-formal learning methods including case studies, debates, discussions, presentation, simulations, brainstorming, work in the group, input and other relevant forms. Project will be hosted by Bulgarian NGO ""Academy of Success "" in the vicinity of Sofia , Bulgaria from 22.10.2014 until 29.10.2014.OBJECTIVES of this Training Course are:•To give practical tips and tools for enhancing active participation in youth work;• To address key participation related issues concerning youth workers nowadays;• To raise awareness about the active EU citizenship in multicultural societies;• To increase awareness of active participation as a social construction in broaden European dimension.• To enhance intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding;• To further explore “Erasmus+” Programme as a significant tool for promoting Active Citizenship within youth work;The whole training will be implemented by the use of non-formal education, learning by doing approach and the learner centered approach to be guided and leaded by professional trainers of the topics. The participants will be the main key actors of the hole preparation, implementation and follow up of the activity."

The project " Entrepreneurs Transcending Disadvantage(Girisimciler Dezavatajlari Asiyor)" will be carried out from 1 Agust 2014 to 28 Febuary 2015.Activities of the project will take place between September 1, 2014 and September 8, 2014 with 37 youngIn the project scope, various trainings, interviews, workshop activities, technical and cultural tours and visionary project performances/workshop activities will be held in Istanbul for 7 days in the name of actualizing the entrepreneurship potential in every field and the socialization by improving the communication skills of the participants who have been chosen among disadvantaged young people fromGermay,Italy,Crotia,Romania,Bulgaria,Poland and Turkey as the host.The aim of the project is to prevent youth unemployment and to serve economic and socio-cultural development through revealing the entrepreneurship potential of young people in economic, social and cultural fields and the spread of the entrepreneurship culture on young people. In this scope, it has been planned to perform various activities aimed at the improvement of young people -chosen among disadvantaged youngsters whose financial condition isnt good, who are disabled, who are exposed to family violence or who have grown up in orphanages, who have never been to abroad- that have been successful in educational life but havent actualized their entrepreneurship potential and havent been socialized because of financial impossibilities.

Nowadays interculturality is part of our everyday life and work. People who work with young people face with several challenges to be in a situation which based on cultural background and they don’t know how to react or don’t understand why they react how they react. Ambiguity is everywhere, among young people and between young person and youth worker. It is essential nowadays to develop and improve our intercultural competence with emphasis on intercultural sensitiveness because we don’t have to travel to another country to face with different culture, different cultures come to us, different cultures are around us. Milton J. Bennett made a fantastic theory called Developmental model of intercultural sensitiveness. The academic model can be adapted to youth work activities which gives opportunity for youth workers to support young people to understand each other’s and improve their abilities to function together. The overall aim of the seminar is to train youth workers, youth leaders, teachers, social workers, etc. on use the Milton J. Bennett model in their daily work and lives in order to improve their intercultural competence to work with different target groups e.g. minorities, immigrants, Roma young people, etc. 8 phases of the model have to be understood by youth workers and share methods, tools and techniques how they can support young people from different cultural background to reach the certain phase or go forward to the next phase in local level then invent new youth projects e.g. youth exchanges, EVS and trainings in order to improve intercultural competences of young people in European level according to the proposals of Erasmus +. We will have 27 participants, 3 from each countries. The profile of participants: youth workers, youth leaders and volunteers from different sized organisations from villages and cities as well. There will be a seminar titled ”Are You(th) sensitive enough?” - Seminar on developmental model of intercultural sensitiveness and how it can be put into youth work practice in Struga, Macedonia between 11-19. 10. 2014.The seminar will be learner-centred because first of all the people who work with young people having different cultural backgrounds have to be aware that how sensitive they are interculturally and how much they need to improve their intercultural competence. So an experienced trainer team will prepare participatory and creative methods of non – formal education through the phases of the model of Milton J. Benett and youth workers can through all phases and make self – assessment regarding to their own intercultural competence with special focus on intercultural sensitiveness. Meanwhile they have to consider how they can support their target groups to go through these phases in their lives as well and share, exchange and invent methods, tools and techniques to develop and improve to reach or go further from the certain phase. Theoretical part will be the self – assessment part regarding to own intercultural sensitiveness of participants based on the Model. Practical part will be to share, exchanges and explore methods, tools and techniques to support young people with different cultural background to go through the phases. Then invent international youth projects to experience interculturality in European level. The whole seminar is aimed at putting the Developmental model of intercultural sensitiveness into local and European youth work practice. Participants will recognise their level of intercultural sensitiveness based on the Developmental model of Milton J. Bennett, to set up a learning plan how to improve it further, then share and invent creative tools and methods how this Developmental model and its phases can be adapted into their youth work with different culturally young people. Being able to run local youth activities in order to make the local community intercultural sensitive. Being able to make proposals and write applications on European youth projects with special focus on intercultural competence development according to the needs and expectations of their young people they work with. The seminar will be a great self – assessment process for them regarding to their intercultural sensitiveness as persons and as youth workers, teachers, social workers, etc. Then it will be a great opportunity to improve their youth work abilities with new tools and methods and gain project management skills in European level.