The seven countries involved in developing this youth exchange on mental health and wellbeing were Norway, UK, Slovakia, Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria and Hungary. At the APV in Cardiff, Wales in April 2019 the leaders and participants who attended decide on which countries would deliver which workshops. The exchange then was held in May 2019 with each country providing 1 leader and 4 young people aged 18 to 30 years. The young people in each country had been chosen through a selection process open to all but with a focus on young people with fewer opportunities and each country chose the topics that they would like to work on and deliver on the exchange, doing this with each other through discussions and video conferencing on social media.They devised an innovative programme of activities to cover mental health, yoga and meditation, fitness and exercise including sport and dance, healthy eating, nature walk and rambling and use of technology and gamification for exercise, they were taught general coaching skills and excerise with a range od gym equipment is a beautiful outdoor fitness park in Barry Island. Each country has a range of problems and brought different skills and experiences to teach each other how to combat these problems in their countries. We devised a unique and innovative way of dissemination and confirming achievements, outcomes and results and also will award all participants from each country who complete achievements a nationally recognised accreditaion in Sports and Fitness from the UK. This has had an enormous impact on the participants and on the partners who now have a motivated and skilled (qualified) group of young people to help develop their provision back in their countries and also the potential of a dramatic impact of new ideas for health and fitness on the young people in the communities that the partners operate in and as wide across Europe or even the world that our dissemination and impact can take us. The range of activities, workshops and non formal learning skills were a fantastic credit to the young people involved.

Creative Hub of Social Inclusion (CHSI) project seeks to create a space for young people from UK, Poland, Italy, Romania, Lithuania, Turkey and Slovakia for sharing ideas and social practices of how to involve youth migrants into civic society and help them to adapt to their new living conditions and community around using the method of art therapy. The project covers three main activities: preparation, advanced planning visit, youth exchange in UK and evaluation and dissemination. Basic elements of the preparation activities will be the preparation of already selected participants, arrangements for hosting and learning and dealing with logistics matters. Exchange activities will directly provide the achievement of the project objectives. First of all, exchange days will become a special space created due to non-formal educational methods and wide NGOs' experience of social work for communication between youth from all partner countries. By interacting freely and opening their minds through specific games and tasks, young people will together find out elements of youth migrants' involvement (multiculturalism, tolerance, partnership, social volunteering and dialogue), discuss the importance of being involved in local community in friendly and supportive atmosphere and outline issues of youth migrants’ involvement. This part of the project will provide participants with critical thinking tools for filtering information about migrants, make a shift in their minds for eliminating biases and personal barriers to migrants. Participants will expound their insights, using the method of art therapy and will have an opportunity to feel the freedom of expression in the painting process. CHSI project objectives are; to bring together young people from 7 EU countries in Cardiff, UK building up space for the open, friendly and active communication on the problems of social adaptation of young migrants in the youth environment; To provide space and platform for conduction of constructive discussion and self-presentation in multicultural community; To investigate elements of migrant youth involvement (multiculturalism, tolerance, partnership and dialog) from partner's perspectives. Establishing new international contacts between young people for developing and realization of other joint projects in future; To develop critical thinking, ability to correctly filter social information, to generate ideas and work in a team; To assist in overcoming inner prejudices and stereotypes related to migrants and finding the ways of their adaptation in the youth environment; To expanding the participants’ ideas about the life of young migrants and expressing it via art and graffiti; Finally to enhance the level of young people’s knowledge British, Polish, Italian, Romanian, Lithuanian, Turkish and Slovakian cultures. Project results and project relevant information will be disseminated through various information sources. After project discussions and exchange activities, participants will better understand situation with migrants in other partner countries and find new ways of changing social attitude to migrants in their countries. Project is expected to activate NGO members inspiring them for future initiatives.

"<< Objectives >>The initiative to carry out this particular project at this place, this time and with these partners was born as a response to the current needs that the key persons of this project have experienced during recent years in various contexts. The applicant - the non-governmental organisation ""Get on board"" - consists of enthusiasts, who wants to empower the youth workers and young people with a media tool (a web based budget radio channel) which would help them with their activities on a daily basis. Young people in different countries - the target group of the partner organizations - definitely have a high potential, but often lack skills, tools, ways for self- expression, as well as sometimes the motivation and support.The partners agreed on the following objectives responding the common needs in their work with young people:- to support the educational choice of young people, adapting to new forms of cultural expression, new challenges, new opportunities in terms of self-establishment, growth and professional success;- to innovate the forms of aggregation, increasingly concerned by the social media phenomenon, succeeding in reaching young people in their path of life;- to help young people to influence the society in which they live, making them protagonists of change through the language of radio;- to aggregate the peers on the basis of common interests;- to contribute to entrepreneurship and creativity of young people and in the web-radio field;-to share technical skills and necessary methods for creating horizontal and democratic shows;- to improve the ways of communication of partner organizations.The objectives are directly linked to the objectives of the Erasmus+ programme: including and empowering young people, raising young people's social engagement, contributing to life-long learning and self-establishment of young people. Besides, the project objectives correspond also tothe local NA priorities, such as contributing to young people's activity and exploring artistic skills and new technologies.The project aims to share experience with the partner organizations involved and to discover the web radio as a tool to improve communication with their target groups, of empowering young people, giving a possibility for better self-expression. Hence the name of this project: R.R.R. - Raising Radio Reaction - meaning - we are raising a reaction of the community, of the youth, of the youth workers, of Bulgaria, of Europe and the powerful tool is the radio media. All united in transmitting the essence of who we are, without filters, without mediation but respecting ourselves, our community, and others.The training course ""R.R.R.-Raising Radio Reaction"" will take place in Bulgaria, provisionally in September 2019, uniting 26 youth workers from Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Spain, Slovakia, Macedonia, Lithuania and Luxembourg.<< Activities >>The training will take place in Lovech, Bulgaria in September 2019 gathering 26 youth workers from Bulgaria, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Macedonia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Poland. The project is designed for youth leaders over 18 years old, who are involved in partner organizations' work and who have an interest in and dedication in carrying out a web radio throughout the duration of this project, responding the needs and challenges of their work - to improve communication with their target groups. It is also important, that the final target group is young people, as the project participants - youth workers - are supposed to apply the new skills and competences after the project in their daily work, dealing directly with young people within various fields, such as volunteerism activities, open space for local young people,social work. Each organization will select 3 participants, while there will be 2 participants and additional representatives from Italy and Bulgaria for providing logistics and organizing training. Each organization will select participants according to the canons, with regard to gender balance, open for people fewer opportunities (such as cultural, economic, social, educational obstacles) and special needs (specific diets, food requirements, the need of extra attention, care and support because of the specific background). With pleasure, we will welcome participants with less opportunities.The activity will be carried out using the following methods:""What about participation"" is about to debate the issues of participation, through Hart's scale analysis which in turn rankings, youth participation. The activity therefore aims to define the concept of youth participation not as abstract concept, but as a policy to pursue to make the young people independent and responsible for their success;""What about Web Radio"" provides a brainstorming on the knowledge that participants have on web radio. In this way, giving space to everyone, the trainer along with their participants will define the characteristics of this mode of transmission and participation;""CC policies"" will enable, through appropriate slides prepared by the trainer, to provide information to participants on the content in Creative Commons. In this way, the radios are viable, legally sending without cost;""Study Visit on Radio E-Volution Veliko Tarnovo"" The participants would have the opportunity to learn about the hosting radio studio .Since it is run mainly by EVS volunteers, they will briefly present themselves and their work in the radio. The E-Volution radio is part of a network consisting of 3 web based radios run in 3 towns in Bulgaria. The studio in Veliko Tarnovo is the newest one - established in October 2018. It is part of the Project “Radio E-Volution - Mission Veliko Tarnovo” which is a long-term EVS project funded by Erasmus+ Programme. At the end the speakers and the director will answer the questions of the participants, to help them understand the dynamics of the web based radio.;""Discover a web radio"", during this activity, the trainer will introduce the concept of server, asking participants to help them define the concept. The trainer will skip the Caster.fm login page (extraordinarily similar to Facebook) and explain in basic way, the opportunities that Caster.fm reserves for free; Subsequently, the group will be divided into groups of 4 and hardware and software management will be shown, leading to the creation of a Web Radio. Afterwards, you can proceed with ""Create your Own Radio "", where for the national group will be created the web radio that will be part of the network;""Strategy for a Successful Broadcast""; In this activity, introduced by a brainstorming, we will focus on how to attract new ones listeners, how to encourage the participation of young people through webradio and what responsibilities do they have in editing in send certain messages. For this purpose, a video will show bad and correct communication examples.;""Creating Jingles"" It is important for both fundraising, as well as for increasing the visibility of programs, initiatives and opportunities.""Creating Broadcast""; The session will include a clip that will allow participants to locate the various program genres radio (from the present, to the groundwork, entertainment,etc.), emphasizing concepts of ""durability"" and ""radio times"", by identifying the characteristics that can be found in any radio program. Groups of 4, will create programs following their strategy;""Simulating to Brodcast"" and ""R.R.R. on Air"" will allow you to get used to ""radio times"" and get acquainted with the medium and later, to manage a day of participating programs.Follow up planning (for strengthening cooperation between organizations we will organize the so-called organization EXPO and later discuss not only participants' individual plans for applying the new skills and competences in their daily work, but also to plan together some follow-up initiatives.<< Impact >>The project impact on participating youth workers is:-deliver to participants necessary technical and practical knowledge on web radio, in an autonomous and effective way in order to manage any technical problems that may occur;-improve skills and abilities youth workers in create Participated Broadcasts; specifically, they will be able to create, organize and broadcast programs together with young people in their community;- be more active and inclined to influence society and at the same time be a reference point for young people; through the ""Strategy for a successful broadcast"" sessions, they will be able to promote and encourage social and/or political changes by encouraging a more mature, responsible and central role for young people in their society;- acquire entrepreneurial skills in the field of web-broadcasting. - help participants to express themselves with innovative language; The whole R.R.R. project aims to make youth workers and every single member of the organizations present, a valuable person among young people, communicating more efficiently and positively through a web radio;- be able to attract other young people for achieve a common purpose; this will affect not only the partner organizations but also the young people themselves, which will be able to start a radio career and establish a mature relationship with a target audience determinating success of their radioproject;- raise up awareness on other cultures, learning how to relate with other national groups involved; the project aims to create the conditions for a stable collaboration between organizations within the network and above all, provide organizations' members of new tools for educate young people to appreciate the other's point of view and pacifically live in touch with different vision of the world;- raise awareness of the rights and opportunities Europe offers them; During the ""Create Jingles"" session, will be created jingles that advertise initiatives within Erasmus Plus, but it is the experiencein Bulgaria that will favor a different conception of Europe, close and ""friendly"", precious alley in education and young people's personal growth;- stimulate in young people the feeling of tolerance and altruism, contrasting and rejecting the birth of discriminatory and xenophobic attitudes; the project provides an atmosphere that allows everyone to express themselves without hesitation and without fear of being discriminated or criticized for their own opinions. It also fosters reflection on communication, making young people responsible for the messages they will send;- improve their communicative and organizational skills; the improvement will interest language skills (be confident speaking in English) and communicative effectiveness as well (being able to communicate their emotions and needs).- stimulate creativity and increasing propensity to get involved, understanding own attitudes and limits.The project impacts on organizations:- increasing the competences of the organizations involved, in the specific field of web radio, but also in terms of their ability to relate to young people and influence them positively;- to innovate the communication of organizations, giving them an attractive picture and in line with today's needs; - strengthening forms of cooperation with other European organizations, which will be effective in building up new partnerships for future project ideas and mutual support;-once organizations can manage the methodologies of this project, they will be able to place the web radio as a useful project activity in the ""Erasmus +"" field and beyond;The final target group of the project are the youngsters, with whom our partner organizations and the participating youth workers deal within various fields. The foreseen impact on the final group is:-better communication possibilities;-increased motivation;-opportunities for self-expression and changing mind of the society they live in.At national level, the project will be an opportunity to raise awareness on other organizations present in each of the participating countries, on low budget web radio, bringing them to an European Projects reality, growing the importance of expanding its organizational horizons abroad and not just at exclusively local or national context; encouraging Mobility of young European citizens for several and effective training opportunities, for their professional and human growth offered by Europe.At the European and international level, the project's impact at the local and national level will be extended throughout Europe, in order to allow the diffusion of Creative Commons and web radio, low-cost participatory methodology, making young people protagonist in the field of information and culture.From this project, we expect that more organizations in Europe can use Web Radio as a means to increase their own visibility and be more incisive in the reality in which they work."

<< Objectives >>We all have our unique characteristics and personalities that make us different from each other. Those characteristics, qualities and attributes – which are the bases for the betterment of society – are in fact most important and of great significance, whether it be loyalty, sincerity, love or gratitude. Tolerance is one of those qualities that forms the bedrock of society. The world is a much smaller place today. Globalisation has blurred borders throughout the world. More people from different nations, cultures, religions and lifestyles are working together and living in the same neighborhoods than ever before. Tolerance of each others’ differences is a very important key to keeping peace among young generation. Youth exchange programme aims to promote tolerance, respect and mutual understanding through cultural, religion, ethnic diversity between youth from different countries, will be achieved by each activity planed during the youth exchange. By gathering youth from different countries together to discuss and to share their experience, ideas and work together for being source of spread gained information in their community, project will support to unite youngsters from different background, nations and culture. Cross-cultural learning and dialogue between the participants from different countries, with a view to promoting mutual understanding and tolerance. By interacting freely and opening their minds through specific games and tasks, young people will together find out elements of multiculturalism, tolerance, partnership, social volunteering and dialogue, discuss the importance of being involved in local community in friendly and supportive atmosphere and outline issues of social inclusion. << Activities >>The project covers main activities: preparation, youth exchange in Poland, evaluation and dissemination. Youth Exchange is the core activity of the project. Exchange days will become a special space created due to non-formal educational methods and wide NGOs' experience of social work for communication between youth Poland, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Italy and Slovakia. Before project application, Participants from each NGO discussed the ideas for the project, their specific needs and expected contribution. All the participants had the opportunity to share their ideas and visions with the other project members in a common project Facebook group. It was decided to place core project activities proposed and created by participants to the programme. Facilitators will support their preparation activities and will be ready to contribute. Partners will be represented by 5 participants (4 participants and 1 team leader). << Impact >>The impact on participants that will take part in this youth exchange will be the most relevant one, as they will acquire new skills, will develop new competencies and behaviours; apart from the impact that the Youth exchange will have on them directly, when the activity will take place, by interacting in an inter-cultural context, by experiencing a different learning environment, the impact will be sustainable as they will implement in their local communities their new competencies and abilities by organizing different community-based activities. We expect participants to change their attitude and welcome the tolerance in their everyday life, share this attitude with friends, family and within local community. Participants of this youth exchange are expected to become multipliers of results of the project. Their mission will be to introduce the rest of members of their organization with new information and knowledge they've got. Partner organization will have active members with new inspiration and strategies to improve their local work and a widened network of international contacts.

<< Objectives >>For young people, online life is becoming an increasingly important part, and we, as youth workers, cannot ignore this situation. Moreover, the topic of information technologies is increasingly being introduced into the youth work, as this is effective way to communicate and interact with young people.Thus, we believe that interaction with information and digital technologies in youth work has two important aspects:1)Information and digital management of NGOs, in particular, competences and needs of youth workers, informational and data literacy, communication, digital safety, etc.2)How digital technologies affect youth and how youth workers can help young people, especially vulnerable youth, to find a balance between real, offline life and online life (including how to prevent cyber bulling, grooming, sexting and exposure to content they find upsetting or shocking).Aim and ObjectivesSo, the aim of the training course is to empower youth workers with information and tools, which will help them safely manage digital technologies in their organizations, as well as effectively interact online and offline with young people, especially with young people from vulnerable groups.The specific objectives of the project then will be following:-to strengthen capacities and knowledge of youth workers about using digital technologies for increasing social inclusion and participation in society;-to exchange the experience, best practices and initiatives, in which information and digital security can be maintain (protection of young people's privacy, personal data, etc.);-to develop Guide for NGOs on ensuring digital security in youth work, which will be uploaded on SALTO Toolbox for Training & Youth Work.-to raise awareness how digitalization has influence on societies, including its impact on youth work and on young people;-to empower youth workers’ understanding about the role of youth work in preventing cyber bulling, grooming, sexting and exposure to content youngsters find upsetting or shocking;-to reinforce critical thinking of youth workers towards informational technologies, which they will transmit to youngsters, especially to young people from vulnerable groups;-to know how to react to hate speech, cyber bullying and other unwanted behavior online, and to encourage young people to do so;-to share best practices among youth workers, how to expand the horizons of young people regarding the offline life, informing them about the various possibilities of Erasmus + Program.Our project will increase the competences of the youth workers and capacities of the organizations from different countries working in youth field, will equip youth workers with competences and methods needed for transferring the common values on local, national and international level.Through this DSYW Training Course (TC), we want to remind youth workers that they need to consider their daily work deliberately. Every day, working with young people, having their personal data (e-mails, passport data, other personal information) needs a very responsible approach for organizing their working space. At the same time, it is the youth worker who can help vulnerable youth cope with the consequences of the expansion of digital technologies and take a step towards social inclusion.<< Activities >>Our TC will take place in Wroclaw, Poland from 2nd till 9th October 2019 and will gather together 31 youth workers (4 participants per country + 2 Trainers from Poland and Lithuania + 1 Coordinator from Poland) from 7 different countries: Estonia, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia. We understand that this is a fairly large number of participants, but given the profile of the partner organizations and the fact that we have already chosen motivated participants, a large group in this training course will help expand the results, make the work more efficient and exchange more experience. Two professional trainers will be able to facilitate all the processes, as well as the participants are able to manage themselves and contribute to the project.This project is collective initiative of the organizations developing projects in the framework of Erasmus plus. With all the organizations involved in the project, we already had the opportunity to work together, being involved in different KA1 and KA2 activities. For us, the most important thing is that we share the same values and have a vision of how youth work can and should be developed in the modern world. With some organizations we have a similar profile and target audience, with some there are differences, that is why we believe that participation in the project will be beneficiary for all organizations involved in the Training Course as it will allow looking to the problem from practical experiences and expanding the partnership network.The methodology of the TC is based on the fundamental principles of non-formal learning, also we will use the basic skills of self-work, IT business and psychology. The TC aims have specific outcomes as giving participants new skills and competences in working with youth with different social background; communicating and cooperating with youth workers from different countries, developing the common sense about the qualitative youth work between all the parties involved.The methodology in the project is the result of a common discussion among the project partners on the base of the objectives, the values and ideas that the project is intended to promote. During the project participants will acquire communicative skills, self-presentation skills, cultural awareness, mutual understanding, solving problems, trust and respect towards different cultures and working styles. They will become more aware of the essence of youth work from the psychological and sociological aspect; will learn how to manage their own abilities and how to help others in this sphere.We will try to create a space to learn and share about analyzing our previous experiences and then create a learning environment in which we can practice and test the best way to include learning in every part of the project cycle.Among the partnership of DSYW project, we have already selected participants depending on their motivation, as well as the opportunity to transfer the acquired knowledge within the framework of their organizations, as well as to other interested target groups. Participants will be youth leaders, youth workers, social workers, representatives from youth NGOs department of public sector who work daily with youth in non-formal education, trainers who would like to develop their training competences in the field of digital youth work.As agreed by all organisations of the project, some of the participants are people with fewer opportunities (educational obstacles, economic obstacles, cultural differences, geographical obstacles). We are ready to provide additional assistance and support to the participants with the fewer opportunities. We also understand how much they need it, as digital youth work is a space where they feel equal with all other youth workers. Our target group are people directly or indirectly working with youth. Partner organizations understand that this TC is a serious step for future cooperation.The project is a response to the needs of youth workers and their organisations as such; in order to improve their work and therefore improve the quality of the European projects. At the same time the project will help youth workers to explore others’ styles of interacting with youth and managing the projects, as well as to reflect on digital differences and the project will be a great chance to meet and work in the intercultural environment.<< Impact >>For us, one of the main tasks and values is to obtain a sustainable effect and not be limited only by short-term project results. Therefore, we want to strengthen the impact of the project at different levels, thus, the project will have an impact on the local, national and European/International levels.Thanks to active participation in the project, participants will strengthen capacities and knowledge about using safely digital technologies in youth work, will raise awareness how digitalization has influence on societies, including its impact on youth work and on young people; exchange the experience, best practices and initiatives, in which information and digital security can be maintain (protection of young people's privacy, personal data, etc.); discover how to react to hate speech, cyber bullying and other unwanted behavior online, and to encourage young people to do so.Moreover, they will reinforce various of skills and attitudes, including the critical thinking towards informational technologies, which they will transmit to youngsters, especially to young people from vulnerable groups.Each participant will bring a multiplying effect of their local societies– sending organization, youth with whom they are working, family, friends, neighbors, acquaintances and local media. In this way, the project objectives will be disseminated to the personal connections. The main value lies in the fact that participants in the TC will receive effective mechanisms and tools that can be used in various spheres of life, so they can help not only their colleagues who specialize in youth work, but also broader target groups.An important result will be that youth workers will be able to include in their work more young people with the risk of social exclusion, цho very often lives only online life and who can be reached using effective digital management mechanisms in youth work. Specifically for this category of young people it will be given a workshop after returning, and in the future it is planned their active inclusion in the social life of the organization.In addition, organizations will be able to share the acquired knowledge with other organizations working with young people (social centers, minority’s communities etc). Through contact of the organization’s and national media resources, participants will be able to broaden their public. Since organizations working in one country can also get to know each other and start cooperation, the knowledge gained can be spread beyond each sending organization to other organizations, operating in that country and they will also have the opportunity to strengthen their sustainability and social inclusion opportunity.The project is expected to provide reliable network of organizations for further cooperation and development. Knowing partners who share their values, it will be easier for organizations to cooperate and implement projects of a qualitatively new level in future. We believe that we need to move systematically, so we decided to start to establish cooperation with the countries of our region, and then move on.At the same time, through social media and distribution of project’ materials (Guide, photos, short video, articles of participants etc) the public of the project will not be limited only by the participants’ countries. Our Guide on Digital Security in Youth Work will be uploaded on SALTO Toolbox for Training & Youth Work.The impact of the project will be felt at the European level by promoting European values, youth activities through the Erasmus+ Program and recognition of youth work among different stakeholders.Also, after the mobility activities, all participants will receive Youthpass certificates, which confirms their participation and contains information about their achievements and competences gained during the mobilities, which can increase their chances on the labour market.Outputs and tools created during the project (including the Guide on Digital Security in Youth Work) will be uploaded on Erasmus + Projects Results Platform and Salto toolbox where they will be available for big amount of youth workers. Youth workers will use the project outcomes in their work and practice; to ensure that the impact is transferred, they will have the meeting with their colleagues and other interested parties (social workers, parents, teachers) to give the inputs of the project, as well as to conduct a workshop for local youth on topics of preventing cyber bulling, grooming and sexting. Besides the expected outputs directly related to the objectives and activities, how to manage digital security in NGO and how youth worker can help vulnerable youth cope with the consequences of the expansion of digital technologies and take a step towards social inclusion, this project will allow to promote and multiply best practices, increase youth workers competences and improve quality of European projects.