"The eight-day long training course ""Queer Solidarity - we are all in this together!"" deals with the topic of solidarity. Right-wing populist expressions become louder and more susceptible to mankind. The social climate is hardening and positions that deny the legitimacy of sexual and sexual diversity become more visible and tolerated in public spheres. In order to counteract these developments and to protect human rights, we need young people to unify and act in solidarity with each other across borders. This also includes leaving the “borders” of our own reference groups and engaging for the needs and requests of others. We would like to encourage and empower young educators with our seminar to be sensitive towards any kind of discrimination and fight it together. Through the provision of knowledge, awareness of our own social positioning, the exchange of experience with other committed youth workers, as well as the capacity-building for civic action, we would like to enable young educators to base their pedagogical practice on the principles of solidarity and convince others to do the same. Only if we consider the fight against discrimination and devaluation of any person (group) as our mission, social structures can be changed and diversity be established as a self-evident part of society. 50 young educators, aged between 20 and 35, from Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Georgia, Sweden, Palestine, Israel, Ireland, Slovenia and Austria will take part in the seminar. The participants are all active in our partner organizations. In this way, we also ensure their preparation and follow-up as well as the passing-on of newly acquired knowledge to the partner organizations."

The eight-day youth exchange „A social Europe for all – Fighting youth unemployment and social exclusion“shall impart abilities, methods and expertise to youth so that they can easily start into the labour market after finishing their apprenticeship or academic studies. Objective of the youth ecounter is on the one hand to fight youth unemployment through helping young people to integrate into the job market and on the other hand to develop strategic solutions and possible courses of action to counteract current social marginalisation of young unemployed.60 Youth from seven different countries of Europe and the Middle East will take part in the youth exchange .To experience a variety of perspectives and social challenges in the work against youth unemployment and the resulting social exclusion the participants of the project will come from different geographical parts of Europe and the Mediterranean region. The participants of the youth exchange are all active members of partner organisations. The young participants of the exchange will operate as peer-educators as they are presenting their work to each other and are working on the transferability of their respective best practice. Therefore they themselves become active to prevent youth unemployment and the resulting social exclusion. This empowering structure of the project is contributing to the sustainable success of the project.After the youth exchange the participants will transfer the learned skills and methods to their work in their home organisations.

The eight-day long youth exchange “Europe goes right? - Empowering youth to fight right-wing populism” brings together young people from different regions of Europe and the Mediterranean to deal with the current globally present topics of right-wing populism and shift to the right and to create educational strategies for a democratic Europe. The aim is to encourage young people to counteract right-wing populist mobilization, nationalist tendencies and contemptuous attitudes, and to work for a democratic Europe of diversity. One of the focal points of the youth exchange is the discussion of the internet as a place of right-wing populist opinion-making. In various media workshops the participants develop answers to online hate speech and how a democratic culture can be implemented online. For this, the participants are not only trained in the use of social media and other media interventions but also in the development of educational actions in the web. With the youth exchange adolescents and young people gain skills, methods and competencies that enable them to carry out projects that foster and consolidate democracy and to transfer their acquired knowledge as multipliers. 60 young people and adolescents from ten different countries in Europe and the Middle East will participate in the youth exchange. The internationality of the encounter ensures a variety of different perspectives on the subject and thus makes participants experience difference and diversity. This leads not least to the dismantling of one's own prejudices and any fear of contact. The participants of the youth exchange are all active members in the partner organizations of the project. They will become peer educators by presenting their work to the others and discussing the transferability of the respective best practice. This makes them actively acting against right-wing populism, racism and discriminatory attitudes and for a democratic Europe of diversity. This self-awareness has an empowering effect and thus contributes to the sustainable success of the project. After the youth exchange participants will pass on the learned skills and techniques in their home organizations.

The eight-day international mobility for youth workers “Trans*gender rights are human rights - encouraging the visibility of Trans*identities in our societies” aims the further education of young people working with youth in the field of education with transsexual, genderqueer and intersex youth. Often transgender, genderqueer and intersex children and teenagers have to dispute with the rejection of their absolute legitimate gender identity by their personal and social environment. Due to their diverse gender identity they are subjected to social mechanisms of exclusion and discrimination more strongly than children and teenagers who have their gender identity within the binary system of the sexes. According to the statistics human beings who are discriminated and experience their results of social disadvantages abort schooling and apprenticeship more often than people living in the social mainstream.This activity shall affect that transsexual, genderqueer and intersex teenagers become more empowered to run free their identity honestly. In addition, the participants using this activity will learn action strategies and techniques intending an inclusion of people with diverse gender identities. The participants are integrated actively into the content configuration of this activity through the responsibility of every delegation in guiding a workshop and representing examples of their organisation’s “Good Practice” in the working with transsexual, genderqueer and intersex teenagers. All together 50 multipliers of youth work from eight nine different countries of the Europe and the Middle East shall participate in this project. To reach a variety of diverse views and social challenges in working for a social acceptation of transsexual, genderqueer and intersex people the participants of this project will be from geographic various regions of Europe and the Middle East. The participants will be all members of the partner organisations of this project.It is the activity’s long-ranging aim to base a culture of recognition of the human being’s variety and diversity in our society and to espouse the implementing of the human rights. Among others this is just possible if we as educational youth organisations supporting the youth education recognize our responsibility as co-creator of the civil society and resist social mechanisms of isolation.

"The eight-day long youth event ""Education for social change"" brings together young people from different regions of Europe and the Mediterranean to deal with the currently globally present topics of escape, asylum and welcoming culture and to create educational strategies for a democratic Europe of diversity. The aim is both to encourage young people to counteract racist resentments, assaults and mobilizations by educational projects and also to develop and implement strategies and actions for a solidary welcoming culture at local, national and international levels and thus to work for a vibrant democracy of diversity. The youth exchange teaches adolescents and young people skills and methods which enable them to independently carry out educational projects and to carry on their newly acquired knowledge as multipliers.60 adolescents and young people from ten different countries in Europe and the Middle East will participate at the youth exchange. Of particular importance to us is the inclusion of refugees in the exchange – since we don’t want to talk about but with them. The internationality of the encounter provides a variety of different viewpoints on the subject, thus difference and diversity will be experienced and learned about. This leads not least to reduce the participants’ own prejudices and any possible fears of contact.The participants of the exchange are all active in a partner organization of the youth exchange. They will become peer educators by presenting their work to the others and discussing the transferability of the respective best practice. This makes them actively acting against racism and discrimination and for a democratic Europe of diversity. This self-awareness has an empowering effect and thus contributes to the sustainable success of the measure. After the youth exchange participants will pass on the learned skills and techniques in their home organizations."