The project called We are not victims of modern technologies! is a 9-days Mobility of youth workers of Key Action 1 (KA1) of programme Erasmus+. It will gather 36 participants from 15 countries () around the themes of social exclusion, addiction on internet and digital technologies.The project application is being submitted by the group of young people active in youth work called EPYG - Euro Project Youth Group.The project aims on improving the quality of youth work in the field of non-formal education, realted with problems of addiction of young people on the internet and digital modern technologies and consequences of that problem as social exclusion, lack of self-freedom and communication & social skills gaps, lack of self-realisation, etc. Objectives and priorities of the project are:- To learn young people how to use their free time effectively and actively by sport or outdoor activities- To offer basic methods of planning process within Time management and their application in practice- To create awareness to young people who use internet and computer too often, about ways and methods of right usage of internet and computer technologies (interface Web 2.0)- To raise knowledge and practical skills of young leaders in spheres of communication, motivation and involvement of youth- To familiarize participants with opportunities , which are being offerred by Erasmus+ programme and to analyze the role and perception of Non-Formal Education methods in area of youth work.A planned impact and benefit from this project consists in informing about threat of overusage the internet and modern technologies´ tools, threat of such addictions and disorders that lurk for them. The project deals with adoption of methods of active lifestyle, spending leisure time and adoption of techniques of Time management in daily life. Participants will get familiarized with new methods and facts that wil help them at their youth work to deal with simmilar problems.

The training course, Keep Educate Your Skills about Employment, is an activity that will bring together 27 participants, 2 trainers and one facilitator from 9 European countries. The training will be held in Traisteni (Valea Doftanei village), Romania for 7 working days and it is for project managers, youth workers, volunteers who are active in each partner organization and who have some experience in youth work so they can multiply the knowledge they get. Project idea was inspired by the “Study on the impact of Non-Formal Education in youth organizations on young people’s employability” launched by the European Youth Forum in October 2012. Based in the findings of the study, young people develop five of the most important skills that are widely sought for and demanded by the employers by engagement in youth organization and youth projects. These skills are communication, teamwork, decision-making, organizational skills and self-confidence. Hence, the proposed project offers methods, tools and practices (based on the principles of non-formal education) that can be implemented and used as inspiration by people dealing with youth and helping their employability skills to be developed. The main objectives set up for this course are to contribute to youth worker’s social and professional growth, to explore the concepts of social inclusion, employment, soft skills, youngsters with fewer opportunities and share best practices, to develop participants competencies how to work concretely to develop soft skills and empower young people from disadvantage backgrounds in long term perspective and to create future and sustainable partnership between partners.The learning process will be follow this structure: four workshops per day with respective breaks among them. The activities will follow the logical line: start with get to know each others steps, group building exercise, entering into the topic, explore the topic, providing tools for empowerment, sharing best practices, put in practice what was learn, follow up and dissemination and final evaluation of the course.The methodology will include communication-based methods (interaction, dialogue, open discussions), activity based methods (sharing experience, practice and experimentation), socially focused methods (partnerships, teamwork, networking) and self-directing methods (creativity, discovery, responsibility, action).The project aims is to explore employability of young people, inclusion, soft skills, young people with fewer opportunities and how it is searched in various sectors of life. These skills and competencies will be beneficial for participants for future initiatives, also helping participants become more aware of self-employment as a career option.

A project called You(th) and Non-Formal Education are the Best! is a 9 days Mobility of youth workers - Key Action 1 (KA1) of Erasmus+ programme. This activity will gather 35 participants - youth leaders and youth workers, coming from 13 European countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine)). Project application is being submitted by Group of young peope active in youth work called EPYG - Euro-project youth group on behalf of the partner network of youth organisations active in the youth work in the region of Snina town in eastern Slovakia.The project deals with an issue of improving the quality of the non-formal education processes in the youth work field, exchanging the best practices, increasing the competences and skills of youth leaders and workers. The priority for this project is a youth work and increasing its quality level, increasing the educational approaches and methods, increasing the effectivity of creating and using the project outcomes and results and their application into the practice.The objectives of the project are:* to exchange of the best practices in the field of youth work, to strengthen the exchange of experiences and competences within the youth organisations* to implement, develop and support the non-formal education methods, their meaning in the education process and in a life of young people* to analyze the role of NFE and to distinguish the differences in the formal, informal and non-formal education within the common Europe* to support intercultural learning, analyse of intercultural diversity at international level - emphasize of cultural traditions and habbits in different countries* to explore the possibilities of Erasmus+ Programme and analyze the role and perception of non-formal education (including thekey competences of Youhpass certificate)* to increase the communication and presentation skills of youth workers in order to implement non-formal methods in an efficient way* to encourage young people to use outdoor activities as a tool of non-formal learning processThe impact and benefits planned in the project reside in definition, analysis and gathering of the best practices in wprking and educative processes in the field of youth work. An improvement of skills and competences of youth leaders and workers will offer a more qualitative and effective background for the youth work field at regional, national and international level, an increase of youth participation and an increase of awareness about the opportunities offerred by European non-formal education programmes as Erasmus+.

This project is a result of a YiA project (training course) organized by our association.The project is a youth exchange, will take place in Valea Doftanei, Romania and will involve 20 participants and 5 leaders from 5 countries: Bulgaria, Italy, Slovakia, Romania and Turkey. With partners we have a very good collaboration which starts long time ago. The main theme proposed by the youngsters who design this project is active European citizenship through young volunteers; so during 7 days of activities, we will learn, speak and promote the rights and duties as EU citizen and in the main time we will promote the volunteering actions. All the activities will use non-formal education as active listening, brainstorming, team-building, out-door activities, games (trust games, role games, funny games, intercultural games, evaluation by games, etc.), learning by doing, open cafe, debates, etc. By all this methods we want to develop new skills and abilities for youngsters in order to help them to develop at personal and professional level. Also, on long-term, we want young people to act as active citizens in the community, to develop projects to help the local community and youth centers to become more active with activities dedicated to the needs and demands of young people.

"The youth exchange ""Inspire youth creativity!"" aims to develop approaches of working with young people and audiences, development of creativity and creative actions that animates the public. In order to strengthening the dialogue and youth work with Roma and non-Roma on local, national and international level, as well the cooperation and relations between Roma and non-Roma youth and youth organizations, we aim to foster the conceptual understanding for intercultural dialogue, youth empowerment and mobilization. One of the objective is also to develop approaches for creating creative public actions, as well to develop new projects within the new Erasmus plus Programme. This 10-day lasting youth exchange will bring 38 youngsters together, that are engaged at a local, regional and national level in the empowerment process of young Roma and inspire youth's creativity to take action. The exchange, organized by the Regional Educational Roma Youth Association in Struga, Macedonia from 05-th till 14-th of August 2014, will be the occasion to discuss approaches that involve non-formal learning, as well to learn and participate in impro-theater, frozen installation creation, comic drawing, creativity, art as action and tool, youth mobilization and the opportunities that young Roma and non-Roma have to participate in social and political life. The exchange will look into practices of intercultural dialogue on local level, example of public actions based on creativity and how to connect these to international projects based on the tools of the new Erasmus plus programme. The participants will work on creating creative performances that will be presented on the international youth day 12-th of August by moving the exchange in the Multicultural center of Kratovo. During the stay in Kratovo, the exchange will discuss with the local community, the needs and aspirations of young people, and will engage in a common action (flash-mob) to promote publicly through creative tools the respect between Roma and non-Roma youth. In order to stimulate and improve the opportunities for cooperation, a video and an internet platform will document the outcomes of the exchange. It will include many best practices of local, national and international youth projects related to empowerment and creativity, as well mobilization and participation of young people. The specific objectives of the exchange are to:• strengthen the transnational and long-term networking of Roma youth organizations from 7 European countries;• share and disseminate successful practices based on creativity;• promote the visibility of Roma and non-Roma youth active citizenship to combat racism and xenophobia, in order to create opportunities of dialogue between young people from different cultural background by addressing it to relevant stakeholders;• raise the participation of young Roma in the new Erasmus plus programme and develop new cooperation projects.All the projects ideas, as well as already implemented projects and methods/approaches of different Roma and non-Roma youth organizations will be edited and published in order to serve as a basis for all participating organizations as well as other youth organizations. The participating organizations will benefit strongly of the exchange of experience and transfer of successful practices through this youth exchange, as well as through on/offline tools during follow-up, in order to strengthen innovative methods and approaches in non-formal education, social inclusion and challenging stereotypes and antigypsyism by using creativity. All partners will enlarge and deepen their grassroots networks in Roma communities, enhance their capacity in European cooperation, build partnerships to stakeholders and authorities on all levels, position themselves by mainstreaming their inclusive, empowering and participative approaches on the respective levels and fulfil their own missions. Based on already developed grassroots networks and active volunteers, this project targets to empower, train and capacitate young Roma and non-Roma as multipliers, role models and active citizens in order to raise their capacity, creativity, initiative, self-esteem, negotiating power to advocate their own needs to achieve sustainable effects in their own realities. The biggest impact we expect for the young Roma themselves, as they can realize that the world is not just problematic but there are options for them to construct their own future."