As social inclusion can be promoted in many different ways such as increasing employability of migrants, creating common spaces for all communities, using artistic tools such as theatre, dance, music, photography, painting. We, in our project, aimed to support youth workers to their mission of better integration of young migrants through developing skills of youth workers by using innovative and creative artistic tools. As a result, initiative, creativity, and motivation enhanced both in the direct target – youth workers – and in their final target – migrants – for Europe to be more inclusive and cohesive. Art+ gathered 39 youth workers in Fethiye, Muğla, at Kaizen Gate Hotel & Training Center in between 10- 16 May 2018 (including travel days) from 12 different Program countries: Turkey, United Kingdom, Poland, Spain, Netherlands, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Italy, Estonia, Romania, Latvia. (Greece was a partner in the application but we didn't have any participant from Greece as our partner couldn't reach the necessary number of participants, therefore there were other extra participants that has been placed in Art+ project from the other partner countries. The working methods were primarily based on the active participation and learning of participants promoted through non-formal and informal activities.The main methodological approaches were based on: - Creative thinking and art methods - Experiential learning - Cooperative and Peer learning - Outdoor activities Art+ has distributed in the flow of learning path as; - Information, knowledge exchange and competences development about art, intercultural dialogue, and youth work- An innovative tool for social inclusion: how social inclusion through artistic tools contribute a better social cohesion- Experiential learning- Follow up, dissemination and evaluation of the TC. As well as TC improved the quality of youth work in the field of intercultural dialogue and social inclusion of young migrants, also developed personal, professional and intercultural competencies of youth workers and inspire them to use powerful tools such as artistic expression, creative thinking, and ICT to ease the path towards social inclusion and cohesion among youngsters, with migrant background youth (un)employment and wellbeing. With these actions, Art+ had a strong direct positive impact: on the main target group, youth workers by increasing their personal and professional skills,on the migrants΄ community living in participants’ regions, through their future actions and activities Art+ inspired inspire and motivate youth workers on the direction of social inclusion of migrants. The potential longer benefits that Art+ project aimed to have is to create a network from the participating organizations that is going to continue disseminating project’s ideas and results even after the end of it. With the gained knowledge, organizations learned to use these alternative ways to create new projects and promote innovation, creativity, and cohesion in the EU area.Project film can be seen through the following link below;http://bit.do/artandintegrationbyartisngo

"Conflict comes high on the political agenda everywhere in Europe. While the form of conflicts may vary such as inter ethnic, inter-religious, international or any other many states face urgent situations of tension and are not always prepared to handle them or to find solutions acceptable to all concerned. Recently, security logics and increased policing have been the choice of governments in response to conflicts. More and more, there is a tendency to “explain” conflict through multiculturalism or religion, thus blaming culture and diversity for growing tensions. Especially there is growing fears towards refugees, muslims leads radicalization in many European countries. In addressing youth, conflict is an inevitable topic, both as a transversal theme and as a specific area of work. The European institutions are aware of this, and both have some form of specific programming in relation to youth and conflict, actively engaging in co-operation on this theme. Young people face different kinds of conflict in their lives and transitions to adulthood, and at the same time many live in regions or environments experiencing or recovering from conflict. Furthermore, the forms and types of conflict that can be experienced change with the dynamic development of societies in response to globalisation. The background of the project outline is constituted by existing regional conflicts in Eastern Europe and Caucasus and the increasing tensions within many EU countries in regards to nationalism, xenophobia. Viewing the post-soviet context with frozen and hot conflicts/war in east Ukraine (Ukraine - Russia), Abkhazia and Southern Ossetia (Georgia) and Nagorno- Karabakh (Armenia - Azerbaijan), Kurdish conflict (Turkey), political conflict between Netherlands and Turkey proves that conflict management and peace building are obviously among the most important issues especially among young people for civil society organizations to work on. All the above stated illustrates the importance of youth work in the areas of peace building, conflict transformation, peace education and anti-discrimination. Many youth workers are missing skills to deal with conflict or has limited methods to apply. so these create big need to train youth workers to develop theirs skills and prove them different tools to promote peace education. Considering all above mentioned we decided to create a training course to fill in the gap. Skills and Tools to Transform Conflict - STTC provided tools to youth workers on conflict management and peace education for their daily work with young people. Second of aim STTC is to develop capacity and skills of participants to become a peace-builder and change makers in their communities. The following objectives have been set in order to implement a successful training course: • To exchange best practices in relation to youth work and conflict and -cultural dialogue; • To provide tools for conflict management and peace education; • To promote common understanding of peace and dialogue; • To develop and promote the culture of peace; • To create space for NGOs and youth workers to cooperate in the implementation of joint projects on local, regional and international level; • To raise the visibility of the Erasmus+ Programme in the U.K and EECA region. The training course(TC) ""Skills and Tools to Transform Conflict - STTC"" took take place in London, United Kingdom between 29 November - 6 December 2018. TC gathered 31 youth workers and youth leaders, included 3 trainers, 1 junior trainer and 1 project manager, 1 support staff from 6 EECA and 6 Programme countries as such as; United Kingdom, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Netherlands, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus. This TC covered different types of conflicts and in different settings and consequently ways of transforming conflicts by non-violent actions. Crucial attention was placed on fostering a constructive debate on recent conflicts in Europe and cooperation in the youth field. This was done by promoting non-violent approaches leading to actions on peace-building and promotion of Human Rights. Moreover, young leaders discussed the significant role of youth participation in grass-root peace-building initiatives. The trainers and invited experts shared practical and theoretical knowledge on the topics, through plenary sessions, discussions, workshops, creativity sessions, inter-cultural & interactive exercises and other non-formal educational methods. Essential throughout the TC is the input and experience sharing from participants."

In times of societal polarizations, rising disbeliefs in the European idea, and the perception of the European Union as detached from needs and realities of citizens, the need for effective and inclusive systemic community building on local levels across the European Union and its neighbouring regions is urgent. The overall objective of the project Empower - Connect - Share: Activists for a vivid European Civil Society was to empower, further qualify and strengthen the vivid and engaged network of civil society organizations across Europe and North Africa. By reflecting and practicing systemic approaches towards sustainable societal change in local communities, the project aimed for increased collective impact on local, national and international levels. Targeted key actors related to community-building were 1) youth workers and community facilitators who design and implement formats in citizenship education, 2) community coordinators that manage activities in local communities and coordinate the cooperation between different stakeholders in a communityThe project targeted these key actors as multipliers from Central, Eastern, South Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and North Africa in the field of non-formal citizenship education for democratic community building. The training, networking and peer-to-peer capacity-building formats of this project improved the professional skills linked to their roles in community-building processes and thereby enhanced their employability. The project promoted lifelong learning as well as continuously improving the level of pedagogy and didactics related to citizenship education and community building across the EU and its neighboring regions.(A1) Training for youth workers and community facilitators 27 youth workers and community facilitators convened for a 5-day training in Subotica, Serbia between 20/06/2018 and 24/06/2018.The training had the main objective to enhance the quality of non-formal citizenship education as crucial element in an effective and sustainable community-building. It qualified youth workers and community facilitators in more effective and more impactful planning and implementation of different educational formats with the objective of community participation, their ability to work with large groups in their communities, and their ability to consistently include harvesting formats for results to be put into practice after the closure of educational events. (A2) Peer-to-peer capacity building for community coordinators 30 community coordinators met in Berlin, Germany between 09/07/2018 and 12/07/2018 for a 4-day peer-to-peer capacity building event.This activity had the main objective to provide a frame to practice and exchange on systemic approaches to sustainable community-building.It qualified community coordinators in topics of advancing sustainable transformations processes through the lens of system diagnosis and systemic interventions and on collaborative approaches and community engagement for collective impact. The relevant outputs of the activities were disseminated on www.competendo.net to carry citizenship education to the entire international network of 200 community facilitators, 90 community coordinators and 2000 further professionals in the fields of citizenship education and community-building. On local, regional, and national levels the project has contributed to•More effective community-building projects and activities,•more inclusive communities that constructively deal with diversity.On the European and international level, the project has contributed to •a sustainable network between professionals related to community-building in the EU and internationally,•strengthened understanding of the relevance and importance of the EU as a space for international exchange on local matters that takes the specificities of the respective contexts into consideration. •advanced cooperation, knowledge sharing and know-how transfer e.g. on best practices in working with marginalized groups such as refugees, rural youth, communities in conflict-affected areas.

"According to the Eurostat statistics youth unemployment rate in Europe in July 2014 was 21.7 % in the EU-28. This is the lowest rate for the EU-28 since September 2011, but anyway the rate is still higg as the latest statistics of Eurostat december 2016 shows 18.6 % of young people are unemployed in the EU-28. The highest rates were observed in , Greece (46.13%), Spain (43.6 %)Italy (36.4 %), Croatia (29.7%). Entrepreneurship is one the most important aspect to fight with youth unemployment as today social entrepreneurship is becoming one of the effective and innovative methods to solve the social problems. It gives the opportunity to deal with the problematic issue in a creative way that in turn helps to involve into social sphere more people, create alternative jobs and income. In light of economic changes, globalisation and requirements on labour market (the moving from employment to employability) entrepreneurship itself is becoming popular issue among young people as a lot of them are struggling to find job or having their own income. As a result of these young people are searching alternative way which turns to be running of their own enterprises. In order to be able to do this they need some certain skills and knowledge like knowledge business sector, understanding financial risk and management, having soft skills (communication, leadership, management etc). Moreover, 90 % of all startups are failing which stops young people to put their ideas in action. At this point NGOs should provide young people with information and help on the topic of social entrepreneurship and involve them into the issue. But there are not many organisations which are competitive enough in this field. That youth exchange “A new Job - A new Love - Entrepreneurship” aims to develop participants’ skills on social entrepreneurship, financial management, creativity, soft skills, strategic planning of the ideas. It is designed for youth leaders, youth volunteers ages between 18 - 30 to explore methods of working with youth on the topic of social entrepreneurship and practical skills on running the social enterprise with their organisations. The priority age group will be 18 - 30 years old. The whole project is built up and developed in accordance with the objectives and the priorities of the Erasmus+ Programme. Our objectives are: 1) To develop creative thinking, soft skills, financial management, strategic planning of the ideas and social entrepreneurship skills 2) To transfer knowledge and experiences on how to motivate young people in developing entrepreneurial paths. 3) To offer a basic exchange on how to develop, validate and implement social entrepreneurial projects. 4) To explore practical ways of supporting young people set up social enterprises, taking into consideration legal, financial, management and social requirements. 5)To equip youth leaders and youth volunteers with tools and methods designed to develop entrepreneurial skills 6) To develop new methods and tools of working on the topic of social entrepreneurship. 7) To provide participants with the opportunity to exchange experience and expertise in the field of social entrepreneurship. 8) To inform the participants about opportunities to develop new projects under the Erasmus+ Programme The project will be take place in Karaman, Konya between November 7th to 14th 2017 and It will gather together 32 participants from programme countries such as Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Lithuania, Romania and Turkey. Working methodologies of the youth exchange will be based the non-formal education methods such as outdoor activities, debates, discussions, sharing experience, creative sessions and self-assessment sessions, roll-play activities, simulation games, meetings with young entrepreneurs, Erasmus+ possibilities, innovative presentations, team-building activities, energizers, ice-breakers, ""getting to know each other"" tools, brainstorms, individual/pair/group work, inspirational visit, feedback and reflection sessions. Regarding to the specific methods and tools on the project topic the trainers will use business model canvas, CEFE, XMind, creativity tools, brainstorm maps, logical framework, problem tree , etc. Except the trainers local and international young social entrepreneurs and experts will involve into the project. The main results of the project will be activities for young people on the topic of social entrepreneurship implemented by project participants in the countries and social enterprises created by young people after these activities. We expect that the youth exchange will help the organisations to start to run their own social enterprises. Also the project will increase the quality of youth activities and projects on local and international levels, including new cooperation."

""" Activating Rural Areas Through Art "" was the Erasmus+ Key Action 1 Project - Youth Exchange aiming to raise awareness on empowerment of rural youth in order to reach the European opportunities and increase capacities of youth through art Works, create space for open dialogue, inter-cultural understanding, mutual respect and acceptance of diversity between young people in our countries. The Project will include groups of 4 participants plus one group leader from 8 partner countries. Project will be organized on 02-11 April 2018 in Ariogala, Lithuania. The daily program was designed for 9 working days plus 1 travel day. The youth exchange will involve 42 participants including 9 leaders and 33 young people people with rural background, youth leaders working with rural youth and artists who want to work with/for rural areas. CCI would like to empower European youth, by enabling them to raise their cultural awareness through a mix of methods of Non-formal learning and using different tools for learning and sharing information. By this Youth Exchange we provide space and time to our participants to share their life stories and experiences to enhance their mutual understanding, better inter cultural communications, networking, and friendship. Project objectives were: -Ensuring that participating young and local people are informed about European opportunities and providing opportunities for young people living in these regions to take advantage of youth opportunities; - Being able to develop new methods that will enable young people living in rural areas to access to important information that can change their future; -Improving the skills of young people living in rural areas on the basis of art and culture and contribute to becoming active citizens; -Being able to provide social change positively in rural areas with art and cultural activities; - Encouraging young people living in rural areas to have information about the nature of the youth projects and to undertake new projects; - Creating a platform where young people can develop and demonstrate their artistic skills and their ability to express themselves; - Encouraging young people living in rural areas to explore the NGO experience and to produce new projects by gaining project experience; -Introducing the culture of the country and ensure introducing different cultures; - Learning to appreciate and understand differences, similarities and other people’s point of view and to consider inter-ethnic relations as European gain by common activities - Improving self-confidence and communication skills of youth for a better interaction with others through understanding and practicing the non-verbal communication within activities - Developing artistic skills, creativity of youth by using different technics in short time - Improving personal abilities of interacting and building bridges of trust by working in a team with people of different culture and traditions, through different methods - Strengthening relationships between participants, discover that, beyond our differences, we share a common humanity; create a positive attitude towards European values. Using non-formal education methods we offered participants wide variety of interactive workshops, presentations and discussion platforms comprising photograph, video, music, theatre production. We will share information targeted at our local communities and European citizens in general, raising awareness on inclusion of young people who live in rural areas into Erasmus+ projects. As an outcome of our project, participants used the new skills and competences to increase their intercultural sensitivity, became more tolerant and respectful toward other European cultures and become more active in their communities and organizations. The working methods were: - Small group discussion - Group presentations - Individual presentations -Digital Skills - Theatre methods - Energizers - Ice-breaking activities - Outdoor activities - Team-building activities, - Exchange of experiences, - Cultural activities, - Social media skills - On-going evaluation The information about the project disseminated widely through Online platforms like action blogging, facebook, youtube, instagram, partner organization's web pages. Also, thanks to our exhibition and performances our projects reached its audience directly and Participants of the Project. They also had chance to communicate with local people and inform them about Erasmus+ projects and opportunities. So, the outputs and overall results of the project was available to anyone – all over the world."