This project aims to raise quality and enhance youth work engagement in peace and reconciliation processes through digital tools and online media. Through our project, we will build capacities of youth workers and youth leaders through transfer of skills, experience, knowledge, attitudes and empowerment based on non-formal education activities, practice community activities and development of new methods and tools for efficient, innovative, relevant and modern approach to youth work. The project involves 10 partner organizations from Western Balkans partner and program countries and EU member states. Activities foreseen throughout the project include kick off meeting of partners, 3 mobilities of youth workers (training courses), joint campaign, hackathon event for development of new digital tools, creation of animated e-book on digital storytelling, as well as online platform for learning and co-working which will follow and facilitate all activities. Specific outputs of the project include 3 developed digital tools for young people and youth workers with the purpose to innovate their work on peacebuilding and reconciliation, one animated e-book on digital storytelling, different digital content (videos, visuals, texts, podcasts, etc) created during the campaign, as well as new methods and approaches developed during 3 training courses. Expected results of the project include built capacities of youth workers and youth leaders in using and shaping digital tools to promote intercultural understanding and acceptance of diversity; strengthened abilities of youth workers to create and develop digital media content for engaging young people in conflict transformation and reconciliation process; developed media literacy capacities of youth organizations and provide space for exploration of ICT potentials in youth work; raised awareness of young people about the importance of peacebuilding and conflict transformation and role of youth work and young people in it.

EYSET proposal involves 8 organizations from EU and Western Balkans Countries, ES, IT, BE, AL, XK, ME, BA with different and complementary profiles and experience according to the objectives fixed and activities proposed.The EYSET proposal target groups will be:-youth organizations -youth workers -stakeholders identified as public and private organizations that actively work for young people with and without disabilities social and labour inclusion, such as youth councils, youth platforms, chambers of commerce, associations, SMEs, public organizations supporting youth empowerment, etc., at local, regional national, EU/WB and extra EU levelNº of youth organizations involved in project activities minimum 139, youth workers minimum 24, young people minimum 122, minimum 49 stakeholders.GO: Empowering youth organizations making them able to contribute to young people and young people with disabilities social inclusion and fast track integration into the labour market.SO1: to enhance the suitable environment to raise the capacity of organizations working with young people with/without disabilities outside formal learning to support fast track integration of young people into the labour market, making them able to be social entrepreneurs in the tourism value chain, R1 Capacity building for youth organizationsSO2: to foster the development of youth work, improving its quality providing innovative methods, tools and material to support the empowerment of youth workers making them able to support young people in being social entrepreneurs in the tourism value chain, R2 Toolkit for youth workersSO3: to enhance cooperation across EU and WB countries, through joint initiatives promoting youth employability and the awareness of the importance of the creation of useful and proper tools to foster the social and labour inclusion of young people without and with disabilities exploiting social entrepreneurship in the tourism value chain. R3 Policy Recommendations

With this project we will address issues of rising tensions threatening the peace and stability in region of WB and EU by involving youth work in promotion and active participation in peacebuilding, solidarity, understanding and respect. What we have concluded as two important aspects of working with young people on peacebuilding is recognising them as huge potential in the transformation and using youth work practices as way to ensure sustainability and long-term impact of that work. Namely, youth work is one of the main mechanisms that, through its programs, can provide constant promotion of peacebuilding, solidarity, respect, and understanding, but also active involvement of young people in peacebuilding practice. Youth work brings change through diversity of its approaches and provides young people with space and empowerment to express. Youth workers are the key element of this process and they are the first to be addressed. They are ensuring active, systemic, and meaningful participation of youth in issues of peace and security is a demographic and democratic imperative. The main aim of this project is framework competence building which aims to support youth workers in innovation and creativity in developing peacebuilding education and practice within youth work and non-formal learning in Europe. We intent to achieve this through set of interrelated activities: 3 mobility activities – training course on topics of peacebuilding in youth work, creativity and innovation in peacebuilding and non-formal education as tool for social transformation, web platform for sharing and promoting different tools, methods and forms of working on peacebuilding topics in youth context, action week - public activities with young people with the aim to promote, raise awareness and educate their communities on topics of peace and large scale youth event – public DEOR youth event. In consortium of 13 partners from France, Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Greece, Spain, Poland, Serbia, Italy, Cyprus we have gathered relevant youth organizations: Voix des Jeunes Refugiés en Europe, Beyond Barriers Association, SMART Foundation, South East European Youth Network, Europe House Slavonski Brod, Youth Association creACTive, AddArt, Fundacio Catalunya Voluntaria, 4YOUth Foundation For Supporting Youth Initiatives, Educational center – Krusevac, Human Rights Youth Organization, NGO Support centre, NVO Pravi Put.

This project is based on need for competent youth workers to support young people in their socio-economic development as responsible citizens with fundamental European values as well as to facilitate civic engagement of youth in reconciliation at various levels. They should be equipped with competences to practice bottom-up and human-centred approach to reconciliation since it is all about people2people actions that contribute to societal reconstruction and finally to society/community transformation. This way, we are contributing also to European education and training policy since we deal with quality of youth work and non-formal education. Improving capacities of youth workers in reconciliation topic also contribute to topic-based diversification inside the youth work field. Youth workers are the key element of this process and they are the first to be addressed. They are ensuring active, systemic, and meaningful participation of youth in issues of peace and security is a demographic and democratic imperative. Project consortium consists of organizations with portfolio in quality youth work, reconciliation, youth activism and participation, advocacy.Main of this project is to improve the quality and foster the innovative approaches and development of youth work efforts through European cooperation and capacity building of youth workers in the field of reconciliation. We will achieve this through 4 specific objectives: - To enhance socio-professional development and international cooperation of youth workers and trainers by strengthening their capacities in the field of effective reconciliation in post conflict regions and providing them with space for exchange of good practice. - To increase capacity of youth workers to design and lead the processes of development of social innovations in reconciliation field by using cross-sector approach and methodology developed by Regional Social Innovation Lab for peace and reconciliation aimed at young people.- To empower and support youth organizations to cooperate, advocate and take an important role in reconciliation process providing them with competences and space to implement innovative ideas on local and international level and involve young people as active actors.-To promote and mainstream Erasmus + programme as one of the most effective ways for youth workers and youth organizations in Europe to receive quality capacity building, advance their efforts in topics of interest and strengthen sustainable relationship between WB and EU.The project consortium consists of 10 partner organizations from Programme and Neighboring Countries (SEE region connecting WB and EU countries) from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, FYROM, Turkey. During 24 months, the project will be implemented through following activities: Partner meeting, Online learning platform, 4 Training Courses, Practical activities, Methodology Development HUB.

Main aim of this project is to develop the set of skills and increase knowledge of youth worker and youth leaders in specific important topics for young people, equip them with competences and relevant experience for active work with young people through non-formal education and training and empower them to take the leading role and bring their organization capacities to the high quality level. Development of quality and sustainable capacity building programs through non-formal education activities, mobility of youth workers and leaders, effective dissemination of competences, knowledge, skills and outcomes and their wide validation and recognition will directly lead to high quality youth work, efficient youth program management, better partnership and networking with other youth organizations from Europe and world, sustainability of organizational resources and capacities, promotion and implementation of youth mobility, non-formal education and international cooperation. We plan to achieve this through several activities: 4 Mobility activities - Training Courses, in-house trainings/workshops multiplying activities, production of 2 editions of handbooks, development of youth online platform and Youth DEOR meeting. Project will gather 11 organizations from 10 different countries of Western Balkan and South East European Region: Bosnia and Herzegovina (SEEYN), Albania (BBA), Serbia (VEM and BINS), Croatia (YPGD), Bulgaria (CVS), Kosovo(LENS), Greece(CIA), Macedonia (YCC), Turkey (TOG), Montenegro (SOS).