"<< Objectives >>The central objective of this project is to tackle the issue of low community participation. “Project Unity” will address this issue via experiencing the specific methodology of community building that will equip youth workers and youth leaders with new skills and attitude towards working with groups of young people. In the proposed methodology community building tool is also serving as a tool to develop self-awareness and well-being of the youth workers, as well as their capacity to coach & mentor young people. Project Objectives:-Understanding the concept of community building and its importance in fostering social cohesion and inclusion, -Developing skills in identifying and engaging with diverse communities, including those that are marginalized or underrepresented, -Learning techniques for facilitating community-led initiatives and projects, and understanding the role of community participation in decision-making,-Building a network of peers in the field of community building,-Applying the knowledge and skills acquired during the training course to design and implement a community building project at local level back in their country.<< Implementation >>Our main activity is an 8-days residential training course built on the specific methodology for community development and containing 2 community building practicing events - ""Learning Lab"" and ""City Event"": on the 4th and 7th day of the program participants will get a chance to design and facilitate community building sessions themselves for each other and the outer public. The program has various methods to foster learning and personal growth among participants. There will be group work, work in pairs & sub-groups, outdoor activities, roleplay, simulations, body-awareness exercises, coaching & mentoring techniques, debriefings and reflection circles that are used to ensure experiential and embodied learning processes for the participants. The training course will bring together 25 youth workers and youth leaders from 7 European countries: Romania, Sweden, Portugal, Estonia, Greece, Spain and Italy. << Results >>Participants will acquire new competences that will enable them to design and implement activities on community building. This way, they will benefit themselves as professionals, the young people they work with, the youth organisations they represent, as well as the youth sector in general. The following knowledge, skills and/or attitudes will be developed: in depth awareness on group building processes, non-violent communication skills, active listening, mental well-being of young people, mentoring & coaching of young people, assertive skills, empowering of youth sense of initiative, communication with those facing traumatic experiences in the past, learning to learn, educational program design."

<< Objectives >>The project called ‘Innovate Yourself: Innovation Training Course for Youth Workers’ was all about improving skills of already competent youth workers in the sector of international level activities and possibilities of Erasmus + Programme and also in the sector of digital youthwork. We wanted to find new ways and working methods for youth workers to answer the challenges they face on a daily basis while working with youngsters and also to ensure that they are ready and equipped with the needed skills to be part of society right now and in the future. With our project we wanted to create a platform for youth workers to exchange experiences and ideas and also to contribute in advancing their everyday youthwork by developing innovative approaches and tools. Also we aimed to train youth workers’ mentoring skills and capacity to act as a multiplier on their daily basis, to increase participants’ digital awareness and to establish and improve international partnerships within KA1 Erasmus+ objectives. At the same time, we tried to cultivate active citizenship attitudes that are required to participate in and contribute to the public debate on the topic of innovating youth work.<< Implementation >>Our “Innovate Yourself: Innovation Training Course for Youth Workers!” project was a Youth Workers Mobility that brought together 12 young adults (including 4 participants with fewer opportunities) from Finland and Greece. In the total 12 participants, 6 youth workers were from Finland and 6 youth workers were from Greece, who all of them were active members of their organizations. The project was organised and coordinated by both Uurainen 4H and E.K.O and took place in Athens, Greece, in 4-9 December, 2022. Throughout the project both the organizations met through non-formal and informal methods, engaged in dialogue and met together as respectable adults with shared experiences about the digital innovation of youth work. Both organizations offered unique viewpoints and skills that can be shared and upon which new skills and ways could be built upon. The training course was a 6 days long and intensive project full of discussion, workshops, interactive presentations, and other non-formal methods to increase our skills and capacity to innovate our own style of work and also to multiply the innovative approaches to a larger scale.<< Results >>During the project we shared our personal experiences and explored the local realities regarding the different aspects of youth work in each country and local region as well. We had a lot of good discussion, interesting and exciting presentations and workshops to share our own knowledge, experiences and ideas to others to create something new and innovative. The very basic of the objectives was to create a platform to discuss and share information and knowledge which was a really good success as all the facilities were top notch all the time, and it was easy and inspiring to participate! Considering the topics covered and methods used during the training course, we succeeded to train and equip youth workers with new skills and methods to use on their daily work. For example, the robotics workshop proved that it’s not that difficult to include digitality and digital methods on the base work and it’s not that hard to find and use the equipment needed. Through the well designed non-formal activities of this project, we succeeded in on the one hand to equip youth workers with a comprehensive set of knowledge, vocabulary and skills that rendered them digitally innovative, critically-thinking on their youth work and responsible information producers and on the other hand, to provide the proper environment, in which participants had the opportunity to share experiences and knowledge about new and existing innovative methods to verify youth work, as well as explore together modules for effective technological education, which resulted in the development of a toolkit with non-formal education methods, and capacitated youth workers in creating a multiplier effect by incorporating innovative approaches in their daily work with youth.Definitely, the impact of the project was significant as it contributed in closing the gap between the increasingly recognized technological education needs and objectives with the capacities and skills educators are required to have in order to achieve those objectives, as well as to demonstrate that non-formal education methods are an efficient and necessary complement to formal curricula for providing youth true critical innovative education.Finally, through their participation in this project the involved organizations established new and reinforced the existing partnerships, overall diversified their interests, and increased their scope and scale of action.

"<< Objectives >>Nowadays youth work plays a very important role for youth development. Youth work encompasses a broad range of activities (social, cultural, educational, sports-related and political) carried out with, by and for young people through nonformal and informal learning. Youth work provides out-of-school education, as well as leisure activities managed by professional or voluntary youth workers and youth leaders. During the Erasmus + project in Malta in 2019 some of partners met together, discussed the necessity of this project, where participants could see, discuss and exchange the good practices of youth work, to share experiences, to learn from each other and in this way to develop youth work in Programme and Partners countries. The main AIM of the project ""Reality of Youth Work"" was to present youth work in Latvia, exchange of experience with partners, improve working methods with youth from different backgrounds and strengthen cooperation of Programme and Partner countries in the field of youth. Project was for youth workers, leaders, municipality representatives from the youth departments from Programme and Partner countries. Partner countries gave the added value for the project as the youth work in Partner countries is less developed and participants learned from the best practices and used it for the development of youth work in their realities.Participants of this study visit also got a chance to build partnerships and plan new joint initiatives. Moreover, there was an opportunity to learn from the local youth initiatives, as well as to share the best practices in terms of successful youth engagement in Europe.Objectives of the study visit were following:•To learn about the reality of youth work in Latvia, Latgale region;•To support understanding of youth work realities of participating countries;•To improve working methods of organizations with youth from different backgrounds;•To learn about youth work in towns and rural area and to compare them;•To foster partnership building between organizations from Programme and Partner countries;•To explore the added value of the European dimension of youth initiatives;•To facilitate the acquisition by participants of communication, teamwork and project management skills of internationalactivities and networking;•To understand the impact and social change a youth center can have within the local community;•To increase the strategic thinking of youth workers in order to create long-term interventions for personal andprofessional development of young people.<< Implementation >>Project was for youth workers, leaders, municipality representatives from the youth departments from Programme and Partner countries. European Association ""World-Our Home"" hosted 29 participants from 12 organizations from - Azerbaijan, Jordan, Spain, Georgia, Israel, Moldova, Germany, Russian Federation, Greece, Croatia, Portugal and Latvia. Partner countries gave the added value for the project as the youth work in Partner countries is less developed and participants could learn from the best practices and use the gained knowledge for the development of youth work in their countries. Participants of this study visit also got a chance to build partnerships and to plan new joint initiatives. Moreover, there was an opportunity to learn from the local youth initiatives, as well as to share the best practices in terms of successful youth engagement in Europe.In Study Visit there were used the following non-formal education methods: the main methods were study visits to the different youth centers, meetings with young people, deputies, youth workers; interactive real-life learning experience; follow-up project development, networking, discussions and understanding of reality of youth work in Latvia, Latgale region; the acquaintance activities - the individual, couple and group tasks, which aim was to let participants to get to know each other closer - the names, interests, occupations, role in the organization, motivation to participate in the project, etc.; the ""ice breakers"" - activities in the groups which were carried out at the beginning of a project to break the ice between participants and create a positive atmosphere in the group; the team building activities which made an attractive way to join the group; brainstorming, during these activities participants generated a lot of ideas on the subject of the project; there were short activities (energizers) to give the energy to participants, especially in the morning, presentations, speeches; the intercultural evening during which every group presented their country and its culture to other national teams; as well as round-table discussions, debates, workshops, evaluations, reflection time.<< Results >>Through this project we wanted to show the participants our work with youth in Latvia and Latgale region. Youth policy in Latvia is quite developed and recognized and we wanted to share our experience and good ideas with partners from Partner and Programme countries. The project had the impact on all the target groups - project participants, partner organizations and young people with whom youth workers/participants involved in the project are working. Study Visit was organized with the aim to give participants the experience, knowledge, tools, examples how to improve the youth work, how to improve their professional and personal skills and at the same time to meet new colleagues from different countries, to learn from the good examples of youth work in Latvia, Latgale region. Project had an immediate impact on all the participants providing them with the international experience, new ideas, knowledge and skills that will help them in arranging and organizing the qualitative youth work at local and international level. Project participants got new ideas for innovations in their work from the study visit, which had impact on the participating organizations for more successful work with young people. Furthermore, all the participants were youth workers who are directly involved into youth work and youth programs in their own countries. In this way all the knowledge and experience gained in the project were shared with youth throughout their work in organizations in their native countries. So the main target groups were young people and their youth workers from European and partner countries.We saw a clear need for more cross border discussions, study visits and peer learning, especially for organizations from Partner countries, on how to work with systematic quality development in youth work. We wanted to make this project for strengthening the trust and building a real partnership at the international, national and regional levels to foster mutual respect, tolerance and understanding and learn from each other as well from our best practices. As a result of the project participants improved their competences, linked to their professional profiles such as youth work, knowledge and skills in Erasmus + programme. Participants saw the good practice in work with youth, working methods in Latvia, Latgale region and in such way every participant got a lot of practical advises and skills by the methods of non-formal education. Youth workers learned how to understand youth with fewer opportunities better and to facilitate them to their personal, social and educational development. They learned from each other and learn from the good practices in youth work. Participants recognized their own strengths and weaknesses in the work with youth. They were able to reach more young people, to understand their needs and to recognize the problems. Participants developed their management skills, creativity, got relevant knowledge, skills, experience, as well as they built a strong partnership among their organizations with the aim to work successfully together in the field of youth and in Erasmus+ programme."

"<< Objectives >>The international project ""MANAS"" aims at empowering youth workers from 8 different countries in their personal growth, through artistic expression such as spontaneous singing, free movement and group meditations, giving them innovative tools to share, develop and reproduce in their realities with their target groups.According to statistics, 6% of the European population over 16 years feel lonely. Among the factors causing this feeling are distinguished unemployment, economic problems and lack of confidence of young people in the possibility of achieving their goals.The consequences of this situation can be found in the workplace, in communication with young people and with partner organizations. These considerations have brought 9 partners from 9 different countries to the design of a project that supports the personal growth of the individual in an intercultural context, acquiring innovative methods and tools to include music in non formal education, the rediscovery of authentic bonds with oneself, with others and with the world; creating free expression in the form of music and movement, to the sharing of emotions, feelings and fears within one group. These are the main values that all the partner organizations involved in the association have in common with ""MANAS"" project.The project promotes:- The development of young people's awareness and the importance of musical expression and meditation as an instrument of well-being and interpersonal connection;- The increase of trust in oneself, in others and in the community; - The sharing, creation and dissemination of methods and activities of personal growth by the youth workers towards their target groups and the communities they belong to;- The increase of national and international cooperation between organizations and institutions with the use of innovative communication platforms for work groups.<< Activities >>The project will be organized in 3 phases: preparation of activities, Training course and dissemination results. The preparation of the activities will take place in collaboration with all the partner organizations of the project, which will communicate via Skype conferences. The activities will be coordinated New Horizons in collaboration with 8 partner organizations (among which 2 are public bodies). The Training course will involve 27 participants, 1 trainer and 1 coordinator and will be implemented in Locali Comunali di Via Collegio, Tusa (Italy), from 01/12//2019 to 09/12/2019. The participant profile takes into account the following criteria :- 18+ years; - Residence in the territory of activity of the partner organization, in order to facilitate the activity of dissemination within the local community; - Excellent motivation for participating in the project. The selection of participants will take into consideration the gender balance criteria. The activity will be conducted according to non-formal education methods, including integrative methods, creative methods, learning from experience,intercultural learning methods, reflections and evaluations.<< Impact >>The expected impact of the project will be on participants, organizations and the national and international community. - Youth workers will acquire new awareness of their potential, increase confidence in themselves and others and will acquire new methods, new tools for group work with organizations, institutions and communities; - The partner organizations will be involved in organizing awareness events for young people and communities and will have the opportunity to establish new long-term partnerships with other local and international organizations and institutions;- Other young people in the community, youth workers, organizations, local authorities, the media and the community will be informed and involved in the course of the project, will be sensitized on the issues and will know the opportunities offered by the Erasmus+ program. The dissemination of the project results through social networks will promote the project in the local and international community, making possible new long-term partnerships active in the work with young people in a democratic and intercultural dimension."

<< Objectives >>ECOROUTES aims to promote YOUTH EMPLOYMENT in the tourism sector by transforming youngsters into PROMOTERS AND GUARDIANS of their country’s cultural and natural heritage through the design and development of sustainable tourism activities. -Increase YP’s knowledge of Europe’s cultural and natural heritage and raise their awareness on its value as a tool for youth employment and responsible citizenship.-Inspire YP to better understand the importance of promoting and preserving their heritage.<< Implementation >>-DEVELOPMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL KIT FOR TRAINING YP AS TOUR GUIDES IN SUSTAINABLE TOURISM-DEVELOPMENT OF ECO-ROUTES AND OF A HIGH-TECH MOBILE APP THAT WILL OFFER TOURISTS THE ULTIMATE SUSTAINABLE TOURISM EXPERIENCE-DEVELOPMENT OF ECOROUTES PORTAL AND SETTING UP THE ECOROUTES EXPERIENCE PROGRAMME FOR TRANSFORMING YP IN PROMOTERS AND GUARDIANS OF THE CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE-DISSEMINATION-EXPLOITATION STRATEGY FOR PROMOTING THE ECOROUTES EXPERIENCE PROGRAMME AT NATIONAL-EU LEVEL<< Results >>YP will be encouraged to search for employment in the tourism sector in combination with responsibility towards the environment, and be trained as TOUR GUIDES who will organize sustainable tourism activities in their local communities through the utilization of a high-quality EDUCATIONAL KIT, a multipurpose PORTAL and a MOB APP, as the PORTAL will facilitate e-learning and the MOB APP will further support YP’s employment activation, as trained TOUR GUIDES in the field of sustainable tourism.