"International Youth Exchange “Youth Employment Rights” took place in Oroklini, Cyprus between 13 - 21 May 2017 and bring together 30 young people from Cyprus, Armenia, Italy, Serbia, Spain and Ukraine. Often it happened to the management in companies, which prefer to promote inside employees for new open position instead of hiring new employee. When the companies decided to take a new youth employee, may happen the rights of the youth employee can be violated, and sometimes even without employee’s awareness. That led to breaking the connection between the companies and youth employees. After the violation of the youth employee’s rights, the person is demotivated and untruthful to their next employer, that can resolve in unstable communication, connection between the two sides. Many young people don’t know their labour and social rights when they apply for a first job, quit a job or got fired. Big percent are afraid of the future or even give up to continue study because they thought that a good job is “a now” job and after their first experience with the corporate world they are more confused and lost interesting in developing their own skills in future.We found program Youth Guarantee that is developing in Cyprus, Commission in country report for 2016 stressed: ""Youth unemployment is falling, but remains well above pre-crisis levels. At 32.6 % in September 2015, it is significantly above the EU average (20.1 %). The youth unemployment rate (15-24) is more than double the overall unemployment rate"". This statement lead us to Eurostat website where we found statistic for “Youth neither in employment nor in education and training (NEET) rate. On this stage we agreed, that our target group would be young people from this category. We set following objectives of the youth exchange:1. Raise knowledge and understanding about International Labour Standards on employment; discrimination, while applying to an open position or during the work. Occupational safety, health and social security among young people and how to react in case of abusing their rights.2. Support young people in personal development by acquisition of necessary competences (writing motivation letter, preparing CV, searching and applying for job, etc), which are needed to make smooth gradual transition to labour market, education or training.3. Raise awareness among young people about variety of opportunities for study, training and employment (support programmes, EVS, Erasmus for young entrepreneurs, etc).4. Enhance employability and improve career prospects of young people from the minority groups that are in highest risk of unemployment, not in training like romas and refugees. As well, as people coming from problematic families or orphanage.5. Promote non-formal education and Erasmus+ programme. Based on problems that we identified and experience of our partners, we create activities, which help us to reach our objectives. Methodology to carry out the project consisting of the non-formal methods- games, teambuildings, visual methods, competitions, role-plays, group work, peer-to-peer learning, discussion, presentations etc. The first level of observable impact was obviously on the 30 participants. The activities designed for this project meant to leave a significant mark on the participants’ lives. Developing of participants started even before actual activities and continue after; we expect that our project will create momentum for them, so they will continue developing themselves all their life. They will become an example, role models for hundreds or thousands other young people who don’t know about their labour rights, who don’t know what they want to do in their lives, don’t know how to apply to jobs, how to prepare interview etc. Thus, level of unemployment among NEET will slightly start to fall down."

"-Background of the project: The aim of VADIMO youth exchange is to provide a lived experience of diversity to youngsters from around Europe by a) living together in a fully inclusive intercultural environment and b) engaging in universally designed physical activities. This project will educate in diversity with a view to preventing and addressing social problems such as racism, homophobia and/or social exclusion of people with fewer opportunities such as people with functional diversity or neurodiversity. -Objectives of VADIMO: The main objectives of this project are to: • Recognise diversity through recreational physical activity and in everyday life activities• Share realities and understand another country's cultures. • Gain interpersonal skills and competences• Exchange experiences and knowledge about inclusive physical activities• Raise awareness about interdependence of people• Promote active lifestyles regardless level of ability-Number of participants & profile of participants: VADIMO youth exchange will gather 28 youngsters of eighteen to twenty-five years old and 7 group leaders from Programme countries (Cyprus, Romania, Italy, Slovakia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Spain). The group of participants will be heterogeneous and will include young people with fewer opportunities (geographic obstacles economic obstacles, cultural differences, and disability), which will be very positive for the development of the proposed activities and it will significantly enrich the learning outcomes of the participants.-Description of activities: Physical activities will be designed following ""universal design principles"". The activities will be tailored to the participants, so that all participants will be able to participate regardless of age, ability level, gender or any other basis. The activities are divided into thematic days - for example, Creativity day, Outdoor day, Exploring day, Supertalent day, etc. Some sample activities organised for these days will be team building challanges, inclusive recreational games, orienteering, theatre, ioga... -Methodology: The working methodology will be non formal and informal educational activities. These will also be mainly characterized by a constructivist approach of ""learning by doing"", which focuses on the experience of participants and requires posterior reflection of all the actions undertaken by participants. -Results & Impact expected: The participants in this project will actively experience a new way of dealing with diversity, characterized by a positive approach for the whole community. This view gained by the participants can have an effect on their countries of origin. First, spreading the new approach to their friends, family and acquaintances. Eventually, participants will be able to develop projects and initiatives that use sport as a tool to enhance diversity.The participating organizations will share their expertise and at the same time, learn a new approach to diversity. This may inspire new projects and / or strategic partnerships in order to reproduce and even improve the results obtained in this project. In this way, the sustainability and impact of this project will be ensured.-Potential benefits to society: The understanding of diversity as a universal philosophy (ethos) can produce a viral effect, facilitating a better coexistence between citizens and, ultimately, creating inclusive and advanced communities. This project can lead a transformation that should culminate in communities where the word ""inclusion"" is redundant."

This project is in line with the objectives of the Erasmus + program, and in particular in this key action, by training 28 youth technicians from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Sweden, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia, members of youth organizations, among other actors involved in the youth and sport sector to improve the level of basic skills and abilities of young people, including young people with fewer opportunities, and to promote their inclusion in society and the labor market, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue and common EU values, creating more mobility opportunities for learning purposes. In this sense, the Football Association of Viseu intends to develop this project in order to create tools for young people to use sport as a way to promote their social integration, personal development and improve their employability. More specifically, the objectives that the project intends to achieve are the following: - Promote the use of sport as an educational tool for the social inclusion of young people; - Sharing and reflecting on good practice between the countries and organizations involved; - Reflect and analyze the transferability of the different tools to the daily life of organizations; - Building a broader understanding of what an inclusive attitude means, also realizing the risk factors that lead to situations of exclusion in young people; - Understand how the development of sport can influence the employability of young people; - Increase interest in the implementation of Erasmus + projects, KA1 and KA2, as a way of developing life skills, tools for social inclusion and improving the skills and attitudes of young people; - Create ideas for the project under the Erasmus + JA program, develop project concepts and facilitate cooperation between participants; - Promote the acquisition of practical and theoretical skills on the topic of the project in a multicultural environment; - Meet the needs and aspirations of young people, motivating them to participate more actively in their local community, using sport to integrate socially; - Encouraging the implementation of a European specificity of economic and social growth linked to the development of youth policies at local level; - promote cooperation with local, regional, national and European institutions / companies / organizations; - Strengthen the skills of young people who contribute to their personal and sociopedagogical development by increasing their employment prospects; - Improve participants' language skills; - Empower youth workers with the skills and methodologies needed to transfer the EU's common values ​​to young people, preventing their radicalization and exclusion.

Nowadays, representatives of the youth or social sport workers, athletes, physical education teachers or active citizens who already use grassroots sport in their voluntary work become true carriers of the peacebuilding potential in their communities. That`s why it is very important to facilitate their acquiring of key competencies in all levels of human rights education in order to make their activities more attractive and efficient. The “Play for Human Rights!” project will provide a safe space for the young coaches from different conflict stricken regions or regions of refugee crisis to learn together about human rights education, to share their experiences in facilitating grassroots sport for social inclusion with other young people and to build their capacity to engage and/or develop future conflict transformation and/or peacebuilding projects and initiatives. Aim - to create a sustainable conditions for social inclusion problems resolving and level of social reconciliation increasing, relying on training and mentors support for grassroots sport & HRE young coaches. Objectives: To provide educational and mentors support for grassroots sport & HRE young coaches; To develop awareness and basic competences (knowledge, skills and attitude) of participants in human rights education, peacebuilding, intercultural learning and dialogue; To enable participants to share personal successful sport & social practices and coping strategies in a positive and safe atmosphere of living and learning together; To increase project management skills of participants; To motivate and support participants in their role as multipliers and peer leaders in peacebuilding activities using grassroots sport & HRE with young people, encouraging them to implement follow-up initiatives; To launch an international network of grassroots sport & HRE young coaches; To develop a collection of exercises & tips that includes social and sports games with solutions, for public festivals of grassroots sport & HRE; To revise and strengthen the professional profile of the teaching professions; To promote voluntary activities in sport, together with social inclusion, equal opportunities and awareness of the importance of health-enhancing physical activity, through increased participation in, and equal access to sport for all. In order to reach objectives of the project will be organized training module of grassroots sport involving and human rights education providing for acting youth workers with follow-up period including mentors support before and after training stage. Training module will be on Bacoli, Italy, from 14 May until 22 May 2018.. Type of activity - Youth worker mobility. Working methods used - non-formal and informal methods such as exercises from the Council of Europe manuals (Compass, Have your say, Bookmarks, etc.), working in small groups, creative presentations, group discussions, learning by doing, debriefing, project management, reflection, etc. The local impact to be ensured, through the implementation of public festivals of grassroots sport and HRE from one side and participants from the other side who are become multipliers and peer leaders in peacebuilding activities in their local communities. Collection of exercises & tips that includes social and sports games with solutions, for public festivals of grassroots sport & HRE produced during the project will create impact not only participating organisation, thanks to dissemination activities to bigger international audience. This will create positive impact on resolving youth problems in the regions of participating organizations.

"Youth Exchanges - Programme Countries Date : 12- 17.04.2017 Venue: Viggiano, Italy Countries: Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Slovenia, Denmark. This project will challenge viewpoints that perpetuate discrimination and inequality and it will educate in diversity with a view to preventing and addressing social problems such as racism, homophobia and/or social exclusion of people with fewer opportunities such as people with functional diversity or neurodiversity. This also aligns with the Erasmus+ Programme, which aims at promoting equity and inclusion by facilitating the access to participants with disadvantaged backgrounds and fewer opportunities. The aim of ""Equalty in movement!"" youth exchange is to provide a lived experience of diversity to youngsters with fewer opportunities from several European countries by a) living together in a fully inclusive intercultural environment and b) engaging in universally designed physical activities. The main objectives of this project are to: • Recognise diversity through recreational physical activity and in everyday life activities • Share realities and understand another country's cultures. • Gain interpersonal skills and competences • Exchange experiences and knowledge about inclusive physical activities • Raise awareness about interdependence of people • Promote active lifestyles regardless level of ability This youth exchange will gather youngsters from different countries and backgrounds, mastering a variety of abilities and knowledge and from different ideologies, genders and religious belives, creating an inclusive atmosphere where diversity will be the common denominator and sport the medium to share these experiences. Participating organizations will share their experience and knowledge and at the same time, learn a new approach to diversity. This may inspire new projects and / or strategic partnerships in order to reproduce and even improve them results obtained in this project. In this way, we ensure that this project is sustainable and have an impact on society."