Today’s Europe needs campaigns and actions fostering solidarity and peace education, which prevent the violent radicalisation of young people and strengthen mutual respect, understanding, and harmony between people of all backgrounds. “Compassion in Action” is a 7-day-training course that gathered 32 youth workers, facilitators, educators and community leaders from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Portugal and Turkey in Payerbach, Austria (January 22nd - 30th of 2019) with the aim to introduce participants with new tools and strategies to respond to the challenges of social issues effectively and with compassion, thus improving quality of youth work and building communities based on empathy and wellbeing. The following objectives have been outlined: 1) to create a foundation to build more caring, supportive and peaceful communities by developing the attitudes of empathy, compassion and solidarity in youth work 2) To support professional development of youth workers and improve the quality of youth work across Europe. In order to reach this objective, we will introduce youth workers with tools and strategies to effectively respond to the challenges of social issues in European youth work, especially concerning radicalization of youth and youth groups. This project will also create space to develop shared understanding to bring more trust, support and cooperation in local solidarity work, thus strengthening mutual support networks of individuals and organisations. 3) To facilitate personal development of the participants and their target groups. This project will provide a background for participants to develop their self-awareness, empathic communication and leadership skills well as understanding how wellbeing impacts the resilience and empowerment of youth, educators and organisations strengthening their ability to face the challenges emerging in their local communities. Participants will have a chance to experience these benefits for their own development and learn how to provide similar experience to young people and other youth workers 4) To provide impulse, know-how and networks for their organizations to create high impact activities. We believe that people and their choices are in the centre of every story of successful organization. Thus we explicitly work with enhancing skills of young people and creating opportunities for networking and further cooperation development whether in form of projects, knowledge exchange or mutual online support. With this course we would like to contribute to the improvement of professional competences of youth workers and educators, as well as improving youth workers and educators' compassionate leadership skills and abilities to make better connections with participants of their activities, with their colleagues and communities. Participants learned new methodologies based on work with body and movement, improved their toolkit with new approaches and at the same time enhanced their social and civic skills. Participants improved their leadership and teamwork skills, communication skills, including assertive and empathic communication, networking skills, ability to empathize and resolve conflicts, will learn how to inspire positive action, gain support of other people and institutions to their initiatives. Through dialogue, group and self-reflection, mindfulness, theater, voice work, bodywork, movement, dance and meditation participants learned from each other, develop the connection and open communication within the group. Our methodology is based on experiential learning, interdisciplinary exchange, embodied learning and non-formal education principles. Participants learned through testing their designed methods and reflecting upon the experience. With the new knowledge participants are able to suggest their organizations and target groups practices that help to build healthier, supportive and peaceful working environments and communities that foster innovation, inclusion and dialogue. As leaders, employees, or volunteers of partner organizations they are able to design new services, learning programs for young people, to facilitate learning process of others in a responsible, compassionate and efficient manner, which in turn will result in high quality innovative programs for youth in Europe. We hope that there will be more conversations around wellbeing, emotions, needs and compassion in youth work within these organizations and beyond. Since in order to create a strong civil society, we need organizations that are inclusive, resilient and able to welcome all kinds of people, offer them space to be understood, listened to and accepted. So that they are choosing democratic values over nationalism and radicalism.DAILY GRAPHIC HARVESTING: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vmL6x5e5X1Zzy4Q1haWGbTUQE21v3pYpBLOG BY PARTICIPANTS: https://compassioninaction.home.blog

The Project has achieved the internationalization of training of the Nursing Assistant Course(CAE) of both students and VET teachers, furthermore our entire Educational Community. It has improved the labor and academic expectations of students when performing the training of the students are practiced through two host partners, companies that collaborate in the training of the students of our two partner centers in Finland and France. Regarding teachers, it has achieved the consolidation of our Institution, totally involved in internationalization by supporting the sending as the hosting of students and teachers. Movilities were made in 2 school years.- Students mobilities: 4 women, average age 45 years; Training of 60 days, recognized with the Module of FCT: Agreed with the companies the training agreements programmes in order to reach the right skills.Open and clear selection by a selection committee with selection criteria: gender equality, opportunities and inclusion, language skills, personal and professional maturity, first time they got an Erasmus grant. Training organization made as described in project application. Phases: contacts with host partners, candidate selection, linguistic and cultural preparation (OLS, resources of our Institution as a meeting of students with those of the Finnish institution when they were doing their training in Malaga, with a teacher from the center of France when she did Job Shadowing here , With coordinator of this project that has traveled to Finland and organizes training for Finnish students from last four years , teachers of Nursing Assisstant with previous Job Shadowing in Finland, later they were their teaching tutors, among others). Before mobilities sign of the training agreements. Support coordinator of the project and host Institution for travel arrangements, insurance, accommodation; Monitoring of the stay by tutor teachers and project coordinator (email, telephone, WhatsApp, Skype, questionnaires, Helvia platform of the Ministry of Education Andalusia). Collection of documentation of students on their return (weekly follow-up sheets, work tutor report and certificate of attendance), mobility evaluation with own surveys, EU survey and OLS tests.Since 2005 we have done this for other programs: Consorcio Erasmus de la D.G. Of FP Initial, specific aid according to Order 16/05/2011 of Andalusia. Coordinator with EU experience since 2007.-Teachers: Job Shadowing activities of VET teachers and attention to VET with SEN, we have learned, methods of management of dual FP, new ways of working, innovate to work with deaf students. 8 teachers participated (3 men and 5 women, 36 to 56 years) 5 days in 5 VET Institutions (Finland, Germany (2), Croatia and 1 of them 2 days of Job Shadowing in France). Transparent selection Committee. Criteria selection (Involvement with European Programs, years working as teacher and with us, not having participated in mobilities of teaching staff and skills in languages).All documentation signed before mobility. Certificate of attendance after mobilities.Dissemination of all activities to: All teachers at School, Board of Directors, Teachers Association, Weekly Education Bouletin in Málaga, We held our SB International Week in our Institution under the umbrella of Erasmus + among others.Results and impact: Students, this experience has supported the 4 to improve their work expectations in Spain and / or another countries;feeling as European citizen. Encourage another students to participate in the Erasmus + program. To know new ways of working, to compare competences for Nurse Assisstant in another countries; Be more tolerant- For teachers: renewal of teaching activity, analysis of other models of training of health professionals; Improvement of individual support in the care of pupils with SEN; Start cooperation with new partners; Improve the management and organization of the training with companies.Highlight: involvement in European projects of the 6 members of the Board of Directors: 4 of them have participated in international mobilities with Erasmus +. Highest involvement of the Director, unanimous support for any activity that involves the internationalization of ALL Educational Community, including PAS, Parents Association, partner companies.Long-term benefits:-Students: to facilitate women, with médium-hight average age where unemployment is higher, raise their job expectations.-The Institution will again send and host students and teachers from Finland and France.-To the teaching staff: facilitate that they can establish new forms of working and organization training and dual system-Be awarded for Erasmus + 2016 and 2017 projects in Secondary, VET and HE-Increased linguistic competence and ICT of teachers and students.-Organize an international week that increases our links with old and new partners.