The international youth exchange Cool-T(o)urnado is focusing on intercultural learning in an unique way. In our program the participants’ job is not to present their own country, but to present another participant country’s culture. Our project’s aim is to make the people in the European Union able to fit into the given cultural environment and to improve the identity of cultures living side by side. Beside the cultural diversity, the people of the European Union must pay more attention to the creation of active European citizenship, the discovery and improvement of the common cultural values. For the finalisation of the final goals and the program plan of the youth exchange, across the partner organisations we actively included the ideas of the participants; the project is basically based on the learning needs of the participants. The active involvement of the partner organisations and the participants are important part of the project. The participating countries will have more opportunities to present other countries traditional dance, folk song, food, art works, attractions and other important historical events. We think, that these elements are the most typical part of a culture, they symbolize a country the most, as well as the tourists who come to visit a country see these things first. We choose these methods because there isn’t more effective way to get to know the cultural diversity of Europe than the presentation of certain traditional elements in practice. They will create a play about the selected historical event, and they will organize an exhibition about the creations, art and result of the project. For the bigger impact we will widely involve the local community into the project activities. During 10 days of youth exchange six youngsters (5 participant and 1 leader) from six countries will participate (Hungary, Spain, Lithuania, Románia, Poland and Italy ) and share each other’s cultural characteristics of this innovative technique. The project is located in Hungary, in a Summer Centre that is located in the village of Levelek. The place is perfect for the Youth Exchange, because it have got big community space and plenty of spaces, and the kitchen is available for the participants and they can cook.

<< Objectives >>“e-ntrepreneur 2.0” is a continuation of a youth exchange “e-ntrepreneur” that took place in Agrigento in 2019. During our current pandemic situation many of us lost jobs. According to “The Guardian” “Young workers have been hit the hardest by rising unemployment during the Covid pandemic, with those under the age of 35 accounting for almost 80% of jobs lost in the past year.” Our world has changed. Virtual activities gained more importance. Not to be left behind, we feel we need to follow the change and adapt to the new world situation. But how? Should we wait until restaurants and caffees are opened again so we can get our jobs back? What if pandemic won’t be over next year? We need to take the future in our hands. Improve skills that will help us to face unemployment and live a life we want to. The main goal of e-ntrepreneur 2.0 is to tackle youth unemployment problems that occurred in the pandemic situation, inform, motivate and enable youngsters to work on that topic in their countries, as well as equip them with experience, knowledge and skills, especially digital to easily enter the labour market. The project targets youngsters who lost their jobs due to Covid, face unemployment, had bad experiences with job interviews or want to start working on youth employment projects within their organizations. The main objectives of the youth exchange are:-to reflect on unemployment situation of youth in Europe in the pandemic situation;-to develop skills (especially digital) and knowledge of youngsters in the process of getting a job;-to encourage youth’s entrepreneurship with a focus on digitalization;-to encourage the creation of future projects within the Erasmus + Programme, which will target unemployed youngsters.<< Implementation >>The main theme of the project is Youth Unemployment in the pandemic situation. This project will provide participants with the necessary skills and confidence to enable them to flourish and share their experience. Therefore, meeting their commonly misunderstood and misinterpreted needs, young people from around Europe will join and be actively encouraged to share, learn and participate.During 8 working days the participants will share opinions and ideas on unemployment and will be involved in various activities. They will learn CV and Motivation Letter writing techniques, hints to pass a job interview, working with E-Job databases, how to use activism as a way to the labour market, what Youthpass is, how to get a Europass Skills Passport, how to work with career centres, etc. “e – ntrepreneur 2.0” project will stimulate young people's spirit of initiative, creativity, entrepreneurship and employability through theoretical input from experts and participants. After coming back home, participants will be responsible to transfer their knowledge to their peers and young people involved in their organizations. Workshops will be based mainly on non-formal learning methodology, active participation, group-work and teamwork.2 mobilities are planned during the project duration: Preparatory Visit and Youth Exchange. Both activities will be organized in Agrigento - city in Sicilia, Italy which is characterized by one of the biggest youth unemployment rates. Partner organizations will be represented by participants and team leaders from Italy, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Spain, France and Greece. There will be 7 team leaders that will take part in the Preparatory Visit and 6 participants + one leader from each country that will participate in the youth exchange. Half of the participants are youngsters with fewer opportunities.<< Results >>We are confident that in case of support for our project, we will reach significant and sustainable results. First, our youth will get valuable information and gain necessary knowledge and practical skills to transfer to peers in their local communities. We expect them to organize some workshops for small groups of young people from their hometowns and also spread the received information through their personal networks. We'll provide them support any time when needed. Second, we believe that the YE will be a further step towards building a transparent, informed and responsible European society. We hope that at the end of the project the participants will work towards specific employment projects to be implemented back home, and, as mentioned before, have the opportunity to pass on their new skills and knowledge back to their home country to help other young people.Last but not least, participants will learn CV and Motivation letter writing techniques, hints to pass a job interview, working with E-Job databases, what Youthpass is, how to create a Europass - European Skills Passport (CV and Europass Language Passport), how to work with career centres, etc. YE will stimulate young people's spirit of initiative, creativity, entrepreneurship and employability through theoretical input from experts and participants.After coming back home, participants will be responsible to transfer their knowledge to their peers and young people involved in their organizations. Workshops will be based mainly on non-formal learning methodology, active participation, group-work and teamwork. Each participant is supposed to teach 10 more young people back in their country.

"<< Objectives >>Due to the recent conflict in Ukraine and many of Ukrainian immigrants coming to Hungary (especially region of Nyiregyhaza) we found a gap in inclusive activities that we offer to local youngsters. We would like to organize programmes that include both youngsters from Hungary and the ones from Ukraine that have recently move in our neighbourhood but we lack experience on how to overcome language barrier and deal with cultural conflicts that might arise. Although we have experience with working with Roma kids it seems the methods we used while working with them are not adequate in the new situation. Project ""Inclusive community"" will help us to improve the skills of our youth workers in the area of non-formal education methods aiming for inclusion and cultural understanding. The knowledge we will gain from our study visit will be shared with other local NGOs in a form of a Guide. Objectives:- to improve skills and knowledge of 4 youth workers from Hungary;- to learn from the experience of our project partner regarding non-formal education methods aiming for inclusion and cultural understanding;- to create a Guide on activities based on non-formal education methods aiming for inclusion and cultural understanding.<< Implementation >>The study visit will take place between 8-12 of March 2023.It will take place in Agrigento, Sicily - 10km far from the Italian NGO's office. During 5 days of activities the youth workers from Hungary and Italy will focus on 3 main areas: inclusion and inclusive activities; cultural understanding and solving cutural conflicts; sensitivity and support that should be given to young immigrants that left their home due to military conflict. During the study visit the youth workers will take part in sessions based on non-formal education methods such as: presentations, seminar, brainstorming, fishbone and fishbowl, role playing and simulation, reflection, evaluation, visits to community centers etc. The participants are 4 youth workers from Hungary and 4 from Italy that are willing to improve their skills and knowledge in the topic of the project to provide higher level of quality activities to their target group: youngsters from their local community that include young immigrants. The participants are active workers of the partner organizations, holding regular activities for local youth. They are over 18+ with good command of English. 2 of the participants from Hungarian and Italian team have different country of origin than the country they live in.<< Results >>The result of the project will be a Guide on activities based on non-formal education methods aiming for inclusion and cultural understanding.By participating in the study visit, the youth workers will gain knowlege and improve their skills regarding non-formal education methods aiming for inclusion and cultural understanding. They will learn on how to tackle cultural conflicts where language barrier might be an issue as well. They will also improve their emphatetic skills and learn methods on how to work with immigrants that left their country due to military conflict. They will gain certification (Youthpass) that is recognized in their field. They will also get the change to create a Guide on activities based on non-formal education methods aiming for inclusion and cultural understanding. This will demonstrate their abilities to share what they learnt. The organizations will gain more skilled workers. They will gain new non-formal education methods. The Hungarian NGO will be able to organize inclusive activities what result in reaching out to bigger amount of youngsters and offering more attractive programmes. The Italian NGO will get a possibility to share their expriences with working with immigrants from Syria, disseminating results of project they carried out in the past and gain prestige of being a mentor for the Hungarian NGO. Also, having Hungarian and Italian youth workers together brainstorming on innovative working methods will bring the benefit for the Italian local community as new methods will be possible to be aplied there as well."

"<< Objectives >>Our project intends to put together participants from 5 countries which will work together in order to understand better the prejudices and stereotypes in their communities and learn to overcome them. By having as participants youngsters with a different background a safe learning environment will be created and a unique opportunity for everyone to share ideas and learn from others experience in order to see which is the best way to fight exclusion.They start from own experience and the methods used are very interactive: forum theatre, work in teams and in pairs, individual reflection, debate, role play, negotiation, simulation.The presented performances will provide viewers the opportunities to learn how to be tolerant with others, how to behave in conflict situations in multi ethnic/multicultural communities. We aim with this project:•to make the 40 participants aware about their personal and cultural identity;•to make the 40 participants recognize prejudice and all forms of discrimination;•to develop empathy, critical thinking and communication skills of the 40 participants;•to create an inclusive environment for the 40 participants;•to make the 40 participants to develop actions which deal with discrimination;•to enable the 40 participants to use theatre as a tool for education, communication and affirmation•to increased self-empowerment and self-esteem of the 40 youngstersThe project objectives are that at the end of the project the 40 participants from Greece, Macedonia, Hungary, Turkey and Poland will be able to:•speak before groups in public spaces•be more aware of discrimination and prejudices in their everyday life, the local community and society they live in•better understand other youth groups in their community, especially youngsters from rural areas, Roma youngsters but also non Roma in the case of the Roma participants or youngsters coming from poor families•use forum theatre as a tool to fight discrimination,•understand and accept easier the intercultural differences from the community where they are living•become promoters of tolerance, understanding and human rights;<< Activities >>The project "" NO for discrimination, YES for inclusion "", which will take place in Swarożyn (Poland) will gather 40 participants from Greece, Macedonia, Hungary, Turkey and Poland - 8 from each country. Participants will represent different groups: Roma youngsters, youth from rural and urban disadvantaged environments of the five countries.“NO for discrimination, YES for inclusion” consists of 2 youth mobility which promote tolerance und understanding using theatre as main working method.This youth exchange promotes active participation of young people, because the proposed methodology is based on the principles of non-formal education. The participants will learn how to present their culture, how to meet, accept, share their respect towards other cultures and characters, to show an interest in cooperation and communication with young people from other European countries.<< Impact >>The result of this project will be a play to be presented to the public in Poland and the youngsters from all projects countries will be encouraged to introduce the play to their peers from local community. The play will promote tolerance, understanding and cooperation between young people in the five countries, between different disadvantage groups. At personal level the youngsters will gain a lot of new knowledge and skills, will make new friendsand what is more important will build relations with people from 5 different countries which can lead to new meetings and organized activities together in the future. Also they will be put in the situation to understand how people that are being discriminated by intention or not are feeling in order to understand better this phenomenon. The participants after this exchange will become more tolerant and more open.At organizational level this exchange will increase the capacity of the partner NGO's in working on international projects on one side and in working with youngsters by using artistic methods like theatre. Each partner organization will gain youngsters with experience in developing theatre artistic activities which can attract new youngsters (and convince them to join the organization)."

"""Easy trick for healthy week"" is a youth exchange based on two core activities: advanced planning visit that will be held between 17 and 18th of August 2018 and youth exchange 7 - 13th of September 2018. Each mobility will take place in Zakopane, Poland. The youngsters will represent two countries - Poland and Hungary. The participants are young people from 16-25 years old, interested in improving the health knowledge, intercultural awareness and physical condition. The project activities will provide us the opportunity to put into practice some of the solutions to our problems: outdoor activities, independent behaviour development, movement, sport, healthy nutrition, ecology in green spaces, information about healthy eating and how we can maintain a healthy lifestyle not only for ourselves but especially in relation to the environment. In order to solve the needs we started our project, we target the following objectives: 1. Improve the level of competences and skills for 18 young people regarding sustainable attitude towards themselves and the environment through Ecopicnics, slow-food contest, peer learning, ecology actions ,outdoor games, , debates; 2. Encouraging inter cultural dialogue and active citizenship through cultural outdoor activities for 18 youth for 7 days through hiking in Tatra mountains, exploring traditional art and crafts places; 3.Promoting a healthy lifestyle among 300 young people and citizens in Zakopane through flash-mob. The project will improve the level of key knowledge on the participants and the citizens on sustainable self and environment, on healthy food and sport/outdoor activities, cultural diversity and activism on local level. Active participation in the activities: ecology, discussions, briefings and presentations on healthy lifestyle and relationship with the environment, the practice of sports the 18 will have the opportunity to exercise the active role as European citizens on an issue of European interest. We include in our project activities such as doing sports, research and analysis, educational games, expert panel, presentations, cultural transfers, group works, individual work, brainstorming activities and problem-solving, role playing, debates, creating sculptures, information sessions, different evaluation methods, meetings with guides, study visits, learning by doing (cooking, setting a fire etc). We specify in detail the activities timetable in the project's activities calendar."