The EVSification project was implemented over a period of 20 months by Centrul de Voluntariat Cluj-Napoca, Romania in partnership with FERSO, Poland and Centrum dobrovolnictva, Slovakia, under the Strategic Partnerships (Youth) of the Erasmus+ Programme.The partnership was focused on creating relevant tools for organizations involved or interested in implementing EVS projects. The process started from a needs assessment phase, during which the three partners consulted 60 accredited organizations and 15 former EVS volunteers. The focus of the needs assessment phase was to underline the needs and interests of the organizations that are involved in EVs projects, the main conclusions being integrated in the three intellectual outputs created by the EVSification partners:1.EVSification manual - The manual aims at creating a complex document on volunteer management in EVS projects, addressed to all organizations and coordinators involved in EVS. The manual will guide you through the nine steps management cycle in EVS projects. This comprehensive text shows how to involve EVS volunteers in an organisation, and covers all the basic information plus special features on supervision in EVS projects, conflict management and motivation. There is a large reference section, tools and real study cases presented. The manual is available in printed version in English and in digital version, both in English and in the native languages of the three partners - Romanian, Slovak and Polish.2.EVSification training design - Based on the manual the training design is dedicated to all organisations and individuals who have the motivation and capacity to organize trainings or workshops on EVS management topics. It contains the training timetable and a substantial collection of exercises and tools designed to cover each one of the nine steps of the EVS management cycle. It can be used as a whole training design, but also you can choose to use just some sections or methods from it. It can be also adjusted for the training in volunteer management in general and for different target groups: NGO representatives, youth workers, volunteer coordinators in social services, health care, culture, etc. The training design is based on non-formal education methodology, making it an effective and fun learning tool! The design is available in digital format and will be sent upon request to any organization and youth workers interested.3.Webinars - The partners organized 3 webinars on topics related to EVS, open to all participants interested in these. The webinars will give you a closer view on 3 key topics in EVS volunteer management: motivation in EVS projects, conflict management, project/personal development evaluation. The webinars come as an answer to what various European organizations identified, during the research we conducted, as being the most challenging areas in volunteer management. The facilitators will guide you through the most relevant theoretical parts connected to these topics but, most important, will offer you a down-to-earth perspective, coming from their extensive experience in managing volunteers.In addition, the three partners organized in cooperation with ANPCDEFP, a 3 days multiplier event (EVS Camp) and a one day multiplier event (EVS River) in cooperation with Team for Youth, Baia Mare. EVS Camp was based on Open Space Technology, and included 130 participants (120 local and 10 internationals), while for EVS River, the organizations gather 43 participants. Besides the two multiplier events, a 6 days international training course on volunteer management in EVS was organized for 21 participants from the three countries (Romania, Slovakia, Poland).

Intending to modernise the teaching process and transversal skills of students and teachers of hymanist disciplines from 3 high schools in Romania, Italy and Spain, the project INNOVATING DIDACTIC PRACTICES FOR A MODERN HUMANIST EDUCATION – EDU Explorer proposes to direct and indirect participants (at least 142 students/adolescents and teachers/youngsters trainers) an European framework of collaboration for the realization of a comparative study between 3 educational European systems: curriculum and quality standards. The element of innovation and the added value is represented by the synergy of formal and nonformal activities offered to the project by all the involved students and youth.The target group is also formed by the teachers of humanistic discipline who will get interdisciplinary skills (IT) in order to create and internationalize multilinguistic Free Educational ressources.The project propose 6 activities of learning and training (3 for teachers and youth workers and 3 for students).EDU Explorer 1, 3 are trainings for the application of methods who stimulate critical thinking in educational system, and conscious learning of students.EDU REL 2 is proposing to form the skills for the program IT Hotpotaoes, Didapages, Front Space, and the application Google Docs with the objective of doing free educational resources (FER) for the teachers of humanistic disciplines . Through 2 workshops FER, they will realize joint projects in international teams. The final products will be published on the platform EDU Explorer :1. PLATFORM EDU Explorer (O4 built like FER with new tehniologies, a digital interactive didactic material for teachers and students with informations with interdisciplinar character with the theme : Antiquity, Middle Age and Renaissance2. Cultural Époque -IT resurce, digital manual built like a digital resource, aplying the new tehnologies (with the aspect of a web page) with a interdiciplinar character (history, geography, culture history, art history, philosophiy, history, clasical and modern languages, ) with the theme Antiquity, Middle Age and Renaissance3.MODERN TEACHER PLUS (O2)4.Guide for the universal literature teacher. MODERN PLUS (O3)5. Brochure-Teacher on non-formal education6.Comparative study about the educational system of the countries involved in the partenership Centers of the European culture 1, 2 are the activities of formal and non-formal education who want to develop the media and journalist communicational skills to the students and in the same time to develop a proper civic attitude. Cultural adolescence will develop multilingual and public speaking skills. All the skills aqcuired by the project will be certified by Europass şi Youth Pass.The thematic liant of entire project is the stimulation of the interst of young people for a common curricular subject: Antiquity, Middle Age and Renaissance, for the humanist value , for the lecture as a knowledge way and communicational act, for the study of art and culture who are brought to trainees by new technologies, by the formal and non-formal education.

In the era of Millennials, when youngsters spend more and more time online, the need has arisen to move some of the youth work practices to the virtual world. Online space provides a great opportunity for youth workers to affect young people’s lives and habits and reach high number of them without limitation to a specific geographic region or time frame. However, these campaigns need to be youth-appealing and stand out from a huge amount of information young people are overwhelmed with, in order to be effective and reach the planned goals. In the time when youngsters are more and more comfortable on the web, overwhelmed by huge amounts of information and carefully choosing and filtering the information they pay attention to, youth workers need additional support and space for developing skills in order to reach out to the youngsters online in the most effective manner. Online campaigns can be a very useful tool for youth work practices, but only if conducted in a quality and youth appealing manner. This is where youth workers need additional support, to develop and improve their competences (IT skills, but also behavioural knowledge) in order to create programmes and campaigns that will be digitally-youth-friendly and have the desired impact on the target group. There are two extremely important main goals to meet when online campaigning: 1. Be visible and stand out from a huge amount of information and 2. Have the desired effect on the target group (whether it is delivering information, a change of perspective, move to action etc.). Peer-to-peer online campaigns have a great potential, since it is the youngsters who know best what the current trends are on the web and especially on social networks, and can predict very easily the reaction that a current action or content can cause on the web. During the project implementation, youth workers will have the opportunity to gain knowledge on online campaigning, and also develop skills and competences in this area. They will be able to work on creation of their own methods during the TC, and they will have the opportunity to try out and furtherly develop those methods during three youth exchanges. Furthermore, participants of the youth exchanges will start and implement three European level campaigns after the exchange. This way, planned activities will give youth workers and youngsters the opportunity to practically try out their new knowledge, use and test the newly adopted skills and measure the results they had on the target groups in comparison to the expected results. One of the crucial outputs of the project will be the Recommendations (Online campaign as a tool in youth work) the project team will develop and publish at the end of the project implementation. Recommendations will be made public and available for all the interested individuals, organisations and entities who wish to implement project or programmes using online campaigning as a tool.

There is a need in the international youth work community to increase the level of involvement of diverse target groups, mostly with less opportunities and in risk of exclusion from the learning process, to international and local activities in the frame of Erasmus+ and ESC programmes. It’s recognised that many methods in the field of youth work are too abstract to be understood by youngsters with special needs or even those for whom English is not a mother tongue. Go VISUAL project aims to equip trainers, educators and youth workers with tools and skills of using visual methods in their local and international work in the frame of non formal education also to strengthen inclusion of young people with less opportunities. Our goal is to support participants of international projects, in the process of reflection and defining acquired key competences by using visual methods. An equally important goal is to raise competences of youth workers themselves, by adding to existing ETS set of competences visual tools supporting reflexion and understanding of each competence. Objectives:-increasing skills of trainers, educators and youth workers to include young people with less opportunities in international projects through the use of visual methods, - development of innovative quality tools for youth workers, educators and trainers to empower youth readiness to learn -increasing the value of international projects for those involved in them by using the YOuthpass tool more effectively in a self-reflection process- increasing effectiveness of youth workers of getting to the groups with less opportunitiesdevelopment of the learning environment by using visual language and easy text as equal ways of expressionThe project will address directly 150 participants, among them: - youth workers, trainers and educators implementing short-term educational activities for youth on the local level (workshops, trainings), - youth workers, educators and trainers implementing short-term international group educational mobility with young people (youth exchanges), - coordinators and mentors implementing long-term individual and group educational mobility of young people (e.g. international volunteering projects),- professionals working with young people with fewer educational and social opportunities.Activities - international work on intellectual outputs leading to final results :1.NEED ANALYSIS “Go VISUAL - visual preferences introduction”2.Creation of set of 33 visual tools with 8 key Youthpass competences and 5 selected from the ETS3.Implementing international training - test of visual methods prototypes 4.Creation of manual for 33 methods with 10 workshops scripts and 10 film tutorials5.Organising of 2 local multiplayer events in each country plus 1 international webinar Main results of the projects are two complementary intellectual outputs:1. GO VISUAL - set of visual tools - box of 33 visual tools easy transferable for different learning environments, based on DO IT YOURSELF principles. 2.Go VISUAL - manual - this is an introduction to “GO VISUAL - set of visual tools” with clear instructions - how to use them, modify and develop further on. The manual consists of written publication, templates and printable materials. Additionally, there is a set of 10 short video tutorials reachable on YOUTUBE channel.The project is carried out in a Polish-German partnership (FERSO Foundation and Natur Kultur) in period 01.03.2021 -31.07.2022