Networks for Change, is an activity of non-formal education that allows 3 young people between 18 and 30 express their personal commitment to the environment and society through voluntary unpaid work full time for 9 months in our city Ourense (Galicia-Spain). Through learning experiences, improved our volunteers and acquire skills for their personal, educational and professional development as well as for their social integration.With the European Voluntary Service (EVS), from Sustinea support transnational voluntary youth work. Our goal is to develop solidarity and promote tolerance among young volunteers, primarily to reinforce social cohesion in the European Union. Also, we promote active citizenship and mutual understanding among young people.EVS in our organization, realizaro through a series of activities Environmental Education, Conservation, Environmental Communication and Sustainable Rural Development. From Sustinea we were together for this SVE, with other legally established organizations, which send and host volunteers, such as Tools for Solidarity of Belfast, Associação Social Recreativa Juventude de Vila Fonche / Juventude and AMFI- Agenzia per la Mobilità and the Formazione Internazionale.This project enhanced its role, as promoting the direct participation of the / young people in the development and management of activities and establishing a true associative culture.Active and playful methodology allowed us to participate in the design, implementation and analysis of the results of each of the activities.The results were that young volunteers are endowed with sufficient tools to develop the ability to communicate with others, to organize in a collective framework, one of the greatest needs're young. This also contributed in the / young participants, to participate and especially to acquire responsibilities.The impact sought was the project in the countries of origin of the participants, the successful experiences shared by all during the SVE, showing them to the / young people that a better world is possible, they are not alone / as and that different environmental alternatives, which enables them to integrate socially and occupationally.The long-term benefits are being (as started already noted) improving social skills, employability and affective capaciadades of volunteers / as by promoting activities in a rural setting showing initiatives in rural respect the environment and promote social solidarity.

The seminar gathered 30 trainers and facilitators from 13 countries, including 3 neighboring EU regions: Western Balkans, Eastern partnership region and Russia. Seminar took place in Lithuania 28.09-04.10 in 2015. It aimed:To explore how internet and technology is influencing the nature of youth work and training and discuss the existing needs and challenges related to this technological and societal change.To present and explore online tools that can facilitate learning, communication and project management;To reflect about the strengths of these tools and the limitations of its use in our own local youth work and training contexts;To learn about recent developments and future applications of online tools for education and youth work.As result of undertaken evaluation, participants highly appreciated the seminar and indicated that all of the objectives were reach to almost full or full extent. The seminar have been developed based on specific professional development needs identified via online survey and live events for trainers and youth workers on European level. Seminar addressed European Training Strategies Set of trainers’ competences, focusing on the competence area “Designing educational programmes” and “Integrating ICT, E-Learning and other tools and methods into the educational methodology” as well as one of the Key competences for life-long learning “Digital competence”The methodology was based on mutual sharing and learning. Programme focused on exploration of diverse digital tools that can facilitate learning, communication and project management (software, online services, platforms, etc.). Sessions had specific focus on: a) tools for co-working, cooperation and online learning; b) creativity, engagement of young people, youth workers through various online tools and games; c) media tools, which can be useful for projects’ visibility, dissemination of results as well as for critical media education or digital literacy development programmes. In terms of impact, youth workers and trainers started using large number of the available online resources in their educational projects and supporting young people in their projects. As part of the project the open Facebook group has been created, which by now attracted more than 400 practitioners from all over Europe, who continue following the group and new online tools for learning, which are added there. Nectarus, as hosting organisation, has built strong image among youth work organisations and now is often identified as the one having good understanding about the use of variety of online tools in youth work.

The project "Joint Exchanges Network" is aimed at the creation of a network of organizations for the development of international high-quality youth exchange projects. The project involved 17 partner organizations and consists of two main activities: a Partnership Building Activity and a Training Course. The idea of the project came from all the partners, who really want to strengthen the partnership among the organizations working in international youth mobility. The main objective of the project was to create a network in which organizations collaborate with well-known partners and in a clear and shared frame-work. In this way it will be possible to facilitate the involvement of the youngsters in the management of exchanges designed by young people for young people, based on peer-to-peer education and thought to develop soft skills that promote employability.In the PBA from the 6th to the 10th of March 2015, 17 coordinators of youth exchanges/presidents of the partner organizations will reinforce the relation among the organisations, will establish quality standards for common projects and will create the Joint Exchange Network, JEN.

"The “Associação Social Recreativa Juventude de Vila Fonche/Juventude” works daily with over one hundred kids and teens. The association biggest priority is occupation their free time in the community. In the last few years, we started to conduct and participate in diverse youth programs which allowed “our” teens to visit and to know other countries, new cultures and to develop their social and personal competences. We work with European Voluntary Service (EVS) since 1998, welcoming different European youngsters in our installations.One of our biggest concerns in the last years has been the lack of youngsters participation in our community, mainly those who are from unstructured familiar contexts, more prone to risky situations and social exclusion.Another aspect that has alarmed us is youth unemployment which has become one of the biggest social calamities that affects European countries.Based on these problems “Associação Social Recreativa Juventude de Vila Fonche/Juventude” intends to continue a project already made previously and, with the collaboration of 3 new European volunteers, develop new activities that meet the needs of our community's youth and provide them with new knowledge, tools and socio-professional skills.The new projects to be developed by young volunteers during European Voluntary Service project (EVS) ""AtivArte II"", aim to develop and empower our youth, and volunteers themselves to a more active participation in society and also aim to disseminate programs for young people, especially those related to ""Erasmus +"". With the realization of the EVS project ""AtivArte II"", we have as main objectives:- To meet the needs of our community's youth;- Develop weekly workshops with various themes, to become alternatives of free time for local youth;- Equip young volunteers with a new set of personal and social skills to enable them, in the future, to have important differentiating factors in the labor market;- Increase the participation of young people of the community in projects under the program ""Erasmus +"" (particularly in EVS);- Working entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship amongst volunteers and community youth;- Awaken the youth and the community in general for European citizenship;- Provide contact between local community and different European cultures- We want the volunteers to learn Portuguese and to take our culture abroad.Our group of young volunteers consists of 2 girls and 1 boy, from three European countries (France, Belgium and Poland), with ages comprehended between 18 and 30 years. They all are also part of the NEET group (not in education, employment, or training).Volunteers chosen for the European Voluntary Service project ""AtivArte II"" will be responsible for the promotion of several weekly workshops, which will be developed in Arcos de Valdevez schools and youth center, training/information space to teens whom are part of the organization. It is intended that the implementation of various workshops becomes an effective alternative young people’s free time and are able to respond to the needs of young arcuenses.Some awareness/information sessions will be dynamized about mobility programs for young people, emphasizing the ""Erasmus +"" program. These sessions will be prepared by volunteers and will be appropriate to the audience’s age and characteristics.The activities will be based in informal educative techniques and methods (group dynamics, role plays, presentations, creation of “Learning Journal”, personal and group reflexions, etc.) and the participants will be oriented by the project coordinator, the activity manager and their mentor.At the end of the European Voluntary Service ""AtivArte"", an activity will be held in the center of Arcos de Valdevez village, open to the entire community, where the teens will share with everyone, their final papers resulting from the workshops and all the learning acquired throughout the project. A report will be elaborated and a final video will be made, which will be posted in our social networks and sent to our partners.Partners will also disseminate the final results in their social networks and among their communities.Our partners agreed that, when the youngsters arrive to their country, they would supervise and accompany them to help them to have a new integration in their communities. They also agreed to use their volunteering experience to create clarification sessions about the EVS and that the teen may disseminate the project he’s been into, as well as share the acquired competences and “AtivArt II"" project final results."

We believe that each new young generation holds the key to co-create a better world. With fresh innovative ideas, perspectives and an tremendous need for (online) connection, the current generation of young people are extremely promising to be leaders of change. With the project Change! Leaders for active participation laboratory (CLAP lab!) we aim to improve the capability of these young people to make a change in society through a youth leadership development programme.CLAP lab! is an international multi-measure project dedicated to train the young people of our organizations to develop their leadership skills and create change in society. Youth leadership benefits both the youngsters itself and the society as a whole. Using a combination of training, exchanges and evaluation we constructed an experiential & cross cultural leadership programme that integrates the different needs & objectives of all partner organizations. We will be welcoming in total 8 partners from Lithuania, Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Italy & Romania. The aims of CLAP lab! are:• To stimulate young people to make a change in society• To stimulate young people to guide or direct others in a course of action, influence their opinion and behavior and show the way by going in advance• To offer young people the experience, understanding and practice of different kinds of leadership during training and exchanges.• To build up a leadership attitude among our youngsters that stimulates the bottom-up decision-making process instead of top down