"International training course “ESC to reality: QualiCaucasus"" gathered 29 youth workers and volunteering support persons from 13 different organizations in Rustavi, Georgia from 12th till 17th of March 2019 . Main aim of the training course was to increase quality level of volunteering projects implemented with partners from Caucasus region by developing competences of the persons directly involved in support system of volunteers. Training course helped to recognize and overcome difficulties in planning, implementing and evaluating of “qualitative” volunteering project with existing and potential partners - experienced and not so much experienced organizations from Latvia, France, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan who are working or willing to work and create/improve meaningful and qualitative ESC volunteering projects in Caucasus countries as well as to send/host well-prepared and motivated volunteers. This TC offered the participants to experience directly European values and created a platform for discussing them. An extra attention was put on solidarity concept, therefore all involved partners brought home a deeper understanding and practices of European Values ready for implementation. TC was based non-formal education principles and methods and included a lot of group work, discussions, simulations and reflections as well as study visit elements - to visit organization's around Rustavi and Tbilisi that are dealing with volunteering on every day basis. On top of this, there was possibility for involved organizations to share their experience, to learn new working methods and to extend wider network of reliable organizations for their volunteers. As one of the results of this training course toolkit “EVS QualiCaucasus” was produced, which focusing on volunteering specifics in Caucasus and quality aspects creating projects with partners from Caucasus region."

"""We Radio"" is a project on low-budget Web radio as a means of youth participation, which provides two distinct phases of theproject; The first phase is made by a training course to be held in Modica (Italy) from 10th to 19th October 2017; the second phase includes a network project that aims at providing a sustainable network of youth organizations. This activity will take place in Modica (Italy) february 12 to 18, 2018. The project involves youth organizations from Italy, Greece Turkey, Armenia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Spain, Romania and Lithuania.The first phase concerns the creation of participatory broadcast that encourage youth participation, new forms of participation andencourage youth entrepreneurship in the field of web-radio productions. Through this stage, organisations and their youth workers will be able to help young people to create its own ""brand"" business that is not mediated by the ""world"" of adults, but absolutely free of editorial lines, special interests and other impositions, getting able to influence society and make ""critical mass"", involving young people who are often subject to social exclusion. This phase also aims to provide to participants technical knowledge that will enable each of them to create a web radio and manage it in all its components, making them more autonomous and independent. This phase involves 22 young people and youth workers.The second phase will establish a network of organizations designed to support the activities of web radio created in the first phase, to ensure visibility, to adopt common radio programs and establish the mission, vision and guiding principles of the network. Greatimportance will be given to the possibility of producing other initiatives under Erasmus Plus, with the aim of exploiting themethodologies from this project in other design areas. This phase involves the participation of 22 youth workers and young peoplefrom the Countries involved.The project will involve partner organizations, not only during the dates of activities, but also in the phase in between of the trainingcourse and the network project; in fact exploiting the methods and technical knowledge, young people with the help of sendingorganizations, will immediately begin broadcasting radio programs, experimenting new forms of entertainment and attract thecuriosity of their communities.The project objectives will be achieved through creative workshops, simulated broadcast, practical workshops, discussions on youngpeople's participation and group activities that enable young people and professionals, to encourage participation in the social lifeof their community. The methodology to be applied, will be for a very large part of non-formal education, especially linked to the""learning by doing""guidelines and group activities that will help the participants to work in contact with different culturalbackgrounds."

<< Objectives >>Within the last years the community of educational practitioners and therefore also implemented projects in the field of non-formal education & international youth work was growing enormously. This goes along side the observation of many individual “trainers” starting up their educational practice as a (professional) life path and as a source of income. Nevertheless we are convinced that projects - and therefor us as the ones implementing them with young people and our cooperation partners - often lack reflection, knowledge, awareness & consciousness about a simple but crucial question, namely how to create and shape learning in order to define & achieve impact (individual, organisational and systemic) in cooperation with the target group(s). Or - as a thesis - in order to be able to achieve (and to measure) impact we have to really understand learning.Therefore the overall project foresees a series of educational events to discuss, share, build on & focus on key topics that interest the members of this consortium (organisations) but also support active individuals in developing further their profiles as individual educators. We would like this group to become more valuable for each of us and we believe there is probably no easier way to connect people than to have them meet online & offline and work together for a common purpose. We will develop for & with the group of partners a tailor-made series of European seminars & trainings which aim to provide a concrete profile for the group but also can serve as a reference of quality as educational practitioner. The seminars & trainings will foster the profile of people & organisations and will build on your experiences and needs as educational practitioners but also develops a concrete schedule for providing an overarching horizon of developing competences in the field of (European youth) education.Finally we would like to make available academic and other knowledge that is sometimes not available to certain groups of our society because the formal system excludes certain groups. This project is an attempt in offering training to a target that would otherwise not be able to acquire this type of experience. And secondly we believe that this project, as it is operating under non-formal settings, allows for a much closer learner centered approach and thus allows for a more sustainable and lasting impact. << Activities >>This project will implement 4 residential meetings for 30 participants from all over the European Union and neighbouring partner countries including 3 transitional phases in which further facilitated research is being conducted. This project will involve 30 multipliers, youth leaders, NGO activists, educators, young entrepreneurs, social workers who would like to increase their skill in offering qualitative learning spaces for young people and being able to measure the impact professionally. This project will additionally reach 300 individuals on local level reached through local activities in T3. All activities will operate in the frame of non-formal education and include learner participation and reflection in all relevant stages of the project. << Impact >>This project intends to significantly increase the quality of learning spaces being offered by non-formal educational actors. This will increase the quality and impact of the partners of this project to reach their target group with their respective mission. Non-formal educational activities will become more professional and measurable. We would like to increase significantly understanding of impact measurement and the implementation of measuring impact in general. Local communities will see a more professional NGO activism that can truly support and inspire young people. We also expect the participating organizations to deepen their collaboration in order to implement bigger projects.

TC Scenario Europe 2050 was a training course for 36 multipliers, entrepreneurs, social activists, educators, practitioners and youth leaders from over 15 regions, hosted in December in Tulln/Austria for six days. The objective was to enable NGOs and their staff to use scenario building as a tool to analyse and assess any current development in their community, to analyse and create possible scenarios and to finaly sharpen the tools to prepare for any such scenario. This project also builds bridges between societies currently at war with each other, which we believe is a fundamental value of this programme. The project was based on non-formal educational principles.

<< Objectives >>Go Visual: visual thinking tools for youth work and education is a follow-up project of a project which we have implemented in 2018:GO VISUAL: visual thinking tools for youth workers dealing with integration of migrants and refugees, supported by Erasmus + programme in 2018.This project was born from the idea to empower youth workers, trainers, and educators to use interactive and creative methods ineducation and equip them with skills of graphic facilitation, visual thinking tools, graphic recording, and other tools of visualisation in order tosupport & foster the educational process, empower youth motivation, ensure effective communication and increase learning results andaddressing challenges such as intercultural dialogue, educational work with marginalized groups, preventing bullying, hate speech andradicalization of young people and to develop critical thinking abilities.The aim of the Go Visual project is to raise awareness and develop competence of educators, trainers, teachers, youth workers and young people in visual thinking tools and graphic facilitation, in order to empower, raise effectiveness and quality of educational process and learning. This TC also helps to build a holistic and inclusive educational environment, where young people, not just receivers but also active actors and contributors to their own learning process.Objectives:- To increase awareness and importance of the use of the visual thinking tools in education and youth work, and how to apply them to youth work and training;-To learn basic elements of visual language and how to use it to create meanings and to develop your own visual library-To explore sketch-noting & graphic recording techniques: to visualise and structure concepts and ideas in an easy and concise way.- To explore why visuals are useful and how they help to better remember & understand things, empower and motivate, grab attention & and call to action.- To learn what graphic facilitation is and how to use it in different contexts and for specific goals- To learn how to stimulate critical thinking and creativity with graphic tools.- To become more self-expressive and to reduce risks of misunderstanding;To create visual instruments to support the self-learning process of visual think and graphic facilitation competence development.To discuss the ways visual thinking tools contribute to social inclusion in education and youth work<< Implementation >>Title: Go Visual: visual thinking tools for youth work and education - Mönichkirchen, AustriaCountries: Austria (Host),Hungary, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Germany, Israel, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, GeorgiaNumber of participants: 34Number of trainers: 2Total amount of participants and team: 36Working language: EnglishThe aim of the Go Visual project is to raise awareness and develop competence of educators, trainers, teachers, youth workers and young people in visual thinking tools and graphic facilitation, in order to empower, raise effectiveness and quality of educational process and learning. This TC also helps to build a holistic and inclusive educational environment, where young people, not just receivers but also active actors and contributors to their own learning process.The programme will be discovering what is visual thinking concept and how it could be applied to youth work. Learning what doodling, infographics, graphical recording, graphic facilitation, and scribing are and how they can be used in education. The participant will learn how graphic facilitation can be an educational tool, reflection instrument, personal development instrument, motivation, and empowering method. How visualising thoughts help to clear aims, unite people, support communication, call to action and how visuals make changes.Practicing will be the key point of development and sharpen skills of the participants, so we will be practicing a lot the usage of various visual tools, drawing again and again, in different styles on different topics different elements. Through the practice, we will create concrete products, results, and outcomes such as posters, infographics, mind maps, comics and etc. The main outcomes that participants will be able to take are an educational visual library and big practice results. The educational visual library - is a set of visual icons, simple pictures explaining words, definitions, and phrases. This small collection will be a starting point for educators to develop their own visual library, which they can use any time in their work, presentations, and sketches. The big practice results - are the results of deep work development of concrete educational visual tools related to the participant's educational and youth work. Posters, infographics, whiteboard scribing, training templates, visualised presentation, and many other outcomes. All training results participants will be able to physically take-home use in their work and share with others. The education will be based on experiential learning meaning that the participants will be learning by doing, and later will reflect the experience. Apart from the methods, we will invest in creating a safe but diverse learning environment where participants will be learning through interacting and sharing.The training course will gather 36 participants - educators coming from formal and non-formal education systems (trainers, teachers, pedagogues facilitators), psychologists and social workers from the formal (educational) institutions; youth workers dealing with young people and staff from NGOs andformal education system as the main target group We also also involve youth educators working with young people with fewer opportunities, in particular with social, economical and geographical obstacles. Participants will come from Austria, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Portugal, Italy, Ukraine, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Israel.<< Results >>Our participants -educators from different formal systems and Youth Workers will develop a set of graphic facilitation skills. Impact on educational process and work with young people by using visual tools and graphic facilitation skills on Educational and with work process will be raising the effectiveness of education and youth work. Improving information delivery, Structuring information, materials will be easy to remember, empower the participation of the youth. The learning process will become more inclusive by supporting visual learners, learners with language difficulties and barriers, and people with disabilities. Changing attitudes of the learner’s towards education making it moreinteresting and engaging.One of the important parts of the visual education is including learners into visual work, and through graphics learn together the material. SoIncluding learners in the learning process by involving them in the drawing and art process is another expected impact. Combining learning with a personal mega net, using visual methods and tools together with learners and youth raising their creativity, visual skills, and stimulating self-learning process.Sharing visual work with the learners will also create feeling of co-creation and raise ownership of the youth on their own learning and educational process.We expect from the participants of the training to learn, develop and share their gained knowledge in graphic facilitation and visual skills. Share with local and international partners, organisations, institutions, youth workers and youth.We expect participants of the workshops understand the importance and power of visualization and visual tool in education, youth and social work and in their life. Understand how art and visual instruments support their learning process, develop their creativity, structuring processes, help in multitasking, gathering thoughts, presenting ideas, empowering initiatives, and in general help in different aspects of work and life.We expect a strengthening of educator's competences with visual skills and graphic tools.