The idea of the project “The European citizenship - a colourful opportunity” came as a result of non-formal discussions and talks between the participants in a previous project coordinated by Know and Can Association, “Forum Friends” implemented in 2012. Representatives of the partner organizations discussed the main problems of young people in their countries as well as the lack of the adequate knowledge, skills and experience of youth workers to help young people in an appropriate way. After these talks the participants came to an idea that a training connected to youth entrepreneurship and the provision of a greater awareness about the European citizenship, the rights, duties and opportunities resulting of it, would be of great benefit for them in their capacity of youth leaders and workers.The realization of the project is aimed at the establishment of new competences and practical skills of the participants as well as the increasing of their awareness about the European citizenship. We reckon that this will be accomplished through trainings in entrepreneurship and social skills, which are needed for a successful professional realization. The trainings include working in a team and leadership skills, innovative practices, creativity and creative thinking, decision making and conflict resolution. A greater awareness of the participants about the rights and opportunities given by European citizenship, will be achieved through an exchange of experience and good practices, presentations, discussions and role games.The project “The European citizenship- a colourful opportunity” foresees a 9 day training in Bulgaria for 32 youth leaders and workers from 6 organizations from Bulgaria, Hungary, Turkey, Italy, France, and Latvia. The training is aimed at participants, who have an experience in working with young people and are motivated to improve the quality of their work.Within the framework of the project various non-formal working methods will be conducted: interactive role games, simulations, analysis of real life stories, discussions and looking for a solution, workshops, presentations, working in small intercultural groups. The participants will have the chance to share their experience in their work with youth as well as their values, attitudes and expectations.After the end of the training the youth workers will have the necessary knowledge, skills and competences, which will make their future work with young people more effective. The latter will lead to the increasing of the capacity of the organizations they are working for.

Employment, adequate social conditions and well-being are among the greatest concerns for young people. Youth all over Europe is at high risk of social exclusion and poverty, especially during the transition from education to employment. The idea of the training was driven by the fact that young people in general and the ones with fewer opportunities especially often lack necessary competences and experiences in order to enter or stay in labour market. At the same time, NFE that takes place in the frame of youth work provides very valuable learning experiences for young people.Focus of the training course is to empower youth workers for being able to work on youth empowerment in order to combat youth unemployment and exclusion. This project will allow focusing the efforts of organization on the urgency of providing necessary competences to young people who were never employed and becoming a space where those who recently lost employment can maintain their competences and use them in the civic life. The core activity of the project is 8 days long training course. It will be organised in the youth hostel in Zadar, from 14th till 22nd October 2014. Project will gather 31 participants, trainers and staff from 10 organisations/countries (Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Spain).Objectives:• To reflect and exchange opinions about the youth unemployment and entrepreneurship in different European countries (tendencies and influencing factors, specifications of the target group, focuses etc)• To encourage active citizenship and develop sense of entrepreneurship of unemployed youth• To discuss how non-formal education can positively influence better youth employability and employment and to share examples of good practices combating youth unemployment• To encourage the development of different education programmes for empowerment of unemployed youth in local communities, with special accent being put on developing their self-directed learning skills, entrepreneurship skills and business plan development• To explore the possibilities for youth entrepreneurship on European Level (existing strategies and available funding)• To encourage the creation of systems for empowerment of youth in local communities in the forms of learning centres or similar and to enable our participants to act as multipliers in those empowerment centres back home• To present the Erasmus+ programme and to encourage the creation of future projects with unemployed youngstersThe training course is based on the pedagogical understanding of the Council of Europe and the European Commission Partnership Programme and our own experience and expertise in youth work for entrepreneurship, employability skills and inclusion. As the training materials we will use SALTO booklets, T-kits, Compass, and different EU policy/programmes information. The training course will follow the non-formal education approach, principles and methods and will be based on participants' experience and exchange.All partners will be involved in preparation, implementation and evaluation and follow-up phase and activities during the training course, while the preparation team of trainers, facilitators and staff will be comprised of experienced youth trainers from applicant (Realization) and from partner organisations from Serbia (CNELL) and from FYR Macedonia (CID).Project will have biggest impact on direct beneficiaries-participants who will further develop their skills in defining, planning, preparing and leading quality system for youth entrepreneurship empowerment within their local centres and activities and European level projects. Also, there will be important impact on participating / partner organisations who will receive trained people and will be more capable and better equipped for developing of new local and European projects and partnerships for inclusion and youth employability and entrepreneurship.We expect increase in number of young people that will get closer to getting a job and will increase their employability skills, through increased quality of non-formal education activities in communities, as long-term perspective of multiplying and sustainable impact.

Employment, adequate social conditions and well-being are among the greatest concerns for young people. Youth all over Europe is at high risk of social exclusion and poverty, especially during the transition from education to employment. The non-formal education (NFE), vocational training and guidance can be very important in smoothening the transition between education and employment for youth, as well as the key importance of employers recognising the competences that young people acquire through NFE and volunteering in youth organisations. The entrepreneurship NFE can have great relevance in fostering the employability of young people.Partners in this project are dealing with NFE and empowering youngsters. During our cooperation, we’ve noticed a lack of qualified youth trainers of activities for better entrepreneurship / employability skills of youth. Focus of the training course (TC) is to empower youth trainers to be able to develop and lead quality NFE programmes on youth employment and entrepreneurship in order to combat youth unemployment and exclusion. This project will allow focusing the efforts of organization on the urgency of providing necessary competences to young people who were never employed and becoming a space where those who recently lost employment can maintain their competences and use them in the civic life. The core activity of the project is – 9 days long training course. It will be organised in the youth hostel in Split, from 2nd till 11th December. Project will gather 30 participants, trainers and staff from 13 organisations and 10 countries (Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, FYR Macedonia and Turkey).Objectives:• To reflect and exchange opinions about the youth unemployment and entrepreneurship in different European countries (tendencies and influencing factors, specifications of the target group, focuses etc) and existing youth work programmes dealing with it• To discuss how non-formal education can positively influence better youth employability and employment and to share examples of good practices combating youth unemployment• To empower participants for active promotion of youth employment and entrepreneurship and for work on raising youth employability skills• To empower youth workers to become quality youth trainers of non-formal education activities for the (unemployed) youth in our communities• To encourage the development of different education programmes for empowerment of unemployed youth in local communities, with special accent being put on developing their self-directed learning skills, entrepreneurship skills and business plan development• To present the Erasmus+ programme and to encourage the creation of future projects with unemployed youngstersThe training course is based on the pedagogical understanding of the Council of Europe and the European Commission Partnership Programme and our own experience and expertise in youth NFE work for entrepreneurship, employability skills and inclusion. As the training materials we will use SALTO booklets, T-kits, Compass, etc. The training course will follow the non-formal education approach, principles and methods and will be based on participants' experience and exchange. All partners will be involved in preparation, implementation and evaluation and follow-up phase and activities during the training course, while the preparation team of trainers, facilitators and staff will be comprised of experienced youth trainers from applicant (Realization) and from partner organisation from FYR Macedonia (CID or Kreaktiv).Project will have biggest impact on direct beneficiaries-participants who will further develop their skills in defining, planning, preparing and leading quality NFE activities / training courses for youth employment and entrepreneurship within their local centres and activities and European level projects. Also, there will be important impact on participating / partner organisations who will receive trained people to improve own work with NFE and will be more capable and better equipped for developing of new local and European projects and partnerships for inclusion and youth employability and entrepreneurship.As a potential longer term benefit, we expect increase in number of young people that will get closer to getting a job and will increase their employability skills, through increased quality of non-formal education activities in communities, as long-term perspective of multiplying and sustainable impact.

In whole Europe and all countries involved in this project there are serious issues with intercultural dialogue and acceptance of diversity due to not only conflict/wars migrations, but also due to economic migrations towards the EU. We have noticed a lack of young qualified and willing leaders of projects for better intercultural acceptance and inclusion in our multiethnic communities. This project targets active youth workers / leaders (from different cultural, social, historical, religious and economic backgrounds) who will further take action in field of social inclusion and cultural diversity, whether through new initiatives or enhanced activities, and will increase opportunity for ALL to access and participate in youth work and youth projects.The core activity of the project is an 8 days long training course “Strategic approach to quality inclusion and intercultural dialogue youth work”. It will be organised in Zadar, Croatia from 3rd till 11th October 2014. Project will gather 30 participants, trainers and staff from 11 organisations/countries (Croatia, Italy, Latvia, Turkey, FYR Macedonia, Slovenia, Greece, Bulgaria, Belgium, Hungary and Romania).Objectives:- Sharing experience - realities and activities - regarding inclusion and diversity in our communities and countries- Understanding different aspects of youth work and inclusion/diversity- Exploring concepts of identity and its development as starting point to understanding inclusion/diversity around us- Increasing empathy with different aspects of discrimination/exclusion and discussing how to deal with challenging situations- Exploring existing policies on Fundamental Rights in Europe and understanding their connection and implications to youth work for inclusion/diversity- Sharing youth work tools/methods for achieving greater inclusion in our communities- Developing strategies for local and European (level) activities of youth work for promotion of inclusion/diversity- Presenting useful EU and CoE resources and funding programmes to encourage European cooperation among partners for inclusion (projects which will focus on organising youth exchanges which will include second generation immigrant youngsters and youth from other cultural minorities according to the realities and needs in our local communities)The training course is based on the pedagogical understanding of the Council of Europe and the European Commission Partnership Programme and our own experience and expertise in youth work for inclusion and intercultural dialogue. As the training materials we will use T-kits, SALTO booklets, Compass, and Education pack. The training course will follow the non-formal education approach, principles and methods and will be based on participants' experience and exchange.All partners will be involved in preparation, implementation and evaluation and follow-up phase and activities during the training course.Project will have biggest impact on direct beneficiaries-participants who will further develop their skills in defining, planning, preparing and leading quality intercultural local and European level projects for inclusion. Also, there will be important impact on participating / partner organisations who will receive trained people and will be more capable and better equipped for developing of new local and European projects and partnerships for inclusion and intercultural dialogue.We expect the increased in number of youngsters that will get involved as volunteers in the partner organisations' activities, through increased quality of intercultural projects in communities, as long-term perspective of multiplying and sustainable impact. (Note: The translation of summary in Croatian language is attached as annex to this project application form.)

The aim of the project "Creative Actions, Meaningful Perormances!" is to combine formal and non-formal methods for creating new and creative ways of teaching of maths that helps to understand the essential of maths in everyday life. The project focuses on the establishing conscious and coordinated co-operation between different sectors (formal and non-formal), combination formal and non-formal methods for creating innovative teaching approaches, development of youth work quality, supporting youth entrepreneurship. To achieve this aim two activities will take place: preparatory meeting/training where focus will be on methodical issues and practical questions, and a creative festival where different workshops (for example Maths and Extreme Sport, Maths and Drama, Maths and Weather) will take place and end with open event Grande Performance . We will use interactive, creative, team building and other non-formal education methods in the project. The participants include young people and facilitators from Estonia, Norway and Latvia, all together 50 people. The participants develop their competencies for personal, social and professional improvement, the participative organization increase capacity to trigger changes within their organization. Local communities will get inspiration to challange traditional teaching methods and benefit through network and conscious co-operation between different sectors that will be empowered via this project. The project take place in 2014 in Tartu.