Mind your body is a result of a brainstorm about the overloaded modern lifestyle of our youth, as they are not concerned about their physical, and as a conseqence, mental health. This project is the first step towards adulthood and independence, which is a reflection of our life in the youth. 20 youngsters from 4 countries were exploring new sports, cultures, fellows from other european countries, preparing their own dinners and learning something new about dietetics and making a video in 10 days. Through methods of informal learning they got to know themselves, their body and boundaries of their abilities. As a result of the project, they created a ZINE flyer with 20 recipes, which you can prepare in under 30 minutes and a Vegefestival opened to the public in club of Youth center Trbovlje, where they created stands and acitivities for people of all ages. Partner organisations took ‘’home’’ the ideas and effects of our project and expand it in their local area. Every individual found themselves in a sport and in a encouraging intercultural evironment stroke to activities, with every day passing their body will accustom itself to demands and with this, they built motivation and enjoyment for activities, as a result they step confidently towards sports and became team players.

"""Ideas@Work: Training Course on Social Entrepreneurship"" is a 10 month long project organized by YMCA Parthenope ONLUS that will take place in Italy from 6 to 12 November 2017 in Torre del Greco, a beautiful town between the sea and the Vesuvio. The partnership is composed by 7 associations from 7 different countries: Italy, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal and Lithuania.The project will directly involve 30 people: 28 participants and 2 experienced trainers. Participants are youth workers, volunteers and Co-founders of youth NGOs and social enterprises, unemployed young people looking for a job.Each partner expressed their need for innovative methods in entrepreneurship education, they plan to use the method of creativy boosting and recycling with their target groups in non formal entrepreneurial education.With our project we address the increasing problem of youth unemployment in Europe and the need of learning the social entrepreneurial skillset in order to enable youth workers to act on their own, and adapt to the cuntinuously changing labour market. Our objectives are:• to promote social entrepreneurship, creativity and ’network thinking’ in general and in youth work by using the method of creative recycling• to equip youth workers with the method of creative recycling to be able to react on environmental- and social matters in an innovative way, transfer it to their work and reach wide public • to improve youth workers’ entrepreneurial skills • to empower young people to become active citizens, through sharing of critical knowledge and understanding of a sustainable way of livingTopic: social entrepreneurship, sustainability, method: non formal learning and creative recyclingInnovative working methods in this TC are: creative recycling, movement sessions, simulations, lectures, plenary, team buildings, sharings, reflection, outdoor activities, focus, living library, midterm and final evaluation, coaching and mentoring, elevator pitch in front of experts, value statement making, feedback, street survey, product and service development, debriefings, business model canvas, strategic and financial planning, discussions.Our method is a combination of non formal learning methods and creative recycling where the focus is on doing actions and evaluate the process and the result. The process of creation individually and in group context and discovering own resources is a great tool to support entrepreneurial learning, and encourage youth to take initiatives. We create objects out of waste materials which can be found in each household, we work with plastic, textile, paper, tetra pack, etc – these materials are available for everyone, regardless of the status quo or residency. Using this method we develop entrepreneurial skills of young people, such as creativity, communication, self expression, sense of initiative, taking risks, etc. In this project we especially target youth workers who are coming from disadvantaged circumstances.Participants taking part in our project will be introduced to the method of creative recycling, it will enable them to improve creativity, communication, design thinking for their own and they learn how to share the method with different target groups, so in this way also the impact will be multiplied. We expect the target groups to gain a new social- and environmental attitude, to live according to ’network thinking’ and share the method further in the future, develop projects in order to include disadvantaged groups of young people into social entrepreneurship."

<< Objectives >>“BYSN - Boost Your Skills to help the NEETs” is designed to tackle the issue of young unemployment in the local areas of the partner organizations. The project will give the participant YW proper skills and competences to create specific activities for youngsters who are without a job, in order to help them enter in the job market and be more successful in finding a new job.The objectives of the project are:-to equip YW with skills and abilities to create activities that can support NEETs in finding a job-to provide YW with activities that they can use to empower NEETs of their local areas-to promote entrepreneurship mindset in YW and, indirectly, in the NEETs-to increase the inclusion of local NEETs of the communities of the partner organizationsAfter the project, the YW will be able to set up activities in their countries that will involve young unemployees. Those events and activities will be useful to share what the YW have learnt during the project, offering the young unemployed the possibility to acquire knowledge that will be useful in their job search.<< Implementation >>“BYSN - Boost Your Skills to help the NEETs” will involve a total of 41 participants coming from the countries of the partner organization: Greece, Albania, Spain, Bulgaria, France, The Republic of North Macedonia, Turkey, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Ukraine, Portugal, Cyprus. Participants are Youth Workers (24- 32 years old) who are daily cooperating with the partner organizations of the project and with Culti Multi. They have previous experiences in preparing activities for unemployed youngsters and they are interested in learning skills and competencies to promote new kinds of activities for this target group in order to facilitate their access to the job market.Participants have a good level of English and an open mindset. To balance the gender, an equal number of males and females will be chosen among the whole group of participants.The activities of the project are based on non-formal education, and they can be resumed in: team building games, trust sections, energizers and name games, workshops of entrepreneurship, debates, group discussions, learning by doing sessions and role play games. All the activities are related with the main topic of the project, and they are built to facilitate the learning of every person in the group.<< Results >>The results of the project are:-increased skills and competencies of the Youth Workers (YW) in the field of entrepreneurial methods-increased initiative of the YW-improved personal motivation and attitude of the YW-developed of an empowered mindset able to take choices and risks in the YW-increased capacity of the YW to create activities to share fundamental entrepreneurship knowledges to the young unemployees of their local communities-creation of a manual on how to proper learn entrepreneurship skills and enter in the job market-increased efficiency of the partner organization, which will have a more trained staff after the project.The project will have a positive impact on:-participants of the project, who will be able to increase their skills and knowledges in the entrepreneurship sector, and they will be able to share the acquired knowledge in their local community-partner organizations and Culti Multi, which will benefit from a better trained staff once the YW will be back in their countries, and which will also have the opportunities to create a strong network of associations that could cooperate on other projects in the future.-local communities of unemployed youngsters in the partner organizations countries. Those youngsters will be able to learn what the YW have learnt during the project thanks to some specific activities that the YW will do once back home. This will boost the possibility for those young unemployees to find a job.

<< Objectives >>Youth in contemporary societies find it difficult to explore and remain in their true authentic nature. Dominant systems are creating static structures for people to focus mainly on cognitive skills and materialistic & individualistic expressions of success. In most current educational environments young people are shaped towards fitting into this system. The social life in the modern world is based on competition and hierarchy thus the youngsters’ identity, beliefs, relationships and lifestyles are under stress and pressured in order to fit into these patterns. As a result, the number of mental health issues among young people such as depression, anxiety, attention-deficit, loneliness is rising. Additionally, many young people are scared about social interactions, their future, the health and survival of the planet. We believe that non-formal educational environments have the potential to support young people in becoming more conscious, resilient and empowered in taking actions towards protecting their wellbeing and the planet. By creating a series of activities that address mindful and healthy lifestyle, strengthens mind-body-emotions interconnectedness, and brings us back to the nature, we aim to support youth workers in their personal and professional development.Young people need empowerment and facilitation by youth workers who are highly skilled in the field of healthy lifestyle, mindfulness, emotional intelligence. It is of essential importance to inspire and integrate youngsters with their emotional and mental health issues in the social life of modern society, as well as to navigate them in overcoming the challenges in personal and social context. The proposed training course aims to gather 27 youth workers from 8 countries with experience of work in the field of personal and social integration of young people. The working team will create a space and conditions where the gain of basic tools of mindfulness will be awaiting participants of the “reCONNECT YOUth – Mindfulness tools in youth work” programme.Taking into account the above mentioned context, the specific objectives of the proposed TC are:-To equip youth workers and leaders from Program and EECA Partner countries with the competencies to foster deeper self-reflection and self-expression activities to be used with their target groups-To promote healthy and environmentally conscious behavior among participants with the use of mindfulness and nature-based methods to be afterwards applied in their workplaces-To strengthen body-mind-emotion interconnectedness as a holistic approach of health and wellbeing by giving participants stress-resistance and emotional intelligence tools -To form a network among like-minded organisations and develop follow-up projects within the project topic<< Implementation >>“reCONNECT YOUth - Mindfulness tools in youth work” training course aims to gather 27 participants from Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia to acquire skills and tools of mindful living to overcome everyday stressful situations, to hold an effective communication, to become more environmentally conscious. This project has one main activity which is a training course to be hosted on 19.10 - 28.10.2022 (including 2 days for travel, in total 10 days) in Stepanavan, Armenia.We will gather to discuss, find and learn ways of mindful and healthy living through reconnecting with nature, with each other and with ourselves. We will use such tools as outdoor physical activities, body work, dance movement, human library, meditations, deep reflections, simulation exercises, healthy nutrition and conscious consumers' approach to find our real identities, to express our hidden potential, to understand other cultures and learn peaceful communication, to overcome stressful situations, become healthy and mindful human beings. And as a result to enreach our youth work tool box with new empowering methods.The methodological framework of the TC is the one of non-formal education, learner-centered and peer to peer learning approach with combination of frontal inputs, discussions and exercises. To ensure that participants make the best use of their skills, abilities and knowledge, all the sessions are designed in a way to encourage their active participation and provide them with an opportunity to share the knowledge and skills they have or are interested within the topic of the project.This training course is targeted at youth workers and young leaders who are workers, members or volunteers of community and youth organisations. They are interested in self-development through mindfulness, meditation, connection to nature, environmentally conscious way of living with the holistic approach of body-mind emotion interconnectedness. Participants are aged 18+ and are residents in an eligible ERASMUS+ country.All the participating youth workers are active members of their organisations who want to bring new experiences, knowledge and opportunities to their communities and share with other colleagues and youngsters to empower them. Some of them already have experience in participation and management of international mobility projects, however we are open also for newcomers. The partner organisations have ensured gender balance in their groups, aiming at a balanced number of male and female participants with equal motivation and accessibility.We encouraged and involved participants with fewer opportunities facing geographical, cultural and economic obstacles. Participants who have cultural difficulties are descendants from immigrant or refugee families either belong to a national or ethnic minority, those with economic obstacles are with low standard of living, low income, dependence on social welfare system, and participants with geographical obstacles come from rural areas borderline villages limited by their territorial conditions for travelling and having an access for international opportunities.<< Results >>The proposed training course will have an impact on participants from several aspects. Firstly it will have an impact on participants’ personal and professional development leading to the self-empowerment as it will stimulate their self-reflection and self-awareness capacities. They will get closely acquainted with mindfulness and meditation as a strong tool for combating everyday stress that causes mental health issues. Another impact will be participants’ increased sensitivity towards nature and promotion to become more environmentally conscious. They will raise their awareness towards connection to nature as the most organic state of humans even while living in the cities and being distracted with technological & urban development. As well as participants will increase their intercultural sensitivity, which in its turn will help them to develop a more open, tolerant attitude towards others and to communicate with the peers from other cultures in a more effective and respective way.With the support of their sending organisations participants will prepare info sessions and workshops promoting the topic of this training course, experience gained in Armenia and follow up projects engaging stakeholders in the field in their countries. Thus, it will attract more people's attention on caring about mental health and mindfulness in youth work through embodied educational methods strengthening the connection with oneself, with others and with nature in a holistic way. Moreover, during the project study visits and best cases’ sharing organised with the local organisations and community in Armenia will attract more local people to the topic and thus to get in touch with different cultures and information/possibilities of participating in Erasmus + Programmes.As well as such crucial issues as integration of youth with fewer opportunities in the society are raised through this training course. This is one of the ongoing challenges in the whole of Europe. Solution of this kind of issues through focusing on youth personal development and social inclusion possibilities empowerment within the framework of international projects will have a significant positive impact on the youth work, as it will raise their awareness on the topic, self-esteem, self-empowerment as well as will possibly encourage their interest to actively participate in different aspects of intercultural communication.

Our project is a Youth Exchange Project which will be implemented between January-June 2018. There are 2 reasons for us to do this project. 1) Creating a space for 30 participants from 6 different countries and let them to share their traditional children games and creative drama games with each other, giving a chance for capacity building to the partner organizations. 2) Accelerating the integration process of Syrian migrant kids who have fled from Syria due to Civil War. Increasing their self confidence with the games that we will teach them. If we need to summarize our project goals: -Sharing best practices and having a capacity building with the participants coming from the background of creative drama, educational sciences. -Remembering the traditional children games which face extinction in today's Word and sharing them with participants coming from different countries. -Creating awareness about the situation of Syrian refugees. -Helping the socialization process of Syrian children -Creating a multicultural learning environment with 30 participants coming from different countries -Promoting the cultural and historical places of our country -Creating new partnerships in Europe in the field of creative drama -Informing our partners about Erasmus+ and Youthpass Certificates -Informing the local people in İzmir about the Erasmus+ Projects. In the project the first 2 monts are Preperation Phase, the first week of April is the International Activity Phase. The months of April and May are the dissemination phase and the last month June, is the Evaluation month in our project. Between the dates of 01-06 April 2018 we will do our Main Activities in İzmir. Each partner will join the project with 4 participants and a group leader in total we will do our work with 30 people. Our participants will be aged between 18-30 years old, interested in our project topic, experienced in the field and they will be ready to take initiative in their local communities and implement the outcomes of this project to their target groups. Each partner organization will choose their participants and we will work for the gender balance in our activities in İzmir. In our 6 days of project we will use non formal education techniques. Each partner will present and teach their traditional children games to us in their sessions. In the last days the participants will work in multicultural groups and create new children games. These new games and traditional games will be played in the last day of the İzmir activities in Gediz neigborhood with Syrian children. To summarize the expected results of our project: -Our participants will learn about different children games, and teach their own traditional games to participants coming from different countries. There will be a multi cultural learning environment and their empathy capacity and self confidence will be increased. -They will be aware about the Syrian migrants problems and they will work for the adaptation of Syrian children to Turkish society. -Their skills in working in multicultural environment, capacity to make empathy, group work and speaking a foreign language skills will be increased. -Our partners will have capacity building and a new international network will be created -The local people living in İzmir will have a chance to meet with people coming from 5 different countries of Europe , learning their traditional games. Also our activities will also be beneficial to our second target group which are Syrian migrants. We will help their integration process and Syrian kids will play the games that they have just learned with their Turkish friends.