"<< Objectives >>The idea of the project comes from a local dimension, indeed the group of French young people originally users of dance and music studio . They want to exchange their practices with other European young peopleThe objectives of the project are: To promote the active participation of the young people Favorize the non formal learning of the young people Promote youth employability by acquiring educational and managerial skillsInvolve the local community Promote the European citizenshipFight against discrimination and deconstruct stereotypes We will use the processes of the non formal learning(discussions, artistic workshops...)The participants will share their experiences in various artistic workshops. We want that the young people are involved in the learning process and acquires educational skills to teach their art to the others.At the end of this exchange a common show will be presented to the Block Party Xe This project aims above all and for everything at a sustainability in the coming years. The project on a local scale being brought to continue, the exchange and the partnership with foreign countries every year could then become a full sector of the project. It would give an even more attractive dimension to the project for the young people participating in it.<< Activities >>An advanced planning visit will be organize in May 2019 in Paris to reflect with our partners on the different aspects of the project (daily life, distribution of tasks, logistics and especially the organization of activities).These questions will be discussed during meetings hosted by the French team.During the exchange that will take place from June 30 to July 9, 2019, there will be different types of activities:-Group cohesion activities (energetic games, icebreaker games) / once a day / they will be prepared upstream by young people from different countries.- A video diary / once a day / it will be produced by a group of young people from all countries participating in the project.-Games and forum theater session around the fight against discrimination // 1 July 2019 / Implementation of playful expression tools to question young people about racism, discrimination and stereotypes. Using the resource '' All different, All equal ''- Thematic evenings / from July 1 to 4, 2019: each country will have the mission to organize a themed evening in connection with their culture. These parties will be shared between two countries each time.- Workshop for exchanges between young people (Rap, Dance, Graffiti, Music ...) / 2, 3, 4, and 5 July 2019 / these workshops will be set up by young people from different countries according to their know-how . The young people will learn from their peers, It will be an exchange of techniques and knowledge. The teacher becomes the learner. The learner becomes the teacher.-Creation of a ""Flash Mob"" (performance) / July 3, 2019 / The staging of this flash mob is coordinated by young French, 4 months before the exchange via Facebook, The creation will be common between all partners with active participation of young people upstream of the exchange. For example, The French create an action to which is added the different partner countries, The young people will perform this performance on the evening of July 15, 2016 in the middle of the Place de la République.-Hip-Hop initiation workshop (Dance and Graffiti) in a leisure center / July 5, 2019 / These workshops conducted by groups of 4 young multinationals in a leisure center of the 10th district will be the opportunity to manage a group of children and to sensitize them to different artistic techniques. Technical animators will bring the necessary educational tools to support young children.-Creation and repetition of a show / July 6, 2019 / This multidisciplinary show will be a joint creation between all the partners. It will allow participants to acquire skills in the organization of live shows, they will also be in charge of the logistics and communication of this show.-Representation / July 7, 2019 / A performance will take place at the opening of a youth event dedicated to urban cultures organized outdoors that welcomes 1,500 people on the day, in partnership with the City of Paris and the youth actors of the Xth arrondissement- YouthPass / July 8, 2019 / Young people will self-evaluate the learning acquired during this exchange.- Evaluation / July 8, 2019 / a collective evaluation will close this exchange.<< Impact >>The youth exchange participant will acquire employability skills, animation, management of cultural projects, the professional artistic sector.Through this project young people will be empowered on different aspects of the project, and by valuing their work and their know-how, they will gain a better self-esteem.This project aims above all to be sustainable in the years to come. The project at the local level is likely to continue, exchange and partnership with foreign countries each year could then become a separate component of the project. This would give an even more attractive dimension to the project for the young people involved."

The Scottish Wildlife Trust owns or manages over 120 nature reserves in Scotland. Our network of regionally based Reserve Project Officers, in conjunction with locally based volunteers undertake all practical conservation work on these sites, keeping them well managed and great places for wildlife.Our project recruited 7 volunteers for 12 month placements to work with 2 of our Reserves Project Officers in South West Scotland & North East Scotland. Our volunteers undertook a range of outdoor practical conservation tasks on a number of nature reserves in each project area (16 reserves in North East & 14 in South West). By recruiting volunteers for 12 months we offered the full range of work over the 4 seasons, thus exposing volunteers to the greatest variety of work on the greatest number of sites. In addition we offered a number of employability skills (work experience, knowledge and training) to our volunteers. This was a perfect opportunity to meet the needs of both Scottish Wildlife Trust and the volunteer.Our volunteers were motivated, high quality volunteers (4 female & 3 male) from 4 countries, Greece, Spain, France and Poland, all of whom were prepared to dedicate 12 months abroad in order to learn and find work, ideally in conservation. 5 volunteers were placed with our North East project in Dundee and 2 with our South West project in Castle Douglas. During the project our volunteers devoted over 6,300 hours of voluntary work to our project on 40 of our nature reserves involving 25 different types of reserve management work which included controlling bracken , installing dams on a peat bog, building boardwalks, removing regenerating trees from a peat bog, installing pine marten boxes, installing reserve signs, controlling non native invasive species and much more. The project delivered reserve improvements in particular to 2 peat bog reserves, 1 in each project location.Each of our Reserves Project Officers involved in the project had full work programmes and together undertook just over 450 team days of work on our nature reserves during the year. We provided a 30 hour week from Monday to Thursday with all supervision, tools, equipment, including safety wear and transport to and from the work site provided by the Scottish Wildlife Trust.Volunteers completed their own self assessment form at the start and end of the placement. This measured a number of aspects including motivations and skills and provided a very useful comparison between start and end points. Before the placements started, the greatest motivation was to learn about aspects of nature reserve management followed by learning new practical skills. Improving job prospects was joint 3rd place in the order of motivation. Volunteers were encouraged to take other opportunities on offer, such as residential trips on our Highland reserves and 4 volunteers took advantage and went on a total of 6 trips lasting a total of 9 weeks. This helped provide a much broader experience. We made all necessary pre-placement arrangements with our sending organisations and arranged accommodation for volunteers. Our qualified, experienced staff and mentors provided a well supported, friendly and relaxed working environment, ideal for the learning and consolidation of new skills. We brought our volunteers to head office for an induction in January 2016. We ran a safe project with no accidents and all work was supervised by our Reserves Project Officers. We provided an Erasmus branded work fleece for all our volunters. 4 of our volunteers opted to complete their Youthpass certificate and we provided a Scottish Wildlife Trust certificate for the remaining 3.Our EVS volunteers were high profile and we mentioned their work through our members' magazine, our website, through the wider Wildlife Trust’s network. At the end of the placement we conducted an exit questionnaire with each volunteer and asked for feedback about their placements. Volunteers also conducted a final self-assessment of their skills. Volunteers reported gained big improvements in their practical skills, their knowledge of Scottish Wildlife Trust, their confidence in meeting new people, their use of English and their employability. This was pleasing and showed that our project was delivering many of its employability aims.Since the project has finished, the outcomes for our volunteers are: returned to full time study (1 volunteer), currently working (4 volunteers, including one volunteer who is self employed), currently unemployed (2 volunteers - but 1 has seasonal employment arranged and the other is studying to become a ranger), We would consider these as good positive outcomes to their placements.

In this very hard period, due to the Pandemic, we need to reinvent the way we work; there are less opportunities to have face to face meetings and a lot of activities are carried out on-line. We want to discover and learn how the EU countries are responding to the new lifestyle Covid-19 imposed on us.As an organization working in the youth field, the most relevant priority is supporting educators, youth workers, educational leaders, support staff and teachers with a path on education and training about the strategies and the good practices that associations and schools are using to offer the same quality services.The idea is developing strategic partnerships supporting the setting up and implementation of international strategies for VET providers and for the organizations involved in the project: NaKa from Italy, K.A.N.E. from Greece, Marketmentoro Ltd from Cyprus, Hexagonal from France, CIP Lumbier from Spain, Liceul Tehnologic “Valeriu Braniște” from Romania.We know that some partners have started to find and apply, in their daily work, strategies and methodologies that have allowed them to move part of their work online while continuing to guarantee the same services that were offered before the global pand. Therefore, the first step of the project will be the analysis of the methodologies and good practices of the partners. This stage will be carried out online. The second steps of the project is staff mobility. Youth workers, educators and teachers will learn from the hosting partners, which methodologies they are developing to continue to work in the field of career guidance, orientation and training.The third step will be the application of the methodologies learned from the other countries involved in the project. We think about applying the acquired methodologies in schools, during meetings sessions with the students to help them identify their educational path and professional interests. At the same time, we want to improve the services we offer in NaKa, opening an educational and career guidance service point inside of our organisation.We would like to improve our capacity to:- identify labour market issues to offer the best career guidance for fight the unemployment of young and adult people;- developed new ways to write more effective curricula and innovative educational methods;- develop training courses to upgrade the opportunities of the young and adult through open and distance learning.

"<< Objectives >>The project ""A Better Youthworker"" aims at improving local youth work practices in the enlarged area of Izvoarele and Teisani youth centres in Rural Romania. Thus, the project will provide professional development opportunities for youth workers, for the staff of local authorities/ local councilors involved in the committees and departments focused on youth and to increase the capacity of Curba de Cultura to run projects and bring impact in the community of Izvoarele and Teisani.In order to attain this aim a series of objectives need to be reached, like improving youth centre activities management competencies rural youthworkers together with developing a network of cooperation for quality improvement for youth activities, transfering practices related to resource economy, energy consumption and waste reduction to the 3 rural youth centres managed by Curba de Cultura and transfering leadership competencies for sustainable lifestyle to youthworkers in Curba de Cultura youthcentres.<< Implementation >>The entire project is structured as follows: - 4 rounds of job shadowing mobilities of 2 participants each, in partner organizations in Germany, Latvia, Greece and Slovenia that are specialists in the areas in which our staff needs training and preparation, precedented by online preparatory meetings.- 2 study visits of 4 participants each in Slovenia and Germany, precedented by online preparatory meetings.- and event to reach beyond the usual target groups and more important to raise awareness on the support that youthwork needs in Romania, from both private and public sector- an online evaluation meeting involving partners and participants in order to evaluate the work and the results of the project and to shape future collaborations<< Results >>The youthworkers involved in this project will be open to new challenges and new approaches in their daily work. They will allow and encourage young people to take decisions, to get involved and to plan their own lives. They will be seen as a real support in the life of young people, thus contributing to the professionalization of youth work sector in Romania and to developing youthwork as a new social value. The employees of local authorities or local councilors that will take part in the two study visits will have a better understating on youthwork and on the roles of authorities have in the process of supporting young people and helping them to become better members of society, they will know how they can help young people and how they can contribute to their development from their positions and how they adapt examples from countries with history in youthwork in their community."

"<< Background >>The presence of an immigrant population of third-country nationals is a common feature of all European Union countries. Many of these people are under 30 years of age and include refugees from countries in the midst of war or economic crisis, unaccompanied minors, and young people who lack adequate schooling. From this point emerges the need to seek strategies to facilitate the integration of these groups to ensure social and economic progress, as well as intercultural cohesion; objectives which, for several years, have been a priority for the European Union. However, many of these groups (notably in the five countries of this project) find themselves in positions of disadvantage and fewer opportunities, and non-formal education organisations stand out as a powerful tool to remedy this. Unfortunately, there is a lack of coordinated strategies and efforts to bring together the innovation and experiences of organizations working in this field at the trans-European level. The consortium of organisations of this project propose the development and dissemination of tools and materials which address a wide variety of topics with the aim of facilitating the work of non-formal education entities and organizations in their activities with young refugees and migrants.<< Objectives >>The project aims to establish common pedagogical approaches and innovative tools in training and educational work with young people of migrant origin that are applicable by both the project partners and in the activities of other organizations in the same field at a European level. Therefore, the general objectives of the project are:- To enhance the level of innovation of youth workers and the quality of the pedagogical basis at an organizational level with regard to the identified target group.- To promote cooperation and the exchange of knowledge, good practices and methodologies which are applicable in the actions and educational activity of organizations involved with young migrants and refugees in non-formal education.- To create tools and materials that facilitate this process and make it simple and effective.From these general objectives, specific objectives are derived:- Facilitate the revision and innovation of the pedagogical bases by youth workers within the partner organisations.- To assess the real needs of the target groups in their diverse local contexts.- To promote the learning and training of youth workers in a C1 event. - To create a tangible output (O1): a teaching and learning manual containing a bank of resources with session/teaching plans and printable materials with six focus points: linguistic provision/support, intercultural activities, risk prevention, mental health/psychological support, and digital pedagogy. - To create an online platform to ensure the widest and most effective dissemination of this output.- To disseminate the materials, tools and methodologies to other entities and stakeholders.<< Implementation >>In order to respond to the identified needs and meet its objectives, the project will contain three distinct phases. The first one will be based on the evaluation of the local contexts and actions of the five organizations with respect to the needs of the trainers/youth workers and target groups, and the sharing of good practices already implemented so as to inform the preparation of the materials for the subsequent phases of the project. A process of collaborative research at the local level will employ interviews, surveys and focus groups to produce a shared vision of local the environment, realities and needs of each target group. The inclusion of a Learning Activity (C1) focused on participatory observation, the exchange of good practices and the development of didactic sessions and workshops will allow for the analysis of pedagogical approaches and strategies for the organizations of this consortium. On the other hand, the project has been designed to produce tangible results derived from the second and third phases of activity, which will provide tools and resources to trainers in their activities with the target groups through the development of materials and the creation of a digital platform to disseminate them, elements which will also ensure a sustainable and lasting impact for the project, and access to what has been created for other organizations working with similar groups. To develop these tangible project results, a process is envisaged that will include a needs analysis, research of existing tools, testing phase of activities, material design and final adaptation.The activities will continue with the final production of these materials, to a professional level, and other elements that can facilitate their diffusion, dissemination and distribution among stakeholders (including non-formal partners). One of the most important elements in this phase are the Multiplier Events (E) since, given their degree of specialization in the target audience and their wide territorial scope, they will be a vital element of the dissemination. These activities will end with the dissemination and diffusion of the results beyond those generated by the Multiplier Events.<< Results >>Beyond the identification of the described needs and the implicit collaboration carried out in a project of this nature, the most important project outcomes to highlight will be the manual of teaching and learning materials, alongside the digital platform, created to facilitate the dissemination of the manual. The manual will be developed based on innovative pedagogical principles and will have six main approaches: - Tools for language acquisition - Intercultural activities and tools - Risk prevention (identity, gender, radicalization, stereotypes and xenophobia, etc.). - Mental health/psychological support - Digital pedagogy - Background cultural profiles of the target groupsThe use of this resource by the trainers, educators and youth workers of the five partners (and the benefits brought about for the target groups through their educational and recreational activities) will be another notewroth outcome of this project. From the processes that will facilitate the creation and development of these main aspects, other secondary, but important, outcomes will emerge. For example, from the needs assessment phase and the evaluation of provisions already implemented for the target groups (A2), will come the results of interviews, surveys, focus groups, and the self-reflection processes of the trainers and youth workers themselves. Likewise, from the learning and training activity (C1), will come the learnings and experiences of the participants themselves, in addition to the completion of its main objective: to provide a space for creation and testing ""in situ"" the methodologies and tools created, in order to analyze them and use them as a basis for the manual itself. Finally, another implicit result that will emerge throughout the course of the project will be the evaluation of the process, as well as the materials developed, to inform the actions of its partners, and the possible extension of the scope and duration of the project at a later date."