The Special Education School Gargasindi from Calp main aim is the full inclusion of the students, betting on all those projects directed to favour the social interaction and participation of its student body at the same time we must assure a high-qualitiy education compliant with the individual needs of all of them. The centre counts on an important career regarding the specialization of its professional team in different fields (new technologies, development disorders, sensorial integration, behavioural-cognitive intervetion, and so on) in order to let not only offer this high-quality educative response but also to lead us to establish ourselves as a Centre of reference of Resources for the rest of professional people of our influence area to keep spreading good practices and methodologies of specific intervention for the student body with functional diversity. The purpose of carrying out this Mobility European Project (KA101) emerges so, from the necessity of improving the linguistic competence of the English language professionals since that can allow us to access to a greater amount of scientific and informational knowledge at the same time it pushes us to desire and want to take part in European Projects in the future that pass through the collaboration and cooperation between the different partners around Europe. On the other hand, to cover the specialization needs and be able to offer a proper advice and orientation to the Education Community form which we take part, it is needed to go in depth with those educational experiences on the European level which, based on the good practices, let us know and develope strategies of valid intervention for our educational reality; at the same time we accomplish another objective as important as this, which is to spread and make public our centre and those innovative practices that we work as on an international level. The activities that we value they lead us to our purposes are, in the first place, those related to the training in its two methods: specific of English language but also in English language for the training en drama methodologies, in order to achieve a greater ability and fluency through the learning of susceptible contents to enrich our project of dramatic arts. In the second place, those actions of Job-Shadowing directed just to give our project of Planification Centered in the Person meaning as an important part of the Supporting Nets of our students in particular, and the Educational Community in general: those who go with the student body must have the required tools to guide and intervene throughout all the process; from the early ages stimulation to those levels in which it is needed to plan the professional and vocational guidance, without forgetting the response to their needs in this process (regarding communication, social projection and inclusion, self-determination, and so on) The start-up of this project started the previous year with the knowledge and approval of Educational Community, that was fixed with the formation of an interdisciplinar coordinating team in which they are represented all the professionals of the centre, members of the teaching body as much as non-teaching staff. It is essential the voices and needs of all the collectives to be represented and this teamwork in an interdisciplinar way has been reflected in our working methodology based on coordination, cooperation and distribution of tasks for the following discussion: reading of results obtained in relevant European Projects, reading of scientific texts about methodologies of intervention, participation in Courses and Training Conferences, divulgation and updating of social networks, communication with the partners and, also, composition of the project. Regarding the expected results and due to our previous experience, we expect to improve not only the English competence but also take advantage of this channel for the learning of dramaturgy tools that can be moved to our practices; a greater knowledge regarding training routes offered to students with special educational needs considering their training for social and work life; as well as the acquisition of innovative specific practices destined to get a greater specialization that assures an high-quality educational response in the intervention with the student body as much as the rest of professionals. All this without forgetting the importance of encouraging an enterprising and reliable behaviour facing new challenges as well as the creation of European areas of dialogue and exchange of new practices not only to revert to the centre itself but also to lead us to transform the society we want to build.

"CONTEXT2019 marks the year of the elections of the European Parliament. The results of the 2014 EU elections however show that the overall voter turnout was low and lowest in the population aged 18-24 years (cf. European Parliament “Post-election survey 2014”). Our network partners who work with young people daily experience that active citizenship has become yet another area of exclusion, especially for disadvantaged young people who struggle to participate in society anyway. Thankfully, the new EU Youth Strategy takes this topic seriously with its goals of engaging, connecting and empowering, especially disadvantaged young people (cf. European Commission 2018: EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027). These goals are key to the Europe3E project and set the agenda for the ways in which we want to encourage young people and youth workers to grow.The Europe3E project is designed as a follow-up project of the highly successful ""YourEP"" project, which ran from 2016-2018 (https://bit.ly/2TIvlMu). ""YourEP"" tackled the exclusion of young people in active citizenship by developing a political simulation game together with disadvantaged young people. Furthermore, it draws on the positive experiences with peer research in the equally successful ""Our Life. Our Voice. Young people and poverty"" project (https://bit.ly/2O5nK4k).OBJECTIVES, OUTPUTS & IMPACTThe Europe3E project aims to develop with the IO1 “Europe3E ” Europe and me – participatory photo voice research, IO2 “Europe3E – How to involve all youth in the European project” solid training material to be used by youth workers and youth practitioners in political and civic education. It will be available in all partner languages. Finally, the project will analyse and collate the experiences and knowledge generated by this working process into policy recommendations (IO3). The recommendations will build on the process and results of the peer-research of the young people and the training activities, in particular the simulation game. By giving young people agency, we want to make sure their perspectives and voices are heard. The youth workers and practitioners complement the recommendations by contributing with their expertise as well.Participating in the project will ensure that youth workers improve their professional competences across different areas of the European Competence Model for Youth Workers (https://tinyurl.com/y42xeroa). Most notably they will increase their competences in the areas of -designing programmes, -facilitating individual and group learning in an enriching environment-networking and advocating.The project aims also at engage young people who are furthest away from the political sphere, promote active citizenship and support social inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities. Through the project, the involved young people will improve:-Social, civic, intercultural, interpersonal and communicational competences;-Leadership and entrepreneurial skills thanks to their active role in the project;-their EU and general political awareness.PARTICIPANTSOur project partners work with young people facing different difficulties every day. Each project partner will identify young people that are facing multiple challenges in life to participate in the project as these youth will be likely to benefit the most from the Europe3E project. As youth work professionals, our partners have the methods and tools needed to recruit young participants who would usually not participate in such activities. Next to the young participants, the partners’ youth workers will also be involved in all activities. They will 1) empower the participants to be the main actors of this project exploring, exchanging and exhibiting their views of Europe and how it can become engaging for young people and 2) lead the work of the Intellectual Outputs by collating the material into 3 products. ACTIVITIES To reach our goals, we will set up groups of young people in each participating country to discuss the meaning of the EU from their own experience. Supported by youth workers, they take part in local meetings and Blended Learning activities (C1 and C2) that facilitate their understanding of Europe and the EU, and then find out more in their communities using the method of photovoice. Testing the EP simulation game during the second Blended Mobility will provide the chance for the young people to put their knowledge into practice. As mentioned above, youth workers will ensure to collate the experiences into the 3 Intellectual Outputs. The Multiplier Events (E1-E7) locally and a final conference in Brussels will give the young people the chance to discuss their research results and the knowledge gained with a wider audience, empowering them further to become change-makers in their communities and beyond. To ensure a solid management of the project and development of high quality products the project consortium will gather at 4 TPMs over the lifetime of the project."

"Young people are the ones hit hardest by unemployment and precarious employment. At the same time, all EU and national elections in the last few years have revealed increasingly low youth turnout combined with growing Euroscepticism, as dramatically illustrated by the Brexit referendum. The complex situation of young people in transition to adulthood thus calls for trained and experienced European youth workers. Driven by YES Forum’s membes, YES Academy addressed this issue by contributing to achieve a greater impact of the Erasmus+ Youth Inclusion and Diversity Strategy by:• Creating a more inclusive environment, with more and diverse young people participating in civic activities throughout Europe• Enabling organisations working with and for vulnerable young people to be a more effective force in making it easier for them to actively participate in society• Increasing the capacities of youth workers and their organizations in working with young people and fostering greater cooperation and synergies among youth organisations and other stakeholders throughout the EUThe project idea came from our partner organizations and their ongoing interest in increasing civic participation of disadvantaged young people. All the project partners brought strong expertise in working with young people affected by various disadvantages (e.g. educational, psychological, economic inequalities) in their own communities. Ranging from school social work to street-based youth work, our partners aim to prevent, resolve and avoid the worst effects of exclusion while helping young people to flourish. Through 4 major events conducted over the span of 16 months and involving 115 participants from 15 EU countries, the YES Academy project innovatively combined a process-oriented learning approach prioritising youth worker’s reflection and exchange of experience to create tools for sustainable approaches in working more effectively with young people across Europe:-Through a Contact-Making Event in Germany, the first activity built a common approach based on mutual understanding and fostered the exchange of experiences on promoting youth engagement, active citizenship, participation and social inclusion, preparing the ground for an action-oriented report on how to be more effective in reaching young people.-The second activity, an International seminar held in Brussels, continued the learning activities while providing the space for a dialogue between project partners, representing the youth field, and European policy and decision-makers – the European Parliament and the European Commission in particular – as well as public bodies involved in youth social inclusion, youth unemployment, and active citizenship.-The third activity, a study visit in Finland, was co-organised with After Eight, an organization with a long standing experience in the development of youth active citizenship, participation and social inclusion. The event offered an in-depth look into After Eight’s measures, projects, methodologies and political, financial and administrative infrastructures targeting youth. The event also enabled further exchange of experience between youth workers, resulting in a Good Practices Guide for the Promotion of Active citizenship and Youth social inclusion-The last Contact-Making Event in Germany facilitated transfer into practice. The action-oriented report on how to be more effective in reaching young people was finalised and prepared the ground for future projects following this objective. Policy recommendations on Erasmus+ were also finalised thanks to the partners’ gathered feedback.The tangible results of the project include (all available under ""Downloads"" here: goo.gl/CtAhD9) :• An action-oriented report that summarized the next steps in order to better promote youth active citizenship and participation through concrete project ideas, leading to several Erasmus+ project applications by YES Academy partners on the 4th October 2016 deadline;• A Good Practices Guide for the Promotion of Active citizenship and Youth social inclusion, based on the experiences and case studies shared during the project in order to share them with youth workers throughout Europe. • Policy recommendations on Erasmus+ to help public institutions better support youth and social work across the EU in the future, thanks to feedback from project partners, all grass-root organisations involved in Erasmus+ Youth.The learning results for youth workers were:• Deeper knowledge of structures and support measures for young people and youth organisations at EU and national levels• Qualitative support for the dialogue between the European youth sector and stakeholders in the field of European youth policies with a focus on youngsters with fewer opportunities;• Greater knowledge of good practices related to the social inclusion of young people and the promotion of active citizenship, leading to the concrete implementation of new"

CONTEXT Level Up! built upon a youth exchange organised by the YES Forum in July 2015 on European Citizenship. Based on the young people’s follow-up ideas it was decided that the topic of the following project would be active citizenship. This is an area which seems very distant and inaccessible to young people with fewer opportunities, with an increasing risk that citizenship becomes yet another area of exclusion as active citizens appear to be generally more highly educated than their peers. Hence, there is a clear need to address the issue of young people with fewer opportunities being grossly underrepresented in institutional and alternative modes of political participation. Through the project activities we aimed to enhance the young people’s knowledge and understanding of active citizenship and provide them with the necessary skills for active political participation at both EU as well as local, regional, and national levels. Furthermore the goal of the project was to enable the young participants to see both the value of engaging with the political process, as well as becoming confident to pursue opportunities for meaningful political participation. OBJECTIVES The objectives of the project were to:•Enhance the knowledge and understanding of active citizenship among young people with fewer opportunities•Provide young people with fewer opportunities with the skills necessary for active political participation •Increase self-empowerment and self-esteem of young people with fewer opportunities•Enhance intercultural awareness of young people with fewer opportunities •Improve foreign language competences of young people with fewer opportunitiesNUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTSThere were 36 participants, out of which 24 were young people facing educational difficulties, economic obstacles, cultural differences (immigrant background, minorities), and/or social obstacles. Most of the participants experienced their first transnational project experience. The 12 other participants were the group leaders, accompanying pedagogues and/or language assistants. The young participants were aged between 16 and 27 years old. The group of participants remained to a large extent the same for both activities.DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIESA preparatory meeting took place in Stuttgart, Germany, within YES Forum’s premises on 15-16 February 2016. The project’s schedule, activities, methods, evaluation process, and risks were reviewed. To further prepare the first exchange in Strasbourg in May, where the young people took part to the European Youth Event 2016 organised by the European Parliament, the young people’s contribution to the EYE was also discussed.The first exchange in Strasbourg (Full report: goo.gl/q4WEuG) was hosted by La Ligue de l’Enseignement on 16-21 May 2016. The themes were empowerment and access to rights and the importance of political participation by young people, with a focus on EU level participation. There were workshops on active citizenship, preparation for and participation to the EYE 2016, an event aimed at including them in the EU-level decision-making process. There, within the YO!Fest village, the young participants even organised their very own workshop for other people focused on how to fight against prejudices.The second exchange in Bernburg, Germany (Full report: goo.gl/8QQ6QD), was hosted by the Stiftung Evangelische Jugendhilfe St. Johannis on 22-26 August 2016. This exchange was an opportunity to reflect on the experience at the EYE 2016 and build upon it, as most of young people participated in both activities. But the focus was on the skills and knowledge necessary for participation of young people at local, regional, and national levels.METHODOLOGY The key concept of the project was based on non-formal learning approaches encouraging the active involvement of participants, giving them space to take an active role, express themselves and share their own experience. The following methods were used in the project: icebreaking games, team building exercises, situational games, individual and group work, interactive presentations, open discussions, field visits, practical work, outdoor activities, and common project development.IMPACT AND LONGER TERM BENEFITSHaving the opportunity to debate, explore first-hand and reflect on active citizenship helped the participants realise their full potential and encouraged them to play an active role in their society, while their participation in a transnational youth exchange improved their intercultural skills and broadened their horizons. Furthermore, becoming more self-confident and able to communicate more easily will help them in the long term to access educational and professional opportunities they did not even dare considering before the youth exchange. Encouraging young people, especially those with fewer opportunities, to become active citizens has positive impact on the societies they live in.