"""Youth Work Against Radicalisation"" was a multiple action activity that was implemented with the participation of 6 partner organisations from Eastern Partnership (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine) and Programme (Poland) countries.The project included three types of activities: 1. Mobility activity for youth workers – Training Course for participants from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Belarus, which took place in Wroclaw, Poland, from 16th till 24th of April, 2018. The activity was hosted by Central European Trainers’ Platform.2. Capacity-building activity – Campaigns in local communities. During the activity participants have planned campaigns which they later implemented in local communities. The campaigns were implemented in May, 2018.3. Capacity-building activity – A Conference for youth workers that took place in Kyiv, Ukraine, in May, 2018. The main purpose of the conference was to share the results of the mobility activity, and especially – campaigns that were implemented in the participating countries of Eastern Partnership. Taking into consideration the needs of local communities and participating countries, as well as the needs and objectives of partner organisations, the project idea was created with the following objectives: - to research and learn about causes of radicalisation among young people and current situation in participating countries;- to provide youth workers with necessary competencies on preventing radicalisation and inclusion of young people;- to promote active citizenship, European values and social inclusion of young people;- to promote international cooperation between European youth organisations, local actors, and other relevant stakeholders;- to raise capacities of partner organisations in youth work on local and European levels;- to promote Erasmus+ Programme as an opportunity for youth workers and tool for social inclusion;- to learn form good practices in Programme countries during the mobility activity (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus);- to organise six awareness campaigns in Eastern partnership countries (Poland); - to organise a conference based on the results of the project (Ukraine)."

The project was a multi-stage fellowship programme for people from youth organisations in Eastern Partnership countries. It was aimed at enhancing their skills and competences in the field of local youth policy development with a special focus on online participation.Project objectives:- to organise the transfer of the experience and knowledge in the sphere of youth policy development from Programme countries to Eastern partnership countries;- to make researches on the needs of young people from EP organisations communities;- to provide representatives of youth organisations with the competencies related to youth participation, online participation, and media literacy;- to develop local projects aimed to organise dialogue and exchange among stakeholders on the local youth policy development;- to involve local young people to the local policy development process;- to set up cooperation and long term partnership relations with stakeholders involved in the youth policy development on the local level;- to promote online participation as a tool for local policy development;- to promote media literacy among youth organisations and young people;- to summarise project results and organise their dissemination on the international level.The group of youth workers from 4 Eastern Partnership countries (Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, and Moldova):1) Took part in the parallel study visits to Spain and Portugal where they learned about specific experiences of receiving organisations in participation in policy development processes on the local level;2) Conducted research on the needs of young people on the local level;3) Took part in the training course about active participation, online participation, and media literacy. As a result, they developed their local initiatives;4) Conducted local initiatives aimed at facilitation of the local political dialogue between youth and stakeholders;5) Took part in the final conference with the aim to evaluate the project results, share the experience of the local initiatives, share the new experiences in the youth participation and plan the follow-up activities;6) Designed and disseminated a manual with the project results.The duration of the project was 19 months.

European Mobility Dream (EUMODE) is project implemented by youth organization from EU and Easter Europe. It was coordinated by Youth Initiatives of Ukraine. Main aim of the project was to help organizations to inform and educate young people from their communities about mobilities within Europe and rise awareness of belonging to Europe, but it turned to be much more then it was planned as project is describes as maybe best international cooperation practice for most of the partners. Partner organizations from Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Belarus, Poland, North Macedonia, Croatia, Italy and Greece together with its youth workers, staff and young people from their communities managed to achieve most of initially planned objectives:1. To educate 60 youth workers and young leaders from 10 European counties about education and information of young people on European motilities, European values, European citizenship, integration, active participation inclusion. - It was achieved to the great extent. In addition to this number some of participants of Youth Exchange that were not counted in this number became active members of organizations and started contributing to youth work practices.2. To educate 60 young people – future young leaders about this topics and test tools and methods that can be used in local communities particularly those in Eastern EU neighboring region. – Based on feedback given by organizations this was first time that they got such opportunities and their staff and members are already using competences in their communities.3. To inform young people across EU and Eastern Europe about rights and obligations entailed in visa-free travel, importance and benefits from European motilities, possibilities for legal youth motilities and prevent illegal migration, discrimination and rise of prejudices. – This is objective that was achieved and will keep happening long after lifetime of the project.4. To test, develop and improve youth work tools and methods, as well as to share examples of good practices and resources with other youth workers across the Europe with main focus on Eastern Europe, along with developing partnerships and possibilities for future cooperation by involved organizations and other stakeholders from the communities involved. – Thanks to the project and its activities this was achieved. Established formal partnership and friendly communication between organizations from Easter Europe and EU will contribute to future dealing with this and similar issues.

ABOUT THE PROJECTThe main aim of the project is to build the capacity of national, regional and local youth councils through developing innovative and collaborative practices between youth organization, young people and decision-making bodies.Specifically, these activities will be based on insights collection methodologies and evidence-based approaches for the policy-making processes.THE OBJECTIVES Specifically, these activities will be based on insights collection methodologies and evidence-based approaches for the policymaking processes.1.To train and prepare local, regional and national youth councils participants from each country involved through the mobility and capacity building project activities in insights collection capacity building.2.To collect valuable insights from youth by researching on representative samples through surveys, data collection and other consultation tools to get to know the real and actual youth needs and issues.3.To develop evidence-based recommendations and to present them to decision-makers through a capacity building seminar and local conferences involving representatives of: youth ministries, youth councils, youth workers, youth research, youth organizations and young people from all backgrounds to facilitate the dialogue with decision-makers.4.To create global and local reports and design know-how toolkits and guides to be presented in the last large-scale youth event to ensure knowledge durability and enable youth councils to run continuously structured dialogues by the end of the project.When it comes to the project activities, the project was implemented at 2 levels, at the international level and national level.1.1.1.1 Training Course in ArmeniaIt was a learning space where participants go beyond and deeper in the topic of structured dialogue, length of the event was hosted by Armenian Progressive Youth, where the EaP countries participated with the objective to align all the participants on the same concept and to prepare them uniformly for the methodology in evidence-based methodology. 1.1.2.1 Fellowship on youth participation in SloveniaFellowship on youth participation was a capacity building activity where we bring together EaP issues and EU expertise. The activity was hosted by the National Youth Council of Slovenia which helped us to develop better approaches and innovative initiatives to communicate with decision makers more effectively. 2.1.1.1 Training course on Insights Collection in LithuaniaThis training course hosted by the Institute for Policy and Research of Lithuania during 10 days, and brought the breakdown of the evidence-based methodology through applicable and reliable tools, knowledge on how to collect the insights and bring representative samples to it.2.1.2.1 Insights Collection LocallyThis particular activity aims to participant countries to execute the insights collection applying the previous agreements and methodology developed in previous activities.2.2.1.1 Seminar on recommendations in RomanianDissemination process where the insights collected brought together to analyse the possible recommendations in a based-evidence frame, taking good case practices from countries that already worked with these characteristics. 3.1.1.1 National EventsIn the local activities each project partner had implemented its own thematic activities taking in consideration their national needs and priorities. 3.2.1.1 Reports gathering from partner organizationsNational reports collection and creation of comparable global report, etc.3.2.1.2 Working group on guide developmentWorking group on the evidence-based recommendation developed by all the participants of the project. 3.2.2.1 Closing conference with global and local reports presentation.