Rising number of youngsters that are facing unemployment in Europe making them feel frustrated and passive. We found these reasons for this evident problem: luck of jobs, gap between education and job market, luck of skills needed for the work, employers prefer to employ experienced staff, expectations of young people, lack of appropriate qualifications and career information, rise in retirement age, employment legislation, poor vocational options, workfare, etc. Observing core of the problem we found out that education and world of work meet here in the most direct and visible way. Young people who leave school early are exposed to numerous risks and have poor perspectives in terms of personal achievements, progress and prosperity. Low educated young people are exposed to higher risks of unemployment, they often get low-paying jobs and are exposed to conditions of social exclusion. Project dates: 01/10/2018 to 30/09/2019. Project consists of Kick off meeting (Montenegro), Training of Youth Workers (BIH), Testing the technique, Making research and reporting, Youth Exchange (Serbia), Booklet, Local initiatives, and Evaluation meeting (BIH).Project partners are from 6 European countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Croatia, Portugal, Montenegro and Serbia. Project aims to raise the quality of youth work by increasing the capacity of youth workers to support employability of young people, including those with fewer opportunities, through use of multimedia tools in the fields of soft skills and professional development.Objectives: - To provide a learning environment for youth workers to develop their competences for supporting learning of young people in youth work - To review and address essential competences for youth workers to offer young people, including those with fewer opportunities, innovative 3RE method to perform self-assessment, plan of education and development of soft skills;- To explore the potentials of multimedia on how to support many aspects of daily youth work;- To support young people to get empowered and to understand their position in the society and to take responsibility for their future;- To raise awareness of young people including those with fewer opportunities about EU community and to broaden sense of social values, to overcome prejudice against others in different European context and breake stereotypes; - To promote Erasmus+ Youth programme as a tool for supporting employability of youth, including those with fewer opportunities, at European level. Need for this project can be recognized in the European youth policy that is presented in The EU Strategy for Youth. It is also in relation with Europe 2020 strategy calls for the development of knowledge, skills and competences for achieving economic growth and employment and initiatives ‘Youth on the Move’ and ‘Agenda for new skills and jobs’.

The project consortium, consisting of 5 partners from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Italy, Portugal and Germany, has been working together successfully for 6 years in the context of human rights education and musical education. With this project we would like to respond to needs that we have noticed as organizations, in our countries but also in Europe. These needs are the result of observations, but also of scientific and political contributions, which show that some of the goals set by the UN and the EU in the field of human rights have not been achieved or respected. In addition, we, like many others, stress the enormous importance of human rights education. We combine this with music for various reasons. The background music reinforces and emotionalizes messages from texts. Music addresses cognitive areas that lie fallow in purely theoretical treatment and thus we strengthen the cognitive aspect.On this basis, at the project, we will create two intellectual outputs (IO), which differ mainly in the target group. We will design songs, which will then be analysed and discussed using the method sheets we developed to match the songs. Each of the IOs will contain a music album with 10 songs and a collection of methods, which includes a specially developed method for each song. In addition, there is an overall plan for a project week.If the methods are applied well, the participants of the workshops will not only achieve an increase in knowledge about human rights and an improved expression of basic values. Rather, we will also increase media literacy, support the development of critical thinking, stimulate active citizenship and teach artistic expression.This increases the quality of our work with adolescent and young adults: in our project we provide youth workers with a tool that enables them to work with young people on human rights topic in an exemplary way. However, we do not only benefit from this as a consortium partner, but also disseminate the results of the IOs among youth workers in our countries and other EU countries. This happens both within this project and in the 5 multiplier events in which at least 250 youth workers, students, teachers and responsible persons participate. In addition, we will implement at least one International Training, in which other countries than those represented in this project will participate and offer national training for youth workers. This is important to us because it will increase the quality of the workshops based on our work. It also increases the use of the results. Further trainings on national level will be held after finalizing the project by each partner, which teaches at least 250 youth workers more in use and evaluation of the methods.In this way, we provide sustainable and long-term support to youth workers in achieving their goals in terms of human rights education, media literacy, critical thinking, active citizenship and, in some cases, creative expression. We also support the efforts of governments and European bodies to promote human rights and active citizenship. For a population that is aware of its responsibility, questions its own actions and those of society and reacts accordingly, will be positively and actively committed to these issues, whether through artistic means or through concrete action.To achieve these goals we work with a broad team, to which each partner contributes at least 3 members. In this way we achieve a wide range of competence and expertise, from anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, social workers, music teachers and educators to musicians. In a total of 5 project meetings and at least 24 online meetings will take place between September 2020 and August 2022.

“Broadening the reach and richness of youth and culture in Europe” is an international Contact Making Seminar in Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina) for partner organisations in the field of Youth, Arts and Culture that will bring together old and new partners, provide space for exchange of experience and create new projects. The project aims to bring together 16 organisations that are working with Youth in the field of Culture and Arts, who are interested in setting up common E+/Youth projects, to promote the cooperation, partner-finding and networking, thus to enhance the work of those to sector by providing it outreach to the bigger audience in Europe, better connections with local/national/international stakeholders and to improve the quality of youth and cultural projects in Europe.30 youth cultural workers from 12 countries will participate in a contact making seminar in October 2016.The project has a format of a classical Contact Making Seminar, combined with training elements about E+, to raise the capacity and competencies of the organisations and their youth workers to build international Art and Culture projects, with a specific focus on the priorities of E+/youth. The partnership is a combination of traditional youth organisations involved in non-formal education of young people and youth workers, classical cultural operators with intention to develop youth cultural projects and youth organisations/institutions using arts and culture as a tools in youth work. We also mix different fields of arts and culture. We have on board different sizes of organisations, also public institutions, big network organisations etc. After the contact making event, participants will bring the gained E+ knowledge, project planning skills and competencies back to their organisations and their targets, new international projects with a match between Arts and Culture and E+ objectives and priorities are being worked out, and new networking capacity will have been explored.

Project partners realized that an important problem of youth, including those with fewer opportunities, is lack of competences to be competitive in the European labour market. Inadequate professional orientation programmes, work with youth in terms of planning their further education and profession, and active participation are fields recognized to be worked on, through development of innovative and creative approach in professional orientation programmes for stimulating youth to choose their further education and profession.Project dates: 01/01/2017 to 30/11/2017. It consists of Kick off meeting (Germany), Training of Youth Workers (Serbia), Practical work in local communities (testing InOrientation technique), Youth Exchange (in Serbia), Local initiatives, and Evaluation meeting (Albania). Project partners are from 6 European countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Italy and Serbia. Total number of participants is 80.Project aims to increase the capacity of youth workers to support the professional orientation of young people, including those with fewer opportunities, through non-formal education programmes on local and European level.Objectives:- To build links among partners in order to foster exchange of skills and knowledge, expertise and good practice and networking;- To familiarize youth workers how to provide services of professional orientation in terms of helping young people to plan and choose their future profession to be competitive in the world of work;- To review and address essential knowledge, skills and competences for youth workers working with youth with fewer opportunities to offer them practical InOrientation technique how to perform self-assessment, plan of education and development of soft skills;- To promote InOrientation technique and non-formal education among youth workers and youth leaders who are working in the field of employability education for young people;- To use multimedia and theatre tools to support professional orientation of young people, including those with fewer opportunities;- To develop future partnerships among youth workers/group leaders in order to develop cooperation among experienced youth workers working in professional orientation and carrier guidance programmes;- To raise awareness of young people, including those with fewer opportunities, about EU community and to broaden sense of social value, overcome prejudice against others in different European context and breake stereotypes; and- To promote Erasmus+ Youth programme as a tool for supporting employability of youth, including those with fewer opportunities, at European level.Project fits into the European youth policy that is presented in The EU Strategy for Youth. It is also in relation with Europe 2020 strategy calls for the development of knowledge, skills and competences for achieving economic growth and employment and initiatives ‘Youth on the Move’ and ‘Agenda for new skills and jobs’.

Young people have been hit especially hard by the economic crisis. A rising number are facing unemployment in Europe, making them feel frustrated, fearful and hopeless. In this segment education and world of work meet in the most direct and visible way. Tailored programmes and services in youth associations are recognized by project partners as investment in young people which will improve their flexibility and security in the labour market and stimulate their active participation in the economic, social and political life.By this project we wanted to increase capacity of youth workers to develop tailored non-formal education programme to support professional orientation and career decision of young people, including those with fewer opportunities, both at local and European level. Specially to develop basic instrument of human resources development (in professional orientation and career decision) and to promote social goals at the same time: lifelong learning – to fight early leaving of school by young people especially those with fewer opportunities and to inform them about knowledge and skills needed for facing the challenges in the labour market; labour market goal – to reduce gap between offer and demand by dealing with unemployment issue and by improving the quality of youth competences and mobility and social equality and inclusion goal – to promote reintegration of young people into education, training and employment.Project dates: 01/09/2017 to 30/09/2018. It consisted from: Online Kick off meeting, Training of Youth Workers (Serbia), Testing Job Browser method (in local communities of all partners), Youth Exchange (Albania), Local initiatives ToDo (in local communities of all partners), Production of T-kit and Online info session about Job Browser method, Conference on Youth Employment Opportunities (Serbia) and Evaluation meeting (Croatia). Project partners are from 7 European countries: Albania, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Romania, Portugal, Bulgaria and Serbia. Total number of participants is 98.Project fits into the European youth policy that is presented in The EU Strategy for Youth. It is also in relation with Europe 2020 strategy calls for the development of knowledge, skills and competences for achieving economic growth and employment and initiatives ‘Youth on the Move’ and ‘Agenda for new skills and jobs’.