"More and more people are aware of the importance of a good group dynamic to lead a collective project (especially in the context of social and cultural diversity) but these positive trends are often difficult to build.The seminar ""From Singular to Plural"" arose from the common determination of 3 European youth organizations dealing with popular and non-formal education (Nexes [Barcelona, Spain], Via Brachy [Toulouse, France] and European Village [Athens, Greece]) to share their experience in group facilitation and implementation of joint projects to identify good practices that meet their needs and those of many other actors of social innovation in Europe.The seminar took place in Gaillac (South-West France) from April, the 11th to April, the 16th of 2015. It brought together 28 people involved in collective projects of social interest in France, Greece and Spain.For 5 days, the participants shared their knowledge and expertise in group facilitation and questioned notions as participation, leadership or democracy. They experimented diverse approaches, methods and tools that allow to : bring together a collective ; involve people in social projects ; take decisions while respecting the difference ; share power and responsibilities, etc.The seminar was designed with the tradition of popular and non formal education : horizontality, non-jugment, focus on people's experience, alternance of theory and practice, etc. It allowed the participants to develop their skills and to be involved in knowledge building.Participants highlighted methods and tools that contribute to the success of group projects and allow groups to express their potential. They developed synthesis to keep track of their exchanges and to share the result of their meeting with others. The dissemination of their proposals should facilitate the emergence of collective projects providing social change in Europe.The seminar ""From Singular to Plural"" is finally a first stage in the creation of a network of exchange and expertise between the partners and should lead to the emergence of new cooperations in the future."

This project aims to promote awareness among young people about European youth policies and contributing to a more active and conscious European citizenship. To achieve these objectives, the project aims to empower and train youth volunteers in the field of social interest, and integrate them into our context of action at the cultural, political and human level. The main challenge is training in European youth programs (Professional internship, Erasmus + Youth): what they are, how they work, how to write projects and follow up, etc. The volunteer is also involved in the daily work of the host association. Be assigned practical tasks to develop, always helped by Nexes team, but with great autonomy. In addition, the volunteer plans and implements a personal project that will develop during your stay in Barcelona. It must respond to analyse the context and needs, and will be a proposal to build on the volunteer's interests and takes into account the characteristics and resources of the association.

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES The partnership between CFPPA (agricultural adults training center) of Toulouse Auzeville and those of Moissac and Albi has proven itself within three Leonardo Da Vinci PMT programs, then the ERASMUS+ programs : use of all mobilities allocated and high level of participants and partners' satisfaction. Those 3 institutions wanted to pursue this partnership in order to be able to offer to their trainees a professional experience abroad, which is quite rare for them in their career. And it strengthen their employability. Those 3 institutions also wanted to broaden this mobilities offer to their staff in order to developp the mobility culture inside their institutions.NUMBER AND TYPES OF PUBLIC CONCERNED BY MOBILITY The number of participants who went on mobility in this program:4 trainees of graduate education20 trainees insertion (2 groups : 9 people in Sardinia and 11 people in Spain with a guide per group)3 staff’s membersThere are three participant's categories :•Trainees which are undergoing a degree course: they can be employees or jobseekers. They follow courses in agriculture, trade, landscaping, floristry, food-processing and biotechnology. The European mobility allows them to improve their skills while consolidating their professionnal project.•Trainees which are undergoing a vocational training on their professionnal project definition : usually, they are jobseekers for a long time and have some handicaps which slow down their return toward employments. In this case, an abroad internship is an important step in their personal construction and creates a new creative drivein the job search. Those trainees and those from qualifications or degree courses, went on mobility project in group, as part of their training. Individuals mobilities were proposed to the others.•The third one concerned the CFPPA staff. Their mobilities on this program are used in order to develop their professionnal skills, whom engineering on european projects. And to develop our contacts with partners agencies.OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROGRAMThe objective is to permit our audience in a first step of professionnal mobility far away from their close environment. It is about discovering some practices and occupationnal environment, and also to confront them to the reality of this environement.•for trainees from qualifications and degree courses, this inject some dynamism into their job search by creating them an address book which help them to have a network so usefull for the employment access.•For trainees from social and occupational insertion project, the mobility allows them to have a fresh start in their lives and regain self-confidence.For training centers which participate on the program and the staff beneficiairies :•Strengthen our capacity to drive international projects•Get an international dimension for our training initiatives (attractiveness towards audiences) and for our centers (the image towards the outside)DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIESTrainees and staff will benefit a preparation for the mobility organized differently according to kind of mobilities : in group or individual.It will, in every case, allow to prepare the candidates for the mobility to the administrative procedure, to the culture of the country, to the language of the host country, to the optimization of the intership.A referent links with the host organization and the intermediate organization. He is a mark for the trainee all along the mobility and a main contact for the host and the intermediary organization.METHODOLOGY OF PROJECT MANAGEMENTThe roles and reponsabilities of 3 partners of the program are centred by agreement of cotraitance. Moreover, a steering committee of Erasmus Plus hold often an ordinary meeting to assure the well managing of the project.ACHIEVEMENTS / LONG TERM BENEFITSThe main results achieved are the satisfaction of all : good organization, development of the relations and network of partners in Europe, and also the personal and professionnal enrichment for the beneficiairies. The long-term benefit is especially the creation of the mobility culture into every center. It is the first programm we asked for staff mobilities. We can observe the positive impact because 2 trainers decided after their mobilities to organize mobilities for their whole class.

The project "Joint Exchanges Network" is aimed at the creation of a network of organizations for the development of international high-quality youth exchange projects. The project involved 17 partner organizations and consists of two main activities: a Partnership Building Activity and a Training Course. The idea of the project came from all the partners, who really want to strengthen the partnership among the organizations working in international youth mobility. The main objective of the project was to create a network in which organizations collaborate with well-known partners and in a clear and shared frame-work. In this way it will be possible to facilitate the involvement of the youngsters in the management of exchanges designed by young people for young people, based on peer-to-peer education and thought to develop soft skills that promote employability.In the PBA from the 6th to the 10th of March 2015, 17 coordinators of youth exchanges/presidents of the partner organizations will reinforce the relation among the organisations, will establish quality standards for common projects and will create the Joint Exchange Network, JEN.

The Training Course “Be a change maker : developing responseAbility for positive change – A training course for youth workers about finding a response to the global challenges of the 21st century” is necessarily because many (young) people are disillusioned about the possibility to create meaningful and purposeful responses to all these challenges. They are disconnected and/or marginalized from nature, society, politics and economics. At the same time, it is the young generation who will have to address and adapt to the unfolding consequences in the future. What they need is empowerment and inspiration to craft meaningful responses. A better vision on our own personal and professional journey – where we are coming from and where we are headed, as well as accepting and claiming responseAbility for our own and societal development is called for.With this training course we create a space for building that responseAbility through reflection on our concerns and passions as well as becoming more conscious of our personal learning process. We believe that gaining a deeper understanding of who we are and what we can do for others is an empowering process which can lead to positive changes for the future of society.Moreover it is necessary that youth workers know how they can support young people in facing their own challenges and thereby continue to grow as a person. After the training, participants will be able to lead young people in their organisations and communities through a personal learning journey to craft and find powerful and meaningful responses to the sustainability challenges of the 21st century.The objectives are : • to explore the concepts of responseAbility, positive change and active hope • to explore acceptance, gratitude, hope and compassion in order to improve our abilities to develop our responses • to raise awareness of our identity through reflecting on our challenges, concerns, talents and passions • to encourage a learning mindset which realizes that everything is possible• to stimulate the creativity, vulnerability, confidence and resilience of the participants• to encourage and serve the participants in planning their learning process also after the training course and also implement with their target groups• to learn more about the Erasmus+ program and its actions, and Youth pass as a tool of recognition of the key competences.This training course will be based on non-formal and informal education with a self-directed learning approach. That means that the participants are responsible for their own learning and the facilitators provide activities and guide the participants through their own learning process. The training course will be characterised by highly participatory, interactive and experiential methods.The main direct dessimination will be a good action from every participants after he/she returned back home and put the things he/she learned in practise. The participant can enrich their environment, in particular their organisation, because these ‘good actions’ will be inspired by the needs which were mentioned by the partners before the application of the project. The good actions are one of the evaluation tools and will be a part of the final report. The youth workers also initiate a project which will be an investment in their own organisation. They look for cooperation with other organisations, represented during this TC by other participants. They are try to start an international project concerning a topic about sustainability.Already during the project the evaluation process will play an essential role in the learning process. Participants will meet everyday to discuss the progress of learning as well as group integration and group dynamics. There will also be a final evaluation of the project during the last day of training: besides a visible evaluation the participants will be asked to fill the questionnaire and evaluate the project, content, methods and trainers. The project will also be spread by publications, Facebook and other European networks.