Idea of GO_PRO! Network was positively recognized by United Nation. In the annual World Summit of the Information Society (Zurich 2015) it was nominated to prestige prize, as one of 30 best ICT capacity building initiates. It was also described in WSIS Stocktaking Report 2015 as one of good practises. In Poland the project was nominated to a prize: New Technologies Locally 2015, which is annually granted by Polish – American Cooperation Foundation. It was described as one often best initiatives of 2014. Network was supported also by Reading and Writing Foundation – Public Libraries 2020 initiative, as one of 6 best initiatives involving libraries. Our current project Regional Programming Centers was nomited to WSIS prize (WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY PRIZES 2020) in the capacity building category as one of 20 best ITC initiatives.Within Erasmus+, together with our partners, we wanted to promote this idea furthermore, allowing other Youth to develop their programming skills and fully participate in digital world. Partners all together agreed, that learning to code is important because of:1. The needs of the labour market – programming specialists are one of the most needed professional groups, basic programming skills will be useful for the majority of positions based on the computer work 2. Media education - computer illiterate group are vulnerable to exclusion;3. Innovative economy - creating software and new tools and services are the pillars of the innovation economy.Within the project GO_PRO! we built the capacity of partner organizations and they are able now develop ICT skills and support digital and social inclusion of Youth in local communities. We also wanted to create a special space (non formal education centers) for developing ICT and programmingskills. The basic idea for it - is to use the existing infrastructure, only reconfigure it. To create previous GO_PRO! Centers we cooperated with partner organizations – schools, libraries, NGOs. Well-equipped educational centers can create great conditions for modern programmingeducation, which especially important in developing countries and/or rural areas.Partners got the knowledge, skills and tools to organize interesting IT lessons, what also allowed(during so called Coder Clubs) youth to develop programming skills during their free time, using the equipment under the guidance of a volunteer. Coder Clubs are based on challenges. Each week there was a new problem, new challenge, which Club had to solve together! Youth needed to learn new things about algorithm, build a robot using Lego Mindstorms, and then program it properly. Sometimes the challenges had forced Youth division into smaller groups. They competed with each other to create best solution, this way they were stimulated to gave all their energy and enthusiasm to solve particular problem the best possible way.The project included 2 mobilities for Youth Workers, each of them helped undeniably them to be better teachers/ educators/ animators of ICT competences in their own communities. Each Partner organization received grant for proper equipment, in order to lead innovative and interesting ICTworkshops in their areas. During the Code Week (X of 2017 and 2018) we to organized collaborative awareness rising actions in order to promote network and for self-development purposes. We had in mind, that encouraged/empowered youngsters or children develop so quickly, that volunteers need to be trained constantly to provide quality ICT workshops.The project is extremely innovative but based on an easily replicable model - that we tried to share in detail with partner organizations. Another innovative element is that project activities were specifically designed to develop a new set of entrepreneurial and digital competences which are in today’s digital society crucial for both: employability and active participation of young people in the society.

VolunTube World is the second edition of the VolunTube movement (www.voluntube.org) which pursues the objective of providing organisations working with volunteers more visibility, while at the same time providing young people the opportunity to learn about video-making.Partner organizations will be supported in the implementation of projects using ITC technologies within their organizations and 16 EVS, together with the Communication Officer of each partner will receive training on audiovisual skills before Volunteering two months in one of the partner organisations to direct and edit video content about their activities, beneficiaries and the culture of their country.For the second edition of the project 4 new partners have been involved and a new continent, Latin America, has been added. In addition, through Voluntube World, the intention is to develop training modules for youth organisations and volunteers to learn about video-making and provide them the opportunity to use the voluntube.org website and and YouTube channel to provide visibility to their organisations and volunteer experiences. For this purpose a 12 day dissemination workshop open to anyone wishing to participate will take place in Lastours, France in May 2018.The partners in this project are:P1: IDC, FranceP2: Quinta das Relvas, PortugalP3: Associazione Kora, ItalyP4: N.P.O ANAZITITES THEATROU, GreeceP5: CYA, CambodiaP6: GREAT, IndonesiaP7: Corporación Proyectando Imaginarios, Colombia P8: Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Peru, PeruThe main activities of the project are:- Online kick-off meetings- EVS Volunteer Selection;- Intellectual Output: Development of Training Modules;- Training on communication and video editing for EVS Volunteers and Communication Officers; - Volunteer Preparation Phase in Sending Organisation;- Dissemination Workshops for Training Modules in each partner country- Volunteering Activity about Video-making- Study Visits- Evaluation Seminar- Monitoring and Reporting

The project entitle ‘DisABILITY: Improving Quality of Work of Youth Organizations Working with People with Disabilities’ will take 15 months. It will start on 1.12. 2020 and it will finish on 28.2.2022. The project will consist from several mobility and capacity building activities created with aim to meet following objectives:1.To strengthen the competencies of CSOs representatives and capacities of their organizations to analyse needs of young people with disabilities, to design and to deliver activities addressing these needs and developing their competencies;2. To increase the competencies of CSOs representatives and capacities of their organizations to raise awareness of local communities on situation of young people with disabilities, to address existing stereotypes and prejudices and roots of discrimination and social exclusion;3. To link involved CSOs and other stakeholders and support development of new projects targeting young people with disabilities leading to creating more socially inclusive society. In the project will take part eight youth organizations working with people with intellectual and psychical disabilities representing Bulgaria, Turkey, Hungary, North Macedonia, Mexico, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador. Key project results will be increased competences of involved youth workers and educators working with people with disabilities, raised capacities of organizations involved in the project and in overall better quality of activities design with aim to empower and to develop competences of people with disabilities. For wider audience key product will be online course available for free for anyone interested to develop their capacities to work with people with disabilities.

“EU4YOU” contributed to creating enabling environment that allows “to acquire and develop a mix of knowledge, skills and aptitudes youth need to succeed in the labor market” and “making education and training more relevant to young people’s needs” [Youth on the Move]. The project aimed to develop innovative complementary pathways for boosting employability of young people through social youth entrepreneurship and providing them with tools for cultural entrepreneurship in particular. The project created synergy between partner organizations and explored cross-fertilization potential of consortium. The project contributed to achieving the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy, The Social Business Initiative, Entrepreneurship2020 Action Plan.The youth workers who participated in mobility activities could enhance their knowledge on social entrepreneurship (SE), cultural entrepreneurship (CE), social innovation and learnt how to use strategically creative arts for bridging the “Three C” of current-state society: Culture, Community and Commerce. The youth workers acted as multipliers bringing the knowledge to their local community and contributed to the toolkit content creation. The young people who participated in local workshops gained crucial transversal skills and learnt how to apply principles of project management to their creative ideas in practice, enhanced their own ability on creative and critical thinking, public speaking and ability to approach societal problems in a multi-disciplinary way.The specific objectives were to:-Build capacity of consortium in the field of SE and CE and to enable transfer of good practices among the partnership;-Provide youth workers with specific knowledge on approaching youth with fewer opportunities and tools for boosting youth employability throughout education on cultural management;-Create, test and disseminate an innovative toolkit on cultural management education targeted to peer organizations and cultural institutions;-Provide youth with fewer opportunities with chances to enhance existing knowledge and gain new transversal skills in the field of cultural management and thus positively influence their employability potential;-Create a sustainable online platform that will serve as a space for idea and experience sharing among youth interested in social and cultural entrepreneurship;-Promote cultural entrepreneurship as an innovative way of tackling societal problems;-Encourage cooperation between youth organizations and social business sector;-Promote EU policies in the field of social entrepreneurship and Erasmus+ on global level;-Promote social and cultural entrepreneurship, active citizenship and non-formal learning on global level.The objectives were reached through following implemented activities:- 1 capacity building seminar on SE and CE (January 2018)- 1 seminar on cultural management education and development of learning tools (June 2018)- 16 job shadowing mobilities to develop the toolkit (autumn-winter 2018)- 1 final seminar to evaluate results and present toolkit to public (July 2019).The objectives were also reached through the outcomes and products realised: -1 website: https://www.culturalentrepreneurship.info-1 toolkit on social and cultural entrepreneurship: https://issuu.com/y-e-n/docs/toolkit_working_progress?fbclid=IwAR3jnPb6vvdCXpexZ2_R1fDLTL4IVtJwns7mWqNZLP8SCW6swzabb1Qoz3M-4 workshops contents co-created and then shared by the partners (used during the local workshops) about: introduction to Social Entrepreneurship and cultural entrepreneurship / Cultural Management / Strategic Planning in cultural entrepreneurship / Fundraising -8 shared reports about the job shadowings (see website)-8 local workshops realised by the partners in 8 different countries (Argentina, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Lithuania, Mexico, Peru and Vietnam)-1 Facebook group-3 vlogs (video-blogs of the 3 seminars)

#Evolve aims to enable exchange, develop new cooperation between CCIVS members and external stakeholders through an International Conference and by starting the Long Term Training programme for the IVS network by providing two trainings the ‘ABC of NGO Finances’ and ‘Communication and Marketing’ , following these we will ensure the replication of the project in Local Training Hubs based in the local communities where the 26 partners are based. It will produce 2 Open Source Toolkits on the theme of the Trainings. #Evolve is built upon the CBY KA2 - STEPS project which made an analysis of the training needs of IVS organisations, the ‘State of the Art of IVS’ was the publication issue from this project, it highlights the following; 1. organisational development is a top priority for IVS organisations, 2. The need to address the decreasing numbers of volunteers. As such #Evolve will promote networking (encouraging exchange – developing partnerships, sharing of ideas; meeting with stakeholders) and capacity building in Finances and Communication and Marketing in order to meet the needs highlighted. In face of declining numbers of volunteers #Evolve offers a space to build new partnerships, to further develop local actions and to develop key competencies to strengthen organisational structure. The Conference offers- visibility/networking/learning, the Training – new skills peer-to peer support with the trainings taking place in strategic countries with more expert members, the Local Training Hubs – multiplication with local communities improving access for 1500 young people with low basic skills and thus promoting social inclusion. The Results will include Open Source Toolkits on the themes of the Trainings and Reports.