"<< Objectives >>""Social Business is the way!"" was a Training Course (TC) aimed to gather in Salok (Poland), from 21- 30/06/ 2020 (7 working days+2 Travel Days), 35 youth workers from 7 countries (Poland,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Romania, Montenegro, Turkey, Bulgaria). The Training Course aim was to explore the concept of social entrepreneurship as an innovative way to solve social problems using entrepreneurial skills and youth voice. It was an attempted to give an appropriate answer to the problems that young people from disadvantaged throughout Europe are facing in the present: the high percentage of unemployment. For the reasons mentioned above, the objectives of the TC were: • to empower young people raising their self-esteem stimulating their creativity and sense of entrepreneurship; • to raise awareness in the participants on key competencies and develop different methods for using them in practice within social projects, developing and matching them with the new requirements of Erasmus with their organisations; • to develop the cooperation among different organisations coming from Slavic countries and Mediterranean; • to incentive young people to get involved in NGOs, youth activities, into local authorities, into international opportunities that arise. Also, for them to stay and/or return to their communities, be active citizens and contribute to the realisation of changes. We believe we contributed to this goal through non-formal ways, moving down-up. Regarding the issues we tackled in the project, we intended to include the following: • Youth Unemployment, through highlighting the educational and boundless opportunities that exist and promoting active and proactive responses to them. Through its contribution to the decrease of unemployment, the project also helped to revitalise disadvantaged areas; • Creativity and entrepreneurship, with the intention to practice empowerment of young people in order to make them aware of their own values and competencies stressing their creativity and the capacity to create new job opportunities for themselves; • Awareness about the nature of youth work through exploring the advantages, providing examples of youth work, trying to make the participants understand its purpose and meaning, as well as its impact on society, specifically on their communities and on their personal development; • Sharing of best practices in the sphere of youth work through putting an important accent to the sharing experiences throughout the project and collecting the benefits coming from these experiences.<< Implementation >>Activities : -Day 1 - Welcoming participants; Activating mini-games; Welcome Evening - Day 2 - Ice Breaking Games and Team Building; Presentation of the project. Rules of the TC. Fears&Expectations&Contributions.; Looking for ideal (Salto Youth Tool) ; Puzzle game: Social Business vs Social entrepreneurship ; Problem trees and problem solution ( Youth condition) ; Evaluation: Comfy Group; Welcome Party. -Day 3 -General overview of the Erasmus Plus (Youth Chapter) Programme; Leaders vs Managers: Silent Open Debate; The concept of Leaders ; Discover the city : Social Needs edition (Salto Youth Tool) ; Evaluation: Comfy Group; Intercultural Night. -Day 4 -Practising Communication and Teamwork; Clear up your mind : Excursion to th city; Evaluation: Comfy Group. -Day 5- The Role of NGO in the community; The importance of being partner: Networking Activity (NGO Fair); The impact of social entrepreneurship; You as a social entrepreneur ; Evaluation: Comfy Group. -Day 6- Empowerment : What are the steps to create a social Business ? Learn how to do you a business plan; Project management session; Excursion to the city centre; Evaluation: Comfy Group; Presentation of the videos created in “Discover the city “ -Day 7- Project management session; Projects presentations personal and groups actions planning: Proposal to cooperation in the future; Evaluation of TC and debate how to disseminate the project; Farewell party with Youthpass delivery. -Day 8- Departures Participants : The target group were youth workers that believes in the importance of social business and also that work directly or indirectly with disadvantages areas. The age of participants was 18+. We consider the age limitation appropriate because the main aim of this project was to increase work capacity and build up competences of youth workers and educators who already have experience in work with young people. The participants were 44 youth workers who work direct or indirectly with disadvantaged urban/rural young people. All partners were selected youth interested and motivated on the topic, able to use English as a working language, who are ready to play an active and open role in the workshop, preferably those who are able to develop and implement a local/regional/ national/ international project afterwards and be motivated to act as multipliers and youth workers. All of our participants were interested in the topic and have direct contact with rural areas and this theme as youth workers, trainers, teachers and so on. We built the concept of this TC respecting also different experiences of our participants in this field and their will to share with each other in order to build up a strong long term partnership among them and their interest in rising quality of their Erasmus+ projects.<< Results >>The main purpose of this TC was to transmit concrete knowledge and methodologies for youth workers in marginalized areas; also, were transmiting values of cohesion and activism to promote cooperation between the promoters, so that they can act as ""multipliers"" in their countries of origin. The project was greatly contributed to the personal development of the project participants. Youngsters got the possibility to set socially approved goals (regarding sustainable development) and to obtain methods and contacts that will make possible the reach of these goals. They also became more assertive and with more Knowledge for their future activity in the area of social development. The project consisted out of an empowerment process where the young people gain the skills and experience which helped them to be more open-minded, to have a multilateral perspective, to make informed choices in the future and promote to their siblings, friends and colleagues the same principles. They were developinging skills that will be used in practical work after the end of the project. The team working while participating and/or organizing activities for the project was reinforcing better understanding of partners from different countries. We anticipated that this project will also further support our network between partner organizations so we can undertake more exchanges in the future. We also hope that the young people will, on their own initiative, visit each other in the future, share practices and help each other do a better job. The impact on the organizations was seen through capacity building obtained through the increase of knowledge, experience and appearance of new initiatives. The working days allowed the creation of new networks, through building strong relationships among us, as well as through finding new partners among the participants. In the same time, the impact was multiplied as there were activities open to participants who are not taking part in the rest of the project. Thus, the activities were including speakers from outside and the project participants organized follow up activities in their communities to spread the impact, even more, working in new Erasmus+ projects, presentations, conferences and other activities. Some of the lectures was opened to the general public. Of course, the multiplying effect was first of all achieved by the participants of the project spreading the ideas they have got from here and making follow-up activities in their own countries."

“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.

"The life of insects is intimately connected with our human life. Insects pollinate 80 percent of the world’s 94 major food crops, from which we live. They keep our tropical rain forest blossoming, which preserves our survival. With tunnels they aerate the soil on which we grow crops, carrying nutrients down from the surface. They help to prevent erosion and floods. They decompose all waste that animals and plants produce, including our dead bodies. They eat the pests and the weeds that would destroy our harvest. They are the primary food of birds, frogs, reptiles, fish and mammals. They deliver food to us humans like honey but also as tasty snacks. They communicate with each other, they build states and kingdoms like we do under our feet, which we hardly notice. Only the species of ants alone creates more biomass than all of us humans on earth together. While we humans feel attracted by other mammals, while we awe the reptiles, while we enjoy the view of fish, we neglect insects as ugly, monstrous, alien-like creatures. We develop phobies against them, denounce them as bugs, parasites, plague, vermin. Never more!Mostar Friedensprojekt in cooperation with Aydin Youth Center was conducting two youth exchanges in April 2018 in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, and in June 2018 in Aydin,Turkey. 12 organisations from Germany, Turkey, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Egypt, Israel, Montenegro, Romania, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria and Estonia havel send altogether 70 participants to these exchanges.Participants did learn about the secret life of insects about the reality of global environmental balance. Youth did experience a unique learning and researching experience, has encountered with scientists, they have used methods of theater to translate their knowlegde about communication structures, fine arts and computer technology to remodel instect, they did learn to learn. And they have found, that man is as interesting a subject as ""bugs""."

"Together against extremism and radicalism *Type of activity: Training Course *Date: 02 – 10 February 2019. *Countries participating: Germany, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Turkey, Greece, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Portugal *Place/Venue: Topola, Serbia *Number of participants: 3 participants per country + 3 trainers and 3 support stuff Taking into account those extremist movements in Europe, raising xenophobia and islamophobia, we consider it highly important to gather active young people, youth workers and activists to discuss questions of multicultural society, interreligious and intercultural dialogue as well as to think about some practical tools how to fight discrimination and combat extremism. Real response to extremism is creating general ambient in which people don’t accept extremism. That’s the duty of all of us, to create, with our own behavior and values, new frame where extremism and violence will be truly unaccepted. During the TC we looked deeper into the issues of extremism, migration, discrimination, nationalism, intolerance and intercultural misunderstandings. The TC supported young people and active youth workers to learn about the ways of living together, accepting differences and fighting together against prejudice and xenophobia in these turbulent times With this TC empowered youth workers and youth leaders with skills, knowledge and attitudes to play an active role towards an intercultural society. Our objectives was following: - To analyze today’s multicultural society in different countries; - To gain knowledge on key concepts, such as stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination, extremism, intolerance; - To understand the causes of extremism and where they develop; - To analyze the European values and how they can be used in contrasting those phenomena. - To promote active citizenship, international dialogue and non-formal education. - To overview the European programs and create new projects related to the topic. Training course was based on NFE methods and approaches. The working methods were facilitated the exchange of information and provide training for new competencies. The used methods was: icebreakers and energisers, ""brainstorming"", simulations, case studies, world cafe, teamwork, lectures and debates, reflective sharing , collage, discussions in small groups, discussions in the plenary, question and answer sessions, debriefing after each exercise, presentations, info sessions for theoretical input, workshops and group work in order to explore concrete examples of methodological approaches to work with extremism issue. Problem called “extremism” has global proportions, so action should be taken at European level. Including countries across Europe we are raising the importance of this issue and suggesting the urgency of its solving. We provide an opportunity for the partners regardless of where they come from, to understand that we can all learn from each other, irrespective of the development of institutional or civil measures in particular countries. Actions should be aimed at raising awareness of young people in their countries to recognize extremism. To be successful at doing that our area of operation should be at European level."

Training course “Migration - reality and challenges ” will take place in spring, 2017 in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. Organisation IUVENTA from Serbia is hosting organization, Föreningen Framtidståget from Sweden is applicant and coordinating organisation. Support staff will be consisted of 3 people that will be in charge of providing all the necessary activities such as preparation of workshop rooms, organizing free time activities and outdoor activities, organizing transport, contacting with the hotel etc., during the realization phase. For the organization of the activities there will be a team of 1 local trainer and 2 international trainers. Participants country is: Sweden, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Macedonia, Montenegro, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Kosovo, Albania, Austria, Germany, Hungary and Croatia.Number of participants: 32 participants + 3 trainers + 3 support staff.Main objective of the project is to educate young people about the main topics and prepare them to actively participate in their local communities, countries and on European or regional level. the aims and objectives of the training course are as follows: • To empower reflection on different dimensions of migration and mobility, understanding the theoretical framework of migration trends and new migration in Europe and its global effects• Exchange of experience and good practice in youth work, related to international/local migration and mobility and its influence on young people in Europe• Rising awareness of violent extremism as a cause rather than a consequence of migration and influence of media related to migration• Training youth workers and youth leaders in addressing the challenges and opportunities resulting from migration for young people /society as a whole• Raising the competence of youth workers and youth leaders about the push and pull factors of migration and how to prevent negative effects of migration (such as marginalisation) in society• Understand the EU policies towards migration and mobility and local realities in participating countries and learning good practices, promoting European cooperation between youth organisations and engage youth with immigrant backgrounds in organizations’ activities• Develop new initiatives in the field of migration and mobility for young people within the framework of the Erasmus + ProgrammeAccording to that main expected impact that direct beneficiaries can convey further by empowering them to become actively involved not only in activities of partner organizations, but also in preparation and their own initiatives as well as those agreed at the end of the training course. They will multiply effects of the training course in their communities through different and specified activities foreseen. The training course will use the tools common to the interactive non-formal education process, because they give the best results in working with young people. We will follow all of the important elements of non-formal learning, such as interaction, cooperation rather then competition, using experiences of participants, being flexible in needs of the group, following group dynamics process, holistic approach (using combination of activities which leads through Kolb cycle (experiencing – observing and reflecting – giving theoretical background – linking with reality) and developing participants skills, attitudes and knowledge in different areas) etc.