<< Objectives >>This training course was aimed for youth workers, who are working with young people. The main aim of this project was to educate youth workers in the field of entrepreneurship with a focus on SE. We aimed to equip the participants with knowledge of entrepreneurship that they would then pass on to youth. We focused on SE so that with the information on SE and with knowledge and skills on entrepreneurship itself, these youth workers could open their own SE and/or help their organisation follow the SE path.The objectives of this project are: -To help the youth workers to get hands on thе ‘Dеsign Thinking’ process, by creating business ideas inspired from prе-dеfinеd challenges in thеir local communities.-Show what it takes to be an entrepreneur and how to manage risk taking.-To tackle the topics of leadership, Self-empowerment, time management, risk assessment and team work which are all essential in the area of entrepreneurship. -To help the participants to get an experience on the Canva business model and how to adapt the Canva business model for the planning of a social enterprise. -Up-skill youth workers to foster the employability and sense of initiative with the young people that they work with. Through this project we gave competencies to youth workers on how to educate young people in starting a business. One outcome was that once the knowledge was transferred from the youth workers to the youth, the youth had better support system and guidance towards the right support needed to start up a business venture that had the possibility of growing more in the future and thus employing more people within the same society. This led to a multiplying effect.Furthermore, as the youth workers were empowered and given skills on how to effectively open and run a business with a focus on SE, they were given all the knowledge to open a SE themselves, which benefitted them, and the whole community. Also, these entrepreneurial skills that were to the youth workers, are now used by the youth workers themselves, in the running of their organisations.Apart from training youth workers on the area of entrepreneurship, this training indirectly trained the youth workers that took part in this training course on how to make use of digital tools in their youth work activities. As we had a number of preparatory online sessions, carried out by the trainers, the participants also learnt what mediums one can make use of for delivering online sessions, how to plan and deliver and online session and how to make it interactive. Thus, this was a holistic learning experiences for our participants who had the opportunity to sharpen their skills on various areas.<< Implementation >>Our training course, Fighting Youth Unemployment Through Social Entrepreneurship during and after COVID-19, was a 6 day (Plus two travel days), training course was held in Megara Greece between the 10 – 17th of September 2021with participants coming from Poland, Romania, Croatia, Lithuania, Spain, Italy, Greece and Malta. The training had sessions that aimed to educate youth workers in the field of entrepreneurship with a focus on social entrepreneurship. Now these youth workers, are in a better position to equip young people with skills and knowledge that is now helping them think in an entrepreneurial way. We also equipped them with leadership skills and now they are capable to start their own social business.All the planned activities made use of non-formal methods of education to implement the sessions. The sessions made use of methods like, Energizers, Team building, simulations, workshops, on-site visits outdoor activities and discussions amongst others.All the activities involved, included non-formal methods of learning. The programme was divided in a way that one session lead to another, thus creating a flow that kept the participants learning and also kept them motivated and always ready for the next step. The training was divided into three main parts. In the first part, the participants got more skills and knowledge on entrepreneurship and the traits of an entrepreneur, more knowledge on the different types of entrepreneurships and also knowledge on social entrepreneurship. In the second part, they started thinking on the need that they want to address and then they started developing their business idea. During this time, they had the opportunity to meet successful social entrepreneurs and also to visit a successful social enterprise and a local incubator centre. After they pitched their idea to the sharks the project passed on to the third and final stage that is where the participants learnt more on funds that they can make use of to kick start their idea. The selected participants for this training course had to be one of these categories: -Yоuth wоrkers whо are empowering young people, and regularly соnduсting lосal aсtivities with young people in the areas of employment and entrepreneurship.-Youth workers with more than 2 years’ experience and active in the youth field so as to make sure that they have some experience of youth work and that they really work with young people - Nоn-fоrmal eduсatiоn trainers/faсilitatоrs: Who had faсilitated previоus aсtivities aiming to drive the entrepreneurial learning of their partiсipants and who were interested in the Design thinking methodology and сreative thinking methods in general.Apart from that the selected participants had to have: - An interest in the topic of entrepreneurship - Working knowledge of English although if they do not have we will help them to achieve this so that they do not miss on any learning. - Able and willing to disseminate learning outcomes on a local level - Availability for the Online preparatory meeting with the trainers and with their local sending organisation.-Ready to read the preparatory material that the trainers will send.It is important to note, that the selection process was transparent and was made available for all the partners to see so as to make sure that as the selection process was fair, and all applicants had a fair chance of being accepted. The participants also had some online training sessions before the actual training course itself. This helped them to prepare for the training.<< Results >>This training course was aimed for youth workers who are working with young people. The main aim was to equip the participants with knowledge of entrepreneurship that they would then pass on to youth. In return, they are now in a better position to equip young people (their target group) with competencies that will help them to acquire an entrepreneurial mind-set, while equipping them with leadership skills to be capable to run their own business. Although they were not physically present in the project, these young people, gained from the learning and experience that these youth workers got from the project as the youth workers implemented the learning, they got in their youth work practices As we also focused on SE the participants present were equipped with knowledge and information that they now use to either open their own social enterprise and/or help their organisation follow the SE path. Furthermore the participants:-Got hands on thе ‘Dеsign Thinking’ process, and learnt how to create business ideas inspired from prе-dеfinеd challenges in thеir local communities.-Learnt what it takes to be an entrepreneur and how to manage risk taking.-Learnt on the topics of leadership, Self-empowerment, time management, risk assessment and team work which are all essential in the area of entrepreneurship. -Got more experience on the Canva business model and how to adapt the Canva business model for the planning of a social enterprise. -Up-skilled their skills and ability to foster the employability and sense of initiative with the young people that they work with. These youth workers, in return helped the young people that they work with to:-Achiever personal fulfilment -Get better employability skills and improved career prospects-Get an increased sense of entrepreneurship-Get an increased sense of self-empowerment and self-esteem -Motivateed them to take part in formal and non-formal experiences abroad. Through this project we gave competencies to youth workers on how to educate young people in starting a business. One outcome is that once the knowledge was transferred from the youth workers to the youth, the youth got better support system and guidance towards the right support needed to start up a business venture that has the possibility of growing more in the future and thus employing more people within the same society. This had a multiplying effect.

Our project Youth activator: Make it happen will bring for one week 27 participants from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, United Kingdom, to Adamov, CZ. We decided to create a training course which brought together youth workers and youth leaders who want to be the spark which will light the change and activate the youth in their societies. Aim of the project was to increase the active citizenship of youth with focus on social participation in the community and volunteering; exercise project management skills in order to support the boost of community projects and activities in the participants’ realities and provide the participants with participatory methods which they can use in order to motivate the youth and engage them with the local community and environment. We aimed our project to be very practical and based on real problems and needs. When we set the objectives we had this in our minds so our project would equip the participants with competences which will help them to exercise these features of active citizenship in their community. Our objectives were: Explore the term of active citizenship and social participation and find out together about methods, actions, events which can boost the participation and active citizenship of the youth and accompany them with practical examples when and where they can be used. Emphasize volunteering as way of active participation in the community life as well as worthy tool for self-development by meeting with volunteers and getting to know their experience as well by setting own way in which the participants can via volunteering develop themselves and community. Provide the participants with project management skills. We want them to practice the project logic and project management both theoretically and practically on real examples and issues from their environment.Meet the representatives of running community projects in Brno, find out about the context, aims and also processes of their projects and learn from them practical approaches how to communicate with the locals and how to motivate them and engage them to the project. Analyse problems which the participants and their communities face, explore the resources and create action plan on which the participants will apply the know-how they achieved from the local activists and also they will practice their project management skills.Test the new skills in practice by creating a project proposal and a plan while shaping it for the concept of participatory budget which is efficient tool how to increase the democratic participation and engagement of locals on decision making.The methodology of the training course was based on the non-formal education approach. Some of the methods used include brainstorming, simulation, expert input, presentations, open group discussions, debates, case studies, excursion and others. The end of each activity featured a short debriefing moment, during which the trainers summed up the results of the activity and emphasized key points that the participants can take away from it.Participants got a chance to improve many of their key competences, including but not limited to communication, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, civic competence and learning to learn. Thanks to an emphasis on the participants’ learning process, they are more capable of organizing their own learning in an effective way. The project served as a motivation for participants to become more active in their organization and community, using the newly acquired civic and managerial competences. Our project brings to these communities youth leaders with enthusiasm and skills needed for raising initiatives in order to tackle local issues. Also as the youth workers participating on our project got the knowledge and skills related to motivation, they will use these in order to show the local youth how they can benefit from active participation and also how they can contribute to the community. Our project to has a positive impact on youth from the environment of our partner organization in sense of their higher engagement with the society.

"<< Objectives >>The Minister of Internal Administration, José Luís Carneiro, admitted that the fire that broke out on Saturday in Garrocho, in Covilhã municipality, ""is an environmental tragedy"" and is burning in a ""context of great complexity"".The interior minister insisted that the way to fight fires is ""to prevent them"", recalling that a very high percentage of ignitions has to do with the misuse of fire, or with the misuse of machinery in forest areas. In addition, he added, it is also necessary to fight ""relentlessly against those who set fires"".The ""Last Tree on Earth"" project emerges as a response to raise awareness among the European population to the problem of forests, their forest and environmental protection based on the objectives of the European Union related to environmental sustainability.The National Mountaineering Club through the actions that it develops regularly intends to be a protective organization of the Serra da Estrela and through its annual plan of activities develops different actions that intend to give strength through the Last Tree on Earth.The objectives that we intend with this project are- Provide participants with knowledge about forests;- To make the participants aware of the importance of forests in our lives;- To explain the different uses of forests; - To provide the participants with knowledge about fires;- To raise the participants' awareness of the need to prevent forest fires.Through the objective of influencing policies at local, national and European level we intend to make a positive contribution to Forest Activism, and this project is an opportunity to exchange methods and tools and also experiences between those involved.Thus, the network of partners in this project consists of 6 partner organisations, which due to their experience and due to a cooperative and transparent relationship are the ideal partners for the successful development of the Last Tree on Earth Project.The Spanish organization, Municipality of Almussafes. This municipality develops daily work with the young generation to raise awareness of forestry and European values. The leader will be a member of the organization with extensive experience in the field.Creatorium, a Norwegian organization, is a transversal organization but develops a field work very close to the young people and will bring to the project environmental issues and realities different from the other partners due to its rural location in Norway and the activities it develops.The Romanian organization, Geo Clube, is a non-profit association that develops a very evident work in raising the awareness of the Romanian youth generation in different areas. Among the projects it develops, the projects with forest action are evident and it will bring to this project realities marked by the work on this theme.The Czech organization, Evropské centrum mládeže Břeclav, is an organization marked by being inserted in a rural environment and due to its experience in international and local projects related to the environment, it is believed to be an asset for the development of this project. The Greek association, Youth Horizons, is an association that is inserted in this network of partners due to its experience in youth work related to awareness raising and rural work.The 6 partner associations develop, throughout the annual work, activities directly related to the theme and that will be an added value for the course of the project.For effective communication of the whole network of partners of the Last Tree on Earth project, e-mail was established as the ordinary means, for which we have e-mail addresses of the entities that participate in the project. Telephone contacts are also available for when information needs to be highlighted or if there is a need to complement or expand on a previous issue, while reiterating email as a basic communication support.<< Implementation >>Today we are confronted with the serious problem of forest impacts. It is a reality that touches us all. Thus, we want to stress that our attitude will not be one of indifference, but of conscientious citizens with critical and activist thinking.The Minister of Internal Administration, José Luís Carneiro, admitted on 12 August 2022 that the fire that broke out on Saturday in Garrocho, in Covilhã municipality, ""is an environmental tragedy"" and is taking place in a ""context of great complexity"".The interior minister insisted that the way to fight fires is ""to prevent them"", recalling that a very high percentage of ignitions has to do with the misuse of fire, or with the misuse of machinery in forest areas. In addition, he added, it is also necessary to fight ""relentlessly against those who set fires"".The Last Tree on Earth project will be developed in Portugal, particularly in Covilhã, and will count with the participation of 42 young people and youth technicians with preferential ages between 18 and 30 years, from 6 countries: Portugal, Spain, Norway, Romania, Czech Republic and Greece between 11 April and 20 April 2023. These countries are the co-organisers and the recipients of activities throughout the project before, during and after the implementation of the youth exchange.The realization of this project in the city of Covilhã has to do with the sensitivity and the need for these forest problems that our association has been demonstrating. Throughout the plan of the exchange are planned initiatives of forestry character where participants develop skills that will be useful for their day-to-day as well as for the development of the group project, such as reforestation, a walk by Serra da Estrela, a forest cleaning, etc. Furthermore, presentations of several successful projects are planned to show the participants different working methods and possible initiatives to develop when they return to their countries of origin, projects that will be compiled in a video tutorial to be disseminated at the end of the project by the network of partners.The plan of activities for this project also includes moments in which the participants will be in contact with new experiences and dynamics related to the environment and nature and also with life in Nature. In the Last Tree on Earth project, the participants will be involved in the growth and development of skills about forest activism and opportunities in rural areas and in useful skills for the personal development of each young person.Thus, the profile will be, as much as possible, a participant aged between 18-30 years old, youth workers or community leaders being activists or with knowledge on the subject.Gender equality is considered paramount in Last Tree on Earth as it is one of the pillars of the project in order to achieve and realize social and institutional changes that produce sustainable development with equity and growth. Gender equality refers to equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities that should benefit all people, regardless of whether they are men or women.<< Results >>During the course of the Last Tree on Earth project, the main beneficiaries will be the participants of the exchange, at all stages of the exchange, as they are the future agents of change.We have no doubt that once this change is assumed by the participants, it will leave the paper and become a reality in European society. At the end of the youth exchange, an impact is expected on the participants, as it is they who will continue to evolve, personally and in society, to become the centre of the associations they represent. The participants have a leadership role within the associations which impacts on the other participants in a more personal and close way. There is no doubt that today they will be the agents of change and that they will continue the efforts to try to change the reality of European society and social integration in the world.In constant cooperation with the associations of each participating country, we will contact local authorities in order to disseminate the results of the exchange, as we will do with the local representatives of Covilhã municipality. This dissemination intends to be effective in publicising the participation of youth workers and young people in the Erasmus + programme as well as the results of the Last Tree on Earth project.The project also foresees the interaction of the participants and the dissemination of the results in the youth spaces in Covilhã, as a method of impact with the population of the city that hosts the youth exchange.For the local and regional impact, it also foresees the realization of a public presentation of the results of the Last Tree on Earth project to the community and the local and national media (daily newspapers, television) and also Covilhã City Hall and the Portuguese Institute for Sport and Youth, Federação de Associações Juvenis do Distrito de Castelo Branco, Quercus, ZERO - Associação Sistema Terrestre Sustentável, Projecto Rios, Fundo Ambiental, Instituto de Conservação da Natureza e Florestas, GeoPark Estrela, to present the results and to exhibit the materials developed by the participants during the project, naturally, with their consent."

A project with spirit from youth who are very interested in Nature! “Life in Green” project was addressing art and environmental problems via artistic creativity.We do believe that we increased public consciousness, connected to environmental issues in European and local level, for example the city of Great Yarmouth, UK and city of Megara, Greece and in all partner countries.Venue of project; Megara, GreeceNumber of participants: Totally 60 youth and youth leadersInvolved countries; UK, Greece, Turkey, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovakia Youth collaborated via various art workshops to reach one common goal. The major objective of the project was to draw attention to the problem of stand up for a clean environment. During these 7 days of \ youth exchange, youth had the opportunity to debate current issues, shared ideas how to preserve environment clean, to simulate simple steps that helped towards reducing the impact of negative factors, which was caused by counterfeiting of secondary raw materials.All outcomes, proposals and ideas of participants were shown through varous style of arts such as: video, theatre, art workshops with paper & plastic trash, bottles, reusing clothes etc. The outcome of the project covered a final report - video, related with the problem of environmental degradation.Furthermore, a short theater performance (flashmob), handcrafted creations from recycled materials, a photo exhibition which were conducted by the participants of the project, were also regarded as project's final outcomes. Thus, a proper use of project's outcomes assisted us to have more local people engaged into recycling, especially young people and disseminated our concerns and potential solutions about environmental degradation.All the participants of the project realized that they were a part of Europe where each person was important for well-being of the whole Europe.

"<< Objectives >>The objective of our project is to empower young people by providing them with knowledge and skills related to entrepreneurship and social, and digital innovation.. Through this project, we hope to foster the development of new and innovative ideas that can positively impact society through cross-disciplinary collaboration in a digitalized society.We will achieve our objectives by conducting a series of demonstrations over consecutive days, mentoring sessions, and practical exercises focused on social entrepreneurship and digital innovation. We will also provide opportunities for participants to network and collaborate with other young people from different countries. In addition, we will organize visits by successful creative practitioners and mentors alongside encouraging participants to develop and implement their own digital innovation projects.Our project is aimed at young people aged 18-30 who are interested in social entrepreneurship and digital innovation. We will select participants through an open call based on their motivation and commitment to the project. We will involve them in all stages of the project, from planning and preparation to implementation and evaluation.We expect that our project will lead to increased awareness and understanding of social entrepreneurship and digital innovation among young people specifically in the fields of digital skills. We also hope that participants will develop new skills and knowledge that will enable them to become more active and engaged members of their communities. We aim to provide participants with a unique learning experience that combines practical skills development with opportunities for networking and collaboration. In addition, we will involve participants in the development and implementation of their own social innovation projects, which will allow them to apply the skills and knowledge they have gained in a practical and meaningful way.We will ensure the sustainability of the project's results by involving participants in follow-up activities and encouraging them to continue to develop their social innovation projects. We will also maintain communication with participants and partner organizations to promote ongoing collaboration and exchange of ideas. Finally, we will share the results of the project with a wider audience through various channels, including social media, online platforms, and future events.<< Implementation >>The ""Facing the Future"" project will include a series of demonstrations over consecutive days and interactive sessions, where participants will engage in discussions, group activities, and project-based learning. The activities will focus on various topics related to digital skills such as audio, media, and art, with a special emphasis on how these issues affect and also connect young people.The project will involve 32 participants, aged 18-30, coming from Malta and other European countries. The participants will be young people, trainers, and young people interested in sustainability and global issues. The project will also involve a team of experienced mentors and facilitators, who will facilitate the activities and provide guidance and support to the participants.The project will take place over a period of six days and will include a range of activities, such as interactive workshops, group discussions, and project work. The participants will work in small teams to develop their own projects related to creativity and digital skills, which they will present at the end of the project on the final day.Overall, the project aims to provide a dynamic and interactive learning experience that empowers young people to become more engaged and active global citizens in the digital world, fostering a collaborative environment. Through the project, participants will gain new skills, knowledge, and perspectives on digital skills and creative collaborations, and will be inspired to take action in their own communities and beyond.<< Results >>We expect the ""Facing the Future"" project to have several results and impacts, including:Increased awareness and understanding of digital practices and skills among the participants.Improved digital skills and competencies among the participants through the use of online tools and platforms.Enhanced cross-cultural understanding and cooperation among the participants and partner organizations.Development of a tangible resource, in the form of a digital toolkit, that can be used by youth workers and young people in their own communities to promote environmental sustainability.Increased visibility and recognition of the participating organizations, as well as the field of youth work and its contributions to addressing societal challenges.Long-term impact through the dissemination and utilization of the project's results beyond its lifetime, with the potential for future collaborations and initiatives in the area of environmental sustainability and digital youth work.Overall, we hope that ""Facing the Future"" will contribute to the development of a more environmentally conscious and digitally skilled generation of young people, as well as foster cross-sectoral partnerships and cooperation toward addressing pressing societal challenges."