Project “Use sound to watch around II” consisted of educational activities and produced a new platform (www.soundsy.net) for enabling youth with visual impairment to become self-employed/entrepreneurs. Idea of the project was to work on strengths of youth with visual impairment. Persons with visual impairment have better hearing sense than persons without visual impairment. New technologies enable visually impaired people to work in a field of music production, sound design and music.Educational activities:During Project Activity 1 – Training course, 9 days in Serbia, Participants (Youth workers and youth with visual impairment) were improving learning, skills, knowledge and experiences through creative methods of non-formal education and sound design with aim to improve self-employment of youth with visual impairment. Sound recorders that we have been using during this activity have been given to the partner organizations to keep and to use in helping young with learning sound design as well as to support their work, in their own country. Each partner organization also received free software for sound design such as: Ripper, Audacity and others.Participants were educated about and improved:-Ideas for self-employment-Skills, knowledges for enabling sound design (recording, postproduction)-Opportunities for selling sounds / sound design online -Skills, knowledge and experiences of youth workers that can help and support youth with visual impairment.-Participants learned about Erasmus+ possibilities for youth with fewer opportunities – how participants can develop their project ideas together into new projects, and also how to apply.-list of requirements for making web audio platform that is adapted for the use of blind youth-Plan for developing web stock audio platform (design and code)-Plan for future activities in their local communities-Plan for marketing and dissemination of project resultsDuring Project Activity 2 - Participants initiatives, started after the Training Course. In this activity participants worked on sharing learned knowledge form our TC to youth with visual impairment in their local communities. Also, during this activity participants cooperated and started working on creating an audio stock platform. Creation of the platform was started during Activity 2, but improvement was during the whole project lifetime and the work on it will be continued after project lifetime.Producing platform:This new platform was built by standards for persons with visual impairment, so our platform (www.soundsy.net) enables persons with visual impairment to use it and to get jobs and to work as freelancers or to sell audio files online. This platform is the first of its kind, it enables working without using the screen. It is made in a way that enables the screen reader software to read everything, and the whole platform can be used without a mouse – using only a keyboard. Youth with visual impairment can work using this platform and can get jobs or can put files for sale online. During Project Activity 3 – Evaluation Meeting, 5 days in Bulgaria, participants (youth workers and 1 person with visual impairment per partner organization) evaluated effects and results of Project Activity 1. Project Activiti 2 and Project Activity 3. During this Activity platform was presented and participants also evaluated the quality and functionality of the web platform for selling audio stock, and they gave feedback, new ideas and suggestions for improvements.Participants suggested ideas for promotion of platform and project results. During this activity participants also created new project proposals.

"Project by name ""USE SOUND TO WATCH AROUND""Project type:Erasmus+ KA2 Capacity building in the field of Youth (Western Balkan Youth Window)Long-term project which last from 24th of November 2016 – 2nd of November 2017In all activities our partner organizations were from the Programme Countries and Western Balkan Window Countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, Turkey, Serbia; The working language was English.Target group: youth workers, educators involved in work with excluded youth with physical disability (blind young people). The main idea of the project was to give youth workers new working methods, experiences, knowledge and ideas for support unemployed youth with physical disability (blind young people) to learn to use music and sound design possibilities for employment/entrepreneurship. link to all materials from project: (http://www.kcmv.udruzenje.org/use_sound_to_watch_around/process_and_products.html)The activities in our project were:Activity 1 (9 days), Training Course from 02-10 March 2017, in Novi Sad, Serbia On Training Course participants got concrete knowledge and skills about new possibilities for helping blind youth on their entrepreneurship using methods of sound design. Participants learned how to work with blind young people and to help them to learn sound design methods and how to apply and realize own projects in Erasmus+ Programme. We had 40 participants, including 10 with fewer opportunities (blind youth) and including 1 personal assistant per country. Video: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwy8rUg9CCg) Activity 2 (60 days) 12th March -12th May 2017 – Participants local initiatives – Participants organized workshops about music and sound design possibilities for blind youth with aim to help them in inclusion and entrepreneurship. This activity was implemented in participant’s local communities, in countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Turkey and Serbia in period of up two months after Training Course (Activity 1). Participants worked their local initiatives to empower young people from their local communities using learned creative methods (knowledge and skills) acquired on our TC (Activity 1). Realization of Activity 2: Serbia:Sound design workshop in Sombor (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156087823834638.1073741973.797014637&type=1&l=c15fd23c5d)Sound design workshops of students in Vojvodina (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156017958564638.1073741971.797014637&type=1&l=1d3254d6e2)Sound design workshop for kids in special school ""Milan Petrovic"" in Novi Sad (https://www.dropbox.com/s/vj0ewetfeq3uw1l/Serbia.zip?dl=0) Albania:Video, TV reportage, documentation, Presentation, materials and sound design workshop (https://www.dropbox.com/s/qca6m6wfs1j18k4/Albania.zip?dl=0) Bosnia: Presentation of workshop materials:(https://www.dropbox.com/s/linudi9xjhjj457/Bosnia.pptx?dl=0)Montenegro:Presentation and sound design workshop (https://www.dropbox.com/s/3tm6sad0niinhi7/Montenegro.pptx?dl=0) Turkey:(https://www.dropbox.com/s/casiqxp9b8k7j5t/Turkey.pptx?dl=0)Activity 3 (5 days), 15-19 May 2017, in Marmaris, Turkey - Evaluation with Conference. On Activity Evaluation meeting participants evaluated the effect of Activity 1 and Activity 2. One day (of this activity) was reserved for a public Conference where we promoted products and results of our long-term project. We had 40 participants, including 10 with fewer opportunities (blind youth) and including 1 personal assistant per country. Conference was held during disabled week (10-16 May) and international disabled day in Mugla, Turkey, at Mugla, Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi. (http://muglaeml.meb.k12.tr)We also did presentation of our project in Mugla Engelliler Dernegi organization. (https://www.facebook.com/muender/)(https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1431652143559666.1073741831.1130351910356359&type=1&l=b5346861e1)"