"<< Objectives >>Our project Culturally (y)ours, is aimed at developing and improving the intercultural competences of youth workers, youth leaders in order to become able to prepare, run and evaluate high quality youth work activities according to the principles of intercultural education. We live in multicultural, cross-cultural and intercultural societies. Our local communities are not homogeneous anymore thanks to the free European mobility, the open borders and markets for European citizens, and hosting refugees and migrants from other parts of the world. It is not all the time easy to handle intercultural challenges, to understand the communication codes of different culturality young people, to treat appropriately diverse values, norms and schemes on intercultural behaviours, to face with stereotypes and prejudices coming from young people towards each other without really knowing what they are afraid of and why they become more and more xenophobic. Feeling in our skins, we need to improve our youth work competences through intercultural education in order to be able offering such types of youth work activities locally and European level where young people with different cultural background can cooperate together and handle their cultural diversity as added value of their common activities. General objectives of the project is to train youth workers, youth leaders to be able to work with different culturality young people, e.g. refugees, migrants, foreign kids or young people coming home from other countries and build up a successful intercultural team locally and European level. To recognise stereotypes, prejudices and prevent or stop social stigmatization of young people with different cultural background. By using appropriate intercultural communication, being able to understand the communication and behavioral norms, schemes and forms of young people with different cultural background.<< Activities >>We will host 33 Youth workers. They come from 14 organizations that work with youngs, from 14 EU countries. ""H2O""-Associação de Jovens de Arrouquelas – Portugal; Stowarzyszenie Inicjatyw Regionalnych – Polónia; SEIKLEJATE VENNASKOND – Estónia; Unique projects – Lituânia;STUDIO PROGETTO SOCIETA COOPERATIVASOCIALE – Itália; Comité de Liaison Diagonal France – França; Active Youth – Malta; JUGEND, BILDUNG UND KULTUR EV – Alemanha; YOPA - FIATALOK AZ ÁLLAMPOLGÁRI RÉSZVÉTELÉRT KÖZHASZNÚ EGYESÜLET – Hungria; Udrugagluhih i nagluhih Nova Gradiska – Croácia; Dare to take your chance – Roménia; Rock Solid Foundation for International youth work – Holanda; ANAZITITES THEATROU – Grécia; MOMENTUM WORLD CIC - Reino Unido.Youth leaders who directly work with young people with different cultural backgrounds e.g. refugees, migrants, foreign kids, young people coming home from other countries, minorities, Roma young people, etc. and who have already run at least one international youth project experience, preferably youth exchange, or were already group leaders in youth exchange. We apply for one activity entitled “Cultirally (y)ours” – training course on intercultural competence development of youth workers, youth leaders in order to run local youth work activities and youth exchanges with involvement of refugees, migrants and foreign young people at 3 - 10 Abril 2020, Rio Major, Portugal. The course is strongly based on experiential learning (learning by doing), with adequate time allocated for debriefing and reflection throughout the whole program as the process will be highly personal and aim for attitudinal changes therefore the reflection is very important part of the process (as the educational team is well aware of). Generally, the working methods will be rather non-formal and participative. Methods planned to use e.g. individual work, pair work, organisational work, mixed group work, field activity, light theatre method, theatre of oppressed, Dixit card exercise, montages, interviews, statutes, debate, aquarium discussion.<< Impact >>Suggestions how cooperative learning techniques can be used within youth work context in order to foster tolerance, empathy, acceptance, teamwork, emotional intelligence and language skills, etc. within youth work activities among local young people and refugees, migrants, foreign kids and young people coming home from other countries and support them becoming team members and benefitting from their differences for the sake of themselves and for the team. Roles and responsibilities of youth workers regarding to adapting intercultural education in daily youth work activities based on different target groups e.g. local young people and refugees or migrants or foreign kids or young people coming home from other countries. Montages and lists of possible cultural challenges of working in culturally different teams and its’ prevention strategies. List of possible intercultural challenges in intercultural teamwork among young people and how to prevent or handle these by youth work context. The list of intercultural competences of youth workers and explanation of knowledge, skills and attitude what can be developed or improved. Tips and hints on techniques and methods how as youth workers we can support group dynamic process of intercultural teams locally and European level."

<< Objectives >>By implementing this training course and it's follow-up process, we would like to develop skills of youthworkers, that are forming the lives of young people. By transferring certain competences to youngsters, they are also helping to design their future paths. We sincerely believe that adding long-term planing, critical thinking, media and financial literacy into the mix can help young people to lead a happier life and have a smoother start in their adult lives, preparing them for what is ahead.The objectives of our project are:1) to share and practice critical thinking methods,2) to encourage long-term planning and give decision-making tools,3) to transfer the basics of financial and media literacy,4) to enhance argumentation and debating skills,5) to develop activities linked to the topic, that will create a multiplication effect.<< Activities >>Our project is designed as a Training Course with 24 participants from 8 countries.Participants will be youthworkers, who aim to include topics of critical thinking, media literacy and financial management in their daily work with young people.We expect our participants to have at least an intermediate level of English, be an active youthworker/volunteer/teacher/trainer/facilitator/youth exchange leader, ... with at least 1 year of experience of working with youth.<< Impact >>By implementing this training course, we expect to transfer basic skills of money management, fact-checking and thinking critically to our participants. During our project, we will give them tools to use in their work with young people, but we will also support them by developing their own projects, workshops and other actions that involve these topics. We expect the impact to be on the local level in Kolin, Czech Republic, where our training course will be held. Some activities of us will also reach the national level, such as sharing the results of the project on national conferences with managers of other NGOs in Czech Republic. We expect our participants to be multiplicators and exploit the results of this training to enlarge the impact to international level.

"The ""Lead Life"" project is an international young exchange from Erasmus plus programme , offering participants the opportunity to participate for 11 days with their colegues from other countries in the activities of non-formal learning in a multicultural context based on tolerance and mutual respect. This project will spur young people to be more active to continuously develop and become leaders of their lives , it will unfold on 5 to 15 april 2016 in Poiana Negri, Romania will join 45 young people from 5 countries (Romania, Poland, Italy, Croatia,Bulgaria) through various activities organized and adapted to non-formal learning mode. The project aims is to facilitate the interaction of young people to develop leadership skills in a socio-economice changing. Obiective project are anchoring spirit of leadership among the 45 participants from the five participating countries, creation of 5 to promoting the spirit of leader in motivational videos in communities where participants come, aware the importance of leadership in continuous progress time, among practical skills , proactive thinking and civic ventures in the 45 partipants. In the ""Lead Life"" youth exchange is planned and developed a complex of different activities requiring different methods of non-formal learning, and that will lead to achieving the objectives that we have proposed, the formation program of activities we took into account the multicultural backgraund of project. Designed based on mutual learning is beneficial current topic because background they come participants is important in the interaction between them for coming from different culture, each with a different education and different values and will influence each other so that formation as leaders will include one small footprint of each other's experience, which will make them unique The experience and knowledge that participants already have and the desire to share will be created in the project right environment to communicate, to learn things and new, but also there will be tools to make a comparison between the approaches and perceptions. Leadership in itself implies compliance with certain principles, but a person can not become a leader by meeting a predetermined formula, but by the amount of experience they live. Such an experience is the ""Lead Life"". As a result of this project we will create a platform for discussion and information where young people can find opportunities for mutual learning and interacting with other peers who have the same interests."

"<< Objectives >>The main reason why the partner's consortium decided to implement the project ""Action for green footsteps ""1. is the need to raise awareness about environmental issues, our effect on the planet which is slowly becoming the number one problem of the world. Therefore, it is necessary for young people to start changing their consciousness from an early age and form it with eco-friendliness, which will lead to a more positive impact on the earth in the future in the direction of ecology and environmental protection, 2. empowering young people with fewer opportunities and marginalised youth at risk. 3. to give useful tools, teach new methodologies and activities to youth workers, which helps them to create better civic society and perspectives for youth in their local communities, to lead their societies change towards peaceful civil society. All of the project participants are expected to have some knowledge on methods of non-formal educational activities as well as prior experience in youth projects. It is also important for all the participants to be ready to get actively involved in all the project activities. The main objectives from the perspective of youth workers' practice are : - Strengthen personal and professional development and skills of young people through non-formal and informal learning. - Foster the empowerment of young people, their active citizenship, and participation in democratic life;- Encourage quality development of youth work at local, regional, national, European and international levels and support the professional development of youth workers;-raise awareness about green topics and thus stimulate youth workers' engagement in society and active participation.-Promote inclusion and diversity, intercultural dialogue and the values of solidarity, equal opportunities among young people in Europe.The main need of participants is identified before the training course, the special needs for youth workers is to increase their professional capacities and to gain new competencies for implementing successful youth projects that aim at improving young people's environmental behavior. The project is aiming to tackle discussed issues from different angles, giving participants both theoretical expert input on specifics and challenges of working with youth at risk of permanent unemployment and practical methods and tools that can be adapted to their local context, which in turn should increase their professional capacities and enable them to create projects that suit their target groups specific needs to a greater extent.More than half of the participants with fewer opportunities are already selected so that the project will also have an impact on disadvantaged communities in a long-term perspective.Finally, our objective is to empower young people in EU and EaP countries by teaching them environmentally responsible behavior and giving them a chance to start their own activities, develop their forward-looking skills, such as digital and language skills, green competencies, that will enable them to tackle the challenges of today and tomorrow.<< Implementation >>We certainly take Erasmus+ priorities into account in our training course such as:1. developing digital skills as well as digital literacy, which has become essential for everyday life and for enabling people to navigate a world full of algorithms and participate fully in civil society and democracy.2. increased involvement in Environmental and climate action 3. More active participation in society;4. Increasing quality, innovation, and recognition of youth work.5. Reinforcing links between policy, research and practice.6. Strengthening the employability of young people.7. enhanced intercultural awareness;8. improved foreign language competencies The activity of this project is the training course “Action for green footsteps ”, beneficial for 24 participants and 2 trainers(As for gender balance, all the partners agreed to choose an equal number of male and female representatives ) from EU and EaP countries( 8 from them are future opportunities with different kind of barriers ), who will come together in Georgia, Bakuriani 28.04 -06.05 2022, to discuss and explore new approaches towards environmental issues and the specific needs of young people with fewer opportunities. Every activity, that will be during the training courses is based on non-formal non-formal learning activities, which aim at enhancing the skills and competencies of young people as well as their active citizenship approved by the Erasmus+ program. These activities consist of training, pair-to-pair activities, Ice breaking, idea generation, Team building activities, discussion, Youth Pass Session, Intercultural evening, Green deal policy, etc. All these activities are described in the timetable, the content was discussed and agreed upon by the main organizators and experienced trainers of the project.<< Results >>After the project is finished, our project will have many kinds of different results and impacts: Result - 1. Participants will learn about the UN Sustainable Development Goals and The EU Green Deal policies. 2. Learn about the importance of World Cleaning Day and Digital Cleanup Day, raise awareness about green issues and involve people in organizing these events. 3. 24 youth workers will learn environmentally sustainable and responsible behavior, and raise awareness about the importance of acting to reduce or compensate for the environmental footprint of mobility activities. 4. All participants will have youth pass as the result of youth work practices, methodologies and materials in the youth field. 5. Promotion of environmental activities such as environmental education, outdoor activities, sustainability, etc. Impact- 1. increased knowledge in foreign languages and digital competencies. 2. Reduce Carbon footprints on the earth. 3. a better understanding of interconnections between formal, non-formal education, vocational training, other forms of learning, and the labor market respectively;4. raised awareness about the importance of acting to reduce or compensate for the environmental footprint of mobility activities. objectives of the training course : 1. To raise awareness in the field of environmental issues – After conducting specific activities and workshops, participants will understand why it’s important to be eco-friendly and what impact we have on the earth. 2. To Create networking among young people of the European Union and Eastern Partnership Countries and empower EECA NGOs – There are organizations from European Union countries and partner countries, to make cooperation happen. Organizations will share their best practices and will work on plans, such as developing joint Erasmus+, social enterprises, and other projects in the future and sharing experiences regarding the topic-related issues.3. informing about youth pass - 8 key competencies of Youth-pass: Multilingual competence, personal, social and learning competence; citizenship competence, entrepreneurship competence cultural awareness and expression competence, digital competence, mathematical competence, competence in science, technology, and engineering, literacy competence; 4. To explore and discuss the challenges and solutions connected to working with young people who struggle to find a job. – Unfortunately, in some countries of Europe employability among youth is very problematic. Information from the project and sharing best practices will inspire participants and give them motivation for action. Besides, they will improve important competencies, such as public speaking, presentation skills, ability to discuss in the English language, digital competences, intercultural competencies, and teamwork. On top of that, this will boost their motivation and self-confidence.5. To inform about sustainable management methods and their importance, opportunities for the young people to undertake investing initiatives according to the EU policy, and also information about the environmental policy in other European countries."

SEE THE REALTY raised awareness of refugee issues and the social realities they faced in a transit country for civil society representatives within the project partnership, allowing for a realistic approach to future projects involving refugees. Clarifying certain aspects and understanding realities led to a qualitative increase in the future initiatives of the organizations involved and their impact.SEE THE REALTY achieved its stated aim by:1. Developing the capacity of understanding for 50 youth workers in 10 countries of the problems faced by refugees and the role of state or private institutions in their management, giving the example of Turkey2. Involving 46 youth workers in 10 countries in the constructive exchange of ideas, experiences and points of view on refugee issues and the development of skills relevant to working with young people from this category3. Creating and popularizing 3 instruments with relevant information on the topic (1 Study Visit report, 1 photo and video blog, 1 Google Drive database) through direct collaboration between the all youth organizations involved4. Increasing international cooperation within the network of 10 organizations involved in the development of a communication platform (1 Facebook group)SEE THE REALTY was a Study Visit that raised awareness of refugee issues and the social realities they face, having a Turkish case study, for representatives of non-governmental organizations in the partnership of the project, allowing for a realistic approach to future projects involving refugees. The project was held 20-28 August 2019. The actual implementation was done through a mobility with partners from 9 European countries (UK, Turkey, Romania, Lithuania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic) and Turkey, between 20-28 August 2019, for 8 days in the districts of Diyarbakir in Turkey. A total of 46 people participated in the activity: 46 youth workers as participants, 2 trainers and 2 facilitators.