<< Objectives >>The internet is mainly used for communication, work, research, university, leisure time – for basically all spheres of life. Social media channels such as Facebook and Instagram play a crucial role in the life of youngsters. Sharing personal information, documents, photos and locations are an integral part of the life of many young people. The younger generation can be described as digital natives. And although they are familiar with new technologies, they can also become victims very fast. Online tools and services offer great opportunities for personal and professional life and development, but they can involve many threats and can endanger the well-being of young people in different ways. Examples are: cyber-bullying, hate speech, loss of personal data and privacy rights, data theft, exposure to fake news, etc.Because of these reasons we believe that it is important to increase the level of media literacy of youngsters by informing them about the way of using digital media and to reach out to youngsters with means of digital youth work. Media literate young people are better able to understand the complex messages received from various media (television, Internet, magazine, books), are able to analyze these messages and adequately respond by using media to attack a person or a group.Moreover, there is direct link between media literacy and ability to identify hate speech, discrimination and racism in media messages. It means that by raising media literacy of young people were are increasing capacities of young people to address hate speech, discrimination and racism and to contribute in creating more socially inclusive society.<< Activities >>Youth exchange will have three parts. The first part will be about getting to know each other activities (name games, ice-breaking and team-building activities), discussion on the elements of non-formal education, experience of the partners in the field and with YouthPass. Once safe and supportive learning environment is creating the participants will work on getting new knowledge and developing competencies and practical skills on media literacy, analyzing, creating and evaluating media content, addressing hate speech, racism and discrimination. During youth exchange the participants will take part in simulations, interactive lectures, debates, discussions and role plays. At the end of youth exchange the participants will focus on brainstorming ideas for future projects that could be realized under Erasmus + Programme / European Solidarity Corps or at local level. Each part of youth exchange will be based on non-formal learning approach and different kinds of tools, methods and techniques will be in use, for example, discussions, group and individual challenges, simulations, thematic workshops, interactive presentations and methods supporting interaction between the participants, exchange information and ideas. Reflection activities on individual learning processes of the participants as well as feedback on project activities will be held regularly throughout the whole youth exchange. Group leaders will meet with the participants regularly to support their learning process.Background of the participants in youth exchange:- to develop their media literacy competences (to able to analyze, to create and to evaluate media messages);- to explore the connection between media literacy and addressing hate speech, discrimination and negative stereotypes; - to learn about realities in participating countries; - to work together with young people from different countries and cultures;- to be open to exchange ideas and opinions in safe and supportive environment;- to learn more about Erasmus+ Programme and ESC;- to share experiences through visibility and dissemination activities.- young people in age of 18 to 25, part of the participants can be in age 26 to 30 but primarily the youth exchange target people under 26- with communicative level of English / in case can't understand very well translations will be provided by group leaders- motivated to learn about the topic, to transfer lessons learned in their communities and to their peers << Impact >>Impact on young participants: The participants will get to know new competencies especially in the areas media literacy, analyzing, evaluating and creating media content, addressing hate speech, discrimination and negative stereotypes and Erasmus+ Programme - European Solidarity Corps. They will improve set of competencies that they can apply at their daily life while studying or looking for a job e.g. they will have an opportunity to improve their communication skill (in mother tongue and especially in English), their ability of self-expression as well as ability to work in intercultural team, to solve problems, to present own ideas. They will learn how to shoot and edit videos, prepare campaign, write articles for blog. We will encourage the participants become an active citizens and share new competencies with other young people in their homes. After the YE the participants will meet with their organizations and group leader. They will be encouraged to share new ideas for projects and initiatives and we will try to support them in the process of making these ideas real e.g. the team of applicant organization will be ready to support the participants for period of 3 months after YE is finished to develop idea for Erasmus+ project. Moreover, during youth exchange the participants will take part in excursion and have possibility to explore local surrounding, learn more about Italian culture - history and meet up with local young peopleThe participants will:a) strength their media literacy competencies and develop skills to implemented activities developing media competencies among young people in participants countries to fight discrimination and hate speech;b) have better understanding of media and the process of creating media products with special focus to be paid to social media as one of the most popular communication channel of young people these days;c) have better knowledge of sources of hate speech and discrimination, know more about the realities in other countries as they will have better knowledge of creating and leading advocacy campaign;d) have more develop following competencies (teamwork, leadership, communication, creativity) by their participation in various non-formal based activities in intercultural settings.e) have better knowledge of Erasmus + Programme and its Key Action (especially Key Action 1) and European Solidarity Corps

<< Objectives >>Objectives of the project: -To give the project participants the opportunity for trying different sport activities with the youngsters with special needs from different countries (intercultural exchange);-To encourage people with special needs to do sport activities by engaging youngsters from Special School from Czersk into project sport activities; -To promote sport activities that are adapted for disabled people and promote inclusion among 50 locals from Czersk through flash mob (inclusion) and practicing sport in public places (sport despite the disabilities);With this project we want to promote inclusion for all and giving everyone a chance to enjoy sport activities despite their disabilities.<< Activities >>Project will take place in Czersk, Poland and will include 6 countries and 36 participants (including personal assistants). It will last 9 days (traveling days excluded). During the project, participants will learn methods and techniques on the topic of sport adaptation. Project will consist of mixed ability group (physical and light mental disabilities). We will use all possible methods of non-formal and informal learning and will adjust any activities in a way that everyone can participate, because we have multiple people with disabilities. Partners included in the project are: Poland, Lithuania, Macedonia, Spain, Italy and Greece.There will be also preparation visit organized a month before the main mobility.<< Impact >>Partners will be able to incorporate new knowledge in their teachings, which will influence all their workshops in the future. During the project we will have a chance to try out different adapted sports and we will learn methods and techniques on how to adapt any sport to be inclusive for anyone. We want to teach participants small tips and tricks on how to make sport activities or any other activities accessible. The knowledge, participants will gain, will be easy to transfer to their local realities and open more opportunities for people with disabilities.

"At a worldwide level, our lifestyles and ways of consumption often appear to be unconcious : over-consumption, waste of resources, individualism, hierarchy within human relations, ecological disasters... At the same time, more and more people -youth included- are willing to take part to a change but are lacking of methods to get into action. We want to gather international youth workers to take part to solving those issues and spreading and sharing concrete tools that youth leaders could use to plan more responsible lifestyles regarding environment and human relations. That's why we want to organise a training course / good practices seminar ""Practical Ecology III"". This project will take place in Bédeille (South of France), from 3th to 15th October 2017. It will gather, around Solafrika French organisation, 24 youth workers. Gender, age and background balance will be insured. People will come from the following countries and organisations : - Moulsecoomb forest garden - United Kingdom - Neront - Austria - Pandora - Hungary - Alter Ego - Greece - Metta - Slovenia - Biodiversa - Spain - IBG - Germany - Solafrika - France The objectives of this project are : 1- To share concrete tools with youth workers in order to raise awareness among youngsters about a healthier and more ecological lifestyle and work orientation ; 2- To spread tools and technics to be able to organize a ""rupture"" camp for youth who have difficulties; 3- To promote everyone's active citizenship and participation by suggesting cooperative ways to organise ourselves ; 4- To support intercultural exchange and to focus on the « living together » ; 5- To continue international partnerships and to create links between organisations working on common topics. All the activities are participative ones and will apply non formal educative methods in order for everyone to find its place and to support learning by practicing. The main activities will be: - Ecological building ; - Oudoor activities ; - Permaculture. Besides, everyday at the end of the activities, we will have moments in full group designed to debate and experiment collective life systems. During these moments, cooperative games, cultural evenings and other collective activities will be proposed. By gathering youth workers from the European Union, this project would allow the partner countries' youth to get concrete tools useful for their personnal and professionnal life. It would head the participants and the youngsters they work with towards more ecological and respectful practices. A booklet, made by the participants and Solafrika during the TC, will be spread and used by international youth workers and citizens. This project can lead to new partnerships -local, national, European and international-, especially within Erasmus+ program, gathering actors willing to commit into more cooperative and ecological lifestyles and ways of working."

<< Objectives >>Wie wir bereits oben erwähnt haben, wird es die Haupttätigkeit sein:-Schulungen vor der Anreise: Alle Partnerorganisationen bieten ihren Teilnehmern solche Schulungen an, um Probleme zu beseitigen, die die Teilnahme der Teilnehmer an der Jugendbegegnung behindern könnten, da sie weniger Möglichkeiten, Bedenken und Ängste haben, die Tickets zu kaufen usw.- Jugendbegegnung, bei der 49 Jugendliche aus 9 verschiedenen EU-Ländern für 7 Tage + 2 Reisetage in Yalova, Türkei, zusammenkommen werden. Für alle Tage der Jugendbegegnung haben wir Aktivitäten vorgesehen (teambildende Spiele, Arbeitsgruppen, Präsentationen im Plenum, Diskussionen), um die Teilnehmer einzubinden und sie bei Laune zu halten. Parallel dazu haben wir mindestens zwei Folgeaktivitäten pro Partner geplant, und die Teilnehmer müssen sich am letzten Tag der Jugendbegegnung entscheiden, ob sie diese alleine oder in der Gruppe durchführen wollen, gleichzeitig mit der Art der Aktivität. Das heißt, ob sie einen Workshop besuchen möchten, können Übungen, die während der Jugendaustausch durchgeführt wurden, verwendet werden oder sie können ihre eigenen verwenden, die aber vorher von uns (Partnerorganisation) genehmigt werden müssen. Sie möchten ein Video produzieren, um das Bewusstsein für die Bedeutung des interkulturellen Dialogs als Mittel gegen Radikalisierung zu schärfen, oder sie möchten eine Broschüre erstellen. Die Durchführung der Jugendbegegnung liegt vollständig in der Verantwortung des federführenden Antragstellers und der Partner. Die Folgeaktivitäten liegen weitgehend in der Verantwortung der Teilnehmer, so dass sie die Möglichkeit haben, die während der Hauptintervention erworbenen Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten in der Praxis anzuwenden.<< Implementation >>Title: Multiculturalism: Accept it, Embrace it, Celebrate it!DATES: 30 April 8 May 2023PARTNERS: Germany, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and GreeceParticipants: 49 young people who are between 18-30 years including 27 of them with fewer opportunitiesThe core objectives of ‘’Multiculturalism: Accept it, Embrace it, Celebrate it!’’ are as follows: - To put emphasis on the importance of intercultural learning and intercultural dialogue as tools to prevent conflict and youth radicalization;- To underscore how youth led initiatives can further foster dialogue and discourage radicalization at its roots level in multicultural societies in participating countries- To foster tolerance, acceptance and respect for people who belong to cultures different from ours at participants who will attend the youth exchange and those part of follow up activities;- To equip youth with knowledge and help them acquire intercultural competences;- To encourage youth participation in public life as an effective way to promote and practice intercultural learning and dialogue;-To disseminate the opportunities of the Erasmus+ and ESC programmes between directly involving participants and other involved young people-To improve the partnership between the participation organizations and improve their capacity in the field of Erasmus+ projects. -To create new project ideas as a result of this project.<< Results >>We expect from our project to have a great impact primarily on the participants as they will come from different cultural backgrounds and the likelihood to meet someone from another culture or ethnicity is high and this experience will make them change perceptions, break prejudice and stereotypes for the unknown others and strengthen the European identity further. Also, we expect increased knowledge on the importance of intercultural learning and dialogue to better know the others but also, to counter and prevent phenomenon such as radicalisation. Fostered tolerance, acceptance and respect for others' culture, beliefs especially at participants of youth exchange and those to take part in follow-up activities. Raised awareness on the import of intercultural learning and dialogue and empowered 49 young people to practice it in their local communities. What is more, this project will have a significant impact on the partner organizations as they will be more experienced in the field of intercultural learning and dialogue as means to take on radicalisation.

Name: Act for inclusion Dates: From 9 to 16 March 2018 Location: Braga Participants: 30 participants between the ages of 18 and 30. Participants were selected with special interest in projects of social inclusion and sensitive to the theme of disability. Participants also had the capacity for improvisation and creativity that are essential for the achievement of performative activity. For this project we look for young people who are autonomous, dynamic and capable of creating empathy with ease. Context / Background: About 80 million people in the European Union, one-sixth of the population, are disabled. People with disabilities are more exposed to poverty than other European citizens, they have fewer opportunities not only in the labor market, but also in access to key services such as essential education, the transport network and housing . They are often prevented from enjoying full social and economic participation due to barriers related to attitudes and their social context where they are inserted. Within the conjecture presented, there is an urgent need to raise awareness of discrimination based on disability. Objectives: To qualify for inclusion, demystifying prejudices and stereotypes associated with disability; Reflect on the principle of equality and non-discrimination of persons with disabilities in today's society; Contribute to an inclusive society through the development of pedagogical actions in the community, fostering the acceptance of differences in disability; Methodology: This inclusive project was based on an experiential pedagogy, through interaction and active participation of the users of the Novais and Sousa Center, an institution in the county of Braga dedicated to support the population of the county with mental disabilities, whose involvement of users and technicians of the institution assumes a preponderant role for the development of the project. The participants had the opportunity in small groups to reflect on the previous knowledge and to develop new concepts on the subject where with the accompaniment of specialized technicians using non-formal education methodologies. Issues related to inclusion were explored: employment and the labor market, access to public services, access to education, culture and mobility. Using an experiential methodology, all the participants had the opportunity to experience the place of the disabled person, through a set of exercises of simulation of physical limitations of conditioned mobility and communication. They were also invited to prepare interventions, artistic performances to sensitize the community to the issue of disability and replicate the project in their organizations and communities of origin.Impacts / Outcomes / expected benefits: This project has a great impact on the participants due to the themes that have been addressed. The social inclusion that has been worked on in the various workshops, activities and the sharing of experiences is a tool that they can use in their personal, social and professional life, which can also influence the work of the organizations where they are inserted. Organizations will be able, through the work of the young participants, to create activities in the area of ​​social inclusion through the arts, or even replicate this project in their countries of origin. The partner organizations were encouraged to use the project management program, a tool that will be very useful to them in the implementation and management of their own projects, as well as to enhance the quality of implementation and management of this project, to support the development of partner organizations through the transfer and implementation of innovative tools and practices. In addition, through this joint initiative, we promote networking and cooperation between partner organizations of this project and others, fostering peer learning and the exchange of experiences and best practices at European level, promoting their capacity to bring about change in international opening.