In this project we will bring together partners with different national history and approaches to youth work. The main objective of the project is develop and try out new approaches on youth work, mainly youth centered service-design, co-creation and participation. While co-creation, facilitation and participation all share elements from non-formal methodology, the link to youth centered service design is less obvious. Service design is the activity of planning and organizing people, infrastructure, communication and material components of a service in order to improve its quality and the interaction between the service provider and its users. Service design may function as a way to inform changes to an existing service or create a new service entirely. We would like to look into the theory of service design to improve understanding of how youth move between different youth service providers and to identify different crucial breaking points where youth are left in vulnerable situations with limited or lacking support of the well-fare system. We want to investigate how professional youth work and non-formal education can support services and youth in developing solutions for strengthening these breaking points. We would like to map youth between 15-25 using exciting and available data and using service design methodology to create a better and more holistic understanding of the path for youth from age 15 to 25. We would like to train youth workers, facilitators, decision makers and other service providers in service design, non-formal approach to youth, participation theory and cross-sectorial cooperation to create spaces for co-creation between youth and those who provide youth services for youth.Objectives of the project: 1. To explore the unique features of youth centered service design, co-creation and participation. 2. To develop competencies in theory and methodology of service design, co-creation and participation, adapting it to youth work. 3. Develop understanding of quality youth work integral with European youth work values. 4. To create youth work support system for quality international youth work in the project countries. 5. Contribute to the systemic recognition of youth worker competencies gained in non-formal way in partner countries. 6. To prepare multipliers to promote in youth worker training programs and create guidelines and proposals for future youth worker training programs and approaches.Activities and outcomes:We would like to have three trainings in the field that will function both as competencies development, but also a co-creation arena for us to develop and adapt new methodology to the youth field. The first two trainings will focus on developing understanding of the subject, the last one how to share and create impact of the findings. We have also planned two national events in each partner country, for sharing knowledge, but also getting feedback on theory and methodology. The first one is for sharing theory and methodology from as result from the first two trainings, the last one for presentation of finished intellectual output. The intellectual output of the project will be the development of Guidelines for youth centered service design. This will gather theory developed, and methodology proposals.Expected results:1. Strategic development in the youth work provider organizations in order to ensure efficient youth work development.2. The project increases capacities to address youth policies and youth work issues effectiveEuropean exchange and cooperation between different systems of youth work. In this way, youth workers involved in the capacity building training courses will have a better understanding of what youth work is.3. A set of educational materials, training methodologies will be developed.4. Project partners will strengthen their roles as youth work development agencies in their represented countries.6. Participants will develop cooperation network and future Erasmus + project will be developed.7. Youth workers will understand the wider context and complexity of their work (changing realities, young people coming from other cultures and contexts).

"Project ""Empowering Youth Participation"" is KA2 strategic partnership which creates opportunities to exchange good practices in the field of youth participation. The project will start on the 1st of July, 2020 and will last for 7 months. The project will be implemented by partners from Norway, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Poland.This project will provide access to quality youth policy implementation methodologies and approaches from Lithuania. Lithuania, in less than three decades of independence, has developed a lot of good practices in the field of civic participation and citizen engagement. The well-developed (and institutionalized in the laws and strategies) youth participation structures and work of the government and NGO's n the field of youth participation makes Lithuania a good example to learn from.Aim of the project: Share the Lithuanian youth policy implementation model at the international level, as the European success story of efficient youth participation.Objectives of the project:1. Introduce participants with Lithuanian systemic approach towards youth participation.2. Analyze challenges and barriers for youth participation in 6 project countries and develop strategies on how to overcome them.3. Understand Lithuanian local and national level youth participation and co-management structures.4. Develop plans on how to empower young people to participate in various fields of the society.5. Create opportunities for young people to participate by using the cross-sectoral approach, evidence-based policy-making and using means of advocacy.Activities of the project:We plan to implement 2 educational activities in the framework of the project. Firstly, a 5 day Study visit ""Youth participation structures in Lithuania"" which will gather 28 participants from 6 project countries. Secondly, a Training course ""Youth participation: policy-making, advocacy and research"". It will be a 6-day training course providing civil servants, youth workers, young politicians, and youth leaders competencies needed to foster youth participation at the local level.The project will create the following results:56 youth workers, civil servants, young politicians and youth leaders will be trained in the frame of this project. After the study visit and the training course, they will be able to foster youth participation by institutionalizing best practices from Lithuania and other partner countries.Best practices on youth participation from Lithuania and other project countries will be described and disseminated among partner network and their local and international networks.Recommendations for using good practices in youth participation will be developed by the project consortium."

"Technology is affecting society in many different ways. Digital transformation is shaping labour market, education, youth work and even interpersonal relationships. The new buzzwords are: gamification, augmented reality, virtual reality, personalised e-learning, artificial intelligence, e-citizenship, redesigning learning spaces. Classroom is becoming a set of devices and more and more learning happens outside of formal education setting. Do youth workers understand what these words mean? Do they know how to use new trends in technology in daily youth work activities? Are youth worker familiar with new trends in sociology of young people? What impact technology has on young peoples’ lifestyles / health / social skills? With this project project partners helped youth workers to answer to the questions above and wanted to provide open source tools, methods and knowledge for digital youth work. Youth workers learned how to organize educational activities by using digital tools. Also, project organizers created a space for participants to cooperate and create Erasmus+ projects with digital elements, which would met interests and needs of youth. The training course brought 31 person: youth workers, youth leaders, NGO leaders, student representatives, civil servants, social workers, youth representative for Advisory Council on Youth, public service providers, social worker with refugee background, youth with fewer opportunities from across Europe to Lithuania for a 7-day training course ""Basic competencies in digital youth work"" from 28th of April 2019 to 5th of May 2019. Aim of the project was to create a space for youth workers to explore how digital youth work can be included in organisations’ daily youth work activities and international projects. Objectives of the training course were: 1. To raise awareness how digitalisation is shaping the societies, including its impact on youth work and young people. 2. Explore how youth work can benefit from digital technologies. 3. Provide participants with basic skills for using digital youth work tools. 4. Analyse good practice examples how digital youth work is already implemented. 5. Gain practical tools for digital youth work. 6. To develop future international youth mobility projects within Erasmus+."

"Training course ""Mobile Youth Work"" gathered 35 participants from Norway, Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria, Belarus, Ukraine for 8 days from 3th to 11th of September 2017 in Lithuania. The project helped to develop mobile youth work competencies of youth workers.Training course provided space to develop mobile youth work competencies of youth leaders/ workers. This has helped to foster inclusion and empowerment of young people with fewer opportunities on the local level in the participating countries. Participants improved the competencies: skills, attitudes, gained knowledge to work with youth using various youth work techniques and methods: coaching youth initiatives, guiding youth in their professional and educational paths.The objectives we aimed to reach with the training course:1. explored the concepts related to mobile youth work, inclusion and empowerment of young people with fewer opportunities;2. developed mobile youth work competencies of youth leaders/workers from partner organizations in mentoring, coaching, open youth work, counselling, mapping methodology, understanding rural communities, and enter and exit strategies in mobile youth work;3. shared good practices from partner organisations on different mobile youth work methodologies for fostering inclusion and empowerment of young people with fewer opportunities;4. developed several quality future international projects within Erasmus+; 5. contributed to youth work defining and development in Ukraine and Bulgaria; 6. created action plans how to support mobile youth work development at local level in participating countriesThe target group of the project were as defined in the application: youth leaders and workers who work directly with young people (especially youth with fewer opportunity), who wished to improve their competences in mobile youth work and create partnerships in the youth field on international level.The trainer team used variety of methods during the training course, which ensured that participants could apply those methods back in their organizations and when working with young people in local communities. Emphasis during the training was put on applying mobile youth work theories, tools and methods."

"Ka2 strateginės partnerystės „Mobile youth work: shaping European practices“ projekto veiklos buvo vykdomos 18 mėnesių: nuo 2019 gegužės 1 dienos iki 2020 metų spalio 30-sios. Projektą įgyvendino 7 partneriai iš 6 valstybių: Norvegijos, Lietuvos, Latvijos, Rumunijos, Bulgarijos ir Italijos. Didelę Europos dalį sudaro retai apgyvendintos teritorijos, kaimiškos ir atokios vietovės, todėl kartais šiose vietose kyla sunkumų, siekiant užtikrinti kokybišką darbą su jaunimu bei prasmingus laisvalaikio užsiėmimus jaunuoliams. Europoje kas trečias jaunas žmogus gyvena tokioje teritorijoje. Mobilus darbas su jaunimu yra darbo su jaunimu forma, kuri suteikia galimybes jauniems žmonėms, gyvenantiems vietovėse, kuriose nėra jaunimo centrų, o laisvalaikio užsimtumo gaklimybės yra ribotos, įsitraukti į veiklas. Mobilus darbas su jaunimu gali būti vykdomas jaunimo darbuotojų komandos, kuri vyksta į mažas bendruomenes iš anksto sutartu laiku (pavyzdžiui – kartą per savaitę) ir suteikia darbo su jaunimu paslaugas, tuo pačiu palaikydami vietinius suinteresuotus asmenis (nevyriausybines organizacijas, bibliotekas, bendruomenes ir kitus), užsiimančius neformaliu švietimu ir darbu su jaunimu atokiose teritorijose. Yra keli būdai mobilaus darbo su jaunimu vykdymui retai apgyvendintose teritorijose. Šis projektas surinko skirtingas praktikas ir išbandė skirtingus būdus, teikiant mobilaus darbo su jaunimu paslaugas skirtingose Europos šalyse, tai padės jaunimo darbuotojams Europoje atrasti jiems tinkamas darbo strategijas. PROJEKTO TIKSLAS: Sukurti metodikas ir principus mobiliam darbui su jaunimu vykdyti Europos kaimiškose vietovėse. UŽDAVINIAI:Įgyvendinti pilotines / bandomąsias mobilaus darbo su jaunimu nuostatas 5 - iose Europos šalyse;Išsiaiškinti, kaip skirtingi metodai ir metodikos gali būti panaudotos dirbant su jaunimu kaimo vietovėse;Išanalizuoti kolegų patirtis kaimo vietovėse ir atlikti tyrimą, tam, kad įvertinti metodikų tinkamumą jaunimui ir bendruomenėms, kur vyko užsiėmimai;Remiantis praktika, sukurti mobilaus darbo su jaunimu metodiką, kuria būtų galima dalintis su visais šios srities praktikais;Apmokyti jaunimo darbuotojus, kaip įgyvendinti mobilaus darbo su jaunimu veiklą;Pristatyti politikams mobilų darbą su jaunimu ir sukurti mobilaus darbo su jaunimu planus, kurie veiklų šalyse, dalyvaujančiose projekte;Reklamuoti mobilų darbą su jaunimu ir dalintis įžvalgomis projekto šalyse, plečiant darbos su jaunimu bendruomenę. Projekto eigoje buvo įgyvendintos šios veiklos:M1 Partnerių susitikimas “Projekto pradžia” Sofijoje, Bulgarijoje 2019 m. gegužės 8-10 d. C1 Pažintinis vizitas ""Mobilus darbas su jaunimu kaimiškose vietovėse"", dalyvavo 31 dalyvis, 2019.07.15 - 07.20 d., Lietuvoje. O1 Mobilaus darbo su jaunimu pilotavimas 5 - iose partnerių šalyse: Lietuva, Latvija, Italija, Bulgarija ir Rumunija. Šios veiklos buvo vykdomos 18 bendruomenių. Veiklose dalyvavo 384 jaunuoliai, 243 jaunuoliai buvo turintys mažiau galimybių. C2 Mokymai “Mobilaus darbo su jaunimu pagrindai” vyko Lietuvoje 2019.10 06-11d, dalyvavo 32 dalyviai. O2 Tyrimas ""Mobilaus darbo su jaunimu poveikio analizė"", naudojant kokybinę metodiką. M2 antras partnerių susitikimas Latvijoje 2020.01.10-12 skirtas projekto vidurio įvertinimui ir planavimui.O3 “European practices on Mobile youth work and practical guidelines” metodinis leidinys. M3 Trečiasis partnerių susitikimas Rumuninijoje skirtas įvertinti projektą dėl COVID-19 pandemijos buvo perkeltas į nuotolinį formatą ir įgyvenduntas 2020.10.16 d. Dėl COVID-19 pandemijos neįvyko E1 Norvegijoje ir E5 Italijoje skalidos renginiai. E2 Sklaidos renginys Lietuvoje, konferencija ""Mobilus darbas su jaunimu: praktikos ir perspektyvos"" vyko birželio 12 d., renginyje dalyvavo 85 dalyviai.E3 Sklaidos renginys Latvijoje, vyko 2020m. rugsėjo 16 d. ir spalio 9 d. Dalyvių skaičius 22. Renginys buvo padalintas dėl Covid saugumo protokolų.E4 Sklaidos renginys Rumunijoje, vyko 2020m. rugsėjo 5 d. Craiova gyvenvietėje. Renginyje dalyvavo 20 dalyvių. E6 Sklaidos renginys Bulgarijoje, vyko 2020 m. rugsėjo 16 d. Sofijoje. Dalyvių skaičius 22."