Use Your Voice To Make That Choice is a project based on the methodology of Peer Education, which empowers young people to work with other young people to educate them around social issues that affect them, this approach draws on positive strengths of the group, the young people will become active players in an educational process through this project as opportunities will be made for them to learn leadership skills, and become informed on every level around the theme of the project. when young people are involved in peer groups it encourages active participation, involvement and familiarity with the group and their communities, society and Europe. This project and the non formal approaches that will be used will enable all the young people to gain new experiences, independence and assertiveness, improved relationships with themselves, peers, family and other areas of society, a greater awareness of their own potential and limitations as a young person and a young European. This project will be a mix of workshops around the affects of Alcohol on an individual, family, community and society, and outdoor activities, as the host organisation we will be responsible for the logistics, and our partner countries will be responsible for carrying out some of the workshops. all workshops will be carried out from the methodology of peer education as peer education rests on the view that all young people learn best from each other, young people will take ownership of all the workshops and the Irish host group will be fully prepared as young peer educators to encourage and enable this process to happen throughout the project. A central aim of the project will be to create critical social awareness around Alcohol and Drugs, and to highlight the importance and value of shared experiences to build and develop solidarity and promote tolerance among these young people, to create social cohesion in Europe around these issues. This project will engage with participants aged between 15-17 years. These young people will come from Ireland, Malta, Poland and Estonia. The participants that are chosen to take part in this project will firstly have to express an interest and then will go through an interview process. The participants who we feel have the capacity to commit to such a long programme/project and most importantly will benefit most from taking part in this exchange will be given this opportunity. These participants that are selected will take part in weekly sessions which will prepare them for the youth exchange and will empower them to have the capacity to engage positively. During these sessions the participants will have an opportunity to develop an understanding of social media issues/topics. The participants will develop the projects such as the cultural nights. When deciding on the venue we took into consideration access, safety and welcoming for such a large group. As a project we feel it is of huge importance that we would be able to take ownership of the venue, with our own areas exclusively to the project. That we would have access to all the facilities exclusively to our groups when required for workshops and other activities We wanted a venue were the staff had experience with working with such large groups, were friendly towards all participants and of course the costing of such a large event with so many young people on the go. Killary in Co. Galway would be an ideal venue as they provided us with the answers to all above questions and we feel confident that they can follow through on these answers as we have used this venue many times before. There will be workshops each morning based on non-formal learning to be followed by team building activities provided by the professional staff of Killary. The workshops will be based around our theme as outlined in our exchange timetable which is attached to application form. There will also be presentations on all partners’ countries and their experiences and understandings of social media within their own borders. On completion of project the participants may well take their learning and challenge the norm in their respective countries based on knowledge gained in the project for the betterment of all. The potential impact this project can have as these young people as they become peer educators within the preparation, implementation and after this project.

„SKY IS THE LIMIT 2017” is the European Voluntary Service project of several activities, which will be implemented in Mińsk Mazowiecki already for the third time. The volunteers from France, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Italy will participate in two six-month activities from April till September 2017 and from October 2017 till March 2018. In the summer of 2017 (July and August) the project will host the group of 14 volunteers from Spain, Portugal, France, Ireland, Finland, Italy and Lithuania.The main focus of the project is based on intercultural education, development of social skills and cultural animation. The objectives of the project are: deepening the intercultural dialogue, fighting the youth unemployment along with boosting the employability of young people by facilitating skill training, strengthening tolerance and knowledge of other cultures amongst the local community, improving social and communication skills amongst children and youth. In order to achieve our goals we will use non-formal methodology. Some of the methods planned for the implementation are: animation activities for children, workshops for youth (related to diverse topics based on the interests of the volunteers for example drama, music, sport, art, conversations, dance, cooking, science etc.), assistance at activities with disabled, intercultural events focused on presenting the volunteers’ cultures, social skills trainings, seminars and meetings, lectures at the University of Third Age, conversation clubs, photo and video reporting of the activities. The volunteers will have a chance to design and deliver their own ideas for activities. They will develop their initiative and entrepreneurship as well as improve their organizational and social skills necessary to implement their individual projects. Children and youth will enrich their knowledge about the world as well as they will discover and emphasize their own cultural identity. This project will deepen the intercultural dialogue in the local community, broaden tolerance, European awareness and encourage the team spirit and sense of cooperation. It will empower every participant to a more intensive personal development.

"ART IN ACTION - YOUTH CREATIVE TOOLS project is an effect of connecting ideas of young people and and youth workers. It shows that we all have equal opportunities and that art and learning are universal language through which we can achieve various goals. This project involves 44 participants from from Poland, Ireland and Italy.It addresses the current issues in the contemporary life of young Europeans. The activities planned in the project came from references to needs and issues which are important for participants from the skills and experience which can pass each other.The project is bringing up issues concerning cultural diversity, long lifel earning, healthy lifestyle and creativity.Youth participating in the project come from different backgrounds and cultures, some groups are people with fewer opportunities. Everyone is interested in joint activities, open to new challenges and interesting opportunities posed by working in an international group.The project aims to help young people in their future careers mainly through the ability to use knowledge, experience and skills. Instills a valuable habit of healthy living and self-reflection and self-development. The exchange is developing a sense of European citizenship and deepening the cultural awareness.Young people are forming their opinions. Then they develop tolerance for other cultures and learn the interpersonal communication. Young people learn that it is worthwhile to work together.Participants demonstrate their creativity and initiative using various interactive methods of action (workshops, happenings, role play, interdisciplinary activities, urban games and off-road games, outdoor activities) and work as volunteers during the meetings with the elderly. They learn each passing skills peers and other people or groups.During the presentation and formal meetings they will be promoting the Erasmus+ program and possibilities it offers.Activites in form of debates, discussion, brainstorming or interviews will help for them determining and analysis of difficult problems and learn how to approach creatively to solve them.The result of the project is an individual and social development of participants and their deepened civil, European and cultural awareness. It will prepare young people for effectively deal for future professional career path. Young people initiating and participating in joint implementations projects ""Erasmus + enriched by a good time, new skills, competences and interesting.Seeded participants need to take the initiative and actively brings benefit both youth and society.Picture stories will be a tangible result in the form commemorative albums the same exhibition of artworks of and audio-visual products. Next the cycles of the presentation and workshops for other target groups (above all for elderly people) and of integration actions (running with the mission, flash-mob)Another result of the project will be to develop participants’ skills and raise awareness of its potential. It will change the approach to education of people who leave school early, at the same time increase the chance of young people in the labor market. The knowledge and skills acquired during the project will help to introduce and maintain a healthy and active lifestyle.The ability of reflection, creative thinking and active life helps with the personal development of the participants. The main idea of our project is that we should look for what is common instead emphasize what divides us tand hat it is worthwhile to learn throughout life."

<< Background >>According to the Expert group on 'Risks, opportunities and implications of digitalisation for youth, youth work and youth policy' set up under the European Union Work Plan for Youth 2016-2018 digital youth work means proactively using or addressing digital media and technology in youth work. Digital youth work is not a youth work method – digital youth work can be included in any youth work setting (open youth work, youth information and counselling, youth clubs, detached youth work, etc.). Digital youth work has the same goals as youth work in general, and using digital media and technology in youth work should always support these goals. Digital youth work can happen in face-to-face situations as well as in online environments – or in a mixture of these two.In this project, led by Ballyfermot Youth Service (Ireland) we will focus on digital youth work in the context of youth centres and we will explore the concept, challenges and good practices of such youth work: as well as map key competences needed for quality youth work in the digital sphere. We will support educators and youth work by providing them with skills and methodologies through training activity and webinars that will equip them with know-how to complement their existing youth work practices in youth centres with digital youth work.<< Objectives >>The project aims at mapping effective digital tools and models already implemented and tested in youth spaces around Europe, as well as at equipping youth workers with necessary skills and guidelines to implement these formats into the reality of existing youth centres and youth houses. This way youth spaces will be able to take advantage of the benefits of the digital solutions and foster youth participation in decision-making processes in a modern, sustainable and entertaining way. The project will contribute to mainstreaming the best digital practices across Europe, make youth organisations more aware of the importance of available digital solutions and equip them with tools that allow them to sustain their actions regardless of the circumstances.The main objectives of the project are:To map already existing, effective digital solutions in youth work within youth centres;To equip youth workers with knowledge and skills necessary to implement digital solutions into youth spaces;To reflect how to create sustainable, digital youth spaces that take full advantage from the digital tools and foster youth participation through different digital channels;To reflect on how to follow the evolving technological trends while maintaining the principles of youth work within the context of youth centres and similar youth spaces.<< Implementation >>Project consortium comprised of partners from Portugal, Belgium, Italy and Ireland will carry out a research on the state of the art of digital youth work in youth centres around Europe throughout the project, the results of which shall be turned into a Publication at the end of the project which will contribute to the achievement of the objective to map already existing, effective digital solutions in youth work within youth centres. The training course on key competences for digital youth work in youth centres will “equip youth workers with knowledge and skills necessary to implement digital solutions into youth spaces by providing them with information, tools and methodology that they can use in their daily work with young people through a series of workshops and experiential learning sessions based on non-formal education. The Set of key competences for digital youth work in youth centres that will be created as an intellectual output of the project will allow for reflection on how to follow the evolving technological trends while maintaining the principles of youth work within the context of youth centres and similar youth spaces. It will elaborate on quality tools and quality systems that need to be in place to ensure that the digital youth work within youth centres is done respecting the core principles of youth work. This intellectual output will be used as a base for designing the training and it will also be presented in the Final Seminar that will also be a space for reflection that will contribute to achieving this particular objective.Webinars that will be another intellectual output of the project will contribute to the goal of reflecting how to create sustainable, digital youth spaces that take full advantage from the digital tools and foster youth participation through different digital channels as they will be aimed at youth workers from youth centres and will serve as a tool to support them in their efforts to transfer their work with young people in youth centres to the digital space and how to ensure outreach and equal involvement of young people using digital tools, all the while maintaining the core principles of youth work. This is something that is also going to be presented and explored at the Training and Multiplier Event.<< Results >>The main tangible results of the project will be the three Intellectual Outputs (IO) created, namely:- State of the art research: how are the youth centres and youth houses fostering digital youth work (existing practices, their added value, implementation methods, challenges and skills needed to implement them);- Set of competences for youth workers to create digital environments for youth centres and youth spaces;- Webinars to train youth workers on digital competences in youth centres.The results expected during the project and after its completion are the following:- Increased knowledge on digital youth work among youth workers in youth centres, NGOs and Municipalities;- Raised awareness of youth work practitioners of the importance of introducing digital youth work all the while maintaining the quality standards, values and principles of youth work;- Trained and skilled youth workers equipped with tools to implement digital youth work in their daily work in the youth centres;- Increased capacity of youth workers to respond to the need of practising youth work in the digital sphere especially in restraining situations such as the one we are currently living with the covid pandemic;- Point of reference, criteria and ideas for all youth centres that want to implement or improve their digital youth work;- Ensuring digital youth work practises within the context of youth centres that fit the standards of quality youth work;

"The project presented is called ""FROM THE FOREST TO OUR HEART""The main activity of this project is to gather 24 young people from the city of Granada with 24 young people from the city of Dublin (Ireland) to share experiences in relation to the environment, knowledge of the natural heritage and to promote new environmental projects in the organizations involved. The two organizations provided the necessary participants, completing the 48 participants. This group will be tutored by a group of 6 leaders: 3 from our organization and 3 from the visiting country (Ireland).The participants were between the scheduled intervals for this project, it refers to children between 14-17 years old, who have or have not completed ESO (or equivalent in Ireland). We are looking for 4 participants with economic, social or educational problems. In turn, we will take into account for the selection of participants, their trajectory in associative movements, their participation in youth programs, environment, equality, ...., of their respective communities. It is also essential to assess the motivation and availability to extend what has been learned and thus contribute to fostering the values ​​that have been worked and experienced in the project. In either group, there were young people who will or will not reach this age.The Irish organization (Ballyfermont Youth Service) has great interest, experience, capacity and sensitivity in working with young people through non-formal education methods, and the importance of its environmental theme in its broadest sense. They are professionals in sports and leisure activities, which we use for our interest to facilitate the multi-adventure and sports activities we do in this meeting.Thanks to the collaboration between organizations from the exchange of knowledge and experience, we will try to build new models, new ways of living and understanding the relationship of the human being with the rest of nature and ultimately with himself and his peers.In fact, this process of non-formal education, based on creativity, participation, autonomy, group work and cooperation, are key premises for working on environmental education, education in values ​​and, specifically, something as close to everything as it is the conformation of our common identity as European citizens and the different ways of understanding human existence as a whole.To guarantee what is expressed, we will have wonderful surroundings such as the Aula de la Naturaleza de Bérchules, in the middle of the Alpujarra granadina, within the Sierra Nevada natural park, one of the most emblematic landscapes in Spain.A monitoring and control system will be developed under a methodology of immersion in the medium and feedback that will allow the best relationship between the participants, learning to give solutions to harmful behaviors and, valuing and spreading the well-being that causes us to be in tune with our natural means.The combination of practical actions, with a playful methodology and taking into account at all times the environment and the return of said learning to the citizens, is the basis of this project.Finally, we want to highlight the involvement of the young people of our locality in the project since the proposal of the same, hence we consider that this interest will play a fundamental role in the subsequent dissemination of the same, producing a multiplier effect in the transmission of good practices.Being aware that the objectives of this project are part of a career in the field, we want to make the most of the opportunity offered by the Erasmus + Program, making Europe a unique learning space for young people, expanding their skills, skills and attitudes. Being aware of how important it is to achieve an image of a large and united Europe, we inculcate the values ​​of the creation of Europe, with their differences and similarities, in which we are all participants in their creation and growth, each from their own perspective and peculiarity, but knowing that there are young people in other countries with different realities but with the same idea of ​​creating Europe and making it a place of encounter, improvement and growth.It is important for us that the participants understand that these projects are created by Europe so that we are all aware of the place where we live, that we are all participants in the effort we make to know ourselves, the different realities and young people of other countries, in which they will be in the future those who believe and improve Europe."