This project aims at disseminating awareness on the impacts of food choices which greatly affect the environment. This project is imparting knowledge among young people from the partner organizations in Germany, Poland, Kenya and Malawi. It is looking at every day’s food choices as having impacts on the environment yet among many, less attention is given to the growing problem. As the population of the world is growing, so is the demand for food forcing agricultural companies and individual farmers to produce enough through consistent monoculture and other practices that deplete the soil of its nutrients. As a result, the heavy use of pesticides and fertilizers which affect the environment is adopted. Nevertheless, the use of fertilizers only simplify the biochemistry of the soil making the produced food less nutritious. Moreover, plants cured with pesticides seldom yield their own phytochemicals and biologically active compounds that protect them from pests despite their benefit to humans. Large ruminant animals which also produce foods high on the food chain feed on plants grown under the use of fertilizers which finally causes both land and water pollution. Mostly, the land that these animals graze on is vast with great emissions from the converted forestland leading to methane production from their digestion and manure.As such, the partner organizations through this project aim at increasing awareness on food choices impacting the environment. The idea is to inspire stakeholders to better understand the multiple environmental consequences of their food production and choices. It is also about a holistic approach to sustaining the environment while preparing young people to make informed choices as they take active roles in their societies.Further, the project seeks to enhance awareness on food choices, positive behavior change and social mobilization in order to help set a positive view of daily environmental actions. It also wishes to increase youth exposure to various cultures, traditions and beliefs for transformed food choices through international youth exchange programs. This will advance participants' awareness and understanding of other cultures while simultaneously build networks of international contacts that will aid active participation in society and development of a sense of identity and citizenship among the youth. The project also desires to increase access to diversified food choices for enhance environmental rehabilitation through food selection, production and preparation while creating entrepreneurship skills.Finally, the partner organizations look forward to having responsible youth minding their daily food choices while protecting the environment. Although it is unrealistic to expect most of the world’s population to turn into vegetarians overnight, awareness of a positive environmental impact could help transform communities.

"""All Raise Against Hate Speech"" is Capacity Building project which includes mobility activities. It gathers 11 partner organizations: main applicant is NGO Prima from Montenegro and partners are from: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, FYR Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey. Partners were selected because of their experience in promotion of Human Rights. Also we took care to involve countries with significant Gender gap index, problems or wars because of religion, nationalism, racism, xenophobia, intolerance to refugees, discrimination based on sexual and gender differences. General goal is to reduce violence and discrimination and promote right of every human being to live life without hate, fear and social exclusion. Specific goal is to increase capacities of all involved partner organizations to fight against hate speech on line and off line.Activities that we realized were as following: 2 transnational trainings for more than 66 youth workers about human rights vs hate speech, and about how to create on line and off line campaign against hate speech. In involved country partners organized local trainings for peer educators and created campaign national teams. Base for trainings was manual Bookmarks created by CoE. Next phase of project included different actions in the frame of local and European campaign against hate speech. Mainly teams acted on line, but also off line. On line teams noticed and reacted on hate speech on social networks, recorded and edited short video clips and posts related to sharing of culture of non-violence, shared on YouTube, Facebook, web sites. In off line space teams realized workshops for high school and University students, they also organized meetings with local and national authorities institutionally in charge for No hate Speech Movement in aim to plan together future steps. We organized competition for the best photography of young person that sends strong message against hate speech.In Montenegro an exhibition was made in Youth Center in Podgorica, as way to raise awareness about hate speech and reminds all beneficiaries of this Center of importance of fight against hate speech and hate crimes. Additionally in Montenegro we organized round table with topic “Role of public and civil institutions in fight against hate speech and discrimination”. One of the products of Montenegrin team was video spot which was broadcasted on local and national televisions and also on YouTube channel, website of NGO Prima and our Facebook page. Our partner organizations shared it as well on their web platforms. An Facebook group of all educated and involved youth workers and peer educators was created with purpose to be non-formal network of activists in the field of No Hate Speech Movement. At the end of project we organized press conference to present all activities and achievements as well as our future plans related to topic of anti-discrimination and prevention of peer violence. Duration of this project was 14 months, from 01. of August 2016. until 30. of September 2017."

The “Start Up Again” is an International Strategic Cooperation project geared towards the enhancement of social inclusion of young offenders through entrepreneurship. The primary rationale behind this innovative project stems from the growing recidivism rate across Europe and poor social inclusion of young people with disadvantaged backgrounds in Eastern Partnership countries. Majority of these people suffer from re-integration to society, as there is a longstanding prejudice, psychological issues and deteriorated enthusiasm and young ex-offenders’ self-confidence. All the misconceptions and challenges on inclusion of young offenders pave the way to reconviction that results with growing crime rate, inequality, discrimination and extremism across the EU countries and at its neighborhood. Despite cultural, political and geographical differences, all member organizations of our consortium (consisting of partners from the UK, Germany, Georgia and Azerbaijan) strongly believe, adhere and strive to advocate the philosophy that the proper social inclusion of former young offenders is feasible through enhancement their employability and level of confidence by developing a range of transferable skills. In rather precise terms, our established international cooperation will seek to instil a spirit of entrepreneurship to help them in the transition from prisons back to society and raise their self-sufficiency. This project will set out the arrangement of number of educational mobility activities such as study visits, Training of Trainers, several local training courses. The “Start Up Again” promises cutting-edge and tailor-made entrepreneurship T-kit for young (ex)-offenders, which will be design and constructed upon thorough field researches in Georgia and Azerbaijan to ensure that local realities and needs are well captured. Developed T-kit will be released in English, Azerbaijani and Gergian languages, and will be utilized as a primary education manual during the international ToT and local TCs in Azerbaijan and Georgia. For the first time, former young prisoners of Azerbaijan and Georgia will be involved in educational activities that will empower their certain entrepreneurship competences and reveal ‘out of box’ business ideas. The local TCs will be groundbreaking opportunity for former young prisoners come together with youth workers and civil society acitvists in an informal initiative groups and develop their start-ups. Subsequently, a novel small-grant program of this project will provide modest financial supports to realize start-ups of former young offenders in Azerbaijan and Georgia. This innovative endeavor will be the first and great leap forward cultivating young offender of successful entrepreneurs in the South Caucasus region, as long-term consultancy service desks will be established to support and empower these people’s self-sufficiency attempts.

Sexual and Reproductive Health - Knowledge Beats Taboos is CB project run by NGO Prima from Montenegro and partners are NGOs from: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Spain and Turkey. It lasts 22 months.Young people need to have a sound sexual education that covers various aspects of reproduction and sexuality. Sexuality education isn't mandatory in all EU states. In some Europe’s more conservative societies in general sexual education still hasn’t managed to deliver these promises because of a number of unhealthy culture-oriented beliefs and tradition-based practices. Many young here has weak and misinformed knowledge and skills about the protection against HIV/AIDS and STIs; management of relationship-emotions; mutual respect within relationship; prevention against teenage pregnancy; and contraception possibilities, among others. And many keep quiet when face sexual abuse. We still witness a relatively high rate of STD including HIV, high rate of unwanted pregnancies of underage girls in some countries. Even if the causes of involuntary teenage pregnancy can be various, they are mainly due to a deficient sexuality education. In the same time parents are shy or equally non-informed. Services for support are rare and media send wrong inputs for gender roles. In this project we offer integrative and holistic approach to the whole area of sexual and reproductive health, starting from gathering sexual identity, to sexual development, sexual intelligence, sexual preferences with reproductive health and ending with the development as well as sexual abuse and sexual-reproductive rights in one place. The training offers both science-based knowledge and expert hand-on practice skills development that will answer all topic-related questions, without masking or hiding details that are traditionally or religiously known as taboo; and within school textbooks are considered as “too much” - actually supporting existence of taboos too by hiding behind the “bee and flower” story. Due to the fact that many young people prefer ask their peers or resort to social media platforms to search for answers to their questions related sexuality and health, we decided not to struggle against Internet as a source to educate young people but to use it for our new platform. Project has: kick off meeting in Serbia, 3 mobility trainings for youth workers in Montenegro and Spain, as well as study visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina. We created web site www.allaboutsexeducation.com, adjusted to all devices, then educational brochures in 15 languages, round tables with decision makers to propose policy to involve sexual and reproductive health in regular school programs, workshops in youth centers and schools as well as establishing the on line and off line counsellings. Trainings cover: sexual health and identities, reproductive health and development, sexual rights and abuse and include 120 youth workers and at least 500 peer educators.Additionally, thanks to co-funding sources, we created video in Montenegrin language and Bulgarian partner organized competition for the best essay in the topic of sexual-reproductive health. All products and results are used as dissemination tools as well as tools to raise awareness about importance of education about our sexual development and sexual-reproductive health without taboos and prejudices.

"The main goal of the project is to build the capacity of youth organizations that will contribute to the improvement and transfer of knowledge and positive examples of practice, cohesion and networking in the field of cultural and creative industries.1st Specific goal of the project is to create, through the cultural and creative industries, young people with stereotypes and prejudices fostering dialogue, openness, dignity and mutual respect. Developing intercultural dialogue aims to help prevent conflict and encourage reconciliation within and between countries. The cultural and creative industries should help to respond to global problems such as fighting unemployment, contributing to the creation of new added value, promoting foreign trade (export), strengthening social inclusion, social and cultural development, increasing quality of life, combating youth unemployment, integration refugees, the fight against violent radicalization, the protection of the world's cultural heritage and other indicators of socio-economic development.2nd Specific objective of the project is to establish a functional network and collaboration that will ensure the concentration of knowledge and resources, which is particularly relevant in this sector of industry characterized by the growing number of ""freelancers"" and ""nano-enterprises."" Build a multi-network between EU countries and Western Balkan countries with young leaders and youth workers who establish and implement youth projects with an emphasis on creative and cultural industry at local and regional level and for cooperation at the international level.3rd Specific goal of the project is to increase the role and importance of participation of youth associations and youth in decision making, creating local policies and directing the development of cultural and creative industries, and promoting the instruments of youth cultural policy.To raise awareness on creative and cultural industry special aspects of cultural diversity and to share experiences in order to spread information about the creative and cultural industry to young people through 20 - 30 local youth projects and campaign activities. To learn more about the 20 - 30 local youth events as part of cultural creative industry campaign, what type of problems occurred and how these were solved, what were their impact on young people and local communities? To share good examples from practice and help to each other in order to find good solutions on challenges. Planned activites: 2 project management activities2 training coursesDissemination activities: E-platform, youth campaign, local youth projects cultural and cretive industr,workshops, etc."