Our two previous E+ projects successfully launched a transcontinental initiative of improving youth media literacy. By now, capacities of 22 youth NGOs from Europe and Latin America have been raised, a Transnational Youth Magazine (TYM), e-magazine for youth policy, youth (media) activism and promotion of democratic values has been launched, and multilingual online courses have been created.The overall objective of this two-years project is to continue with building capacities of youth NGOs globally and developing open education resources (OER) in the field of media literacy. Particular attention is given here to the African continent, and this project will enable it to also join the transcontinental initiative of improving media literacy launched through the previous projects.SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES1: Increasing the capacity of youth NGOs/workers/activists from 3 Programme and 4 Partner countries from Europe and Africa in the field of media literacy and media activism, and fostering their active participation in society2: Creating high-quality multilingual OER for an innovative blended learning on media literacy and activism3. Creating an informational/media hub between Europe, Africa and Latin America in the field of youth policy through further improving the Transnational Youth Magazine by engaging youth activists from Africa and Europe to start write for itMAIN ACTIVITIES1. Media Literacy and Blended Learning Training Course for youth trainers2. Design and development of teaching material pack (TMP) ”Media Literacy Education by the Blended Learning Method” (training course curriculum, educational materials and guidelines)3. Creating MOOC: Moodle course ”Media Literacy Education by the Blended Learning Method”4. Improving the TYM – new authors, themes and articlesDIRECT BENEFICIARIES21 youth trainers and 70 young activists from partner countriesOUTPUTSTraining course realized TMP developedMOOC designedAt least 70 articles written for the TYM

"Within our project, youth workers from 5 European countries - the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Italy, Hungary and Slovakia - met with youth workers from Jordan, Egypt, Algeria and Syria.The main theme of the project was the integration of immigrants into the ""European"" community. Youth workers addressed this topic in 4 levels:1. Causes of immigration2. Social exclusion versus social inclusion3. Impact of immigration on society in Europe and in the countries from where people migrate4. possible solutions to successful social inclusion of immigrants and appropriate methods and forms of youth presentationThe main objective of youth workers' mobility was to enable organizations to develop and strengthen cooperation, increase their ability to engage in international cooperation, share and compare ideas, ideas, methods and mistakes they make.Youth mobility has been established at youth workers' meetings.The main objective of youth mobility was to improve the level of young people's key competences and skills, including young people with fewer opportunities, and to promote their active and active participation in civil society, strengthen their active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and solidarity. Reduce the spread of xenophobia, national and racial intolerance, aggression, radicalization.Formal, informal and non-formal learning methods were used within the project.The innovative nature of the project consisted of a targeted selection of partners, balanced outcomes that addressed the successful social inclusion of immigrants and appropriate methods and forms of presentation of youth migration issues. The youth mobility that European young people have met in countries where many people are thinking about coming to Europe to live here and change the face of the European population has helped to understand the cultural, economic and political causes of human migration. The issue of migration has not been solved by the table, but in practice.The impacts of the project were at local, national and international levels. The project outputs are freely available on the Internet.The objectives of the project were in line with the objectives of the ERASMUS + training program with key actions KA1 / YW and KA1 / YE."

"""Step Forward"" is a mobility project addressed to 39 young people from 11 countries (Greece, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Egypt, Finland, Algeria,Georgia, Roumania, Bulgaria and Italy). Participants will be youth workers, youth leaders, educators, facilitators , mentors and young people, who have the power to utilize their gained knowledge and skills in their local community and act as ambassadors of the Erasmus+ program. The proposed project will be implemented by NGO AENAO. The overall aim of the project is to promote the E+ program and to highlight the opportunities that the action of youth mobility offers. The specific objectives of the project are to: • Raise awareness of young people about the E+ and its opportunities. • Increase their knowledge about the E+ and especially the KA1 action. • Build personal skills regarding the management of project in the frame of E+. • Highlight the qualitative elements of a project. • Offer a better comprehension of no formal education. The indirect objectives are: - to create a space and time for youth to explore and experience different aspects of intercultural dimension, multi religion interaction and active citizenship. - to encourage the enterprenership and increase opportunities for professional and career development In order to achieve the goals, participants will attend a 9-days seminar, which will be held in Thessaloniki from 22-30 of November 2017. Coming back to their countries, the participants will act as multipliers and organize local workshops. In these workshops, young people will: - apply the acquired knowledge and skills gained during the seminar, - explore the problems of local community, - disseminate the project results. Furthermore, 4 months after the implementation of the mobility, one representative from each country will attend the follow-up meeting, in order to evaluate the project for its effectiveness and sustainability. The meeting will take place in Thessaloniki (7-9 March 2018 ) and during the meeting the participants will: - Evaluate their personal progress with their involvement throughout the program. - Evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the workshops, and the methods and tools used. - Obtain space and time to organize new actions based on European strategy 2020. - Create conditions for networking, and long-lasting and qualitative partnerships. Both training course and the follow up meeting will be based on non-formal education methods. Different tools of NFE methodology such as: visual presentations, group work, group discussions, brainstorming, theatre games , role playing, study visits, case studies, group debates, simulation activities will serve the educational process. Training will be a flexible process, combining the theory with practice. It will encompass involvement, exchange of experience and good practices, taking into account the participants' needs and interests."

"In a period of climate change, earth pollution and contamination of our food, we encouraged the participants of this youth exchange to question their consumer behavior. For this, we talked about several aspects of nutrition as regional production, local products, environment protection, our health and also about working and living conditions of the producers at an international level, as well as animal welfare.The first step of our youth exchange was to raise the participant’s consciousness concerning this issue in order to think, in a second step, about how we can bring our societies, step by step, to a more responsible nutrition.In order to achieve these goals, the team leaders organized thematic workshops (film discussion ""we feed the world"", workshop nutrition in my country and region, challenges; letter to myself, creative presentations, visits (ecological family gardens of Marines) and we also prepared practical workshops during which the participants thought of and prepared “responsible recipes”, wrote a “responsible recipes” booklet and organize an action afternoon in order to present in a playful manner the results of the youth exchange to the local population (citizens, town hall employes) that was invited to assist.In order to encourage ice breaking and the getting to know each other, we organized name games, energizers, a language tandem and cooperation games.During the youth exchange, the participants also were encouraged to be part of the intercultural and interreligious dialogue, an important matter in times of increasing discrimination based on religion and increasing stigmatization of immigrants and refugees in a lot of European countries. Thus, we tried to make our contribution to a better cohesion and understanding between the different persons groups being part of our societies. The activities that supported this process were: Language tandem, get to know each other games, time for discussions, international kitchen groups and international rooms, help and explications from the team leaders if necessary. The results of the project were a really good group cohesion of all the participants, no participant was excluded, everybody got in contact with everybody (thanks to the many mixed activities) and the intercultural and interreligious dialogue really worked out for our group. They were encouraged to take over responsabilities and to organise the group life (shopping, cooking, respecting the rules, organising the recipe booklet and preparing a presentation).Concerning the impact, all the particpants were encouraged to be more conscient of the topic responsible nutrition and were helped to start to integrate it into their lives, thanks to the responsible shopping and cooking workshops and the letter to myself, which helps them project their ideas for the future.A link to the local community was established thanks to the local visits and the action afternoon and the final presentation. The responsible recipe booklet (written by the participants) was diffused among all the partners, member associations, contacts on local (town hall), national (member associations, facebook) and international level (international partners).The participants of the project were people from different backgrounds: pupils, students, people looking for a job, employes and some came from isolated areas, with low economic ressources and low knowledge in foreign languages. In total, every group consisted of 5 persons (group leader included), but the algerian group consisted of 7 persons."

Youth exchange Us and Them Place: Elektrėnai district, Daugirdiškės, Lithuania Date: 2018 October 1-10 Participating countries: Lithuania, Croatia, Greece, Palestine, Algeria, Lebanon. Devastating terrorist attacks in Europe in 2015–2016 have increased the concern of extremism, including violent extremism. The EU’s Terrorism Situation and Trend Report of 2015 referred to ‘unprecedented’ numbers of people going from Europe to Syria and Iraq to become involved in armed conflict. Meanwhile, right-wing extremist violence remains a significant threat to security across European states. Governments, policymakers and young people themselves are all concerned to deter young people from becoming involved in extremism, especially violent extremism. The Paris Declaration issued by the Council of the European Union in 2015 noted the rise of extremism in European society and expressed commitment to upholding fundamental values – including respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights. It emphasized the role of education, along with the need for co-operation across the EU’s member states, to ensure that, ‘children and young people acquire social, civic and intercultural competences, by promoting democratic values and fundamental rights, social inclusion and non-discrimination, as well as active citizenship.’ Violent extremism and the underlying forces of radicalization are among the most pervasive challenges of our time. While violent extremism is not confined to any age, sex, group or community, young people are particularly vulnerable to the messages of violent extremists and terrorist organizations. In the face of such threats, young people need relevant and timely learning opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes that can help them build their resilience to such propaganda. Project goal - to acquaint young people from Lithuania, Croatian, Greece, Algeria, Lebanon and Palestine with fundamental rights, democratic values and active citizenship in order to prevent radicalization and violent extremism. Objectives: - Understand and analyze violent extremism and radicalization phenomenon; - Overview each partners' country situation in the context of violent extremism and radicalization; - promote diversity, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, common values of freedom, tolerance and respect of human rights; - promote global citizenship; - enhance media literacy and critical thinking among young people; The project involved 36 young people, aged 17 to 25 from Lithuania, Greece, Croatia, Palestine, Algeria and Lebanon.The youth exchange was held in Lithuania for 10 days. During these 10 days, we have discussed such topics as radicalization, violent extremism, human rights, otherness, active citizenship, global citizenship, tolerance and respect. The exchange program included several main parts: introduction and deeper understanding of the main topics, campaigning in the local high schools and disemmination activities. Project results:- Project activities include 16 young people with fewer opportunities;- More than 260 young people attended workshops in Trakai / Elėktrėnai schools;- Around 80 young people participated in follow-up activities in partner countries.- A long-term partnership established between European - North African - Middle East organizations;