Accredited projects in the field of youth offer young people a variety of opportunities:- strengthen their personal and professional development through non-formal and informal learning mobility activities;- foster their empowerment, their active citizenship and participation in democratic life;- foster quality development of youth work at local, regional, national, European and international level by building the capacity of organisations active in the youth field and supporting the professional development of youth workers;- promote inclusion and diversity, intercultural dialogue and the values of solidarity, equal opportunities and human rights among young people in Europe.The objectives of the projects can be achieved through the planning and implementation of the following activities: youth exchanges and youth workers professional development activities.Accredited projects in the field of youth are carried out by organisations holding a valid Erasmus Youth accreditation. Each of these organisations commits itself to comply with the Erasmus Youth Quality standards and to deliver high-quality mobility activities in the field of youth..

The HREload Training of Trainers project aims at responding to the recent and worrying increase in phenomena of hate speech and radicalisation through the tools of mentoring, Human Rights Education, Education for Democratic Citizenship and against Hate Speech. The specific objectives of the project are: - Train and or upskill youth workers in the field of Human Rights Education, for them to be able to act as multipliers; - Train a group of mentors that are able to both guide and train other youth workers, and that are also able to be mentors in their work with young people; - Build the capacity of youth workers for an advanced use of Non Formal methodologies and practices; - Build new educational practices (starting from the educational material made available by Salto-Youth and the CoE) and experiment new educational tools, like cooperative e-learning; - Strengthen the educational and advocacy cooperation between organisations and countires involved, through the creation of a network of people and practices; - Develop the skills and competences needed to build advocacy practices in the field of recognition of non-formal learning During the 10 months of the project we will implement in Bocale -in the southern hinterland of Reggio Calabria- 2 activities such as a Training Seminar from 01 to 05 July 2019 on Mentoring in Youth Work and a Training of Trainers from 8 to 14 October, which will involve 36 youth workers from 11 countries (Italy, Georgia, Albania, Spain, Russia, Turkey, Hungary, Ireland, Bulgaria, Armenia and Egypt) with the aim of training them on the use of innovative practices in mentoring online and offline, but also on the use of new tools and practices in Human Rights Education. All activities will be implemented with Non-Formal Education methodologies and will foresee an educational process based on the personal, local and global needs of participants, who will be followed and mentored throughout their process, which will culminate in the recognition of their learning through the Youthpass certificate. From the lesson learnt and experienced during the seminar and the training of trainers, we aim at producing a series of material that can support us in the dissemination of the good practices of the project and the partner organisations. These will be: -Guidelines on mentoring in youth work towards youth workers and young people at risk of social exclusion; -New NFE activities on the topics of Human Rights Education, Hate Speech and Radicalisation; -Guidelines on cooperative online learning in intercultural NFE frameworks; -Transnational recommendation on recognition of Non Formal Learning and on the promotion of Youth Work as a tool against radicalisation.

"<< Objectives >>""COOL PLAY, fostering interculturality by playing"" aims to promote the use of games in the field of intercultural education. The project also aims to create a network of associations that work in the field of intercultural education, through the exchange of tools, good practices and joint actions based on the use of games and non-formal education as a work methodology. Objectives:- Share innovative games created by youth organizations aimed at intercultural education. - Promote the exchange of good practices between entities - Promote the creation of innovative tools for youth work - Discuss needs, perspectives and challenges related to intercultural education - Create joint projects consolidating networking<< Implementation >>COOLPLAY is a contact seminar lasting 4 days and 2 traveling days, which will take place at the end of November in the city of Terrassa, province of Barcelona. The participants of the seminar will be youth workers, educators and social integrators, community mediators and similar profiles, coming from eleven youth associations from all over Europe. The youth workers involved have experience in creating and implementing educational games specialized in intercultural education in a local and/or European context and they will share their knowledge while developing new skills and contacts.<< Results >>We hope that this project contributes to generating a more inclusive, intercultural and open society through the use of games as a tool for non-formal education in the intercultural educational field. The participating associations will benefit by renewing the tools they use daily in activities related to intercultural education, together with their European colleagues they will learn new approaches to work on common challenges through gamification and non-formal education. The project itself is an invitation to use the game in intercultural education, working with young people on skills to understand and respect cultural diversity. Tools that allow the development of cognitive, emotional and behavioral skills to respect the right to diversity and the understanding of one's own cultural patterns."

<< Objectives >>Games and game-like methods are widely used in non-formal education. They show clear advantages in the seminar context and can be very helpful for volunteer groups and team building on one side. Nevertheless, many games reproduce stereotypes, oversee critical power structures or violate the personal spaces of participants. We believe that these points of criticism need to be discussed, evaluated and counteracted.By implementing this project, we want to create a framework for exchange and critical reflection on the use, the advantages and the challenges of games in youth work. Through sensibilisation for different forms of discrimination and safer spaces, we want to raise youth workers' awareness and understanding of intersectional perspectives when facilitating youth projects. Participants are going to debate and understand the connection between educational games and peace, equity and human rights. Through an intensive exchange of methods within the project group we will provide youth workers with tools for power-critical and peaceful games in non-formal learning activities. This project will therefore enable active participation of young people and support the professional development of youth workers.We are going to capture the project outcome in a manual for games in educational work, that includes underlying concepts, shared experiences and guidelines for peaceful playing. On the one hand, this manual will serve participating youth workers as a support for their youth activities after the project lifetime. In addition, the manual allows for sharing findings and methods with other youth workers and organisations. By developing this manual during the project, we therefore aim at improving the quality of NFE instruments for future youth activities, trainings, seminars and general meetings within but also beyond the participating organisations.During the project, we will build on the partners’ experiences with different seminar contexts, target groups and perspectives related to games in NFE. We will support the development of further follow-on projects and therefore establish networks for future cooperation and peace-education projects. As participants join from multiple countries, this project contributes to building a community of youth workers across Europe.<< Implementation >>In our project, we want to implement two activities: Activity 1 will be a training hosted by SCI Germany, that will take place in Nürnberg on 23.-30.10.2021. It will focus on the reflection and discussion of advantages and challenges of games in non-formal learning projects as well as their connection to discrimintaion, inclusion and safer spaces. Activity 2 will be a seminar on 02.-08.04.2022 in Novi Sad, hosted by VCV Serbia . The main objective of this seminar will be further self-reflection, the creation of a manual on peaceful playing as well as the development of ideas for future projects.Besides these two offline activities, there will be online meetings and online communication before, during and after the project. Before activity 1, reflection questions and tasks during an online-preparation phase will bring participants on the same level for the training. In between the two activities, there will be an implementation phase that participants will use to implement critical ponts, ideas and methods from the training on how to use games more peacefully in their local youth activities. It is accompanied by at least one online-meeting and will be prepared during the training of activity 1 and evaluated during the seminar of activity 2. In a follow-up phase after activity 2, there will be further online meetings to continue the finalisation of the manual.We plan to invite 30 youth workers, coordinators, peace activists and engaged volunteers of international voluntary service organisations from 13 different E+ Programme countries and five E+ Partner countries to participate in our project. We are targeting youth workers in all fields of non-formal education that are using or are motivated to use games as methods in their activities. This project will be open to youth workers with different levels of experiences with NFE methods. Nevertheless, it is important that participants are motivated to reflect on and to improve games in their youth work and to put new learning into practice. We also especially invite persons from marginalised perspectives, such as queer and non-binary persons or People of Color to include diverse perspectives into our activities. For this reason we also explicitly invite participants from E+ Partner countries despite not quite equal distribution of participants. We would like to achieve diversity regarding age and gender as well as social, economic and regional background. Participants should be willing to subsequently disseminate and promote the project outcomes within their organisations and local communities. Furthermore, they should be motivated to develop new initiatives and related follow-up projects with the support of their sending organisations. The participants will do their best to attend both activities in order to make sure that the second activity can build up on the knowledge gained by the participants in the previous one and the implementation period in between.<< Results >>Our project will directly impact on the participating youth workers by raising awareness for challenges and opportunities of, as well as discrimination and stereotypes in educational games. Participants will feel more secure when introducing playing methods in their youth work and will be motivated to improve them, as the discussions and methods used during the project will give them new inspiration, approaches, understandings and tools. During the project, they will get to know peaceful and power-critical games and will learn how to evaluate game-like methods critically. Besides the project content, they will learn more about the Erasmus+ program and will get to know and connect to youth workers from other European countries.The participating organisations will benefit from this project by sharing their perspectives with the other participating organisations. Moreover, they will be able to ensure a higher quality of their youth projects, as young people will experience discrimination-free and power-critical games. As the project encourages the development of follow-up projects, participating organisations might organise, host or participate in further activities. Through this project, they will furthermore form stronger alliance and solidarity in the peace and volunteering movement with other European organisations.We are going to capture the project outcome in a manual for games in educational work that includes underlying concepts, shared experiences and guidelines for peaceful playing. On the one hand, this manual will serve participating youth workers as a support for their youth activities after the project lifetime. In addition, the manual allows for sharing findings and methods with other youth workers and organisations. By developing this manual during the project, we therefore aim at improving the quality of NFE instruments for future youth activities, trainings, seminars and general meetings within but also beyond the participating organisations.

"<< Objectives >>Sustinea has been working for sustainability and social change for 10 years. In recent years we have delved into the philosophy of care and gender equality. We develop projects related to the empowerment of women in sustainable rural development, we carry out gender sensitization workshops with groups of people from 4 to 85 years old and we provide training on the gender perspective for local youth. After this experience, we decided to design our first international gender training, taking advantage of cultural diversity to enrich each other and broaden our perspective in which gender equality is essential for effective social and environmental justice.Over the years, we have observed together with our partner associations the prevailing need to work on gender issues within the Erasmus + program, something that we had been working on cross-sectionally in all our exchanges and training, which we discovered that in some way it was insufficient, and that in many cases it was a source of conflict, due to the great cultural difference that exists between program countries and partners regarding the concept of gender. After meeting with partner associations with which we usually collaborate online and Spain being a great European benchmark in the fight for women's rights and equal opportunities between men and women, we thought of designing an exchange in which interested young people On the subject, they could dialogue and contemplate the differences in the visions that exist regarding gender, but later, we reaffirmed ourselves, verifying that it was necessary to do basic training with a gender perspective before for the workers and collaborators of our partner associations, and co-create contents and effective strategies for our collective work in the youth field, understanding that for a possible eco-social change it is necessary to empower women and equal opportunities for all people, thus embracing all the existing diversity.This idea, which we have been developing for a long time, was more necessary and urgent when observing the amount of maltreatment and violence against women that are becoming visible during the quarantine between couples and families from around the world. This structural violence that dominates patriarchal societies pushes and motivates us to foster a revolutionary culture of care in which respect for life becomes central.The international training ""Gender perspective for sustainability and social change"" of the Erasmus + program is a training course based on experimental learning about gender within the framework of the culture of Care. The main objective of this training is to provide tools for youth workers and facilitators to integrate the gender perspective into their projects, as an essential key to sustainability and social change. Therefore the objectives would be:- Provide tools for youth workers to integrate the gender perspective in their socio-environmental projects.- Train and report on concepts related to gender, emerging sexual diversity and the types of violence that exist.- Prevent and raise awareness about gender violence in the youth field.- Promote mutual empowerment, education in values ​​such as respect, dialogue, diversity and inclusion.- Co-create pedagogical content based on the culture of peace with a gender perspective.- Promote nonviolent dynamics within the international projects of the Erasmus + program.- Provide youth workers with practical skills to use non-formal education methods related to sustainability and social change with a gender perspective.- Co-create a safe space where an intercultural group can share feelings, emotions, thoughts, knowledge and experiences related to gender.- Get to know local movements that work for equality and diversity, as participate in the march of 8M.- Facilitate networking and explore opportunities presented by Erasmus + to promote diversity, equality and eco-social justice.- Spread a common activity with a gender perspective in the community of each partner association.<< Activities >>* International Training in Ourense* 22 youth worker participants from Spain, Sweden, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, France and Latvia, with different ages, identities, knowledge, experiences and life situations.* The main objective of this training is to provide tools for youth workers and facilitators to integrate the gender perspective in their projects, as an essential key to sustainability and social change.* Methodologies to be used: non-formal education, outdoor education, learning by doing, learning by commitment, working groups, debate, consensus, social theater, sharing circles, nonviolent communication, process work, dance, nature education, mindfulness, learning by experience.During the international course ""Gender perspective for sustainability and social change"" from Sustinea we will develop different workshops, activities and dynamics, introducing the Culture of Care in accordance with the intercultural coexistence that we will have throughout the days, simulating a sustainable community and embracing the group's diversity, raising awareness of the importance of a gender perspective for sustainability and social change.The program is full of theory and practice, with an emphasis on learning by doing. On the first day we will leave space to expose the different realities and sociocultural constructions in matters of gender in each participating country and presenting their experiences in their work groups, as well as their concerns and major concerns in this regard. We will analyze the concepts related to sex and gender, we will explore the inequalities between men and women, the sociocultural constructions that exist around gender through myths and stereotypes, as well as the sexual diversity that emerges in our societies. Along the same lines, we will learn tools for the detection, awareness and prevention of gender violence, to work with ourselves and with groups, delving into the types of gender violence that exist, subtle and explicit, to finally co-create pedagogical content. free of sexist violence through alternatives based on the ecosocial transition, ecofeminism and co-responsibility, with dynamics and activities that we will carry out in terms of social theater, artivism, self-knowledge, body expression, conscious menstrual cycle, dynamics of mutual empowerment, new masculinities , deep ecology and feminisms, forest baths and mindfulness practices. As well as, leaving spaces for individual and collective reflection to integrate daily learning and how to take them into our lives and jobs. The activities will be in cooperation with other movements and entities, as joining the 8th of March, global women strike. On the last day we will jointly co-create an impact activity that each association can carry out in its work group and implementing the tools learned throughout the training. On the other hand, we will get to know Ourense, we will do a hiking route where we will carry out some activities in the forest and we will get to know the mineral-medicinal hot springs of Ourense.<< Impact >>The project's main objective is to provide tools for youth workers and facilitators to integrate the gender perspective in their projects, as an essential key to sustainability and social change. A goal that is disengaged in numerous small and large actions. All parties involved are expected to grow and improve their skills, abilities and competencies to address all gender issues emerging in the working groups, primarily creating a safe space where the diversity of all existing voices is embraced.This project will be a great toolbox that will impact every daily action of the participants, as well as in their areas of work with youth. From how they built the concept of gender in their lives, based on their cultures and environments, to what type of male violence exist in a direct and subtle way that we often fail to appreciate, to techniques and resources to detect, prevent and encompass them in this way as a series of tools and dynamics to work in groups and raise awareness of its causes and consequences, being the people and groups protagonists of the reality they create and the solutions they propose.By being chosen and chosen as representatives and workers of each association, we want to inspire and influence the member associations with our results and with the examples of unifying feminist activism in Spain. And to verify how through a participatory and co-creative methodology, and the constant implementation of the assimilated theory, a clear and settled learning results. We want the participants to get excited about the project, wanting to discuss equality and equity, create and positively impact their environments, through outreach activities and informal education, since a group of people, in small places, can change the world.The NFE (Non-formal Education) as a tool for the promotion and conservation of our environment and a conscious society, will itself have the multiplier effect, as it is a dynamic and participatory process, which seeks to awaken in the population an awareness that It allows identifying with the problem of gender violence in all its dimensions, spheres and contexts. The presence of the participants from different countries will give an important element of added value to the work of Sustinea and to the other European groups involved in the project, and all of this will be a common benefit to have a different European perspective on the topics covered in the exchange, which allow us to put them into practice in each of the locations of each participant through a common dissemination activity co-created during the training. Also in Ourense groups, the energy and good work of an international group of 22 people will positively influence.With this international training, we not only aim to provide all kinds of tools and resources to the participants, but also to promote a Culture of Peace in which mutual empowerment occupies all spaces of interpersonal and intrapersonal interaction so that values ​​such as dialogue, diversity, acceptance, respect, tolerance, equality and equity, inclusion as well as gender, environmental and social justice are realities co-created by each and every one of the participants part of this training, who after This experience reinforces our network of European partners and we continue to co-create projects along the same lines of peace and sustainability, in addition to promoting the social and environmental benefits of the Erasmus + program."