The project directly addresses the needs for gaining knowledge and practical tools, for developing new strategies by youth workers to take further action in future in intercultural learning field. This will help to extend the network between youth organisations which can organise concrete and specific media and visual arts tools in future to promote cultural diversity in their communities. Participants from European youth organisations will have the opportunity to gain a better understanding about cultural diversity for Balkan Region and other cultures represented and plan projects with common vision on the international level. We have chosen multimedia as a universal platform to tackle cultural diversity issues for two main reasons: for once, it is a versatile tool that allows for different forms of activity regardless of skill level. Secondly, through the use of multimedia tools young people can develop their transversal skills and thus our youth work offer becomes relevant to other aspects of their lives – education, employment, training. The main aim of the project is to develop the competences of European youth workers in the use of multimedia tools in youth work, mostly through photography and video to promote the positive image of cultural diversity. During the project we will explore key elements that refer to cultural diversity such as: personal cultural backgrounds, identity, nationality, religion and beliefs, living contexts, tensions, cultural sensitivity, prejudices and stereotypes.

"Project by name ""USE SOUND TO WATCH AROUND""Project type:Erasmus+ KA2 Capacity building in the field of Youth (Western Balkan Youth Window)Long-term project which last from 24th of November 2016 – 2nd of November 2017In all activities our partner organizations were from the Programme Countries and Western Balkan Window Countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, Turkey, Serbia; The working language was English.Target group: youth workers, educators involved in work with excluded youth with physical disability (blind young people). The main idea of the project was to give youth workers new working methods, experiences, knowledge and ideas for support unemployed youth with physical disability (blind young people) to learn to use music and sound design possibilities for employment/entrepreneurship. link to all materials from project: (http://www.kcmv.udruzenje.org/use_sound_to_watch_around/process_and_products.html)The activities in our project were:Activity 1 (9 days), Training Course from 02-10 March 2017, in Novi Sad, Serbia On Training Course participants got concrete knowledge and skills about new possibilities for helping blind youth on their entrepreneurship using methods of sound design. Participants learned how to work with blind young people and to help them to learn sound design methods and how to apply and realize own projects in Erasmus+ Programme. We had 40 participants, including 10 with fewer opportunities (blind youth) and including 1 personal assistant per country. Video: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwy8rUg9CCg) Activity 2 (60 days) 12th March -12th May 2017 – Participants local initiatives – Participants organized workshops about music and sound design possibilities for blind youth with aim to help them in inclusion and entrepreneurship. This activity was implemented in participant’s local communities, in countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Turkey and Serbia in period of up two months after Training Course (Activity 1). Participants worked their local initiatives to empower young people from their local communities using learned creative methods (knowledge and skills) acquired on our TC (Activity 1). Realization of Activity 2: Serbia:Sound design workshop in Sombor (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156087823834638.1073741973.797014637&type=1&l=c15fd23c5d)Sound design workshops of students in Vojvodina (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156017958564638.1073741971.797014637&type=1&l=1d3254d6e2)Sound design workshop for kids in special school ""Milan Petrovic"" in Novi Sad (https://www.dropbox.com/s/vj0ewetfeq3uw1l/Serbia.zip?dl=0) Albania:Video, TV reportage, documentation, Presentation, materials and sound design workshop (https://www.dropbox.com/s/qca6m6wfs1j18k4/Albania.zip?dl=0) Bosnia: Presentation of workshop materials:(https://www.dropbox.com/s/linudi9xjhjj457/Bosnia.pptx?dl=0)Montenegro:Presentation and sound design workshop (https://www.dropbox.com/s/3tm6sad0niinhi7/Montenegro.pptx?dl=0) Turkey:(https://www.dropbox.com/s/casiqxp9b8k7j5t/Turkey.pptx?dl=0)Activity 3 (5 days), 15-19 May 2017, in Marmaris, Turkey - Evaluation with Conference. On Activity Evaluation meeting participants evaluated the effect of Activity 1 and Activity 2. One day (of this activity) was reserved for a public Conference where we promoted products and results of our long-term project. We had 40 participants, including 10 with fewer opportunities (blind youth) and including 1 personal assistant per country. Conference was held during disabled week (10-16 May) and international disabled day in Mugla, Turkey, at Mugla, Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi. (http://muglaeml.meb.k12.tr)We also did presentation of our project in Mugla Engelliler Dernegi organization. (https://www.facebook.com/muender/)(https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1431652143559666.1073741831.1130351910356359&type=1&l=b5346861e1)"

H(Youth)MANITY aims to raise awareness of European citizenship and European values, against Euro scepticism, radicalization and violence, by promoting solidarity towards crisis immigration in the EU; by empowering youth workers and youth leaders in the field of prevention of radicalization and extremism among young people by analyzing local realities, exchanging practices and developing sustainable activities aimed at promotion of culture of peace. Through a training course, two youth exchanges as its practical phase, following objectives will be achieved: Know European values and analyze how they materialize in Europe;• To analyze and discuss the responses of each country to the refugee crisis and increased immigration policies and support mechanisms that the EU offers immigrants and refugees;• Share Opinions and experienced by participants in situations of exclusion in similarity to the experiences of immigrants and refugees;• To campaign against xenophobia in social networks to promote European values, the integration of migrants and refugees;• To increase amount of quality projects in the field of peace building; To foster and improve transnational cooperation through staff and youth workers exchange, through innovation and the exchange of good practices in the area of combating and preventing extremism and radicalization against migrants; to increase the competences of youth workers in the field of prevention of radicalisation and violent extremism; to enhance international dimension of youth activities by planning cross-border actions focussing on intercultural dialogue as a counterbalance for extremism and radicalization; to empower youth workers and NGOs involved in the project to become stronger actors for current problematic and to contribute to the resolution of the crisis through youth work and promotion of culture of peace;• Increase leadership capacities of 45 youth leaders and youth workers and equip them with competences needed to successfully mobilise young people in their community and motivate them for active participation in international youth projects and activities;• Increase capacities of organisations participating in the project for tackling important issues of young people;• Enable sharing of different experience, good practice examples, tools and methods during mobility activities;• Foster mutual understanding of certain topics among youth from different cultures, promote intercultural learning and support youth organisations in strenghtening international and intercultural aspect of their work;• Provide space for networking and developing mutual projects and strategic cooperation between youth organizations form Western Balkan and programme countries (also improving sense of initiative);• Promote Erasmus + as a tool for European cooperation in the youth field, increasing of youth mobility and fostering their intercultural learning.