"The eight-day long training course ""Queer Solidarity - we are all in this together!"" deals with the topic of solidarity. Right-wing populist expressions become louder and more susceptible to mankind. The social climate is hardening and positions that deny the legitimacy of sexual and sexual diversity become more visible and tolerated in public spheres. In order to counteract these developments and to protect human rights, we need young people to unify and act in solidarity with each other across borders. This also includes leaving the “borders” of our own reference groups and engaging for the needs and requests of others. We would like to encourage and empower young educators with our seminar to be sensitive towards any kind of discrimination and fight it together. Through the provision of knowledge, awareness of our own social positioning, the exchange of experience with other committed youth workers, as well as the capacity-building for civic action, we would like to enable young educators to base their pedagogical practice on the principles of solidarity and convince others to do the same. Only if we consider the fight against discrimination and devaluation of any person (group) as our mission, social structures can be changed and diversity be established as a self-evident part of society. 50 young educators, aged between 20 and 35, from Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Georgia, Sweden, Palestine, Israel, Ireland, Slovenia and Austria will take part in the seminar. The participants are all active in our partner organizations. In this way, we also ensure their preparation and follow-up as well as the passing-on of newly acquired knowledge to the partner organizations."

"The eight-day long youth exchange ""Feminism - still fighting for equality!"" brings together young people from different regions of Europe and the Middle East to discuss issues of gender equality and feminism and to develop relating educational strategies. The aim is to raise young people’s (between the ages of 16 and 30) awareness for gender inequality structures, to inform them about current anti-feminist discourses and to point out the connection between democracy and gender justice. Following the transfer of knowledge and the exchange of experience, we would like to pass on methods and tools for feminist action and antisexist youth education work and thus enable the participants to engage in socio-political activities. In a concluding project workshop, the participants finally develop their own gender equality / feminism projects, which can then be carried out in their work on site. 60 young people from eleven different countries in Europe and the Middle East will take part in the youth exchange. The internationality of the encounter ensures a variety of different perspectives on the topic and thus makes difference and diversity tangible. This leads not least to the reduction of prejudices and possible fears of contact. The participants in the youth exchange are all active in one of the partner organization. Throughout the encounter they become peer-educators by presenting their best practice examples to the other participants and working together with them on the transferability of the respective best practice. As a result, they themselves become active agents against inhumane attitudes and for a common democratic Europe of diversity and gender equality. This experience is empowering and thus contributes to the sustainable success of the event. After the youth exchange, participants will bring the newly learned skills and methodology back to their local organizations."

"The project ""Capacity building of youth workers in providing services to LGBT youth"" aims to build competence and sensibility of youth workers for working with young people from the LGBT community.Five participating organizations from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia will acquire through training knowledge and skills to apply in their practical work with LGBT youth and also build a network able to pass the experience on through their own trainings. A total of 30 youth workers, 6 from each partner country in the project, will take part in a training in Serbia (Šabac) for the duration of nine days in December 2016. The concept of the training was developed combining many years of experience and several accredited trainings for sensibilized work with LGBT people of the project holder – the Asocijacija Duga.One of the methods will be the „Living Library” method, recognized by the Council of Europe (based on direct communication with LGBT people), whose application, among the application of other forms of participatory experiential learning, contributes to the building of knowledge, attitudes and skills about sexual orientation and gender identities necessary for a sensibilized approach to LGBT youth.As organizations dealing with human rights and youth, it is very important to us that our members are adequately trained for working with various vulnerable populations. In our region, LGBT people are not only stigmatized in the community and the public, but are sometimes rejected by their own families so alternative family structures - networks of friends and their support become extremely important. Recognizing this, our project focuses on capacity building in supporting young LGBT people by adequately training youth organizations for sensibilized work with them. Participants will also be taught how to pass on the knowledge acquired from experienced trainers during the training. This will result in a domino effect where youth workers continue to transfer knowledge and skills to others through their own trainings after completing this project, hence perpetuating the achieving of objectives of this project.One of the results of the project will be “The Guide for youth workers on working with LGBT youth”, which will include a section on a sensibilized approach to this population and a section about the facilitation of new trainings on this topic. The Guide will be created in cooperation with the participants of the training, and in November 2016, partner organizations will meet in Macedonia (Skopje) to define the details for the preparation of The Guide.The third activity of the project will be the conference to be held in July 2017 in Serbia (Belgrade). It will bring together 120 participants from partner organizations, public institutions, embassies, the donor community and the media with the aim of presenting the results of the project and influencing further state policies towards LGBT issues."