"Since several years, concordia has been always involved in sustainable projects as:- The sustainibility campaign of the CCSVI at a national level- An eco-friendly behaviour on the projects at a regional level- COP 21 - AlternatibaAim of the project:The main objective of this project is to reinforce youth workers' methods of animation, thanks to non formal education, to aware and communicate to the youth, about the green alternatives to face climate changes. Spécific objectives of the project:- Bring new animation tools to aware european youth about alternatives.- Create tools to communicate about alternatives during an event open to the public. This tool will be implemented during the Alternatibas' event.- Share experiences, knowledges and working methods about animation tools and alternatives of each participant country to enrich the training, European objectives:- Stimulate co-operation among youth organizations and reinforcing organizations capacities to develop projects about alternatives in their own country,- Promote intercultural learning and cultural diversity through the participation of French and foreign youth trainees,Encourage active citizenship, mobility and youth participation through an inclusive and participatory approach.Partners of the projet:-International : ELIX (Greece), IBG (Germany), ADP-Zid (Montenegro), Alliance-V(Ukraine), INEX SDA (Tcheck Republic), GSM (Turkey), Concordia Midi Pyrénées (France) -Local : Atout Bout'Champ, Via Brachy, Les Petits Débrouillards, La Volte, Mix'Art Myrys.Profile of the group: 15 youth workers from Programm and Partner countries, over 18 years old, motivated and having an experience with youth and 3 french trainers. Activities: - Exchanges about the animations' pratice between the participants and elaboration of a definition of green alternatives, - Learning new animations' tools by mixing practices, theories and meetings of local partners to enrich the project, - Realisation of animation about green alternatives with youth from the ""MJC"" and during alternatibas' festival,- Creation of a tool box to collect the knowledges acquired during the training. This tool will be used to organize such acnimations in the coutry of the participants. Methodology:The methodology, based on the reinforcement of non formal education values, training sessions, workshops, meetings with professionals, debates, and an active involvement of each participant. The trainees will share and further develop their expertise to benefit from a mutual exchange of methodologies. This will allow participants to be able to develop competencies and new tools for the strengthening of animation and mobilisation about alternatives in their own organization. Impacts on the participants :- Practice of non formal education tools to sensitize and communicate about green alternatives to fight climate changes,- DDevelopment of an european network,- Awareness of the participantsImpacts on the partners:- Develop experience in european projects, - Use of new animation tools to sensitize and communicate about green alternatives to fight climate changes,- Creation or strengthening of partnerships.Impacts on the public :- Develop an interest about climate changes,- Acquire new animation tools to sensitize about this topic, - Discover the opportunities of mobility thanks to the ERASMUS + programm. Training results: - Creation of a tool box including animations discovered during the training. This document will contribute to develop projects in the partners country but also communicate about the opportunity thanks to the ERAMUS+ programm. At the end of the project, a dissemination plan will be conducted for the tool box. Long term benefits:- Strengthening of partnerships and possibility to create new projects, - Possibility to enrich continually the tool box."

"The project ""You 4 Youth 2"" has been carried out from October 2018 to October 2019 at the Youth Council (Consejoven) - a non-profit organization, whose main objective is to promote youth participation and associationism. Since 1992, we have been working in the field of youth at the local level, precisely through the associations registered in our entity and the activities they carry out (more than 60 associations). In our project have participated as volunteers two young people from different European countries, (France and Latvia) with the main objectives of improving the functioning of youth participation in our province, collaborating with entities working with groups at risk of social exclusion, fostering and promoting knowledge of Erasmus+ projects, supporting youth entities in our province in their development, increasing the skills and knowledge of volunteers and promoting greater solidarity and collaboration between various groups of people. Through this project, young volunteers have been able to increase their personal and professional development through their active involvement in the projects of: communication and volunteering; participation and work with disadvantaged groups. Volunteers have been integrated into various activities that we have carried out in our youth center and in various places in the city or in the province. The main activities have been the organization of all kinds of workshops and activities for young people and other groups at risk of exclusion, workshops and informative talks on Erasmus+, youth association, the organization of events and meetings for young people and youth entities, the creation of strategies to reach young people through social networks and other tools, the analysis of the association fabric of the province ...they have also had the opportunity to organize language meetings and participate in the activities of local associations, as well as to implement their own ideas related to the youth field during the project. The methodology used has been based on learning-doing, through activities and dynamics of non-formal education and the involvement of volunteers in decision-making and in the elaboration of all activities. With the project, young volunteers have known first-hand the form of youth participation that exists in our community and that it is good that they can transfer it to future projects that they carry out in their communities of origin.We always learn a lot from these types of projects, both us as an entity and the associations with which we collaborate, because by having different ways of working, we make an exchange of good practices beneficial to achieve a greater participation of young Europeans and to create strong networks of work between the different European organisations that work for participation. Another result of this project has been the contribution that volunteers have brought to disseminate and give visibility to European projects, through all the activities they have carried out to make them known, both with young people and with collectives disadvantaged in our community."

Young Ambassadors for Mobility (Y.A.M.) was a project aiming to support young people with less opportunities and give them the chance to take part in European mobility programmes. This experience allowed them to play an active role in society, gain new skills, gain confidence, express themselves and share their own experiences, as well as enhancing their own personal and professional perspectives.In order to achieve this objective we seized the opportunity of strategic EVS by combining 2 key elements: the effective participation of Young People With Fewer Opportunities (JAMO) in European volunteering activities in the short and long term while developing new synergies between different actors working on the inclusion of young people. This second aspect was essential for us as we wanted to improve access to volunteering and mobility programmes, in particular through the European Voluntary Service, to Young People With Fewer Opportunities. This project gave us the opportunity to reflect on their specific needs and create suitable tools. In total, 50 young people benefit from this project and we supported a dozen structures in the implementation of European volunteering projects for the first time. In particular, the short-term actions were international workcamps lasting two to three weeks, and the main topics were environment or heritage. Long-term projects, starting from two months, were focused on promotion of mobility, leading groups, education or sport. Thanks to the reinforced mentorship and non-formal education approach, the volunteers were able to develop their involvement as active citizens and their experience enabled them to acquire skills nowadays highly recognised in the labor market, such as autonomy, teamwork or taking initiative.Furthermore, we have created new partnership dynamics at the local level through cooperation with recognized actors in the integration of young people such as the local mission, schools, associations of education through sport or MFR ( rural family home). Thanks to the implementation of concrete mobility projects (sending and / or hosting) and the support of Concordia in the different regions of France, all these actors have taken on the EVS / CES program and they have witnessed, on the one hand the positive impact that mobility can have on young people and on the other hand, the challenges to be taken up before, during and after the project (administrative procedures, construction of solid partnerships, mastery of the program, mentoring, etc.)At the international level, we have strengthened our network of partners by improving and sharing support tools. When we implemented this project, in particular the short-term projects, we relied on organizations with long experience in supporting young people with specific needs.

<< Objectives >>Our youth exchange will gather young people from very different European places around one clear topic: the need to ensure more sustainable ways of life, in order to preserve an open and happy humanity on a clean and lively earth. Our youth exchange must be a small contribution for the achievement of this vision. It must participate to the dissemination of more ecological behaviors at different levels of our society.In line with the objectives of the Erasmus+ programme and the Ka1-youth mobility action, this youth exchange is planned and will be implemented in order to: - Encourage the participants to share opinions and take position about the project thematic; but also to listen and to learn from what is expressed by the other ones and can be different of what they think or believe in. - Be involved in a strong intercultural experience, thanks to their involvement in an intense group life, composed of individuals coming from very different countries and cultures ; but also via their discovering and meeting with the Ukrainian culture which, on certain aspects might be seen far from western European one. - Permit the young participants to be actively involved in the project and group life management ; by that way and between others, to gain new social abilities. - Permit the young participants to gain new learnings and competencies that will support their ability to be autonomous, to take initiative and responsibilitiesOur youth exchange is entirely though and will be implemented according to non-formal education methods. It is a grass-roots youth project.<< Activities >>Our activity is a youth exchange that will gather five different groups of young people -from Belgium, Cyprus, France, Spain and Ukraine – in Ukraine between July 16th and July 29th 2019.The working methods used all along the project will cope with principles of non-formal education. This means that they will encourage the participants to learn and acquire competences thanks to the experimentations and the contact between peers. The participants are the central actors of the project. They are involved in the project management. They must express themselves and take responsibilities in order to reach collective results at the end of their group adventure. A part of the sessions will be dedicated to the group dynamic: from a getting to know each other ; having a agreement on the group life internal rules; evaluate and maintain the group life. These sessions do participate to the intercultural learning dimension of the exchange. A part of the sessions will be dedicated to getting a better awareness of the nature that surrounds us and on the importance to preserve it: hiking, birds observations, picky herbs and fruits for tea preparation ; handcraft workshops about the use of natural resources, as well as recycling of waste; … These sessions permits the participants to get new knowledges, understandings and skills on environmental issues, but also to gain new practical and technical abilities. A part of the sessions will be dedicated on exploring the human behaviors and their impact on the environment: preparation and achievement of reportages and interviews of locals, meeting with a group of ecological activists from the city of Odessa… All these sessions enhance the interactions with the local communities. They support the intercultural learning dimension of the exchange as well as the project visibility. A part of the sessions will be dedicated to the preparation and the performance of public happenings. They will encourage the participants to reach a group achievement, to identify and disseminate projects results, but also to gain experience and capacities in expressing themselves and intervening in public.A part of the sessions will be dedicated to the assessment of the experience and to its learning outcomes. << Impact >>First of all, we expect our project to have strong pedagogical results on the participants and to equip them with new personal, social and global competences. We also expect that our project will encourage these young people to develop their own (European) projects; to develop initiatives and to take action to act together for more societal changes and progress.At this regards, our youth exchange must contribute to spread the awareness, between the young people and within their local communities, of the environmental challenges. It must be an incentive to adopt more ecological behaviors as well as to take action to ensure their dissemination and adoption at the level of the entire society. On another dimension, it must also be a contribution to the strengthening of the relationships between the youth of the different participating countries. In that sense, it must also support the relationship between Ukraine and the European Union member countries.

This project, Supporting Communities, Encouraging Potential NI 2017, hosted a total of 14 EVS volunteers, mostly on long-term placements in Northern Ireland. The volunteers and Sending Organisations were from Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Czech Republic, France, Hungary and Austria. Placements were planned for 12 months starting between March and September 2017. Most were over 10 months and began between March and November 2017 (there were some delays due to recruitment issues) and most built on previous experience of hosting EVS volunteers. The volunteers were based in 9 different hosting projects: - Volunteer Now where the volunteer helped encourage more people to volunteer (including young people) and supported volunteer involving organizations and initiatives to develop volunteering opportunities and best practice- FabLab Belfast (ACT) which is a digital fabrication laboratory (using 3D printers, laser cutters and other hardware and software). The volunteer assisted the staff in engaging with local groups and individuals to explain the concept of FabLab and to encourage users to think of products to design and make- Camphill Community Glencraig, where the volunteer supported the biodynamic gardening/growing and grounds maintenance, alongside people with a learning disability- NOW Group, which supports people with learning disabilities towards employment. The EVS volunteer was involved in different aspects of the work, including the training team, Transtions II (alternative to day centres) and the families work- Belfast and Lisburn Women's Aid, where the volunteers supported children and women who have suffered domestic violence. 2 volunteers were based in different Refuges in Belfast and Lisburn and their activities were primarily Refuge based and primarily child focused, although the volunteers were also involved in creche and group work outside Refuge and occasionally in direct contact with the women.- The Black Box, Belfast where the volunteer supported the outreach work with people with learning disabilities and other activities within the public venue. The volunteer worked alongside the Outreach Officer and helped with organising events such as the Black Moon club night by and for people with learning disabilities and Creating Connections for older people with a learning disability.- the two volunteers within Bryson were involved in the Family work which included supporting the staff with individual and group work with children and with parent(s). One volunteer also spent a few days helping the Bryson Irish Traveller work.- The Crescent Arts Centre, where the volunteer helped facilitate involvement in the arts and introduced creative activities to local communities through the outreach and centre based programme of events and activities- 3 volunteers were hosted in North Down YMCA supporting BME communities and local children, young people and families. This included helping in the creche, supporting centre based and off site youth work and engaging BME groups and Syrian Refugee families in activities.The volunteers gained new skills and competences which helped increase employability, developed their linguistic abilities and experienced personal development. They helped local communities to gain new knowledge and experience of the project activities, as well as a greater European awareness through their contact with young Europeans.