“Equal Right” - maximizing inclusion of disabled people into university experience is youth innovative Training Course on youth with disabilities and their challenges on studying at Universities. 36 young people from 9 countries (EU and WB) will come together for 10 days to discuss problems about educational possibilities of disabled youngsters at universities and some obstacles preventing the execution of their study rights. Meanwhile, in the framework of this project is expected to share and exchange some national experiences of different countries on educational status of youngsters with disabilities. In each country’s group will be one disable youth or a participant who is able to talk about their countries’ youth, universities and their disable students problems.10 days disabled and non-disabled participants will make presentations on situations in their countries, discuss differences, discover similarities and make conclusions and recommendations for universities that will be useful both for EU and for WB countries.The final result of the training course will be not only raised self-esteem and empowerment of participants, but also wider awareness of the problems of disabled people and positive solutions.Training will empower participants to share their knowledge on the topic and professional trainers will provide competitive information on the training topic.The professionally designed program will allow participants not only to share their experience, but also get acquainted with the legislation and official point of view of the politicians.As the result an active dissemination campaign will be implemented in local university to make the problem more visual and understandable. Together the campaign will give a floor to the organized Youth Organizations Exhibition in order to establish new contacts and make ERASMUS+ Programme more visual and promote new projects within ERASMUS+ Programme.

<< Background >>The high levels of youth unemployment in Europe makes this project of particular interest to the continent. Young people that participate in voluntary work learn new skills and can develop both personally and professionally. Voluntary organizations and young volunteers provide an essential role in making Europe a more multi-cultural and tolerant continent<< Objectives >>-To build partnership, share best experiences and practices, among organizations from WB and Europe, -To measure the perception of young people, assess their needs and frame recommendations for organizations, stakeholders and young people on the impact of volunteering -To build capacities and develop skills of youth workers and youth leaders how to actively engage young people on exchanges and volunteering activities<< Implementation >>The project was implemented in 2020 by a consortium of 11 organizations from WB and Europe. The implemented activities: 1. Partnership Building Seminar 2. Research on young people and volunteering 3. Capacity building training 4. Local conferences in 6WB on young people and volunteering 5. Regional conference on young people and volunteering<< Results >>- Strengthen the collaboration and shared experiences/practices among 11 organization throughout Europe - Developed regional research on 6 countries of Western Balkan on identifying needs, challenges and opportunities of young people on volunteering - Developed capacities of 32 youth workers on qualitative volunteering and incisive tools to use on volunteering activities - established network between NGOs, private and public institutions in the region who could have an active role

The world population is ageing causing changes in the society as whole. Ageing is a global phenomenon. Senior citizens represent an important and ever growing part of our European population, economy and society. Irrespective of the current economic crisis, this poses manifold questions as to how member states can best ensure that these citizens are socially included, actively engaged and can fully enjoy all their rights. The Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth acknowledges LLL and skills development as key elements in response to the current economic crisis, to demographic ageing and to the broader economic and social strategy of the EU. The economic crisis has highlighted the major role which adult learning can play in achieving the Europe 2020 targets, by enabling adults to improve their ability to adapt to changes in the labor market, the family and the society. Adult learning provides a means of up skilling or re-skilling those affected by unemployment and age, as well as makes an important contribution to social inclusion, active citizenship and personal development.The direct target group is grandparents (seniors 60+) who will acquire essential digital skills that will enable active aging, participation and access to the e-world: use of social media and communication platforms, use of smart phones and tablets, use of on-line services. The indirect target group is grandchildren who will benefit from their involvement and participation in the intergenerational learning opportunities and will share their digital competences with their grandparents in order to support them to keep in touch with the e-world. “DIAL” is an Erasmus+ strategic partnership project in the Adult Sector targeting mainly elderly people. The main aim of the project is to provide intergenerational and Life Long Learning opportunities to grandparents to acquire essential digital competences that will enable active ageing and access to the e-word.The DIAL project on Senior Digital Skills took place from October 2017 to September 2019. This Erasmus + Strategic Partnership project has reached its set goals – the team conducted a senior citizen survey in four countries (Portugal, Turkey, Latvia and Cyprus) developing a list of digital skills which the respondents of the survey pointed out as topics of interest to learn in depth. Based on the results, 4 teaching modules were created and are now available online http://moodle.dialproject.eu/. Furthermore, the team organized trainings in all four partner countries, presenting the materials, registering participants on the Moodle platform and disseminating the results. On July 27, 2019, the project organized a Conference, disseminating the results, introducing the attendees with the teaching material and the digital situation nowadays as such. If you could not attend the Conference, follow the link and watch the recording on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEFP4W9mUtk&feature=youtu.beIn total, there were 7 trainings held in 4 European countries, DIAL team taught 142 seniors and youngsters within the training programmes. The petition about the project was signed by more than 1000 citizens from Portugal, Latvia, Cyprus and Portugal. 3136 Facebook users were informed about the final Conference of the project. Throughout these two years, the society was informed via project official Facebook page (dialErasmusPlus) and partner pages about the project’s progress and results 94 times. DIAL was communicated via various media channels throughout all four partner countries, for instance among them there were articles in Latvia’s newspaper “Diena”, online media “Jelgavas Vēstnesis”, in Portugal there was a radio interview on Radio Sim and an article in local news portal of Almeirim. Turkey’s partner had a significant interview on NTV radio etc. After the project, the partners came to a conclusion that the partnership was very well planned, as the partners were fulfilling each other and each of them had expertise in different field which was useful during the different phases of the project implementation.The DIAL project helped raise awareness not only of the need and interest in seniors’ digital skill development, but also of seniors' opportunities to be active overall. Drawing on the good practice from the DIAL project partner RUTIS (Portugal) on running Senior University for many years, DIAL's Leading Partner, Project Net, decided to live by their example and announced that they will introduce the Senior University or in other words the Third Generation University also in Latvia. During the conference, it was solemnly announced that in the autumn of 2019, a branch of the Latvian Senior University would open its doors, meaning that it would be the 347th branch of its kind in the world.Work on promoting digital skills will continue beyond the end of the project with seniors and young people. DIAL had a unique experience for all four partner organisations i

The project ‘Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship through Capacity-building Activities and Networking’ will last 9 months (1.9.2016 - 31.5.2017) and it will consist on two mobility activities: a training course that would be implemented in Albania and that will bring together organizations and their representatives with strong interest in entrepreneurship and a second training course implemented in Prizren, Kosovo, in which young leaders with great entrepreneurial ideas will be trained to develop their business plans. There will be 40 participants in each mobility activity, 4 representatives for each organization from the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Latvia, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Turkey. Overall goal of the capacity building project “EYE CAN” is empowering youth entrepreneurship by raising capacities of youth organizations in the field of entrepreneurship and to support youngsters in realizing their entrepreneurial ideas. The main objectives of the project are the following:1. To connect various youth organizations focused on youth entrepreneurship and provide them an opportunity to network and create new partnerships and base for potential long-term collaboration that can lead to increasing the quality of their services and activities;2. To strengthen the competencies of the representatives of the NGOs and capacities of their organizations using the methodology of Startup Mentorship Programme;3. To support developing entrepreneurial ideas through the Business Model Canvas to achieve the goal of running new businesses as a tool of fighting youth unemployment;4. To create space for sharing knowledge and exchanging experiences & good practices in the field of entrepreneurial learning among non-¬formal and formal educators;5. To stimulate the concept of international and cross-sectorial cooperation in the field of entrepreneurial learning.Beneficiaries of the project:1. Participants will:- Develop a set of new competencies that they can apply at their daily practices and use them for their personal and professional growth;- Gain deeper knowledge of Erasmus + Programme;- Become more familiar with the situation in other participants countries and develop cultural sensitivity in an international network;- Be trained through two strategic entrepreneurial tools: the Startup Mentorship Programme (SMP) and the Business Model Canvas (BMC).2. Participating organizations will:- Gain new contacts for the future;- Raise their capacities and competencies;- Benefit in terms of future development of their capacities in the entrepreneurship field. 3. Target groups at a local, national and regional levelWe strongly believe that this project will have a strong impact at both target groups of the project: Youth Workers as target group of the first mobility activity and Young Leaders as target group of the second mobility activity.

The project aim is to enable a robust environment to empower youth entrepreneurs in the field of Agro-tourism, Agribusiness, Tourism and ICT towards sustainable developments. It strives for a holistic approach that combines capacity building, mentorship and technical training, technological tools including non-formal E-learning through a common ‘Collaboration Platform’ and cross-country collaboration/exchange experiences. The ultimate goal is to drive sustainable development while exchanging best practices in the field of youth entrepreneurship as well as a wide-scale transnational cooperation. Young GEEKS project is an innovative concept designed to empower youth through bolstering their start-up capacities and increase readiness to embrace sustainable cooperation. 45 youngsters from 5 countries will benefit from the action. All involved countries have some challenges to overcome when it comes to youth empowerment and international connection of youth. Even if the involvement of entrepreneurs and start-up community is increasing in Western Balkans and other partner countries, participating organizations are lacking knowledge and experience on how European Programmes as Erasmus+ can support youth entrepreneurship.Overall aim of the project is to empower youth entrepreneurship by building capacities of youth organizations in the field of Agritourism, Agribusiness, Tourism and ICT while supporting youngsters to successfully accomplish their entrepreneurial ideas. The focus of this project is to develop youth leaders’ business plans through a peer to peer start up mentoring program. The project has established a solid partnership between organizations coming from Western Balkan and Programme Countries to jointly support the process of transforming great ideas into real successful businesses. Objectives goes in compliance with organizations missions’ and closely linked to EU youth policy cooperation 2019-2027, to Connect and - Empower youth. Project’s Specific Objectives of this initiative aims at:1. To connect various youth organizations and youth focused on entrepreneurship as well as to provide them an opportunity to network and exchange of experience for potential long-term cross-sectoral collaboration; 2. Connect and establish a non-formal e-learning system through innovative tools while building a ‘Collaboration Platform’ which will enable continuous sharing of ideas, e-learning, best practices used;3. To strengthen competencies of the representatives of the NGOs and youth leaders on fostering youth entrepreneurship;4. Empower youth through increasing and building capacity in the field of start-up business model and achieve the goal of running new businesses as a tool of fighting youth unemployment;The above mentioned objectives, will empower youngsters to become active in their countries, create new jobs and actively contribute in developing the economy of their communities.