"""Less stress more fun"" was a proposal for a 5-day long youth exchange, designed for 40 participants from 4 different countries (groups of 8 people + 2 leaders per group): Estonia, Ireland, Malta and Poland. The focal point of the project was mental health and, in particular, the issue of stress among young people. The main aim was to support young (aged 16-24) people in handling stressful situations and help them learn how to translate stress into a driving, rather than a disruptive, force. The concept and activities envisioned here constitute a continuation of a partnership that had already implemented three youth exchanges. The topic was suggested and selected by participants themselves, with MODE Foundation acting as the coordinator and providing necessary support. Thanks to the project, participants: - raised their awareness of how to look after themselves and their environment, - realised what their personal sources of energy, - developed an attitude whereby they feel empowered to shape their mental health and mood, - found ways of managing stress by using their internal resources."

The EU Strategy Europe 2020 ask European countries to renew their Education and Training systems, to make possible for young people to acquire competences that are necessary for the economy and the European knowledge society. In the light of the expansion of the European market and internationalisation of companies, learning mobility is a key for the improvement of their employability. At the same time, in its strategic framework Education and Training 2020, the EU defines mobility “an essential element of lifelong learning and an important means of enhancing people's employability and adaptability”, stating that “periods of learning abroad — both within Europe and the rest of the world — should be the rule rather than the exception”. In support to this European framework, the consortium of VET providers applying has introduced a coordinated approach regarding European mobility for VET students. The project Co.Pro.Mob 2020 fits with the European strategies by offering the opportunity to live a work experience in a EU company abroad for 5 weeks to 120 VET students. The mobility is part of the courses offered by the schools from the consortium, therefore, competences acquired abroad by participants have been recognised in their curricula through the use of Europass and ECVET.Our participants: 120 young people 17-19 yo, mixity F/M , 44% are from disadvantaged families (scholarships from Education Nationale) Students in mobility have acquired competences in cutting edge sectors of the regional economy in particular: shipbuilding; constructions and hospitality and catering, but also key competences such as learning-to-learn, relational and intercultural skills, language, as well as autonomy, entrepreneurship, problem solving, understanding of the workplace environment, all of them mostly required by companies nowadays. The consortium is composed by four VET schools representing the in the Pyrénées-Orientales province. Alfmed as a local coordinator and UNISER as European coordinator. The partnership includes 6 partner organisations from 5 EU countries (Italy, Spain, Poland; UK and Germany) which have proven their competences and reliability in previous projects. After an informative and selection phase including Cv workshops and candidacy workshop, participants have been offered a pre-departure preparation covering language, practical organisation, culture, safety in the workplace, adaptation to a foreign country and to the work environment. Each participant has signed a Learning Agreement specifying objectives, expected results and organisational details of the work experience. Since the preparation phase, students had access to OLS in order to improve their language skills. During all their stay abroad, students have been followed-up by many people: a national tutor, a tutor in the country of destination, a company mentor who guided them through their learning experience and a mobility coordinator in their school. A follow-up meeting has been arranged after the end of each flow to let participants reflect and share on the experience and make the most out of their Erasmus+ experience for their future. The project has boosted the employability of these 120 young people, we believe it has also impacted the local educational system, local teacher staff team. In fact it has improved competences of staff, in order to make mobility easier and more accessible to all those VET providers which do not have the resources or the competences. Last but not least, the project represents the beginning of a systemic approach toward internationalisation, by involving institutions and local Economy, families and staff in the aim of modernising- internationalization of the educational system. This strategy did not convince yet local authorities to give co financing to disadvantaged families that represent 40% of the total participants. Future CoProMob projects, thanks to the positive impact identified of this first project, should beneficy of co-funding, at least for disadvantaged families (identified by Education Nationale as boursiers).

<< Objectives >>Many teachers, trainers and youth workers have taken crucial roles of moderators between young people, society and digital technologies during the pandemic. We have invited our partner organiastions to join our online discussion in order to get closer look to the situation and we figured out that young people are experiencing several negative impacts such as physical inactivity, loss of concentration, obesity, bone disorders, cyberbullying, violence and disinformation by unresponsive spending time in digital world. We decided to carry out TECHROTERS project to equip trainers, youth worker and educators with tools and methods to prevent young people from negative effects of digital risks. By carrying out this project, we aim to support young people via digital awareness for their personal and professional development.<< Implementation >>TECHROUTERS project includes a youth mobility in Eindhoven, Netherlands and virtual meetings. The project mobility host 29 participants, includes 2 facilitators and 9 participants with fewer opportunities. The activities are based on non formal education methods. During the mobility, participants in the workshops are going;• to analyze the effects of technology on the social development of young people.• to explore how digital habits can develop social skills of youth.• improving competences related to digital literacy.• create a toolbox where youth workers across EU can benefit to apply for digital practices.<< Results >>The results are expected to empower youth workers' digital preparedness to promote youth-friendly internet space. Participants will better understand the effects of technology in youth work. They will realize the necessity of vigilance in the use of technology for post-covid youth work. Their digital readiness for post-covid youth work will be empowered and they will use these practical digital literacy skills and competencies. Concrete learning outcomes:• develop critical thinking in digital space for more mindful digital youth work responding pandemic.• creating a toolbox where youth workers can apply in digital practices.• examining digital habits of youth in non-formal education environment.• upgrading digital youth work competencies for 27 participants.• expanding digital literacy capacity of 9 participating organizations.• improving analysing skills of youth workers regarding digital space and youth behaviors.

"<< Objectives >>The project ""Camera Eye: First step to save animals"" is a project addressed to young people, who care about animals and want to actively improve their status, and at the same time, whose passion is to create short movies conducting important civic values. The exchange will be held in Poland in the town of Świdnica. The application was written by the MODE foundation for youth from 5 countries. These young people came up with the idea of ​​organizing a project, thanks to which they will be able to meet and share their knowledge about creating video materials dealing with important social problems. Therefore, they asked us for help in its implementation. In our case, it will be a film material referring to the violations of animal rights and violence against them. The main aim of this event is to showcase the biggest problems with inhumane treatment of animals in some countries and teach young people conscious and responsible use of mass media as social values. The duration of the project is 7 days, each of these days was planned in such a way that the young people could learn as much as possible. The last part of the project will be a documentary prepared jointly by the participants, which will allow the interest of outsiders to the problem of animal abuse and the lack of responsibility related to their behaviour. We believe that thanks to the widespread results, people will have a chance to see how important the problem is in our modern world. Related to this is in the wrongful use of mass media and how much harm it can do. In addition, the documentary film created during the youth exchange will have great potential to make people aware of the shameful abandonment and show them the way to eliminate this phenomenon. Thanks to the film created, people unfamiliar with the matter will be able to learn how to read the animal's language and they more aware of animals problems. Our foundation also believes that the documentary created during the exchange will reach across a bigger community thanks to the dissemination of related activities. Our aim is also to make people more open to adopting animals from shelters. Through this exchange we also want to give young people the opportunity to broaden their knowledge about video materials with a social impact. Thanks to this youth exchange, young people will have the opportunity to learn from each other. We will also give them the chance to improve their language skills by working in an international team. The project is also meant to show parents of participants that new media such as Facebook, YouTube, Twiter, etc. can be great platforms to promote socially important attitudes. In the future these platforms could even become a work for their adult children.<< Activities >>The project will consist of 25 participants: five people from five, different countries. Every group will have a leader, a person with experience with participating in projects, an editor, whose main interest is post-production, an actor whose goal is dubbing, conducting interviews or performing in front of the camera, a scriptwriter who will prepare a plan and script for his group, and of course a director, whose main interest is working with a camera. The duration of the project is 7 days, and every day has been planned in the best way, because we want the young people to learn as much as possible from this experience. During the youth exchange participants will take part in workshops where they will share their experiences and advices on creating their own film. Thanks to this, they will have the chance to see and practice work with the camera, learn how to direct the film and prepare materials, that they will become valuable tools to promote the essential values of society. Thanks to the topic of the movie, the participants will learn about the problems faced by organizations fighting for animal rights in Poland, visit and learn about the running of Animal Shelters, as well as taking part in dogs training. The outcome of the project will be a documentary prepared by the participants, which will allow the attention of people unfamiliar to the problem of animal abuse and lack of responsibility with animal training. << Impact >>Thanks to their participation in the project, participants will improve their language skills, meet people who have the same passion, develop soft skills like working in a group and expand their hobbies. At the end of the exchange, an evaluation will be carried out, and the young people will be able to anonymously assess the strengths and weaknesses of the project. We also anticipated dissemination activities both - in local and international level, such as:- Sharing videos and photos on several platforms and social media, such as websites of partner organizations and private profiles of participants on Facebook and YouTube- Direct conversation: Participants sharing conversations with friends, family members and teachers will transfer knowledge and skills they acquired during the exchange- Implement similar events promoting conscious use of the Internet and raising awareness about animal rights at local levels in individual countries after returning from the youth exchange- Implementing lessons in schools, thanks to this they will be able to share with their peers the skills and values they have gained during the project- Creating next documentaries referring to important local problems, getting more information thanks to interviews with local animal advocate- Creating short advertising spots informing about the adoption procedure in different countries, encouraging the adoption of animals staying in local animal shelters.We would like the society to become more aware in the context of animal rights through the dissemination of the activities mentioned above. We also hope that parents of participants involved in the project will learn about new media and see their highly valuable side. We also expect to improve digital skills and media literacy among participants of exchange and spread this knowledge among people from their closest environment after returning to the country. After the end of the project, we hope to observe among the participants and their peers an increase of the initiative to create social campaigns like photo and video materials on social media and on the YouTube platform, especially those in the topic raised in the document created during this exchange."

<< Objectives >>The project will explore how to use Music, Dance, Reciprocal Maieutic Approach and New Media within youth work context by youth workers to foster young artists from hard to reach disadvantaged backgrounds self-confidence, self-esteem and enrich their competences, making them more competitive in the labour market. It aims to improve youth work methods and competences of youth workers in order to help young people with fewer opportunities to scale up their potential and improve their employability as artists, musicians, dancers, etc. For this reason, it includes various methods and practical hands on activities to take action using music and dance in new and innovative ways and employing new media into diffusing their creations in youth work context. The project also intends to empower youth workers on behalf of civil and youth organisations, developing new working methods, tools and materials based on non-formal education and experimenting music and dance as educational pedagogical tools.The project aims to promote transnational creative collaboration between the different countries, targeting young artists with fewer opportunities, so as to increase their competences and participation in society. It aims particularly to improve young artists’ self-esteem and sense of belonging to society, increasing their confidence promoting music and dance as an attractive asset and transforming their interest in music and dance into employability skills. The project will also enhance young artists competence to work on a transnational level by providing them with opportunities to engage in international exchanges and transnational creative collaborations. By showcasing their work through short movie in social media the project will facilitate their access to international artistic markets.Objectives of the project:•training 44 participants in intercultural learning and enhancing their employability skills through music and dance with RMA as non-formal learning educational tools within youth work context;•developing 600 young people’ competences through intercultural dialogue and enhancing their employability skills using music and dance with RMA via local musical stories youth events;•exploring the opportunities and challenges of creative industries in the 11 participating countries and building cross sectorial cooperation between youth sector and creative industry;•increasing the employability of 60 young people with cultural difference as artists in local and international level via recording and online promotion through musical stories;•creating 10 musical stories in local level per partner by The Reciprocal Maieutic Approach (RMA) based on the mixture of traditional and modern music and to be showcased at local youth events, local workshops and upload to the social media recorded for wider audience;•editing Educational Manual on the Reciprocal Maieutic Approach (RMA) in arts like music within youth work activities for youth workers, youth leaders, cultural and art educators working with disadvantage young people in daily basis;•Inventing 12 project ideas according to Erasmus+ programme on promote intercultural dialogue and cultural diversity and enhancing employability of young people through music and dance with RMA; •strengthening partnerships among 11 organisations and associated partners from Serbia, Romania, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, FYR Macedonia, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania and Croatia.Based on the results of the local researches, as consortium we had defined our common objectives and possible solutions for it through this project proposal such as-Raising young people’ competitiveness and fostering their intercultural exchanges through learning and applying ICT and new media skills to music in our youth work;-Boosting young people employability and self-confidence through using their music traditions to discover their roots as a starting point for their personal and professional development and active participation in society. << Activities >>We apply for one activity entitled “Mambo No 5” – training course on music, RMA and social media as non-formal educational tools and approaches in order to improve self-confidence and self – esteem of young people with cultural differences and supporting their employability will be held at 14th till 21th of September 2019 in Ada, Serbia. Themes of the training course will be such as exploring how to use Music, Reciprocal Maieutic Approach and New Media as educational tools and methods of youth work to foster self-confidence and self-esteem of young people with cultural differences and enrich their competences in order to make them more competitive in the labour market. The overall aim of the project is to train youth workers, youth leaders for supporting young people with cultural differences scaling up their potential and employability through the Reciprocal Maieutic Approach (RMA). For this reason, sharing and exploring various methods and practical activities to take action using music in new and innovative ways and employing new media as ICT into diffusing their creations. Being able to support self-confidence and self – esteem of young people with cultural differences through music and RMA in order to enter into the labour market such as creative industry. Learning objectives of the training course are:-To share and explore youth work methods that aims particularly at growing young people with cultural differences’ self-esteem and feeling of belonging to society, increasing the confidence promoting music as an attractive asset and transforming their interest in music into employability skills;-To empower youth workers, youth leaders and youth work organisations developing new working methods, tools and materials based on non-formal education and experimenting music as an educational pedagogical tool.-To being capable for boosting young people with cultural differences’ employability and self – confidence by using their own music traditions to discover their roots as a starting point for their professional and personal development and active participation in their societies;-To initiate local and European youth projects through music and RMA according to the proposals of Erasmus+ programme;-To establish a European platform for cooperation among youth organisations in order to promote cultural heritage through music and boosting employment opportunities of young people with cultural differences in the creative sector. The project targets 44 youth workers, youth leaders above 18 years old and there will be not upper age limit. Youth workers, youth leaders who can benefit more from this project and above all can act as real multipliers of the knowledge and competences they will gain. Their target groups are young people with cultural differences e.g. minorities, Roma, refugees, migrants, unemployed, rural youth, all mixture of these. Our participants have to work with young people in daily basis, having organisations support, priorities will be given to the staff and volunteers of our partners, and willing to use music as non-formal learning tools with Reciprocal Maieutic Approach. << Impact >>They strengthen the partnership among participants and between partner organisations as establishing a European multipliers’ Network on cultural diversity through music as non-formal learning tool with RMA for the next 3 years with 11 partner organisations. They will support and run at least 10 musical stories in local level per partner by The Reciprocal Maieutic Approach (RMA) based on the mixture of traditional and modern music and to be showcased at local youth events, local workshops and upload to the social media recorded for wider audience. It will reach approx. 2000 – 3000 young people/partners. They will develop at least 600 young people’ competences through intercultural dialogue and enhancing their employability skills using music and dance with RMA via local musical stories youth events and increasing the employability of 60 young people with cultural difference as artists in local and international level via recording and online promotion through musical stories.They will build cross sectorial cooperation between youth sector and creative industry such as music schools, D.J. studios, festival organisers, etc. They will initiate and invent at least 12 youth exchanges on promoting intercultural dialogue and cultural diversity and enhancing employability of young people through music and dance with RMA supported by Erasmus+ programme in the next 3 years as outcomes of this project. Approx. 6000 young people will be reached by these projects in European level. Specifically:IFIX Serbia and Youth Club, Romania will be able to use traditional and modern music as non-formal learning tools and practice the Maieutic Circle. Nyírségi Civil Egyesület, Hungary will put the meaning of Reciprocal Maieutic Approach (RMA) into their youth work practiceYouth Council Prilep, FYR Macedonia use musical methodologies related to Reciprocal Maieutic Approach based on the needs of their target group as culturally different young people. OCEAN ZNANJA U REPUBLICI HRVATSKOJ, Croatia create musical stories with for and by culturally different young people in order to express feelings, thoughts, opinions on hot issues.ASOCIACION ARRABAL AID , Spain empower active participation of their young people through music as non-formal educational tool with RMA.Connected for Future, Bulgaria will promote cultural diversity in the local community through music as non-formal educational tool with RMA.ASSOCIAZIONE EUROPALMENTE, Italy will practice music as non-formal learning tool with RMA on enhancing intercultural learning among local young people. MOVE AND DEVELOP FOUNDATION , Poland will record music with basic equipment but having it as good quality and spread it via social media as employability tool for young people with musical talents.Unique projects, Lithuania will support employability of young people through musical stories techniques. Spolek ActiTmel.cz, Czech Republic will suggest several examples for Employability Action Plan through musical talents of young people.Educational Manual on the Reciprocal Maieutic Approach (RMA) in arts like music within youth work activities for youth workers, youth leaders, cultural and art educators working with disadvantage young people in daily basis will aim at raising awareness about the topic and to help youth workers, youth leaders and their target groups such as young people all over Europe to have a proactive role towards culturally diverse young people and it will support to promote their cultures, celebrating cultural diversity, supporting intercultural dialogue and fostering their employability through improving their transversal skills. The Educational Manual will be available for all civil society actors in Europe to utilize and or build further on. This will be uploaded into SALTO Training Tools and reach approx. 10.000 youth workers, youth leaders, teachers, social workers, etc. Furthermore, all partners will spread it into their webpages, facebook pages, social networks, etc. and will reach approx. 100 – 200 youth workers, youth leaders teachers, social workers, etc. locally and European level.The musical stories will be created during the training will be recorded and as a short movie, it will be uploaded to youtube and spread via facebook, vimeo, instagramm and pinterest as a good example how music as non-formal learning tool with RMA can be adapted into youth work practice. This will reach youth workers, youth leaders and cultural and art educators all over Europe and young people who is interested in music. It will be offered to members of creative industry as well who is looking for talented young people. This will be measured by the numbers and statistics of downloading and visitors.