"<< Objectives >>The project ""Employment Heroes"" is a training course that will take place in Bragança from the 11th to 15th of March 2020, involving 24 youth-workers coming from 7 different European countries and backgrounds, 2 trainers from Portugal and 1 from ItalyThe main aim of the project is to work on the capacity building of young people, by reflecting on self-confidence, leadership attitudes, and measures to fight youth unemployment.The objectives of the project are:-To improve the capacities of youth workers with activities based on reflection, analysis, and sharing of experiences; by providing skills and knowledge in the fields of leadership and individual capacity building; by encouraging reflections about the role and competencies of the youth worker; by inspiring the definition of explicit personal objective to improve their work (self-improvement).-To bring the participant to adopt an analytical approach to the skill recognition, which they can apply to themselves, to the associations they work in, and to the youngsters they educate.-To share good practices and competencies about innovative projects, focusing on the training'sthematics (Capacity building, skills recognition, youths empowerment).-To recognize the most important needs youngsters face in the European and national job markets,by analyzing which personal characteristics, skills, and abilities are mostly required for youths.- To provide participants with instruments to find and share with youngsters educational occasions, projects, and exchanges in the European Union.<< Activities >>Participants will be trained on the development of self-confidence, self-awareness, and leadership and how to transmit these skills and knowledge to the young people, whom they are working with.The focus of the training is to stimulate participants to see themselves as ""youth leaders"" able to organize, guide, and manage initiatives in favor of the youth they work with and their localcommunities.Project methodologies will be mainly based on non-formal education methodologies: the trainer will guide participants through a process of self-realization and self-awareness, not limited to the simple transfer of knowledge, but based on the mutual exchange between staff and participants. For instance, the chosen methods for workshops are: fish bowl, pitch, world cafè, SWOT analysis, role-play, SALTO toolbox exercises and booklet.<< Impact >>Given the importance that partner organizations recognize in this approach, high visibility will be given to the activities and results of the project not only within the organizations involved but also in the local communities. Specific activities are thought in order to allow participants to apply what they learned to their every-day experience with youths.The project ""Employment Heroes"" seeks to provide young people with high-quality educational experiences and positive examples, finding leaders able to give value to their qualities and to follow them in their growth."

The project aims to bring together youth workers from 11 countries (Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Portugalia, Sebia, Italy, Spain, Lithuania, England) in order to find practical and sustainable solutions to stop the phenomenon of bullying. In an European context, as well as in a national context , bullying occurs in increasingly atrocious ways, such as: street fights, bombings, insults, harassment, cyberbullying. The project will be one with a great impact for the 33 participants, because they will have the opportunity to work at an European level by interacting with concrete life situations through thematic visits to accredited institutions in order to fight against bullying.Statistics show that a total of 3417 students in Poland and 5626 in Lithuania were surveyed, showing that 30.1% adolescents in Poland and 52.3% in Lithuania have reported being a victim. Bullying being associated with poor subjective health and low life satisfaction. In Greece 55% of students are claiming that they are suffering from depression because of bullying. As many as one in three children have self harmed or had suicidal thoughts. The research conducted by the University Research Institute of Mental Health (EPIPSI) concludes that bullying is spreading like an epidemic, 8.5% of teenagers are being bullied at least 2-3 times a month, while 1 in 6 (15.8 %) teens mention that they intimidate others frequently. Students who bully others are mostly boys, while those who are intimidated are both boys and girls.In the United Kingdom, 50% of young people have bullied another person, 30% of which do it at least once a week,74% of those who have been bullied, have, at some point been physically attacked, 17% have been sexually assaulted whereas 62% have been cyber bullied.In Turkey, statistics show that almost 33,5% of young people have been bullied verbally, 35.5% have been bullied physically, 28.3% have been bullied emotionally, and 15.6% had been sexually bullied, at least once during the academic year. In Bulgaria, different studies show that between 70% and 80% of the students admit that in their school there were cases of aggression and they have witnessed them; 38% of the children confess they have participated in acts of bullying in school, 30% on the street; 23% of the students have used Internet to harass their friends; Romania is among the top three European countries in the incidence of cyber bullying, between October 2011- October 2013, there have been registered over 2907 cases of bullying. 45,72 ℅ regarding physical violence, 22,86℅ verbal abuse, whereas 15,24 and 14,28℅ regarding emotional abuseThe methods of non-formal learning will blend harmoniously with the informal learning points of maximum intensity, such as: Theatre of the oppressed, flash mob, photovoice, collective street painting, all this being of maximum impact on the participants even more since some of them know them just from hearsay, never being directly involved.All the above mentioned activities will achieve the project objectives: create resources for youth workers, in order to help young people who have been bullied adapt and reflect on their own and others behaviour through videos and testimonials; provide useful information by organizing workshops; exchange experiences and best practices concerning youth activities that promote the integration of the young people that suffered from being bullied ; familiarize the participants with different tools and methods of non-formal education for young people that face social adjustment problems ; personal and professional development; promote the intercultural dialogue; Create and develop new projects and partnerships with the main theme being the inclusion and social integration of young victims of bullying in Romania and Europe;familiarize the participants with the Erasmus + Programme,raise awareness concerning harassed persons in all life sectors; fight against stereotypes, prejudices and discriminations ; promote tolerance on a large scale including among disabled persons, as well as to, promote human dignity and respect.The activities of the project suppose : conference, seminars, debats, thematic visits, open discussions, workshops, reflexions , meetings with specialists in the fild of bullying and specialoists in social integrations for youngsters.The project aims to change attitudes and thoughts, and because of this, the impact of the mobility in Romania will be on a large scale among foreign partners and collaborators from Romania.All the good practices of the project will be posted on the facebook group, partner sites, profile sites, representing a DVD that will be accessible to all those interested. The meeting of the 33 youth workers also aims to create networks, which is why another notable benefit is that the participants will work in order to make sketches for future successful projects under the frame of Erasmus +.

The training course 'Social Entrepreneurship for Social Inclusion' will take place in Plymouth, UK in September 2016. 30 participants from 7 organisations will gather together to enhance their knowledge of entrepreneurship, and share best practice.The participating countries: UK, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Slovakia and Italy.The target group is youth workers, NGOs’ workers and managers, trainers working with young people and youth leaders. the training aims to clarify and promote the concept of social entrepreneurship among NGOs that work or plan to work with young people with fewer opportunities (especially with migrants, refugees, asylum seekers) for their own sustainability and for their work on promoting the issue among these young people for their personal and professional development and involvement. The objectives of the training course are: 1) To get the participants familiar with the concept of social entrepreneurship. 2) To provide the participants with the opportunity to exchange experience and expertise in the fields of social entrepreneurship and in work with young people of fewer opportunities.3) To develop the essential entrepreneurial skills and competencies at the participants. 4) To provide participants with the tools and methods on creation, opening and running a social enterprise. 5) To encourage NGOs to open social enterprises. 6) To equip the participants with the tools and methods for activities on social entrepreneurship for young people with fewer opportunities. 7) To explore practical ways of using social entrepreneurship in order to reach, involve and encourage young migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and promoting fundamental values of our society among them. 8) To promote diversity, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue and tolerance among the participants. The project is in line with Erasmus+ objectives. 1. Particularly, the project will support the professional development of NGOs’ workers and volunteers and youth workers and with a view to innovating and improving the quality of their work across Europe.The programme is designed in accordance with the objectives and the identified needs of participants. During the life of the project , the programme will be continuously (or further) adapted according to participants’ needs, expectations and the evaluation of activity. the programme is based on principles of non-formal and informal education, and use participatory techniques/tools that lead to more effective programmes.

"The project ""Dance and sing with me for social inclusion!"" held in Craiova and promoted throughout the performance of its active participation of young people from four communities, Italy, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania.Its main goal was the involvement of 36 young talented but underprivileged young people belonging to minority groups, young people with mild disabilities or having an unfavorable economic situation, the actions of artistic expression, dance music, photography to better integrate them in social life and their awareness of the culture and traditions of each participating country.The specific objectives of the project were directly related to project activities, and can be described as follows:-development solidarity and promoting tolerance among young people through activities that encourage young people's creativity, artistic expression and active involvement;- developing intercultural communication skills for young participants;- Information, socialization, expression in order to better integration in social life; especially the young and talented participants coming from disadvantaged backgrounds;- exchange of experience and best practices on creative activities that promote inclusion and integration of disadvantaged youth between countries participating in the project ';- harnessing skills and competences of young talent in terms of artistic potential exchange participants- contribute to the physical and personal development of young people by promoting civic behavior in the community.- encouraging that natural activators of the dance for a harmonious development of physical and psychiatric disorders.- activities carried out within the sphere of exchange of youth come from non-formal education and were as follows:- forum theater workshops, music, dance, themed, energy, role plays, presentations etc.- choreography and dance workshops; workshops vocals; https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eurovision-Song-Contest-2015-Craiova/803566693055530-expo drawings, the theme is tolerance and active citizenship;intercultural evenings and socializing;The whole project results were presented at a press conference. where they were invited to participate are representatives from the local community, teachers, classmates of the young participants in the project. On this occasion, the youth had offered those present and brochures that included pictures taken, accompanied by their impressions and thoughtsThe project addressed the need for full personal development and physical participants in the proposed activities also increased the level of active citizenship among participants, they became members of a group, able to overcome social and cultural differences. Also, by creating a joint working group, the project has promoted solidarity, diversity in any form, active participation and mutual respect; to encourage mutual understanding between young people in different countries to promote intercultural dialogue, linguistic and ethnic diversity among young people in four countries and specific methods they have acquired through formal education, artistic and civic skills and attitudes."

People today are facing new “modern” types of violence that are in most of the cases considered only as “wrong” and this is where our thinking about a certain behaviour already stops. It usually does not seek enough of our attention to think about whether that behaviour is taking away someone’s opportunity for a decent life and life in peace. Many are facing psychological violence, discrimination in every day and feel stigmatized because of some personal characteristic they have. Considering that we are leaving in the time of a refugee crisis where those kinds of violence have never been shown in such an amount as one of the faces of some Europeans, Association of Maribor Students is taking an opportunity to work with youth from different parts of Europe. The reality is that we are sharing our continent with new people from different backgrounds and it is important for us to recognise our surroundings and know how to deal with it in a respectful way.For this purpose we will bring together more than 30 young people between 18 and 30 years old who come from all over Europe - Bulgaria, Estonia, Malta, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia. We will break barriers between people from different backgrounds, learn about the current situation in Europe, drop stigmas, find new solutions, promote inclusion, tolerance and learn the ways to find our peace in situations that can take it away from us – because peace is everybody’s right. We will compare the perception of the refugee crisis in the countries of the participants, develop debates, talk about psychological violence and recognize it as a serious form of violence and learn the techniques for finding inner peace through sports, meditation, yoga and similar. Participants will meet people from different backgrounds and minorities and represent their culture through intercultural evenings. They will think creatively and present the lessons from the youth exchange to children with fewer opportunities in a children-friendly way.Youngsters will learn to identify indirect discrimination, to be critical of the media and to develop their own critical thinking. They will learn the perception of the principles of equality and will be able to recognize psychological violence. They will recognize European citizen as a culturally enlightened, open-minded and tolerant individual.Through lectures, sports activities, cultural evenings, creative workshops, presentations, blog writing, intercultural evenings, meeting minorities, spending time in nature, we will achieve the objectives of the project - a step towards a more tolerant young people who carry the future of Europe which should consist of understood and happy people, capable of empathy, compassion, respect, critical thinking who recognize peace as a right of every individual.