As technology gets better and better intertwined with even the most insignificant aspects of our daily lives, our understanding of it doesn’t keep up at the same pace. We oftentimes find ourselves not qualified enough to decide, which way is it that the new technology will impact our daily lives, and just how much ground we are willing to give up. With workplaces, our personal information, media and even governments moving from ink to bytes, playing field has been changing constantly, leaving some of us behind. In July of 2018, 30 people, both those technologically savvy and those not related to technology in any significant way, will be working on topics like e-government, critical perception of online media, limiting access to one’s own personal data and innovation in the technology area, as well as decreasing dependency on technology for most basic personal activities. Through simulations, groupwork, practical tasksand reflective practices we plan to develop better understanding of changes happening in our world due to technological advancements, as well as understand how to make our own changes to make sure that the direction we’re moving in remains overall favorable to society.

The education of young people in the entrepreneurial field is highly necessary especially for new venture creation and fighting against youth unemployment. The development of new small businesses, which most of the times are accompanied by an entrepreneurial spirit, does not only empower the economic situation through the creation of new jobs, but it also provides a pathway for business owners—particularly minorities, immigrants and the economically disadvantaged groups and individuals- to join the middle class. Moreover, in the current economic environment, entrepreneurship constitutes the best opportunity for many unemployed citizens to recover by starting a business, thus being self-employed.Entrepreneurial experiences – such as making mistakes, trying a concept, developing ideas, actually building, managing, and growing organizations, raising real funds, failing, trying again, building intellectual capital and managing it, and translating intellectual value into economic and social value – should be the acid test in being able to develop an educated opinion about entrepreneurship. Therefore, by converting all these real examples into practical activities, the trainers and the experts on entrepreneurial fields will attempt to attract the attention and the imagination of participants and provide them with all the essential tools for taking conscious decisions based on realistic economic and social conditions.With all our partners we recognized the need of practical education on entrepreneurship and prepared project called “Blueprint your Career” that was hosted in Kleve, Germany by JuBuK e.V. from 30.06.2015 until 06.07.2015 in cooperation with partner organizations from Spain, Romania, Portugal, Poland, Estonia, Morocco, Cyprus, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, France, Czech Republic that were represented by 2-3 participants each. The objectives- Practice to practice entrepreneurship through workshops and practical exercises -To gain experience and apply entrepreneurship through workshops and practical exercises.-To support participants in the the acquisition of competences (knowledge, skills and attitudes) with a view to improving their personal development and employability in the European labour market.-To support the professional development of youth workers with a view to the innovating and improving the quality of training youth work across Europe;- To understand changing and dynamic nature of entrepreneurship.- To empower job seekers to become self employed.-To develop creative and entrepreneurial spirit of young people.- To acquire skills and specific knowledge using non-formal education by developing of human personality and developing set of skills necessary for entrepreneurs. -To promote practical methods in approaching entrepreneurship education.- To develop new contacts with organizations from EU and Partner countries to create stronger partnerships for future projects in the European context.-To promote and develop innovative ideas and share good practices.

"<< Objectives >>As Europe is plagued with a tense economic and social context, embodied by a high unemployment rate, job insecurity and social isolation of vulnerable people, it is becoming more and more important for individuals to learn how to deal with stressful situations and find ways to step back and recover from failures, shocks or disruptions in a life-path/career.A lot of research demonstrates the value of an in-depth work on emotions, fears and failures in improving the ability of individuals (and the organizations they make up) to adapt to complex situations and to really engage with society. The point of such work is to enable a person to recognize their own emotional states and to be able to use them to their advantage. This knowledge will also help them notice emotions that other people are going through and improve their listening skills and empathy. This will in return contribute to creating a more supportive living and working environment for them, for their team and for the people around them.However, in order to get growing numbers of people familiar with these skills, those innovative concepts should spread in society, as well as the tools and specific methods to help each individual work on their emotions, change the way they look at their past experiences (personal, social, professional) and those of the people around them ; in the end they will become truly capable of exercising their power and their citizenship.Youth and social workers can highly contribute to this process by supporting, advising, guiding, training and attending to young people as well as people in precarious situations, vulnerable people or individuals going trough a transitional period in their socio-professional integration or in their efforts to launch a project or create their own job. However, most of those social workers lack the required knowledge, methods and tools to achieve this goal.The ""DARE: Demystifying fears and failures to take action"" training course thus offers to strengthen the skills of the participants in the fields of emotional intelligence and emotional agility, as well as providing them with practical methods and tools to better support the target groups.By developing their professional, social, intercultural and linguistic skills and extending their network abroad, it aims at improving the quality of youth work throughout Europe and more specifically the ability of youth and social workers to efficiently advise, train and support young people, vulnerable groups and young entrepreneurs in their life-path and initiatives.The training course intends to be a contribution to social innovation and to encourage a more inclusive culture in society, by enhancing people’s adaptability, giving them confidence in their ability to take action and developing both their entrepreneurial and their social skills.<< Activities >>The ""DARE: Demystifying fears and failures to take action"" training course will take place in France from February, the 20th to the 27th, 2020 (included). It will bring together 30 youth and social workers from Greece, Italy, Portugal, France, Estonia, Germany and Spain who are currently involved in supporting young people or vulnerable people – in precarious situations, facing discriminations, in a professional transition or facing specific integration issues - in their socio-professional journey or in their efforts to develop their own project.It will take place in a rural cottage near Gaillac (Tarn), which will create the proper atmosphere for an optimal learning experience and a deeper connection between the participants.The training course will deal with the emotions we experience and with the fears and beliefs that prevent us from acting or hinder the development of our initiatives (personal or collective) or the exercise of our citizenship. Extracting knowledge from their own life-path and from sharing their experiences, the participants will highlight how past failures and fears impact our behaviors, choices, life-path and career. Skilled trainers will help them come up with proper definitions for the key concepts of the course (emotional intelligence, emotional agility, limiting beliefs, etc.), specify the purposes of addressing fears, emotions and failures with their target groups and acquire appropriate tools and methods to improve the quality of the support they provide to young people, vulnerable people and young entrepreneurs.They will work on practical cases and get gradually familiar with the concepts, methods and tools they will be introduced to and on which they will take a critical look. Daily debriefings will help them taking a step back from what they experience and put into perspective the knowledge acquired with regard to their work with young people, vulnerable groups and young entrepreneurs.In addition to the working sessions scheduled during the day, they will take advantage of the time spent together to develop their facilitation skills in an intercultural context, share knowledge and deepen their relationship in a more intimate setting, and strengthen a set of soft and social skills that matter in youth and social work.Finally, the participants will get involved in producing pedagogical material to share the main results of the training course and in setting up a dissemination strategy to broadcast them. They will agree on the tasks that should be carried out and will be responsible for implementing them with the support of their sending organization.<< Impact >>First, the ""DARE"" training course will enable the participants to acquire solid knowledge of the fields of emotional intelligence and emotional agility. It will also provide them practical methods and tools for supporting their target groups in understanding of their emotional state, exploring their life-path, developing their listening and empathy skills as well as improving their understanding of what prevents them from taking action and in the end, to help them create strategies to overcome the obstacles they pointed out.The course will encourage the participants to take a step back from their practices, to learn from the experience of other professionals, to develop decisive soft skills in social and youth work and to strengthen their skills in facilitation, intercultural communication and mediation.In addition, the training course will contribute to their personal development, leading to an increasing motivation and satisfaction in their daily work, and to broadening their European network of professionals.The acquired skills will allow them to better support young people – among which young people with fewer opportunities – as well as vulnerable people and individuals facing specific integration difficulties in their socio-professional integration paths, on one hand, and young project leaders in the development of their initiatives, on the other hand.The training course will also have a direct impact on the organizations the participants are involved in (including the 7 partner organizations of the project) through the capacity-building of their staff and sharing their experience. Their action will be based on a stronger theoretical frame and enriched by the experience of other professionals from the field coming from various European countries. They will thus be able to diversify, adapt and improve the quality of the advice, guidance, training and support services they offer to their target groups.What is more, having developed a common language based on common methods and tools will enable them to make their partnership grow and set up new projects in the future.Lastly, it will allow them to analyze their actions and the way they work as a group taking into consideration their own history and the one of their members, so that they can identify how some fears can influence their choices and develop a strategy to deal with them in a constructive way.The training course will thus indirectly benefit to:- young people (and in particular young people with fewer opportunities or facing social obstacles), unemployed people, people in professional transition or people facing specific integration difficulties who are supported by the participants or the organizations in which they are active, as they will benefit from better services and a better monitoring;- young project leaders /entrepreneurs thanks to the additional skills their mentors will have acquired to support them and help them overcome their fears and take action.The dissemination to other youth and social organizations or organizations involved in non-formal education of the concepts, methods and tools addressed during the training course (thanks to various dissemination activities at local, regional, national and international level, both in person and online) will contribute to a higher quality of the services they provide. This will lead to a more successful professional integration of their target groups (mostly young people and vulnerable groups) and to their greater engagement with the local community or with social projects.It will also contribute to the emergence and long-lasting of social projects led by either individuals or groups whose obstacles to take action have been overcome thanks to appropriate support.Finally, the training course will play a key role for the inclusion of the most vulnerable, for enhancing community living and for helping innovative projects emerge throughout Europe, based on the values of openness, respect, solidarity and justice."

"<< Objectives >>Our project Culturally (y)ours, is aimed at developing and improving the intercultural competences of youth workers, youth leaders in order to become able to prepare, run and evaluate high quality youth work activities according to the principles of intercultural education. We live in multicultural, cross-cultural and intercultural societies. Our local communities are not homogeneous anymore thanks to the free European mobility, the open borders and markets for European citizens, and hosting refugees and migrants from other parts of the world. It is not all the time easy to handle intercultural challenges, to understand the communication codes of different culturality young people, to treat appropriately diverse values, norms and schemes on intercultural behaviours, to face with stereotypes and prejudices coming from young people towards each other without really knowing what they are afraid of and why they become more and more xenophobic. Feeling in our skins, we need to improve our youth work competences through intercultural education in order to be able offering such types of youth work activities locally and European level where young people with different cultural background can cooperate together and handle their cultural diversity as added value of their common activities. General objectives of the project is to train youth workers, youth leaders to be able to work with different culturality young people, e.g. refugees, migrants, foreign kids or young people coming home from other countries and build up a successful intercultural team locally and European level. To recognise stereotypes, prejudices and prevent or stop social stigmatization of young people with different cultural background. By using appropriate intercultural communication, being able to understand the communication and behavioral norms, schemes and forms of young people with different cultural background.<< Activities >>We will host 33 Youth workers. They come from 14 organizations that work with youngs, from 14 EU countries. ""H2O""-Associação de Jovens de Arrouquelas – Portugal; Stowarzyszenie Inicjatyw Regionalnych – Polónia; SEIKLEJATE VENNASKOND – Estónia; Unique projects – Lituânia;STUDIO PROGETTO SOCIETA COOPERATIVASOCIALE – Itália; Comité de Liaison Diagonal France – França; Active Youth – Malta; JUGEND, BILDUNG UND KULTUR EV – Alemanha; YOPA - FIATALOK AZ ÁLLAMPOLGÁRI RÉSZVÉTELÉRT KÖZHASZNÚ EGYESÜLET – Hungria; Udrugagluhih i nagluhih Nova Gradiska – Croácia; Dare to take your chance – Roménia; Rock Solid Foundation for International youth work – Holanda; ANAZITITES THEATROU – Grécia; MOMENTUM WORLD CIC - Reino Unido.Youth leaders who directly work with young people with different cultural backgrounds e.g. refugees, migrants, foreign kids, young people coming home from other countries, minorities, Roma young people, etc. and who have already run at least one international youth project experience, preferably youth exchange, or were already group leaders in youth exchange. We apply for one activity entitled “Cultirally (y)ours” – training course on intercultural competence development of youth workers, youth leaders in order to run local youth work activities and youth exchanges with involvement of refugees, migrants and foreign young people at 3 - 10 Abril 2020, Rio Major, Portugal. The course is strongly based on experiential learning (learning by doing), with adequate time allocated for debriefing and reflection throughout the whole program as the process will be highly personal and aim for attitudinal changes therefore the reflection is very important part of the process (as the educational team is well aware of). Generally, the working methods will be rather non-formal and participative. Methods planned to use e.g. individual work, pair work, organisational work, mixed group work, field activity, light theatre method, theatre of oppressed, Dixit card exercise, montages, interviews, statutes, debate, aquarium discussion.<< Impact >>Suggestions how cooperative learning techniques can be used within youth work context in order to foster tolerance, empathy, acceptance, teamwork, emotional intelligence and language skills, etc. within youth work activities among local young people and refugees, migrants, foreign kids and young people coming home from other countries and support them becoming team members and benefitting from their differences for the sake of themselves and for the team. Roles and responsibilities of youth workers regarding to adapting intercultural education in daily youth work activities based on different target groups e.g. local young people and refugees or migrants or foreign kids or young people coming home from other countries. Montages and lists of possible cultural challenges of working in culturally different teams and its’ prevention strategies. List of possible intercultural challenges in intercultural teamwork among young people and how to prevent or handle these by youth work context. The list of intercultural competences of youth workers and explanation of knowledge, skills and attitude what can be developed or improved. Tips and hints on techniques and methods how as youth workers we can support group dynamic process of intercultural teams locally and European level."

<< Objectives >>By implementing this training course and it's follow-up process, we would like to develop skills of youthworkers, that are forming the lives of young people. By transferring certain competences to youngsters, they are also helping to design their future paths. We sincerely believe that adding long-term planing, critical thinking, media and financial literacy into the mix can help young people to lead a happier life and have a smoother start in their adult lives, preparing them for what is ahead.The objectives of our project are:1) to share and practice critical thinking methods,2) to encourage long-term planning and give decision-making tools,3) to transfer the basics of financial and media literacy,4) to enhance argumentation and debating skills,5) to develop activities linked to the topic, that will create a multiplication effect.<< Activities >>Our project is designed as a Training Course with 24 participants from 8 countries.Participants will be youthworkers, who aim to include topics of critical thinking, media literacy and financial management in their daily work with young people.We expect our participants to have at least an intermediate level of English, be an active youthworker/volunteer/teacher/trainer/facilitator/youth exchange leader, ... with at least 1 year of experience of working with youth.<< Impact >>By implementing this training course, we expect to transfer basic skills of money management, fact-checking and thinking critically to our participants. During our project, we will give them tools to use in their work with young people, but we will also support them by developing their own projects, workshops and other actions that involve these topics. We expect the impact to be on the local level in Kolin, Czech Republic, where our training course will be held. Some activities of us will also reach the national level, such as sharing the results of the project on national conferences with managers of other NGOs in Czech Republic. We expect our participants to be multiplicators and exploit the results of this training to enlarge the impact to international level.