<< Objectives >>You Press http://youpress.org.uk is an award-winning social enterprise based in London, which is currently run by volunteers and creative artists to support young writers and poets to bring their words and art to a wider audience. Our projects involve empowering young people to find their voice and be heard. This involves challenging stereotypes and stigmas about young people and communities (through creative arts and writing).ScribersHive was already one of our most innovative and locally successful projects in London but we wanted it to grow. It is a platform for young writers, storytellers and change makers age 16+, with a strong social purpose to empower young people to find their voice and be heard through writing and creative arts. Through the project, they connect to social issues, topics, stories & debates in a unique and interactive way.This was our second Erasmus+ project. Our objectives were:1. To internationalise our work, build partnerships with like-minded organisations around Europe, and participate in further projects, thereby offering more opportunities to the young people we work with, most of whom are from minority communities or disadvantaged backgrounds.2. To build on the first Erasmus+ project which we ran in 2018-19, in order to help us to grow our reputation with sponsors and stakeholders, and so increase our reach and impact to our target groups.3. To create a platform for young people around Europe to report on social, cultural and migration issues through creative media4. To develop the competences of youth workers, young people and partner organisations by sharing a creative methodology for working on societal issues.5. To bring the ScribersHive process to a European level to enable more young people access to writing, graphics and broadcasting skills 6. To increase awareness and understanding of migration-related issues from a cultural perspective, and appreciation of intercultural barriers and opportunities7. To promote Erasmus plus and spread awareness of the programme and what can be achievedThe project results were written articles, graphics and video / podcasts. These are currently available via the Erasmus+ results platform but will soon be publicly presented on our new ScribersHive website (currently under development, due for launch May 2023). The expected longer term benefits are increased public awareness and understanding of European intercultural and migration-related issues, and getting more young people involved in reporting these issues.The project supported the objectives of Erasmus+ because it developed skills and employability, promoted creative innovation in youth work, and empowered young people. It was also about reaching out to marginalised young people, promoting diversity, intercultural dialogue, common values of freedom, tolerance and respect of human rights. It focused on enhancing media literacy, critical thinking and sense of initiative of young people. It also embodied inclusion, multilingualism and open access.<< Implementation >>The project consisted of 2 phases, with local activity in between:Phase 1 (activity A1): training course in Greece. Participants learned about ScribersHive, and were trained on how to use journalism (and other creative writing), graphics, podcasting and video making to raise awareness of social and cultural issues. They heard from experts and activists about the issue of migration in Europe. They took part in a full simulation of the ScribersHive process based around these issues and made action plans for working with young people in their home locations.Phase 2 (local activities): work with young people to produce written articles about social or cultural issues relating to migration. The written articles from country / group A were then passed to young people in country / group B, B to C, and C to A. Each group was asked to interpret the article they had received, and create a graphic (comic strip or other artwork) from it. A final exchange of material from one country / group to another involved a second reinterpretation of the original theme, by turning the graphics into podcasts or short videos. All finished materials (written, graphic and digital) were collected by You Press for publication on our website.Phase 3 (activity A2): final creative workshop, evaluation meeting and showcase / dissemination event in London. Participants came together again to review and disseminate the project results, and to plan follow-up activities.7 countries were originally involved in the project: Armenia, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Slovenia, Ukraine and UK. However, two partners (Italy, Slovenia) did not send any participants despite initial enthusiasm. The total number of participants, including trainers, was 32. They were mostly younger youth workers or volunteers working or regularly participating in cultural activities with You Press (UK) or the other partners, with an interest in creative writing, arts or film making. Many were selected because of having fewer opportunities, particularly social, cultural, economic and geographical.<< Results >>The results of the project exceeded our expectations. Every group has produced written, graphical and audiovisual media outputs, which we initially disseminated in a public exhibition at a social and cultural centre in west-central London (the Anti-Tribalism Movement centre). As mentioned, the individual outputs are currently available via the Erasmus+ results platform, but the exhibition as a whole is in the process of being transferred to our new ScirbersHive website, due for launch within the next 2 months. This project provided a platform for intercultural learning and brought together participants from many different cultural and social backgrounds and gave them the tools to create many different local activities and pan-European cooperation which resulted in a showcase event in which all the results were presented and disseminated to a wider audience.This non-formal education project has extended our international collaboration to several more EU and partner countries and promoted the ScribersHive concept around Europe, creating the foundations for future links and projects. Our own team at You Press has become more internationalised and outward-looking.As their first international project, this has been a life-changing experience for many of the participants, particularly those from ethnic minority communities in the UK. Some of them have already gone on to participate in other Erasmus+ projects. Lasting inter-cultural friendships have been made.The project has had the following impact:- For participants (enhanced youth work skills and techniques, personal and professional competencies)- For young people reached indirectly through local activities (youth voice, active citizenship, intercultural learning)- For partners and other organisations (open access materials arising from the project; new creative methodologies; networking)- For communities (engagement of young people in reporting and discussing societal issues).The project has promoted key objectives of Erasmus+ for youth mobility, youth work development and internationalisation. It also embodied inclusion and multiligualism (particularly because local activities can be carried out in any language).Outputs from the project have been made available on an open access basis through our website.YouthPass was used to record, measure and validate learning and achievement on the project.

<< Objectives >>Time for Tea is a non-formal education programme for schools and youth groups that has already been featured as a case study by the UK National Agency. Its overall aim is to give young people a voice on issues of global and local importance. It encourages global learning, creative thinking and social action (active citizenship). It is simple, fun and accessible to people of any age, background or ability, anywhere in the world. It involves a simple step-by-step series of activities which can be led by teachers, youth workers or young people themselves:1. Explore and discuss the issues that concern you about the world, near or far.2. Choose one issue, and decide what you want to say about it, and who you want to listen to you.3. Get a packet of tea, and work together to create an imaginative packaging and delivery method, incorporating and encapsulating your message.4. Deliver your tea and message to your chosen recipient – with the simple request to drink the tea and think about what you have to say. Any response or meeting is a bonus.5. Tell the story of what you have done, through video, photographs or other media. This is then shared with the world on the Time for Tea website www.time4tea.info. Through the website, groups can also make contact with each other and develop transnational projects of their own, based on common interests or themes.Following pilot projects supported by Erasmus+ in 2018-19, the aim of “Future Time for Tea” was to extend our international collaboration to several more countries, including some countries and partners we had not worked with before. This would allow us to disseminate the concept even more widely in Europe and beyond, creating a greater multiplier effect and helping us towards our ultimate goal of a truly global youth advocacy project.The objectives were to train a further cohort of youth workers across Europe, to implement local projects with young people in each country, and to showcase the results. Complementary objectives were to promote inclusion and intercultural learning.<< Implementation >>The project brought together 35 youth workers / adult volunteers from 13 different countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, UK) for two international mobilities:A1. Training course (London, UK) about how to set up and organise a Time for Tea activity at the local or national level. Participants practiced the activity together, and then made action plans for running Time for Tea with young people back home. They were also trained on how to make effective use of video to report their activities.A2. Review meeting and public dissemination event (Brussels, Belgium) to bring together experience so far, and make plans for further development of the Time for Tea programme internationally.In between the two mobilities, participants organised their own local Time for Tea projects. They produced films or other reports of their activities, to be uploaded and shared on the Time for Tea website as well as used in the dissemination event.Planned follow-up activities including multiplier training have been implemented in some countries but not yet all.<< Results >>This non-formal education project has extended the international collaboration of Time for Tea to several more countries and promoted the concept around Europe, creating the foundations for future links. It has given us more evidence of the effectiveness of Time for Tea as a non-formal education methodology for youth advocacy, and how this appeals equally to young people, youth workers, teachers and other adult leaders. The project has positioned us effectively for the next phase of programme development, and for seeking new funding streams including commercial sponsorship in the coming year.The profile generated by this project has also enabled us to promote and launch Time for Tea in several non-European countries including Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Zimbabwe. We are well on the way to realising our ambition for a global programme.The project has had the following impact:- For participants (enhanced youth work skills and techniques, personal and professional competencies)- For young people (youth voice, active citizenship, dialogue with policy makers)- For partners and other organisations (open access materials arising from the project; global learning methodologies; networking)- For communities (engagement of young people).The project has promoted key objectives of Erasmus+ for youth mobility, youth work development and internationalisation. It also embodied inclusion and multilingualism (particularly because local activities can be carried out in any language). In the UK, involvement of two Autistic participants brought a new dimension because they chose to implement their local project as an online (virtual world) activity, thereby giving us evidence of innovation.Outputs from the project have been made available on an open access basis, and shared through our dedicated Time for Tea website, to encourage more people to get involved.Youth Pass was used to record, measure and validate learning and achievement on the project.As mentioned in our application, we intend to use this project to influence policy on recognising the benefits of access to international activities for unemployed young people. However, this has not yet happened due to the knock-on disruption of covid on our UK work.

<< Objectives >>This was our first Erasmus+ project, which we wanted to use to further the internationalisation of our organisation. The project provided us the opportunity to share our knowledge and experience in relation to our work on societal issues (in particular, assistance to the most disadvantaged groups) through the use of farm-based, ecological and other activities. Our work is all about providing support, opportunity and access to employment for disadvantaged young people. So far this has been done at the local and County level. Our interest in Erasmus+ arose from a contact from a Care Farm in Piispala, Finland, which was looking for a UK partner and made contact with us. This inspired us to develop our international activities and partnerships by running this training course. Becoming a host organisation in EVS (and subsequently European Soildarity Corps) also hugely increased our motivation.Although Care Farming methodology exists in other European countries as well as around the UK, it is still not well known. So we decided to organise a training course whereby we could share our experience in order to create wider interest in the concept and bring the benefits to more communities and especially young people, across Europe. A further aim was to develop new European partnerships and follow-up projects. However, as we were planning the project, our then EVS volunteers pointed out that there is so much else we do, and that we should expand the scope of the training to include other areas of our work, which we believe are examples of best practice.We particularly wanted to attract youth workers who live and work in rural areas, because they typically face similar challenges to ourselves and some of them also fall into the “fewer opportunities” category. We designed this training course to inspire them with new ideas and holistic approaches appropriate to their client groups (disadvantaged youth) and to provide models which they could easily adapt to their local context to cooperate with local farmers and introduce care farming activities (not necessarily fully fledged care farms, though that could happen later). We decided to increase the number of UK participants on the course, because this was a golden opportunity for some of our local volunteers (who are also often severely disadvantaged) to gain new skills and broaden their horizons. In the event, we had more UK participants than originally intended because of the obstacles imposed on international participation as a result of Covid and, more seriously, Brexit. See below for further details of these changes.The course supported the priorities of Erasmus+ because of its themes (access for disadvantaged people, health & wellbeing, inclusion & equity, youth unemployment, migrants issues and youth work) and because the direct and indirect target groups (i.e. youth workers who participate, and the young people they work with) are directly affected by or interested in these themes, so the training would have a real and immediate impact on young people’s wellbeing, employability and access to opportunity.The project was also intended to motivate our team and enhance our reputation for diversity and internationalism, and offer intercultural learning activities for our clients, who are mostly people with few or no opportunities to travel or experience other cultures.<< Implementation >>The implemented activity was a training course for youth workers, based at Chaos Farm in Veryan, near Truro, Cornwall. The duration was 6 days plus 2 travel days.The course participants were selected from our own and our partners' organisations. Some of them were in employment as youth workers, while others were assistants or volunteers who have been involved in our respective work specifically to help them gain a foothold on the skills and employment ladder, but who face various exclusion factors (social, economic, educational, etc). The course has provided them with a significant development opportunity.The course was led by our own core team members, alongside internationally experienced trainers from one of our key UK partner organisations (Momentum World) and a representative of our Finnish partner at Piispala Youth Centre, as explained in our original application.There were 32 participants including our team members and trainers. Participants were youth and social workers and volunteers in partner organisations.During certain parts of the course, we were able to involve some other local beneficiaries in the activities (these have not been counted among the “official” participant numbers). They were mostly from the target groups of Chaos Cornwall. It was exciting to be able to give them some exposure to an international context and being able to meet people from other countries.<< Results >>This project was a training course so, as such, it did not produce specific outputs. The results were more in terms of intangible outcomes around the skills and learning of the participants and the reputation of Chaos Cornwall. The local community where we work (in and around Truro, but also more widely in Cornwall) have been made aware of our new international “exposure” through our dissemination activities, in particular through our community broadcasts on Chaos TV, our internet station. See below for a description of how the TV studio was integrated into the project.

"""Many Stories, One Conclusion training for youth workers"" (MSOC) was a project which was inspired by our previous project ""Many Stories, One Conslusion"" youth exchange. It was a step further and it aimed at developing advanced methodologies of youth work, using myths and legends to promote intercultural understanding and tolerance. The project had four main objectives: 1) equipping youth workers from participating organizations in advanced skills, tools and methods of conveying the values of tolerance and intercultural dialogue via myths and legends, 2) increasing tolerance and diversity in the local communities of participating organisations, 3) sharing our innovative methodology with other youth workers from around the world, 4) reaching out to marginalised young people from the local communities of the participating organisations. The mani activity of the MSOC project was MSOC training. There were 17 participants of our MSOC training - 3 from Jordan, 3 from Georgia, 3 from Ukraine, 2 from Slovenia and 6 from Poland. The participants were youth workers working in the organisations taking part in the project. 4 of the participating youth workers were participants with disabilities. Therefore, our project also included 3 accompanying persons for them. The training took place in Zatonie near Złocieniec, between 12 and 19. October 2019. Another crucial element of the project, before the training, was series of webinars ofr the participants. What is more, another important issue in our project was publishing high-quality toolkits containing innovative methods of youth work (promoting tolerance and intercultural dialogue via working with legends and myths and transforming the content of those myths and legends into innovative attractive tools such as escape rooms and board games). Our ""Many Stories, One Conclusion"" project produced high-quality learning outcomes. The participants gained knowledge about the legends and myths from other countries. They learnt how myths and legends can be used to tranform young people's behaviour. What is more, they gained indepth knowledge about Erasmus+ programme structure and purpose and the Youthpass certificate. They acquired a deeper understanding of the importance of teaching tolerance and mutual understanding between cultures. What is more, the participants also gained knowledge about the behavious and culture of other participating countries (thanks to spending time with them and collaborating with them). Furthermore, the participants acquired knowledge about how to construct a high-quality toolbox with workshop scenarios. They also acquired knowledge and skills about board games design, story telling techniques and the details of designing an escape romo with educational content. What is more, the participants learnt how to share their experience with other youth workers. They gained a skill of discussing challanges and opportunities of being a youth worker. They learnt how to take initiative (while conducting their own activities during the training and dissemination activities). What is more, they learnt how use legends and myths to change young people's attitudes and how to interact with people with special needs. Thanks to the project, the young people from all of the local communities of participating organisations (from Poland, Slovenia, Georgia, Jordan and Ukraine) became more tolerant and open for cultural diversity. In this way, they became less prone to violent radicalisation. Thanks to the dissemination activities, they got to know about Erasmus+ projects and are now more motivated to take part in Erasmus+ projects. They also increased their knowledge about other cultures - thanks to the presentations in the local communities, the young people from the local communities of participating organisations got to know myths an legends from other countries. They learnt how to identify the universal features in all the legends and myths. They broadened their horizons. The general impact on all participating in the project organisation is that they became more apt in all the procedures needed in the project (planning, preparation, implementation, monitoring, evaluation). They got a chance to share good practices. They also enhanced their international and European dimension of their organisations. What is more, the participating organisations gained recognition for publishing the high-quality toolkits and publishing it on salto-youth and using other channels. Last but not least, they gained experience in running a profound process of preparation to the training (webinars) and the extended dissemination and follow-up phase.Thanks to the toolkits we published on salto-youths, also other youth workers and organizations from all over the world can benefit from our ""Many Stories, One Conclusion"" project."

"Time for Tea is an educational programme for schools and youth groups, which uses tea to give young people a voice on issues that matter to them. It encourages global learning, creative thinking and social action. It is simple, fun and accessible to people of any age, background or ability, anywhere in the world. It involves a simple step-by-step series of activities which can be led by teachers, youth workers or young people themselves.This is a cross-sector KA2 strategic partnership for innovation (youth and schools) which promotes global learning, creative thinking and social action by young people. Thematically, it relates to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It encourages youth advocacy and intergenerational dialogue (including with policy-makers) with an emphasis on those who usually have difficulty in finding a voice. Impact on young people involved in the wider project includes development of key skills and competences for employability, including communication, teamwork and organisation. The project also inspires teachers and youth workers, and contributes to their continuing professional development, by introducing them to non-formal methodologies which liberates their thinking and demonstrates the practical and educational importance of genuine youth empowerment.The project is based on a recent Erasmus+ KA1 project which piloted the Time for Tea methodology in 18 programme and neighbouring partner countries, involving over 2000 young people, mostly with fewer opportunities. We now have sufficient proof of concept to know that Time for Tea has global potential. It makes a reality of ""empowerment"" and ""participation"" of young people, showing how a simple cup of tea can generate social, technical and educational innovation. The project aim is to create a training and resource base to support this global outreach. The overall result will be uptake of the Time for Tea project methodology by thousands of schools and youth groups, inspiring participation and empowering a generation of young people through dialogue with policy makers at all levels. There will be potential impact on education policy in the participating countries, especially in relation to the introduction of non-formal learning. Creative and entrepreneurial skills will also be developed.The intellectual outputs from the project will be:IO1: Resource packs for schools: lesson plans, templates and materials to give teachers a simple off-the-shelf package to get projects started quicklyIO2: 360 degree films: virtual reality training to show ""live"" examples of Time for Tea in actionIO3: Time for Tea story book: a resource for primary schools to engage pupils with global issues (Sustainable Development Goals)IO4: Handbook for inclusive practice: tools and techniques for working with young people with disabilities, special educational needs or other severe educational or social disadvantage.IO5: Virtual Tea House: an inclusive online virtual world space for interaction between young people from different countries, cultures and educational backgrounds, where experience can be shared and ideas developed into projects.IO6: Education policy guidelines: research into policy frameworks and evidence base for influencing these at local, regional or national level.Additional activities include training, multiplier and dissemination events and transnational meetings.The working language of the project will be English and therefore this will be the primary language for all outputs. However, we envisage translation into other languages, starting with the present project partner countries. All outputs will be tested in each participating country during the KA2 project, before being promoted more widely. In addition we will train a cadre of international trainers who can act as multipliers in their own countries and beyond.The project partners have been chosen for their effective involvement in the previous KA1 pilot project as well as the specific expertise they bring to the project, as evidenced by other international projects which they have managed, including KA2 strategic partnerships.Direct participants will include organisation staff (project managers) and technical experts; teachers and youth workers (practitioners) and trainers (multipliers). Although they themselves do not fall into the category of ""fewer opportunities"", their involvement will ultimately lead to the roll-out of the wider activities (Time for Tea projects in schools and youth groups) which are principally aimed at young people who are disadvantaged educationally, socially, economically, geographically or culturally. Their numbers will run into many thousands during the course of this project.We also expect significant impact on education policy and practice (especially through recognition of non-formal education."