The ‘Youth Leaders Across Borders’ (YLAB) project was a strategic partnership between 4 high quality youth leadership organisations from the UK, Germany, Sweden, and Poland.The project objectives for YLAB were;To produce new training resources that work across borders that1. Promote youth leadership, health improvement and citizenship by generating young leaders from disadvantaged communities who are well placed to get their peers moving2. Widen the appreciation and policy commitment to informal youth learning at all levels of Government and NGO’s 3. Support target group agencies to provide disadvantaged youth with access to innovative, informal life-long learning and training that develops soft transversal skills advantageous in the labour market: confidence, communication, leadership and reliability. 4. Pay particular attention to the gender gap.5. Develop practice across borders and internationalise youth leadership work by co-operatively producing an open education resource that works in the EU context. 6. Work towards the accreditation of a new youth training in programme to enhance internationalised youth work.The 30 month project has created open access, training resources that improve the leadership skills of young people, particularly those with fewer opportunities. The 6 modules enable young leaders to promote healthy behaviours to their peers, learning from Europe-wide best practice. Resources have been developed in 5 languages to increase access: English, Welsh, German, Swedish and Polish. The transnational nature of this project has added value. The unique training resource created, has stimulated 37 young people to be active and identify themselves as global citizens. The project has positively impacted on the views of these young people, in understanding their lives in a wider international context, increasing mobility, fostering intercultural dialogue, and increasing participation in European democratic life. The project had four participating organisations;StreetGames UK – The leading UK charity committed to ensuring disadvantaged young people and communities lead healthy active lifestyles. Engaging with over 1,000 locally trusted organisations, StreetGames engages over 30,000 young people aged 12-25 each year across the UK www.streetgames.org V4Sport Foundation Poland – With the mission to increase the number of people physically active in Poland, V4Sport works with both national and international partners to achieve this mission, basing its work around 5 pillars. Advocacy, research, innovative social campaigns, cross sectoral cooperation and capacity building. http://www.v4sport.eu/ Brandenburgische Sportjugend Germany (BSJ) – The 'Brandenburgische Sportjugend' is an umbrella organisation covering youth work and sport activities for young people from over 2600 clubs in Brandenburg. The work is guided by the aim to use sport as a tool for youth work. BSJ offers projects regarding sport, youth-work and social-youth-work including crime prevention, integration through sport, street soccer for tolerance, and voluntary opportunities including European Voluntary Service. http://sportjugend-bb.de/ SISU Idrottsutbildarna Sweden - SISU is the educational organisation attached to the Swedish Sport Confederation. Its main organisational aim is to work with sport clubs and sport Federations, developing and delivering education, training and development programmes. Working across 21 districts, over 3 million people are members of sport clubs in Sweden. http://www.sisuidrottsutbildarna.se/ The project consisted of the following activities;Delivery of 3 Intellectual outputs to develop youth leadership training, training resources and an interactive website; 5 Transnational Project Meetings; 4 Multiplier Events; 5 Learning/Teaching/Training Activities, including 1 blended mobility event and 4 train the trainer events.YLAB has resulted in high quality teaching and learning resources that are relevant and fit for purpose to enable young leaders to gain a better understanding of their leadership skills, potential and how they can apply themselves in international contexts. The project has achieved the following impact;• 37 young people, 78% of those with fewer opportunities, have accessed and shaped the training content, as well as develop themselves into international youth leaders• 63 international trainers have been trained to deliver the training, in addition to the 8 trainers that developed the training form the 4 partner organisations •240 people attended multiplier events, to understand the project and how it could be beneficial to them and their organisations and communities• Social media – direct followers 19,745 and followers of the key partners and influential individuals who promoted on our behalf 29,230• Newsletters/ press releases – across the partners’ circulation of circa 357,000The full project results can be found here; http://www.youthleadersacrossborders.eu/

Key topics: Integration, sport, physical activity, refugees, challenges, barriers, solutions, principles, success factors, recommendations, tips and tricks, partnership, impactThe last year has seen a huge and unprecedented influx of refugees and migrants into Europe. During 2015 more than a million asylum seekers and immigrants arrived in Europe. In the face of this crisis, governments have to date largely not succeeded in finding pan-European solutions, relying instead on national approaches. Refugees – and the unfortunate situations that made them refugees – are a reality. This is a reality we all need to deal with and act upon. Whether it is by undertaking actions that will help to minimise the number of refugees in the future, or by supporting civilians in areas of conflict, or assisting refugees in the countries they flee to – it is a human reality. A reality which demands a human solution. Depending on whether we represent political institutions or civil society, our roles and interventions will be different. But the task is the same - to give everyone the Human Right to MOVE.Many civil society organisations – not least sport organisations – have shown their human capacity by assisting refugees in finding just a little dignity, a little friendliness and a little happiness in their lives. To do this they acted quickly and have done it the way in which civil society is strongest. Simply by offering the refugees the same grassroots activities as they offer other citizens. This happens in thousands of places across Europe. It comes from the bottom up in local areas and is driven by volunteers. It is a fantastic symbol of the Human Right to MOVE being something we give to each other.The project Inclusion of Refugees through Sport had as its overall aim to strengthen the societal inclusion of refugees via the informal and non-formal learning opportunities sport and physical activities provide. With project we took a different approach by aiming to strengthen European cooperation in the field of adult learning to enhance inclusion of refugees at the level of civil society organisations. With IRTS project and its activities we have proof that interaction and informal learning can lead to an increase in Social, Intellectual, Financial, Physical, Emotional and Individual Capital for participants and learners. We have developed tools•good practice collection https://irts.isca.org/collection/ •a Grundtvig video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h10Fbmwcy4E •a toolkit https://irts.isca.org/implementation-guide/•an online learning resource https://learn.isca.org/courses/irts/ for grassroots sport and non-sport organisation to use when engaging refugees in sport and physical activities. Organisations invite and help refugees to be physical active, acquire positive life skills, attitudes and values. They improve their language and communication skills, get a better understanding of cultural norms and codes of conduct and form a mutual respect for common rules and underlying values. Moreover sports organisations and their leaders enhanced leadership and organisational skills for important contributions to the learning, self-esteem and, ultimately, employability of the individual refugees involved.Partners and other participating organisations established and joined the web networking platform, and committed to the sustainability of the project with their active engagement and recruitment of new organisations to expand the network. All new organisations receive consulting and advice to exploit the project outputs even further, via MOVE Beyond project and new Network platform. ISCA, as the lead organisation, is committed to maintaining and updating the platform with new materials at least quarterly, as well as inviting further interested organisations as the network expands. ISCA is very experienced in maintaining such networks and resources and is currently doing so for five thematic networks. ISCA is also able to exploit other international projects and meetings, as well as its annual congress, to enable the network organisations to be in touch also physically with regular intervals ISCA will continue to promote and monitor the use of these tools as part of our ongoing dissemination efforts. The migration and inclusion agenda remains an important issue that requires effective cooperation between European countries, so we believe that we set an example that others can take up, follow and develop further in the future.Full report is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/09neuohedafddmq/IRTS_Final%20Narrative_Report_October%202019.pdf?dl=0