“Use your creativity, take initiative and be the change!” is capacity building project which consists of 2 parts: youth workers mobility and European voluntary service (EVS) project.In youth workers mobility 7-days of training course will be held for EVS coordinators and mentors. Participants from Estonia, Kenya, Cameroon, Spain, Macedonia and Indonesia will meet in Indonesia and are trained about quality aspects od Erasmus +. Participants will exchange best practices working with volunteers and build up an action plan how to prepare and support volunteers with fewer opportunities in best way possible, which they will implement in upcoming EVS project. EVS project takes 11 Estonian, Spanish, Macedonian and Indonesian unemployed youth to Cameroon, Indonesia, Kenya and Spain for 6 months. The aim of project is to fight poverty and youth unemployment by developing youth’s creativity and sense of entrepreneurship. Concrete aims are as follows:• Develop the creativity of youth with fewer opportunities to help them find job in future or start their own business• Develop young people’s sense of initiative and entrepreneurship to help them overcome difficulties and avoid falling into poverty• Use non-formal education to discover youth’s strengths and weaknesses and prepare them for future• Introduce good practices and means for self-development for youth• Promote volunteering as opportunity to gain competences needed for future career• Give volunteers experience in the working with youth with fewer opportunities, develop their creativity and build their confidence for involving in job market after volunteeringVolunteers will work in local community centres. schools, youth and sport clubs and carry out different non-formal workshops. Volunteers will develop youth’s creativity, show them options for alternative ways of learning, develop their sense of initiative, discover their strengths and weaknesses, involve them in joint voluntary activities for community and provide them support and consultation. They will use tools such as art, sport, games, Internet for this. After returning to home volunteers will organize various activities (discussions about poverty issues, youth unemployment, volunteering etc) in their local community to spread the results.

"“Making Movies Matter -Competence Based Approach to Applying Filmmaking in Youth Work"" is a project that is aimed at supporting youth work in Europe in incorporating film as a methodology through establishing a comprehensive competence framework that can be used in educating both youth workers and filmmakers, and through creating a set of tools and resources in the area of filmmaking that can be applied in supporting young people's development and participation in a non-formal setting. Furthermore, the project aims to support the cross-sectorial cooperation in the youth field and the quality of youth activities implemented by professionals from other fields, through the development of a simplified youth work competence framework. By engaging professionals experienced in working with marginalized young people and young people with disabilities, this project will also ensure that the tools and activities are adapted to the specific needs of those young people, thus making the youth organizations more capable to reach and engage the most marginalized groups of young people.For more than five years now, organizations from this partnership are experimenting with using filmmaking and film as a method in youth work, with the aim of appealing to and supporting the personal development and participation of young people who are left out at the margins of the society. Over the last few years we saw the value of involving youth workers who have at least basic understanding of filmmaking processes, and filmmakers who are aware of the principles of non-formal education and group learning processes. In three editions of the international training course Making Movies Matter we worked on educating youth workers on how to facilitate filmmaking learning processes with young people. In the last edition, held in July/August 2019, we tried to bring together a mixed group of participants with youth work and filmmaking background and to educate them in the basic competences in both fields. There were two major learning outcomes of this effort. Firstly, we saw that we are missing a competence model for applying film in working with young people. Secondly, we identified a lack of tools and resources that are ready to use in this kind of processes. Finally, reflecting upon this experience, we also realized there is a lack of simplified youth work competency framework that can be used with other professionals. Our four organizations also involve visual artists, teachers, technicians (such as carpenters) and others in implementing activities with young people. Having just the complex ETS competence model, it is difficult to train them to be ready for working with young people. Partnering with professionals from other fields becomes increasingly important as organizations are trying to diversify youth work, and many are facing a similar problem of lacking a simple framework.Hence this project, which will produce three main results, published as intellectual outputs: a competence framework for using filmmaking as a method in youth work, a handbook with tools and educational resources in the area of filmmaking that can be applied in supporting young people's development and participation in a non-formal setting, and a general simplified youth work competency framework.To test the filmmaking competency framework, the organizations involved in this project will also develop a training course for youth workers and filmmakers, based on the identified competences. As a follow-up to the training, the participants will implement filmmaking activities in their local communities. At least 70 young people, 30 of them with fewer opportunities, will take part in this piloting phase. During this period, the organizations will have a chance to evaluate the first and second intellectual outputs with the staff and the young participants. The results of that reflection will be shared by a mixed group of participants during the second training event - the Evaluation Seminar, and the outcomes will serve as a basis for creating a general youth work framework that will be used for professionals from other fields.The last months of the project will be devoted to finalizing the outputs according to the received feedback and disseminating them to a wide group of stakeholders on a national and European level. Four multiplier meetings will be held, while the results will be also presented in public screening events in each of the communities, and though a number of offline and online dissemination activities with different stakeholders. We expect that by adopting this approach, organizations and youth workers will increase by far their capacities to reach and support young people with fewer opportunities. More importantly, the project will pioneer a model for establishing cross-sectoral cooperation in theyouth field, by introducing a set of minimum competences in youth work and designing a training approach for training them with different professionals."

MultiNATIONS project consists in extending and developing the competences and skills of youth workers, trainers and educators, who work in the field of non-formal and informal education and training, providing innovative and creative tools in order to support them in the long-run in promoting cultural diversity and intercultural equality along with enhancing of European fundamental values such as, acceptance, solidarity and respect. Cultural diversity is the most common heritage of humanity and should be recognized for the benefit of present and future generations. This diversity is embodied in the uniqueness and plurality of the groups and societies' identities making up humankind. The project’s innovation and added value lies in the fact that one of the most important ingredients for creativity is diversity; Thus, innovative ideas are implemented by creativity developing new initiatives on diversity management and mediation in favor of youth workers. The main project’s challenge is to motivate and influence youth workers to deal with the cultural diversity’s support. Therefore, under the MultiNATIONS project, a Self-test tool will be created in order youth works to be able to evaluate and determine their level of knowledge and skills on cultural diversity mediation, by using critical thinking and previous experience. This will be done via following outcomes:- Map of cultural diversity;- “Moving Stories”, digital storytelling about the multiculturalism;- Self-test tool of appropriateness as a Cultural Mediator.The project has been designed based on the partners’ experience in matters related to youth workers, trainers and teachers and organizations active in non-formal education field and lifelong learning. The project will bring together 5 partners from 5 different countries wishing to promote the importance of multiculturalism and the common values of tolerance, equality and non-discrimination, strengthening social cohesion and fostering the development of a responsible, open-minded and inclusive society by enriching youth worker’s intercultural competences.This project will also include four transnational project meetings that will contribute to the preparation, implementation and evaluation phase of the project as well as five multiplier events. Also, a pilot workshop for youth workers will be held in order to transmit the inspiration among youth workers, enforcing them to defend the values and the principles of multiculturalism. All the information and material gathered through this project as well as the developed innovative tools will be digitalized and uploaded on the MultiNATIONS website. The total number of people, who will benefit from or will be targeted through the project activities (“Moving Stories”, Pilot workshop of Self-test tool, MultiNATIONS website, Multiplier Events) during its duration, is moderately estimated at approximately 5000.The project's expected results are the following: •Recognition and validation of youth work and informal non-formal learning at European, national, regional and local levels; •Understanding of EU principles and values of culture diversity;•Development of professional and innovative non-formal educational tools through creativity on cultural diversity management;• Increasing youth workers’ opportunities and self-awareness about their abilities;•Revolution of a better society that promotes pluralism and equality by reducing racism, discrimination and loneliness;• Enhancing social inclusion via cross-cultural acceptance and solidarity;The MultiNATIONS project is expected to have an overall significant impact on youth workers’ competences on cultural diversity:• Identify and evaluate the level of their knowledge and skills;• Deepening their knowledge on cultural diversity’s management and mediation through innovative tools; • Raising awareness and increasing opportunities for professional development;• Better understanding and recognition of youth workers’ skills and qualifications;• Working and learning through creative instruments and methods;• Developing capacities on adaptability and flexibility in working on multicultural environments;• Increasing their motivation of being creative.Impact at national and EU level:•Intensified sensitisation of policy makers and relevant stakeholders to further extend and develop youth worker’s role on non-formal and informal learning and training;• Understanding of EU principles and values of culture diversity;• Enhancing active citizenship in a multicultural environment and social inclusion via cross-cultural acceptance;• Development of innovative, non-formal tools which could be adaptable in other sectors of diversity management;• Developing positive approach towards diversity and intercultural participation;• Better understanding of context of cultural diversity and its complexity;• Promoting pluralism and equality by reducing racism, discrimination and loneliness.

The Youth Access to Grow (YAG) proposal aimed to improve the chances of young people with fewer opportunities in their participation in Erasmus + program actions, in particular, within the volunteer projects. The project stems from the reflection from the social entities about the real difficulties that these young people have in accessing the volunteer projects and about the little adaptation that these projects may have to accommodate a volunteer with some kind of difficulty. The project was structured based on the elements that can facilitate this access, pivoting on three points: the host projects, the people who are in charge of the tutoring and the preparation of the young people themselves. Thus, the project has created a network of entities that have reviewed existing tools and resources, have worked to adapt their host projects for young people with fewer opportunities and have promoted access to the network of new organizations interested organizations. It should be noted that the main purpose of the network is to create or adapt host projects that can explicitly accommodate young people with some kind of difficulty: social, training, economic, different capacities or geographical among others. The project has also had an important point in the training of the people in charge of the volunteers since it has been detected that an appropriate accompaniment to them according to their needs is essential. In this way, the entities have created training content and have trained the people in charge of tutoring for a better accompaniment, previous work on the situation of the young person and a more fluid and effective communication with the sending entity . The third actor from which the project pivots are the young people themselves, through the development of content for their preparation before departure and applying this preparation to a group of 10 young people per entity. The contents will be based on motivation, fears, expectations ... The project has also contemplated parallel actions, but with relevance for the effectiveness of the initiative: dissemination and promotion of the network to other entities, contact with the different National Agencies as well as the creation of a virtual space of content and tools related to inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities. The presentation of the first reception projects has also been contemplated.With all of this, we intend to ensure that there are defined projects that explicitly welcome young people with mere opportunities, that the people who will carry out the tutoring tasks are prepared and have direct contact with the referents in the sending country, that these people are prepared to make a proper accompaniment, that young people have an appropriate preparation phase to avoid project failure and make the most of this opportunity, that they know first hand the project where they will perform the service and that it is appropriate for them and, finally , disseminate and promote the initiative so that the number of entities that promote these adapted and quality projects increase more and more. The project has been carried out with a consortium formed by entities from different fields and different experience but with an explicit motivation to welcome / send young people with fewer opportunities. Organizations have shared functions and tasks equally based on their capabilities. From Coordination it has been guaranteed, through complete cooperation agreements and periodic communication, that the whole process has high quality standards.

Dignity W@rldProject period: 01.05.2017.-30.06.2018Type of the project: KA2 strategic partnership supporting innovationThe aim of Dignity W@rld project is was create an online human rights education platform, focused on games, which can be played individually or can be used in schools, youth clubs etc. as educational materials. The main topics are children’s rights, active citizenship, plus 4 of nowadays main human rights issues: gender inequality, homophobia, migration/xenophobia, racism.The 5 partner organizations, each of them expert in one of the topics, developed and collected online games of different genres, so every youngster can find something fit their taste. To support informal learning, there are background information, charts, videos connected to the games. To help teachers and youth workers in using the platform, lesson plans were created for them. The game development was done in national teams and in mixed groups also through online work and at the seminar. Dignity W@rld portal was tested online by young people and in schools/youth clubs in all countries. Dissemination was based on social media sites, the networks of partners and national conferences for professionals. http://enterdignityworld.com/https://www.facebook.com/enterdignityworld/