"The rapid increase of European funding being allocated into the youth sector in the last decade through programmes such as Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps has given way to a wide array of exciting initiatives in the international youth work scene, and contributed to the development of inspiring professionals and organizations, many of whom changed their life drastically thanks to the international dimension added by such programmes. Yet, there is not a concrete platform to collect those stories at an international level and a lot of great practices and inspirations are being lost in the never ending news feed or are scattered around the Internet in various languages, websites and formats.""Gems of Youth Work"" is a strategic partnership in the field of youth that will gather stories from trainers, youth work practitioners, organizations and active young people to share them in the form of podcasts and graphic recordings to make these stories alive, attractive and able to reach a large audience on online channels. AIM AND OBJECTIVES: The ""Gems of Youth Work"" strategic partnership aims to gather youth field stories in a form of podcasts and interviews to share them amongst practitioners of the international and national youth work fields to foster exchange of good practices and promote the value and recognition of international youth work at national levels. The strategic partnership sets the next objectives: - To gather a database of inspiring, innovative and interesting stories of youth work projects and approaches and their implementers; - To design a podcast and graphic recording approach to present the gathered stories in an appealing way to the audience;- To promote organizations and practitioners contributing to the development of the youth work field; - To promote the recognition of international youth work amongst national youth work bodies.In order to achieve these objectives, the project includes the following activities:* Three transnational project meetings: Kick-off meeting in Austria; Mid-term check-up meeting in Slovakia and Evaluation and final podcast meeting in Spain.* One training activity that will gather youth workers and educators from each country to train them in creating, producing, promoting podcasts as a means to promote best practices, discuss important and relevant issues as well as promote the work in the youth field. * Development and promotion of two seasons of monthly publications of Podcasts and Graphic recordings (9 months and 9 months);* National offline promotion events and presentations;* Online promotion of results of the project.The participants for transnational meetings will be the coordinator and content responsible person for each partner involved. The participants of the training activity will be chosen through a call among associated partners based on an invite only approach. Youth workers, educators, NGO volunteers and staff, youth work institution representatives will be involved in the pre-study when it will come to the choice of topics to concentrate more on and for sure develop podcasts on. The selection of podcast guests will be based on the consortium decision based on guest interest, availability and relevance to the project.TANGIBLE RESULTS (products/activities):- Podcasts on the topics of good practices in the youth field done in English with corresponding graphic recordings (at least 25);- Two digital story books (compilation of podcasts + graphic recordings, one after each season);- Visual report with testimonials of the speakers/audience;- Website category dedicated to podcasts on the website of SGI;- Photographs and videos of the project activities; - After project webinar to share the results and learnings at the end of the project.INTANGIBLE RESULTS (effects):- To promote the work done in the international youth work field to the national youth work bodies;- To establish and strengthen cooperation between our organizations and the national youth work bodies; - Growth in interest of youth workers to take part in international training activities and contribute to the international youth field;- Organizations to be more known at the local and international levels.The impact for the youth work field: Raised exposition and recognition; Opportunity for networking and partnership-building; Upskilling and enhancing organisational capacities and quality of services offered through learning from the practices and stories conveyed through the podcasts.For our target groups, we expect them to benefit in the following ways:- Young people: improved services from youth work, thus more opportunities and empowerment.- Youth Workers: access to inspiring practices and stories, thus opportunity for upskilling.- Organisations: improving their services by learning from the stories and practices shared through the podcasts."