"Project ""The role of a men in gender equal Europe/BeAMan"" was implemented in cooperation with following countries: Serbia, FYRO Macedonia, Kosovo (under resolution 1244), Albania, Portugal, Austria, Germany and Belgium. Aim of the project was to raise the awareness of youth, professional and general public in 8 involved and other European countries about the importance of the role of boys and young men in gender equality and gender based violence prevention in Europe. Project tends to raise the visibility of gender equality and gender based violence as important issues for European society, promote positive practices and mechanisms with positive impact on European level. As well to develop and create new approaches in working with young people. Objectives of the project: 1. Build the capacities of 26 youth workers from 8 European countries to educate and actively contribute to gender equality and gender based violence prevention trough non formal education and peer exchange. 2. Build the capacities of 26 youth workers and artists from 8 different European countries in the field of using theatre as a tool in working with young people3. Educate and empower 540 young people (100 per country) in 7 European countries to have attitudes and demonstrate behavior that contributes to gender equality and discourages gender based violence. 4. Create an international network of 26 youth workers, representatives of relevant organizations and institutions engaged in creation of gender equal and violence free Europe. To achieve results under project consortium organized one two training for youth workers where they had opportunity to gain skills and knowledge in working with young man and on how to use theatre as a tool in working under gender topic. Plus participants organize different workshops and practice learnt skills and knowledge. During the project was organized big international Conference with the speakers and participants from 23 countries in the world. Project results with the new group of trainers and resources, including the manua/guide, that can be used in work with young men in Europe. Manual is translated into German, Portuguese, Macedonian, Serbian and adopted to wider audience. This project contributed in learning, cooperation and exchange among youth workers and relevant institutions/organizations in involved countries as well open space for future projects ideas."

Reducing youth unemployment is one of the major challenges facing most governments in the world. Within the framework of potential efforts and strategies to boost employment and job creation for young people, entrepreneurship is increasingly accepted as an important means and a valuable additional strategy to create jobs and improve livelihoods and economic independence of young people. It is an innovative approach to integrating youth into today’s changing labor markets. Developing and encouraging youth entrepreneurship can:- Creating employment opportunities for self-employed youth as well as the other young people they employ;- Helping youth develop new skills and experiences that can then be applied to other challenges in life; - Promoting innovation and resilience in youth;- Capitalizing on the fact that young entrepreneurs may be particularly responsive to new economic opportunities and trends.How can we contribute to all this? We can educate young people to be better employees, but we should also invest in shaping their mindset, coupled with the skills and knowledge to be innovators and entrepreneurs. Developing the ability to recognize opportunity and giving young people the tools to capitalize on those opportunities empowers them to take ownership of their future in ways which directly link education to real-world success.The SSA team together with its partners created project, which had for aim to raise the capacities of organizations and youth workers to deliver better quality entrepreneurial education that tends to develop personal and professional skills and uptake knowledge in order to reduce youth unemployment through youth programs and projects using the produced materials and tools. Project activities:1. Coordination meeting2. 1st Training Course 2. 2nd Training Course3. Workshop4. Mid-term evaluation meeting5. Workshop6. Conference7. Local activities8. Final evaluation meetingThe implementation of the project resulted in the following results:Open educational resources in a form of learning website where we gather together 40 learning activities, reflected through questionnaire, tool or exercises which serves to improve our personal and professional skills, boost a sense of initiative and entrepreneurial mindset and develop business skills. All 40 learning activities, collected and developed during the implementation of activities, are translated on following languages: English, Serbian, Macedonian, Romanian, Slovenian, Croatian, France and Polish.Toolkit ''Three stages of success'' resents a new suite of mini-learning format resources for young people that support the acquisition of high-value labor market-oriented skills such as development of personal, professional and business skills.Each partner developed Local Initiative, introduce what role policy-makers, entrepreneurs, schools and NGOs can play in improving the entrepreneurship culture in Europe. It also have a plan of further steps or activities, which will be apply in their future work. 8 business plans prepared in advance during the activities and by the partner organizations, that intend to be applied for funding under the local and national funds.The project have directly impact and been most beneficial for participants and partner organization which got improved and new competences and mindset, but also concrete tools and practices for stimulating youth employability, addressing in that way youth unemployment in their local communities. The change which project in the long run is increase employment and employability of young people and generating new business ideas of young people with business mentors who are experienced entrepreneurs.

We live in a world where the composition of women and man is almost in equal number, but looking at the presence in the media, women are heard about or read in approximately 23% of the world news. The world seen in the news media is largely male one with their presence in 76% of the time. This leaves the female part of our societies relatively invisible. Study from 2012 shows that “women’s voices were hardly visible in stories on politics, economics, energy, and sports – areas considered male domain. Instead, they were more present in stories connected with gender-based violence, child issues, health, beauty and life style, which are to be considered as a female domain. This clearly shows that media often portrays women merely as sex objects, victims of violence and of disasters. In the same time, women’s views are rarely solicited and when solicited they are presented as average citizens. On a general point of view, women are rarely seen as expert sources. According to research conducted by Global Media Monitoring Project conducted in 100 countries, 46% of the printed news, radio and TV uphold gender stereotypes and only 6% highlighting gender equality. Other report shows that only 16% of the media gave stories for women’s voices. This again portraits the world of experts/professional mainly as a “man’s world” and limiting the possibilities for the women’s angles and expert’s opinion to be heard and shape our world.We want to go beyond the reasons why media continues to report negatively about women and contribute to responsible reporting and journalism that a holistic turnaround of our countries can be achieved. Staying in the space where media continues to stereotype women through coverage, it can contribute to the perpetuation of unfair positioning of women in society, which is already fragile and still needs development. One of the things we need to so is change the negative portrayal of women in and by media, while reporting and journalism training should establish gender-sensitive units and curriculum. There is definitely a need to raise the standards of reporting and make them more gender sensitive and strengthen the human capacity of the NGO’s and their partnership with media in the partner countries. This is an important pillar in the process of enhancing democracy, good governance and human rights in our countries while promoting professionalism and editorial independence.There is a need to give media a particular priority because they have an enormous impact on society. It’s about time that now the media makes the future where gender equality is a reality on screen, on radio, in the newspapers, including in the social media. This is where we, youth and women, NGO’s and activists come on stage, as we are the ones working on the grassroots level and can approach both media and local people thus having a bigger and more visible impact. We will bring the local realities from each community and country into the common portal for reporting where beside the information shared on local level, will be shared with the rest of the local partner communities, so our women voices are heard and equality is becoming more promoted and inspired.

The underlying aim of the ySI4R project was to develop a practical instrument to turn the frustration of youth about indecisive leadership on climate change and other ecological and social challenges to the empowerment and enthusiasm for constructive change with active participation of young people in the society. Innovative and experiential youth worker education was seen as a leverage point for such change thus the project aimed to develop a training course of methods and tools integrating the best practice examples of youth-led transition actions. Throughout the two-year project the team of organisations working with youth education from seven European countries developed a large set of experiential activities serving that aim and collected into a course for youth workers, in a form of an open and joyful online toolbox based on gamified activities, storytelling and interactive workshops. The online toolbox, named Bridgedale360, equips youth workers with a diverse variety of engaging activities and storyfied knowledge which is flexible and can be combined into practical and experiential courses empowering youth for sustainable livelihood, resilient local solutions, leadership and active citizenship. The course serves in a way that it can be adapted to the context of a particular youth work. Bridgedale360 is available at www.bridgedale360.org and the information can be found at www.bridgedale360.info.The project aimed that 1 year after launching the platform, it will have 1000 users. Currently, 4 months after the official launch, Bridgedale360 has 800 registered users and dissemination activities are still in process. The ySI4R project brought together a diverse range of organisations from Sweden, Spain, Germany, Slovenia, Macedonia, Italy and the UK represented by community training centres, youth NGOs which work with marginalised youth, and national and international networks of sustainable communities with consultative status to the UN and the EU. In order to gather the diverse youth workers experiences from around Europe and combine them into a creative course, the project team, besides intense collaborative online work, led two international 5-day workshops, 2 week-long teaching mobilities, 6 long-term youth worker mobilities and three 4-days project meetings. The final product, the course, with its core translated to seven European languages, is a great open resource for youth workers around the continent to light up in young people the holistic comprehension of the sustainability and to engage youth in active and responsible citizenship.

"During last years, youth work assumed a central role for young generation of EU citizens, crossing edges, nationalities and cultures, making the encounter between young people easier and productive. In the same way, methods, tools, best pratices of youth work can be really strong instruments for contributing to improve integration of migrant people in the different European contexts. In fact, through the application of youth work methods could become easier and efficient working on creating connections and encounter inside the communities between locals and foreigner, especially looking at young people. This perspective becomes essential in this historical phase, in which it is fundamental to improve relationships and reinforcing communities between people, for combating pressure of nationalism ideologies and suspicion against foreigners, really dangerous elements for the EU space cohesion.For reaching this aim, it is fundamental developing education of youth workers with special focus on these themes and creating a good and efficient network of youth workers and youth organizations and NGOs across the different countries. The project will contribute to these scopes at local level (reinforcing the skills of youth workers), but also at EU level (giving them the possibility to act inside a framework of cooperation between EU non profit organizations).MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT1. To reinforce and increase quality of youth work in Europe about its role of promoting and proving integration of migrants and foreigners, through the creation of an educational path for youth workers that will give them new instruments, skills and practices, increasing their capacities;2. To create a strong network for encounters of organizations, professionals, volunteers that work in non profit fields for social inclusion and integration of migrants: the network will be supported by the creation of a website directed to facilitate encounters of Europen organizations, exchange of tools and best practices between NGOs and individuals.SCHEME OF ACTIVITY PHASES1. Preparation.2. Starting Coordination Meeting in Spain.2a. Work package I.3. Training event ""Youth Work For Integration"" (Learning, Teaching, Training Activity C1), in the Republic of North Macedonia.3a. Work package II.4. Ending Meeting in Italy.5. Final Dissemination of results and creation of the website.PARTICIPANTSThe 2 transnational meetings will foresee the participation of project managers and assistants of all organizations involved.Starting Coordination Meeting: 10 participants (2 for each partner) - Ending Meeting: 10 participants (2 for each partner).The Learning Teching Training activity foresees the participation of volunteers, social operators, staff members, educators active in the field of youth work and integration and social inclusion of migrants, all selected and sent by each participating organization.Learning Teching Training Activity C1: 22 participants (4 for each partner - 6 for Idea Europa) METHODOLOGYThe partnership will carry out the project basing on the principles of sharing and cooperation, ensuring protagonism of all perticipating organization in all phases of the project. All partners will have active roles in all Work Package and international activities, and also in the building of the intellectual outputs, collaborating between them under coordination and supervision of IDEA EUROPA, the Applicant.MAIN RESULTS AND IMPACTA) Participants will gain tools, instruments and best practices in the field of youth work specifically related to the social inclusion and the integration of migrants and foreignersB) Reinforcement of the network of EU non profit organization committed in promoting integration of migrants in Europe and peaceful coexistence.C) The creation of the Website for youth work and integration, an instruments that will consent to build networks, projects and spread tools and best practices between European non profit organizations and individuals.The main impacts, also in terms of long term benefits, will be the ones of:- improving and promoting the role of youth work in EU integration policies;- facilitating networking and creation of projects and efficient action of NGOs and non profit organization in the field of social inclusion of migrants at all levels (local and regional, national, European and international);- promoting new efficient solutions in the filed of immigration policies for contributing to combat nationalisms and divisions between European states, starting from new generations and action of non profit organization."