<< Objectives >>The project MENTAL HEALTH 4 YOU has the aim to raise awareness of the mental health situation in the European Youth. Through a European network of partners we want to understand the situation in the EU and give tools to adult education regarding mental health. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of mental health problems, we believe it is essential to learn more and understand better one's health, with greater focus on their Mental Health which has been widely challenged.<< Implementation >>A1: Project Management and Implementation (All countries);A2: Kick Off Meeting (Vinci, Italy);A3: Study Visit on Mental Health (Iasi, Romania);A4: HOPE Circles (All countries);A5: Pilot Session on Mental Health (Lublin, Poland);A6: Retreat (Cascais, Portugal);A7: Final Conference (Cascais, Portugal).<< Results >>This project wants to improve the performance and efficiency of other projects, programmes and activities that are able to support mental health clusterization processes based on international cooperation and development, and by doing so, promote the innovative value chains of mental health.Mental Health 4 You will develop and test methods and tools in the field of Mental Health. It will create a Guidebook about European Mental Health and disseminate its results for a more healthy minded EU.

European mobility programs have played an important role in the transformation of young people who have participated in them. Over time, these programs have become more flexible, with newly implemented measures to allow young people with fewer opportunities to participate and also take advantage of the experience. However, these young people need more preparation to overcome difficulties and frustrations, as well as a more step-by-step process of participating in these programs. The GAIN project aims to offer this gradual engagement through a training process that gives youth the opportunity to learn about the different program possibilities while they are empowered with a basic set of skills to be able to participate successfully. In turn, it aims to offer these young people international experiences that allow them to transform themselves and to overcome the difficulties of their social situation. Finally, it aims to offer the possibility of devising, planning and implementing a group entrepreneurship initiative as well as identifying and collecting all the learning of this process.The planned activities are related to this preparation of young people with fewer opportunities, including a training period (A5), an international training experience in a group (C1), an international or national individual experience (A6 and A8) and the possibility of carrying out a group entrepreneurship project through the CES program (A7 and A11). These young people, together with the tangible results of the project, will be the main element of dissemination of the process so that other entities and young people can replicate them and take advantage of the experience.This project not only aims to act with the young participants, but also to empower the partner organizations (and non-formal partners) by facilitating access to resources and tools, to strengthen the GAIN network that aims to connect motivated entities for the development of projects with young people with less opportunities and, above all, to detect the good practices of the project, ensuring strong results and disseminating them for their exploitation.The activities will always be carried out based on non-formal education methodologies so that the impact on young people is greater and more adequate. The involvement of young people in the different phases of the project as an element of learning and entrepreneurship will also be strengthened. In this sense, the youth themselves will be of great importance during the design of the training process, as well as in the training activity and, of course, in the choice of the individual mobilities and the idea of ​​the solidary project.The GAIN project is a joint initiative with entities from Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Portugal, Poland and Spain with a wide spectrum of areas of activity, but with experiences in mobility projects, work with young people with fewer opportunities and experience in inclusion. That is why entities from different territorial areas have been chosen who can provide a different view of the realities of these young people at European level.Some of the promoting entities have previously participated in another Strategic Partnerships project that has promoted the training of entities, the creation of tools to offer a preparation of adequate mobility projects to young people with fewer opportunities as well as the creation of a network (GAIN Network) that aims to facilitate the identification of entities with motivation to participate or promote inclusion projects within Erasmus + and CES. The current project aims to use these tools created to strengthen them, disseminate them and initiate direct action with young people.The project will consist, not only with the existing partners, but of other non-formal partners who will share and participate indirectly but actively in the project. These entities will be part of a dissemination plan that aims not only to transfer the results to other organizations, to motivate new ones, to empower entities that work with the inclusion of young people, but also to raise awareness among National Agencies and decision-makers of European programs on the needs of young people with fewer opportunities. It is for them that we believe that the GAIN project has a significant potential impact, either by the young people themselves and entities that will participate directly or by the expected results that can help multiply the impact at the local, regional and European level.

"Nowadays, young people have a very difficult start in their professional life. Although they have almost unlimited development opportunities, paradoxically it is extremely hard for them to find right direction in their education and professional life. There are certain skills and competences that are so universal, that will be useful in every job: creativity, entrepreneurship, decision-making skills, flexibility, etc. There is also a certain skill that binds most of the above mentioned. It is ability to efficient self and time management, plan tasks properly and implement them successfully. The project promotes supporting young people in the process of acquiring and developing this fundamental skill needed in nearly each part of life – time and self management. Numerous research show that ability to efficient time and self management is nowadays crucial in many aspects of everyday personal and professional lives, this is also one of the primary ""soft skills"" valued in the workplace. That it is so important to start to learn this skill as early as possible. Through complex activities, project will contribute to development of set of tools which will real and practical help for young people in the process of acquiring such an important, universal competence as time and self management. Project activities will contribute to development of practical, effective instructions supporting young people in the process of learning how to effectively organize and manage their long-term learning. And on the other side, project activities will also contribute to promotion of responsible planning and organization of learning process among young people. During the 18 months period it is planned to develop and test set of materials, which will help young people to learn how the can effectively organize their time with usage of many effective planning tools and methods. What’s more, we also plan to develop set of materials dedicated to people from closest surroundings of the young students. Thanks to these materials, young students will receive effective support from their teachers, parents and other people working with them.All this will ensure complex support for young students in the process of gaining skills and competences needed to organize their learning process in most effective way, and in future to organize their professional life in much more effective way. The main of the project is to strengthen young people's competences in the area of managing themselves in time in the context of independent organization of own learning process, thanks to the use of tools developed within the project First of all, these will be the results of intellectual work that we plan to develop as part of the project:1.Online course for young people. The course will contain, on the one hand, a set of arguments about why it is worth learning to manage yourself in time and how such a skill helps in private and professional life, and above all in science. The main part of the course will be a set of methods and tools thanks to which young people will be able to learn to effectively manage themselves in time, especially in the context of organizing their own learning2.Information materials aimed at academic teachers working with youth. The materials will contain instructions on how to teach young people to be independent in organizing their learning, how to support the development of time management skills while conducting regular activities for young people.3.Information materials aimed at parents / guardians as well as people working with young people and supporting them in their daily activities. The materials will contain a range of information and valuable, practical tips on how to effectively support young people in the process of organizing self-study and acquiring self-management skills."

<< Objectives >>By implementing the project we want to achieve a continuous preventive work in youth centers and other arenas for youth. There will be tools to use daily in open youth work and youth workers will feel encouraged and competent enough to use them. There will be an understanding of how gender norms effect violence in youth relationships and that young people need help to figure out what a well functioning relationship should look like. << Implementation >>We will implement two training weeks for youth workers. Focus will be on informal methods but also some theoretical parts. There will be methods such as Participatory theater, Psychoprophylaxis, mental health promotion workshops, focus on campaigns on social media and sexual violence. We will implement the concept of Buddy groups, to promote the contact and learning between the participants -in between the two training sessions. We will implement a minimum of 4 online trainings.<< Results >>Expected results:- A toolbox where the tested tools are presented in an accessible way for others to use. It will be tools that are applicable in different context and suitable for open youth work.- Youth workers and organizations with increased competence regarding violence in young peoples relationsships and how this can be prevented.- Specific knowledge about sexual violence and social media campaigns- Ongoing work in the partner organizations and a plan for the future

"The main goal of the ""Improve by move"" project is to develop an innovative support program for young people with the use of artistic influences and thus increase the level of psychosocial competences and self-acceptance of participants aged 13-18 from 3 culturally different countries through participation in dance and movement workshops and exchange of experiences with specialists from partner organizations.The target groups of the project are youth workers (educators, psychologists, teachers, etc.) and young people.The target group of young people are people from disadvantaged backgrounds from Poland, France and the United Kingdom (aged 13 to 18), experiencing difficulties in social contacts, mental difficulties and often excluded from their peer life. The project will also cover a group of specialists working with young people: educators, psychologists, educators, animators, youth workers from each country. We want to increase their professional competences by showing the value of working with the body, through the artistic expression of dance, in the development of social competences and self-acceptance in young people. In addition, we want specialists to also take part in the proposed workshops so that they can transfer the acquired knowledge more effectively in their country.Willing young participants, selected by partners, will take part in a pilot program of workshops based on the methods of choreotherapy. The series of workshops will consist of 9 meetings. Young people who will take part in the pilot will have the task of participating in six two-hour workshops (1 integration + 5 strictly mobile + 3 supplementary methods), which will be held in groups.The training for youth workers will take place after the completion of most substantive works related to the creation of the workshop scheme and methods in the support program prepared for young people, in order to test and check them by the teachers themselves. During the training and on the basis of the workshop program, a video guide will be created, introducing youth workers to the arcane of working with dance and movement in supporting young people.As part of project management and planning related to the implementation of local activities, development of intellectual results as well as promotion and dissemination, we are planning 2 international meetings, in which representatives of all partner organizations will participate. We will also organize 2 online conferences with the participation of the entire team working substantively on the implementation of the project.In working with young people and educators, we will use methods of self-expression, dance, movement, dance and movement psychotherapy and non-formal education methods, gained thanks to many years of experience of each organization in working with young people.The main result will be the workshop program and its pilot, along with a video guide showing how to use the methods developed within the project and how to implement them to work with new groups, as well as explaining the assumptions of using dance, movement and body work in work with young people and the solutions of benefits.The assessment of the project's success will be measured in relation to the degree of achievement of the assumed goals and results. In order to monitor the level of achieved results and satisfaction with the project, we will conduct a two-level evaluation in accordance with the PRINCE2 methodology:- at the level of participants involved in all project activities (youth and youth workers)- at the level of the organization"