"In the light of the crisis following the recent flows of asylum seekers from different countries, the EU has decided that promoting peer-education for diversity, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, common values of freedom, tolerance, and respect, should be one of its main priorities. There is a need for a more comprehensive solution and we have decided to join efforts in our common aim of facilitating the integration of refugees into the European environment.During the lifetime of the Peers for Integration project the partners:- an extensive research on barriers standing in the way of young refugees' social inclusion in Belgium, Italy, and Romania.- developed a training methodology using peer education for young refugees and migrants to develop competencies related to self-awareness and cultural identity/ interactions in an inter-cultural environment/ norms, codes, and other cultural elements that may cause ""cultural friction""/ presentation and promotion of different cultures/ dealing with situations in which the individual is witness or victim of prejudice/discrimination/ taking social action/ peer-education- tested and piloted the training methodologies during international learning mobilities to which 32 participants coming from Romania, Italy, and Belgium took part.- organized local workshops in Romania, Belgium, and Itlay during which previously trained participants used the Peers for Integration methodology to further give the opportunity to youngsters to be part of this formative process. A total number of 240 participants took part in the local activities.- organized dissemination events in Romania, Belgium, and Italy face to face as well as online in order to promote the newly created methodology.- developed a platform in order to promote and upload into the public space the newly created methodology and also to serve as a platform where future peer trainers who would like to use the Peers for Integration manual can see through tutorials especially created for them how the methods should be devielvered.Due to a need identified after the covid 19 pandemic shut down all face-to-face activities, we also created the Peers for integration open learning platform in order to give the opportunity to peer educators and trainers to deliver the Peers for Integration methodology in an online format. This gives us the opportunity to reach audiences, communities, and youngsters that were not accessible for the project results.The results we created are accessible on the project platform www.integration.ofetin.ro as well as on the Erasmus+ dissemination platform. The websites and project results are translated into multiple languages in order to respond to local needs and also to avoid language barriers when delivering local workshops."

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/

Strategic partnership project KA2 “Include! Involve! Improve!” was a partnership between 10 organizations from Estonia, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Romania, Poland, UK, Slovakia and Turkey and lasted from 1st September 2016 to 31st August 2018. Project had 2 transnational project meetings which involved 20 participants from 10 partner countries and one short-term joint staff training event, which trained total of 24 youth workers from 10 countries. Additionally we carried out local activities every month in Estonia and in partner countries. The general aim of our project was to raise the quality of international youth project via exchange of good practices between the network of strategic partners. Concrete objectives were:- To raise the quality of Erasmus + projects in the field of youth inside and outside partner network- To ensure quality preparation and support for Estonian young people and youth workers before they attend international event- To train youth leaders to raise their competence as group leaders in international youth projects- To spread the information about Erasmus + projects to a wider audience with focus on involving more young people with fewer opportunities in international projects through engaging local youth workers- Exchange good practices in local and international youth work between partners to raise the quality of youth exchanges- To build up a solid network of partners to organize youth projects which are inclusive, support participation of young people with fewer opportunities and take into account human rights and democratic values. All our methods used were based on non-formal learning. Trainings and transnational meetings were based on the same idea, and we included moderators and trainers who were familiar with non-formal learning methods and did provide some input. We used methods such as discussions, analyses, role-plays, group building exercises, creative tools, activities with local communities etc. We made sure our activities were an example of non-formal learning in international context, and besides providing space to share and learn from each other and gain new competences, we wanted to make our activities/mobilities were a good example, from which to learn. As result of project 20 participants have taken part of joint staff meetings over 2 years and contributed to the exchange of good practices between partner organizations. We have trained 26 youth workers via short-term training for staff and they have gained specific competences to raise the quality of youth work in all participating organizations. We have engaged directly more than 7400 young people/youth workers in various local activities. At least 2600 participants have be involved in Estonia and rest in partner countries. At least 50 % of target group reached has been with fewer opportunities. We have created 3 manuals directed to youth workers and organizations, young people and group leaders in youth exchanges.