The project “Parenting stand-up” aimed to share experience and practices between partner organizations from Romania, Cyprus and Portugal, to learn how to get parents involved while promoting a better home-organization cooperation and communication for the benefit of the children. The project followed to grow the level of involvement of our parents in activities while promoting active participation inside their organization, to develop capabilities of our staff to support parents’ involvement and commitment, to create a common parent involvement program and a booklet which to include working methodologies and learning activities in the direction of parent-child-organization cooperation, as well as to facilitate communication, cooperation and exchange of best practices between parents and staff from the partner organizations while promoting mutual learning between them. During the project development partners approached 2 perspectives: one offered by the partner organizations and their staffs toward parental involvement and the other one offered by the parents toward their involvement, in a common effort of the partner to combine them in order to achieve their goals. Thus, selected participants ( parents and staff ) were involved in common seminars and workshops which offered learning opportunities for enhancement of the involvement of parents, reinforcement of their cooperation with the organizations and creating partnerships parents-organizations. The topics of learning, teaching and training activities refered to active participation, parental involvement, cooperation & partnerships, communication and team building activities, as well as study visits. Through the activities of the project we wanted to develop in our parents their skills for life, to foster their social educational development, and to motivate them in learning with implications for their ability to parent and participate in their communities. The project addressed mostly soft skills like: Communication – oral, speaking capability, written, presenting, listening; Interpersonal skills – sociability, social skills, Positive attitude, Critical thinking, Responsibility – accountable, reliable, conscientious, common sense, Teamwork – cooperative, supportive, helpful, collaborative, Work ethic –willing to work, initiative, self-motivated, good attendance. Also through some specific activities we worked on digital learning of parents – through digital story telling activity, through online cooperation with peers from the partner countries, through the use of digital tools ( pc, camera, social media) during the project. On the other side our staff had the chance to participate in specific learning and exchange activities which offered them a range of initiatives promoted by partner organizations, whose main emphasis is on empowering parents and families as well as supporting learning processes beyond organizations. Focus of discussions were on low skilled parents from lower economic backgrounds, who are less likely to naturally engage in cooperation with organizations, so that staff developed their skills and capabilities to empower parents and families, get new approaches for parental involvement and increase their abilities to encourage positive parenting skills. The project also built on a learning by doing experience for parents and staff to work together - a parental involvement program which was developed under support of staff and partner organizations within all the partner countries. The parental program was included in a booklet as a tool to share knowledge/working methodologies for parental involvement and as a tool to disseminate the project’s outcomes. The project gave us a wider array of environments for parental involvement, providing the necessary variability to fully understand the processes and approaches for the cooperation parent-child –organization which resulted in an increased capacity to motivate and engage parents and ultimately in higher quality educational programs for the children. Following the project the partners have streamlined the activities of PARENTING STAND UP which resulted in replication through its trained specialists: psychologists, cultural promoters / activities and adult trainers, a Yes to educational volunteering Parents Network in Romania and Active Parenting day in Cyprus.

"The project ""We have the same beat!"" was a transnational youth initiative which aimed to involve young people in the creation / implementation of attractive activities together with young people with special needs in order to sustain their integration and overcoming prejudices and discriminatory attitudes of community members. The project was developed between 1st August 2015 and 31 January 2017 and involved a total of 42 young people with and without special needs. The partner countries were organizations from Romania-CECIS, France-Eurocircle and Italy-MV International. Young people were encouraged to work together on specific activities and workshops, representing a progressive training to a final show ""Leave a sign! ""which closed the project and presented a group of young people working together in an attempt to ""break the wall"", a metaphor to represent the promotion of social inclusion of youth with disabilities.The project represented a youth initiative developed in a context-based on non-formal education methods. It was in line with increasing living standards and quality of life of young people with special needs by addressing emotional content and expressive activities, respecting the fundamental rights of persons with disabilities, promoting non-discrimination, equal opportunities and social change.The partners created the guide ""Leave a sign!"" which is a collection of educational activities that includes descriptions of the methods used, learning objectives, materials needed during the implementation, tips for trainers/youth workers, instructions for implementation and evaluation. The activities described focus on encouraging social inclusion of youth with special needs through creative and participative learning elements. It also includes a series of general guidelines for those working with young people with special needs. The approaches and methods described are relevant to the field of inclusion but useful to anyone in almost any context."

The project Youthpreneurs -Learning by doing follows 2 main directions: first, teaching business fundamentals by providing the knowledge and skills necessary for youth to start their own busines and second enhacing youth’s business skills for future career opportunities through hands-on experiences in the field of entrepreneurship.. The project objectives are: 1. To equip 36 young people from the partner organizations with necessary skills and knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship by participating in training and experiential activities. 2. To elaborate a common course curricula in the field of youth entrepreneurship and a guide for youngsters willing to start a new business. The proposal consists of 4 organizations experienced in the youth field and entrepreneurship in particular from Romania, Spain, UK and Portugal. During the project the youngsters will participate at a training course on entrepreneurship, will elaborate business plans, and will implement their businesses in local communities they come from. The project is a good way to engage, to raise motivation of the participants and to create excellent quality work through sharing of good training and learning practice between the partners. The partners organizations will use their experiences and will create 2 intellectual outputs ( Course curricula Innovative curriculum for entrepreneurship training of youths and the Guide How to start a business which are the results of sharing ideas, best practice, methodologies and resources between the partners.The project impacts the participants in terms of development of those qualities and personal skills which forms the basis of the entrepreneurial spirit and behaviour. The project creates pathways for youngsters to discover and create entrepreneurial opportunities and gives them the possibility to learn by doing through the planning and running of a business.

"The “Declaration on Promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education” of March 2015 identified the risks for the future of European youngsters and the Union itself posed by marginalization and lack of opportunities for young people, called for a joint effort of all EU countries to promote youth participation by ensuring inclusive education, combating geographical, social and educational inequalities by fostering education of disadvantaged young people. The present project was a strategic cooperation among 3 NGOs from throughout Europe directly engaged in supporting disadvantaged categories of NEET youths through the management of Youth Centers as specialized facilities wherein disadvantaged young people are involved in recreational and educational activities delivered through NFE targeted at empowering them with soft skills, employability skills, civic and social competences.Many youngsters in European countries face the harsh realities of marginalization and social exclusion in their daily lives. In this respect, the problems faced by disadvantaged NEET youngsters- which represent the main target category in the daily operations of Youth Centers managed by partner organizations- are particularly severe and wide-ranging, as is their overall socioeconomic vulnerability. Indeed, these youngsters face substantial disparities with their peers in realms as disparate as education, employability, personal development, civic and social participation. Among the most visible symptoms of the foregoing disparities is a substantial percentage of early school leavers as well as engagement in socially and personally disruptive conduits (drug/alcohol abuse, vandalism, violence, petty crime etc.) among disadvantaged NEET youngsters.A SWOT analysis coordinately enacted by partner organizations further identified the aloofness of disadvantaged NEET youngsters from institutional circuits of education and support (Schools, Associations, Political Parties etc.) as one of the main factors underneath the partial failure of formal setups in providing a comprehensive approach to ensure social integration, employability and personal development of these fragile categories.“We’ll Let You In” (WLYI) attained the aforementioned goals through a strategic cooperation wherein disadvantaged youth NEETs from each partner organization where involved in three mobility experiences in which they entered into contact with peers from other partner countries, attended common educational activities delivered through Non Formal Education related to each partner’s area of expertise Art, Theatre and Music, as well as worked on the development of shared outputs:- BMYP Italy - participants created a graffiti in the Youth Cultural Centre of Uri municipality;- BMYP Romania - participants created and played a theatre permormance for the municipality of Targu Jiu;- BMYP Sweden - participant creadet and played some concert shows in a flash-mob style in different main meeting points of Helsinborg municipality.- The Handbook ""Tools to InspirAct"" is the results of the best practices and experiences gathered during the overall implementation of the project. At the same time, partner organizations engaged in a sharing of knowledge, best practices and NFE tools whose results were disseminated in the internal structure of each organization, increasing staff professionalism and by consequence the quality of NFE activities delivered in Youth Centers. Promotion and dissemination of outputs and materials by partners through a variety of online and offline tools made sure that the results arrived at in the context of the present project sensibly enhanced and supported Youth Centers and NGOs throughout Europe.Project aims were:- Fostering empowerment and inclusion of disadvantaged NEET youngsters through international mobility, peer-interaction and Non Formal Education.- Raise awareness among policy-makers, NGOs, stakeholders and the general public about the role of Youth Centers as hybrid structures (recreational/educational) supporting youth integration and development (in particular of the most disadvantaged youth categories) through NFE and as such narrowing disparities and gaps left by the formal education system.- Exchange knowledge, best practices and NFE tools among NGOs from different European countries as a means to collect national/cultural backpacks and toolkits of NFE in order to improve professionalism of youth workers, variety and quality of educational activities delivered in Youth Centers with a view to enhancing quality and effectiveness of youth work in Europe."

"""Intercultural Dialogue to Empower Minorities"" (INTER-DEM) is a Strategic Partnership lasting 24 months focused on promoting peaceful interaction, mutual discovery and tolerance between natives and ethnic minorities youth through training young people in becoming potential Youth Digital Activists, in promoting intercultural dialogue in micro-realities through and in New Media Channels.In the ""Data collection in the field of ethnicity"" (2017) issued by the European Commission, it is underlined that ""Racial, ethnic and national origin, minority religion, language and cultural traditions have not been clearly distinguished in law, but are instead recognised as intrinsically interlinked. In its Advisory Opinion n. 17, the Permanent Court of International Justice stated that a (minority) community is “a group of persons living in a given country or locality, having a race, religion, language and traditions of their own and united by this identity of race, religion, language and traditions in a sentiment of solidarity, with a view to preserving their traditions, maintaining their form of worship, ensuring the instruction and upbringing of their children in accordance with the spirit and traditions of their race and rendering mutual assistance to each other"".The necessity of setting the conditions for youth awareness about racism and discrimination as well as of the active contrast thereof in the field of youth is stressed by the European Youth Strategy, which sets the objective of supporting the development of cultural awareness and the contrast of prejudice among the youth.INTER-DEM pursues this goal by means of training a cluster of young people in becoming potential Youth Digital Activists committed to contrasting feelings and practices of discrimination among young people as well as promoting the positive values of tolerance and respect of diversity enshrined in European identity and citizenship.INTER-DEM individualised Target Groups:The project will involve youngsters from national ethnic minorities as well as native youths. This choice was agreed among all Consortium partners, in order to achieve a double goal: fostering social inclusion of youngsters coming from ethnic minority groups as well as sensitise and educate native youth at empathy, tolerance and inclusive behaviour. INTER-DEM activities are:- Research and identification of European good practices in contrasting radicalization and prejudice towards national ethnic minorities among young people through the Digital Intercultural Dialogue;- Selection of a cluster of 8 young people per partner organization (4 natives and 4 from ethnic minorities) to take part in the process of educational empowerment delivered in the project.- Implementation of 4 Blended Youth Mobilities (1 per partner country) wherein partners will develop the knowledge, skills and competences of selected youngsters in employing Social Media Communication, Social Activism Campaigning, Digital Storytelling and Digital Educational Tools as methodologies/instruments for contrasting phenomena of racism and discrimination as well as spreading positive values of inclusion and tolerance among their peers as well as the overall SocialCommunity;- Implementing a set of local activities delivered by participating youngsters in each partner country towards an audience of their own peers in a process of co-leading between natives and ethnic minority youths. The focus of the activities will be to convey the educational message of the project to youngsters in local realities.INTER-DEM outcomes will be:- 1 Research Report containing statistics and needs regarding ethnic minority youths in matter of social inclusion in participating partner countries.- 1 Toolkit containing existent best practices and employed workshop on Social MediaCommunication, Social Activism Campaigning, Digital Storytelling and Digital Educational Tools for contrasting phenomena of racism and discrimination as well as spreading positive values of inclusion and tolerance, drafted during the fourth mobility and finalised before the local dissemination events.- 1 Blog created by the participants during the first mobility which will be the diary of their shared educational learning journey.- 4 Digital Storytelling products created during the second mobility.- 4 National and 1 International Social Campaigns launched during the third mobility."