The project “YOUth with a Plan” is a capacity building project, including a 7 day youth workers mobility activity for youth workers that have already some experiences within YiA (as participant or as leader) but that want to make the step to develop an own international project with their organisations. YOUth with a Plan will take place in Mostar (BiH), contains 2 activities; one short capacity building meeting with the project team, and the longer activity, the training course itself, taking place the third week in spring 2016 (from Saturday to until Saturday), involving partner organizations from programme and partner countries that will arrive from Belgium, Czech, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Slovenia, Macedonia, BiH, Montenegro, and Serbia. The partnership is consisted with partners that have common experiences, but also with new partners. The project aims to build capacities of youth workers and project managers in youth work and their organisations, to develop quality international youth (work) projects in E+/YiA, that meet the priorities of E+, with the necessary quality preparation, implementation, evaluation and follow-up. We want to enable participants to develop a programme with a high quality of relevance, project design and project content, with articulating a clear learning processes, with impact, also after and beyond the project. As such, we meet a need for the E+ programme, to get successful applications, with projects that deal with the priorities of the programme. We want to build capacities of youth workers and partners for project design, development of programmes, and we want to increase the project writing skills of translating these project ideas and programmes into applications with day-to-day timetables, focussing on the objectives and priorities of the E+/YiA programme. Participants also will build an own project idea into a potential international E+/YiA project with the partners. Follow up is foreseen in the support of the further realization of these projects after this course.

“Pirouette” is a 24-months Capacity Building aimed at promoting the use of performative street arts such as circus, street dance and street painting as an innovative NFE methodology to foster social and civic engagement of youth and, eventually led to a community-led regeneration of urban/disadvantaged areas.The idea behind the project stems from the recognition of youth’s social and civic engagement as a driving force for community development. The project specific objectives, in line with the specific thematic areas set out in the Programme Guide, are: •The inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities through the participation in mobilities and local activities, designed to provide them with the skills needed to carry out community-led performing arts festivals/projects/initiatives autonomously. •The promotion of the values of democracy and tolerance among young people who will pass these values through their more familiar tools: that of the arts. •Planting seeds for peace and post-conflict reconciliation through the empowerment of young people thanks to the encounter of peers with different cultural background, the exchange of ideas/challenges/issues/proposals, the capacity of put in place youth-driven initiatives for reconciliation through the power of the arts.

"<< Background >>Climate change and migration present two seemingly separate global challenges. These global themes are inextricably linked and, according to the International Organization for Migration (2018), ""estimates suggest that climate change could be a major cause of displacement between 25 million and 1 billion people over the next 40 years"". In addition to the cause-and-effect relationship between them, climate change and migration prove that these issues are cross-cutting and global and should be addressed as such. Namely, in addition to the contribution of the lion's share to the problem of climate change and migration, the global north also controls the way in which challenges are addressed in ways that often serve to strengthen existing unequal power structures. However, climate change is a challenge that, if left unchecked, will affect the whole world and, as a result, have a major impact on human migration. The beginnings of the consequences of global warming are already clearly felt in the form of more frequent and longer heat waves, stronger droughts and more frequent disasters and floods. Such changes are already bringing about changed conditions for food production, the extinction of animal and plant species, the faster spread of infectious diseases and great economic damage. However, extreme weather can also lead to immediate migratory responses. According to IOM (2008), “the number of natural disasters has more than doubled in the last two decades and more than 20 million people have been displaced by sudden natural disasters related to climate”.As part of the pan-European “ClimateOfChange” campaign, last year Ipsos conducted a survey among young people (aged 15 to 35) in 23 European countries.The results of the survey show that young Europeans see climate change and environmental degradation as the main policy priorities, while on the other hand they generally perceive migration as less worrying. Almost half (46%) of young Europeans consider climate change to be one of the most serious problems facing the world, which ranks them first among those problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic. In second place is “environmental degradation, including for example air pollution, deforestation and animal extinction” (44%). However, only 13% consider ""migration"" to be one of the most serious problems facing the world.The Beyond the tales project is thus a response to the discrepancy in linking climate change and migration among young people, which builds on the results of research that suggests that young people do not currently link climate change and migration to a large extent, but are aware of their connection to the future. In this regard, youth workers often report that they do not feel qualified to address pressing, current and global issues such as climate change and migration, and consequently their support for young people who are already active is weakened.<< Objectives >>Global problems are not isolated, they are interdependent, intertwined, complex, so it is important that their addressing is just that, connected. The general objective of the project is aimed at youth workers in order to provide knowledge and information aimed at acquiring and strengthening competencies and a critical understanding of climate migration. Through the educational-awareness project we want to promote and strengthen the connection and solidarity between youth workers and young people and to spread understanding, solidarity, and encourage activation for a climate and socially just society.An important project goal is also the implementation of a communication plan, through which we will inform the general public about the project contents and encourage public discourse on climate migration, which is currently an overlooked topic. Last but not least, the goal is to increase the organizational capacity of the NGO sector in partner countries through the dissemination of acquired organizational knowledge through the networks of partner organizations. Through project activities, we want to support and promote the new EU initiative ""Climate Education Coalition"" in the fight against climate change.<< Implementation >>The implemented project activities are related to the project results and outcomes, which are described below in the application form.<< Results >>The Strategic Project Partnership will achieve the following project results:a project website (1), which will be the focal point and place where most of the project results will be grouped together, and which will address climate change and migration by linking personal stories and expertise. Content modules will also be available on it.Conducted lectures and workshops that will contribute to capacity building and organizational - development of partner organizations (5)- preparation of infolists (5) with recommendations for strengthening the capacities of organizations in certain content areas and the field of organizational development- Carrying out a qualitative survey (1) in the form of a focus group in each of the partner countries, which will present an in-depth analysis of the needs and work of youth workers in the areas of climate change, (climate) migration and youth activism. A comparative analysis between countries will also be made. So far, no qualitative analysis exists in any of the partner organizations and in the wider sector.- Mapping of available tools, approaches, research and theories (1) in each partner country on global learning, climate change, climate migration, youth activism and related topics- The preparation of content modules (3), which will be designed interactively, will contain professional material presented in a creative way and materials in the field of global learning, climate change and climate migration and social engagement of young people, and which will be updated twice during each training cycle.- training of youth workers and other educators (2), based on non-formal education methods and a combination of online and offline methods (short videos, tasks to be completed by participants, practical work in international pairs, group, field work with young people ) and on which the contents of the modules will be presented. Youth workers will be encouraged to connect the newly acquired knowledge (related to both content and methods for working with young people) in the module with their own local issues, which will make it easier to identify with topics and address them in the future. . We will update the trainings twice based on the feedback obtained from the training participants.- Online meeting of all trainees (4) before and after each of the trainings- Blended training (1)- Conducting a national competition on climate change and migration (1) in each of the partner countries, which will encourage young people from the partner countries to reflect on this topic through the recording of their stories, while increasing the visibility of the project- a booklet with stories Beyond the tales (1), which will contain personal stories and records of young people on climate change and migration. It will be based on interviews conducted by young people under the mentorship of youth workers with young people from associated partner organizations (mostly) from the countries of the global south. The booklet will be an upgrade of Humanitas ’booklet Her stories (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LgHrCdNRHGhRwr71nZBJN6a92MfQYyin/view), which has been recognized as good practice by NA Movit. The booklet will therefore contain a.) Stories based on interviews, b.) Stories selected in national competitions, c.) Links to view events (in QR format) performed by associated partners.- online events of associated partner organizations (3), where the associated partners will prepare a presentation of the thematic content of the project through their eyes in a form of their choice (climate change, migration, youth participation…)- International Conference on Climate Migration (1), with the participation of all partner organizations- Multiplication event in partner countries in the last quarter of the project (3)- Strategic meetings of the partner consortium (5)- Preparation and implementation of a communication plan (1)"

"Overall goal of this project is to build the capacity of partner organizations and their members on participatory action research (PAR) and foster the use PAR methodology in addressing different community issues and take concrete actions that lead to social changes.The project has three main components: 1) Learning about Participatory Action Research - PAR through non-formal Education and exchanging the PAR examples of good practices 2) Practicing by taking concrete PAR methodology and PAR actions in order to bring social changes in local communities3) Establishing local PAR corners as youth resource info incubators The learning component consists of a 2 Training course, Seminars, and local training courses, and the other ones fosters the PAR skills through local implementation of PAR actions and research that leads to local PAR corners.Project ""Youth Empowered to Change the World"" presents a coherent and comprehensive set of appropriate, concrete and practical activities which are designed to meet the identified needs of partner organisations and their target groups and lead to achieving project goals. Project activities are divided in 2 categories; Mobility activities and Capacity Building Activities.Expected outcomes:-PAR corners will be created in each partner countries-Manual – framework for PAR-Trained peer to peer trainers for PAR-Local PAR teams which will be future multipliers Project will involve 6 partners from 6 countries. More than 150 people will pass International trainings where they will gain skills how to lead PAR training and actions.More tan 90 youth will pass local training courses. They will be future multiple for PAR methodology."

"Young women in the rural areas of the Western Balkans are faced with different forms of discrimination. In rural areas, strong patriarchal values and gender inequality are often dominated. Opportunities for communication, exchange and solidarity between young women from these areas and peers from urban areas of the EU are often poor. Improving specific communication skills and opportunities to learn and share experiences, difficulties and good practices among women from different countries and areas can enhance self-confidence and self-representation of women in rural areas of the WB. The development of assertive and artistic communication skills enables active participation in society, international solidarity and the well-being of young women in the Western Balkans. Increasing the awareness and knowledge of young women about EU policies on social inclusion and women's rights is also an expected impact of the project.General goal:- Increase the capacity of young women in the rural areas of the Western Balkans to achieve progress in equal opportunities.Specific goals:- Creating international solidarity among young women from rural communities in the Western Balkans and European urban communities through connecting and networking.- Increase the capacity of youth workers to facilitate and support the social communication of young women.- Developed assertive and artistic communication skills of young women to express their opinions and create an active influence in their communities- Increase interest and knowledge among rural women in rural areas on European policies on gender equality and inclusion-The celebration of the International Day of Rural Women in the communities involved in the project is established.The project consisted of 4 main activities:1) Mobility of youth workers - Training ""Communication"", Grocka, Serbia.Six youth workers from each partner organization learned and discussed about assertive communication, European solidarity and gender policies. After mobility, they worked on scenarios for making 6 short movies on assertive communication.2) Youth Exchange - Workshop ""Solidarity"", Jelsa, Croatia.Five young women from each partner organization discussed in international groups on issues of equality and solidarity and decided on messages and visual solutions of 6 murals that were later painted in their local communities. The theme of the murals is Women's solidarity.3) Information and awareness campaign in 6 cities, in each partner local communityParticipants were guided by professional visual artists and youth workers in the realization of 6 murals on public walls. Murals were revealed on the UN International Day of Rural Women. In each partner community, a press conference was organized and a public debate was held to promote the mural.4) Final Conference, Mostar, Bosnia and HerzegovinaThe International Conference ""Women's Communication for Solidarity"" consisted of 5 interactive panel discussions and final evaluation.Panel topics at the Conference were:""Women’s rights in rural and urban areas""""Solidarity among young women from urban and rural areas""""Perspectives of women’s activism today""""European Union in the eyes of young women from EU and WB countries""""Art and Women’s Activism""Participants: Young women and youth workers working with young women from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy and France, especially from rural and suburban areas (at least 2/3 participants). A total of about 100 participants.The main results of the project: six short films on assertive communication (5min.) available on youtube and social networkssix murals (20m2 each) painted on public walls, one in each partner l​ocal community e-publication of the project with texts from the final conference"