The current socio-economic and political system faces numerous interrelated crises, as financial and economic crises, conflicts and military attacks, environmental destructions and international political changes. These have resulted in growing fear and inequality which corrode European values of solidarity, democracy, and social justice and reduce their appeal.Reality has come to question the efficiency of the current systems, opening political and philosophical discussions about their limitations and imperfections. Education is a crucial factor for introducing this new problematic and widening its outreach. Given the confined context of formal education, non-formal learning and youth work, in particular, has a crucial role to play for promoting this discourse. STEP Forward (Sustainable and Transformative Education for Participation in democratic life) is a 18-months Capacity Building project including organizations from Greece, Spain, Vietnam, Kenya, Ghana and Peru. It links active citizenship to formal education by drawing attention to the values of sustainability and integrating them to non-formal education activities. It aims at promoting the application of active and participatory education through experiential activities and solution-oriented educational approach. By exploring alternative community models, social and ecological initiatives the project will use information and resources to design a new educational method with the scope to integrate the values of sustainability and active citizenship in the formal education system. The specific objectives of the STEP project are: - Introducing an inclusive definition of Sustainability;- Raising awareness about social and environmental initiatives; alternative economic models; new forms of cooperation and civic participation to youth;- Cultivating and promoting transformative, experiential and non-formal learning and its specific applications;- Fostering critical thinking and democratic education.In order to achieve the project’s objectives the foreseen activities include 1 Training Course on Sustainability and Community Building; 6 Job Shadowing activities, the design of a Training module which will incorporate issues of democracy, civic participation and sustainability in a non-formal education format combining experiences from Europe, Africa and Latin America; 1 Training Course in the form of a Winter School to present and apply the module to youth workers and other professionals of the education sector, and 7 local events for the promotion of the module to the local communities. Target Groups: Educators, youth workers, researchers, project managers, youth organisations, young people, local communities and the EU.

The HAPPY project 2.0. was a global capacity building initiative engaging 6 youth organizations from 3 continents with the main aim to create the partnerships response for the urging global problem of youth unemployment, and find out how local and international volunteering can contribute in solving this problem.The specific objectives of the project were the following:a) to improve the expertise of the partnership, to enable them to work with NEETs more efficiently;b) Support unemployed young people and NEETs, and particularly those in long-term unemployment to build competencies that will give them better chances to be included in the labour market;c) To contribute to the development and empowerment of local volunteering structures in the partners´coutntires;d) Enhance active citizenship on local and global level within a group of traditionally passive (long-term) unemployed young people;e) Support development efforts in communities much in need in countries outside of Europe.The HAPPY project was implemented by a partnership of youth organizations in Spain, Hungary, Lithuania, Mexico, Nepal and Vietnam.The project had the following three main directions of action. The first one was the implementation of the International training of trainers and facilitators ¨Empowerment of Young people to fight youth unemployment¨ for youth workers, there the action plan how to involve NEETs into volunteering was created. Second stage was the local work, that included the outreach and trainings for local volunteers, engaging app 200 young people. Meanwhile as well there was a mobility of 20 EVS volunteers to Vietnam, Mexico and Nepal, the EVS activity lasting 5 and 6 months.The last stage of the Happy 2 project was the dissemination and exploitation of results.The whole project was based on the specifically-created HAPPY model. HAPPY stands for:· Help. The volunteer’s main task is to run a project in support of the local community. Volunteers use their time, energy and competencies to help those most in need, while at the same time helping themselves.· Absorb. The volunteering services should be done in a way to support the learning of the volunteers at a maximum in various personal and professional competencies..· Participate. Apart from their regular projects (usually service-oriented) the volunteers should be engaged in at least one other action as a manifestation of their active.· Promote. The volunteers that do volunteering services in another continent are perceived as ambassadors of global change. They will promote both the idea of volunteering as an act of active citizenship and the idea of sustainable global development.· Youth. Activities fitting the interests of the young people, being youth-friendly and fun!After the 2 year long project we have reached the impact desired, have involved much more young people into the process that we've planned, created a strong and effective partnership eager to continue collaborating in more projects.

The project idea is to empower youngsters from India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal, the Philippines and Vietnam to become active actors in their local communities and to enrich their skills and abilities in policy making, decision taking, lobbing and advocacy, conflict resolution, active civic participation, strategic planning and management. The project will be implemented in 6 phases: I International trainings: A series of 3 international trainings will be held in Thailand, Greece and Vietnam covering the above-mentioned topics of the project. Each training will be attended by 2 representatives per partner, 2 international trainers and 1 local facilitator.II Job-shadowing: 1 job-shadower per partner will be sent for 3 weeks to Asian or European country where they will exchange knowledge and will experience the process of civic engagement in all level of social life. Each partner will host representatives from one project partner and respectively will send one representative to another partner country. A structured programme including not only meetings but trainings and counseling sessions will be elaborated for each job-shadower depending also on his/ her interest and fields.III Online Learning Platform and webinars: 10 webinars will be scheduled each month for representatives in the international training courses, the national training courses and all other young people and stakeholders who have not had the chance to attend a project training but are interested in the topic. Webinars will allow as many interested stakeholders as possible to benefit from the project activities and the partners’ expertise. IV National trainings and setting the LEAD Youth Councils in each partner country. After taking part in the first 3 phases of the project each partner will organise 3 two-day national trainings for its members to build their capacity on topics of importance for the community development subject to the current project.Each national training will gather 20 local participants. As a result a youth LEAD Council will be established in each partner country. V Local community actions. At least one community action will be planned and implemented by the members LEAD Youth Councils. The community action should have an impact over more than 250 representatives of the local community.VI International LEAD Platform: The event will be held in Bulgaria for 7 days as 2 representatives per partner will attend. The first 3 days the participants will meet and share experience with youngsters from 3 Bulgarian universities (Sofia, Blagoevgrad and Plovdiv). The next 3 days an event will be organised offering to various stakeholders workshops, information sessions, partnership building space and sessions sharing social innovation practices .A press conference will be held. A one-day evaluation meeting with a focus on future cooperation will be organised.

The project ‘Training of trainer in Citizenship Education: Global Responses in Preventing Radicalization’ , aims to develop capacities of educational and youth work practitioners (teachers and youth workers) to work on combating violent radicalization, by designing and delivering educational programmes that promote Global Citizenship EducationIt is set up as cooperation among 8 partner organisations: Out of the Box International-Belgium, Center for Intercultural Dialogue-Macedonia, Realization-Croatia, Kenya Scouts Association-Kenya, Centre for Community Regeneration and Development-Cameroon, SJ Vietnam, Secondary School Nace Budjoni Macedonia, and NARXOZ UNIVERSITY, Kazakhstan. The project provide participants with the theory and tools necessary to design, implement and evaluate effective training programmes for global citizenship education and bridges educators from schools and youth organization in the promotion of anti-radicalisation and citizenship education.The project will create a community of practice, of educational practitioners in formal and non formal education with specific skilss to act upon antiradicalisation using approaches of global citizenship education when working with young people, in their respective fields inclusing formal education and youth sector. It will also develop a set of 4 E-course Modules, who will be used to engage young people from all over the world in the combating of violent radicalisation and promotion of human rights and dignity.Project Activities include 2 Training of Trainers, Blended Learning with Online Courses, Study visit in Brussels, and National activities. The project main outputs are Toolkit on Education for Global Citizenship in Combating radicalization and Online Learning Platform. It will involve around 400 direct beneficiaries who will act as multipliers on the topic od EGC in their communities and on global level.

#Evolve aims to enable exchange, develop new cooperation between CCIVS members and external stakeholders through an International Conference and by starting the Long Term Training programme for the IVS network by providing two trainings the ‘ABC of NGO Finances’ and ‘Communication and Marketing’ , following these we will ensure the replication of the project in Local Training Hubs based in the local communities where the 26 partners are based. It will produce 2 Open Source Toolkits on the theme of the Trainings. #Evolve is built upon the CBY KA2 - STEPS project which made an analysis of the training needs of IVS organisations, the ‘State of the Art of IVS’ was the publication issue from this project, it highlights the following; 1. organisational development is a top priority for IVS organisations, 2. The need to address the decreasing numbers of volunteers. As such #Evolve will promote networking (encouraging exchange – developing partnerships, sharing of ideas; meeting with stakeholders) and capacity building in Finances and Communication and Marketing in order to meet the needs highlighted. In face of declining numbers of volunteers #Evolve offers a space to build new partnerships, to further develop local actions and to develop key competencies to strengthen organisational structure. The Conference offers- visibility/networking/learning, the Training – new skills peer-to peer support with the trainings taking place in strategic countries with more expert members, the Local Training Hubs – multiplication with local communities improving access for 1500 young people with low basic skills and thus promoting social inclusion. The Results will include Open Source Toolkits on the themes of the Trainings and Reports.