The Inclusive Mobility project focuses its work on the mobility pathways of the youth with disabilities. Inclusive Mobility rely on the priorities laid down by the European Union Europe 2020 policy and the Council of Europe Handicap Strategy 2017-2023. The aim of these policies is to double the number of youth mobilities in Europe, with a specific focus on disadvantaged publics, including youth with disabilities. We believe we could bring an answer to these basic needs by the mobility programs. We would promote personal, social and professional development for the youth with disabilities in the actual global world. The inputs and benefits of a mobility in a life path are the key priorities of the Inclusive Mobility project. The various context elements shows us that, more than a quantitative growing, the project should favour a qualitative support at several levels on the topic: information on existing mobility devices, pre-departure preparation, welcome and support during the mobility, how to value it at the end. Reinforced by the MappED! project on which AHEAD and ESN France were working during two years, we wanted to continue our collaboration in order to better answer needs identified on the ground. Inclusive Mobility project aims are to create a clear and accessible resource for the youth with disabilities and bring a qualitative support to the stakeholders working in the field of youth. The project will be complementary with the various existing projects on the topic by complying to the following objectives: 1. Make accessible a qualitative information at every step of the mobility pathway to the youth with disabilities 2. Empower the stakeholders working on the topic following their specificities (educational institute, associations, economic actors, etc.)These main goals lead us to target two specific audiences: - The youth with disabilities and their families by the implementation of a complete information center and support devices to suit everyprofile - The stakeholders working in the field of mobility and youth. They will benefit several available resources, tools and training in order to reinforce the support of youth with disabilities in their mobility pathway To answer these goals, the consortium composed of six experienced stakeholders in the topic and on European project: AHEAD, ESN France, SV-Bildungswerk, Udruga Zamisli, JugendInfos and Droit au savoir; will develop four intellectual outputs: O1 – A participatory webplatform – Inclusive Mobility – 10 000 expected users O2 – A toolbox for the youth workers and associations working on the topic – 300 expected download O3 – A study on the short-term mobility of youth with disabilities – 40 reached Ministry and Erasmus+ National Agencies O4 – A research on practices observed on the welcome of international students with disabilities – 15 identified countries The project is built in a long term perspective aiming to: - Improve devices and practices on the support of youth with disabilities - Contribute to the growing number of youth with disabilities doing an international mobility - Adapt short-term mobilities in order to make them more accessible for the youth with disabilities and more efficient in a personal and professional pathway - Promote the emergence of a community gathering the involved stakeholders on the topic: youth with disabilities, families, educational institute, associations, companies - Intensify relationships on various sectors: between schools and higher education institutions, between public stakeholders, private actors and associations, etc. In order to carry out the project tasks, the consortium established a precise work methodology on each intellectual output (qualitative and quantitative indicators, impact assessment, etc.) and a complete dissemination plan in several steps. This will allow the consortium to improve the product tools thanks to the partner’s experiences and based on the non-formal / popular education techniques. The consortium will also make the project sustainable by paying attention on how to involve and empower a community of volunteers. Thus, it will ensure peer-to-peer exchanges on the webplatform and a participatory work of the tools.

<< Objectives >>Enhance the mental health literacy of youth workersEquip youth workers to identify youth mental health distress, provide first-hand support, and refer them to specialised services if neededFoster cooperation among mental health experts, youth and youth workersShare good practice to learn from experiences in different countriesFight against the mental health stigma Foster a peer-to-peer approach to mental health Guide the adoption of measures at different levels to support youth mental heal<< Implementation >>Survey (2.1) for youth workers to identify mental health literacy levelsGuide (2.2) for youth workers on identifying youth in distress, providing first-hand support, and knowing when to refer them to specialised services4 podcasts (2.3) for youth workers produced by experts and young peopleScreening young people's mental health needs through gamification (3.1)Campaign (3.2) to reverse the mental health stigmaJoint seminar (4.3) with stakeholders. Stakeholders’ recommendations (4.4)<< Results >>YiMinds will develop resources to equip youth workers to identify youth at risk and provide first-hand support. We will consider the specific needs of more vulnerable groups (i.e. difficult family backgrounds, refugees, migrants, minorities, disabilities, etc). The involvement of young people throughout YiMinds, namely in the podcasts, mental health resilience toolkit, awareness-raising campaign, recommendations and seminar will contribute to European youth active citizenship and participation.

Transnational strategic partnership project “Youth.Info: Future Youth Information Toolbox” aims to increase quality and outreach of youth information services on local level by creating and applying user-friendly methods on evidence and future based youth information needs and involving peer-to-peer youth information educators. Youth information and counselling field lacks research on youth information needs and its service impact. Youth field in general has been rather reactive and not future-looking proactive service provider. Future foresight methodology successfully works in other policy areas however has never been adapted for the field of youth (information) work. There are several effective information services already developed on the European level. Exchange on it and creating of design-thinking based approach to the service development is still missing. Peer-to-peer work in youth information has been already explored as an optimal support for reaching out new target groups, however there are still no empowering tools for youth information workers on the local level. Therefore this project targets to: 1) research and understand youth information needs by building on existing research design (ERYICA, 2013); 2) explore possibilities for applying future foresight in the youth information work and provide insights on what challenges in the field are to come; 3) develop, co-create and pilot 3 open user-friendly, evidence and future based youth information services, that could be used by local youth information providers; 4) empower youth information workers and peer educators to use participative peer-to-peer approaches in delivering youth information services and therewith increase the reach-out and awareness of young people on specific topics; 5) build political awareness on the impact of youth information and counselling and support development of national youth information structures in Latvia and Lithuania. This project involves youth information workers (8) and peer educators (25) from Germany, Austria, Ireland, Latvia and Lithuania as also reaches-out to even more practitioners through ERYICA and EPTO networks. Project’s academic partner Abo Akademi University (Finland) ensures the evidence and future based research as also evaluation of the project. Project starts with the youth information needs survey and service impact research activities. It will continue with exploration of the use of the future foresight methodology in the youth information field. Pilot foresight activity will be conducted on European level, involving all relevant stakeholders in a participative manner. This will lead to reports on youth information needs and future perspectives to be taken into account. Based on this evidence, three different information services/products will be created by national youth information coordinators involved and piloted by their partners in other project countries. This is done based on design-thinking methodology. After collecting feedback during the meeting, products will be finalized and released for public use by local youth information workers. European peer training organization (EPTO) will elaborate a training course for empowering youth peer educators to use services created and to multiply them to rather marginalized target audiences. This will be evaluated throughout the project and presented in a high-level visibility event, that will bring policy-makers, practitioners, young people and researchers to highlight the impact youth information and counselling services have. Further dissemination activities will ensure that the insights from research, guidelines on how to conduct foresight activities, information services and the peer-to-peer training course are sustainably used by ERYICA and EPTO network members as also other practitioners and researchers. Main results of this project are reports on youth information needs and future challenges, three innovative, evidence and future based information delivery services, manual of a training course for peer-to-peer in the youth information work. This will lead to the following impact: youth information workers will build their capacity through understanding changing information needs and behaviours of their target group. Local and national youth information providers will be empowered to use future foresight and design-thinking approaches in their service development. More young people will be reached out to and informed on for them relevant topics by young peer educators and peer-to-peer work. On the political scale, both on European and national levels awareness of the added value created by youth information services will become more visible. This will be expressed in the support for the development of national youth information structures in Latvia and Lithuania.

The project partners believe that quality youth information and counselling services can only be achieved and ensured via trained professionals. The increasing emphasis on quality and quality assurance processes at different policy-making levels inspired ERYICA’s commitment to continue supporting youth (information) workers in acquiring the skills and competences needed to better meet the needs and expectations of young people.In this spirit, the DOYIT project developed an e-learning platform and filled it with updated and revised training curricula in the field of youth information and counselling. The specific objectives included increasing the outreach and efficacy of youth information training through the adaptation and integration of 4 training courses to this online learning platform, familiarising youth information workers, youth workers and trainers with these new training and learning methodologies using online environments and defining quality assessment tools and evaluation methodologies for online courses in the youth work sector.The activities of the project included not only the development and enrichment of the e-learning platform but the creation of a kit for the organisation of e-learning activities, a quality, evaluation and assessment guide, as well as a training of trainers. Furthermore, to further increase their outreach, one training course was translated into eight additional languages within the project, and another one into five. Pilot training courses ensured the finetuning of the results and at the same time the beginning of dissemination and the exploitation of project results.All the 10 project partners from Luxembourg, Finland, Croatia, Spain, Lithuania, Portugal, Estonia, Ireland and Austria provided input based on their expertise and experience for the benefit of the project development. The participants directly involved in the project activities were youth information workers, trainers, training course developers, lecturers and academics in the field of youth work, who provided a very relevant mix of expertise for realising the outputs successfully. Due to the involvement of partners both from the formal and non-formal education sectors, the accomplished outcomes provide increased and effective training outreach via new training methods to make youth information workers meet the expectations related to their profession; connect knowledge, know-how and skills with outreach, efficacy and quality; and increase the flexibility and openness of training delivery, among others. In the long run, these developments make training more accessible for the 28-country European network of ERYICA and considerably contribute to the quality development of youth information and counselling services throughout Europe.