El proyecto Shanarani se centra en desarrollar métodos atractivos para jóvenes basándose en el cine y en la música para implicarles en la reflexión sobre los estereotipos de género y sus consecuencias sobre nuestras decisiones vitales y nuestras condiciones.El nombre de Shanarani tiene su origen en los pueblos indígenas Purepecha. Significa “caminante” para indicar la unión entre lo “femenino” y lo “masculino”. Hemos seleccionado este nombre como un sinónimo de igualdad de género, lo cual “normalmente” queremos alcanzar en nuestra sociedad. A pesar de este objetivo de la neutralidad de género, nuestra sociedad está llena de estereotipos de masculinidad y feminidad, lo cual afecta severamente a nuestras oportunidades en la vida.A través del intercambio de buenas prácticas y de compartir lecciones aprendidas en cooperación transnacional, Shanarani desarrolla los siguientes objetivos: dar apoyo a trabajadores juveniles adaptando y promocionando buenas prácticas en su trabajo sobre problemas de género, además de destacar sus consecuencias y la necesidad de evitar el estereotipado.aumentar la participación de trabajadores juveniles en el desarrollo de metodologías innovadoras y motivacionales para hacer conscientes a las personas jóvenes de los problemas de los estereotipos de género y de las consecuencias relacionadas.implicar a jóvenes y apoyar a trabajadores juveniles a través de herramientas online como manuales digitales o una plataforma online desarrollada durante el proyecto para alcanzar esta consciencia y aumentar la consciencia sobre los efectos negativos de los estereotipos.difundir los resultados del proyecto a nivel local, nacional e internacional en comunidades relevantes, partes interesadas y partes tomadoras de decisiones y aumentar la consciencia sobre los problemas de género y la evitación de los estereotipos.En esta fase final del Proyecto podemos constatar que se han llevado a cabo todos los todas las actividades planificadas, se han conseguido los objetivos establecidos y se han realizado y cumplimentado todos los resultados esperados de acuerdo con, los requisitos de subvención establecidos por la Agencia Nacional Española. Gracias a la amplia experiencia de todos los socios colaboradores, Asociación Caminos como coordinadora del proyecto puede confirmar que el Proyecto Shanarani se ha realizado de acuerdo con las bases del contrato firmado.El informe de supervisión Shanarani fue de importancia para nuestro proceso de control interno asegurando que todas las organizaciones socio estén informadas en cada momento y así garantizar el continuo intercambio de información sobre el progreso del proyecto.Grupos destinatarios:Los destinatarios de este proyecto son trabajadores y organizaciones del ámbito del trabajo con jóvenes que desean mejorar sus actividades relacionados con cuestiones de género y estereotipos. De esta manera podemos fomentar que los jóvenes estén mejor preparados, que eviten los estereotipos tradicionales y que desarrollen su identidad asegurando oportunidades iguales para ambos géneros.Resultados Finales:IO1 – Manual para Formadores sobre Datos de Género en Europa -sin subvenciónIO2 – Manual “El Cine y la Interpretación” para trabajadores en el ámbito de la juventud -sin subvenciónIO3 – Manual “La Música” para trabajadores en el ámbito de la juventud -sin subvenciónIO4 – Plataforma onlineIO5 – Manual de Implementación de la Plataforma Online -sin subvenciónActividades: - 1° reunion transnacional en Sofia, Bulgaria – 29 y 30 de noviembre de 2017- 2° reunion transnacional en Dublín – 29 y 30 de mayo de 2018- 3° reunion transnacional en Vélez-Málaga – 8 y 9 de enero de 2019- Formación transnacional en Palermo, Italia – Del 11 al 15 de junio de 2018- Pilotajes en cada pais entre noviembre de 2018 y febrero de 2019 con min. 10 trabajadores sociales/juveniles y 50 jóvenes por pais- Eventos multiplicadores: Espana: 5 de12 de 2018 en Málaga, 21 de 3 de 2019 en Granada, 25 de 3 de 2019 en Málaga con 30 part.Irlanda: 7 de febrero de 2019 en Dublin con 9 part.Chipre: 25 de febrero en Nicosia con 20 part.Italia: 25 de marzo en Palermo con 35 part.Bulgaria: 27 de marzo en Blagoevgrad con 22 part.Lithuania: 29 de marzo en Kaunas con 24 part.- Actividades de difusión y sostenibilidadImpacto:La Plataforma online y las guias ofrecen un programa completo de formación con herramientas prácticas e información teórica. Todas las herramientas están destinadas a facilitar que los trabajadores en el ámbito juvenil reflexionen con los jóvenes sobre los estereotipos, sus orígenes y sus efectos en nuestra sociedad, así como concienciarles de las estrategias detrás de estos estereotipos. Involucrando a los jóvenes en debates y actividades relacionados con este tema, los trabajadores mismos y los jóvenes usuarios pueden reflexionar sobre su propio comportamiento y reducir estereotipos. Están disponibles en ingles, búlgaro, italiano, lituano, griego y español.

"BYMBE Project is building up on a national Austrian Project called ""Job Navi"" http://www.zig-training.at/kurs/job-navi-junge-muetter/ , which was developped within a set of measures targeting NEETs in Vienna and accomaning studies how to face ESL and lifelong consequences of it. ""Job Navi"" was designed by Doris Landauer due to the specific problems faced by young girls getting pregnant and who do not finish their professional education. This concern is a problem throughout Europe, not yet adressed by comparable measures. BYMBE partnership a consortium of expert partners with supplementary competences in counseling, motivaitonal training, women and youth work and dissemination activities from 6 european countries: Austria, Italy, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Irland and Spain - now aims to develop a transfer of parts of this best practice to a) other countries and b) to include outreach services outside big national centers. Thus the project will focus on the adaption to national contexts regarding education and accreditation systems and to local service provision in the partner countries. All partners will implement the project in smaller centers. Palermo and Dublin are of about over 500.000 inhabitants, Kaunas, Gijon and Innsbruck are at about 400.000, 275.000 and 122.000 and the Bulgarian partner, is going to implement the activities with target groups in Haskovo region (250.000 inhabitants). Identified TARGET GROUPS of the project: • Direct Targets: Young mothers aged 15-25 who have not finished their professional education (IO2,4,5,6) and Social Workers (IO1 and 3) • Indirect Targets: Social workers, teachers, trainers, other stakeholders in the field and general public for dissemination; Based on the above information the overall objective of the project is to improve social inclusion of young mothers, which are not in employment, education or training (NEETs) by bringing them back to school (education or training). The specific project objectives reflect the holistic and innovative nature of the approach chosen by the partners. BYMBE OBJECTIVES: • Adapt & promote good practices of support for young mothers for going back to school or in employment in Europe • Develop innovative outreach strategy & motivational campaign for awareness raising on the issue • Support social workers and trainers by provision of additional tools, knowledge and skills for their work with YM • Develop holistic support instruments for YM, including counseling, training, peer-groups s.o. • Disseminate project results and raise awareness about the problem and how to address it The overall longterm IMPACT of the BYMBE project will be to raise the general awareness of the risk to be exposed to poverty of young mothers dropping out education and to motivate young mothers to re-enter education. Most important on shortterm during the lifetime of the BYMBE project is the development of a successful support package for young mothers which will be implemented in a pilot with min. 12 young mothers from 6 countries (all together 72) are expected to re-enter education. They will be the pioneers for promotion of the project tools after the project end. In the last period of the project the results will be mainstreamed to key players in the field by direct interviews and multiplier events in every country with totally 200 participants in order to mainstream the project on national and european level."

The project New Horizons aimed at addressing the needs of a relative large and heterogeneous target group - people who have acquired disability after an accident or illness which affected severely their personal and professional life. While a comprehensive quantitative analysis of employment situation of people with various types of disabilities has been published by Eurostat in 2015, the qualitative analysis of the concrete needs of people who have lost their job or are at risk of losing it due to some accident or long-standing illness, are still insufficient.One of the main aims of the current project was to explore in details the challenges this broad target group is facing in the process of re-integration in the labour market and society as whole. This was the preparation part of the elaboration of a customised training programme for career counselling counsellors of people with acquired disabilities. The programme was first piloted with a small group of experienced adult trainers/career counsellors at EU level and then disseminated with broader groups of adult educators/counsellors/social workers at national level. The training programme was also accompanied by a Career counselling manual which described the holistic methodology of the counselling process following the principles of the existential counselling - focusing first on fostering the self-awareness, self-esteem and self-motivation of people with disabilities, and thus enhancing their career perspectives, improving their employability skills and empowering them for full participation in the society.The Empower yourself career kit summarised at the end in a visual way the most important steps of the programme, with concrete activities, advises and motivational stories for the long-term unemployed people with disabilities. Mutual exchange of experience, ideas and support was made possible through the Online Social Tool which was evaluated as a very useful and well-structured e-learning platform.Another innovative element of the New Horizons project concept was the possibility for assessment and validation of concrete skills and competences acquired by the counsellors in the course of the implementation of the New Horizons Career Counselling Programme which aimed at fostering their personal and professional development.Last, but not least, the project results will presented and discussed with relevant stakeholders as ministries, agencies, employers, NGO’s working with people with disabilities within the frame of round tables in each partner country in order to raise awareness about the needs and the potential of this disadvantaged target group.The direct target groups which took part in the the project training activities and outputs are 110 trainers and counsellors in the participating partner countries, who are working actively with unemployed people with different (physical or mental) disabilities acquired after an accident or a long-standing illness. The indirect target groups which were reached through the various training and dissemination events as well as through the partner networks reached beyond 500 at international level.The New Horizons Methodology, that was applied in the current project, has the following key values:• Holistic approach closely following the principles of the existential counselling which starts with exploring and understanding the context and specific needs of the counselled person before defining together the concrete steps and measures about personal and career development. • Involvement of all partners and distribution of tasks corresponding to the concrete areas of expertise of each partner• Orientation towards Competence Oriented Learning in the development and implementation of all educational and training materials• Promotion of Validation of Formal and Informal Learning for all target groups and final beneficiaries • Impact on EU level: Project management and training/research experts in each partner country Beside the long-term impact on unemployed people with acquired disabilities, other directly linked target group also could benefit from the project results in the short- and long run:• Career counsellors and adult trainers experienced in working with disadvantaged groups• Patients’ associations and other NGOs who support people with varies types of disabilities • Health and psychological staff in hospitals/rehabilitation centers.For a widespread impact of New Horizons project outputs, awareness raising among the following stakeholders as well as closer cooperation between them were fostered in the short and long run:• HR-Managers and Managing Directors of companies that are socially responsible• Policy makers such as ministries (Labour and Social Affairs, Health), agencies such as Agency for Social Assistance, etc.• Labour market authorities such as Employment Agencies, Job centers etc.• General Public

My Community 2020 was developed to provide a contribution to addressing low digital skills and making an important contribution to local history and cultural heritage. The project addresses needs identified at national and European levels, the digital skills gap which requires to be bridged for a successful economy and the importance of valuing our cultural heritage The project brought together seven partners with relevant expertise in European Projects and training of adults facing disadvantage and barriers. Together we provided a cross-sector partnership, a transnational approach and desire to create a citizens perspective of life in their community in the year 2020. During project delivery we designed the course Digital Skills to Create Local History, with modules covering Storytelling, Local History, Interview Techniques, Local Media and recording / editing digital recordings with free software packages. We piloted with ten adult learners who face disadvantage and social isolation, engaging local citizens to act as mentors to support the learners created audio and video recording of stories of everyday life. Collectively we created over 80 short stories which through publishing on an online platform created the history of tomorrow today. The project improved the digital skills, self confidence and employability skills of adult learners, as well as providing an insight into active citizenship which they would be encouraged to continue as part of the project sustainability. The online platform short stories created a lasting legacy and contribution to cultural heritage and provided inspiration and stimulus to other localities in partner countries and across other European countries to use the project results to work with adults or young people to make their own contribution to feed into the platform. The project was led by Dacorum CVS (UK) and had partners in Bulgaria, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia and Spain. In addition to the project linking into the European Year of Cultural Heritage, we had been pro-active in choosing partners in Bulgaria, Ireland and Italy to link into European Capital of Culture locations in 2019 and 2020.

Recently, the real face of Domestic Violence in Europe became clearly captured for a first time, in a survey, that involves participants from all 28 European states and reflects the experiences of 42 000 women across EU. The data from the survey dreadfully shows that one in three women has experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15. This project aims at addressing this crucial topic by building on the successful idea and results of a previous LLP project PACT, which (as its full name clearly reveals) was aimed at Promoting Awareness and Cooperation and Training in the Field of Domestic Violence (DV). Building on major and crucial European developments like the Istanbul Convention and the EU Victims’ Directive (Directive 2012/29/EU) and being strongly aligned with the main priorities and values entangled in strategic documents like the Paris Declaration and Europe 2020, EMPROVE! Aims at: EMPowering DV survivors by IMPROVing the DV intervention and prevention. More concretely, the EMPROVE! Project will train counsellors and trainers, as well as NGO staff, that works with DV survivors, enriching their training repertoire with the EMPROVE! Intellectual products. In other words, the main target groups of the project will be counsellors, tutors, mentors, trainers, working with DV survivors and final beneficiaries of the project will be the DV survivors, whereby EMPROVE! focuses on women, because they are disproportionally affected by this major problem.The overarching goals of EMPROVE! are going to be achieved through the following activities: - comprehensive good practice research and qualitative needs analysis of the challenges both counsellors and DV survivors face;- international and national train-the-trainer events, that will educate the first wave of EMPROVE! Counsellors- introduction of an innovative element in the training and counselling of the DV survivors – an EMPROVE! Social Platform, developed based on the theory of Gamification. This methodology is known to increase the intrinsic motivation, the empowerment and the feeling of community of the learners, keeping them involved throughout all phases of their training and counselling process. - Network Guidelines for successful prevention and intervention of DV- EMPROVE! Competence models and validation reference systems- Policy Paper with recommendations for amendments in local and international policies and practices on DV prevention and intervention- Assessment and validation activities of informally acquired skills and competences - Dissemination & Sustainability- Quality AssuranceIn the piloting of this unique EMPROVE! Approach, the project will train directly between 40 and 50 counsellors, piloting the EMPROVE! Training programme with ca. 60 DV survivors around Europe and disseminating the project products to further 250+ DV survivors. More than 70 professionals and key stakeholders will participate in the EMPROVE! Foundation Seminars and further 1000 will learn about the project through the dissemination activities of the consortium.The EMPROVE! Methodology, that will be applied in the current project, has the following key values in its core:• Holistic approach • Distribution of tasks according to the areas of expertise of each partner• Focus on Competence Oriented Learning in the development and implementation of all educational materials• Promotion of Validation of Formal and Informal Learning for all target groups and final beneficiaries • Impact on EU level: Project management and training/research experts in each partner countryAs a result from all these activities, Good practice brochure, Training products, Policy recommendations, Gamified EMPROVE! Social platform and EMPROVE! Network Guidelines will be developed.With these activities and products, the project makes important steps towards the response of education and training to the main challenges of today's world and to the need to improve the intervention and prevention of such huge social problem as DV. Potential long-term benefits from the EMPROVE! Activities and products are expected for counsellors, trainers, DV Survivors, but also for employers, local and national public bodies, Moreover, the impact and the benefits from the EMPROVE! Project are increased by the fact that the project products are designed to live after the project lifecycle has ended. This will be further ensured by the readiness and motivation of all partners (representing seven of the EU member states) to include the EMPROVE! Training programme in their core activities.To sum up, the project is expected to make a significant contribution to enhance knowledge on the matter of domestic violence, to enhance skills and competences for DV prevention and intervention and to promote social and civic competences, democratic values and fundamental rights, social inclusion, non-discrimination, active citizenship and first and foremost – empowerment of DV survivors.