"The project addressed the lack of a common ground for youth work and of a clear picture of what constitutes quality in youth work. At the same time it intended, as an overall aim, to build a firm organisational platform where this common ground and view on what is qualitative youth work could be turned into practical quality development through peer learning and exchange of methods and best practices – InterCity Youth – the European Network of Local Departments for Youth Work. The main objectives of the project were a) to develop common indicators on participation, non-formal learning and gender equality and inclusion of marginalized groups of youth published in a booklet b) to create a web-based library of methods and best practices linked to the indicators The project also aimed at strengthening relations and cooperation between local departments for youth work and youth organizations as well as other organizations in other parts of the youth field on local, national and European level by, as a first step, inviting them to function as a reference group to the project. The activities of the project mainly consisted of a work group with representatives from the different partner organisations that together created the sets of indicators and gave examples of methods and best practices that can be used to see to what degree actual youth work meets the indicators. The approach and methodology of the group was based on the report from the European expert group on youth work quality systems, ""Quality Youth Work – a common framework for the further development of youth work"", published by the European Commission.The foreseen results of the project were sets of common indicators and ways to work with them that are used for common quality development within a strong European network of local departments for youth work, ICY.The booklet ""Inspiring Quality Youth Work"" (IQ Youth work) is the result of an Erasmus+ Strategic partnership between eight member organisations of InterCity Youth – The European Network of Local Departments for Youth Work. An additional partner - Municipio de Santa Maria da Feira- was added in the end of the project in order to make the International multiplier event in the Europe Goes Local conference in Portugal 5-7 June 2018. The project has been going on since spring 2016 and was finished entirely in the end of August 2018.The partners in the project were:KEKS, Network of municipalities, Sweden – coordinating organisationMunicipality of Cinisello Balsamo, ItalyKanuuna, Network of municipalities, FinlandMunicipality of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the NetherlandsMunicipality of Stara Zagora, BulgariaMunicipality of Thessaloniki, GreeceVVJ, Network of municipalities, BelgiumMunicipality of Munich, GermanyMunicipio de Santa Maria da Feira, PortugalThe project’s foreseen results were the following- that you can also find on the Intercity Youth website;A set of indicators on youth participation.A set of indicators on non-formal learning.A set of indicators on gender equality.A set of indicators on inclusion of marginalized groups of youth.A booklet where these sets of indicators are presented in combination with methods and best practices to be used when youth work should gather knowledge about to what degree activities meet the indicators. The booklet IQ Youth work is available in English, German, French and was also translated into Greek, Italian and Dutch by the different partner organisations.A web based library of methods and best practices linked to the indicators, including contact information that can be used for further inquiries and cooperation.The work methods used was transnational work meetings with the work group and project management group consisting of representatives from each partner organisation. In addition dissemination events were held in all partner organisations and as well in the Europe goes Local conference in Cascais Portugal, 5-7 June 2018. The project have created a concrete European model and method for working with quality development, relevant and usable in the carrying out and governing of everyday youth work in the very different youth work settings and conditions not only of the participating partners but of local departments in general. Through the combination of common indicators and ways to follow up, and a structured process for exchange of experiences and best practices the ICY-project will create a common ground that is not only based on words and documents but is firmly rooted and integrated into everyday practice. The work on creating indicators for the booklet IQ Youth work have not only made the different partners in the project familiar with how to work with indicators but have also made them ambassadors for a structured approach towards youth work. Several of the partners in the project were not familiar working with indicators and this was totally new for them. We think that the impact and the longterm effect for those memb"

Climate change is a human problem, caused by humans, affecting humans, and requiring a human-centric solution. CAMPAIGNers aims to make low-carbon lifestyles a major part of the solution by identifying lifestyle transformation potential, and associated barriers and enablers across 5 continents and 16 major cities with over 20 mil. residents. Feasible pathways to GHG mitigation are developed to include the empirically validated lifestyle changes, and are applied to the principal integrated modelling tools used in the EU to provide robust insights into the system-level impacts of large-scale lifestyle transformation. CAMPAIGNers builds on previous consortium-led projects that substantially improved the understanding of societal structures and interventions that encourage lifestyle shifts, and identified limitations to the existing evidence-base. Namely, current lifestyle transformation research is either limited to narrow, specific contexts or groups, or deals in hypothetical behaviours where most citizens do not have real experiences to draw on. CAMPAIGNers’ ground-breaking approach overcomes these drawbacks by implementing a ‘goal-setting network’, where over 100,000 citizens receive and create challenges to try out tailored adaptations to their daily routines via an engaging app. Their responses to these challenges, associated treatments, and short questionnaires will deliver unprecedented data of behavioural processes, (local) barriers to change, and motivators, allowing for empirically-based scientific support of cities in crafting policies to encourage low-carbon lifestyles. Together with local, national and EU policy makers insights are analysed regarding the ‘right-level-to-act’ and policy-ready recommendations are jointly derived. A workshop in the EU Parliament, hosted by First-Vice President Ms. McGuinness, and supported by 9 more MEPs from 6 countries and 4 political parties, will ensure high-level feedback and contribute to consensus building.

"Objectives: EMPYRE-project explores, collects and develops successful youth work practices used to empower young people in Europe. Evaluation and development of good practices is done by cross-national and multidisciplinary co-operation between science Universities, Universities of Applied sciences, HEI students and youth workers from different organisations. The target group of good practices is young people in highest risk of social exclusion and outside education, employment and training (NEETs). Project creates an internet course, teaching material and e-training programme for youth workers to enhance the social empowerment and active citizenship of excluded youth. Activities and methodology: 1) Each Partner country collects 5-7 good youth work/social work practices used for social empowerment and employability of young people (taking into account especially NEET-youth). Choosing practices is based on own expertise of the participating staff from each partner, and on literature/practice review about existing practices. Assessment of ""what is good or successful practice?""-is based on a) evaluation from clients by using the Bigva-method to assess the impact of practice, b) evaluation from experienced practitioners and peer interviews and c) on statistical analysis of the impact of used practices.2) In the transnational project meeting in Lodz a board of staff members decide which practices are chosen for next phase based on the different evaluation methods mentioned above3) Next, international study programme (ISP) in Linz brings together staff members, students and youth workers. The practitioners/youth workers/institutions using the chosen successful practices are also called to participate for the study programme. Practitioners/Youth workers behind good practices and partners work together to transform the practices for web and develop a mutual plan of responsibilities to execute innovative ways to learn about the practices: interviews, short movies, posters, articles etc. ISP also produces an outline for publication and explores several questions behind the successful practices: What are the contents of social empowerment? What kinds of skills and knowledge are there behind successful practices? What kind of common parameters can be found from behind ""successful"" practices? How the evaluation of successful practices could be developed? 4) Next stage involves producing the web-course for HEI students and e-training programme for youth workers. Web-course is piloted and implemented as part of each participating HEI's curricula. Partners also transform the HEI web-course for e-training programme for professional youth workers.5) Based on all this information, project staff writes an e-publication in English about the successful youth empowerment practices, possible translation to other languages. Wide dissemination about open access publication and web-course through social media and email-lists 6) Integral part of the objectives and activities are also the development and adaptation of the course and practices in the future. To start this, project ends with intensive study programme Summer School where students, teachers and youth workers use the practices of the course and publication in their studies, for example in different social projects and field studies and assess and develop practices further. Thus for example a social project in Finland could be carried out together with international students and youth workers from Poland, Austria, Wales and Finnish youth workers using and re-developing the good practices chosen for the web-course. The web-course could be a part (starting point, incubator) of wider blended module consisted of international distance learning and local traditional courses.7) webinar/Multiplier event is organised as a follow-up for ISP for introducing and disseminating the project results and outcomes to relevant stakeholders.Results:1) web-course about the successful youth work practices especially for youth work students 2) an e-teaching manual about the good empowering youth work practices to be used as part of the web-course3) a continuing education e-training programme for professional youth workers based on the web-course and manual 4) Open access manual and web-course for wider interested stakeholders in youth issues in EuropeOutcomes: 1) Fostering and developing the cooperation between participating HEI's and youth work organisations, enhancing the student and staff mobility between partners to concretely develop the teaching methods, theoretical basis and contents of youth work , 2) E-Training programme for youth workers in different countries, 3) curricula development, development of web-based pedagogics, and web-based study programmes in English language.Most important long-term benefit is the wide dissemination of good practices to better empower and to enhance the active citizenship and employability of youth in Europe."