"A Story of Europe"" (ASE) è stato un partenariato strategico di 24 mesi che ha coinvolto 3 NGO rispettivamente 1 italiana, 1 spagnola e 1 bulgara con esperienza pluriennale nel lavorare con i migranti. Il progetto aveva come obiettivo quello di promuovere la transizione verso l'occupabilità, l'imprenditorialità e l'autonomia dei giovani migranti NEET nel campo dell'imprenditoria sociale.Il gruppo target coinvolto nel progetto è composto da giovani con un background migratorio e che affrontano momenti di disagio quali esclusione sociale e disoccupazione, a rischio di emarginazione. Le barriere linguistiche e le difficoltà di accesso a sistemi educativi, rispetto ai loro coetanei, ostacolano il loro sviluppo di abilità e conoscenze, influenzando negativamente lo sviluppo personale e la capacità occupazionale ponendo così sfide di integrazione che le strutture di istruzione formale in Europa sono in grado di colmare solo parzialmente.ASE ha avuto come obiettivo di promuovere l’educazione all’imprenditorialità e l’imprenditoria sociale tra i giovani NEET, nonché di sviluppare capacità e competenze pertinenti e di alta qualità per i migranti attraverso uno sforzo coordinato in base al quale le organizzazioni partner hanno raccolto buone pratiche esistenti nel settore a livello nazionale, condividendo metodi di successo utili a sviluppare schemi di supporto educativo di alta qualità all’imprenditorialità orientata al terzo settore. Tali strumenti sono stati successivamente testati durante le mobilità realizzate.Le buone pratiche esistenti, sono state poi rielaborate in un programma educativo sull'imprenditoria sociale che sfrutta l'utilizzo di tre metodologie combinate con l'Educazione Non Formale: il Digital Storytelling, l'Imprenditoria attraverso lo Sport e il Personal Branding. Le attività implementate appartengono a tre categorie principali:1- Attività di ricerca.Le organizzazioni partner hanno effettuato ricerche transnazionali volte a identificare buone pratiche nell’educazione imprenditoriale dei giovani migranti attraverso lo storytelling digitale, l’imprenditoria attraverso lo sport e il personal branding. I risultati della ricerca sono stati integrati in specifici report nazionali, per confluire in un report a livello di Consorzio.2- Gestione / coordinamento del progetto.Comunicazione online costante e 5 incontri fisici transnazionali organizzati durante i 24 mesi di durata del progetto.3- Attività di apprendimento.Le organizzazioni partner hanno elaborato i risultati della ricerca condotta nella prima fase del progetto nella produzione di 3 diversi format educativi basati rispettivamente su storytelling digitale, l’imprenditoria attraverso lo sport e il personal branding. Sono state realizzate 3 Mobilità di giovani (1 per paese partner) con il coinvolgimento di giovani migranti e NEET. Ogni mobilità è stata focalizzata su una delle 3 metodologie individuate:Mobilità in Italia:Lo Storytelling Digitale come metodo di sviluppo personale e imprenditoriale che integra la narrazione tradizionale con l'integrazione di contenuti digitali e mediatici. Lo Storytelling Digitale è un potente strumento per lo sviluppo e l'esercizio concreto di capacità, competenze e attitudini imprenditoriali, capacità di pianificazione e comunicazione, pensiero creativo ""out of the box"" attraverso il potenziale ispiratore della narrazione.Mobilità in Bulgaria:L'Imprenditoria attraverso lo Sport è una metodologia completa di empowerment e sviluppo imprenditoriale che utilizza metodi sportivi, in connessione con le metodologie di Educazione Non Formale, per fornire ai giovani competenze trasversali (flessibilità, pensiero orientato agli obiettivi, leadership, lavoro di squadra) e attitudini (partecipazione attiva, cooperazione, interazione rispettosa) che costituiscono parte essenziale di una mentalità orientata al social business.Mobilità in SpagnaIl Personal Branding è un insieme di strumenti e attività volte a favorire l'auto-introspezione, la formazione positiva dell'identità personale, la pianificazione e lo sviluppo di una propria strategia di comunicazione personale (in particolare sugli strumenti dei Social Media) e l'acquisizione delle relative competenze digitali.Il Consorzio ha lavorato sotto la supervisione del Coordinatore per elaborare una Guida come riferimento pratico per gli operatori e gli stakeholder giovanili. La Guida ""Entrepreneurial EmPOWDERment"", contiene le attività e le metodologie impiegate nel corso del progetto, le immagini delle attività e i dettagli relativi ai Work Plan elaborati dai partecipanti."

"The project ""We have the same beat!"" was a transnational youth initiative which aimed to involve young people in the creation / implementation of attractive activities together with young people with special needs in order to sustain their integration and overcoming prejudices and discriminatory attitudes of community members. The project was developed between 1st August 2015 and 31 January 2017 and involved a total of 42 young people with and without special needs. The partner countries were organizations from Romania-CECIS, France-Eurocircle and Italy-MV International. Young people were encouraged to work together on specific activities and workshops, representing a progressive training to a final show ""Leave a sign! ""which closed the project and presented a group of young people working together in an attempt to ""break the wall"", a metaphor to represent the promotion of social inclusion of youth with disabilities.The project represented a youth initiative developed in a context-based on non-formal education methods. It was in line with increasing living standards and quality of life of young people with special needs by addressing emotional content and expressive activities, respecting the fundamental rights of persons with disabilities, promoting non-discrimination, equal opportunities and social change.The partners created the guide ""Leave a sign!"" which is a collection of educational activities that includes descriptions of the methods used, learning objectives, materials needed during the implementation, tips for trainers/youth workers, instructions for implementation and evaluation. The activities described focus on encouraging social inclusion of youth with special needs through creative and participative learning elements. It also includes a series of general guidelines for those working with young people with special needs. The approaches and methods described are relevant to the field of inclusion but useful to anyone in almost any context."

Creating OpportunitieS for Migrant InClusion (COSMIC) is a Strategic Partnership lasting 24 months focused on promoting youth volunteering as an instrument to contrast discrimination against migrants and refugees among the youth categories and within the hosting societies at large.The surge in intolerance, stereotyping and discrimination against migrants and refugees represents one of the most glaring realities influencing political and civil society debate, particularly in the European polities most sensibly hit by the massive migrants and refugee flows from Africa and the Middle Eastern region. Eurostat quantifies in 164.300 the number of extra-EU nationals who sought asylum in the EU-28 during the third quarter of 2017.In its Report covering the period between 2015 and 2016, the European Network Against Racism highlighted a concerning upward trend in episodes of racism, discrimination and aggression against migrants, in coincidence with the intensification in the migration crisis and the resulting spike in antimigration political discourse and exclusionary migration policies across the European Union. The Report also identified a statistical increase in direct violence against refugees and asylum seekers in Europe.This pattern of discrimination, stereotyping and attack (physical as well as verbal) is fuelled by and feeds a sliding of public debate over migrants and migration towards a subalternity to the dichotomic categorizations and confrontational positions expressed by populist, extremist and generally farright movements, which increasingly gain access to the mainstream public debate and realm of policies. Young people are particularly vulnerable to racist and discriminatory propaganda and messages, in particular considering their preferential use of Social Media, wherein this type of aggressive and discriminatory speech is ever more circulated. The necessity of setting the conditions for youth awareness about racism and discrimination as well as of the active contrast thereof in the field of youth is stressed by the European Youth Strategy, which sets the objective of supporting the development of cultural awareness and the contrast of prejudice among the youth. COSMIC pursues these objectives by means of selecting and training a cluster of youth volunteers actively committed to contrasting feelings and practices of discrimination among young people as well as promoting the positive values of tolerance and respect of diversity enshrined in European identity and citizenshipCOSMIC activities are:- Research and identification of European good practices in contrasting radicalization and prejudice among young people through Storytelling, Art and Sport.- Selection of a cluster of 10 young people per partner country (5 of local and 5 of migrant origins) to take part in the process of educational empowerment delivered in the project.- Implementation of 3 Blended Youth Mobilities (1 per partner country) wherein partners will develop the knowledge, skills and competences of selected youngsters in employing unconventional instruments of Non Formal Education (Storytelling, Art and Sport) as tools for contrasting phenomena of racism and xenophobia among their fellow young people, as well as spreading positive values of inclusion and tolerance.- Implementing a set of local activities delivered by participating youngsters in each partner country towards an audience of their own peers (locals and migrants). The focus of the activities will be to convey the educational message of the project to youngsters in local realities.- Developing educational resources (Research Reports, Manual and Blog) in multiple languages allowing a wide accessibility and disclosure of project results and thereby producing a direct impact on the audience of youngsters and youth operators in partner countries and in Europe at large.

"""Intercultural Dialogue to Empower Minorities"" (INTER-DEM) is a Strategic Partnership lasting 24 months focused on promoting peaceful interaction, mutual discovery and tolerance between natives and ethnic minorities youth through training young people in becoming potential Youth Digital Activists, in promoting intercultural dialogue in micro-realities through and in New Media Channels.In the ""Data collection in the field of ethnicity"" (2017) issued by the European Commission, it is underlined that ""Racial, ethnic and national origin, minority religion, language and cultural traditions have not been clearly distinguished in law, but are instead recognised as intrinsically interlinked. In its Advisory Opinion n. 17, the Permanent Court of International Justice stated that a (minority) community is “a group of persons living in a given country or locality, having a race, religion, language and traditions of their own and united by this identity of race, religion, language and traditions in a sentiment of solidarity, with a view to preserving their traditions, maintaining their form of worship, ensuring the instruction and upbringing of their children in accordance with the spirit and traditions of their race and rendering mutual assistance to each other"".The necessity of setting the conditions for youth awareness about racism and discrimination as well as of the active contrast thereof in the field of youth is stressed by the European Youth Strategy, which sets the objective of supporting the development of cultural awareness and the contrast of prejudice among the youth.INTER-DEM pursues this goal by means of training a cluster of young people in becoming potential Youth Digital Activists committed to contrasting feelings and practices of discrimination among young people as well as promoting the positive values of tolerance and respect of diversity enshrined in European identity and citizenship.INTER-DEM individualised Target Groups:The project will involve youngsters from national ethnic minorities as well as native youths. This choice was agreed among all Consortium partners, in order to achieve a double goal: fostering social inclusion of youngsters coming from ethnic minority groups as well as sensitise and educate native youth at empathy, tolerance and inclusive behaviour. INTER-DEM activities are:- Research and identification of European good practices in contrasting radicalization and prejudice towards national ethnic minorities among young people through the Digital Intercultural Dialogue;- Selection of a cluster of 8 young people per partner organization (4 natives and 4 from ethnic minorities) to take part in the process of educational empowerment delivered in the project.- Implementation of 4 Blended Youth Mobilities (1 per partner country) wherein partners will develop the knowledge, skills and competences of selected youngsters in employing Social Media Communication, Social Activism Campaigning, Digital Storytelling and Digital Educational Tools as methodologies/instruments for contrasting phenomena of racism and discrimination as well as spreading positive values of inclusion and tolerance among their peers as well as the overall SocialCommunity;- Implementing a set of local activities delivered by participating youngsters in each partner country towards an audience of their own peers in a process of co-leading between natives and ethnic minority youths. The focus of the activities will be to convey the educational message of the project to youngsters in local realities.INTER-DEM outcomes will be:- 1 Research Report containing statistics and needs regarding ethnic minority youths in matter of social inclusion in participating partner countries.- 1 Toolkit containing existent best practices and employed workshop on Social MediaCommunication, Social Activism Campaigning, Digital Storytelling and Digital Educational Tools for contrasting phenomena of racism and discrimination as well as spreading positive values of inclusion and tolerance, drafted during the fourth mobility and finalised before the local dissemination events.- 1 Blog created by the participants during the first mobility which will be the diary of their shared educational learning journey.- 4 Digital Storytelling products created during the second mobility.- 4 National and 1 International Social Campaigns launched during the third mobility."

“AgroRithm” aims to develop a concrete share of good practices about Agritourism in order to sustain youth employability, environmental progress and social inclusion for the disadvantaged rural communities in Europe and Western Balkans. All by defining the issues that the rural communities face and targeting the solution core as enhancing the networks and capacities of local and national stakeholders which are involved in sustainable agritourism.Rural areas in both European and West Balkans are generally characterized by fewer opportunities for young people in socioeconomic terms. Deprivation suffered by rural youngsters is multifaceted and linked to a varied array of structural issues, among which geographical isolation, poor infrastructure and communication, lower levels of economic activity both caused by and connected to a lower level of public/private investment, insufficient infrastructure of counselling and support to business/employability for young people.As the projects focus is to be the alternative learning tool that will be provided to local and rural youth in order to develop certain capabilities, it’s also complimentary on specific objectives in which they are more engaged in civil society which will lead to the development of decision-making processes nevertheless fostering cooperation between EU and neighboring countries in the field of non-formal learning as a tool of inclusionThe goal is to strengthen the connection and make a line of communication between NGOs and Local youth especially the fewer opportunities, also the project aligns with EU Youth Goals1. Connecting Eu with youth 2. Moving rural youth forward 3. Quality employment for all4. Sustainable Green EuropeThe project will have two main clusters1. Capacity building. Primary focus on the disadvantaged group of participants and to connect them with the experienced and professional stakeholders of the same activities so they can hand in hand collaborate in the growth of the society