"The project ""Youth work - uprising beyond the borders” was realized from October 2018 until November 2019. Project is jointly implemented by the National Association of Youth Workers - NAPOR and Estonian Youth Work Centre - ENTK, Estonia. Activities done during the project were: study visits in Estonia and Serbia, national meetings, SHARE conference and creation of e-publication based on campaign and creation of Analysis document. All project activities are implemented with the support of both partners, as well as their member organizations. In total 36 participants participated in the study visits and national meetings, 69 people were present on the SHARE conference, 20 youth workers participated in the campaign by sharing their stories. During the project, different organizations and institutions were presented (national level organizations, university, ministries and local level institutions) and their representatives participated in project activities such as study visits and the SHARE conference. The campaign implemented during the project had an influence in bringing closer youth work to youth; youth work practitioners, organizations and institutions. In that way, the wider audience could get to know what youth work is, who the youth workers are and what kind of job they are doing. All stories/interviews are compiled in one document and will remain open to the people after the project. Created document: Analysis of good practice summarizes advantages and challenges in both countries, giving also overview of different youth work practices. All created documents are at the Erasmus + result platform."

<< Objectives >>Goal: Assuring equal access to quality and sustainable youth work, in geographically isolated, rural areas and disadvantaged neighborhoods.Objectives:Assess the current situation (practices, models, resources, research of needs and recommendations)Contribute towards creation of equal opportunities (creation of specialized learning opportunities and development of new models)Give access to quality and sustainable youth work (implementing learning activities and creating inclusive youth work)<< Implementation >>- Setting the ground - Joint Study and Joint Research report - Unfurling ways - Development of a curriculum and materials for training and Development of a youth work model - Capacity building - Implementation of training and Piloting a rural youth work model<< Results >>- Created Study of existing practices, models, and (educational) resources- Created Joint Research Report on the needs of the young people and youth workers working in targeted communities- Developed curriculum for Rural Youth Work training course- Developed Inclusive Youth Work Model- Implemented training for Rural Youth Workers based on the developed curriculum- Piloted Inclusive Youth Work model in three communities in the three partner countries

“ACT AS PROFESSIONALS - Improvement of the youth work practice with young people with fewer opportunities” is an Innovation Strategic partnership in the field of youth project, focused around creating a new, dynamic training module for youth workers, with the idea of enhancing the quality of the use of professional principles in the youth work practice with youth with fewer opportunities. The objectives of the project involve innovating the non-formal education of youth workers, improving competences of youth workers in implementing professional principles in their practice with youth with fewer opportunities and improving the quality of youth work practice with youth with fewer opportunities. The project is set up by the team of professionals from humanistic sciences from Serbia and Denmark with the cooperation of the National association of practitioners of youth work. Through out the project, experts and youth workers from the consortium will meet on the Kick-off meeting (6 total participants), after which they will exchange their experiences and discuss about the youth work practice and professional principles on a short-term joint staff training (12 total participants). The central activity of the project is the creation of a training module, based on applied drama training session as its main learning methodology. The training module will provide the youth workers with learning sessions that cover a variety of important professional principles and situations in which the principles can be implemented and tested in practice during the training. By using applied drama learning methodology youth workers will use an experiential, dynamic and flexible process in enhancing their professional competences. Through the second short-term joint staff training, 12 members of the project team will test the training scenarios in practice and assure that they are applicable and lead to the planned effects. After the finalization of the Intellectual Output, two multiplier events will be realized – a conference in Serbia and Denmark on which the training module will be presented to 100 trainers, youth workers, CSOs and experts and its future use in the education of youth workers will be discussed. After the multiplier events and the implementation of the dissemination strategy, the project team will meet for the purposes of the evaluation of the project. With the realization of the project, the created training module will provide youth workers with a quality space for improvement of their professional competences which will bring to better practice of youth workers with youth with fewer opportunities. With more quality practice we will reach the long-term goal of improving the quality of youth work and will also nurture the trust of other supporting professions towards youth workers. All of this will have its effects on the integration of youth with fewer opportunities and will bring us closer to social inclusion goals in the society.

The project “The art of Ethics in Youth Work” gathered Australia, Serbia, Finland, Croatia and Portugal with the aims to improve the quality and recognition of youth work through advancing ethical frameworks on policy and practical level, in Europe and beyond. Project will last for 24 months (August 2019 - July 2021). The project is giving base for future evidence based research and work on ethics as part of youth work education. Project raises awareness of importance of ethic in youth work and how ethic influences quality and professionalization of youth workers. Within the project different aspects will be discuss in order to summarize previous ethic practice and develop new curricula’s for future education of youth workers. The involvement of Australian partner is important because of their experience that gives fresh perspective onto European practice. This will be a good step for putting ethics in focus as an important part of youth work on policy and practical level. Through the project different activities will be implemented in order to reach the goals: - Research on Ethics in youth work - Curricula’s and training scheme for NFE and higher education;- Seminar with recommendations concerning supporting mechanisms;- Transnational and national training courses;- MOOC and WEB conference that will be open for participants on global level;- Online awareness raising and educational campaign.Research findings, Seminar recommendations, Curricula within NFE and MOOC will be at the disposal to all interested youth workers and youth work associations to create programs form local to international level and to advocate with evidence based data for the greater recognition of youth work.In addition to mentioned above, the project will develop cooperation among stakeholders and institution on local, regional and international level. All implemented activities will be widely promoted online and in media in order to have the largest impact possible on youth work and educational society in Europe and Australia.

The project aims to explore the virtual space as a space for learning within the youth work context. The idea here is to optimize the experience lived by young people online during a learning process that includes diverse and multicultural groups. The project assumes that virtual learning is a resourceful concept that needs to be activated fully in the next few years. Learning in an online course is not much different than learning during a virtual youth exchange. It requires active participation, self-expression and openness to learn from others. For that the project will analyze both settings (virtual exchanges and e-learning) and collect data on learning trajectories from young people to conduct a full research based on theory of E-learning and youth work practice. Another common dominator between both settings is the use of ICT (Information and communication technology) tools. When providing young people with an opportunity to participate in a virtual youth exchange, youth workers activate young people’s knowledge about ICT tools. That opens access to young people to become more ICT oriented and empower them to use it in other learning settings. The project has 7 main activities as described separately below:1) Kick-off Meeting / APV: A meeting to formally start the project. It is an opportunity for all project team members to meet and get to know each other well. 2) Meta youth exchange: The approach is to consult young people and stimulate their creativity and critical thinking on the topic of E-learning and virtual exchanges. Participants will reflect on the process of learning within a multicultural group.3) Virtual Youth Exchange (VYE) The exchange will take a non formal educational approach through exchanging perspectives, debating controversies and challenging realities about global youth empowerment, global education and its role in peace building. 4) Preparation Meeting / Mid Project Evaluation: First Content development for the coming staff training. Trainers and project team will meet to finalize the content of the training as the previous 2 events along with the research draft outputs will fine tune the training content.5) Staff Training course: This activity is a capacity building for youth workers on ICT tools and the needs of young people regarding E learning experiences (including Virtual exchanges). The training will present the potential of using virtual space for learning in youth work. 6) Evaluation / Dissemination Event: Project team will have time to reflect and evaluate the outcomes of the project, the partnership and the sustainability of results. 7) ResearchThis is an extended activity throughout the entire project timeline. It aims to produce the intellectual output of the project which is a publication on facilitating a virtual learning experience in youth work context.