Project title: KFC - Knowledge For CareerApplicant organization: Youth Club ActivePartner organizations: Latvijas jauniesu attistibas centrs (Latvia) and SDRUZHENIE ALTERNATIVI INTERNATIONAL (Bulgaria). Project dates: March 2021: Kick-off meeting in Estonia.March-April: Advertisement, form groups, find out the needs of the groups, start preparation meetings.April - September 2021: Introduce the project and the programme to the group, get to know each other, lecturesOnline meeting with initiate team, another pair of events (Excursion to universities, Job Shadow, visit career centres, simulation game,)August: participants’ feedback, meeting with initiate teams, a study visit to Bulgaria (midterm summary, exchange of experience, and methods).August-November: Making a website and a booklet, making visual materialsNovember 2021: Presentation of website and booklet, summarize meeting with initiate teams. November2021-February 2022: dissemination of the project by 25 participants/pupils and initiative team members. Each partner organisation has to manage 1 public event. March 2022- April 2022 - project evaluation and sum up results, final reportMain aim:The main goal is to increase practical and theoretical knowledge among youngsters in the field of career, thanks to which they can be competitive on the Estonian, Bulgarian and Latvian labor markets, which will allow them to choose the career path most preferable for them, further to let them express their thoughts and opinion about career education at schools and make suggestions in an open dialog with decision-makers.The project will reach the following objectives:- to give relevant skills and knowledge for being competent on the labor market in Estonia, Bulgaria and Latvia as well as on the European level- through non-formal methods to raise key competences for finding a preferable career path- to raise the question of the quality of school lessons about career education and let youngsters discuss it with decisionmakers in an open dialog with different target groups- to organize a forum where representatives will be invited from schools and from governmental instances who deal with development of career education at schools- to inspire youngsters to continue their education and in the future to have a job in Estonia, Bulgaria and Latvia by showing them the rich variety of possibilities that their home country offers- to make contacts with successful people who have started a career path in Estonia, Bulgaria and Latvia as well as to make contacts with each participant of the project to have an opportunity for cooperation in the futureDescription:The idea of the project appeared after we decided to ask youngsters about their knowledge on the topic of career, how informed they are, and what competencies are needed for finding a job in the future. Answers in our survey as well as in personal talks with youngsters were not as positive as we expected, we know that the majority of schools offers a subject on the topic of career education, so we decided to raise the question of the quality of the subject as well as the effectiveness of other governmental instances that teach career to youth. Thus the project was born, we want to facilitate youngsters and give them relevant skills for being successful and competent on the labor market in the future, further, our goal is to let them express their opinion about the quality of the subject and compare it to methods used during our project, moreover, we plan to organize a forum for this specific reason where representatives of schools and decision-makers in this field will be invited so that they could discuss the topic with youngsters and among themselves. During the project would be selected per each country 25 participants from different schools, who will be involved to the experiment of the life-long learning process, which will show them through non-formal methods that career is about themselves. They will have the opportunity to be a part of a very intensive programme and later share their feedback via video interview, which would be posted on the project website. By youth workers and initiative team members would be managed second visual result as learning booklet which will consist in used practical non-formal methods, which will be a focus on the topic how to build a future career for youth after school.

CONTEXT We are living in the time when there are more volunteers around the world than always. Only in Europe can we find some 6168 accredited volunteer organizations. According to the latest estimates, between 22% and 23% of Europeans over the age of fifteen are involved in voluntary works, that amounts to 92-94 million Europeans. These figures will increase with the arrival of the European Solidarity Corps and one of the barriers encountered by volunteering, according to the latest report of the Briefing European Parliamentary Research Service, is the disparity of existing regulations that have the consequence of not having uniformity of criteria and information. Currently we do not have specific training to manage volunteers’ projects and it is difficult to find solutions in our day-by-day to solve problems quickly and easily. Youth workers have official guidance and national agencies to solve problems, but sometimes there are issues that are not resolved through official channels, but through forums, Facebook groups ... and this leads to a loss of time and quality of the projects. OBJECTIVE The general objective is to improve the quality of the skills of youth workers involved in volunteer's programs and thus increase the number of young people who perform voluntary service, affording greater guarantees of reliability. The specific objectives are: - Improving the quality of the voluntary service. - To increase trust in the voluntary service. - Providing youth workers with practical and useful tools that save time and efforts. - To provide volunteers' organizations with support for the clarification of roles, rules, tasks and bureaucracy. TARGET GROUP The main recipients will be youth workers whose responsibilities revolve around volunteers' programs. These youth workers will have specific information regarding the resolution of problems or multiple doubts that arise on a daily basis. This way, the results of this project will also have as beneficiaries the organizations of sending and receiving volunteers and the volunteers themselves, who will be able to access information that until now was not directly available. ACTIVITIES Throughout this project we will conduct a search, collection and classification of practical and useful information from multiple volunteers' organizations, to then make it available to youth workers through a web platform and mobile application. These activities will be developed in the Intellectual Output 1. which will be divided into three parts: A1 - We will search, collect, classify and order the problems and the respective solutions that day after day arise for the youth workers who manage voluntary projects. A2 - We will synthesize this information in a web platform and in a mobile application, available for Android and IOS. The objective is to make the solutions to the dayly and tricky issues as accessible as possible, so that the youth worker has to invest less time to find it. A3 - A test of the technological tools will be carried out, assessing both the content and the technology itself. METHODOLOGY The work team will develop this project jointly. All partners participate in all activities and have specific functions in each of them. In the same way, the responsibilities are divided, so the work load is distributed in a fair manner and ensuring that the project complies with the expected quality standards. IMPACT The project will be consistent with the detected needs. Youth workers will have solutions to their daily problems that arise when managing voluntary projects. Volunteers will have real and practical information on the logistics of volunteering projects and organizations will have better volunteering projects too. Consequently, we hope to increase the quality of voluntary service and increase the number of volunteers in Europe. LONG-TERM PLAN We hope that the results of the project will be successful among youth workers across Europe, that is why we have designed a sustainability strategy that will allow us to continue maintaining and updating the results. In order for the results to be successful, it is necessary for technological tools to be used by many users, which is why we have designed a dissemination strategy to ensure that the greatest number of youth workers approach it. Although during the analysis of the needs, all the consulted youth workers expressed their interest in disposing of the results.

<< Objectives >>With the active participation of young people aged 13-16 we want to create 40 attractive public spaces for greater physical activity of youth in Hrastnik, Slovenia and Tallinn, Estonia, by using gamification elements. With this project we are responding to the deteriorating physical and consequent mental health of young people after the pandemic. We will monitor and present the entire gamification process in the manual.<< Implementation >>1.Two youth groups mentored by youth workers, who will locate public spaces for young people.2. Implementation of international mobility in Hrastnik and workshops for the development of gamification ideas for both cities.3. Young people will carry out the gamification of public spaces in both cities to encourage peer physical activity.4. Two public openings of gamified public spaces.5. A know-how manual on how to carry out such a project in other local communities and its public presentation<< Results >>The project will have the following results:1. 40 gemified public spaces in both cities, Hrastnik, Slovenia and Tallinn, Estonia (20/partner).2. A know-how manual on how to use gamification to increase the attractiveness of public spaces and promote the physical participation of young people. Manual is dedicated to youth workers and other professionals working with young people (formal and non-formal education, sports).

‘First ADR Kit’ strategic partnership is a cross-sector cooperation between organisations active in the fields of intercultural communication, conflict management, active citizenship and youth participation, aimed at creating new educational methods of teaching Alternative Dispute Resolution (mediation, negotiation, conciliation, dispute boards) with the use non-formal education tools. The main objectives of the project are: -To raise awareness on the topic of Alternative Dispute Resolution and its use in conflict management both in private and public sector; -To create a group of highly qualified youth trainers specialised in teaching ADR with NFE methods; -To develop new educational methods based on the knowledge and experience in the fields of ADR and NFE (simulation games, practical workshops, role plays); -To provide series of intensive trainings for young leaders on the topics of multiculturalism, dialogue, active citizenship, participation, conflict resolution, ADR; -To create new tools for implementation of intercultural dialogue and ADR in youth work (handbook on educational methods, workshops’ scenarios, web portal (ICT and OER); -To improve the communication and social skills of young professionals and youth leaders entering the labour market and thus increasing their sense of entrepreneurship; -To contribute towards building more respectful, trustworthy and partner-oriented atmosphere in the business, public and private sectors; -To encourage conciliatory and interest-based approach in business and private relations. Project is dedicated to three target groups. First is a team of 20 youth trainers who participated in intense training on the topic of Alternative Dispute Resolution delivered by professional mediators and conflict managers. They afterwards combined this knowledge with non-formal education tools and prepared a whole new set of teaching methods. Second group consists of 150 - 200 youth leaders and young professionals who participated and evaluated the training courses developed and delivered by the youth trainers. The third target group includes partner organisations, professional ADR institutions, educational institutions, stakeholders active on the labour market, other interested individuals (at least 250 representatives). They participated in dissemination activities and were invited to an open discussion on the topic of importance of implementation of ADR into regular educational activities and its validation on the labour market. ‘First ADR Kit’ included the following activities: Research on ADR service and education; Preparation of ICT web portal ADR training for youth trainers; Preparation of new workshop scenarios combining ADR with NFE (including two games scenarios); Series of trainings for youth; Conferences and dissemination activities. All activities were conducted with the use of Non-Formal Education. Special focus will be given to simulation games and practical workshops in order to fully experience the use and challenges connected with conflict management. The project resulted with several ‘hard’ outcomes, such us: methodological handbook, workshop scenarios, simulation games, online webpage with elements of ICT. It also resulted in higher competences of young people with regard to conflict resolutions, their increased sense of initiative and entrepreneurship due to better understanding of the mechanisms ruling disputes, willingness to use professional ADR services and to pursue further training in this field, more reliable and relation-friendly atmosphere in the business sector, bigger awareness on the importance of providing ADR education already on the early stage of education/professional career. In a long term the project initiated the first in Europe network of youth organisations specialised in ADR. It will also help improve the quality and sustainability of relations in public and private sectors, encourage more open and conciliatory approach in everyday communication and enable much more active participation of youth in their communities.

"The 21 months partnership project named ""Empowering youth to become social innovators"" aimed at promoting youth initiative in the area of community welfare, and more specifically at development of entrepreneurial mind and social innovation. This was realizing a long term mission to contribute to the recognition of youth achievement as an important condition of better access to the job market. Realized by a Czech youth organization DYNAMA and an Estonian NGO Youth Club Active, the project offered the participants, youth aged 14 - 21, a chance to develop knowledge, skills and experience important for becoming a social innovation promoter. The project activities took place in Brno and Tallinn from October 2015 to the end of June 2017. There were three sustainable social innovation model and one concept of social innovation developed by youth participants to address a need of a chosen target group representing the disabled and the economically excluded. The approach to social innovation was captured by animations. The project activities included a transnational seminar, a number of intellectual outputs and a final multiplier event - a symposium. The new key knowledge was shared by participant’s video blogs. The project outcomes were be promoted and disseminated by various PR and marketing tools including social media posts, visuals, strips, articles and street art objects to effectively target a wide young audience as well as those with special needs. There were also two public debates run to collect public feedback on the potential of the youth in the area of community welfare. The main methodology outcome are materialised social innovations and the the social innovation cook book - a useful reference material for potential brave young innovators. Non formal learning methodology was applied in all learning activities. By sharing project results internationally, both partnering organizations hope to attract wider international interest for a future transnational partnership on youth empowerment and social entrepreneurship."