This project includes four non-profit organizations that have been working with young people for a long time, supporting youngsters in formal and non-formal education, and promoting volunteering, personal and professional development. The organizations will share examples of good practice and learn how to work with digital media to effectively communicate with young people and manage to conduct needs assessments, how to analyze data and promote the organization and its activities on social media and the Internet in general.In our organizations, we feel that we have to reconsider our nowadays approach on how to address young people, get their attention, and motivate them to benefit from our services. Mladiinfo ČR, Mladiinfo Slovensko, Pewobe, and COSI would like to share good practices in order to:1) To increase the quality of services provided to young people2) To strengthen the human resources capacity of our organizations with volunteers and interns3) To increase the number of beneficiaries of services provided by us in terms of young people between 15-35 years old including youth with fewer opportunities4) Fostering civic engagement of your community by creating a PR action plan and guide for our organizations in order to achieve the upper mentioned objectivesTo achieve the main objectives of this project, the participating organizations need to exchange good practice in:- The means of reaching generation Y and Z through the internet (content on social media, website, campaigns, etc.)- The methodology of analyzing the needs of the various target group of the participating organizations- Tailoring public events and workshops addressing the identified needs for various target groups- Fundraising and building cross-sector partnershipsThe expected results for his project are:- Established strategic partnership for youth work between the partner organizations and space for continued mutual support- Increased cooperation of partner organizations in the field of youth work- 12 employees and at least 8 volunteers in total trained in the field of digital communication, PR, marketing, data analysis, and social media- 4 youth organizations will manage to create an internal PR action plan, that will help them to implement the knowledge and good practice they learned during this project into the everyday functioning of the organization- Increase the quality of services provided by the partner organizations through the ability to carry out quality needs assessments and professionalized work with acquired data- Number of local young volunteers active in each partner organizations will be increased - Number of young people participating in the activities of each organization will be increased, including the increased motivation of these youngsters to participate in volunteering and educational projects- A free online guide in English, Slovak, Czech, Romanian and German language for organizations focusing on the same target group, from which they can learn the basics of how to work with social media, target young people, conduct needs assessments and include more young people in their activities- A website dedicated to this project, containing information about the project, useful contacts and results for free download, available at least 10 years after this project is finished- Each organization will hold at least one Webinar course for youth organizations in their country with a capacity of 10 participants per 1 WebinarThe project helps the organizations not only to learn the trends in social media, PR, and marketing but during this strategic partnership, we will exchange good practices how to firmly implement these new findings and learning points to the everyday functioning of each of our organizations and preserve such functioning in a long run. We will learn how to conduct the right needs assessments, so we improve our future responsiveness to the changes in trends in the communication and interests of young people. We will create a special project website for this project and upload there PDF guides and organize webinars for other organizations.

EuroAsia Volunteering Assistance Program aimed to empower young volunteers from Europe to embrace the opportunities of volunteering in developing countries and to strengthen their capacities to contribute to the volunteering projects EU Solidarity Corps and EU AID Volunteers programs. From our years of experience working with the volunteers we think ahead to create more innovative opportunities for the youth covering a broad range of activities, offering the right trainings and giving formal recognition to the skills and experiences gained. Thus, Mladiinfo Slovakia, together with its partners from France, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, decided to launch a project that made a connection between the existing EU programs for volunteering and build an online platform with all necessary information regarding the volunteering in developing countries, including the non-formal education trainings for capacity building of the youth organizations staff with necessary skills and capacities, as well as containing a list of crucial requirements that need to be met for hosting and sending volunteers in Asia. The implementation of this project that involved 6 diverse partners from 2 continents was a pilot program for connecting the European Voluntary Service with EU Solidarity Corps and EU AID Volunteering programs will bring additional value to the European society that is built on solidarity as a shared value which is strongly felt throughout European continent.

REACH project is a step further to the cooperation, development and youth empowerment. The consortium of the partners we have created for this project are organizations that work towards development of youth competencies mostly via volunteering and education. Volunteering is one of the most rewarding experiences young people can get. According to the EU Strategy for Youth – Investing and Empowering “Showing solidarity to society through volunteering is important for young people and is a vehicle for personal development, learning mobility, competitiveness, social cohesion and citizenship. Youth volunteering also contributes strongly to intergenerational solidarity.” Moreover, one of the objectives of the same document is: “to mobilize youth in global policy-making at all levels (local, national and international) using existing youth networks and tools.” The project is innovative in the connection of three so far “unrelated” topics being it: development aid, volunteering and social entrepreneurship. In this perspective the project would contribute changing the perception of the development aid as such, and in the broader sense to change the view on reducing of the poverty in the African countries. Local people understand their needs much better than the foreign aid can provide to them by donations, however lots of case missed the human resources which could bring their ideas even further as well as the promotion. We should therefore look at the “old problem” with the new perspective and ideas which can help to solve in in a more effective and rather sustainable way.Main objectives of the project with an impact to be reached are: - Share the knowledge and experience of the partners in the volunteering management, development aid from the innovation perspective, motivation, mentoring and coaching of the volunteers (train the trainers).- Create a local awareness by inviting the people to take part in the info days/ debates and therefore contributing to the stronger ecosystems and the support mechanism for volunteers, organizations with involvement of the local communities as well (local info events organized by each partner).- Creating the opportunities for volunteering activities for the young people from Europe, helping in the impact-driven organizations in Uganda and Kenya (8 young people to be sent). - Spreading the information about impact-driven projects and volunteering and contribute to breaking the stereotype about “poor Africa” that needs to be saved by development aid.

Based on the diagnosis made by all participating organizations and knowing the crucial role of youth work in providing equal opportunities for education and participation of youngsters in Europe and beyond, we decided to: 1. Build capacities and professionalise YNGOs from EU and beyond, to function effectively in terms of generating a social change, inner and outer management and strategy building, through complex training of youth workers and YNGO managers on:• SOCIAL DIAGNOSIS(on how to gather data, do empirical research, examine real society needs and respond with appropriate measures and activities)• COACHING AND MENTORING(learning how to support and engage youngsters in activism and manage organization in participatory way, transforming a working space into a learning space)• SOCIAL IMPACT MAKING(learning how to understand digital media and data, use creative technology, IT and visual data presentation in social campaigns, youth work and public activities so they are reaching young people and making impact)• CO-MANAGEMENT (involving all stakeholders into social problem solving, cooperating with public authorities, creating common strategies, implementing changes together)2. Support international quality alliance among partner and other YNGOs in whole Europe and beyond, through sustaining efficient communication skills and mutual support an e-learning platform on international level among YNGOs (“Conjoint consulting therapy of NGOs”) using:• preparation of several e-learning measures (webinars, vlogs, radio shows, audio books, games, educational games, gamified learning experiences, moodle,..),• dissemination of it on a basis of open resources available for all YNGOs for free, follow up activities in all participating countries consisting in implementation of knowledge gained and skills acquired, as well as preparing all local youth workers to work in a way we have together learnt.

According to the EU Strategy for Youth – Investing and Empowering “Showing solidarity to society through volunteering is important for young people and is a vehicle for personal development, learning mobility, competitiveness, social cohesion and citizenship. Youth volunteering also contributes strongly to intergenerational solidarity.”Moreover, one of the objectives of the same document is to: “mobilise youth in global policy-making at all levels (local, national and international) using existing youth networks and tools (e.g. structured dialogue) and address climate change and the UN Millennium Development Goals Actions by Member States and Commission within their respective spheres of competence.”The project of EuroAsia Volunteering Assistance program after its first edition, in which we could map the hosting organisations wants to promote youth empowerment through volunteering opportunities and social entrepreneurship examples with regions outside of Europe even further – in order to inspire the young people how they can become job creator and not job seekers and at the same time to support the development of youth work on other continents.Volunteering is one of the most rewarding experiences young people can get. From the learning of the first project we are implementing we have faced different challenges with the volunteers on their way. However, working in the developing country can be very challenging for the young people, also for the hosting organisation, the self-development, problem-solving and critical thinking are the crucial skills to be improved for all the participants. The EuroAsia Volunteering Assistance vol. 2 (EVAP 2) is mostly focused on the training part of the organisations and building up on the knowledge and experience already achieved, inviting to take part in it for more local partners and therefore contributing to the stronger ecosystems and the support mechanism for volunteers and organisations.