<< Objectives >>We intend to promote the social inclusion of young people (YP), working on the competencies of citizenship and entrepreneurship as a way to combat exclusion. We will empower and support youth workers (YW) on the adoption of participative, inclusive methodologies, adequate to YP’s needs, through inclusion by art and non-formal education. We will be responding to the main challenges faced today, increasing the quality, innovation and recognition of youth work.<< Implementation >>-3 Transnational Meetings: opening, monitoring, closing.In the intervention through art, non-formal education and development of key-competencies:-Virtual workshops with YW;-Local Sessions with YP for the implementation of the developed methodologies;-Virtual mobility between YW;-Virtual Mobility between YP to promote informal contacts and sharing;-Training Course for YW;-Youth Exchange for competencies development in a multicultural mobility context.<< Results >>Tangible: Manual of Best Practices and Project BookletIntangible: -YW´s development of lifelong learning competencies (LLC) and in the themes and methodologies of the project;-YP’s development of LLC, especially the citizenship and entrepreneurship;-Development of transversal competencies in all participants.

The year 2020 will be historically known as the COVID-19 year of great pandemic. The whole world shut down for a few months and even when the lockdowns and curfews were lifted, our societies have witnessed a notoriously change. In some ways, the effect of this pandemic will be temporary until a cure has been found, but for some fields the pandemic has been a turning point that will condition and modify their procedures. This is as well the advantage since it challenges had made us and our work more flexible and created the offers outside of our regular working plan.During the lockdown, resources dedicated to youth had to readapt themselves in order to continue offering services to their users, youngsters. In this case, we can say that fortunately we live in the tech and internet era, and we were able to use it in our favour. The applicant with the youth centre which it is running decided to continue their agenda of activities virtually, using popular platforms, and asking and listening constantly to the youngsters what kind content they would enjoy. This is a method used from the open youth work methodology where local and small activities in youth centers are designed in accordance with the needs and wishes of youngsters. Concurrently, the applicant together with the Romanian partner and other European organizations, created the International Virtual Youth Centre platform, where a diverse profile of people related with youth would upload audio-visual content with the goal of entertaining and educating at the same time youngsters from all over Europe.Among the partnership of six different European organizations dedicated to the youth field, the ongoing project wants to continue this beta project that started during the lockdown, explore new realities due to COVID-19 and innovate in the methods on the implementation of a virtual youth centre in Europe. We want to create a platform where the youngsters can find the offer and resources that they also find in the physical youth centre, with constant accessibility to their referents, the youth workers.In this project the main target group and participants coincide - for we will ask them what they need and wish, will participate in the creation of content and then will become a beneficiary of this new tool. Also we want the youth workers to improve their vision about the changes that COVID-19 raised on the youth and increase their skills on media content, doing a training activity which will be applied separately and who focus will be on the instant media presentations, creations of videos, processing and postprocessing.The project will create three intellectual outputs - IO. The first one will be a survey to fifteen youngsters active in organizations daily work in every partner country, with which we want to collect the needs and changes caused by the virus and answers on what kind of platform and audio-visual content they would like to have. The second one, will be the mentioned webpage/platform and the creation of specific audiovisual content from each of the partners and in accordance with IO1. And as a third and closing intellectual output we want to create a digital handbook, that will gather the results of the survey and the experiences on the platform from every partner, its youth workers and young people.In order to achieve these objectives and results, we target a project duration of 24 months (March 2021 to March 2023). For a successful accomplishment of our milestones and discussions, we will have five transnational meetings in the different countries besides a monthly steering online meeting. Moreover, once the third intellectual output is finished, we plan to do a multiplier event in each of the partners’ countries in the format of a symposium so we can disseminate the results, share experiences and motivate other youth organizations to follow our steps.

SPEED - Social Processes Empowering Entrepreneurship Development aimed to improve entrepreneurial skills of young people with fewer opportunities and promoted and supported their inclusion in the job market, through an extensive set of activities based on Non-Formal Education to start a personal, professional, social and cultural process of growth.To reach the objectives we have structured a Consortium, made up of 2 different University one in Mexico and one in Portugal, an Italian organization with great coordination experience, an expert Estonian organization in non-formal methods and five other organizations with extensive experience in working with disadvantaged youth, from Europe and Latin America, which aimed to:- to train youth workers on Non-Formal Education methods and techniques based on Marketing, Sociology and Economics Theories to support the acquirement of creativity and entrepreneurial skills in young people with fewer opportunity;- to apply contents pertaining to Formal Education schemes into Non-Formal Education systems, activities and contexts;- to promote the acquirement and the improvement of entrepreneurial competencies, communication skills, marketing and creativity in disadvantaged youth;- to create a technological and IT digital system for self-taught learning, based on OER, containing theories and practises on entrepreneurship;- to promote Volunteering Activities as a mean to foster and multiply the impact of project activities, tools and materials on disadvantaged youth.During the project implementation, the two different universities and their departments of Sociology and Economics, cooperated with youth workers to better support and train young people with fewer opportunities, who are facing a lack of opportunities and skills, in entrepreneurship and, to guarantee monitoring and quality to the whole project process.Aims and objectives were reached through the following activities:- Online cooperation between partners;- 1 Kick-Off Meeting + Study Visit in Argentina;-1 Coordination Meeting in Italy, in addition to online cooperation – Study Group Strauss/Universities;- 1 Training Course for Youth Workers in Italy;- Volunteering Activities for 12 Volunteers in EU and Latin America;- Local workshops on social entrepreneurship in 6 countries;- Final evaluation meeting (online).The activities sponsored and powered by the partners of the consortium produced:- An academic study, promoted for publication at international level on “Paper” by the Mexican University;- an E-learning free platform for youth that collects digital contents to support the self-taught learning of young people in relation to Social Entrepreneurship www.speedstrauss.com - A promotional video made out from the experiences of the 12 volunteers involved in volunteering activities.The project suffered from the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the consortium's countermeasures and good cooperation ensured that the quality of its products and activities was not affected and the achievement of its objectives was not precluded.

This project aims at the validation, recognition and appreciation of the practice of coaching in both international and local youth work. The purpose is to equip youth workers and youth organisations with coaching competences so that they will in turn use them to empower and support young people in goal setting and career guidance. While this project will work internationally to empower and support youth workers into becoming good and efficient coaches according to the international coaching federation standards, it will also give them an opportunity to practice their newly gained competences by establishing coaching services aiming at young people. Therefore each partner in the project will create a local partnership, which, according to the local reality, may include one of from the following not excluding list: University, High School, Educational Institution, Local Authority, TVET Centre, Adult Learning Centres etc. Aiming at a partnership of 3, youth organisation and 2 local bodies.Our partners will provide participants for 3 trainings for coaches. The 1st round of training for coaches will provide participants with basic competences on how to structure and implement a coaching service, while the second round will provide participants with intermediate competences and the third one will provide participants with advanced competences and a coaching certification provided by 2 private entities besides the YouthPass.OBJECTIVES:· To empower youth workers, youth leaders, adult educational professionals with advanced coaching competences.· To establish local pilot programmes aiming at the implementation of the coaching practice and application of the gained competences in reducing unemployment as well as harmonising career choices through goal elicitation.· To create a solution-oriented approach in tackling youth unemployment and thus foster employability and entrepreneurship.· To establish long-term and sustainable coaching practices aiming at developing the competences of local youth towards community leadership, initiators of local projects and activities aiming towards regional development through the promotion of cultural diversity and social inclusion.· To provide international mobility opportunities for both coaching practitioners and final beneficiaries in order to enhance the European dimension of the project and team understanding.· To actively advocate to the relevant local, national and European authorities for the recognition and validation of coaching as a tool and method for working and fostering competence development in young people. There will also be these activities happening in parallel to support the project implementation and accomplishment of its goals:1) Social and Anthropological Research, to assess the situation and state concerning the participants in the international programme, the final local beneficiaries and their communities. The Research will be an ongoing assessment which will provide by the end of the training empirical data concerning the efficacy of coaching.2) Use of modern technologies and approaches will be extensively used in order to promote the goals and activities of this project, by ensuring constant visibility on social media, by disseminating video tutorials and audiovisual production, such as a video documentary on how the project is being implemented, and by writing, drafting and disseminating literature on the topic created by the team.The expected outcomes are the following:- Each of the 5 partners will have 4 internationally trained and certified advanced coaches.- Each coach will assist a minimum of 10 people in career guidance and goal setting, with a minimum outreach of minimum 200 young people.- A minimum of 10 (2 per country) local youth initiatives will be promoted and coached until completion of average each including a minimum of 5 young people, for a total of 100.- A minimum of two partnership per country will be signed and established with public and educational bodies, for a minimum total of 30 local public bodies and authorities involved Europe-wide.- 3 publications / coaching manuals to be compiled and publish.- Minimum 20 video tutorials to be produced.- Minimum 30 interviews with participants of the international training course.- 1 Video documentary shot and edited about how a coaching process functions.- Minimum 20 Non Formal Education tools created and implemented.- Academic anthropological and sociological research on youth needs and the impact of coaching. To be published on a paper.- Presentation of the project outcomes and results to relevant local/regional/national/European authorities in Strasbourg and Brussels.

"The project ""Open Youth Work For Open Society - Give A Chance To Informal Youth Centres"" responds to the need of the partners involved to create a dossier that is an argumentation aid for decision makers to support open youth work. As open youth work we understand an unrestricted access to spatial, material and personal resources, which allow young people to develop their personal competences in an informal context.In order to achieve this goal, we need to present the different perspectives of those involved. These are the perspectives of young people, youth workers and social scientists. We will collect and evaluate empirical studies, collect, develop and publish good examples of successful open youth work, and publish young people's ideas about what open work should achieve and how it should be equipped. In order to achieve the latter, a youth encounter will take place in Romania within the framework of this project, in which the young people (6 from each country and a group leader, together 35 participants) will jointly develop this idea.In a second step we will create three argumentation aids for open youth work. The first is aimed at decision-makers and administrations. It summarises the opportunities and results of open youth work and places them in a context of positive social development. This is done in detail and is primarily addressed to specialist politicians and the specialist departments of local administrations. There will be a summary in the form of a short handouts addressed to all parliamentary decision-makers.The second contains recommendations for action for universities in order to sharpen the profile of youth workers in open youth work and to better shape it.Both are discussed with representatives of the respective target groups and tested for practical usability.The third argumentation aid is aimed at citizens. It is intended to provide media content that is produced by the partners jointly with their young people. These can be pictures, Youtube videos and sound files that present open youth work in a comprehensive and creative way and make it understandable.With all components an extensive dossier develops, which does not exist in this form so far. It will be available online in English and all languages of the participating partners (Germany, Italy, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia).The partners involved in the project are ""ARCI Strauss"" (Italy), ""Curba de Cultura"" (Romania), ""Narandzasti"" (Serbia), ""RIS"" (Slovenia) and ""Roter Baum Berlin"" (Germany). They represent countries in which different models of youth work exist, with Slovenia even having its own legal basis, all the way to Italy, where there is no entitlement to state-supported youth work. The partners agree that we see the model of open youth work as particularly positive for the development and participation opportunities of young people and that for this reason we want to support the objective 9 of the European Youth Goals (SPACE AND PARTICIPATION FOR ALL).In order to achieve the objectives and results, we target a project duration of 24 months (September 2019 to August 2021). We will work closely together online. The important milestones will be discussed and finalised in 4 transnational meetings, each in one of the partner countries. In each of the 5 partner countries we will also organise a multiplier event in the format of a symposium, which will present and discuss the results of the work and thus contribute to their dissemination and use."