The A PART OF EU 2.0 project focuses on one of the EU's greatest challenges for the future: achieving the integration of migrant and minority youth (MMY) into society through their participation. As the proportion of migrant and/or minority youth in Europe has increased, the problems and difficulties in terms of their participation have also become more complex, with high barriers to their effective participation.OBJECTIVESA PART OF EU 2.0 aims to promote the participation of migrant and minority youth in EU society through:•Providing professionals with innovative methods to encourage the participation of MMY in 5 areas (social and political participation, participation through volunteering and associations, sport and culture, training and access to employment and through the family).•Increasing the social, civic and digital competences of the MMY through training for participation.•Providing tools to professionals from social organizations, public administrations and the private sector to create structures, procedures and synergies to improve MMY participation.•Offering practical solutions and policy recommendations to institutions, civil society and the local, regional, national and European private sector, in order to improve MMY participation.The target groups of A PART OF EU 2.0 will be:•Professionals working with migrant and minority youth (youth workers, social workers, trainers, mentors, counsellors, mediators, counsellors, etc.)•Migrant and Minority Youth (MYMY): migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers and minorities aged 16 to 30•Professionals from local, regional, national and European public administrations working in the fields of social inclusion (social services, employment, etc.).•Private sector professionals•Local, regional, national and European policy-makersMore than 2,790 people will benefit from this projectAPOFEU 2.0 uses an innovative methodological approach, which analyzes the different areas of participation related to each other and whose relationship influences the level of social inclusion of young immigrants. The 5 areas of participation are1.Political and social participation2.Participation through associationism and volunteering3.Participation through training and access to employment4.Participation through culture and sport5.Participation through the familyOUTPUTS1.The European Training and Participation Platform for migrant and minority youth and professionals will make available a training platform for the MMY with MOOC courses in the 5 dimensions of participation, to improve their social, civic and digital skills, and a participation space for these groups, as well as a learning area for professionals.2.The Innovative Intervention Tools Manual is aimed at professionals who work with MMY to improve their skills, so that they can carry out an integral and transversal intervention with MMY and promote the participation of MMY in the 5 areas of participation. The Manual will be composed of 7 intervention zones, conceived as learning modules.3.The APOFEU 2.0 Guide, with innovative methods and tools to promote synergies and cooperation between social organizations, public administrations and private sector to promote MMY participation, addressing the need to involve and engage these 3 and the means to do so.4.The APOFEU 2.0 Policy Recommendations report will enable policy makers and decision-makers at all levels to develop policy changes with regard to MMY participation and social inclusion, responding to several of the major current policy issues across the EU.The overall medium and long term impacts that APOFEU 2.0 wants to achieve are:-To produce a positive impact on the pedagogy for MMY thanks to the products developed in the project.-To make the difference in the daily work of the professionals that with MMY.-To have an impact on the political agenda, as well as on the direct political changes to improve the social inclusion and participation of the MMY.-To cause tangible effects on MMY, by improving their qualifications to have more options to improve their civic engagement-To contribute to generate social impacts, providing an innovative way to improve the social participation of the MMY in the EU and in the countries of the consortium.-To provide an innovative Platform and educational resources that will be a reference in the EU in the field of social participation and inclusion.The consortium is led by SSF (Spain), with UCBR (Italy), IASIS (Greece) and Guaraní (Spain).

"Background of the projectThe goal was to develop the quality of the preschool education (early childhood education) through parents' understanding of the role of the preschool in education. Through parental participation the project aimed at increasing the quality and reducing early school leaving. The sectoral priority ""Enhancing the Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care"" was therefore an overall priority for the project, which means the assurance that all the children should be allowed a good start in their education. The refugee situation has put greater demands on the participating organisations in the project and we wanted to prepare us for the cultural diversity in our preschools to counteract diversification. The preschool has a role to play in the integration process and by creating forums for families to meet and with a focus on children's opportunities for a good life through education, this project aimed to ultimately strengthen democracy, understanding of human equality and quality in preschool.The participating organisations wanted to do this project together because of the mutual challenges in our preschools but also since participation is an indicator of quality in the preschools, something both organisations needed to develop. Objectives1. Create knowledge about data, gathering data and presenting the data as a means to improve the quality work. 2. Create mutual knowledge and experience of how to analyse these data for learning. 3. Based on the data, develop sustainable and new forums and arenas, physical and digital, for cooperation and participation of parents, families and citizens. 4. Through this enhance the quality of early childhood education and care and as a consequence create understanding of the importance of education and by doing so supporting schools to prevent early school leaving.Participating organisationsThe participating organisations are Sector Education West Gothenburg and the Union of Municipalities of Bassa Reggiana. Two preschools, Skattegårdsvägen and Zenit in Boretto, one from each organization have been extra monitored even though all preschools in the organisation have been represented during the project.The project has been in contact with two universities:The project was supported by a researcher from University of Gothenburg and there has been dialogues with the University of Modena and Reggio on how to develop the results of the project further. The researchers have ensured that the project have maintained high quality throughout the process.ActivitiesTraining Activities (TRAC) - the four TRACs served as a platform for the exchange of experiences. The focus was on visiting each other’s services and preschools to enable mutual learning and exchange ideas. The main methods used were networking, dialogue and exchange of experience. In workshops the participants have been able to discuss and reflect on the Project results which have been important to the outputs and outcomes of the Project. The direct participants in the activities were Preschool Directors, Pedagogistas, development managers and other professionals working with families. Parent forums - three parent forums at the named preschool in each country have been completed. The aim has been to invite the parents into a more inclusive preschool and make parents and families participate more. The parents have discussed and reflected on their role as a parent of a child in the preschool. Project Management Group (PMG) - The PMG have had representatives from both participating organisations. The group has met five times during the project in order to manage and monitor the project and evaluate the process to reassure that the quality is maintained and that the transnational interests are secured. Results and impactsParticipants who are not working in the preschool gained more understanding and knowledge for the preschools mission and organisation and vice versa.The professionals who participated in the TRAC created new professional relationships across the sectors which facilitated new cooperations across the sectors, greater understanding for the different services and support available for families and family-centered work. The Swedish participants focused on develop new forums, methods and guidelines for communication with parents. The Italian participants has focused on identified and develop new kinds of data. The data was analysed and shared with different stakeholders to raise the quality of parent participation. This process stimulated new discussions among the professionals across sectors and spread good practice. The method with meetings has been a successful way to investigate parents participation in early education. One scientific article has been written on the importance of participation in families based on the work with the family forums. The article gives a general picture on the importance of family inclusion in preschool as important for inclusion in society."

The A PART OF EU project, led by the Spanish NGO Solidaridad Sin Fronteras (www.ssf.org.es), together with the partners: GUARANÍ (Spain, http://www.asociacionguarani.com/) UNIONE DEI COMUNI DELLA BASSA ROMAGNA (Italy, http://www.labassaromagna.it/) and UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA (Cyprus, https://www.unic.ac.cy/), achieved the following objectives:• Identify and exchange good practices in promoting the social integration of young immigrants through participation. • Generate a guide to disseminate the good practices identified, so that they can be replicated in other regions of other EU member countries.The concrete results, developed between November 2017 and October 2018, have a strong innovative component, and are the following:• A Manual of Good Practices to promote the social integration of migrant youth through participation.• A new theoretical approach about the participation of migrant youth through different areas of participation.• A new methodological approach to promote the social inclusion of young migrants through participation.• Conformation of a European network of stakeholders.• Creation of the website (https://www.apartofeu.eu/), with the most relevant information about the project and the consortium.The most tangible result with the greatest exploitation capacity is the Manual of Good Practices for the promotion of the social integration of young migrants through participation. The Manual consists on 42 good practices collected at national, European and international levels, distributed as follows:1. Social and political participation: 8 good practices.2. Participation through volunteering: 10 good practices.3. Participation through culture and sport: 10 good practices4. Participation through training and job: 8 good practices.5. Participation through family: 6 good practicesThanks to the dissemination of good practices and the exploitation of the Manual, an international network of work and national networks of the countries of the consortium partners has been created to ensure the sustainability of the results achieved.The Manual is being easily exploited in the three countries of the consortium and in the EU. The professionals reached are including in their daily practice those parts of the Manual that they consider most appropriate according to their needs and their professional scope. The fact that the 4 organizations of the consortium work directly with the final recipients has reinforced the use and dissemination of the Manual among their networks.More than 1,530 people have been reached by the A PART OF EUROPE project, involving mainly staff from social organizations, NGOs, town hall and provincial / regional government officials (mainly from social services), youth, youth policy experts, among others.The 4 organizations of the project have several years of experience in direct work with migrants, both youth and adults, and are developing projects that can complement the work done in A PART OF EU and benefit from the innovativeness of the project in order to propose better actions. which represents an added value of the project.