"The main objective is the development of the educators’ skills, as they are not always able to relate properly to situations that require an intercultural approach and a focus on the enhancement of differences of each student. The geographical context of the project is related to the whole city of Palermo and some municipalities of the district, those in which are located the offices of the CPIA PA1 outside the urban area: a school that welcomes students from different geographical areas, mostly from Asia and from Africa. The Italians who attend the school are very few. The project is based on the educational implications and cultural challenges involved in this school population. The project's prior objective is to provide educators with useful elements for the acquisition and enhancement of intercultural competences, in particular the soft skills that are related to the skills of relationship, the reception of the other and to relate to others, the ability to work as a team, the need of translating different ""cultural codes"" and to work to overcome prejudices and stereotypes, starting from an everyday evaluation of the multiculturalism that enriches the CPIA PA1. The needs are essentially formative and related to the idea that not all educators are ready to cope with the challenge the intercultural experience that they live every day. Despite the cultural diversity that distinguishes our school every day, teachers are not always able to be welcoming and inclusive at the same time. The target group to which we address to are teachers of Italian and mathematics, who are those who spend more hours in the classroom, even if the project is open to anyone interested in sharing a training course on these issues. The project must be carried out at transnational level in order to be able to compare and exchange methods of intervention, to share training courses and to experience cooperation between educational institutions and NGOs operating in the same field. We trust in the project because it would be one of the first courses of overall involvement of teachers’ training on the issues of intercultural learning. Our school had past experiences in the field of training: courses focused on new technologies or on teaching Italian as L2. The following activities are planned to be carried out during the 24 months of the project:-Promotion of the project activities, September-November 2018. -Opening conference, Sicily, December 2018: The conference will last two days and will involve the European partners. The conference will introduce the training activities that will be carried out and a first session of workshop will be held. -Training for Educators, Sicily, February 2019: The training will be addressed to the staff of the school and will last 3 days. The first training course will focus on the issues of group dynamics and overcoming stereotypes and prejudices. -The transnational seminar, Portugal, April 2019 (in which the 2nd training for Educators will be held): The transnational meeting/seminar will focus on the figure of the intercultural educator and last 4 days. -Training for Educators, Sicily, November 2019. The training will be addressed to the school staff and will last 3 days. The third training will focus on the themes of intercultural learning and the enhancement of differences. - Transnational seminar in Spain, February-March 2020: The second transnational meeting/seminar is going to focus on planetary citizenship and the role of the school in promoting reception processes, firstly towards migrants. -Closing conference in Sicily, May-June 2020"

<< Objectives >>The specific objectives of our project are: ___** to develop an innovative non-formal training program that empowers and promotes mental health of young refugees (18-30 years old)___**to point out and create awareness on support services & participation opportunities for our target group in the EU and in Austria & Spain __** to establish an EU-wide network to support the holistic integration of young refugees __XX__ to promote inclusion & diversity in the EU through high quality youth trainings<< Implementation >>*10 Workshops in AT & 10 Workshops in ES on mental health training, cultural awareness, gender equality and opportunities of Erasmus + for further key-competences development*Continuous Exchange & Train-the-trainers: development of joint training programme & online events to foster long-term cooperation and know-how transfer among the partner organizations & beyond*1 International Growth Camp with 20 participants for 8 days in AT* Dissemination activities* Impact Assessment & Evaluation<< Results >>** 200 young refugees, migrants and asylum seekers trained in AT & ES (through 20 national workshops) ___** 1 International Growth Camp with 20 participants lasting for 8 days in Austria __**6 Virtual exchange & train-the-trainer activities building an EU-wide network with at least 10 member organizations___** 1 Final conference in Barcelona __** 1 follow-up project idea with at least 2 members of the partnership plus min. 2 new partners from the European train-the-trainer activities network.

Rise In Quality highlights the need to incorporate practical experiences with evidence-based practice, bringing about useful tools. Organizations across the European Union are continually under stress to meet deadlines, implement projects, and conduct workshops in the community. In promoting the EU values, a lot of work can add up for NGO’s and Youth Associations with limited time, staff and resources. This can be especially true for newer organizations involved with mobility projects. Perhaps they have less experience in volunteer support or fewer capacities in general. A big part of this entire process are international volunteers and their work in each respective organization. International volunteers bring a unique perspective, creative thinking, and energy into organizations. International volunteers are also hoping to personally grow during their experience. International volunteering promotes new skills, innovation, and European values. In order to best facilitate this growth, organizations need to be equipped with tools that are practical and simple to implement. Rise in Quality recognizes that with the limitations faced, staff cannot always spend the time they desire on training, workshops, or reading best practices for supporting volunteers. In establishing basic standards, organizations can find an increase in volunteer satisfaction, therefore contributing to an increase in project quality.The two main outputs of this project are a volunteer support guidebook and template for an online induction training. Both outputs will be created through an inclusive, collaborative effort and available for youth workers to utilize transnationally. Through strategic partnership, the hope of this project is to:· Strengthen organizations’ capacity to support international volunteers · Improve support for hosting international volunteers;· Ease the stress of volunteer management· Increase solidarity throughout partner organizations and all hosting organizations;· Promote active citizenship and volunteering;· To achieve these results, Rise in Quality will work on these objectives: Support capacity building of youth workers and participating organizations;Develop innovative practices in working with international volunteers;Increase quality of youth work in participating organizations by applying developed intellectual outputs;Promote active citizenship, volunteering and solidarity The specific activities involved are:1. The short staff mobility: a training course on coordinating and supporting volunteers in crisis situations;2. The short staff mobility: a training course on how to prepare on arrival induction for volunteers in host organizations through online training;3. Job shadowing and exchange of experiences and good practices;4. Developing a volunteer support guidebook and on line induction training for international volunteers;5. Multiplier event and dissemination activities

When children move into early adolescence, they begin to take on new gender roles, often reinforcing socially and culturally conventional gender norms related to being women or men. These roles have an impact on the decisions that people in early adolescence make in relation to sexual and interpersonal relationships, which can affect their health and well-being throughout the rest of their lives. Gender norms and beliefs have significant implications for both girls and boys in terms of child marriage, early school leaving, pregnancy, HIV and sexually transmitted infection risk, violence exposure, depression, physical violence, substance abuse and suicide. Such differences are socially, not biologically determined. Mental health issues need to be addressed as part of adolescent well-being and in order to ensure health throughout people’s lives, it is crucial that countries address gender inequality, violence and healthy relationships in early adolescence. To answer these identified needs, through the adaptation and piloting of the Youth Group Methodology (YGM), developed by MARTA Center, as well as through qualitative and quantitative research in the field of youth well-being and violence, the project Re-GROUP has set as objectives to: - reduce risk factors for youth (ages 12-18) to become a victim or a perpetrator of violence;- build capacities in the field of youth work by adding to relevant research and adapting a culturally specific methodology thus prevent violence toward and among youth;- expand the size and impact of youth violence-preventing actors through training, popularization and multiplication of the methodology;- through broad consultation and cooperation with many local actors, create data-backed policy recommendations for each reality;- through further local activities and international cooperation within and after this project, take part in achieving Sustainable Development Goals #4, #5 and #16.The project, comprised of four project partners from EU countries (Latvia, Bulgaria, Romania and Spain) during its 22 months of implementation will engage youth workers, educators, young people, decision- and policy makers in the project countries and the EU. This will be done through the following activities: - Adapting and piloting the YGM in several communities in each partner country; - Conducting two international youth worker trainings, which will improve competences and support research efforts for the project; - National youth worker workshops in every country, with which to engage an even bigger number of youth workers and educators with the YGM; - Conductive an extensive qualitative and quantitative research on the well-being and violence in youth in the partner countries; - Creating Policy Recommendations together with a wide network of actors in the field of youth, with which to address the policy framework, as it relates to youth and their well-being (including violence prevention); - Promote the topic and the project results across youth and youth workers’ communities across Europe (via 4 National Multiplier events, an International conference and many informal meetings with stakeholders, as well as with a broad online campaign).The impact of Re-GROUP will span across the following target groups: - Youth workers, who will be participants in the Re-GROUP activities will increase their capacity for working in relation to gender equality, violence issues and youth sexual education. Participants will improve awareness of all forms of violence, experienced among and towards youth, and gain concrete methodologies, to prevent and combat it. - Youth (as direct beneficiaries) will gain competencies of building healthy interpersonal relationships through experiencing YGM; gain understanding and knowledge when, how and where to ask for help and search for support mechanisms for victims, perpetrators and/or bystanders of violence among and towards youth. The application of YGM also leads to numerous other positive results in youth. - Intervention sites of YGM implementation will raise awareness and increase sensitivity towards violence, acquire methods and educational tools on how to address a variety of topics, important for youth, and support them in creating and maintaining healthy relationships. - Policy makers engaged through dissemination activities and presentation of national policy recommendations will be invited and advised to critically analyze existing situations in local and national level and take needed steps towards combating violence among and towards youth. The Re-GROUP project partners are highly motivated to create worthwhile products and activities for this topic and will work to provide the best possible assistance to youth workers and educators, as well as the best strategically-aimed guidelines for policy makers and for the future of Europe.

OpportuNEETies project was created by i.PEICC and its partners after realizing a lack of mobility projects open to young NEETs – and especially to youngsters with fewer opportunities – and a lack of knowledge and tools for the youth workers, to work efficiently with this target group.The objectives of the project were multiple :-To promote exchanges between professional youth workers, to allow them to acquire new competences and new tools, especially in their work with NEETS, and thus, to promote a high quality youth work,-To develop mobility opportunities for NEETS and to increase the number of hosting places,-To cross formal education logics with non-formal educations logics,-To create a common referential of good practices,-To increase the involvement of local and regional public authorities in youth mobility,-To promote the education to entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship among youngsters.Four partners were the main actors of this project :-i.PEICC : organization of popular education located in France, who coordinated the project.-YouNet : Italian organization specialized in European mobility and in training courses for youth workers, especially in training courses linked with social entrepreneurship.-Mundus : Spanish organization which develops many mobility projects for youngsters and youth workers : EVS, youth exchanges, training courses, VET mobility…-Werkstattschule Heidelberg : German organization which promotes social integration through manual work and through the discovery of the talent of each one.This project included 4 transnational meetings and 4 seminar-trainings (ST) : each partner hosted in its country one meeting and one seminar-training. The goal of the transnational meetings was to prepare the seminar-trainings, to evaluate the project during its all duration, to facilitate the communication between partners and to adapt the project to each partner’s context. The seminar-trainings gathered together 4 youth workers from each country and were based on the following themes:1 – The links between formal and non-formal education, in Germany,2 – The education to entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, in Italy,3 – VET mobility, in Spain,4 – The involvement of youngsters and professionals, with a focus on youngsters with a physical disabilityOpportuNEETies allowed the 4 partners to really learn to know each other and to understand the contextual realities of each one. It allows 64 European youth workers to analyze their practices, to discover new tools and to acquire new competencies. A common guide of good practices was written by the partners in order to share the reflections carried out during the project. These results are online (http://opportuneeties.com/). This project also allowed the four partners to develop their local networks in order to create new opportunities for NEETs. At the end of the project, already 175 youngsters have benefited from the mobility projects born from this project.